Talking About the Enlightenment
with Andrew McGregor. Including:
7.00 Bach
Concerto in Cfor three harpsichords (BWV 1064) Keaneth Gilbert
Trevor Pinnock
Lars Ulrik Mortensen
English Concert
7.30 Finzi Elegy
Levon Chilingirian (violin) Clifford Brown (piano)
8.00 Stravinsky Suite No 1 for small orchestra
London Sinfonietta/Chailly
8.40 Strauss Don Juan LPO/Tennstedt Records
Hindemith in the 20s
Presented by Andrew Lyle. Hin und Zurttck, Op 45a (1927) Barbara Miller (soprano) Claus Bock (tenor)
Ulrich Schaible (baritone) Helmut Kuhnle (bass)
Berlin SO/Arthur Gruber
Little Pieces, Op 37/II (1926) Wemer Bartschi (piano) Kammermusik No 4, Op 36 No 3 (1925)
Wolfgang Hock (violin) Ensemble 13 Baden-
Baden/Manfred Reichert Records
Berlioz
Overture: Roman Carnival
BBC Concert Orchestra/ Barry Wordsworth
10.10 Poulenc Trio
Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Kim Walker (bassoon) Julius Drake (piano)
10.23 Rameau
Overture and Dances (Castor et Pollux): Orchestra of the 18th Century/Brtiggen
10.34 Dutilleux
Tout un monde lointain
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) Paris Orchestra/Serge Baudo
11.04 Rameau
Dances (Castor et Pollux) Orchestra of the 18th
Century/Frans Bruggen
11.15 Madeleine Dring Trio
Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Kim Walker (bassoon) Julius Drake (piano)
11.32 Debussy Nocturnes Suisse Romande Chorus and Orchestra/Emest Ansermet
The first of two programmes featuring rediscovered recordings of the six concertos made in 1947 by the Boyd Neel Orchestra. Introduced by Lyndon Jenkins who talks to John Engleheart about some of the outstanding players taking part, including Leon Goossens ,
Dennis Brain and George Eskdale. Bach Brandenburg
Concertos: No 2 in F; No 6 in Bflat, No 1 in F. Records
by Paul Hindemith
Repo man comes to opera, as Cardillac the goldsmith murders his customers to repossess his creations.
The original 1926 version in three acts. Libretto by Ferdinand Lion after a story by ETA Hoffmann . Sung in German. (bar) (sop) (tenor) (bass) (tenor)(sop) (baritone)
RIAS Choir
Berlin Radio Symphony/ Gerd Albrecht
Records
Allan Stemfield (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in C, Op 2 No 3
Brahms Variations on an original theme, Op 21 No 1
Music, news, weather and arts news with David Owen
Norris, whose guest is the horn player Barry Tuckwell. Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
Live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
Elise Ross (soprano) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conductor Simon Rattle
Shostakovich
Symphony No 1
Berg Three Fragments from 'Wozzeck'
8.25 Silent Rendezvous
During the 1920s, Maria Jolas , "a poor little
Kentucky girl", came to know many of the titans of cultural Paris. In 1982, not long before she died, she shared mer memories with Frank Delaney.
8.45 Varese Ameriques Gershwin
An American in Paris
(Given in association with British Airways and Birmingham International Airport)
The fourth of five short stories set in the 20s, read by Edward Petherbridge. Fard
In a farcical household, a quarrel between Madame and Monsieur reaches an operatic pitch.
(Final story tomorrow at 9.25pm)
plays four of his own guitar transcriptions. Scarlatti Sonata in A minor (Kkl 75)
Couperin Les baricades mystérieuses; Les Moissonneurs (Ordre No 6)
Roncalli Passacaglia
(Suite No 9 in G minor) Scarlatti Sonata
in D (from Sonata in C. Kkl59) Records
Robert Hewison discusses two exhibitions which offer contrasting views of Indian society - an exhibition of popular
Hindu art and the work of contemporary artists from the subcontinent.
Producer Belinda Sample
The first of three programmes.
Ballade de la reine morte d'aimer, Un grand sommeil noir, Sainte; Chanson du rouet. Si morne!; Deux Epigrammes de Clement Marot ,
Manteau defleurs; Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
Anja van Wijk (mezzo) Ruud van der Meer
(baritone)
Rudolf Jansen (piano) Sheherazade
Margaret Price (soprano) LSO/Claudio Abbado
Except in Scotland. As broadcast today 9.15-9.35am and
1.05-1.45pm on Radio 5)
