with Chris de Souza.
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7.30 Ravel
Piano Concerto in G
Pasca] Roge (piano) Montreal SO/ Charles Dutoit
8.40 Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/
Paul van Kampen Records
Stephen Sondheim
Mark Steyn looks at the recurring themes of Sondheim's work, with excerpts from Gypsy, FoUies, Sweeney Todd , Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods and Assassins, featuring Ethel Merman ,
George Heam , Len Cariou , Angela Lansbury and Barbra Streisand.
Records
Strauss Serenade , Op 7 Frankfurt RSO/ Erich Leinsdorf
10.10 Mozart
Sonata in B flat (K454) Georg Kulenkampff (violin)
Georg Solti (piano)
10.32
Brahms Serenade in A, Op 16 Frankfurt RSO/ Erich Leinsdorf
11.05 Brahms
Four Songs, Op 17
Frank Lloyd and Stephen Sterling (horns)
Rachel Masters (harp) London Symphony
Chorus/Richard Hickox
11.22 Stravinsky
Divertimento: Le baiser de la fee
Frankfurt RSO/ Erich Leinsdorf
live from the Concert Hall, New Broadcasting House. Gerald Gifford
(harpsichord)
Handel, transcr Gifford Overture: Tolomeo
Overture: Judas Maccabaeus
Lascia chio pianga (Rinaldo)
Haydn, transcr Gifford Divertimento in C (HXTV 4) Rameau
Air tendre pour la rose; Air pour Boree et la rose (Les Indes galantes) Bach
Adagio in G (BWV 968)
Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, transcr Bach
Concerto in D minor
(BWV987)
Stephen Johnson introduces music from two festival concerts.
Liszt
Petrarch Sonnet No 104;
Berceuse; Valse oubliee No 1 Clifford Curzon (piano) and a selection of Liszt's
Goethe and Hugo settings sung by Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano) with Gerald Moore (piano).
Shostakovich
Seven Romances, Op 127 Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
Producer Philip Tagney
Symphony No 4 in E minor BBC Philharmonic/ Alexander Rahbari
Magical tales of creation and the spirit world fill the songs of the people of Rapa Iti, an island 1,000 miles south-east of Tahiti.
Pascal Nabet-meyer has made unique recordings of this bountiful tradition, and he describes the island and introduces its music to
Alan Hall.
Producer Alan Hall
Edward Greenfield presents music and interviews the conductor
Sir Charles Mackerras.
With news and a look ahead to the weekend.
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
conductor Yehudi Menuhin
Hu Kun (violin)
Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps
Mozart Symphony No 40 in G minor
Ronald Stevenson
Violin Concerto (first performance)
(In association with Strathclyde Regional Council)
The last of four stories from John McGahem 's collection.
Parachutes
Solace for a broken love affair is sought in Dublin. Reader Stephen Rea.
Series producer Pam Brighton
La fauvette des jardins Peter Hill (piano)
(A Messiaen "Music in Our Time next Sunday 11.35 pm)
The third of four programmes in which Heinrich Biber 's
Mystery Sonatas are set in a devotional context by Fr Cormac Rigby.
3: The Resurrection,
Ascension and Descent of the Holy Ghost
Micaela Comberti (violin)
Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo) Jennifer Ward-Clarke (cello) David Ponsford
(organ/harpsichord)
Kathryn Hurlbutt (reader)
Anthony Burton surveys the Early Music scene in Britain as it is now and as it was before
David Munrow 's dazzling career ended in suicide in 1976. With James Bowman , David Fallows ,
Roy Goodman , Christopher Hogwood , Christopher Page and Philip Pickett. Producer Arthur Johnson
Alfred Schnittke 's
Sutartines weaves
Lithuanian folk tunes into an orchestral uprising.
Ivan Moody updates the medieval with his Cantigas do Mar sung by Sara Stowe accompanied by hurdy-gurdy. Morton Feldman stays cool as ivory in Piano Four Hands. Presented by Alan Hall. Producer Philip Tagney
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