Generals of the Revolution:
Thomas Telford
with Catriona Young , including at approximately
7.00 Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No 1, Op 46 Bamberg Symphony
Orchestra/Richard Kraus
7.40 Eigar Introduction and Allegro, Op 47
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
8.00 Prince Ernst of Saxe-Weimar
Violin Concerto in B flat, Op 1 No 1
Bach Ensemble, director Joshua Rifkin
8.30 Prokofiev Piano
Concerto No 3 in C
Terence Judd (piano) Moscow Philharmonic
Orchestra/Lazarev. Discs
The writers behind today's music are all foreigners:
Byron, Burns, Shakespeare, Andersen and some anonymous Spanish poets. Presented by Jeremy Siepmann.
Overture: Manfred
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Carlo Maria Giulini
Unterm Fenster , Op 34 No 2; Liebhabers
Ständchen, Op 34 No Jan DeGaetani (soprano) Leslie Guinn (baritone) Gilbert Kalish (piano)
Novelette, Op 21 No 3 Claudio Arrau (piano)
Overture: Julius Caesar
Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra/Georg Solti FunfLieder, Op 40
Thomas Hampson (baritone) Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Intermezzo; Liebesgram; In der Nacht (Spanisches Liederspiel, Op 74) Peter Schreier (tenor) Julia Varady (soprano)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone)
Christoph Eschenbach (piano), Discs
conductor Andrew Davis
Kyoko Takezawa (violin) Berg Violin Concerto
Mahler Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor
Barbara Bonney (soprano) Zemlinsky Der Himmel hat keine Sterne, Op 2 No 2; Um Mitternacht, Op 2 No 4; Waltz-Songs on Tuscan Folk lyrics by Ferdinand Gregorovius , Op6
Anne Sofie von Otter
(mezzo)
Cord Garben (piano)
(The World on the Moon)
The last programme in the series is Haydn's comedy, after the play by Carlo Goldoni.
A fake astrologer persuades a rich and gullible old man that he has made a journey to the moon - an elaborate ruse designed to allow the old man's daughters to marry the men of their choice.
Sung in Italian.
Suisse Romande Radio
Chorus
Lausanne Chamber
Orchestra, conductor
Antal Dorati
Discs
(piano)
C P E Bach Prussian Sonata No 6 in A
Brahms Three Pieces, Op 116 Nos 3, 6 and Beethoven Piano Sonata in E, Op
Music, news, interviews and arts stories with Richard Baker. Producer Tim Thome
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Grant Llewellyn
Young Uck Kim (violin)
Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op 52
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
Does good art influence public life, or improve private morality? Professor Raymond Tallis of Manchester University finds such claims philosophically and empirically untenable, and argues that the distinctions often made between sentimental and true art are deceptions.
8.10 William Mathias
Requiescat Beethoven
Symphony No 7 in A
Christopher Hope introduces a series of conversations with contemporary writers in his native country.
4: Sandile Dikene
"My first poetry performance was for a group of drunkards and drug addicts who were with me in prison".
In his small apartment overlooking Table Bay in Capetown, the young poet who spent three months in solitary confinement for his activities with the student movement at university, talks about his love of poetry and his performances at poltical rallies, and recites some of his own work and that of a Xhosa "poet of the people".
A mid-evening musical interlude.
Discs
from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Asko Ensemble, conductor Jonathan Nott
Irvine Arditti (violin)
Roland Pontinen (piano)
Luca Francesconi Riti neurali
Ligeti Piano Concerto
Ferneyhough Terrain
Varese Integrales
Peter Schreier (tenor) Die Allmacht
Walter Olbertz (piano)
Das Heimweh (D851); Auf der Bruck;
Um Mitternacht;
Der liebliche Stern;
Im Janner 1817 (Tiefes Leid); Im Walde (D834); Im Fruhling; Lebensmut; Uber Wildemann ; An mein Herz
Graham Johnson (piano) Discs
