Music, news, arts news and weather with Chris de Souza , including:
Howard Ferguson
Overture for an occasion London Symphony
Orchestra/Richard Hickox
7.45 Boccherini
Symphony No 14 in G London Festival
Orchestra/Ross Pople
8.00 Britten
Matinees musicales (after Rossini)
National PO/
Richard Bonynge
8.40 Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
Howard Shelley (piano) Scottish National
Orchestra/
Bryden Thomson Records
Stravinsky:
Reinventing the Past (1920-1951) 4: Sacred Music
Presented by John Tavener.
Symphony of Psalms Festival Singers of Toronto
CBC Symphony
Orchestra/Elmer Iseler Pater noster, Credo; Ave Maria
Festival Singers of Toronto/Elmer Iseler Gregg Smith
Singers/Gregg Smith Babel
John Calicos (narrator) Festival Singers of Toronto
CBC SO/The Composer Mass
Gregg Smith Singers Columbia Symphony Winds and Brass/ The Composer Records
Schumann Overture: Julius Caesar - LSO/Neeme Jarvi
10.09 Saint Saens Introduction and Rondo Capricioso - Isaac Stern (violin) Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy
10.20 Mozart Piano Concerto No 26 in D (K537) (Coronation) - John McCabe (piano) BBC Philharmonic/Patrick Thomas
10.54 Delius Brigg Fair - Royal PO/Thomas Beecham
11.10 Haydn Symphony No 98 in B flat - Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati
11.36 Roussel Bacchus and Ariadne: Suite No 2 - Lamoureux Orchestra/Igor Markevitch
Handel's oratorio, to a libretto by Charles Jennens , recounts a story of genocide, witchcraft, decapitation, hatred and envy, but also of valour, loyalty, conciliation and optimism.
Lynne Dawson and Rosa Mannion (sopranos) Michael Chance
(countertenor)
Rufus Muller and Angus Smith (tenors)
Michael George and Jonathan Best (basses) Scottish Chamber
Orchestra and Chorus conductor
Nicholas Kraemer
Ileana Ruhemann (flute and alto flute)
Julius Drake (piano) Taffanel Andante pastoral et Scherzettino
John Tavener Songfor
Ileana Reinecke Sonata in E minor, Op 167 (Undine)
conductor Barry Wordsworth
Penelope Thwaites (piano) Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps
Peggy Glanville-Hicks Piano Concerto
Arthur Benjamin Suite: Cotillon
Music, news, weather and arts news with David Owen Norris.
Producer Tim Thorne
live from the Barbican
Hall, London.
The Scandinavian arts festival continues with another concert in the LSO's Sibelius cycle. Gidon Kremer (violin) London Symphony Orchestra conductor Colin Davis
Sibelius Pohjola 's Daughter
Violin Concerto in D minor
8.20 Robert Layton examines the genesis of the late Sibelius symphonies.
8.40 Sibelius
The Swan of Tuonela Symphony No 7 in C
(In association with Sema Group pic)
Five Dialogues on Art 4: Travel and Recreation
Bryan Robertson , former Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, talks to Bridget Riley about the inspiration she derives from visits to places in Britain and overseas and from her reading.
Suite No 3 for solo cello Timothy Hugh (cello)
Tony Payne discusses the first major London staging of a great Rodgers and Hammerstein musical from 1945, Carousel, directed by Nicholas Hytner at the Royal
National Theatre. And Paul Bailey talks to the distinguished Spanish novelist Juan Goytisolo. Producer Tim Dee
Wolf Alte Weisen
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Gerald Moore (piano) Schoeck Lebendig begraben
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone)
Berlin RSO/Fritz Rieger Records
Except in Scotland.
As broadcast this morning on R5 9. 00-1 00am
English Resources: The Poetry of War (War in our time)
