Modern Art: Kitsch and the Avant Garde

Music, news and weather with Andrew Lyle , including at approximately
7.00 Mozart
Symphony No 1 in E flat (K 16)
Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
7.45 Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet
(excerpts)
Philharmonia, conductor Barry Wordsworth
8.00 Liszt
Concert Study No 2 (La leggierezza) Solomon (piano)
8.40 Hahn Le bal de Beatrice d'Este
New London Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp Discs

"Taking the Opportunity of representing to the Public the greatest Prodigy that
Human Nature has to boast of. Every Body will be astonished to hear a Child of such tender Age playing the Harpsichord in such a Perfection. It surmounts all
Imagination".
(Public Advertiser, May 1764)
Presented by Susan Sharpe.
Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat (K271)
(Jeunehomme)
English Chamber Orchestra, directed by Murray Perahia (piano)
Piano Sonata in A minor
(K310)
Alfred Brendel (piano). Discs Producer Susan Kenyon

conductor Andrew Davis
Timothy Hugh (cello) Delius
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Summer Night on the River Walton
Cello Concerto
Elgar
Symphony No 2 in E flat (Given last December at the Hexagon, Reading)

This week featuring the pianist Shura Cherkassky, who played Gershwin's
Piano Concerto last night at the Proms.

Tchaikovsky, arr Pabst: Paraphrase on Eugene Onegin

Nicholas Anderson presents the fourth of six programmes of recordings by the Vienna Concentus Musicus, forty years old this year. Telemann
Overture in G minor Quartet in G (Tafelmusik)
DerTagdesGerichts (Contemplation No 4)

A sequence with a Moravian connection, including a movement from Mozart's Symphony No 6 in F (K43), composed in OlmutZ. Discs

England v Australia
Ball-by-ball commentary on the fifth and final day's play after lunch in the Fifth
Cornhill Test at Edgbaston by Brian Johnston.
Jonathan Agnew and Neville Oliver.
(Morning coverage on Radio 5)

A selection of music on disc.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
Claudio Abbado makes a welcome return to the Proms with the mid-European-based youth orchestra he did so much to create.

Musorgsky, orch Shostakovich Songs and Dances of Death

7.55 Roderick Swanston asks whether Bruckner can really be considered a Romantic composer.

8.15 Bruckner Symphony No 5 in B flat

(Simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 television)

Thorn Gunn was awarded the Forward Prize last year for his first collection of poetry in a decade, The Man with Night Sweats.
Tonight he introduces and reads three poems about the deaths of friends from
Aids.

A Hand of Bridge
Two unhappy couples try and keep their minds on the game. As they gradually begin to speak their inner thoughts, all four streams of consciousness become woven together. From the light comedy framework an acute and sad portrayal emerges of people alienated from each other.
This chamber piece for four soloists and a small orchestra was written for
Menotti's Festival of Two
Worlds at Spoleto in Italy in 1959. Presented by Roderick Swanston. (contralto) (tenor) (sop) (bar)
Symphony of the Air, conductor
Vladimir Goischmann. Discs

played by Ralph Markham and Kenneth Broadway

Mozart, arr Busoni Overture: The Magic Flute
Mozart, arr Grieg Fantasy in C minor (K475)
Liszt Grand Valse di Bravura Hungarian Rhapsody No

In the third of six programmes, Robert Cushman presents a personal view of musicals, with songs from original cast recordings, some familiar, some less well known.
3: Two Shows and a Film A BML production

Malcolm Proud
(harpsichord)
Couperin Ordre No 22 in D Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor (BWV 894) Scarlatti
Sonatas in D (K490-492)

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