Running the Country
with Andrew McGregor.
Including at approximately:
7.05 Corelli Sonata da
Camera, Op 2 No 10
7.25 Haydn Symphony No 71 in Bflat
8.05 Shostakovich
Suite No 1 for jazz band
8.50 Mozart Violin
Sonata in D (K303). Discs
Liszt introduced by Chris de Souza.
3: World Tours: Hungary,
Germany, Russia and Spain. Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in C sharp minor Roberto Szidon (piano)
Five Hungarian Folk Songs Leslie Howard (piano) 0 quandje dors;
Comment, disaient-ils Felicity Lott (soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano) Tchaikovsky, transcr Liszt Polonaise from 'Eugene Onegin '
Leslie Howard (piano) Liszt Die Loreley
Margaret Price (soprano) Cyprien Katsaris (piano) Rapsodie espagnole
Murray Perahia (piano) Discs
Eleanor Bron finds her memories of Britain and America and of working with The Beatles subtly evoked by Gary McFarland 's Soft Samba.
Presented by Susan Sharpe.
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Iona Brown and Trevor Connah (violins) Stephen Shingles (viola) Kenneth Heath (cello) Academy of St Martin/Neville Marriner
10.30 Purcell O Let Me Weep (The Fairy Queen)
Emma Kirkby (soprano) Christopher Hogwood (organ) Anthony Rooley (lute)
Richard Campbell (viola da gamba) Catherine Mackintosh (violin)
10.40 Haydn Symphony No 12 in E Hanover Band/Roy Goodman
11.00 Dvorak Piano Trio in B flat, Op 21 Trio Fontenay
11.30 Strauss Hab' mir's gelobt (Der Rosenkavatier)
Kiri Te Kanawa and Barbara Hendricks (sopranos)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo) Dresden Staatskapelle/ Bernard Haitink
11.40 Strauss, arr Kempe Waltzes from 'Der Rosenkavatier'
Dresden Staatskapelle/ Rudolf Kempe. Discs
Chilingirian Quartet live from Studio One, Pebble Mill, in the last concert of the season. Beethoven String
Quartet in F minor, Op 95 Hugh Wood String Quartet No 4 (BBC commission -first performance)
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The first of an occasional series of programmes to mark the composer's 90th birthday.
Violin Concerto
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
BBC Philharmonic/Downes
for the Eve of Ascension, live from Westminster Cathedral.
Introit: Caelos ascendit hodie (Stanford); Deus in adiutorium (Gastoldi)
Office Hymn: Iesu nostra redemptio (Victoria);
Psalms 112,116 (Plainsong); New Testament Canticle:
Revelation 11, vv 17-18 and 12, vv 10-12;
Reading: Luke 24, vv 36-53;
Homily: The Rev Mark Langham
Magnificat primi toni (Palestrina); Motet: Omnes gentes plaudite manibus (Tye); Organ Voluntary Deuxieme Fantasie (Alain).
Music, news and arts reports with Andrew Green. Producer Sarah Devonald
Michael Hall presents an evening of Czech and Soviet music written in the year of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, beginning with the year's events as reflected in the BBC Archives.
7.35 Karel Husa
Music for Prague
Eastman Wind Ensemble;
Donald Hunsberger
8.00 The composers Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smimov talk about student life in Moscow in 1968. 8.20 In conversation with Michael Hall ,
Gerard McBumey talks about the influences on Soviet music in the late 60s, playing excerpts from works by leading composers including Shnittke,
Knaifel and Denisov and introducing complete performances of two pieces from 1968: Arvo Part Credo
Boris Berman (piano)
Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi Sofia Gubaidulina
Night in Memphis E Dolgova (mezzo)
Men's voices of Moscow State Chamber Choir Moscow State Film
Orchestra/Yuri Nikolaevsky
9.15 Hope and Disillusionment
Karel Janovicky talks to Czech composers and musicians about Czech music before and after
Soviet occupation.
Producer Patrick Lambert
10.00 Veroslav Neumann String Quartet '1968' Moravian Quartet
Petr Eben Vox Clamantis Radovan Lukavsky (speaker) Czech PO/Vaclav Neumann Producer Anthony Cheevers
Peter Holland presents a West Coast view of American culture from the troubled city of angels, Los Angeles. Producer Julian May
Todd Crow (piano) Strauss Sonata in B minor, Op 5
Reger Aus meinem
Tagebuch, Op 82 (excerpts) Schoenberg
Three Pieces, Op 11
Except in Scotland. As broadcast
9.00-10.25am on R5
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