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Music, news, weather and arts news with Andrew McGregor , including
7.00 Verdi Overture:
Luisa Miller
Berlin PO/
Herbert von Karajan
7.40 Beethoven Piano
Sonata in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2 (Moonlight) Maurizio Pollini (piano)
8.00 Shostakovich
Suite: The Bedbug
USSR Ministry of Culture SO/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
8.35 Haydn Symphony No 43 in Eflat (Mercury) Hanover Band/
Roy Godman. Discs
Rachmaninov
3: Love Affair with Russia.
How Fair This Spot, Op 21 No 7
Loneliness, Op 21 No 6 Daisies, Op 38 No 3
Christ Is Risen, Op 26 No 6 Elisabeth Soderstrom
(soprano)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Boris Christoff (bass) Alexandre Labinsky (piano)
The Lord's Prayer (Liturgy of Stjohn Chrysostom ) Johannes-Damanscenus Choir/Karl Linke The Bells
Natalia Troitskaya (soprano)
Ryszard Karczykowski (tenor)
Tom Krause (baritone) Royal Concertgebouw Chorus and Orchestra/
Vladimir Ashkenazy. Discs
presented by Susan Sharpe. Haydn March for the Royal Society Hanover Band
10.05 Albinoni Oboe
Concerto in D minor, Op 9 No 2
Paul Goodwin (oboe) King's Consort/ Robert King
10.20 Paisiello La Passione di Gesu Cristo
(opening section)
Miroslawa Kacprzak (contralto)
Warsaw Sinfonietta / Wojdech Czepiel
10.33 Malipiero
Violin Concerto No 1
Andre Gertler (violin) Prague SO/
Vaclav Smetacek
10.55 Chopin Preludes , Op 28: Nos 12-16
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
11.07 Gounod
Symphony No 2 in Eflat Toulouse Capitole
Orchestra/Michel Plasson
11.38 Haydn
Introduction; Sonatas Nos 1 and 2 (The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross)
Amadeus Quartet. Discs
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Sir Thomas Beecham conducts the RPO in two of his favourite Haydn symphonies and rehearses in his inimitable fashion.
Symphony No 100 in G (Military)
Symphony No 101 in D (Clock) Discs
Schubert Ensemble of London live from Broadcasting House, London.
Schnittke Piano Quartet (1989)
Schumann Piano Quintet in Eflat, Op 44
Stanford Concert
Variations on 'Down
Among the Dead Men' Margaret Fingerhut (piano)
Ulster Orchestra/
Vernon Handley. Discs
live from Southwell
Minster.
Introit: 0 Saviour of the World (Ouseley);
Responses (Ebdon);
Psalms 147-150 (Stanford, Ferguson, Stanford,
Talbot); Lessons (RSV):
Jeremiah 33, vvl-13; John 13, wl-11; Office Hymn: Take Up Thy Cross, The Saviour Said (Breslau);
Canticles: A fauxbourdon setting (Whitlock);
Anthem: Turn Thee Unto
Me (Boyce); Hymn: 0 Sacred Head, Sore Wounded (Passion
Chorale); Organ voluntary: Rhapsody No 1 in G flat (Howells).
Rector Chori Paul Hale.
Assistant Organist Peter Wood.
Music, news and arts events with Natalie Wheen. Producer Tim Thorne
Live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Debussy's five-act opera to a text by Maurice Maeterlinck.
Sung in French.
Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra conductor Claudio Abbado
Acts 1-3
9.05 Exactitude and Negligence
Philip Weller explores
Debussy's admiration for Rameau in the word-setting of Pelleas et Melisande.
9.25 Acts 4 and 5
Being a Poet
Michele Roberts talks to biographer
Andrew Motion about subjects suitable for poetry, shaking off the influences, and how Philip Larkin became lesbian pom novelist Brunette Coleman. Producer Matt Thompson
NEW Haydn's mature I chamber music is divided equally between piano trio and quartet. These six programmes reflect this facet of a many-sided and still underestimated genius. Piano Trio in B flat (HXV20)
Andras Schiff (piano)
Yuuko Shiokawa (violin) Steven Isserlis (cello) Piano Sonata in D
(H XVI 51)
Andras Schiff (piano) String Quartet in G, Op 76 No 1
Takacs Quartet
