Access to Maths:
Countdown to Equations
Paul Guinery introduces two hours of new releases.
Weber
Overture: Peter Schmoll
Philharmonia/Neeme Jarvi
7.11 Stanford
Cello Sonata No 2 in D minor, Op 39
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) John McCabe (piano)
7.40 Georg Mathias Monn Two Cantatas
James Bowman (countertenor)
Ricercar Consort
7.54 Haydn Wood Suite: London Cameos
Czecho-Slovak RSO,
Bratislava/ Adrian Leaper
8.09 Andre Caplet Septet for three female voices and string quartet Ensemble Musique Oblique
8.25 Mozart Symphony No 36 in C (K425) (Linz) Amsterdam Baroque
Orchestra/Ton Koopman
9.05 Record Review continues with Richard
Osbome.
Building a Library:
Verdi's Simon Boccanegra. Jonathan Swain reviews new releases of late
Romantic orchestral music.
10.35 Record Release
Prokofiev
Symphony-Concerto, Op 125 Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Pittsburgh SO/Lorin Maazel
11.16 Sibelius Scene with Cranes, Op 44 No 2 Danish National RSO/ Leif Segerstam
11.35 Jeremy Siepmann has a treasure-trove of piano reissues from Egon Petri, Percy Grainger and Sviatoslav Richter, including Rachmaninov's complete RCA Victor recordings.
12.25 Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor
The Composer (piano)
Philadelphia Orchestra/ Leopold Stokowski (Mono. 1924)
Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury
Shmuel Ashkenasi and Pierre Menard (violins) Richard Young (viola) Marc Johnson (cello) Beethoven
Quartet in D, Op 18 No 3 Peter Schickele
American Dreams
2.00 Peter Barker reads from Peter Schickele 's definitive biography of the last and least member of a famous musical family, PDQ Bach.
2.05 Dvorak
Quartet in F, Op 96 (American)
Tallis's two sets of lamentations sung by the Taverner Consort directed by Andrew Parrott. Record
atalie Wheen presents a series of seven programmes looking back over the career of Sir Georg Solti, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday. As well as recordings of Solti as conductor and pianist, the series features interviews with Solti himself, fellow musicians and critics, and includes material from the BBC archives.
1: The Early Years
Memories of a childhood in Hungary and studies with Kodaly and Bartok. Kodaly
Dances ofGalanta
London Philharmonic Schubert
Abschied; In der Feme (Schwanengesang) with Max Lichtegg (tenor)
Brahms
Violin Sonata in G, Op 78 with Georg Kulenkampf (violin)
Bartok Dance Suite
London Philharmonic
Mozart
Ein Madchen oder
Weibchen
(Die Zauberflote)
Hermann Prey (tenor) Vienna Philharmonic
Kodaly
Suite: Hary Janos
London Philharmonic Producer Tim Thorne
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Ray Abbott
with James Naughtie. Producer David Gallagher
I The first of this I season's live broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera in New York is Donizetti's irresistible comedy about a lovesick village boy taken in by a travelling quack doctor, who sells him a bogus love potion.
Metropolitan Opera House Chorus and Orchestra conductor Edoardo Milller
Act
7.40 Brendan Gill 's
New York
Architectural historian
Brendan Gill explores the forgotten past of his adopted city.
8.10 Act 2
(An EBU presentation in association with the Texaco
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network)
Is translation the art of the impossible? Is it poetry that gets lost in translation? In the last of six programmes with practitioners of this troublesome art, Adam Czemiawski discusses
Polish poetry with Donald Davie.
Series producer David Perry
(piano) Bach
French Suite No 5 in G
(BWV816)
Hugh Wood
Three Pieces, Op 5 Ravel
Valses nobles et sentimentales Chopin
Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52
The first of two concerts recorded during the 1992 festival features the Carla
Bley Big Band, with Lew Soloff (trumpet),
Gary Valente (trombone), Andy Sheppard (saxophone), Steve Swallow (bass),
Adam Nussbaum (drums), and a group of Scottish musicians led by Stewart Forbes. The violinist
Alexander Balanescu joins the band to play the specially commissioned
Birds of Paradise by Carla Bley. Introduced by Alan Plater who talks to
Carla Bley during the interval.
