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Music, news and arts news with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.00 Franck Les Eolides
Suisse Romande
Orchestra, conductor
Ernest Ansermet
7.30 Haydn Symphony No 98 in B flat
Philharmonia Hungarica, conductor Antal Dorati
8.00 Vivaldi Trio in C
(RV82)
Paul O'Dette (lute)
Parley of Instruments, director Peter Holman
8.30 Hamish MacCunn
The Land of the Moutain and the Flood
Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Grant Llewellyn Discs
"I think of my film music as opera without words." (Korngold)
Presented by Peter Franklin. Dos Wunder der Heliane:
Prelude; Act 3, sc 1
Reinhild Runkel (tenor) Rene Pape (bass)
Berlin Radio Chorus and Orchestra, conductor John Mauceri
Cello Concerto, Op 37 (from the film "Deception") Francisco Garbarro (cello) National Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Charles Gerhardt
String Quartet No 3, Op 34 Chilingirian Quartet. Discs
conductor Barry Wordsworth Martin Jones (piano)
Ravel Menuet antique Saint-Saëns Piano
Concerto No 3 in E flat
Poulenc Suite: Les Biches
The first of three concerts by the Endellion Quartet: Andrew Watkinson and Ralph de Souza (violins) Garfield Jackson (viola) David Waterman (cello) from the Pittville Pump Room.
Arriaga String Quartet No 1 in D minor
Berkeley String Quartet No 1
11.55 Tchaikovsky's three string quartets were written in the short period between 1871 and 1877. David Brown argues the importance of these years in the composer's personal and artistic development.
12.15 Tchaikovsky String Quartet No 1 in D
(Given in association with Linneys Colour Print)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Cleobury Ibert Diane de Poitiers:
Ballet Suites Nos 1 and 2 Honegger Les noces de Psyche et de l'Amour (after Bach's French Suites)
NEW Artnida
7 Of all Haydn's operas written for Prince Esterhazy, his three-act dramma eroico of 1780 was the most popular, receiving more than fifty performances. The plot is drawn from the famous story, set during the Crusades, of the enchantress Armida and her love for the Christian knight Rinaldo. (sop) (tenor) (bass)(sop) (tenor) (tenor)
Lausanne Chamber
Orchestra/Antal Dorati. Discs
Music, news and arts news with Natalie Wheen , who also explores the gamelan and dance of Java.
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
The final concert from last year's festival features the Aref Ensemble giving a performance of Morakab Navazi (compound performing), taking the listener through most of the complicated modes of Persian traditional music. (A BBC/South Bank Centre/Sounds Like Birmingham co-promotion in association with BT)
The last of four stories by Saki, read by Peter Howell. The Open Window
A caller begins to feel jumpy when a young lady explains why her aunt has kept the window open for three years to the day ...
Anne Sofie von Otter
(mezzo) with the Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Armin Jordan
Ambroise Thomas
Overture: Raymonde Gounod Faites-lui mes aveux (Faust)
Saint-Saens Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (Samson et Dalila)
Bizet Petite Suite: Jeux d'enfants;
Seguidilla: Pres des ramparts de Seville (Carmen)
Mozart Voi che sapete (Le Nozze di Figaro)
Parto, parto, ma tu ben mio (La Clemenza di Tito)
Rossini Overture; Cruda sorte (L'ltaliana in Algeri)
Non piu mesta (La Cenerentola)
Rossini, arr Britten Soirées musicales
Ron Geesin presents six programmes on the work of jazz giant, saxophonist Coleman Hawkins.
2: The Hunter. Hawks was an aggressive, egocentric musician with a need to demonstrate his own sense of musical superiority, but he did have a dry humour which came out in his playing. Illustrations run from the 1929 Mound City Blue Blowers to the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra with Louis Armstrong and a 1957 session with Ben Webster
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Producer Derek Drescher
David Benedictus celebrates the centenary of the French author
Guy de Maupassant and discusses the art of the short story. Producer Sally Marmion
Andras Szollosy Fragments - Adrienne Csengery (soprano) Judith Pearce (flute) Roger Chase (viola)
Bartok Five Songs, Op 16 - Sylvia Sass (soprano) Andras Schiff (piano)
Gyorgy Kurtag Attila
Jozsef Fragments, Op 20 - Adrienne Csengery (soprano)
Liszt Die drei Zigeuner - Sylvia Sass (soprano) Andras Schiff (piano)
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