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7.00 Haydn Symphony No 94 in D
Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
7.45 Elgar Serenade in E minor, Op 20
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli
8.25 Giordano Un di all' azzurro spazio (Andrea Chenier)
Franco Corelli (tenor) Vienna State Opera, conductor Lovro von
Matacic
8.50 Walton Overture:
Portsmouth Point
London Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Slatkin Discs
presented by John Thornley. Moving in Higlwr Circles: Music for Kings and Connoisseurs
"With respectful pleasure I recall how during my visit to Potsdam, Your Majesty deigned to play me a theme on the clavier, and charged me most graciously to turn it into a fugue there and then, in the royal presence. I soon noticed that my performance was not equal to the right royal theme, which I decided to work out more perfectly, and make it known to the world."
Contrapunctus VI (In the French Style) (The Art of Fugue)
Musica Antiqua Koln
Trio Sonata in E flat
(BWV525)
Lionel Rogg (organ)
Cantata No 206:
Schleicht, spielende
Wellen (for the birthday of King August III) (excerpts)
Ruth Ziesak (soprano), Michael Chance (alto), Christoph Pregardien
(tenor), Peter Kooy (bass), Chamber Chorus of Stuttgart, Concerto Cologne, director Frieder Bernius
Sonata on the Royal
Theme (Trio Sonata in C minor) (A Musical
Offering most humbly dedicated to his Royal Majesty, the King of Prussia)
Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Reinhard Goebel (violin), Charles Medlam (viola da gamba), Henk Bouman (harpsichord)
Chorale Prelude: Vor deinen Thron tret ich
(BWV668)
Helmut Walcha (organises
Artist of the Week:
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
Haydn Piano Concerto in D (HXVIII 11)
Zurich Chamber Orchestra, conductor Edmond de Stoutz
10.22 Schumann
Wintertime (Album for the Young)
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
(piano)
10.25 Dvorak Cello
Concerto in B minor
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Eliahu Inbal
11.06 Shostakovich
Symphony No 5
Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Eliahu Inbal
perform the second of five programmes of concertos, sonatas and arias by Vivaldi. rases
If play Is Interrupted,
Radio 3 will revert to a music schedule.
England v Australia
Ball-by-ball commentary on the second day's play after lunch in the Third Cornhill
Test at Trent Bridge.
(Morning coverage on Radio 5) Including at 3.45-4.00 Ralph Dellor 's Minor Counties Review
A selection of music on disc.
Alexei Lubimov (piano), Stockholm Chamber Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Jan Sandstrom: Acintyas (1986)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat (K595)
Haydn: Symphony No 80 in D minor
Bartok: Divertimento for string orchestra
(Given in association with Eastern Electricity)
2: Holding Motions and Traditions at Bay. Professor Edward Said explores the role of intellectuals from different cultures and backgrounds and the choices that face them when they decide whether to side with the powerful or the underdog.
from Scarborough.
Music of passion and eloquence, emotion and subtlety - chaconnes, sonatas, suites and concertos by Merula, Turini, Salaverde, Buonamente,
Mealli, Vivaldi and Matteis. Palladian Ensemble:
Pamela Thorby (recorders) Rachel Podger (violin) Joanna Levine (cello) William Carter
(theorbo/guitar)
COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS available from the Spa. South Bay, phone (0723) [number removed]or the Tourist
Information Centre, phone (0723)[number removed]
(Given earlier today in the Spa Grand Hall, Scarborough, as part of Radio On Show)
Artists have been coming to the tiny Cornish fishing village of St Ives since the early 19th century. At the end of the 1930s, Ben Nicholson ,
Barbara Hepworth and Bernard Leach were to define
English modernism there. Will this tradition be re-ignited by the opening of the Tate at St Ives this month?
With contributions from
Patrick Heron , Janet Leach , Terry Frost ,
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham , Rose Hilton and the poet Lawrence Sail. A Perryscope production
From the ISCM World Music
Days in Poland:
Ian Wilson 's Prime a driving force for two pianos - and Andrew Toovey 's Black Light provide a dynamic foil to the inner contemplations of Gorecki's Beatus Vir.
Presented by Alan Hall.
Except in Scotland.
As broadcast 9.00-10.25am on R5