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Strauss Oboe Concerto by Anthony Burton. Michael Hall reviews new classical releases, including Haydn symphonies from
Roger Norrington and Frans Briiggen.
Scheibe Sinfonia a 4 in B flat
Concerto Copenhagen, director Andrew Manze
10.19 Haydn Symphony No 104 in D (London)
London Classical Players/ Roger Norrington
10.48 Haeffner
Electro (Act 2) Soloists
Swedish Radio Choir
Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, conductor
Thomas Schuback
Sony Classical have been steadily reissuing some of their CBS back-catalogue on the budget label Essential Classics. Edward Greenfield has been listening to recordings by George Szell and Eugene Ormandy.
11.35 Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber - Cleveland Orchestra, conductor George Szell
(Discs)
(Revised 2.00pm)
"The horn, the horn, the lusty horn/Is not a thing to laugh to scorn." (Shakespeare) George Pratt talks to
Anthony Halstead about the development, technique and repertoire of the horn. Producer Kate Bolton
Robert Kee talks to people for whom the 30s was a significant period. Today, the painter Robert Medley recalls the Group Theatre and their work with W H Auden and Christopher Isherwood. Producer Fiona McLean
Stephen Plaistow introduces the second of four concerts.
Haydn String Quartet in E flat, Op 33 No 2 (Joke) Webem Five Pieces, Op 5 Stravinsky Three Pieces
Beethoven String Quartet in A minor, Op 132 A Cavendish production
Sue Knussen introduces music from the USA of the Great Depression. America's social and political upheavals of the 30s were mirrored in the artistic life of the decade: composers like Aaron Copland and John Cage were trying to break free of their European shackles, and write specifically American music; the indigenous jazz and folk styles were becoming ever more commercialised; and the burgeoning world of Broadway and musical comedy threatened to take over the opera houses. Into this came the influx of Jewish Europeans escaping the rise of fascism. Including: Schuman American Festival Overture
Copland Piano Variations
Seeger String Quartet Varese Density 21.5
Cage Construction in Metal 1
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 2
Ruggles Sun-Treader
Producer Christopher Marshall
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Tim Thome. Discs
Presented by Ivan Hewett. This week, the British premiere of Weill's Johnny Johnson , a new opera house in Spitalfields market in London, and the 50th anniversary of Tippett's A Child of Our Time.
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
Adriana Lecouvreur
Francesco Cilea 's opera in four acts to a text by Arturo Colautti. Sung in Italian.
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Roberto Abbado
Acts 1 and 2 7.45 Acting in Opera Terrence McNally puts listeners' questions to a panel including stage and opera director Frank Galati and actor, singer and vocal teacher Conrad L Osborne.
8.10 Act 3
8.35 The Opera Quiz
Thor Eckert Jr puts listeners' questions to Cori Ellison , Fr Owen Lee , William Weaver.
9.00 Act 4
(In association with the Texaco Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network and the EBU)
In the 1930s physicists saw many of the fundamental particles of matter for the first time. They also began work on splitting the atom, and building nuclear bombs. Frank Close , Professor of Physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, reflects on the physics that had such an impact on the years that followed. Producer Deborah Cohen
Canticle IV: The Journey of the Magi
James Bowman (countertenor) Peter Pears (tenor)
John Shirley-Quirk (bass) The Composer (piano)
Geoffrey Smith introduces a recording of a concert given by the band last year in the Civic Centre, Berkhamsted, where they performed a new suite by pianist
Michael Garrick called The
Royal Box. During the interval, Michael Garrick talks to Geoffrey Smith. Producer Derek Drescher
