Learning through Life: East meets West
Andrew McGregor with music, news, weather and arts news, including at approximately
7.00 Tchaikovsky
Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet (original version) London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor
Geoffrey Simon
7.35 Haydn
Symphony No 81 in G
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
8.00 Gemlniani Cello
Sonata in F, Op 5 No 5
Anthony Pleeth and Richard Webb (cellos)
Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord) 8.30 Weber, orch
Liszt Polonaise brillante
Michel Beroff (piano) Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor
Kurt Masur. Discs
presented by Paul Guinery. 2: 1925-1927
Do do do (Oh Kay!) The Composer (piano)
Someone to Watch Over
Me (Oh Kay!)
Ella Fitzgerald (vocals) Nelson Riddle and his
Orchestra
Piano Concerto in F
Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn (piano)
Strike Up the Band (from the musical)
Jason Graae (vocals)
Randy Skinner (solo tap) Chorus and Orchestra, conductor John Mauceri
The Man I Love (Strike Up the Band)
Ella Fitzgerald (vocals) Nelson Riddle and his
Orchestra. Discs
Artist of the Week:
Trevor Pinnock
(harpsichord/director) Haydn
Keyboard Concerto in D (HXVIII11)
English Concert
10.20 Shostakovich
String Quartet No 7 Brodsky Quartet
10.35 Bach
Cantata No 51:
Jauchzet Gott in alien
Landen Emma Kirkby (soprano)
English Baroque Soloists, director John Eliot Gardiner
10.50 Schubert Fantasy in F minor (D940)
Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu (piano duet)
11.10 Albinoni Concerto a cinque, Op 9 No 2
English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
(harpsichord)
11.25
Dvorak Serenade for Strings Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, conductor Zoltan Kocsis
conductor Andrew Davis Kurt Nikkanen (violin)
Strauss Serenade for Wind, Op 7
Mozart Symphony No 25 in G minor (K183) Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No 2
Strauss Metamorphosen (Given last October in the Royal Naval Chapel in association with Mobil Oil Company)
Paul Hindmarsh presents the fifth of eight concerts of brass band music.
Grimethorpe Colliery Band conductor Frank Renton
Holloway
War Memorial No 2
Howarth
Music for Spielberg Michael Ball Cortège
(BBC commission - first performance)
Mark Walters (flugelhorn) Carpenter Chi
(soprano)
Malcolm Martineau (piano) Marlos Nobre
Dengues do Mulatta desinteressada
Ginastera Triste
(Canciones populares argentinas)
Isabel Aretz Cueca
Lorenzo Fernandez
Nocturno; A sombra suave
Nepomuceno Dos Cancoes, Op 34
Guastavino La Rosa y el sauce;
Soneto (Artificiosa flor) Letelier Otono
Villa-Lobos
Modinha (Serestas); Nhapope; Evocacao
(Modinhas e cancoes)
Alyn Shipton presents a six-part tribute to the American trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie , who died in January. 4: Concert Soloist
In the early 1950s, Gillespie worked occasionally with Charlie Parker , but for the most part he led his own groups. which included saxophonist John Coltrane and vibes player Milt Jackson. Then he became a leading light of Jazz at the Philharmonic.
Illinois Jacquet describes the formation of this touring band.
Producer Derek Drescher
Music, news and arts events with Rodney Slatford.
Producer Ray Abbott
Judith Howarth (soprano) Christine Cairns (mezzo)
John Mark Ainsley and Kurt Azesberger (tenors)
Michael George (bass)
London Philharmonic Choir, chorus master Jeremy Jackman , conductor
Franz Welser-Most
Shostakovich
Symphony No 1
8.05 Interval Reading
8.10 Schubert
Mass in E flat (D950) (Given last Sunday in the Royal Festival Hall. London)
A diary of everyday anxieties by pianist David Owen Norris.
2: Computers Make Better Pianists
Matthias Enderie and Susanne Frank (violins) Wendy Champney (viola) Stephan Goerner (cello)
Haydn String Quartet in E flat, Op 76 No 6
Mendelssohn String Quartet in F minor, Op 80
Nocturne in E flat, Op 9 No 2; Ballade No 3 in A flat, Op 47
Sergei Rachmaninov (piano) Discs
Humphrey Carpenter explores the underrated political and cultural resonances of Victorian poetry and reviews the Stuttgart Ballet's first visit to this country for more than ten years.
Producer Sally Marmion
Sinfonia Drammatica
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Edward Downes
