Adrian Edwards with another programme of music and news headlines, and a look at the arts stories in the papers.
Darius Milhaud
4: American Years
String Quartet No 10 String Quartet of the Aquitaine National Music Centre
Chanson créole; Biguine (Le Bal Martiniquais)
Christian Ivaldi and Noel Lee (pianos)
Les Reves de Jacob Soloists of the New
Philharmonic Orchestra Aspen Serenade
Milhaud Ensemble/ The Composer Records
Saint-Saens Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (Samson et Dalila) Regina Resnik
(mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden/Edward Downes
10.06
Saint-Saens Bacchanale (Samson et Dalila)
Paris Opera Orchestra/ Georges Pretre
10.13 Handel
Total Eclipse (Samson) Robert White (tenor)
City of London Baroque Sinfonia/Ivor Bolton
10.17 Saint-Saens
Airs de ballet (Ascanio) Susan Milan (flute) City of London
Sinfonia/Richard Hickox
10.22 Mozart Cara , lontano (Ascanio in Alba) Agnes Baltsa (mezzo) Salzburg Mozarteum
Orchestra/Leopold Hager
10.27 Henry Vm Suite: Rose without a Thorn
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
10.40 Saint-Saens
0 Cruel Souvenir (Henry VU1) Francoise Pollet (soprano) Montpellier PO/ Cyril Diederich
I 10.48 Donizetti
Overture: Anna Bolena
Welsh National Opera Orchestra/
Richard Bonynge
10.56 Saint-Saens
Le Déluge, Op 45 Paris Orchestra/
Daniel Barenboim
11.04
Britten Noye 's Fludde (bass) (contralto) (bass)
Members of the English Chamber Orchestra
Chorus and Orchestra of East Suffolk children/ Norman Del Mar
11.15
Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals
Itzhak Perlman (narrator) Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)
Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Zubin Mehta. Records
conductor Andrew Davis
Debussy
Prelude a l'après-midi d'un faune Ravel
Daphnis and Chloe: Suite No
Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring
(piano)
Hindemith
Sonata No 2 in G
Ireland Sonata
Tchaikovsky's four-act opera Charodeyka tells the story of a lovely widow who keeps an inn on the Volga river and who drives men to distraction. (sop) (bar) (mezzo) (tenor) (bass) (mezzo) (bass) (bar) (sop)
Netherlands Radio Chorus and Orchestra conductor Valery Gergiev
with Michael Berkeley.
Music, news, weather and an interview with the concert promoter
Raymond Gubbay.
Producer Alan Hall
live from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Paul Verhey (flute)
Maurice Bourgue (oboe) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conductor Riccardo Chailly Webem Passacaglia
Madema Grande Aulodia
8.10
Adonais Shelley was convinced that Keats' tragically early death at the age of 25 was precipitated by hostile critics. Adonais, his epic poem of 1821, became both a lament for Keats and an attack on the enemies of poetry. Judith Chemaik introduces the poem in the fourth of six programmes celebrating Shelley's bicentenary.
Reader Gerard Murphy.
8.30 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 5 in E minor
by James Joyce. The penultimate instalment of John Scotney 's 16-part adaptation.
Reader Sinead Cusack (First broadcast on Radio 4) (Final part next Saturday)
The last of three programmes. Schumann
Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op 102
Anner Bylsma (cello)
Pascal Devoyon (piano) Mendelssohn Song without words,
Op 109
Philippe Muller (cello) Paul Coker (piano) Brahms
Sonata No 2 in F, Op 99 Arto Noras (cello)
Pascal Devoyon (piano)
In the fifth of eight programmes, composer and pianist
Mike Westbrook tells
Geoffrey Smith about his settings of William Blake and about
The Cortège, his extended orchestral sequence based on European poetry.
Glazunov Raymonda , Act 2
(excerpts); Grand Concert Waltz in E flat, Op 41 Gliere
The Red Poppy (excerpts)
