The Plays of Soyinka
Music, news, weather and arts news with Chris de Souza , including at approximately
7.00 Thomas Busby Piano Sonata in E
Ian Hobson (piano)
7.30 Haydn
Symphony No 101 in D (The Clock)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado
7.50 Dvorak Psalm
Prague Philharmonic Choir, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor
Jiri Belohlavek
8.00 Chopin Allegro de Concert, Op 46
Michael Ponti (piano)
Berlin Symphony Orchestra, conductor Volker Schmidt -
Gertenbach
Discs
The chamber music, presented by Michael Oliver.
String Quartet in E flat, Op 12
Coull Quartet
String Quintet in A, Op 18 Jaime Laredo and Ani Kavafian (violins),
Heiichiro Ohyama and Kim Kashkashian (violas),
Sharon Robinson (cello) Scherzo in A minor, Op 81 No 2
Coull Quartet. Discs
Strauss Prelude: Capriccio
10.12 Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished) - Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Armin Jordan
10.37 Tchaikovsky Theme and Variations, Op 19 No 6 - Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
10.49 Ravel Trois poemes de Stephane Mallarme - Jill Gomez (soprano) BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez
11.03 Strauss Oboe Concerto - Roland Perrenoud (oboe) Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Armin Jordan
11.28 Artist of the Week: Andrew Davis
Borodin Symphony No 3 in A minor (Unfinished)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
conductor Yan Pascal
Tortelier
Kathryn Stott (piano) Berlioz
Overture: Roman Carnival
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor) Messiaen
L'Ascension
Chabrier Espana
David Aler (baritone)
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
David Aler's recital includes a song-cycle written for him by Torbjorn Lundquist setting words by Dag Hammarskjold transcribed by W H Auden.
Lundquist New Bearings
Poulenc Chansons gaillardes
Simon Standage and Micaela Comberti (violins) Trevor Jones (viola)
Jennifer Ward Clarke (cello)
Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor (D703)
Henry Bishop
String Quartet in C minor
conductor Alfred Walter
Yu Yasuraoka (violin) Rusen Gunes (viola) Stamitz Sinfonia concertante in D
Vorisek
Symphony in D, Op 24
Ron Geesin presents six programmes on the work of saxophonist Coleman Hawkins.
3:TheRhapsodist
The first instrument
Hawkins learnt was the cello, and he greatly admired Pablo Casals.
Hawkins produced beautiful, intricate music on the tenor saxophone at a slow tempo, although it was thought by some to be too flowery.
Producer Derek Drescher
Music, news and arts events, presented by Andrew Green.
Producer Edward Blakeman
From Cheltenham
Town Hall. The
Northern Sinfonia is conducted by Heinrich Schiff , who also plays the cello solo in the John
Casken world premiere.
Mozart Symphony No 1 in E flat (KI6)
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme
John Casken
Darting the Skiff (first perfornwnce)
8.50 Chris Wines talks to
Heinrich Schiff.
9.10 Beethoven
Symphony No 2 in D (Given in association with ECC Construction Matehats Ltd)
Ian Ousby continues his four-part exploration of the birth of tourism with the help of a determined lady traveller.
2: Caroline Powys with Gudrun Ure.
Concerto No 6 in D
Peter Hurford and Thomas Trotter (Epistle and Gospel organs of Salamanca Cathedral)
Peggy Reynolds reviews the first night of Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and looks at the decoration and design of the Edwardian house.
Producer Nicki Paxman
Jonathan Swain presents seven programmes tracing the parallel development of symphony and symphonic poem.
5: France, cDukas
The Sorcerer's
Apprentice
Suisse Romande
Orchestra, conductor Ernest Ansermet
D'lndy
Symphony No 2 in B flat Toulouse Capitole
Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson O/scs
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