Andrew MacGregor with music, news, weather and arts news, including: Pachelbel
Partita
Musica Antiqua Koln
7.40 Mozart Bassoon
Concerto in Bflat (K191) Klaus Thunemann Academy of St
Martin/Neville Marriner
8.00 Smetana Overture and Dance of the Comedians (The Bartered Bride) Czech Philharmonic
Orchestra/Vaclav Neumann
8.35 Haydn Symphony No 7 in C (Le Midi) Hanover Band/
Roy Goodman. Records
Leopold Kozeluh Hunting fanfare - Detmold Horn Players
Frantisek Krommer Wind Sextet in E flat (Sestetto Pastorale) - Consortium Classicum
Pavel Vranicky String Quartetin B flat, Op 16 No 1 - Stamic Quartet
Gyrowetz Sinfonia concertante in F - Jan Adamus (oboe) Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra/Petr Altrichter
(Records)
Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor (BWV903)
Claudio Arrau (piano)
10.14 Bernstein
Ballet: Fancy Free
New York PO/The Composer
10.40 Britten Suite on English Folk Tunes: A Time There Was ...
New York PO/Bemstein
10.55 Bartok Contrasts Joseph Szigeti (violin)
Benny Goodman (clarinet) The Composer (piano)
11.10
Beethoven Sonata in C minor, Op
Claudio Arrau (piano)
11.39 Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56a New York PO/Bemstein Records
conductor Kurt Masur
Elisabeth Leonskaya (piano) Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor Bruckner Symphony No 3 in D minor
A Twentieth-Century Voice
My Dear Jimmy ...
In this last programme, the countertenor talks to Brian Kay about singing the music of Benjamin Britten and looks forward to a new era for the countertenor voice. With music by Britten, Purcell, Alan Ridout and Geoffrey Burgon and thoughts from Donald Mitchell , John Copley , Dame Janet Baker and Geoffrey Burgon. Series producer Sarah Devonald
Marie-Noelle Kendall
(piano) Haydn Sonata in C
(H XVI 50)
Brahms Four Ballades, Op 10
NEW The American record producer
George Avakian has played a crucial role in the careers of some of the key jazz musicians of our time. In the first of eight programmes, he talks to Ian Carr about his long friendship with trumpeter Louis Armstrong , and in particular about the recording of Mac the Knife and the Satch plays W C Handy album.
Producer Derek Drescher
Michael Berkeley 's guest in Birmingham is the composer and conductor Pierre Boulez.
Producer Jeremy Hayes
live from the London
Coliseum, Janacek's opera about the magical excursions of a middle-aged, middle-class Prague landlord who travels to the moon and back, and in time to the 15th century.
Sung in English. Production made possible with funds given by the audience of English National Opera.
English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra/ Charles Mackerras Act
8.35 The Background to
Broucek David Pountney , Charles Mackerras and Graham Clark talk about Janacek's opera.
8.55 Act 2
The writer Richard Hoggart reflects on language and how it is used.
Partita No 3 in A minor (BWV827)
French Suite No 6 in E (BWV817)
Virginia Black (h'chord)
Prompted by a new production of Terence Rattigan 's The Deep Blue Sea directed by leading
British film director Karel Reisz at the Almeida
Theatre, London, Tony Palmer considers what film-makers can bring to the theatre - and why so many theatre directors try their hand at film. Producer Paul Quinn
The fourth of six programmes featuring
Prokofiev's ballet music. On the Dnieper
USSR Ministry of Culture SO/Rozhdestvensky Waltz Suite, Op Nos 1, 3 and 5 Scottish National
Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi Records
(As broadcast today on Radio 5)
English study texts: Hobson's Choice
