Artists and Philosophy
Sheppard Libera nos, salva nos: The Sixteen/ Harry Christophers
7.04 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks (1749 scoring): The King's Consort/King
7.35 Walton Bagatelles Nos 1 and 2 Julian Bream (guitar)
7.43 Enescu Romanian
Rhapsody No 1 in A Romanian Radio
Orchestra/Iosif Conta
7.57 Paganini Violin Concerto No 2 in B
Minor. Salvatore Accardo
LPO/Dutoit. Records
Poulenc
Sonata for two pianos
Seta Tanyel , Jeremy Brown Dialogues des Carmelites Act 2 Scene 2:
Regine Crespin , Rita Gorr (sops) Paris Opera Choir and Orchestra/Pierre Dervaux Improvisation No 15 Pascal Roge (piano)
Oboe Sonata:
Maurice Bourgue , Pascal Roge Records
Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale, Op 56a: Vienna PO/ Leonard Bernstein
9.56 Webem Variations, Op 27: Charles Rosen (piano)
10.02 Britten
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op 10 ECO/The Composer
10.30 Schumann Etudes symphoniques, Op 13
Francois-Rene Duchable (piano)
10.55 Berio Points on the Curve to Find
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
(piano); Ensemble
Intercontemporain/Boulez
11.07 Dvorak
Symphonic Variations, Op 78: LSO/Kertesz Records
conductor Gunther Herbig Janis Vakarelis (piano) Liszt Piano Concerto No 2 in A
Bruckner Symphony No 6 in A
Eight programmes with Paul Hindmarsh.
5: The Sun Life Band/ Roy Newsome
Lalo, arr F Wright Overture: Le Roi d'Ys
Bliss Kenilworth;
Belmont Variations
Bliss, arr E Ball Four Dances from Checkmate
American music for stage and film introduced by Aaron Copland , who died last year.
Virgil Thomson Suite: Louisiana Story
Copland Suite: Appalachian Spring
Walter Piston Suite: The Incredible Flutist
BBC Northern SO/ Aaron Copland
(First broadcast in March 1962 in the series Music to Remember)
(piano)
Beethoven Sonata in C minor, Op 10 No 1
Dvorak Waltzes , Op 54 Chopin Polonaise in C sharp minor, Op 26 No 1; Fantasy in F minor, Op 49
with Michael Berkeley. Producer Jeremy Hayes
In the second of six programmes on partnerships in jazz,
Charles Melville looks at small groups that have two front-line soloists playing different instruments. Including trumpeter Roy Eldridge and clarinettist
Joe Marsala with the Delta
Four; trumpeter Miles Davis and saxophonist Sonny Rollins with the Miles Davis Quintet ; vibraphonist Milt Jackson and pianist John Lewis with the Modern Jazz Quartet.
On the occasion of an international touring exhibition of painting by the French
Neo-impressionist
Georges Seurat at the Grand Palais, Paris,
Edwin Mullins chairs a discussion on the scientific colour theories behind such famous images as Sunday on the Grande Jatte, and on Seurat's place in French art. Producer Judith Bumpus
conductor
Alexander Lazarev at the Dome, Brighton. Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Ives Symphony No 2
8.20 Interval Reading
8.25 Wagner Siegfried 's Rhine Journey; Siegfried's Funeral Music;
Brunnhilde's Immolation
(Gotterdammerung) with Anne Evans (soprano)
Do you like avant-garde music? Is it music that everyone can appreciate and enjoy? This was the dream of Luigi Nono, the leading Italian composer who died last year.
Graham Fawcett investigates Nono's music and ideas, in conversation with fellow musicians including Pierre Boulez , Alexander Goehr and Michael Gielen , and Italian trade unionists who attended Nono's concerts for workers in the 1970s.
Producer Philip Tagney
Sonata in G, Op 37 - Alma Petchersky (piano)
John Hollander 's poem set for soprano and four instruments by Milton Babbitt
(born 10 May 1916).
Judith Bettina (soprano) Parnassus conductor Anthony Korf Record
Gesualdo and Victoria
Responsories for Holy Saturday by Gesualdo and Victoria, using the original readings.
As broadcast this morning on R5