Shakespeare's History Plays
Music, news, weather and arts news presented this week by Andrew McGregor. Including
7.00 Musorgsky Prelude: Khovanshchina Leningrad PO/Yevgeny Mravinsky
7.30 Haydn Symphony No 31 in D (Homsignal) Orchestra of St Luke's/Charles Mackerras
8.00 Vivaldi Concerto in B minor for four violins (RV580) Academy of Ancient Music/
Christopher Hogwood
8.40 Grieg Incidental music: Peer Gynt (excerpts) Oslo PO/Esa-Pekka Salonen.
(Records)
Hindemith in the 20s
Presented by Andrew Lyle. "I've mostly written pieces I don't like any more."
(Hindemith, 1922)
Berceuse (1921)
Bernhard Billeter (piano) Meine Ndchte sind heiser zerschrien. Op 9 No 1 (1917)
Janis Martin (soprano)
Berlin RSO/Gerd Albrecht Suite: Das Nusch-Nuschi
(1920)
Berlin SO/Arthur Gruber Kleine Kammermusik , Op 24 No 2 (1922)
Bergen Wind Quintet
Sancta Susanna , Op 21 (1921)
Helen Donath (soprano) Gabriele Schnaut and Gabriele Schreckenbach
(contraltos)
Women of the RIAS
Chamber Choir
Berlin RSO/Gerd Albrecht Records
Producer David Gallagher
Keiko Abe Dream of the Cherry Blossoms
Evelyn Glennie (marimba)
10.06 Martinu
String Quartet No 7 (Concerto da camera) Stamitz Quartet
A Moorside Suite
Sun Life Band/ Roy Newsome
10.43 Reger
Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue, Op 96
Peter Noke and Helen Krizos (pianos)
11.08 Dvorak
Cello Concerto in B minor Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Berlin Philharmonic / Herbert von Karajan
11.50 Dudley Buck
Concert Variations on 'The Star-Spangled Banner'
Christopher Herrick (organ)
"Lehmann is a very erratic singer, but I like her more than all the exact singers in the world. My goal was always to put on stage the real living human being." (Richard Strauss )
John Amis presents a musical portrait of Lotte Lehmann.
Producer Patrick Lambert
live from St John 's, Smith Square, London. Malcolm Proud
(harpsichord) Couperin
Pieces de clavecin - Ordre
No 22 in D
Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor (BWV 894)
Scarlatti Three Sonatas in D (Kk 490-492)
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conductor Jiri Belohlavek Jose Feghali (piano) Mozart
Overture: Cosifan tutte Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor (K466) Mahler
Symphony No 1 in D
Wolfgang Rubsam plays a Metzler organ in Frauenfeld, Switzerland. Toccata and Fugue in D minor (Dorian) (BWV538) Prelude and Fugue in G (BWV550)
Fantasia in G (BWV 572) Prelude and Fugue in C minor (BWV 549). Records
Music, news, weather and arts news with Rodney Slatford in Manchester. Producer Paul Hindmarsh
conductor Takuo Yuasa Lars Vogt (piano) Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor
Brahms
Symphony No 4 in E minor (Given last March in the Volunteer Hall, Galashiels, in association with Ettrick and Lauderdale District Council)
The first of five nightly short stories set in the 20s, read by Edward Petherbridge. Cynthia
A curious tale of gods and goddesses, and yet wholly charactersitic of Oxford life before the war.
Series producer Michael Earley
Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes
Kodaly
Duo for violin and cello Zsolt Durko Three
English Verses
Jean Rigby (mezzo) Shostakovich
Piano Trio No 2, Op 67
Robert Sandall and Mark Russell present a selection of music mixing styles and influences and talk to the creators of Unknown
Public - a recent venture presenting new music in an innovative way. Producer Sarah Devonald
Emma Kirkby and Evelyn Tubb (sopranos)
Anthony Rooley (lute) Henry Lawes This mossy bank William Lawes
'Tis not boy
Henry Lawes
Dialogue on a kiss John Blow
When artists hit on lucky thoughts; Clarona, lay aside your lute; Ah Heaven! Whatis'tlhear?
Purcell
Two daughters of this aged stream; Dear pretty youth; Oh, solitude!; Love, thou art best, The cares of lovers; What a sad fate is mine; No, no, no, resistance is but vain; Ye gentle spirits of the air, Sweeter than Roses; Oh, the sweet delights of love!
Except in Scotland. As broadcast this afternoon on R5
History Resources: Medieval Realms
The Norman Conquest - A Woman's Lot
