The Strategic Defence Initiative
Harty A Comedy Overture
Ulster Orchestra/ Bryden Thomson
7.15 Haydn Piano
Sonata in C (H XVI 48) Andras Schiff (piano)
7.30 am News
7.35 Britten Simple Symphony, Op 4
ECO/The Composer
7.52 Gershwin Suite
Porgy and Bess (arrfor brass) Canadian Brass
8.17 Villa-Lobos
Bachiana Brasileira No 9
Orchestre de Paris/
Paul CapolongO. Records
Ravel Menuet antique Paul Crossley (piano)
Piano Trio in A minor
Maria de la Pau (piano) Yan Pascal Tortelier
(violin); Paul Tortelier (cello). Records
Janet Craxton
(1929-81)
Music highlighting the career of the oboist who died ten years ago today. With sonatas, concertos, symphonic, operatic, vocal and chamber works by Sibelius, Ravel, Bach, Vaughan Williams ,
Handel, Schoenberg, Mozart, Rainier,
Richardson, Britten and Poulenc. Besides
Janet Craxton herself, performers include the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham , London Mozart Players,
Jacqueline Delman , Wilfred Brown , Ian Partridge , London
Sinfonietta, London Oboe Quartet, Alan Richardson , Helen Donath , Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and Ian Brown.
BBC Philharmonic leader Dennis Simons conductor
Edward Downes
Balakirev, arr Casella Oriental fantasy: Islamey Prokofiev Symphony No 4 in C
(revised version: 1947)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor
(Pathetique)
Prelude, fugue and variation (transc Bauer); Prelude, aria and finale; Prelude, choral and fugue Leslie Howard (piano)
Francesco Cilea 's opera in four acts to a text by Arturo Colautti. (sung in Italian)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Welsh National Opera/ Richard Bonynge. Records
Nilla Pierrou (violin) John Lenehan (piano)
Grieg Sonata No 1 in F, Op
Tor Aulin Idyll; Humoresque
Honegger Pastorale dite Willy Burkhard Violin Concerto No 2
Patrick Genet (violin)
Swiss Romande Orchestra conductor Armin Jordan
with Fiona Talkington. Producer Andrew Kurowski
A series of eight readings by poets beginning their careers, recorded with an audience in the Voice Box at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
2: Pat Boran , from
Portlaoise in Ireland, reads from his first collection The Unwound
Clock, which won the Patrick Kavanagh award; from History and Promise and from his new work.
conductor
Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
Mozart Violin Concerto
No in B flat (K 207) Schubert Symphony No 5 in B flat (D 485)
Mozart Violin Concerto
No 5 in A (K 219)
Ian Holm reads the first of three chilling stories by Guy de Maupassant. 1: Who Knows?
Translated by Storm Jameson
Trio in A minor, Op 50 - Chung Trio: Myung Whun Chung (piano) Kyung Wha Chung (violin) Myung Wha Chung (cello)
Jane's Minstrels with Jane Manning (soprano)
Presented by Judith Weir.
Christian Banasik
Poetry I and II
Albert Lianas Quintet Paul Kellett Song of Numbers
David Bedford
The OCD Band and the Minotaur
Judith Weir Don't Let
That Horse
(all first UK broadcasts)
The late Charles Fox presents the fourth of six programmes on the saxophonist
Charlie Parker , with recollections from Dizzy Gillespie ,
Barney Kessel and Milt Jackson. In the winter of 1945-6, Parker and Gillespie took bebop to America's West Coast, where Parker embarked on a series of important recordings.
Beethoven Serenade , Op 25; Rondo in G
(WoO 41); String Trio in D, Op 9 No 2
