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
Dvorak's Pupils
Karel Revolutionary Overture, Op 39 Czech PO/
Vaclav Smetacek
Karel Nonet , Op 43 (1st mvt) Czech Nonet
Novak
South Bohemian Suite, Op 64
Czech PO/
Frantisek Vajnar. Records
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
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
Coull Quartet
Verdi String Quartet in E minor
Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 76 No
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)
(piano)
Scriabin Sonata No 3 in F sharp minor
Chopin Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor, Op 39
Liszt Sonata in B minor (Given in association with the Scottish International Piano
Competition)
Richard Widdess presents music from the festival of Holi in the small town of Vrindaban - the birthplace of the god Krishna. Producer John Thornley
Richard Baker presents this afternoon's edition with music, news and interviews and looks forward to the weekend. Producer Ray Abbott
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
The last of four short stories by Damon Runyon. The Brain Goes Home -
There's no place like home, unless you're a dying gangster on the run. Read by Kerry Shale
Series producer Matthew Walters
conductor Simon Joly
Poulenc Quatre petites prières de Saint Francois d'Assise; Ave verum corpus; Figure humaine
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)
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
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