with Andrew Lyle. News, weather and a look at the arts stories in the papers. Including: Wagner
Overture: Tannhauser
Berlin PO/
Klaus Tennstedt
8.00 Mozart
Piano Sonata in C (K545) Maria Joao Pires
8.30
Strauss Suite for Wind, Op 4
Wind Section of Minnesota
Orchestra/Edo de Waart
Stephen Sondheim In the week that
Sondheim's latest show, Assassins, opens in London, Mark Steyn presents five programmes that reflect the work of this original and innovative writer for the musical stage. Today, he looks at the differences between writing for the Broadway stage and the writing of opera or popular song, and includes excerpts from the original Broadway cast recordings of West Side Story, Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Little Night Music,
Pacific Overtures, Sunday in the Park with George and Assassins, featuring Ethel Merman , Zero Mostel and Mandy Patinkin. Records Producer John Evans
Brahms
Variations on a Theme of Schumann, Op 23 Andras Schiff and Georg Solti (piano duet)
10.17 Haydn
Piano Trio in F sharp minor (H XV 26)
Peter Frankl (piano) Gyorgy Pauk (violin)
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)
10.36 Bach
Cantata No 198: Lass, Fiirstin, lass noch einen Strahl (Mourning Ode) Rohtraud Hansmann
(soprano)
Helen Watts (alto)
Kurt Equiluz (tenor)
Max van Egmond (bass) Monteverdi Choir,
Hamburg
Concerto Amsterdam conductor
Jürgen Jürgens
11.15 Haydn
Piano Trio in Eflat (HXV30)
11.36 Schoenberg
Variations for Orchestra, Op 31
Chicago Symphony Orchestra conductor Georg Solti
John Amis presents a musical portrait of Serge Prokofiev.
Producer Patrick Lambert
live from St John 's Smith Square, London.
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Catherine Edwards (piano) Settings of poems by A E Housman by C W Orr , Ireland, Moeran, George Butterworth and Holder.
Schumann Dichterliebe
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conductor Ivan Fischer.
Haydn
Symphony No 31 in D (Hornsignal)
Beethoven Romance in G, Op 40
Monica Huggett (violin)
3.20 Interval Reading
3.30 Beethoven
Romance in F, Op 50 Haydn
Symphony No 103 in Eflat (Drumroll)
(Concert sponsored by Charterhouse pic)
In the last of three programmes,
Stephen Cleobury plays the organ of King's College,
Cambridge, and talks to Ian Carson.
Partita; But the meek spirited (Psalm Preludes) Paean
Rodney Slatford presents music, news and interviews. Producer Andrew Mussett
conductor Vernon Handley Christian Blackshaw
(piano)
Alison Barlow (soprano) Elgar
Overture: Froissart
Vaughan Williams Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No 3) Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 5 in Eflat (Emperor)
Poet, novelist, bon viveur and former poetry editor for the BBC,
George Macbeth died recently of motor neurone disease.
Anthony Thwaite presents an affectionate portrait of the man and his work. Producer Alec Reid
Peter Hill performs Books 2 and 3 of the Catalogue: Le Traquet stapazin La Chouette hulotte L'Alouette lulu
(Book 4 tomorrow at 9.30pm)
Quintet in C (K515) Endellion Quartet
Roger Chase (viola)
Robert Sandall and Mark Russell present their weekly selection of music mixing styles and influences, plus an interview with maverick re-mixer Youth.
Producer Sarah Devonald
The last of five programmes introduced by David Fallows.
New London Consort director Philip Pickett
Music for Isabella d'Este including pieces by Tromboncino and Cara. (In association with Northern Electricity)
Except in Scotland.
As broadcast this morning on R5
