Paul Guinery introduces two hours of new releases, including
7.23 Beethoven
Sonata in A, Op 30 No 1
Pinchas Zukerman (violin) Marc Neikrug (piano)
8.00 Prokofiev
Symphony No 4 (revised version)
Malmo SO/James DePreist
Anthony Burton introduces
Bach's complete organ works by Roderick Swanston.
Ivan Hewett with new releases of contemporary music.
10.35 Record Release Items from the discs just reviewed. 11.35 Edward Seckerson reviews reissues including Sony Classical's Broadway series and Mercury's Living Presence.
12.33 Strauss Four Last Songs
Lucia Popp (soprano) LPO/Klaus Tennstedt Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury
Patricia Kwella (soprano)
Nash Ensemble/Ian Brown (piano) Britten
Cello Sonata in C, Op 65 David Matthews
String Trio
Mark Anthony
Turnage Three Farewells Matthews The Sleeping
Lord (first UK performance) Ravel
Introduction and Allegro
In the first of two harpsichord recitals, Colin Tilney plays toccatas and capriccios by two 17th-century masters of the keyboard.
Richard Osborne documents the Vienna
Philharmonic's 150 years of music-making in 12 programmes.
2: Hans Richter
Wagner
Overture: Die Meistersinger conductor Richard Strauss (Mono. 1944)
Verdi Agnus Dei (Requiem) Soloists; Vienna State Opera Chorus/Karajan
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 3 in D (Polish) (excerpt) conductor Lorin Maazel
Bruckner Symphony No 4 in Eflat (Romantic) (excerpt) conductor Karl Bohm
Wagner Siegfried 's Funeral Music (Gotterdammerung) conductor Furrwangler (Mono, 1954)
3.01 Dvorak Slavonic
Dance in A flat, Op 46 No conductor Fritz Reiner
Brahms Piano Concerto
No 2 in B flat
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) conductor Karl Bohm
Brahms Academic
Festival Overture conductor Barbirolli. Records
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Ray Abbott
Michelene Wandor takes the Art of Adaptation as her theme for this edition, with reviews and analysis of a Radio 3 play based on WB Yeats's King Oedipus; a Radio 4 serialisation of Pilgrim Progress;
Doris Lessing 's The Memoirs of a Survivor transferred to the stage at Salisbury
Playhouse; and Red Shift Theatre Company's adaptation of Virginia Woolfs Orlando.
Producer Mike Greenwood
Glinka Kamarinskaya Rimsky-Korsakov Overture on Russian
Themes
USSR Academic SO/ Yevgeny Svetlanov
Musorgsky Scherzo in Bflat
LSO/Claudio Abbado. Records
Verdi's opera live from the London Coliseum in Nicholas Hytner 's new production. Sung in a new translation by Jeremy Sams (tenor) (sop) (bar) (bass) (bar) (mezzo) (bass) (tenor) (mezzo) (bar) (tenor) (bass)
English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra conductor Mark Elder
Parti
8.20 St Petersburg: The Italian Connection
Verdi was not the only
Italian artist to be drawn to St Petersburg. In the first of tonight's two interval talks, Svetlana Lloyd reflects on the architectural, theatrical and balletic traditions of the old Russian capital.
8.40 Part 2
9.40 St Petersburg: The Italian Connection
John Rosselli considers he opera business in pre-unification Italy and the risks and rewards on offer from the Tsars.
10.00 Part 3
On Set-Aside
In the last of six readings by outstanding young
American writers, Walter Kim reads a wry tale from his collection My Hard Bargain.
Series producer Noah Richler
Kronos Quartet
Foday Musa Suso Sunset with The Composer (kora) Kevin Volans
White Man Sleeps Records
In this fortnightly series,
Brian Morton looks at new releases and reissues from the whole spectrum of jazz. This week, he considers the place of the clarinet in jazz, with reference to the work of Johnny Dodds , Monty Sunshine, Jimmy Giuffre , Hamiet Bluiett and in particular the debut album of Don Byron. Producer Derek Drescher
