Social Science Foundation
Course
Beethoven
Overture: Egmont BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gunther Herbig
7.09 Bryan Kelly Italian Suite
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ashley Lawrence
7.25 Mozart Clarinet
Concerto in A (K622) David Campbell (clarinet) BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yan-Pascal Tortelier
7.53 Mathias In Arcadia
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
8.11 Leo Norman
Intermezzo for Strings BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ashley Lawrence
8.14 Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk
Alwyn Overture to a Masque
9.16 Anon The Three Ravens Sweet Nightingale
9.22 Saint-Saens Havanaise, Op 83
9.32 Composer of the Week preview: Grieg Norwegian Dances, Op 35
9.51 Bach, transcr Rachmaninov Prelude; Gavotte; Gigue (Partita, BWV1006)
10.00 Artist of the Week: Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)
Bizet Temple Duet (The Pearl Fishers)
10.10 Handel Water Music: Suite in D
10.25 Schubert Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern (D714)
10.36 Locke Music for His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts
10.46 Bortkiewicz Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat
11.26 Vivaldi Concerto in G minor (RV107)
11.35 Find Romance, Op 11
11.43 Lara Granada
11.49 Wagner Overture: Die Meistersinger
More and more CDs flood the market, yet the amount of truly great music is limited. Perhaps it is being devalued - drowned in a tidal wave of mediocrity.
George Pratt takes a more optimistic view, with recent baroque recordings including some unfamiliar music and an exciting new ensemble performing it. Producer Kate Bolton
In the first of a summer series, the novelist Frank Ronan , passionate and outspoken gardener, meets
Christopher Lloyd , the equally outspoken garden writer and owner of Great Dixter garden in Sussex. Producer Richard Bannerman
conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Anthony Marwood (violin) Lutoslawski Livrepour Orchestre
Stravinsky Violin Concerto Sibelius Symphony No 5 in E flat
Christophe Giovanetti and Luc-Maria Aguera (violins) Miguel da Silva (viola) Michel Poulet (cello)
Andre Boucourechliev
Miroir II
Ravel String Quartet in F
Angela Brownridge (piano)
Piano Sonata in G, Op 37 Méditation, Op 72 No 5 Scene dansante, Op 72 No 18 (Invitation au trepak)
conductor Kurt Sanderling Frank Peter Zimmermann
(violin)
Beethoven
Overture: Coriolan
Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 in G (K216)
Brahms Symphony No 3 inF
Edvard Grieg
"A pink bonbon stuffed with snow" (Claude Debussy) ... and henceforth an entire Grieg industry of fjords, mountain streams and instant coffee adverts.
Peter Paul Nash finds a radically different image of Grieg in his late piano music and shows how it influenced not only
Debussy himself but also Bartok and Grainger and other significant figures of the twentieth century. Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
Haydn String Quartet in E flat, Op 76 No
Mendelssohn String
Quartet in F minor, Op 80
A season of all Christopher Marlowe 's plays continues with a new production by Sue Wilson of his drama based on the Faust legend. The year is 1537, and an inquiry is in progress into the horrifying death of Dr
Faustus and the rumours of his pact with the Devil. With a specially composed score by Anthea Gomez played by the composer and Tim New.
Felicity Palmer (mezzo) Robert Tear (tenor)
Robert Hayward (bass) Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Choir
BBC Philharmonic conductor Richard Hickox
Elgar The Dream of Gerontius
(Given last March in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester)
The first of two concerts recorded at the Tender Is the North festival in London last December.
Arditti Quartet
Per Norgard Tintinnabulary Karolina Eriksdottir
Six Movements
Kaaija Saariaho Nymphea Madeleine Izaksson
Strakvag Ligeti String Quartet No 2
