Creativity in Management
Presented by Richard Osborne.
Clementi Symphony in B flat, Op 18
London Mozart Players, conductor Matthias Bamert
7.32 Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor
Sylviane Deferne and Pascal Roge (pianos)
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
7.43 Puccini O Mimi, tu piu non torni (La Boheme) Meyerbeer Quand l'heure sonnera (Dinorah)
Jerry Hadley (tenor)
Thomas Hampson (bar)
Welsh National Opera Orchestra/Carlo Rizzi
7.59 D'Indy Saugefleurie, Op 21
Strasbourg PO/Theodor Guschlbauer
8.17 Beethoven Overture and Incidental Music
(Egmont)
Sylvia McNair (soprano)
Will Quadflieg (narrator)
New York PO/Kurt Masur
Sibelius Symphony No 5 in E flat by Stephen Walsh. John Warrack reviews new releases of Czech music.
Kozeluh String Quartet in B flat, Op 32 No 1 Stamic Quartet
10.35 Martinu Hry (Esquisses)
Radoslav Kvapil (piano)
10.48 Suk Praga
Royal Liverpool PO/Libor Pesek
Robert Cowan samples the latest batch of reissues from the Philips Duo series.
11.35 Liszt Tasso: Lamento e trionfo
LPO/Bernard Haitink
(Discs)
The Problem with Medieval
Music ...
Christopher Page and Daniel Leech-Wilkinson discuss why listeners today often find the medieval sound-world inaccessible.
Producer Kate Bolton
3: Salt - Customs and Myths In the Arab world, salt is often given as a symbol of protection to guests. Leslie Forbes and classicist
Margaret Visser are invited to "take salt" with sociologist and Iraqi Jew Dr Sami Zu Baida.
Prokofiev Wedding Suite, Op 126 (excerpts)
SNO/Neeme Jarvi . Discs
The second of two programmes including the suites for two pianos, played by Stephen Coombs and Ian Munro.
Arensky Suite No 3 in C, Op 33 (Theme and Variations)
Gliere Three Pieces, Op 41 Nos 4-6
Arensky Suite No 4 in D flat, Op 62
Anthony Rooley continues his survey of Monteverdi's madrigals with the sixth book, published in 1614. Performed by the Consort of Musicke.
Strauss in Weimar
In the second of six programmes,
Kenneth Birkin presents a selection of highlights from concerts Richard Strauss conducted in Weimar between 1889 and 1892, including works by Strauss's musical mentors and two new pieces of his own.
Beethoven Overture:
King Stephen
Vienna PO/Leonard Bernstein Schubert, orch Liszt Die Allmacht
Jessye Norman (soprano) Chorus; Lyons Opera
Orchestra/Lawrence Foster
Liszt Oh! Quand je dors
John Aler (tenor)
Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Eduard Lassen Fruhling; Die Musikantin
Susan Roberts (soprano)
Iain Burnside (piano) Strauss Don Juan
Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, conducted by The Composer
(1944 mono recording)
Liszt Die Loreley
Ilona Tokody (soprano)
Hungarian State Orchestra, conductor Andras Korodi
Hans von Bülow Nirwana
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson
Wagner Prelude (Tristan und Isolde)
Berlin PO/Richard Strauss (1928 mono recording)
Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
Kirsten Flagstad (soprano) Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Issay Dobrowen (1948 mono recording) Strauss Macbeth
Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Rudolf Kempe
with Geoffrey Smith.
Producer Tim Thome
Discs
This week, Ivan Hewett visits a dance workshop to see how composers and choreographers work together, and looks back over the recent Dance
Umbrella festival. Also, musical memory - how does it work and can it be improved?
Producer Fiona Sheimerdine
Wagner's music-drama, recorded at the first night of the new production which opened this year's Bayreuth Festival in July. Sung in German.
Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
Act
7.55 Wattraud Meier
Just before setting off for Bayreuth to rehearse for this year's production of Tristan, Waltraud Meier talked to Daniel Snowman about the part of Isolde, which she was to tackle for the first time, and about some of the vocal, musical and dramatic challenges posed by a role of this kind.
8.20 Acts 2 and 3
Eddie Prevost (percussion) and Marcio Mattos (double bass/cello) joined Shiku Yano (shakuhachi) and Chieko Mutsurra (koto) at Sutton House in East
London last July for an evening of mainly improvised music.
Ben Watson introduces a recording of the concert and talks to Marcio Mattos about his interest in Japanese music.
Producer Derek Drescher
