Generals of the Revolution:
James Watt
Music, news and weather presented by Piers Burton -Page, including at approximately
arr Benjamin Oboe Concerto in C
John Anderson (oboe)
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Simon Wright
Organ Concerto in F (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale)
Martin Haselbock (organ) Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, director Karl Munchinger
Flute Concerto in G
Barthold Kuijken (flute) Tafelmusik, director Jeanne Lamon
Portraits, Op 5
Gerhart Hetzel (violin)
Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra, conductor Adam Fischer Discs
Presented by Raymond Calcraft.
5: Tradition and Faith.
Rodrigo Sonata pimpante Agustin Leon Ara (violin) Eugene de Canck (piano) Triptic de Mosen Cinto Victoria de los Angeles (soprano)
Paris Conservatoire
Orchestra, conductor Rafael Friihbeck de Burgos Falla
Atldntida (Final Scene) Spanish National Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos Rodrigo
Concierto para una fiesta (2nd mvt)
Pepe Romero (guitar) Academy of St Martin , conductor Neville Marriner
Discs
conductor David Davies
Moeran Overture to a Masque
Naresh Sohal
Tandava Nyitra (first broadcast)
Malcolm Arnold
Symphony No 2
from the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh.
Carmina Quartet
Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor (D703)
Janacek String Quartet
No 1 ("Kreutzer Sonata")
11.35 During the interval, Robert Dawson-Scott reports on this year's festival and fringe.
11.55 Schubert String Quartet in G (D887)
Martin Roscoe and Ronan O'Hora (pianos)
Schoenberg, arr Webem 5 Orchestral Pieces, Op 16 Busoni Fantasia
Contrappuntistica
In the last programme of the current series, Stephen Johnson introduces two vintage chamber recordings.
Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op 59 Nol
Tchaikovsky Quartet (1955 recording)
Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34 Myra Hess (piano) Griller Quartet (1942 recording)
Series producer Philip Tagney
BBC Welsh Symphony
Orchestra/Grant Llewellyn Overture: L'isola disabitata
Symphony No 101 in D (The Clock)
Two programmes with Beate Früh.
1: The Hunter from the Pfalz Wine-songs, Richard the Lionheart, the Sausage Fair at Bad Diirkheim, "kerwe" village festivals and an early 19th-century freedom song.
Music, news, interviews and arts events with Jeremy Nicholas.
Producer Anthony Cheevers
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductors Arturo Tamayo and Witold Lutoslawski
Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
Ligeti Lontano
Bartok Violin Concerto No 2
8.25 Charles Bodman Rae traces the development of Lutoslawski's style and his approach to form through the four symphonies.
8.45 Stravinsky Song of the Nightingale Lutoslawski
Symphony No 4 (first British performance)
5: The Art of the Past
Neil MacGregor , Director of the National Gallery, talks to Bridget Riley about what she derives from great paintings in the western tradition, and about the role of public collections such as the National Gallery.
Debussy Images (Book 2) Claudio Arrau (piano). Discs
by Michael Bakewell.
"My life was beautiful. God gave me to know the works of genius in our time before they left the hands of their creators. And if, for a while, I was able to hold the stirrups of these horsemen of light, my being has been justified and blessed". (Alma Mahler)
Married in turn to Gustav
Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel -
Alma Schindler was one of the outstanding beauties of her day in Vienna. She surrounded herself with men of genius and inspired either deep love or loathing in all who met her.
A blast from ... last year's Huddersfield Festival: the Cauld Blast Orchestra from
Edinburgh, playing a mongrel-mix of folk/rock/classical numbers. "Wild and exotic", the blurb says, "but it bites".
Producer Andrew Kurowski
