News and Features about the OU
Haydn Symphony No 98 in B flat: Concertgebouw Orchestra/Harnoncourt
7.30am News
7.35 Brahms, orch Dvorak Hungarian Dances, Nos 18-21 Vienna PO/Abbado
7.44 Janacek On The
Overgrown Path, Book 2 Rudolf Firkusny (piano)
7.59 Dvorak Serenade for strings in E
Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal Records. Producer Kate Bolton
8.30am News
Sonata in D, Op 10 No 3; Sonata in C minor, Op 111 John Bingham (piano)
with Richard Osborne.
Record Review
Building a Library: Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending by Lyndon Jenkins.
Paul Banks compares new recordings of violin concertos by Mendelssohn, Brahms and Berg from Viktoria Mullova, Nigel Kennedy and Xue-Wei.
Timothy Carter reviews new issues devoted to Venetian music from
Gabrieli and Monteverdi to Vivaldi, performed by A Sei Voci , the Consort of Musicke and the Taverner
Consort, Choir and Players.
10.40 Record Release Vocal music from Venice from the records reviewed by Timothy Carter. Records Producers Nick Morgan and Kate Bolton
(Record Review is repeated on Wednesday at 2.00pm)
conductor Tadaaki Otaka Kyoko Takezawa (violin) live from the Symphony Hall, Osaka.
Philip Cashian Nightmaze (first performance)
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D, Op 35
11.50 After centuries of isolation the Meiji
Restoration opened Japan to western musical influences in 1868 - the year of the first performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger.
Roger Savage recently met musicologist
Yoshihiko Tokumaru in Tokyo and discussed the interrelationship of western and Japanese traditional music since that time.
12.05 Shostakovich Symphony No 5 in D minor, Op 47
(In association with Hitachi Ltd and Maxell Ltd)
Reflections on language by the BBC's Chief News Correspondent, Kate Adie.
Coull String Quartet Bridge Three Idylls
Britten String Quartet No 3, Op 94
conductor
Wilfried Boettcher Michael Roll (piano)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat (K 482)
Piano Sonata in A (K 331) Reger Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart, Op 132
with Chris de Souza.
Violinist Elizabeth Layton and pianist
Malcolm Martineau play works by Patterson, Beethoven, Stravinsky and Szymanowski.
Producer Sarah Devonald
with Charles Fox.
with Christopher Cook. Reviews: A biography of the British eccentric
Thomas de Quincey ;
The Plough and the Stars at the Young Vic ; Water Wars series on BBC2.
Opinions: Adam Mars-Jones , Joan Smith.
Features: Is there literature in writing about science?; the state of the television documentary.
Producers John Boundy , Tim Dee
Kathron Sturrock
Piers Lane (pianos) Busoni Duettino concertante
Reger Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart, Op 132a
Michael Tippett 's second opera in a new production by Opera North, live from the Grand Theatre, Leeds. (treble)
Chorus of Opera North
English Northern Philharmonia conductor Paul Daniel
Act 1
8.00 Tippett on King Priam: A talk first broadcast in 1962. 8.20 Act 2
8.45 Choice and Responsibility: Natalie Wheen discusses the dramatic issues of King Priam with the cast.
9.05 Act 3
A discussion chaired by Robert Hewison.
Second of two programmes. With Tamsin Dives (mezzo) Arthur Davies (tenor) London Voices director Lionel Friend.
Dvorak Nocturne in B, Op 40
Smetana Piano Trio in G minor, Op 15
Janacek The Diary of One Who Disappeared
