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Music, news, weather and arts news presented this week by Andrew McGregor , including:
7.00 Malcolm Arnold
Overture: Beckus the Dandipratt
Royal Liverpool PO/ The Composer
7.35 Haydn
Symphony No 42 in D
Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil
8.00 Purcell
Suite: The Virtuous Wife Parley of Instruments/ Peter Holman
8.40 Debussy, orch Caplet
Suite: Children's Corner
Ulster Orchestra/
Yan Pascal Tortelier. Discs
Rachmaninov
1: In the Shadow of Tchaikovsky
Scherzo (1887)
USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov Cavatina (Aleko)
Fyodor Chaliapin (bass) with orchestra
0 Never Sing to Me Again, Op 4 No 4
Elisabeth Soderstrom (sop) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) 0 Mother of God
Perpetually Praying Moscow Youth and Students Chorus/ Boris Tevlin
Fantaisie-Tableaux, Op 5 Andre Previn and Vladimir Ashkenazy (pianos). Discs
Producer Peter Thresh
Purcell
Overture in G minor
In vain 'gainst love I strove (Henry II)
Emma Kirkby (soprano) Academy of Ancient Instruments
10.04 Joachim, arr Brahms
Overture: Henry TV
Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow (pianos)
10.19
Saint-Saens Septet , Op 65
Nash Ensemble
10.39 Walton
Film music: Henry V RPO/ Andre Previn
10.56 Brahms Sonata for two pianos, Op 34
Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow
11.33 arr David Munrow
Film music: Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Early Music Consort of London
11.44 Saint-Saens
Ballet music (Henry VIII ) Luxembourg Radio
Orchestra/Louis de Froment
John Amis presents a musical portrait of the Swiss tenor
Hugues Cuenod who, at 91, can look back on a 60-year career ranging from
Monteverdi to Stravinsky, via Noël Coward, and from Glyndebourne to the Met. Producer Patrick Lambert
Imogen Cooper and Anne Queffelec (piano duet) live from St John 's, Smith Square, London. Schubert Andantino varie in B minor
(Divertissement, D823) Sonata in C (D812) (Grand Duo)
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conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Della Jones (mezzo)
Duparc La vie antérieure; Extase; Limitation au voyage
Chausson Poème de l'amour et de /a mer
York Trio
Haydn Piano Trio in E flat (H XV 29)
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 49
Amy Johansen plays music by the Lebanonbom composer Naji Hakim on the Schantz organ of the Cathedral of the Sacred
Heart, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
The Embrace of Fire Hommage a Igor Stravinsky. Discs
Music, news and arts events presented this evening from Manchester by Rodney Slatford. Producer Paul Hindmarsh
Live from the Radio
Moscow Concert Studio. Russian National SO conductor Mikhail Pletnev
Nicolai Petrov (piano) Rachmaninov Piano
Concerto No 2 in C minor
8.05 During the interval Stephen Johnson , Edward Downes and Gerard McBumey consider
Rachmaninov's legacy as a symphonist.
8.25 Rachmaninov
Symphony No 2 in E minor
The second of five programmes in which the biologist Lewis Wolpert explores the personal and creative aspects of science. A Way of Seeing
Our early ancestors left little behind them. Elwyn Simons , Director of Duke University Primate Centre in North Carolina, reflects on the art of finding these elusive fragments of fossil bone.
Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 54 No 1
Brahms String Quartet in B flat, Op 67
Robert Sandall and Mark Russell present a selection of music mixing styles and influences, and focus on the work of Hector Zazou. Producer Sarah Devonald
Lesley Schatzberger (clarinet)
Alan George (viola) Richard Bumett
(fortepiano)
Norbert Burgmuller Duo in Eflat, Op 15
Schumann Marchenbilder , Op Rossini Fantasia for clarinet and piano
Schumann Marchenerzahlungen , Op
