Assignment 103

Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Beethoven Overture:
Egmont, Op 84
LPO/Kiaus Tennstedt
7.24 Schmelzer Balletto di centauri, ninfe e salvatici New London Consort/ Philip Pickett
7.32 Joplin, arr Janneau
Concert Waltz: Bethune
Katia and Marielle Labeque (piano duet)
8.05 Wassanaer Concerto
A rmonici No 6 in E flat
Academy of St Martin/ Neville Marriner
8.24 Strauss Verfiihrung , Op 33 No 1
Sylvia Sass (soprano) Hungarian State
Orchestra/Ervin Lukacs
8.30 Faure Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 15 Domus
Producer Andrew Lyle. Discs

Matthews will shortly be 50; Saxton was recently 40. During this week they introduce a joint retrospective of their music in conversation with Christopher Marshall. Matthews The Music of Dawn
BBC SO/Mark Wigglesworth Saxton In the Beginning conductor Matthias Bamert
Producer Christopher Marshall

with Nicola Heywood
Thomas from Cardiff. This week, a Russian flavour, with Artist of the Week
Boris Christoff and a Russian symphony each morning. Including
Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Tadaaki Otaka
10.05 Artist of the Week: Boris Christoff (bass) Verdi Ella giammai m'amo (Don Carlos ) Rome Opera House
Orchestra/Gabriele Santini
10.20 Scriabin Preludes ,
Opll Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
10.30 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Tadaaki Otaka
11.40 Mozart Flute
Quartet in D (K285) Masahiro Arita (flute)
Boccherini Quartet Tokyo
11.55 Musorgsky Song of the Flea
Boris Christoff (bass)
Philharmonia Orchestra /
Issay Dobrowen Producer Gwawr Owen

John Thornley presents cabaret songs reflecting the 20th century.
4: War and Peace ... and 78 Revolutions per Minute with Fritzi Massary , Gisela May , Pills and Tabet,
Richard Tauber , Leonid Utesov and others.

from St John 's, Smith
Square, London.
Carmina Quartet:
Matthias Enderle and Susanne Frank (violins) Wendy Champney (viola) Stephan Goerner (cello)
Haydn String Quartet in C, Op 76 No 3
Brahms String Quartet in C minor, Op 51 No 1

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor
Andre Previn
Viktoria Mullova (violin)
Brahms Violin Concerto inD
Elgar Symphony No 2 in E flat

James O'Donnell plays
Frank Martin 's Passacaille and Dupre's Second
Symphony on the organ of Westminster Cathedral.

Pianist and composer Dave Brubeck was joined in 1951 by alto saxophonist Paul Desmond and the famous quartet came into being. This week Brubeck talks to Geoffrey Smith about the quartet's early days and their breakthrough into the college and university circuit, which brought them national celebrity. Producer Derek Drescher

Tommy Pearson takes up residency at the Arthur Terry School in Sutton Coldfield, for a series made with the help of young people. Today, American composer
Steve Reich suggests how everyday sounds can be used as inspiration for composition.
Producer Chris Wines

with Andrew Green.
5.15 Saint-Saens Allegro appassionato, Op 43
6.03 Bach Prelude and Fugue in C minor (Well-Tempered Klavier, Book 1 No 2)
6.20 Tiomkin, arr Palmer Overture: The Alamo
7.03 Rodrigo Rondino (Summer Concerto) Producer Andrew Mussett

Cabaret from Berlin, Paris and London, including sax solos in various shades of purple and blue, piano syncopations, and Shivering Ivories, Matelot and Mad about the Boy. With
Marie Angel (soprano)
John Harle (saxophone) and David Owen Norris (piano), who introduces the concert.

Julian Holder of the 20th-Century Society presents a four-part series on architectural icons of 1930s Britain.
Houses of the Future
With architectural historian
Joe Kerr , Holder visits
Highpoint, a white concrete tower block by Russian-bom architect Berthold Lubetkin in Highgate, North London; and High and Over, a private villa in Amersham designed by Amyas Connell for
Professor Bernard Ashmole.
They discuss how far the modernist vision of a better way of living extended to everyday suburban living.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Alun Francis
Allan Pettersson
Symphony No 13

with Robert Sandall and Mark Russell.
Producer Philip Tagney

Helen Garrison introduces a re-creation by the Castalian Band of the kind of programme that would have been heard at concerts of the Edinburgh Musical Society during the 18th century.

Except in Scotland.
As broadcast 9.00-10.25am on R5