Arts: Language and the Novel
Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Haydn The
Representation of Chaos (The Creation)
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Leonard Slatkin
7.15 Schumann Papillons , Op2
Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
Romance, Nocturne and Finale (The Gadfly) London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Maxim Shostakovich
Sonata No 1 in C
Parley of Instruments, conductor Peter Holman
Beatus Vir
Taverner Consort , Choir and Players/Andrew Parrott
8.43 Liszt Les Preludes
Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Muti
Discs
Paul Guinery introduces variations on the theme of music inspired by women. Six Variations on "Net car più non mi sento" (Wo070)
Alfred Brendel (piano) Mass in C, Op 86
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano) Monica Sinclair (contralto) Richard Lewis (tenor)
Marian Nowakowski (bass) Beecham Choral Society Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Thomas Beecham
Six Variations on "Ich denke dein " (WoO74) Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow (piano) Discs
with Edward Blakeman.
Including
10.00 Artist of the Week: Felicity Lott (soprano) Oscar Straus
C'est la saison d'amour
Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
10.05 Mozart
Symphony No 28 in C Salzburg Mozarteym Orchestra/Hans Graf 10.25 Britten
Les Illuminations
Felicity Lott (soprano) Scottish National
Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson
10.45 John McLeod Small Pleasures -
Variations on a Theme by Benjamin Britten (first broadcast) London Wind Trio 11.20 Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Alexander Lazarev
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Alfred Walter
Haydn
Symphony No 67 in F Von Einem
Ludi Leopoldini
Hans Gal Idyllikon
(baritone)
Roger Vignoles (piano) Schoeck Nachruf ; Abendlied;
Reisephantasie;
Nachtlied Schubert Viola ; Lied des gefangenen Jagers;
Tiefes Lied; Die Sterne (D939); Nachtstiick; Sehnsucht (D52); Am
Bach im Friihling; Der
Jiingling auf dem Hugel; Im Walde (D834)
Wolf Fussreise ; Auf ein altes Bild; Jagerlied; Storchenbotschaft
(Morike Lieder)
Schoeck Dos Thai
Peter Paul Nash continues his pursuit of an elusive art form.
Elliott Carter Symphony No 1 (1942)
American Composers' Orchestra/Paul Dunkel
Bernstein Symphony No 2 (The Age of Anxiety) (revised 1965)
Lukas Foss (piano) Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by The Composer
Irving Fine Symphony (1962) Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by The Composer
Are there any notes hiding between the keys of the piano? When will A sharp never B flat? If Bach described 48 of his keyboard pieces as "well-tempered", did he mean they were on their best behaviour? Tommy Pearson finds out.
Music and arts news with Rodney Slatford from Manchester. Including
5.15 Krommer Octet-
Partita in F, Op 57
6.02 Biber Sonata No 11
6.40 Copland El salon Mexico
Producer Paul Hindmarsh
from Studio 1.
Boris Berezovsky
(piano)
Mendelssohn Piano
Sonata in E, Op 6
Schumann Fantasy in C, Opl7
8.20 Abraham and Felix
"Once I was the son of my father, now I am the father of my son." Michael Oliver delves into the character of Mendelssohn's father, a successful man in his own right, but sandwiched between Moses, his powerful father, and Felix, his brilliant son.
8.40 Liszt Etudes d'execution transcendante:
Nos 1,2, 4, 5, 9-12
2: Mid-Kent
Printmaker Graham Clarke puts the 1935 Shell Guide to the test in home territory. Producer Julian Hale
BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Nicholas Cleobury Beethoven Overture: The
Consecration of the House
Tippett Symphony No 1
Roy Porter talks to Vanessa and Corin Redgrave and presents a first-night review of Alex Ferguson 's The Flag from the new Moving
Theatre in Battersea, run by the Redgraves and others. Plus The Letters of Samuel
Johnson, now complete and a revelation.
Producer Razia Iqbal
BBC Concert Orchestra
Bartok Rhapsody, Op 1 Noriko Ogawa (piano) conductor David Measham
Dohnanyi Suite for orchestra conductor Barry Wordsworth
Except in Scotland.
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