Arts: Language in Hard Times

Susan Sharpe introduces two hours of new releases.
Bloch
Concerto grosso No 2 Amadeus CO/
Agnieszka Duczmal
Thalberg Fantasia on Mozart's 'Don Giovanni ' Cyprien Katsaris (piano)
7.38 Schumann Symphony No I in Bflat (Spring) Berlin Philharmonic/ James Levine
8.13 Glinka Viola Sonata
Yuri Bashmet (viola)
Mikhail Muntyan (piano)
8.32 Purcell Come Ye
Sons of Art Away Soloists including
James Bowman and Christopher Robson (countertenors)
Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/ Gustav Leonhardt

9.05 Record Review continues with Anthony Burton.
Building a Library:
Brahms's Horn Trio by Stephen Johnson. Richard Osborne follows up last year's survey of the music of Rossini with a look at releases of the last few months.
10.35 Record Release is devoted to a substantial excerpt from a rarity now available in two recordings. This Vanguard Classics version is from the early 70s. Rossini La Pietra del
Paragone (Act 1, excerpt) Soloists including Beverly Wolff (mezzo)
Jose Carreras (tenor)
John Reardon (baritone) Justino Diaz (bass-bar)
Clarion Concerts Chorus and Orchestra conductor Newell Jenkins
11.35 Some of the jewels of EMI's international catalogue, like the Références series, have been the brainchild of EM!
France. Lionel Salter looks over their L'Esprit francais reissues of French music played by French artists as well as a celebration of French operetta, La Belk Epoque, ending with: 12.38 Franck Prelude , Chorale and Fugue
Aldo Ciccolini (piano). Discs Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury (9.05-10. 35am repeated Wednesday 2.00pm)

Peter Frankl (piano) Gyorgy Pauk (violin)
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)
Janacek Pohadka (Fairy Tale) Violin Sonata
Tchaikovsky
Piano Trio in A minor

John Whenham presents a selection from the songbook by Ferrari, one of the first composers to create public opera in Venice.
Mark Tucker (tenor)
Nigel North (lute)

Koussevitzky Foundation Commissions: 1943-44 The ninth of 12 programmes by Humphrey Burton reflecting the legacy of the great Russian-born maestro Serge Koussevitzky. Stravinsky Ode
Cleveland Orchestra/ The Composer
William Schuman
Symphony for Strings New York PO/
Leonard Bernstein
Bartok
Concerto for Orchestra
Boston SO/Rafael Kubelik Copland Symphony No 3 New York PO/
Leonard Bernstein. Discs

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Ray Abbott

Snap!
Colin Ford , head of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, talks to, watches and listens to photographers in action and reviews the latest exhibitions.
Producer Matt Thompson

Ariadne auf
Naxos Jessye Norman heads the cast in a new production of Richard Strauss 's opera about putting on an opera. Because of time restrictions, a comic opera troupe and serious opera company have to perform simultaneously.
Their artistic compromise results, in fact, in high art, as you can hear in the opera-within-an-opera that follows the prologue. (soprano) (soprano) (soprano) (tenor) (baritone) (tenor)(bar) (tenor) (tenor)(soprano)(contralto)(soprano)(tenor)(bass) (bass)
Metropolitan Opera House Chorus and Orchestra conductor Ion Marin
Prologue
7.15 The Metropolitan Opera Quiz
Listeners challenge three opera experts.
7.46 Opera
(EBU presentation in association with the Texaco Metropolitan
Opera International Radio Network)
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The last of five tales to coincide with the publication of the BBC's annual anthology of original radio stories.
Pastoral by David Lodge. "I never hear the opening strains of The Shepherd's Song without remembering my scheme to embrace the Virgin Mary. ..."
Read by Julian Glover.
Series producer Duncan Minshull

Susan Tomes (piano)
Krysia Osostowicz (violin) Timothy Boulton (viola) Richard Lester (cello)
Howells Piano Quartet in A minor, Op 21
Mozart Piano Quartet in Ej/at (K493)
Dvorak Piano Quartet in Eflat, Op 87

Brian Morton with news, reviews and a set by the Jon Lloyd Quartet recorded in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in January, with Jon Lloyd (sop and alto saxophones), John Law (piano), Paul Rogers (bass) and Mark Sanders (drums). Plus a conversation with Jon Lloyd about his struggles to become a jazz musician. Producer Derek Drescher