BBC Concert Orchestra
Smetana Overture: The
Bartered Bride conductor JiriStarek
7.07 Johann Strauss (son) Kaiser Waltz conductor Maurice Handford
7.19 Bliss Ballet for
Children; Reconstruction;
Theme and Reconstruction
(Things to Come)
7.29 Grieg The Last Spring conductor
Christopher Phelps
7.35 Gershwin
Rhapsody No 2
Howard Shelley (piano) conductor
Maurice Handford
7.52 Hoist
A Fugal Overture conductor
Christopher Page
7.57 Balfour Gardiner
Shepherd Fennel's Dance
8.04 Robert Farnon
A la Claire Fontaine conductor
Maurice Handford
8.13 Koper
The Swan ofPesaro
Geoffrey Browne (oboe) conductor
Christopher Phelps
8.27 Novak
Slovak Suite conductor Jiri Starek
J Strauss (son) Tales from the Vienna Woods
9.18 J C Bach Wind
Symphony No 1 in Eflat
9.30 Artist of the Week:
Joshua Bell (violin)
Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
9.41 Sor, arr Segovia
Variations on a theme of Mozart
9.49 Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien
10.05 Adolfo Berio
Waltz; Mazurka
10.14 Hummel
Trumpet Concerto in Eflat
10.33 Composer of the Week preview:
Brahms Alto Rhapsody
10.47 Vivaldi
Concerto in D (La Pastorella) (RV95)
10.57
Tallis Spem in ahum
11.07
Poulenc Suite française
11.20 Massenet
Meditation (Thais)
11.26 Elgar
Enigma Variations
Bach Concertos That
Might Have Been
George Pratt unearths some little-known concertos hidden within Bach's music.
Producer Kate Bolton
Peter Porter introduces poetry from the BBC Sound Archives. Today, Dreams and Destinations, poems introduced and read by C. Day Lewis in 1972.
BBC Philharmonic conductor Edward Downes Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Rossini Overture: William Tell
Britten Piano Concerto
2.05 Interval Reading
2.10 Shostakovich Symphony No 15
What is our life? A play of passion, our mirth the music of division.
A programme of consort and theatre songs, pavans and galliards by Byrd, Holborne, Ferrabosco, Gibbons and others.
Michael Chance (countertenor), Jeremy Budd (treble), Fretwork Viol Consort
String Quintet in D (K593) Endellion Quartet
Roger Chase (viola)
(piano)
Bach, transcr Busoni Chaconne in D minor
Schumann Etudes symphoniques, Op 13
5.25 Interval Reading
5.30 Chopin Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52,
Nocturne in F minor, Op 55 No 1; Scherzo No 4 in E, Op 54
Ives Three-page Sonata
Pabst Concert Paraphrase on Tchaikovsky's 'Eugene Onegin '
Last Monday's BBC
Lunchtime Concert given on the occasion of the composer's 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
Return to Kmov by Peter Tegel.
A Sudetan German family escapes from the growing Nazi threat in Czechoslovakia in 1938. Fifty years later Anton returns there in search of his past, the father who died when he was three, and the legends about his relatives frequently touched on by his demanding old mother.
Director Richard Wortley
conductor Richard Hickox Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in Eflat (Emperor) Soloist not known at time of going to press
9.30 Interval Reading
9.35 Elgar Oratorio: The Light of Life
Judith Howarth (soprano) Linda Finnie (mezzo) Arthur Davies (tenor)
John Shirley-Quirk (bar)
London Symphony Chorus (Given earlier this evening in the Barbican Hail, London)
Simon Preston is soloist in the organ concerto by Handel which has earned this nickname.
Trevor Pinnock directs the English Concert, who also perform one of Handel's Concerti Grossi , Op 3. Records
The Dutch street band Orkest de Volharding celebrate 20 years of front-line performance with a concert recorded last
Thursday at their home in the Ijsbreker Hall,
Amsterdam. Christopher Fox presents the programme which features the world premiere of Gerald Barry 's Hard D, commissioned for the occasion by the BBC, and new works by Gordon McPherson , Julia Wolfe and Hanna Kulenty. (Another Barry premiere next Sunday at 11.15pm)
