with Piers Burton-Page . Music, news and arts news, including at
7.40 Faure
Suite: Pelleas etMelisande
Israel PO/Zubin Mehta
8.45 Rossini
Overture: William Tell
Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit
Stephen Sondheim
"Writing music takes more talent, but writing lyrics takes more courage" Johnny Mercer.
Mark Steyn considers Sondheim as a lyricist, with excerpts from the original Broadway cast recordings of West Side Story, A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum, Gypsy, Sunday in the Park with George,
Do I Hear a Waltz?, Follies and Sweeney Todd. Records
with Susan Sharpe. Haydn
Symphony No 37 in C
Philharmonia Hungarica/ Antal Dorati
10.15 Howard Blake
Suite for two pianos
Janet Canetty-Clark and The Composer (pianos)
10.28 Scarlatti, arr Lagoya
Sonata in E
Ida Presti and Alexandre Layoga (guitars)
10.38 Bach
Cantata No 140: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme Kurt Equiluz (tenor)
Thomas Hampson (bass) Tolz Boys' Choir Vienna Concentus
Musicus/
Nikolaus Hamoncourt
11.03 Britten
Funeral March for a Boy (The Company of Heaven) Peter Barkworth (speaker) English CO/
Philip Brunelle
11.11
Rachmaninov Etudes-Tableaux , Op 39 Nos 1 and Howard Shelley (piano)
11.21 Glazunov
Intermezzo (Symphony No 6) USSR Ministry of Culture SO/ Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
11.28 Schubert
Morgenlied (D381) Ian Partridge (tenor)
Jakob Lindberg (guitar)
11.30 Krommer
Flute Quartet, Op 93
Peter-Lukas Graf (flute) Carmina Trio
11.53 Haydn Quis non posset (Stabat Mater )
Patricia Rozario (soprano) English Concert and Choir/ Trevor Pinnock. Records
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live from Studio One, Pebble Mill.
Kevin Gowland (flute) Frank Wibaut (piano) Grovlez Romance and Scherzo
Martin Ballade
Dutilleux Sonatine
Schubert Introduction and Variations on 'Trockne Blumen' (D802) 0 Complimentary tickets from [number removed]
Mozart
Overture: Don Giovanni
Berlin State Opera Orchestra Dvorak
Humoresque, Op 101 No 7 Jarmila Novotna (soprano) Smetana Vltava (Ma vlast) Berlin PO
Fibich Poeme (At Twilight) Jarmila Novotna (soprano) Weinberger Polka
(Schwanda the bagpiper) Berlin PO
(Mono records. 1928-35)
live from St George's
Church. Hanover Square, London.
Introit: How beautiful upon the mountains (Stainer);
Responses: (Smith); Psalm ]06 (Darlow); First Lesson: Ecclesiastes 6: Office Hymn: 0 God of truth (plainsong); Canticles:
Noble in B minor; Second Lesson: Philippians 2, vv 1-18; Anthem: Lord I call upon Thee (Bairstow); Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue (Sonata No 1 in A, Mendelssohn)
Organist and Director of Music Denys Darlow.
Assistant Organist Simon Williams.
with Michael Oliver.
Music, news, interviews and a look at what's on in the music world.
Producer Hugh Warwick
Ida Haendel (violin) Pavel Haas
Study for strings Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor
Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring
The second of four stories from John McGahem 's recently published collection. A Slip-up
A retired school caretaker slips away from his life in London back to the hard necessary labour on the farm of his boyhood. Reader Stephen Rea.
Mozart String Quartet in D(K155)
Schubert String Quartet in G (D887)
Peter Hill continues his performance of the complete Catalogue with Books 5 and 6: L'Alouette calandrelle; La Bouscarle; Le Merle de roche
Introduced by Susan Sharpe.
(Book 7 tomorrow at 9.20pm)
In tonight's edition. Lisa Jardine talks to sculptor
Dame Elizabeth Frink and discusses an exhibition of her recent work. Also
Madonna feminist figurehead or sexual pin-up? Night Waves examines the campaign to sell "Sex". Producer Abigail Appleton
The last of six programmes pairing
Bartok's quartets with Beethoven's Op 18 set, played by the Endellion Quartet.
Beethoven Quartet in B flat, Op 18 No 6
Bartok Quartet No 5 Series producer Misha Donat
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