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Britten in America
Oliver Cromwell
Peter Pears (tenor)
The Composer (piano) An American Overture
(1941)
City of Birmingham SO/ Simon Rattle
Prologue and Blues (Paul Bunyan)
Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Plymouth Music Series,
Minnesota/Philip Brunelle Hymn to Saint Cecilia
BBC Singers/John Poole
Anton Vranicky Three
Marches in the French Style Collegium Musicum
Pragense/Frantisek Vajnar
10.02 Mozart
Rondo in Eflat (K 371) Zdenek Tylsar (horn)
Prague CO/Oldrich Vicek
10.06 Dvorak
Three Songs (Cypresses) Philip Langridge (tenor) Radoslav Kvapil (piano)
10.12 Dvorak
Intermezzi Nos 1-4
New London Orchestra/ Ronald Corp
10.27
Beethoven Allegro (Quintet in Eflat for oboe, three horns and bassoon)
Members of the Czech
Philharmonic Orchestra
10.36 Schubert
Moments musicaux (D 780) Clifford Curzon (piano)
11.03
Dvorak Intermezzi Nos 5-7
New London Orchestra/ Ronald Corp
11.13 Sor Variations on a theme from Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte" "
Goran Sollscher (guitar)
11.22 Vorisek
Symphony in D, Op 24 New London Orchestra/ Ronald Corp
Andrew Lumsden (organ) Bach Prelude and Fugue in C minor (BWV 582)
Daquin Noël No lOinG Mozart
Fantasia in F minor (K 608) Brahms Herzlich tut mich; Es ist ein Ros (Chorale-Preludes,Op 122)
Liszt, transcr Guillou
Prelude awtfugue on BACH
Stephen Johnson introduces a recording from the 1966 Aldeburgh Festival.
Haydn The Creation
Heather Harper (soprano) Elisabeth Holden (alto) Peter Pears (tenor)
John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
Aldeburgh Festival Singers English Chamber Orchestra/ Benjamin Britten.
A selection of Grieg's folk-inspired Slatter played by Eva Knardahl and Bartok's
Romanian Dances played by Peter Frankl. Records
In the first of two programmes featuring
African music of possession and trance, Janet Topp -Fargion introduces the Giriama spirit-dance from Eastern Kenya, Sufi ceremonies from Northern
Morocco, and the calling-down of the spirits in the Blekete cult among the Anlo people of Ghana.
Producer John Thornley
David Owen Norris presents music, with news, interviews, weather, travel and a look at the weekend ahead.
Producer Andrew Mussett
conductor
Peter Maxwell Davies.
Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps;
Symphony No 6 in E minor
8.20 Interval reading
8.25 Maxwell Davies
Symphony No 1
On the centenary of Alfred Lord Tennyson 's death,
Sir John Gielgud reads this famous poem, written when Tennyson was in his early twenties.
Director John Theocharis
The second of two programmes. York Trio
Mozart Trio in G (K 564) Buxton Orr Trio No 2
Beethoven Trio in Eflat, Op 70 No 2
In 1843, when Tennyson was 24, dogged by savage reviews, financial insecurity and the termination of his engagement to Emily Selwood, he underwent a water-cure at Cheltenham.
Carey Harrison performs his own dramatic feature based on Tennyson's time there, when the young poet's fragile genius teetered on the brink of insanity.
Late-night contrasts with music of confrontation and contemplation:
Steve Martland
Shoulder to Shoulder
The Steve Martland Band
Arvo Part Mein Weg hat Gipfelund Wellentaler Christopher Bowers -Broadbent (organ) Steve Martland
Drill for two pianos
Gerard Bouwhuis and Cees Van Zeeland
Arvo Part Annum per annum for organ
Presented by Alan Hall. Records
Producer Philip Tagney
Except in Scotland. As broadcast this morning on R5
English study texts: Lamb (4)
