Music and news with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Biber Battalia a 10 Vienna Concentus Musicus, conductor Nikolaus
Harnoncourt
7.15 Glazunov Stenka Razin
Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
7.32 Bliss Conversations
Nash Ensemble , conductor
Lionel Friend
8.05 Dupre Esquisse in E minor, Op 41 No 2 John Scott (organ)
8.32 Hildegard of Bingen Vos flores rosarum
Sequentia
8.45 Ireland Legend Eric Parkin (piano)
London Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson , Discs
Music for the Anglican Church
Introduced by Simon Heighes.
Boyce Turn Thee unto Me
I have surely built thee an house
Greene How long wilt thou forget me
Stanley Voluntary in D minor, Op 5 No 8
Hayes 0 Worship the Lord Croft Jubilate in D
Discs
with Piers Burton-Page . Rock into Water
10.15 and 11.50 Psalms by Bruckner, performed by Artists of the Week:
Corydon Singers conductor Matthew Best alongside more variations on La Folia, and Prokofiev's Piano Sonata
No 7, played by Barbara Nissman
10.25 Rachmaninov
Symphony No 1 in D minor BBC Philharmonic, conductor En Shao
Mahler's Liebst du um
Schõnheit?, and Strauss Wiegenlied are among the best-known of Lieder.
But what about
Clara Schumann 's Liebst du um
Schdnheit? and Max Reger 's Wiegenlied? In the second of two programmes,
Richard Wigmore presents eight German poems, each in one familiar and one unfamiliar setting.
from New
I Broadcasting House. Academia Wind Quintet of Prague
Beethoven Sextet in E flat, Op 71
Relcha Quintet in F
Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Cleobury Nicholas Maw The World in the Evening Paul Patterson
White Shadows on the Dark Horizon
Harrison Birtwistle Gawain's Journey
Linda Merrick (clarinet) Benjamin Frith (piano) Stanford Three Intermezzi, Op 13
Wilfred Josephs Clarinet Sonata No 2, Op
Stanford Clarinet Sonata, Op 129
Natasha Lemos charts some of the changes in Greek traditional music over the last 70 years.
Recordings by virtuosi of the 1920s and 30s, such as the clarinettist Nikos
Tsaras, and the Cretan lyraplayer Andreas Rodinos , are compared to some of their modern counterparts, and to the sound of the folk-violin, the high-pitched pipiza and the single-reed bagpipe called tsambouna. Producer John Thomley
I Tonight's edition, 7 introduced by Richard Baker , comes from the Classical Music Show at the Business Design
Centre, London. Among his guests is Evelyn Glennie. Producer Ray Abbott
BBC Philharmonic in the second of their concerts at the Royal
Northern College of Music this season, conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier , with Alexei Lubimov (piano)
Debussy Prélude d
Vapres-midi d'un faune Mozart Piano Concerto
No 24 in C minor (K491) David Matthews A Vision and a Journey (BBC commission - first performance)
Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements
Ivan Hewett concludes his personal look at some musical issues.
5: Memory and Allusion
Emma Kirkby and Evelyn Tubb (sopranos)
Anthony Rooley (lute)
Henry Lawes This Mossy Bank
William Lawes 'Tis Not, Boy Henry Lawes Dialogue on a Kiss
Blow When Artists Hit on Lucky Thoughts;
Clarona, Lay Aside Your Lute; Ah Heaven! What Is'tlHear?
Purcell Two Daughters of This Aged Stream; Dear Pretty Youth; Oh,
Solitude!; Love, Thou Art Best
Some Thoughts on Christopher Smart and His Poetry
Christopher Smart wrote some of the finest poetry of the 18th century. His Song to David is a visionary religious masterpiece, some of it composed in the asylums and debtors' prisons where he spent much of his life.
The novelist Paul Bailey reflects on the tragic life and work of this neglected poet.
Reader Nigel Carrington. Producer David Perry
Voices from a distant age inhabit Barry Guy 's After the Rain, written for the City of London Sinfonia, and influenced by a Max Ernst painting.
It is framed by Bird Gong Game I and II, performed by Gemini, and featuring saxophonist Evan Parker and singer Maggie Nicols , directed by the composer. Introduced by Sarah Walker.
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