Musical Style

Paul Guinery introduces two hours of new releases.
Brahms
Variations on an original theme, Op 21 No 1
Martin Jones (piano)
7.18 Mozart Violin
Concerto in D (K218)
Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra/Isabelle van Keulen (violin)
7.41 Chambonnieres
Pièces de clavecin
Skip Sempe (harpsichord) Brian Feehan (theorbo)
7.54 Ryba
String Quartet in D minor Martinu Quartet
8.06 Jerome Kern
Songs from Sweet Adeline. Soloists including Judy Kaye
Ambrosian Chorus
London Sinfonietta/ John McGlinn
8.24 Gershwin
Piano Concerto in F
Howard Shelley (piano) Philharmonia/
Yan Pascal Tortelier

9.05 Record Review continues with Anthony Burton.
Building a Library:
Bruckner's Symphony No 9 in D minor by Jonathan Swain. John Steane reviews Priory's series of the Anglican Psalms of David sung by different British choirs.
Richard Langham-Smith on new discs of French song.
10.35 Record Release
Martin
Six Monologues from federmann
Jose van Dam (baritone) Lyon Opera
Orchestra/Kent Nagano
10.59 Psalms from the latest volume in Priory's series, performed by the Norwich Cathedral Choir directed by Michael Nicholas with Neil Taylor (organ).
11.14 Debussy Ariettes oubliées
Claudette Leblanc
(soprano)
Valerie Tryon (piano)
11.33 Rob Cowan returns to the first days of commercial stereo with RCA's revival of Living
Stereo and to the perhaps less successful experiments in quadrphonic recording now remastered for
Dolby's Surround Sound, ending with a recording from 1957:
12.28 Walton
Cello Concerto
Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) Boston SO/
Charles Munch. Discs Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury
(9.05-10. 35am repeated Wednesday 2.00pm)

Arve Tellefsen (violin) Hamish Milne (piano)

Nielsen Violin Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 35

Bach Partita No 3 in E for solo violin (BWV 1006)

Walton Violin Sonata

Grieg Violin Sonata No 3 in C minor, Op 45

A long misattributed Flute Concerto played by Barthold Kuijken with Tafelmusik directed by Jeanne Lamon. Disc

Koussevitzky Foundation Commissions: 1945-47
Humphrey Burton presents the penultimate programme of his 12-part series reflecting the legacy of the great Russian maestro and patron Serge Koussevitzky (1874-1951). With contributions from
Harold Shapero and Oliver Knussen.
Diamond Symphony No 4 Seattle SO/
Gerard Schwarz
Shapero Symphony for classical orchestra
Los Angeles PO/ Andre Previn
Schoenberg A Survivor from Warsaw
Sherrill Milnes (narrator) New England
Conservatory Chorus
Boston SO/Erich Leinsdorf Piston Symphony No 3 Eastman-Rochester
Orchestra/Howard Hanson Discs

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Ray Abbott

with James Naughtie. Producer David Gallagher

Die Walkure
"There is nothing trivial, nothing tedious in Die Walkure," said George Bernard Shaw of the second opera in Wagner's epic Ring cycle.
Siegmund continues his quest to recover the ring of the Nibelung but is killed, despite the attempts of Brunnhilde, one of the Valkyries, to protect him. As punishment for her disobedience, she is cast out from Valhalla and must await rescue by a true hero.
Sung in German.
Brunnhilde...GWYNETH JONES (sop)
Metropolitan Opera House Chorus and Orchestra conductor James Levine Act
7.40 A Ring of Truth? Andrew Porter explores the thinking behind Otto Schenk 's Met production and wonders how it compares with other current Ring cycles.
Can the perfect Ring ever be achieved?
With Max Loppert and Barry Millington.
8.15 Act 2
9.50 The Metropolitan Opera Quiz
Listeners challenge three opera experts.
9 QUESTIONS for future
Metropolitan Opera Quizzes to: Texaco Opera Quiz. 101 Park
Avenue. Suite 1812, New York, NY 10178 (by Air Mail)
10.30 Act 3
(An EBU presentation in association with the Texaco
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network)
('Siegfried' next Saturday
5.30pm)

Brian Morton reviews new releases by trumpeter
Woody Shaw , bass player Gary Peacock and pianist Ronnie Mathews , and recommends gigs to look out for.
Producer Derek Drescher