The Loss of British Power
Presented by Anthony Burton.
Mendelssohn
Overture: Die schone
Melusine
Suisse Romande
Orchestra/Armin Jordan
7.15 Handel
Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 3 No
Les Musiciens du Louvre/ Marc Minkowski
7.26 Myaskovsky
Serenade, Op 32 No 1 Moscow New Opera Orchestra, conductor Yevgeny Samoilov
7.43 William Lawes
Fantasia- Suite No 4 in C
Purcell Quartet
7.53 Henry Lawes
You are fair and lovely too; Dearest, do not now delay me; Go lovely rose; Come, lovely Phyllis Nigel Rogers (tenor)
Paul O'Dette (guitar/lute) Frances Kelly (harp)
8.02 Prokofiev, arr
Kabalevsky/Rostropovlch Cello Concertino
Lynn Harrell (cello)
RPO/Vladimir Ashkenazy
8.23 Liszt
Feuille d'album No 2; Two Hungarian
Recruiting Dances (Zum Andenken)
Leslie Howard (piano)
8.36 Kodaly
Dances from Galanta
St Paul CO/Hugh Wolff
Lutoslawski's
Concerto for orchestra by Peter Paul Nash.
Hilary Finch reviews new releases of songs by Berlioz, Mahler and Barber from Thomas
Hampson, Cheryl Studer and Brigitte Fassbaender.
Barber
Songs (selection)
Cheryl Studer (soprano)
Thomas Hampson (baritone) John Browning (piano)
10.39 Gounod Crepuscule;
Envoi de fleurs
Jose van Dam
(bass-baritone)
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano;
10.47 Mahler
Kindertotenlieder
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo) Berlin Radio SO, conductor Riccardo Chailly
Bernard Keeffe has been listening to reissues of Evgeny Mravinsky conducting the Leningrad
Philharmonic Orchestra live in Beethoven, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.
11.35
Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini
Leningrad PO/Mravinsky Producers Patrick Lambert and Clive Portbury. Discs
George Pratt visits the collection of early keyboard instruments at Finchcocks in Kent and talks to Richard Burnett
.
Producer Kate Bolton
The poet Hugo Williams attempts to cook pancakes for Leslie Forbes and writes a poem about Sunday lunch.
Producer Elizabeth Burke
Alfred Brendel (piano). Piano Sonatas: in G,
Op 31 No 1; in D minor, Op 31 No 2 (Tempest); in E flat, Op 31 No 3; in A, Op 101
Alain Frogley presents six programmes exploring the composer's little-known transatlantic connections.
3: Paradise Lost
A nostalgia for the past and a search for a national identity led to the adoption of Vaughan Williams 's
"back to folksong" policy on both sides of the Atlantic.
Vaughan Williams
Norfolk Rhapsody; The Lover's Ghost (Five English Folk-Songs) Henry F Gilbert
Spiritual (Suite for chamber orchestra) Roy Harris
When Johnny Comes Marching Home;
American Ballads
Vaughan Williams Hugh the Drover (opening scene) Copland Suite:
Appalachian Spring Simple Gifts;
I Bought Me a Cat; At the River (Old American Songs)
Vaughan Williams , arr Mathieson
Three Portraits (The England of Elizabeth) Discs
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Tim Thorne
Discs
Ivan Hewett reports from a festival of Jewish music taking place in London, and looks back 50 years to the first performance of Tippett's A Child of Our Time.
Producer Anthony Sellors
Recent works by two women composers.
Hilary Tann Winter sun, Summer rain
Eleanor Alberga Suite :
Dancing with the shadow Members of Lontano, conductor
Odaline de la Martinez. Discs
7.
Der Fliegende Hollander wagner's chilling tale of a Dutch sea captain, doomed to sail the seas forever, unless he is redeemed by a woman's love.
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor
Hermann Michael
NEW The first of six
7 programmes in which Simon Callow 's reading explores the hidden drama of the Sonnets by following a radical reordering by John Padel.
Believing that the mysterious W H is William Herbert , it suggests that the poems were initially commissioned to convince W H to marry. The later passions and anguish of the poems then reveal the Poet.
Series producer Ned Chaillet
Allegri String Quartet Iris Juda (viola)
Duncan Druce Quintet
(BBC commission - first performance)
Mozart String Quintet in G minor (K516)
Brian Morton introduces an improvised set by Alex Maguire (piano) and Steve Noble (drums), recorded in the Adrian Boult Hall ,
Birmingham, and talks with them about some recently released CDs by Gerry Hemingway (drums), Marilyn Crispell (piano) and others. Producer Derek Drescher
