Literature: The Plays of Soyinka
Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Hindemith Rag Time Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Gerd Albrecht
7.09 Handel Water Music:
Suite in D (HWV349)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
7.32 Keyboard Compendium: Bach Partita No 2 in C minor (BWV 826)
Trevor Pinnock (h'chord)
8.05 Schumann Overture:
Manfred
Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli
8.24 Blow Sing ye muses Red Byrd
Parley of Instruments
8.30 Schumann Piano
Concerto in A minor
Stephen Kovacevich (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis. Discs
with Stephen Johnson. Balakirev In Bohemia
Glinka Spanish Overture Nol
Balakirev Scherzo No 1 in B minor
Glinka Divertimento brillante on themes from
Bellini's opera "La sonnambula"
Balakirev Islamey
Susan Sharpe looks forward to Bastille Day with some requests for French music, including some of Netania Devrath 's recordings of Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne, and at approximately
10.05 Ravel Overture:
Sheherazade
New York PO/Pierre Boulez
10.25
Saint-Saens Septet , Op 65
Maurice Andre (trumpet) Michel Beroff (piano) Alain Moglia (violin)
Jacques Cazauran (double-bass)
Trio a Cordes Frangais
10.45 Naudot Concerto in G, Op 17 No 5
Frans Bruggen (recorder)
Vienna Concentus Musicus/ Nikolaus Harnoncourt
10.55 Couperin Troisieme Leçon de Ténèbres
Hugues Cuenod (tenor) Franz Holetschek
(harpsichord and organ) Gino Sinimberghi (tenor) Richard Harand (cello)
11.10 Debussy String Quartet in G minor Melos Quartet
11.40 Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos
Sylviane Deferne (piano) Pascal Roge (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
Producer Chris de Souza. Discs
A debut recital by the French pianist Francois-Frederic Guy , recorded in the Concert Hall of New
Broadcasting House. Liszt Funérailles
(Harmonies poetiques et religieuses) Brahms Vier
Klavierstucke, Op 119
Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue No 24 in D minor, Op 87
Wagner, transcr Liszt
Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
Producer Paul Hindmarsh
In the second programme of classic early music recordings, Lionel Salter introduces performances from the 1950s by August Wenzinger, Power Biggs , Noah Greenberg , Safford Cape and Anthony Lewis.
(Revised repeat from Saturday
9.00am)
from Salisbury
Cathedral.
Introit: I will sing with the spirit (Rutter)
Responses (Leighton) Psalms 69 and 70 (Battishill, Bennett)
First Lesson: 1 Chronicles
16, wl-3 and 7-34 Office Hymn: Let all the world (Luckington)
Canticles: Service in E
(Murrill)
Second Lesson:
1 Corinthians 14, wl-19
Anthem: All wisdom cometh from the Lord (Philip Moore ) Hymn: When in our music (Engelberg)
Organ Voluntary: Fanfare (John Cook)
Organist and Master of the Choristers Richard Seal
Assistant Organist David Halls
The Bradford Festival
Jo Whiley eavesdrops on a community music workshop - Opera North's Xploratorio!
Arts news and interviews with Jeremy Nicholas.
5.15 Chabrier Overture:
Gwendoline
5.50 Messiaen L'Alouette calandrelle (Catalogue d'oiseaux)
6.03 Stravinsky Three movements from
Petrushka for two pianos Producer Gwen Hughes
Manon
Massenet 's opera in five acts to a text by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, after the novel by Abbe Prevost , marks a return visit to the Royal Opera by its former Music Director, Colin Davis.
Presented by James Naughtie. Sung in French.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conductor Colin Davis
Acts 1 and 2
8.10 The James Naughtie Interview
James Naughtie talks with Sir Colin Davis.
8.35 Act 3
9.25 Memoirs of Massenet
Presented by Richard Langham Smith.
9.50 Acts 4 and 5
Roy Porter asks whether
Marxo-Freudian theories will die out as the basis of intellectual culture.
Producer Neil Trevithick
Mozart Wind Serenades
The second of four programmes featuring the English Chamber Orchestra Wind Ensemble.
"I heard music for wind instruments today by Herr Mozart. Oh what an effect it made - glorious and grand, excellent and sublime."
Mozart Serenade in B flat
(K361)
