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Music, news, weather and arts news with Chris de Souza , including: Janacek
Zdenka Variations, Op 1 Rudolf Firkusny (piano)
7.40 Haydn
Symphony No 15 in D L'Estro Armonico/ Derek Solomons
8.00
Handel Suite in Bflat (HWV 434) Trevor Pinnock
(harpsichord)
8.45
Tippett Fantasia on a Theme of Handel Margaret Kitchin (piano) LSO/The Composer Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris de Souza
Piano:
Rudolf Firkusny
Unknown:
Derek Solomons
Unknown:
Handel Suite
Harpsichord:
Trevor Pinnock
Harpsichord:
Tippett Fantasia
Piano:
Handel Margaret Kitchin

Purcell
Frost Scene (King Arthur) Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass) English Concert/ Trevor Pinnock
10.21 Grieg
String Quartet in G minor Norwegian Quartet
10.55 Britten
Winter Words
Adrian Thompson (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano)
11.16 Sibelius Tapiola Berlin PO/
Herbert von Karajan
11.37 Tchaikovsky January (The Seasons) Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
11.44
Wagner Wintersturme (Die Walkure, Act 1)
James King (tenor)
Regine Crespin (soprano) Vienna PO/Georg Solti Records

Contributors

Soprano:
Nancy Argenta
Bass:
Brian Bannatyne-Scott
Unknown:
Trevor Pinnock
Tenor:
Adrian Thompson
Piano:
Graham Johnson
Unknown:
Herbert von Karajan
Piano:
Mikhail Pletnev
Piano:
Wagner Wintersturme
Soprano:
Regine Crespin

Cantata Me'dee
Rachel Yakar (soprano) Reinhard Goebel (violin) Wilbert Hazelzet (flute) Charles Medlam
(viola da gamba)
Alan Curtis (harpsichord) Suite in C minor
Kenneth Gilbert (h'chord) Cantata Orphèe
Julianne Baird (soprano) Music's Re-Creation

Contributors

Soprano:
Rachel Yakar
Violin:
Reinhard Goebel
Flute:
Wilbert Hazelzet
Viola:
Charles Medlam
Harpsichord:
Alan Curtis
Unknown:
Kenneth Gilbert
Soprano:
Julianne Baird

The series begins I with the European Community Youth
Orchestra, conductor Carlo Maria Giulini. ..
Sharon Sweet (soprano) Jard van Nes (contralto) Keith Lewis (tenor)
Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass)
Philharmonia Chorus
Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral)

Contributors

Conductor:
Carlo Maria Giulini.
Tenor:
Keith Lewis

conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk
Ronan O'Hora (piano) live from the Royal
Concert Hall, Glasgow.
John Maxwell Geddes
Symphony No 2 (In memoriam Bryden Thomson ) (first performance)
Beethoven Piano
Concerto No 2 in Bflat
8.25 Richard Rastall sets
Nielsen's fifth and sixth symphonies in the context of his later period.
8.45 Nielsen Symphony No

Contributors

Conductor:
Jerzy Maksymiuk
Piano:
Ronan O'Hora
Unknown:
Bryden Thomson
Unknown:
Richard Rastall

After a distinguished career as a double-bass virtuoso, conductor and publisher in his native Russia and in Europe,
Serge Koussevitzky (1874-1951) reigned for 25 years as the grand seigneur of music in America, as Music Director of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, founder of the Tanglewood Festival and School, and a passionate advocate of new music, which he frequently commissioned and premiered.
Humphrey Burton assesses his impact on musical life in America, with the help of Leonard Bernstein , Sarah Caldwell , Aaron Copland , Phyllis Curtin , Harry Ellis
Dickson, Lukas Foss ,
Maria Korchinska , Oliver Knussen , Harold Shapero , Nicholas Slonimski and Isaac Stem.
Producer John Evans
(A new series featuring
Koussevitzky's recordings begins tomorrow 3.00pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Serge Koussevitzky
Unknown:
Humphrey Burton
Unknown:
Leonard Bernstein
Unknown:
Sarah Caldwell
Unknown:
Aaron Copland
Unknown:
Phyllis Curtin
Unknown:
Harry Ellis
Unknown:
Lukas Foss
Unknown:
Maria Korchinska
Unknown:
Oliver Knussen
Unknown:
Harold Shapero
Unknown:
Nicholas Slonimski
Unknown:
Isaac Stem.
Producer:
John Evans

As part of the Boulez in Birmingham festival, George Benjamin introduces three classic scores by Pierre Boulez from the 60s and 70s:
Rituel (in memoriam
Bruno Maderna ) and two parts of Pli selon pli: Don and Tombeau, Boulez's portrait of the poet Mallarme.
Records
Producer Christopher Marshall

Contributors

Introduces:
George Benjamin
Unknown:
Pierre Boulez
Unknown:
Bruno Maderna
Producer:
Christopher Marshall

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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