Andrew McGregor 's selection of music. With news, arts news and weather, including: Delius
Air and Dance for Strings London Philharmonic
Orchestra/Vernon Handley
7.40 Haydn
Violin Concerto in A
Simon Standage (violin) The English Concert/ Trevor Pinnock
8.00 Beethoven
12 Variations on "Ein Madchen oder Weibchen" Anthony Pleeth (cello) Melvyn Tan (piano)
8.45 Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No 1 in Dflat
Vladimir Ashkenazy London Symphony
Orchestra/André Previn Records
Alfven and Stenhammar
Stenhammar
String Quartet No 2 in C minor
Copenhagen Quartet Fantasy, Op 11
Roland Pontinen (piano) Alfven
Suite: The Prodigal Son Stockholm PO/ Neemejarvi Records
Rossini
Overture: La gazza ladra BBC Philharmonic/ Jansug Kakhidze
10.10 Howells
Three Dances
Malcolm Stewart (violin) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra/Vernon Handley
10.25 Chopin
Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor
Nikolai Demidenko (piano) BBC Philharmonic/ Jansug Kakhidze
11.07 Philip Wilby Paganini Variations Williams Fairey
Engineering Brass Band/Peter Parkes
11.23 Rachmaninov
Three Songs, Op 38 Nos 1-3
Elisabeth Soderstrom (sop) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
11.32 Stravinsky Jeu de Cartes
BBC Philharmonic/ Jansug Kakhidze
conductor Heinrich Schiff
(cello)
Mozart Symphony No 31 in D (Paris)
Shostakovich Cello
Concerto No 1 in Eflat
Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished)
Hu Kun (violin)
Norma Fisher (piano)
Prokofiev Sonata in D, Op 94a Strauss Sonata in Eflat, Op 18
(1939-1992)
The second of two programmes.
Six Turner Paintings BBC Scottish SO/ Andrew Litton
Symphony No 5 (Romantic)
BBC Philharmonic/ Bryden Thomson
In the last of three programmes, American "stride" pianist
Ralph Sutton tells Alyn Shipton about his work with Bing Crosby , the formation of the World's Greatest Jazz Band in 1965, and his long friendship with trumpeter Wild Bill Davison.
Then there was "The last of the Whorehouse Piano
Players"...
Producer Derek Drescher
David Owen Norris 's guest is the conductor, composer and musicologist
Raymond Leppard. With music, news and arts stories.
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
The opening concert of the Scandinavian festival, live from the Barbican Hall, London.
Oslo Philharmonic
Orchestra/Mariss Jansons Truls Mork (cello)
Svendsen
Carnival in Paris Nordheim
Tenebrae for cello and orchestra
8.30 Scandinavian
Horizons
Peter Paul Nash surveys the scene of musical and cultural life in Scandinavia. With
Humphrey Burton , artistic director of Tender Is the North, and musicians and composers connected with the festival.
8.50 Rachmaninov
Symphony No 2 in E minor (In association with the Barbican Centre, Stat Oil, BP Exploration and Alliance Gas)
David Huckvale continues his exploration of musical terms.
2: The Appoggiatura
The second of two programmes of sonatas by Telemann.
Trio Sonata in D minor Duetto Sonata in Bflat (Der Getreue Musikmeister)
Trio Sonata in A minor
Ross Winters (recorder) Catherine Mackintosh
(violin)
Mark Caudle (cello)
Alan Wilson (harpsichord)
Valentine Cunningham investigates the legacy and influence of Eric Gill, as a major retrospective of his sculpture opens in London, and discusses the controversial and bloody film Single White Female. And there's music from the jazz guitarist John Scofield on the eve of his British tour.
The second of four programmes of Russian orchestral music including Tchaikovsky's fantasy overtures, presented by Gerard McBurney.
Dargomizhsky Bolero USSR Academic
SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov Kasatchok
USSR Academic SO
Musorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain
Kirov Orchestra/ Valery Gergiev
Tchaikovsky Fantasy overture: Romeo and Juliet Philharmonia Orchestra/ Giuseppe Sinopoli Records