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7.05 Dvorak
The Water Goblin
Czech PO/Vaclav Neumann
7.25 Hoist
Two Eastern Pictures
Sioned Williams (harp) Hoist Singers/ Stephen Layton
7.47 Satie Mercure
New London Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp
8.05 Gibbons
In Nomine a 5 Fretwork
8.23 Liszt
Liebestraum No 1
Kathryn Stott (piano)
8.45 Vivaldi Magnificat (RV610)
Suzette Leblanc and Daniele Forget (sopranos) Richard Cunningham (countertenor)
Henry Ingham (tenor) Tafelmusik Baroque
Orchestra and Chamber
Choir/Jean Lamon Discs
Presented by Adrian Edwards.
During the first decade of this century, Kern learnt his art as a songwriter composing for the New York and London stages.
In England he met his wife, Eva, and also P.G. Wodehouse, with whom he forged an intimate new style of American musical culminating in "Sitting Pretty," one of his most joyful and unjustly neglected scores. Excerpts are sung by Judy Blazer,
Jason Grade, Paige O'Hara and Roberta Peters.
Discs
with Edward Blakeman.
Artists of the Week
Academy of St Martin Chamber Ensemble
Mozart
Allegro in B flat (K516c) Allegro in F (K580b)
10.10 Bartok
Piano Concerto No 3
Deszo Ranki (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Michael Schonwandt
10.40 Parry Music when soft voices die
Vaughan Williams Silence and Music
Ropartz Hiver vous m'estes qu'un villain Milhaud Deux poetries BBC Singers, conductors
Simon Joly and Ronald Corp
11.00 Roussel Serenade
Academy of St Martin Chamber Ensemble
11.40 Berlioz Overture: Le Roi Lear
BBC SO/Schonwandt
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
1: Round Two, and Everything to Play For
Gordon Stewart introduces second-round performances by young quartets from
Norway, Finland, Hungary, Japan, Russia and Great
Britain who took part in this year's competition.
(Given last month in Goldsmith's Hall and sponsored by British Gas pic) Producer John Thomley
conductor Michael Gielen
Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Rachmaninov The Isle of the Dead
Schnittke Concerto
Grosso No 2
Suk A Summer's Tale
From the great classical symphonies to jazz and the blues, composition is often based on a set of very simple rules.
Stuart Maconie investigates the ways in which devices which we may think are easy can turn good music into great music.
David Owen Norris presents a Bath Festival edition, with guests including performers and organisers.
5.30 Mendelssohn String Quintet No 1 in A, Op 18 (excerpt)
6.05 Beethoven Scena and Aria: Ahlperfido
6.30 Bach St Matthew
Passion (excerpt) Producer Jeremy Hayes
The Kirov Opera and the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra collaborate in a concert recorded earlier this month which marked the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth.
The opera is introduced by James Naughtie with Sir Edward Downes.
Orchestral Suite: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh
8.00 Edward de Souza reads the fairy story which inspired tonight's opera.
8.10 Kashchel the Deathless
London Choral Society Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Valery Gergiev
A tale-toddling kittle of poems, songs and stories from the lodgings of humorist Ivor Cutler.
Passers-through include sculptor Craig Murray-Orr and apprentice wordsmith Alison O'Kill.
Allegri Quartet
Rian de Waal (piano) Tippett
String Quartet No 1
Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor iRpt)
Humphrey Carpenter discusses a biography of Lord Longford and reviews a new opera by Benedict Mason - about football.
Producer Emma Kingsley
BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Andrew Davis
Debussy Jeux
Webem Five Pieces, Op 10 Sibelius Symphony No 4
