Piers Burton-Page with music, including excerpts from
Handel's Acis and Galatea performed by the English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner , plus news and a look at the arts stories in the papers.
Alfven and Stenhammar
Stenhammar Midwinter , Op 24
Gothenburg Concert Hall Choir
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra conductor Neeme Jarvi Vandraren;
Stjarnan Haken Hagegard (baritone) Thomas Schuback (piano) Alfven
Symphony No I in F minor Stockholm Philharmonic
Orchestra conductor Neeme Jarvi Records
with Susan Sharpe. Sullivan
Overture: Iolanthe
Pro Arte Orchestra/ Stanford Robinson
10.10 Vivaldi
Oboe Concerto in F
(RV455)
Paul Goodwin (oboe) King's Consort/ Robert King
10.20 Szymanowski
Variations on a Polish Folk
Theme, Op 10
Andrzej Stefanski (piano)
10.35 Britten
Sanctus (War Requiem) Elisabeth Soderstrom
(piano)
Thomas Allen (baritone) Boys of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conductor Simon Rattle
10.45 Mozart
Piano Concerto No 21 in C
(K467)
Prague Chamber Orchestra/
Paul Badura-Skoda (piano)
11.15 Morley
Come Sorrow Come
Ian Partridge (tenor)
Konrad Ragossnig (lute)
11.25 JH Roman
Sinfonia in F
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
11.30 Sibelius
Tapiola
Scottish National
Orchestra/
Alexander Gibson
11.48
Beethoven Theme and variations in D for mandolin and piano Alison Stephens (mandolin)
Richard Burnett (piano) •REQUESTS: Midweek Choice. BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA. or phone [number removed]
live from Broadcasting House, London. Delme Quartet
Bach, arr Simpson
Three Fugues (The Art of Fugue)
Tchaikovksy
Quartet No 3 in E flat minor
Three programmes of music by composers who joined the society founded in 1936 by Messiaen and others to reinstate human and spiritual values in music.
2: Daniel-Lesur
Overture: Andrea del Sarto USSR State SO/ V
Dubrovsky Suite me'dievale for flute, harp and string trio Syrinx
live from the chapel of King's College, Cambridge. Introit: They shall grow not old (Douglas Guest); Responses: (Radcliffe); Psalms 59, 60 and 61 (South, Nares, Turle,
Crotch); First Lesson: II Samuel 1, vv 17-28;
Magnificat (Finzi); Second Lesson: James 4, vv 1-12; Nunc Dimittis (Hoist);
Anthem: Mr Valiant-for-
Truth (Vaughan
Williams); Hymn: Let saints on earth in concert sing (Dundee); Organ
Voluntary: Rhapsody No 1 in D flat (Howells)
Director of music Stephen Cleobury ; Organ Scholar David Goode.
Michael Oliver 's choice of music, with news, interviews, arts events and weather.
Producer Alan Hall
Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Christian Lindberg (trombone)
Jan Sandstrom: Trombone Concerto
Mahler: Symphony No 7
David Huckvale continues his exploration of musical terms.
3: Ostinato
(piano)
Paderewski Nocturne in Bflat, Op 16 No 4; Minuet in G, Op 14 No
Lowell Liebermann
Sonata Notturna
Liszt
En reve; Impromptu in F sharp; Wiegenlied
Trois Petites Liturgies de la presence divine Rolf Hind (piano)
Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot)
London Sinfonietta and Chorus/Terry Edwards Record
('Chronochromie' next Wednesday)
Tonight's edition, live from the 1992 Hull
Literature Festival, includes discussion of the Selected Letters of Philip Larkin and his poetic legacy; contemporary writing from Hull; and the current state of poetry publishing.
Producer Abigail Appleton
Stephen Plaistow introduces four programmes played by some of the great Chopin pianists past and present. 3: Artur Rubinstein Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op 44; Three
Mazurkas, Op 56; Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52, Sonata No 2 in Bflat minor, Op 35
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