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7.05 Piazzolla
Campero
Jorge Oraison (guitar)
7.10 Handel
Organ Concerto in F, Op4No4
Simon Preston (organ)
English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
7.32 Ravel
Jeux d'eau
Alfred Cortot (piano)
8.05 Keyboard Compendium: Bach
Aria; Variations Nos 1 and 2 (Goldberg Variations)
Glenn Gould (piano)
8.09 Stravinsky Ebony Concerto Dimitri Ashkenazy (clarinet)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Vladimir Ashkenazy
8.47 Musorgsky, arr Rlmsky-Korsakov
A Night on the Bare Mountain Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor
Eugene Ormandy Discs
4: Carnival and the Theatre
Martin Jarvis reads from the journal of Edward Wright 's visit to Venice in the 1720s.
Concertos, Op 9 (La Cetra):NolinC; No 6 in A; No 8 in D minor; No 10 in G; No 12 in B minor
Simon Standage (violin) Academy of Ancient Music, director
Christopher Hogwood. D,scs
Presented by Edward Blakeman.
Artist of the Week Frederick Fennell
(conductor) Grainger
A Lincolnshire Posy
Eastman Wind Ensemble
10.30 Falla, arr Maréchal Suite populaire espagnol
Janos Starker (cello) Alain Planes (piano)
11.00 Lalo
Symphony in G minor BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Norman del Mar
Mozart Wind Serenades
The first of four programmes featuring the English
Chamber Orchestra Wind
Ensemble.
"At 11 o'clock last night, I was serenaded by two clarinets, two horns and two bassoons playing my own music. The musicians had the front gate opened for them and, just as I was about to undress for bed, they gave me the most delightful surprise in the world."
Mozart
Divertimento in E flat
(K252)
Salieri Armonia per un tempio delta notte
Mozart Serenade in E flat
(K375)
conductor
Lorin Maazel
Gil Shaham (violin) Bruch
Violin Concerto
No 1 in G minor
Mahler
Symphony No 1 in D
A concert performed last month by Steven Isserlis (cello)
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano) Beethoven
Variations on "Bei Mannern , welche Liebe fiihlen" (WoO46); Cello Sonata in C, Op 102 No 1;
Variations on "Ein Madchen oder
Weibchen", Op 66 Schumann
Three Romances, Op 94 Mendelssohn
Cello Sonata No 2 in D, Op 58
A Classic Arts production
BBC Concert Orchestra conductor
Robin Stapleton Delius
The Walk to the Paradise
Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet) Butterworth
Rhapsody: A Shropshire Lad
Vaughan Williams
Suite: Coastal Command
Where is the "authentic movement" now? Tommy Pearson investigates current practices in period performance. He talks to expert Colin Touchin and to John Boyden of the New Queen's Hall Orchestra, who is trying to re-create the turn-of-the-century British sound.
Producer Christina Pritchard
Join Nicola Heywood Thomas at the 48th
Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, and explore the special atmosphere of this event which draws participants from nearly 50 countries. Producer Gwawr Owen
Symphony No 8 in C minor
North German Radio
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gunter Wand
Parody, travesty, bathos:
Derek Alsop discusses the concept of the burlesque in the arts.
performed by the Raphael Ensemble Boccherini
String Sextet in F minor, Op 23 No 4
Brahms String Quintet in G, Op 111
George Russell has composed much radical and dynamic music. In the first of eight programmes, Ian Carr concentrates on Russell's early days in New York during the late 1940s, when he co-wrote Cubana
Be Cubana Bop with Dizzy Gillespie. Between periods in hospital, Russell also wrote music for Lee Konitz , Miles Davis and Buddy DeFranco.
Producer Derek Drescher
Peggy Reynolds talks to
Pam Gems about her new version of Chekhov's The
Seagull which opens tonight at the National Theatre.
Producer Nicki Paxman
lain Burnside looks at how
America found its own voice through the songs of two pioneering composers, Charles Ives and Charles Griffes.
