Maths: The Enigma of Alan Turing
Music, news, weather and arts news with Piers Burton-Page , including:
7.20 Arnold Suite:
Whistle Down the Wind
LSO/Richard Hickox
7.30
Liszt St Francis of Paola walking on the waters
Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
8.00 Brahms
Tragic Overture
NBC SO/Arturo Toscanini
8.30 Janacek
Lachian Dances
London Philharmonic/ Francois Huybrechts Records
Witold Lutoslawski presented by Adrian Thomas 4: The 1970s
Cello Concerto
Heinrich Schiff (cello) Bavarian Radio SO/ The Composer
Les espaces du sommeil Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone)
Berlin Philharmonic The Composer Novelette
Junge Deutsche Philharmonie/
Heinz Holliger. Records
Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70 Heinz Holliger (oboe) Alfred Brendel (piano)
10.10 Gliere
The Zaporozky Cossacks BBC Philharmonic/ Edward Downes
10.31 Strauss
Oboe Concerto
Heinz Holliger (oboe) Cincinnati SO/ Michael Gielen
10.57 Gliere
Symphony No 2 in C minor BBC Philharmonic/ Edward Downes
11.44 Schumann
Three Romances, Op 94 Heinz Holliger (oboe) Alfred Brendel (piano) Records
Rossini's biblical opera about Moses' rescue of his people from slavery in Egypt, including the miracle of the parting of the waves in the Red Sea.
Rossini wrote the opera to circumvent a Lenten ban on secular theatre. This performance follows the French version made for
Paris in 1827. Chorus of the Festival of Saint-Denis
Chorus of the Concert
Spirituel
French National Orchestra conductor Alberto Zedda
directed by Thomas Fiiri Vivaldi Concerto in Gfor two violins, two celbs and orchestra (RV575) Rossini
String Sonata No 3 in C Records
conductor Simon Joly
David Campbell (clarinet) Delius
Dance Rhapsody No 2 Alun Hoddinott
Clarinet Concerto, Op 3
Haydn Symphony No in Eflat (Drum Roll)
Music, news, weather and arts news with Peter Paul Nash. Producer Alan Hall
The last of three concerts from Manchester celebrating the 80th birthday of Witold
Lutoslawski, live from the Free Trade Hall.
Halle Orchestra conductor
Witold Lutoslawski
Paul Crossley (piano) Chain III
Piano Concerto
8.10 Forty Formative Years Charles Bodman Rae presents a profile of Lutoslawski's early life, up to the 1950s.
8.30 Symphony No 3 (In association with Brother International (Europe) Ltd)
"My first poetry performance was for a group of drunkards and drug addicts who were with me in prison." In the fourth of five conversations with contemporary writers in his native South Africa,
Christopher Hope talks to Sandile Dikene.
In his small apartment overlooking Table Bay in Cape Town the young poet, who spent three months in solitary confinement for his activities with the student movement at university, talks about his love of poetry and his performances at political rallies, and recites some of his own work and that of a Xhosa "poet of the people". (Final programme tomorrow
9.20pm)
Suk Piano Trio in C minor, Op 2
Mahler Piano Quartet Movement in A minor
Michael Berkeley For the Savage Messiah
In the sixth of eight programmes about
American record producer George Avakian , he talks to Ian Carr about his work with the trumpeter Miles Davis and in particular how he brought Davis and composer Gil Evans together, resulting in several classic albums using a 19-piece orchestra, including Miles Ahead and Sketches of Spain.
Presented by Tony Palmer. Including a report from Hamburg's Mediale festival, which aims to show where technology will lead the arts in the near future.
Producer Paul Quinn
La mort de Cléopâtre Janet Baker (mezzo)
LSO/Alexander Gibson Nuits d'été
Catherine Robbin and Diana Montague (mezzos) Howard Crook (tenor)
Gilles Cachemaille (bar) Lyon Opera Orchestra/
John Eliot Gardiner. Records
Except in Scotland.
As broadcast today 9.15-9.35am and 1.05-1.45pm on Radio 5
