Culture and Conflict: Jews and Christians in Renaissance Venice
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7.05 Barber Mutations from Bach
London Gabrieli Brass
Ensemble, conductor
Christopher Larkin
7.25 Cardoso Sitivit anima mea
The Sixteen, conductor
Harry Christophers
7.32 Sibelius Romance for strings, Op 42
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Neeme Jarvi
8.05 Schumann Toccata in C, Op 7
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
8.25 Machaut Rose , liz, printemps, verdure
Gothic Voices, conductor Christopher Page
8.37 Mozart Piano
Concerto No 16 in D
(K451)
Salzburg Camerata Academica , conductor
Andras Schiff (piano) Discs
Kern spent most of the last decade of his life composing for the silver screen. His movie output included "Swing Time," widely regarded as the Show Boat of his screen career. In the last of this week's programmes, Adrian Edwards introduces excerpts from the soundtrack of "Swing Time" and songs from "Cover Girl," "Can't Help Singing," "Centennial Summer" and "You Were Never Lovelier."
(Discs)
with Edward Blakeman.
Artists of the Week:
Academy of St Martin Chamber Ensemble
Mozart Alternative movements for String
Quintet in B flat (Kl 74) and Allegro in F (K246c)
10.15 Roussel Piano
Concerto in G
David Owen Norris (piano) BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Jane Glover
10.40 Elgar 0 wild west wind
Bax What is it like to be young and fair?
Rawsthorne Canzonet
Ravel Trois chansons
BBC Singers, conductors Simon Joly and Ronald Corp
11.00 Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Academy of St Martin Chamber Ensemble
11.40 Strauss Macbeth
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor John Pritchard
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.
Joseph Kalichstein (piano)
Schubert Sonata in A minor
(D845)
Schubert, transcr Liszt Standchen ; Sei mir gegrusst
Schumann, transcr Liszt Widmung
3: Verdicts and Prizes
In the last programme reflecting this year's competition, held in the Goldsmith's Hall in the City of London, Gordon Stewart introduces prize-winning performances of Beethoven quartets and gives the final results.
Producer John Thomley
Roger Nichols presents the first of two programmes exploring s made by the French pianist Vlado Perlemuter , who was 90 last month.
Producer Patrick Lambert
After hearing the Hira Gasi festivals of Tana, the capital of Madagascar, Cris Cheek travelled across country in pick-up trucks and dugout canoes to record the strange and still almost unknown yodelling music called karnaky as well as the exuberant serenades of the south west coast - accompanied by some virtuoso football whistling.
Producer John Thomley
In the final programme, Stuart Maconie completes his search for musical simplicity by looking at the art of arrangement. Whether classical, rock or jazz, does a good arrangement need flurries of quavers and scales or can it create the maximum effect with minimal effort?
Jeremy Nicholas presents arts news, talks to pianist Murray Perahia , and plays music including
5.15 Khachaturian
Galop (Masquerade Suite)
6.03 Balfour Gardiner
Shepherd Fennel's Dance
6.30 Moszkowski Violin
Concerto in C, Op 30
7.03 Elgar
Imperial March, Op 32 Producer Gwen Hughes
conductor Gunther Herbig Tabea Zimmermann (viola) Bartok, compl Serly Viola Concerto
Bruckner Symphony No 5 in B flat
(Given last month in the Royal Festival Hall, London)
Humorist Ivor Cutler serves the last few remaining songs, stories and poems to his lingering visitors, Dylan Edwards and Alison O'Kill. Inspiration comes in the shape of W C Fields and two paracetamol.
Peter Hill , a renowned interpreter of Messiaen's piano music, plays his epic cycle Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jesus.
Tonight's programme presents the first ten pieces.
Geoff Watts compares the the 19th-century Romantic movement's response to tuberculosis to that of artists in our own time to Aids. Producer Julia Durbin
Nocturnes, Nachtstucke and night music in the different accents of John
Cage. Hans Werner Henze and George Crumb played by Madeleine Mitchell (violin) and Andrew Ball (piano). And Arvo Part's Berliner Messe in the recent CD recording.
Presented by Sarah Walker. Producer Alan Hall
