Re-Viewing the Family
Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor, including at approximately:
7.05 Ibert Bostoniana - Montreal SO, conductor Charles Dutoit
7.11 Villa-Lobos Prelude No 4 in E minor - Eduardo Fernandez (guitar)
7.45 Bach Chaconne in D minor (Partita, BWV 1004) - Viktoria Mullova (violin)
8.05 Dupre Prelude and Fugue in B,Ã Op7 - Jane Watts (organ)
8.12 Glass Hymn to the Sun (Akhnaten) - Paul Esswoodà (countertenor), Stuttgart State Opera Chorus and Orchestra
8.32 Biber Sonata a 8 No 1 in C - Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Tafelmusik, director Jeanne Lamon
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Presented by Maurice Lindsay.
Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 56 No 3 Les Adieux
String Quartet in F, Op 64 No 1
Petersen Quartet
Symphony in D, Op 42 No
New Berlin Chamber
Orchestra, conductor
Michael Erxleben
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from Birmingham with Chris Wines.
10.10 Bach Italian
Concerto (BWV 971)
Maggie Cole (harpsichord)
10.18 Weber Leyer und Schwert (Book III) Ian Partridge (tenor)
Jennifer Partridge (piano)
10.29 Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Cleveland Orchestra, conductor George Szell
10.45 Maxwell Davies
Missa super L'Homme arme
Vanessa Redgrave (reciter) Fires of London, conducted by the composer
10.54 Faure, arr Kulling Souvenirs de Bayreuth Members of Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, conductor Arthur Kulling
11.28 Prom Artist of the Week:
Emanuel Ax (piano)
Schumann Carnaval
Jill Anderson presents the first of two programmes of French music for piano duo, played this week by Claire and Antoinette Cann.
Poulenc L'Embarquement pour Cythere
Ravel Ma mère I'oye Poulenc
Sonata for piano duet Debussy Petite Suite
Ravel Rapsodie espagnole
Clive Bennett presents one of the most popular operas of all time in a new starstudded recording. Sung in French. Gounod Faust
Welsh National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Carlo Rizzi
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Backbeat
The only radio magazine programme that shows you how to make instruments out of things you may find on a council rubbish tip. Today's programme is completely recyclable, with live music from the Drones played on car parts.
presented from the Edinburgh Festival by Geoffrey Baskerville. Producer Svend Brown
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Hindemith: Symphony: Mathis der Maler
7.30 From Heaven to Hell: Four Weeks in Afghanistan
"In blinding white heat to the Hotel de Kandahar. Three beds in a sweltering room. The Coca-Cola was a fake..."
An excerpt from the late Bruce Chatwin's notebooks, describing one of his three trips to Afghanistan. Read by Jeremy Northam.
7.50 Bruckner: Symphony No 3 in D minor
A four-part history of the Royal Philharmonic Society.
By the turn of the century, the Philharmonic Society (soon to acquire its "Royal" prefix) was sharing in the renaissance of British music.
Figures like Henry Wood, Thomas Beecham and Edward Elgar received helping hands through the medium of the society's concerts and commissions.
But, as Andrew Green discovers, this renaissance brought with it more and more rivals. Was the pioneer becoming merely another participant?
(Final programme tomorrow 9.35pm)
director Reinhard Goebel.
German chamber music before Bach's time.
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from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
The principal conductor elect of the London Sinfonietta directs an intriguing programme exploring the spatial possibilities of London's Royal Albert Hall.
Rolf Hind (piano)
London Sinfonietta, conductor Markus Stenz
Ives The Unanswered Question
Simon Holt Icarus Lamentations
Xenakis Persephassa
Kurtag The Answered Unanswered Question (Ligatura - Message to Frances-Marie); ...quasi una fantasia...
In the last of the series devoted to Schubert songs, Iain Burnside looks back at some of the great Schubert voices of the past, including Elisabeth Schumann, Lotte Lehmann, Julius Patzak, Peter Pears, Fritz Wunderlich and Hans Hotter.
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