presented this week by Piers Burton-Page . Music, news, weather and arts news, including:
7.00 Stanley Concerto in A, Op 2 No
Parley of Instruments/ Roy Goodman
7.35 Haydn Symphony No 16 in B flat
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra/Adam Fischer
8.00 Brahms Theme with Variations (arrfrom String Sextet, Op 18) Alfred Brendel (piano)
8.45 Beethoven
Overture: Leonora No 3
NBC SO/Toscanini. Records
Monteverdi and the Poets:
Guarini Monteverdi 's settings of poems by Guarini performed by the Consort of Musicke. Records
Producer Svend Brown
Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps
BBC Concert Orchestra/ Barry Wordsworth
9.55 Britten
Young Apollo
Peter Evans (piano)
Scottish CO/Jose Serebrier
10.04 Schubert
Symphony No 3 in D Hanover Band/ Roy Goodman
10.28 Glanville-Hicks
Etruscan Concerto
Penelope Thwaites (piano) BBC Concert Orchestra/ Barry Wordsworth
10.42 Grainger Green Bushes
English CO/
Steuart Bedford
10.51 Mendelssohn
String Quartet in F minor, Op 80
Melos Quartet
11.16 Coates Saxo-Rhapsody Jack Brymer (alto saxophone)
Royal Liverpool
PO/Charles Groves
11.27 Arthur Benjamin Suite: Cotillon
BBC Concert Orchestra/ Barry Wordsworth
"To me his singing remains unequalled."
(Victoria de los Angeles) David Mellor introduces recordings of the great Swedish tenor
Jussi Bjorling , who died at the height of his powers in 1960. Producer Patrick Lambert
live from St John 's, Smith Square. London.
A concert of music by Witold Lutoslawski on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
Christopher van Kampen (cello)
London Sinfonietta conductor Elgar Howarth Grave for cello and strings Sacher Variation for solo cello
Preludes and Fugue for 13 strings
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conductor Tadaaki Otaka Dong-Suk Kang (violin) Mozart Overture: Le
Nozze di Figaro
Beethoven Violin
Concerto in D
Smetana Vysehrad;
Tabor, Blanik (Ma Vlast)
played by Peter Hurford on the Drake organ in St John's Church,
Bridgetown, Totnes.
Bach Prelude and Fugue in C (BWV 545)
Four 'Neumeister' Chorale
Preludes
Hindemith Organ Sonata No
Bach Canonic Variations on Von Himmel Hoch
(BWV 769).
Music, news. interviews and arts news with Andrew Green.
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
Sarah Leonard (soprano) Robert Hayward (bass) BBC Singers
City of Birmingham SO conductor Pierre Boulez
Schoenberg Five
Orchestral Pieces, Op 16 Webern Cantata No 1, Op 29; Variations for
Orchestra, Op 30, Cantata No 2, Op 31
8.25 A reading from Boulez's collected writings, Orientations.
8.30 Stravinsky Ballet: Petrushka
The first of five nightly stories for
Europe written and narrated by Frederic Raphael.
The Wife of My Friend
Remember Athens and the colonels' revolt? Well, it had strange consequences for two sets of friends ...
Series producer Duncan Minshull
The six suites played in three recitals during the week by pianist Andras Schiff. Suite No 1 in D minor
(BWV 812); Suite No 5 in G (BWV 816)
Suite sans esprit de suite Rhenish State PO/
James Lockhart. Record
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present music mixing styles and influences.
Producer Sarah Devonald
The first of two programmes.
Tallis Scholars director Peter Phillips Philips Ecce licit Leo Dering Factum est silentium
Dowland I shame at mine unworthiness
Morley Laboravi in gemitu meo
Philips Ave Jesu Christe ; Ascendit Deus
Palestrina Missa Ut re mi fa so la
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