American Conversations:
J K Galbraith
Paul Guinery presents a Sunday sequence with a largely English flavour.
7.02 Purcell Three
Fantasias
Lindsay Quartet
7.10 Geoffrey Bush
Gabriel of High Degree BBC Singers, conductor Nicholas Cleobury John Scott (organ)
7.15 Saint-Saens Cello
Concerto No 1 in A minor
Steven Isserlis (cello)
LSO/Michael Tilson Thomas
7.35 Geoffrey Bush Day Star in Winter BBC Singers
7.45 Charles Wood String Quartet in A minor Lindsay Quartet
8.10 Geoffrey Bush A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs BBC Singers
8.30 Reger Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven, Op 86
London Philharmonic, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Producer Piers Burton-Page
Howard Ferguson
Overture for an Occasion
LSO/Richard Hickox
9.11 Monteverdi Zefiro
Torna
Ian Partridge and Nigel Rogers (tenors)
Colin Tilney (virginals) director Jurgen Jurgens
9.17 Artist of the Week: Ernst Kovacic (violin)
Mozart Violin Concerto
No 1 in B flat (K207) Scottish Chamber
Orchestra
9.45 Faure, an Grainger Nell ; Apres un rêve Martin Jones (piano)
9.50 Walton, an Palmer A Wartime Sketchbook
Academy of St Martin, conductor Neville Marriner
10.16 Handel Coronation
Anthem No 2: Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened Choir of New College, Oxford
King's Consort, conductor Robert King
10.24 Weber Concertino in E flat, Op 26
Charles Neidich (clarinet) Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
10.33 Borodin String Quartet No 2 in D Borodin Quartet
11.03 Composer of the Week: Detkis, arr Fenby La Calinda London Philharmonic, conductor Vernon Handley
11.14 Telemann Overture in C (Water Music) Musica Antiqua
Cologne/Reinhard Goebel
11.39 Pany My soul, there is a country;
I know my soul hath power; Never weather-beaten sail (Songs of Farewell)
Choir of Trinity College,
Cambridge/Richard Marlow
11.50 Prokofiev
Scythian Suite
CBSO/Simon Rattle
Producer Edward Blakeman. Discs
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Alexander Gibson
Tim Hugh (cello)
Britten Overture:
Canadian Carnival
Eigar Cello Concerto in E minor
Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor
(Given in Ayr Town Hall, sponsored by Kyle and Carrick District Council)
The first of two recitals by pianist Joanna MacGregor , featuring the first complete performance of John Woolrich 's Piano Books.
Bach French Suite No 5 in G (BWV816) Nancarrow
Prelude and Blues
Ravel Miroirs
Gershwin/Michael Finnissy Nashville Nightingale John Woolrich Piano
Books land 2
Chick Corea Children's
Songs
Bartok Sonata
A Classic Arts production
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(Mass in D, Op 123)
Amanda Halgrimson (sop) Doris Soffel (mezzo) David Rendall (tenor)
Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass) North and South German
Radio Choirs
South German Radio
Symphony Orchestra/ Gianluigi Gelmetti
Humphrey Carpenter reviews the week in the arts and talks to writer
J P Donleavy about literature, painting and his Bohemian lifestyle. Producer Claire McGinn
(mezzo)
Graham Johnson (piano)
Schubert Raste Krieger !; Jager, ruhe von der Jagdl; Ave
Maria Mahler Das irdische
Leben; Wo die schonen Trompeten blasen; Ich ging mit Lust; Des
Antonius von Padua
Fischpredigt Strauss Cacilie ;
Allerseelen; Ich trage meine Minne; Ruhe, meine Seele; Wie sollten wirgeheim sie halten
by Pierre Comeille, translated by Jeffrey Wainwright , with Imogen Stubbs as Ximene Nicholas Farrell as Rodrigo. Rodrigo - son of veteran warrior Don Diego - and Ximene, the Count's daughter, seem set for a life of happiness together. But when the Count insults old
Diego in a fit of jealousy,
Rodrigo challenges him to a duel, with terrible results.
Music by Mia Soteriou Director Peter Kavanagh
. (Peter Cornelius 's opera Der Cid
Tuesday 7.30pm)
Ed Baxter introduces a selection from last weekend's LMC Festival of Experimental Music in London.
Artists include Paul Dolden ,
John Stevens , Roger Smith , John Butcher ,
Marie Goyette , Jon Rose and Otomo Yoshihide.
Producer Philip Tagney
Tonight, Delius's extravagant setting of words from Nietzsche's
Also sprach Zorathustra, which celebrates Existence and the Will to Live.
Brian Wright discusses the origins and meaning of the work with Christopher Palmer.
Delius Mass of Life
Teresa Cahill (soprano)
Alfreda Hodgson (mezzo) Arthur Davies (tenor)
Benjamin Luxon (baritone) BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor
John Pritchard
Producer Gautam Rangarajan
