Humour in Classical Music
Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
LPO/Bernard Haitink
7.17 Tallis Spem in Alium The Sixteen/Christophers
7.30am News
7.35 Rossini Sonata for Strings No 2 in A Berlin PO/Karajan j 7.48 Beethoven j Symphony No 3 (Eroica) i London Classical Players/ Roger Norrington. Records
i Sir Arthur Bliss
: (1891-1975)
Hymn to Apollo
LSO/The Composer
Toccata Kathron Sturrock (piano) Oboe Quintet
Nash Ensemble
The Enchantress:
Linda Finnie (mezzo); Ulster Orch/Handley. Records
Beethoven Sonata in D, Op 12 No 1 Yuzuko Horigome (violin) Roger Vignoles (piano)
9.57 Shostakovich Hamlet: Musical Fragments, Op 32 Leningrad CO/Serov
10.13 Menotti Moans, Groans, Cries and Sighs The King's Singers
10.25 Bach Partita No 2 in D minor (BWV 1004) Yuzuko Horigome (violin)
10.55 Brahms Symphony No 3 in F (arr for two pianos): Martin Roscoe , Ronan O'Hora
11.26 Elgar Organ Sonata in G: Roger Fisher
England v West Indies The Fourth Cornhill Test
Commentary on the fifth and final day at Edgbaston.
1.05 pm News
1.10 Your Letters Answered
1.30 County Scoreboard
1.40-6.30 Commentary
conductor Odaline de la Martinez Gerardo Gandini (piano) Gerhard Suite: Alegrias Gandini Imaginary Landscape Ginastera Suite. Estancia
Mozart String Quintets Third of six programmes, including the set of string quartets which Mozart composed in Vienna in 1773, aged 17. Salomon Quartet String Quartet in D minor (K 173); String Quintet in D (K 593) Jan Schlapp (viola)
Paradise and the Peri With readings by Robert Eddison from the poem by Thomas Moore. For his 'oratorio for happy people' Schumann set an episode from Moore's popular romance Lalla Rookh, with its exotic descriptions of India and the Middle-East. The Peri, a beautiful spirit of nature, must find 'the gift that is most dear to heaven' to gain entry to Paradise. With Edith Wiens (soprano) as the Peri; soloists; Chambre Romand and Lausanne Pro Arte Choirs Suisse Romande Orchestra/ Armin Jordan (sung in German). Records
Timothy Hugh (cello) Kathron Sturrock (piano) Bartok Rhapsody No 1 Dohnanyi Sonata in Bflat minor, Op 8
Kimberley Marshall (organ) Anon Agincourt Carol Attaignant Pavenne ; Galliard; Basse danse; Branle gay Janequin La Guerre Marchand Plein jeu; Trio; Tierce en taille-, Fond d'orgue; Dialogue
Janet Alexander presents a Rossini Rondo. Producer Michael Emery
F
Scott Fitzgerald 's autobiographical hack-hero reflects the author's own tussle with Tinseltown in the 1940s.
Ed Bishop reads four stories from the Hobby Collection.
1: Pat Hobby's Secret
'Distress in Hollywood is endemic and acute. That's how pictures are made.' Producer Duncan Minshull
live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. Jadwiga Rappe (mezzo)
Christopher van Kampen (cello), Paul Crossley (piano) London Sinfonietta conductor Lothar Zagrosek Webem Five Pieces for orchestra, Op 10 Mahler, arr
Schoenberg Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
H K Gruber Cello Concerto
8.15 A Night in the Day of Karl Kraus
With Ronald Herdman as Kraus. Translated and adapted by Anthony Vivis.
8.35 York Holler
Improvisation sur le nom de Pierre Boulez
Mahler, arr Reinbert de Leeuw
Kindertotenlieder
Schnittke Concerto for piano and strings
From Medea to Lysistrata - from Persephone to Andromache.
Texts selected and translated by Leo Aylen who reads the verse with Maxine Audley.
Producer John Theocharis
(piano)
Bach French Suite No 6 in E (BWV 817)
Beethoven Sonata in F, Op 10 No
10.35 Interval Reading
10.40
Schumann Papillons , Op
Chopin Nocturne in Eflat, Op 9 No 2;
Impromptu in F sharp,
Op 36; Waltz in C sharp minor, Op 64 No 2;
Scherzo No 1 in B minor
Vivaldi Concerto in B minor for four violins, Op 3 No 10; Trio Sonata in G minor, Op 1 No 1;
Introduzione al Gloria
(RV642); Gloria (RV589)
