Women's Studies: Writing from the Margin
Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Handel Concerto grosso in F, Op 6 No 2
Handel and Haydn Society, conductor Christopher Hogwood
7.32 Parry I was glad
Choir of Westminster Abbey London Brass lain Simcock (organ), director Martin Neary
7.40 Keyboard Compendium: Bach Goldberg
Variations: Nos 9-12
Glenn Gould (piano)
8.05 Puccini Un bel di vedremo (Madama Butterfly)
Renata Tebaldi (soprano) Suisse Romande
Orchestra, conductor
Alberto Erede
8.27 Cowell Aeolian Harp Alan Feinberg (piano)
8.37 Beethoven Violin
Sonata in A, Op 30 No 1 Jascha Heifetz (violin) Emanuel Bay (piano) Discs
The 1930s was a period of declining musical creativity for both composers, ending in virtual silence for some years. While Varese formed a choir to perform early music, Ruggles patiently revised and re-revised his earlier scores.
Ruggles Four Evocations John Kirkpatrick (piano) Varese Ecuatorial
Choir of Radio France
Ensemble
Intercontemporain, conductor Pierre Boulez
Ruggles Portals
Buffalo PO, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
Varese Density 21.5
Lawrence Beauregard (flute) Ruggles Four Evocations (orchestral version) Buffalo PO, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
with Chris Wines in Birmingham, including at approximately
10.00 Beethoven
Overture: Leonore No 3
10.15 Artist of the Week: Heather Harper (soprano) Monteverdi Lamento d'Arianna
10.34 Dowland Come
Heavy Sleep
10.38 Britten Nocturne , Op 70
11.22 Handel With
Darkness Deep; Oh That on Wings I Could Rise (Theodora)
11.35 Dvorak Violin
Sonata in F, Op 57
Clive Bennett presents a summer season of new opera CDs starting with Verdi's Il trovatore starring Placido Domingo as Manrico, a rebel troubadour and the long-lost son of the old Count Luna.
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra/James Levine
(cello and piano)
Myaskovsky Sonata No 2 in A minor, Op 81 Stravinsky Russian Maiden's Song
Strauss Sonata in F, Op 6
Symphony No 5 in C minor North German Radio SO, conductor Gunter Wand
Get into the Groove: 4
The T-shirts have been printed, the CDs are being pressed, the artwork is drying. The publicity machine is turning its raw meat into Cumberland sausages - and plugging like crazy. Will the music press give our heroes
Miranda Sex Garden and the Brodsky Quartet a rough or an easy ride with their new CDs?
Music, news and arts stories from Birmingham presented by David Owen Norris. Including at approximately
6.03 Tippett Praeludium for brass, bells and percussion
6.30 Tchaikovsky
Symphonic Fantasy: The Tempest
And at 7.05 an interview with the new principal conductor of the Bournemouth SO, announced today. Producer Jeremy Hayes
from the Royal Albert Hall , London
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello) Solveig Kringelborn (sop) BBC Philharmonic/ Yan Pascal Tortelier
Bridge The Sea Bloch Schelomo
David Horovitch with the first of two readings from Robert Calasso 's reinterpretation of Greek mythology. Why did
Theseus continue the divine habit of carrying off young maidens?
Symphony No 4 in G
2: The Shape of Things to Come
Miles of gleaming white corridors, giant space guns and a vision of London laid waste: Things to Come
(1936) was a landmark in SF cinema.
On 8 September 1968,
Ryszard Siwiec set himself alight in the Warsaw stadium in protest against his country's involvement in the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Two days earlier, he made a tape recording explaining his action. In this English version of Maciej Drygas's Italia Prize-winning documentary, the story is told through the tape,
Polish archives and the family he left behind.
From the Cradle to the Grave
Richard Wigmore presents a selection of Schubert songs covering the ages of man.
Wiegenlied ; Der Knabe; Phidile; Skolie; Der
Weiberfreund; Der Tod und das Mddchen; An Schwager Kronos; Der Jungling an den Tod; II modo di prender moglie; Didone abbandonata; Der Einsame;
Greisengesang;
Nachtstuck; Auflosung Nancy Argenta (soprano) Oliver Widmer (baritone) Roger Vignoles (piano)
