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Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Rameau Suite: Platee
Raglan Baroque
Players/Nicholas Kraemer
7.23 Dudley Buck Festival Overture on The Star-
Spangled Banner LSO/Kenneth Klein
7.48 Coleridge-Taylor Ballade in A minor, 0p33
Royal Liverpool PO/ Grant Llewellyn
8.05 Strauss Sextet
(Capriccio)
Academy of St Martin Chamber Ensemble
8.32 Rachmaninov
Vocalise
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano)
8.40 Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1919)
Philadelphia Orchestra/
Riccardo Muti
Discs
Presented by Adrian Edwards.
Excerpts from the musical generally regarded as Kern's masterpiece, including Paul Robeson singing Ah! Still Suits Me!, Constance Towers singing Bill, and Act 1, scene 1 from John McGlinn's 1988 complete recording with Frederica von Stade, Jerry Hadley, Bruce Hubbard and Teresa Stratas.
(Discs)
with Edward Blakeman.
Artists of the Week:
Academy of St Martin Chamber Ensemble
Handel Trio Sonata in F, Op 5 No 6
10.10 Sibelius Tapiola
BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Michael Schonwandt
10.40 Wood Music when soft voices die
Berkeley Spring at this hour
Ireland The Hills
Schmitt Par la tempête BBC Singers/Simon Joly and Ronald Corp
11.00 Nielsen String Quintet in G
Academy of St Martin Chamber Ensemble
11.35 Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Hamlet
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor John Mauceri
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor
Mark Wigglesworth Jean Rigby (mezzo) Wagner Suite: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Mahler Kindertotenlieder
Sibelius Symphony No 5
2: A Testing Time. Gordon Stewart introduces more second-round performances by young quartets from Finland, France, Great Britain, the USA and Sweden, including the New Helsinki Quartet giving the first broadcast of Fantazia, a specially commissioned test piece by Robert Saxton.
Producer John Thomley
Conductor Sergiu Comissiona
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Rachmaninov Caprice bohemien
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 in F minor
Stuart Maconie continues his quest for musical simplicity by looking at the art of accompaniment. He talks to the classical musician Julius Drake and to rock drummers Jim Keltner and Dave Mattacks to find the technique of playing a simple accompaniment and the dazzling effects which it can achieve.
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Music and arts events from
Cardiff with Nicola Heywood Thomas, including
Mouret Sinfonies de fanfare
6.30 Haydn Violin
Concerto in C (H Vila 1)
7.03 Wilson, arr Maxwell Davies Honeymoon Fantasy
Producer Gwawr Owen
conductor
Mark Wigglesworth
Anthony Marwood (violin) Catherine Marwood (viola)
Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E flat (K364) Mahler
Symphony No 10
(performing version by Deryck Cooke )
Further succulent insights into life as it unfolds in one man's sitting-room. Humorist Ivor Cutler dispenses a new concoction of songs, poetry, Beelyploomkins and a Stuggy Pren to his visitors.
Bournemouth Wind Quire Andrew Litton (piano)
Poulenc Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon
Poulenc, arr
Emerson Nouvellette in C for wind quintet
Poulenc Sextet for piano and wind quintet
The pianist Art Tatum has become something of a legend, but around 1950 his career was in decline and his health was steadily deteriorating.
This week, Mel Hill tells how in 1953 Norman Granz engaged Tatum for a huge project to record 13 solo albums and a further eight with small groups including Lionel Hampton ,
Roy Eldridge and Buddy Rich. With recollections by Ray Brown , Dizzy Gillespie ,
Nesui Ertegen and Granz himself.
Harriet Gilbert is at Glyndebourne for the first night of Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin and at the Barbican Centre in London for an exhibition about "the Family".
Spotlight on Suzanne Danco lain Burnside talks to the great Belgian soprano and introduces some of her famous recordings, including music by Ravel, Berlioz, Gounod, Duparc and Faure.
Producer Adam Gatehouse
