Women in 16th-Century Europe: A Life Apart
Paul Guinery introduces two hours of new releases.
Dvorak
Symphonic Variations North German Radio Symphony Orchestra/ John Eliot Gardiner
7.22 Milhaud Saudades do Brasil (Part 1)
Marcelo Bratke (piano)
7.35 Bach Suite No 1 in C (B WV 1066)
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra/ Andrew Parrott
8.01 Diabelli
Variations on a theme by Pierre Rode
Erik Stenstadvold (guitar) Brenda Blewett
(fortepiano)
8.13 Beethoven
String Quartet in C minor, Op 18 No 4
Tokyo Quartet
8.38 Sibelius En Saga Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Yoel Levi
9.05 Record Review continues with Richard Osborne.
Building a Library: Mozart's Serenades for wind in Eflat (K375) and C minor (K388) by Anthony Burton.
Three companies are pushing the boat out for the 150th anniversary of Grieg's birth: Simax and Victoria, from Norway, and DG. Robert Layton assesses their offerings.
10.35 Record Release
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) String Quartet in F (unfinished)
Norwegian Quartet
10.54 Six Songs, Op 48 Anne Sofie von Ottter
(mezzo)
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
11.10 Six Lyric Pieces
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
11.25 Teldec have entered the crowded reissues market with their
"Historic" series.
Bernard Keeffe finds some disappointments among these recordings from the 1930s and 40s but also some gems - such as, from 1942:
12.25 Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16
Arturo Benedetti
Michelangeli (piano)
Orchestra of La Scala , Milan/ Alceo Galliera. Discs
Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury
(9.05-10.35 repeated Wednesday 2.00pm)
The fifth of of six recitals by Andras Schiff. Sonata in E (D459)
Sonata in A minor (D537)
2.00 Interval reading
2.05 Sonata in A (D959)
The fifth of ten programmes exploring Bernstein's legacy as composer, conductor and pianist.
Bernstein and Judaism Bernstein
Benediction (Concerto for Orchestra, 'Jubilee Games Jose Eduardo Chama (baritone), Israel PO Bernstein Halil
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) Israel PO
Paul Ben-Haim
David Before Saul (Sweet Psalmist of Israel) Sylvia Marlowe (harpsichord) New York PO
Bernstein
Symphony No 3 (Kaddish) Felicia Montealegre (speaker)
Jennie Tourel (mezzo) Camerata Singers
Columbus Boychoir New York PO
Bloch Schelomo
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
French National Orchestra
Bernstein Dybbuk : Suite No 2 New York PO
Discs
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Ray Abbott
Frank Whitford presents an edition concentrating on the visual arts, including a major exhibition of 20th-century American art in Berlin and a newly available catalogue of the work of Marcel Duchamp.
Producer Judith Bumpus
String Quartet No 1
(Rispetti e Strambotti) Orpheus Quartet Disc
Live from the Coliseum,
London, in David Alden 's new production for
English National Opera, Handel's opera of love and jealousy, which was first performed in 1735 at Covent Garden. This production is sung in a new translation by Amanda Holden.
The hero Ariodante is set to marry Ginevra, daughter of the king of Scotland, but he has a rival in Polinesso, who also loves her. Trickery, betrayal and murder ensue.... » (mezzo) (soprano) (countertenor )(soprano) (tenor) (bass)(tenor)
English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra conductor
Nicholas McGegan Act
8.10 What goes on behind the scenes before the curtain can rise? Producer
David Alden , designer Ian MacNeil and translator
Amanda Holden talk about some of the sweat and tears that preceded the public performance, and discuss their ideas and hopes for this production.
8.30 Act 2
9.35 Mr Severs of Folgate Street,
El Michael Oliver visits
Dennis Severs 's house in a side street in London's
Spitalfields and steps back in time through several centuries. There are no electric lights, no gas fires. In a room furnished and victualled for the 18th century, Handel would have felt quite at home.
Producer Richard Bannerman
9.55 Act 3
(A co-production with Welsh National Opera)
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With the first London Jazz Festival just under way, Brian Morton plays records by a selection of the musicians taking part, including Joe Pass, Bob Berg , Stan Sulzman , Nat Adderley ,
Marilyn Crispell , Anthony Braxton and Gordon Beck , and invites some of them to talk to him in the studio. Producer Derek Drescher
