Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 William Lawes
Consort Sett à 5
Fretwork
7.16 Elgar
Overture: Froissart
London Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
7.32 Milhaud
Chamber Symphony No 2 (Pastorale)
Capella Cracoviensis , conductor Karl Anton
Rickenbacher
8.05 Dukas The
Sorcerer's Apprentice Los Angeles Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Andre Previn
8.27 Mendelssohn
Song without Words in C minor (Book 3, No 2) John Ogdon (piano)
8.43 Vaughan Williams Concerto Grosso
London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson , discs
The Music for Strings
Presented by Ann McKay. Rhapsody No 2
Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez
String Quartet No 2 Alban Berg Quartet Contrasts
Joseph Szigeti (violin)
Benny Goodman (clarinet) The Composer (piano)
Live from Cardiff with Nicola Heywood Thomas.
10.00 Artist of the Week: Margaret Price (soprano) Ravel Sheherazade
LSO/Claudio Abbado
10.15 Berlioz
Rêverie et caprice
Itzhak Perlman (violin)
Paris Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
10.30 Debussy
Trois poèmes de
Stephane Mallarme
Margaret Price (soprano) James Lockhart (piano)
11.30 Liszt Mignons Lied Margaret Price (soprano)
11.40 Ravel
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Mikhail Rudy (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Mariss Jansons
Handel Olinto, il Tebro, Gloria An allegorical cantata about the glories of the city of Rome, composed while
Handel was working there. Julia Gooding and Lorna Anderson (sopranos) Jonathan Peter Kenny
(countertenor)
London Baroque, director Charles Medlam
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Jacek Kaspszyk Beethoven
Overture: King Stephen Bartok
Violin Concerto No 2
Beethoven
Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral)
A personal view of musicals presented in six programmes by Robert Cushman , with songs from original cast recordings, some familiar, some less well known.
4: Nothing Is Impossible - Gower Champion and Bob Fosse
A BML Production
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor Nicholas Cleobury
Sarah Francis (oboe) Jacob Druckman
Brnngle (first UK performance) John Corigliano
Oboe Concerto (first broadcast) Schuman
Symphony No 6 (first UK performance)
This evening, Tommy Pearson blubbers and sniffles into a dirty handkerchief as he discovers what makes music sad.
He talks to visual artist
Nigel Rolfe about the tradition of the Irish lament.
Music, headlines, interviews and arts news.
Presented from Manchester by David Owen Norris. Including
6.00 Joachim
Overture: In Memoriam
Heinrich Kleist
6.28 Mozart
Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat (K271)
7.00 Poulenc
Sextet for piano and wind
Producer Jeremy Hayes
Live from the London Coliseum.
A new production of Smetana's comic opera by English National Opera, sung in an English from a translation by David Pountney.
Presented by Clive Bennett.
English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Adam Fischer
Act 1
8.30 The James Naughtie Interview
During the interval, James Naughtie talks to the director of this evening's production, David Pountney.
8.50 Act 2
(In association with Guinness plc)
Stephen Banfield continues to take his irreverent glance at the British musical renaissance.
2: Rachmaninov-on-Sea
Lowri Blake (cello)
Caroline Palmer (piano) Henze
Serenade for solo cello
Carter
Cello Sonata
Harriet Gilbert presents a discussion on Vietnam in film and fiction, with reviews of Oliver Stone 's film Heaven and Earth and Bao Ninh 's novel The
Sorrow of War.
Producer Paul Quinn
BBC Philharmonic conductor Edward Downes
Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol Myaskovsky
Symphony No 5, Op 18
Except in Scotland.
As broadcast 9,00-10.25am on R5
English Resources: Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
