Adult Education: East
Meets West
with Anthony Burton.
Corelll Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 6 No 11
Brandenburg Consort, director Roy Goodman
7.12 Johann Strauss (son) Morgenblatter Waltz
Vienna Symphony Orchestra Johann Strauss Ensemble, conductor Johannes Wildner
7.25
Beethoven Bagatelles , Op
John Lill (piano)
7.43 Malcolm Arnold
Clarinet Concerto No 2 Michael Collins (clarinet) London Musici, conductor
Mark Stephenson
8.01 Dvorak
Five Bagatelles, Op 47 Peter Cropper and Ronald Birks (violins)
Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello) Robin Ireland (harmonium)
8.20 Glazunov The Seasons
Minnesota Orchestra, conductor Edo De Waart
9.00 Building a Library
Suk's Asrael Symphony by Jonathan Swain. John Steane on new operatic releases.
(Revised 2.00pm)
10.20 Record Release
Verdi Rigoletto (Act 3, excerpt)
Alexandru Agache , Leontina Vaduva , Richard Leech , Samuel Ramey
Welsh National Opera Orchestra/Carlo Rizzi
10.44 Rossini R Barbiere di Siviglia (Act 1, excerpt) Raul Gimenez ,
Hakan Hagegard , Jennifer Larmore , Alessandro Corbelli
Lausanne Chamber
Orchestra, conductor Jesus Lopez-Cobos
11.20 Reissues Anthony Burton is joined by Peter Paul Nash to discuss Boulez conducting Schoenberg on Sony Classical.
(Revised 2.00pm)
11.45 Schoenberg Song of the Wood Dove
Jessye Norman (soprano)
Ensemble Intercontemporain, conductor Pierre Boulez Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert. Discs
Christopher Page and David Fallows discuss how in Josquin performance styles have changed.
Philip French quarries gems from the BBC Sound
Archives. This week, John Sparrow on growing old.
Ruriko Tsukahara (violin) BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor David Measham Arthur Benjamin Violin Concerto
Olga Borodina (mezzo)
Larissa Gergieva (piano)
Borodin The Sea Princess; The False Note
Musorgsky What are Words of Love to you?; Night
Balakirev When I Hear your Voice; You are so Captivating; The Bright Moon; Over the Lake; Restless Soul; Song of Selim; Spanish Song; I Loved
Him Cui I Remember an Evening; Thou and You; The Statue in Tsarkoye
Selo; My Desire; I touched the Flower; It is Over
Rimsky-Korsakov Of What I Dream; The Octave; The Clouds Scatter; The Lark Sings Louder
Reiner in Chicago
Jonathan Swain talks to some of those who took part in Reiner's opera productions, and presents some of Reiner's opera recordings, together with a major Mahler performance. Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (excerpts) Strauss Dance of the Seven Veils (Salome); Recognition Scene (Elektra)
Inge Borkh (soprano)
Paul Schoeffler (baritone) Mahler Das Lied von der
Erde Maureen Forrester (contralto) Richard Lewis (tenor). Discs An independent production by David Papp
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Tim Thome. Discs
Ivan Hewett presents the first edition of Radio
3's weekly music magazine. Including this week Strauss and Stravinsky, and the newly published correspondence between Boulez and Cage. Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
Beethoven Eroica Variations, Op 35
Donizetti, transcr Liszt Spirtogentil (La Favorita) (first broadcast)
Gounod, transcr Liszt Hymne a Ste Cecile (first broadcast)
Lassen, transcr Liszt Symphonic Intermezzo "Uber allen Zauber Liebe" (first broadcast)
from the Royal Opera House,London.
Madama Butterfly,
Puccini's Japanese tragedy based on the drama by David Belasco , with a libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica.
Sung in Italian. Presented by Piers Burton-Page .
Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra/Carlo Rizzi Act
The pianist Stephen Pruslin visits the Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
9.00 Act 2
Connie runs a hugely successful mobile club in Tokyo. Christopher Cook talks to Connie about
Tokyo's club scene, and her own career as mama-san to the young.
The Jamaican pianist, composer and dancer came to London earlier this year to perform her music with an eight-piece British band, including Annie Whitehead (trombone), Ray Carless
(saxophones) and Deirdre Cartwright (guitar).
Geoffrey Smith introduces the recording of the concert in the Union Chapel, Islington, and talks to Marjorie Whylie in the interval.
Producer Derek Drescher