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7.45 Elgar
Introduction and Allegro Orpheus CO
8.00 Weber
Concertino In K
Anthony Halstead (horn) Hanover Band
Roy Goodman
8.45 Brahms
Academic Festival Overture
Vienna PO
Leonard Bernstein
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Mark Steyn looks at the Sondheim songs that have gone on to enjoy a life independent of their original dramatic context. with excerpts from the original Broadway cast recordings of Follies and Merrily We Roll Along, and Ethel Merman singing Ev'rything's Coming Up Roses from Gypsy, Barbra Streisand singing Send in the Clowns (A Little Night Music) and The Ladies Who Lunch/Pretty Women (Company/Sweeney Todd), Michael Feinstein singing Julie Steyne's Home is the Place and Old Friends (Merrily) and Frank Sinatra singing Good Thing Going (Merrily).
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Beethoven
Piano Sonata in Eflat, Op 7 Dezso Ranki (piano)
10.31
Liszt Tasso : Lamento e trionfo Paris Orchestra/ Georg Solti
10.52 Beethoven
Violin Sonata in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer)
Georg Kulenkampff (violin) Georg Solti (piano) (Mono. 1947)
11.22 Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No 1 in Bflat minor
Clifford Curzon (piano) Vienna PO/Georg Solti
Berlioz's operatic swan. song is a light-hearted comedy based on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. (soprano) (mezzo-soprano) (mezzo-soprano) (tenor) (tenor) (bass) (baritone)
(acton Chorus and Orchestra of the Opera de Lyon John Nelson. Records
Prussia Cove
Boccherini
Quintet in I) minor (G280) Beethoven
Trio in B flat for clarinet, cello and piano. Op II
conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Stephen Coombs (piano) Arensky
Piano Concerto in F minor
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 4 in F minor
Peter Paul Nash with music, news, interviews and the day's arts stories. Producer Ray Abbott
Alfred Brendel (piano) Schubert
Overture in D (D556) Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 1 in C
8.20 During the interval Andrew Green talks to
Julian Fifer , founder of the Orpheus Chamber
Orchestra, and viola player Maureen Gallagher.
8.30 Webem
Five Movements for String Orchestra, Op 5 Schoenberg
Chamber Symphony No 2. Op 38
The third of four stories.
Faith, Hope and Charity
A young building-worker dies in a accident on a London building site and his body is brought back to his home in the west of Ireland.
Reader Stephen Rea.
(Final story tomorrow 9.oopm)
Peter Hill concludes his performance of the complete Catalogue with Book 7:
La buse variable; le traquet neur, Le courtis cendre
Introduced by Susan Sharpe.
(La fauvette des jardms. tomorrow 9.30pm)
Tallis's antiphon sung by the Tavemer Consort and Choir directed by Andrew Parrott.
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On the first night of Which Witch?, Tony Palmer asks: what is the right number of musicals in London's Theatreland?
Hermit Songs - Leontyne Price (soprano) The Composer (piano) (Mono)
Knoxville: Summer of 1915 - Dawn Upshaw (soprano) Orchestra of St Luke's,
David Zinman
Melodies passogeres - Pierre Bernac (baritone) Francis Poulenc (piano) (Mono)
Andromache Farewell - Martina Arroyo (soprano) New York PO, Thomas Schippers
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