Schleswig: A Question of Minorities

Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Walton Music for
Children
London Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox
7.32 Strauss Der
Arbeitsmann, Op 39 No 3 Heather Harper (soprano) London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor
Richard Hickox
7.46 Stanley Concerto in B minor
Parley of Instruments, conductor Roy Goodman
8.05 Finzi Prelude
English String Orchestra, conductor
William Boughton
8.25 Duparc L'invitation au voyage
Sarah Walker (mezzo) Roger Vignoles (piano)
8.43 C P E Bach Quartet in G (Wq95)
Nicholas McGegan (flute) Catherine Mackintosh
(viola)
Anthony Pleeth (cello) Christopher Hogwood (fortepiano) Discs

Presented by Leo Black. 4: The unity of Schmidt's later music - hints of the oratorio, and the Fourth
Symphony.
0 wie selig seid ihr doch Hanspeter Aeschilmann (organ)
Symphony No 4 BBC Philharmonic, conductor Adrian Leaper

with Andrew Lyle , including excerpts from a wind ensemble version of Mozart s Die Zauberflote.
10.05 Schubert String
Quartet in B flat (D112) Apponyi Quartet
10.40 Saint-Saens
Piano Studies
Leon Fleisher (piano)
10.50 Schreker Chamber
Symphony
London Sinfonietta, conductor Simon Rattle
11.20
Strauss Kramerspiegel Nos 8-12 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone)
Gerald Moore (piano)
11.35 Till Eulenspiegel Berlin Soloists

Medici Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 20 No 4
Grieg String Quartet in G minor, Op 27

In the final programme of oratorios from Handel's last decade, Jane Glover introduces The Triumph of Time and Truth, an allegory first performed at Covent Garden in March
1757.
London Handel Choir and Orchestra, conductor
Denys Darlow

Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, conductor Timothy Reynish Richard Rodney Bennett Four Seasons
Tippett A Triumph (first UK performance)
Grainger A Lincolnshire Posy
Knussen Choral, Op 8
Robin Holloway Entrance, Carousing, Embarkation, Op 70 (first UK performance)

Tommy Pearson is fretful today as he tries to find out all there is to know about the guitar. He talks to
Nicola Hall and flamenco guitarist Marcos.

Music, news and arts stories with Linda Ormiston from Glasgow.
5.15 Mozart Symphony
No 31 in D (Paris) (K297) (Ist mvt)
6.03 trad The Lovely Northern Lass
6.30 Britten Four Sea Interludes
7.03 Strauss Salome (Closing scene) Producer Svend Brown

Objects of the 30s that changed our lives.

Roger Bridgman of the Science Museum enthuses about the Biro.

Un hallo in maschera by Verdi.
Private passion brings public tragedy for King Gustavus III in late 18th-century Sweden. Dennis O'Neill sings
Gustavus, one of Verdi's greatest tenor roles in one of his finest operas, ranging from the drama of Nabucco through the intimacy of La Traviata to the wit of Fa/staff.
Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor
Daniele Gatti
Act
8.25 The James Naughtie Interview
James Naughtie discusses the Royal Opera's production policies with the company's Director, Nicholas Payne.
8.50 Act 2 scene i
9.25 Verdi in Maschera
Mary Jane Phillips Matz has spent years researching Verdi's life and published her massive biography last autumn. But, as she tells Michael Oliver , her subject was a man who hated to reveal himself, and whose life was full of contradictions and concealments.
9.45 Act 2 scene ii and Act 3
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Harriet Gilbert talks to
Helen Mirren , who returns to the London stage next week in A Month in the Country.
Producer Beaty Rubens

Singing Bach lain Burnside presents a selection of great Bach singers, past and present, including Kathleen Ferrier , Gundula Janowitz ,
Kirsten Flagstad , Fritz Wunderlich and Michael Chance , and looks at changing tastes in Bach singing.
Producer Gautam Rangarajan

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