Andrew MacGregor with music, news, arts news and weather.
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7.00 Handel
Concerto a due cori No 2 inF
Academy of Ancient Music director
Christopher Hogwood
8.00 Bizet
Overture: Patrie
RPO/Thomas Beecham
8.30 Faure
Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 15 Domus
Bruckner
Credo; Agnus Dei (Mass No 3 in F minor)
Maria Stader (soprano)
Claudia Hellmann (mezzo) Ernst Haefliger (tenor) Kim Borg (bass)
Bavarian Radio Chorus and SO/Eugen Jochum Symphony No 6 in A North German Radio SO/Giinter Wand Virga Jesse
Bavarian Radio
Chorus/Eugen Jochum Records
with Susan Sharpe. Zelenka
Hipocondrie
Camerata Bem/
Alexander van Wijnkoop
10.40 Brahms
Schicksalslied
Ambrosian Singers London PO/
Wolfgang Sawallisch
10.58
Schumann Phantasiestacke , Op 111 Bernard d'Ascoli (piano)
11.10 Haydn
Symphony No 76 in Eflat Philharmonia
Hungarica/Antal Dorati
11.35
Spohr Scherzo (Nonet in F, Op 31) Nash Ensemble
1142 Hummel
Adagio (Piano Concerto in C, Op 34a) Pavol Kovac (piano) Kammerensemble
Bratislava/Vlastimil Horak
11.55 Druschetzky
Contradanza (Partita for Rustic Instruments) Capella Savaria/ Pal Nemeth Records
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Joachim Piano Trio: Rebecca Hirsch
(violin)
Caroline Dearnley (cello)
John Lenehan (piano)
Debussy Trio in G
Saint-Saens Trio No 2 in E minor, Op 92
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Presented by Anthony Burton.
Building a Library:
Dvorak's Piano Quintet, Op 81 by Lionel Salter. Bernard Keefe looks at new discs of orchestral
"hand me ups": arrangements of chamber works for full orchestra.
Jeremy Summerly compares recent versions of Brumel's astonishing "Earthquake" Mass.
Michael Nyman Quartet No 1
Balanescu Quartet Record
live from St Mary's
Cathedral, Edinburgh. Introit: Hymn for the Dormition of the Mother of God (Tavener);
Preces and Responses: Grier;
Office Hymn: Te lucis ante terminum (Tallis);
Psalms 136,137,138 (Lloyd, Atkins, Ley);
Canticles: Watson in E;
Anthem: Quaemadmodum desiderat cervus
(Taverner);
Hymn: Lord of all the saints (NEH 195); Organ Voluntary:
Organ Sonata in G (1st movement) (Elgar);
Lessons: Jeremiah 3, vv 12-18; Ephesians 2, w 11 - end. Assistant organist Peter Backhouse.
Master of the music
Timothy Byram-Wigfield .
Andrew Green 's selection of music, together with news and interviews.
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
Freiburg Baroque
Orchestra, directed by Gottfried van der Goltz
(violin)
Johann Bernhard Bach
Overture No 4 in D
Handel Concerto Grosso in B minor, Op 6 No 12 Telemann Overture in G minor (Darmstadt) Bach Concerto in D
(BWV1064)
(In association with Lufthansa German Airlines)
Thomas Sutcliffe , arts editor of The Independent, reflects on some of the things people say and write.
Sound Patterns
A richly varied sequence spanning some 800 years of music.
Hilliard Ensemble:
David James (alto)
Rogers Covey-Crump
(tenor); John Potter (tenor); Gordon Jones (bass)
Messe de la Pentecôte played by Gillian Weir on the organ in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington DC.
(First broadcast in 1981)
Robert Hewison reports from Brighton on a conference about the relationship of the "odd couple" - Broadcasting and the Arts.
Producer John Goudie
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Peter Seymour (fortepiano)
Reichardt Der Fischer
Zumsteeg Richard und Mathilde Loewe Die Nachtliche
Heerschau; Herr Oluf Schubert Der Stinger
(D149); Der Schafer und derReiter(D517XDer Toucher (D77b)