Talking About the Enlightenment
with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 Borodin Overture:
Prince Igor
7.15 Chopin Fantasy in F minor, Op 49
7.30 Bach Violin
Concerto in E (BWV1042)
8.05 Mozart Piano
Concerto No 2 in B flat
(K39)
8.30
Handel Pena Tiranna (Amadigi)
8.45 Martinu Concerto Grosso for chamber orchestra. Discs
Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in G (Kk427) Bela Bartok (piano) (1929 mono recording)
Sonata in C minor (Kkll) Arturo Benedetti
Michelangeli (piano) (1942 mono recording)
Sonata in G (Kkl24) Wanda Landowska
(harpsichord) (Mono)
Alessandro Scarlatti
Mio tesoro, per te moro Judith Nelson (soprano) Dennis Ferry (trumpet) Gordon Murray (organ)
Jonathan Rubin (theorbo) Ciena Stein (double bass)
Variations on "La Folia"
Robert Woolley (harpsichord) Domenico Scarlatti
Stabat Mater
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner. Discs
Britten Prelude and Fugue for 18 strings Northern Sinfonia, conductor Steuart Bedford
10.10 Artist of the Week:
Janet Baker (mezzo) Britten Phaedra
Northern Sinfonia, conductor Steuart Bedford 10.27 Charpentier
Andromede
London Baroque, conductor Charles Medlam
10.41 Dowland I Saw My Lady Weep; Shall I Strive with Words to Move;
Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears;
Can she excuse my wrongs? Michael Chance
(countertenor)
Christopher Wilson (lute)
10.57
Britten Lachrymae , Op 48a Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Northern Sinfonia, conductor Steuart Bedford
11.12 Bridge Phantasy for piano quartet Tunnell Trio
Brian Hawkins (viola)
11.26 Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge Northern Sinfonia, conductor Steuart Bedford
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Cho-Liang Lin (violin)
Dvorak Overture: Carnival
Brahms
Violin Concerto in D
Dutilleux Metaboles
Respighi Pines of Rome
The first of three programmes from from last year's festival is a recital given by Miguel-Angel Girollet (guitar) Brouwer Preludio; Fugue No 1; Danza
Ayala Seria Americana
Mangore Choro da saudade Villa-Lobos Prelude No 3
Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin) Richard Tunnicliffe (cello) Paul Nicholson
(harpsichord/organ)
Corelli Sonata in A, Op 5 No
Veracinl Sonata in C, Op 1 No 9
conductor Libor Pesek
Jacques Zoon (flute)
Aleksandar Madzar (piano) Janacek Suite for strings Ervin Schulhoff Double
Concerto for flute and piano
In the last of six programmes on the development of jazz, Max Easterman looks at and the birth of two opposing movements. Trumpeter Lou Watters led the first real revivalist band, playing back-to-the-roots King
Oliver-style jazz. By contrast, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie was beginning to develop elements of bebop style with the Cab Calloway Band, and his future colleague, saxophonist Charlie Parker , was making his first records with Jay McShann 's band. Series producer Derek Drescher
with Anthony Burton. Producer Hugh Warwick
Copland Inscape; Grohg conductor Oliver Knussen
Robin Holloway
Concerto for Orchestra
No conductor Stefan Asbury
In the second of five talks, Andrew Porter compares British and American attitudes to opera.
Twelve young pianists remain to contest the semi-finals of the eleventh Leeds competition.
In the first of three programmes this week, Stephen Plaistow presents highlights from the recitals given yesterday evening by the first four semi-finalists.
(Competition given in association with Harveys of Bristol)
After a distinguished career as a double bass virtuoso, conductor and publisher in his native Russia and Europe, Serge Koussevitzky (1874-1951) was for 25 years the grand seigneur of music in America - Music
Director of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, founder of the Tanglewood Festival and School, and a passionate advocate of new music, which he frequently commissioned and premiered.
Humphrey Burton assesses his impact on musical life in America, with the help of Leonard Bernstein , Sarah Caldwell , Aaron Copland , Phyllis Curtin , Harry Ellis
Dickson, Lukas Foss , Maria Korchinska ,
Oliver Knussen , Harold Shapero , Nicholas Slonimsky and Isaac Stern.
The last of three programmes exploring the variety and colour of the music of Italy.
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Tadaaki Otaka
Martin Roscoe (piano) Rossini
Overture: The Silken
Ladder
Respighi Toccata
Malipiero Symphony No 1
