Social Science Foundation
Course: Assignment 103

Presented by Andrew McGregor.

7.05 Ireland A London Overture

7.25 Liszt Transcendental Study No 7 (Eroica)

7.45 Haydn Symphony No 18 in G

8.05 Purcell, arr Barbirolli Suite for Strings

8.18 Schubert Auf dem Strom

8.40 Prokofiev Suite: Lieutenant Kije

(Discs)

Susan Sharpe presents five programmes looking back at the five most important decades of William
Walton's life, with archive contributions from the composer, his wife,
Laurence Olivier and others.
The 1920s. The young
Walton made his reputation with the Viola Concerto and Facade, a brilliant "succes de scandale" for him and Edith Sitwell.
Overture: Portsmouth Point
London Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Bryden Thomson Viola Concerto
William Primrose (viola) Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by the Composer Façade (excerpts)
Edith Sitwell and Peter
Pears (speakers)
English Group Opera Ensemble, conductor
Anthony Collins
Producer Gautam Rangaraian Discs

from Belfast,
Stephanie Hughes presents a week of programmes including classic works for two pianos and some colourful music by Michael Torke.
Nielsen Overture: Helios
10.10 Artist of the Week
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Handel
Tiranna gelosia ... Tomami a vagheggiar (Alcina)
10.15 Mozart
Sonata in D (K381)
10.45 Torke
Ecstatic Orange
11.00 Gliere Concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra
11.15 Lutoslawski Variations on a theme of Paganini
11.25 Nielsen Symphony
No 2 (The Four Temperaments) Producer Terry Black

Don Black , the lyricist of Sunset Boulevard continues his look at all aspects in the creation of a musical.
Composers. An exploration of the art of the composer with Sir Andrew Lloyd
Webber, Richard Stilgoe and Leslie Bricusse.
A Heavy Entertainment production

Presented by Leslie Howard.

Paul Coletti (viola) Leslie Howard (piano)

Berlioz, arr Liszt Harold in Italy (1st UK performance); Pilgrim's March (Harold in Italy)

Liszt Romance oubliee

Radio Q and A. 2.05 Word Games. 2.15 Storybox.
2.25 Let's Move. 2.45 First
Steps in Drama.

conductor
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Timothy Hugh (cello) Ravel La Valse
Blake Watkins
Cello Concerto Rpt

Music from "The Eighteen" by Bach.
Stephen Cleobury (organ)
Trinity/Gloria: Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr (BWV 662): Allein Gott in der Hoh sei
Ehr (BWV 663); Trio super Allein Gott in der Hoh sei
Ehr (BWV 644)
Communion/Mass:
0 Lamm Gottes , unschuldig (BWV 656); Schmucke, dich o liebe seele (BWV 654); Jesus Christus, unser
Heiland (BWV 665)

This week Charles Alexander looks at the development of the American jazz guitar in the 1940s and 50s, and talks to Barney Kessel and Herb Ellis.
A Gleneagle production
Repeated Thursday 10.15pm

Tommy Pearson begins a week of programmes on harmony. He talks to
Christopher Page about some of the earliest harmonies and discovers why they sound so different from the ones we are used to hearing today.
Producer Christina Pritchard

With Andrew Green.
Bedioz
Overture: Le Corsaire

Piano Sonata. Op 10 No 1

Evening Hymn
Producer Andrew Mussett

Richard Strauss 's one-act opera after Hofmannsthal's story of family violence and revenge in ancient Mycenae. in this summer's performance at La Scala, Milan.
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CAMILLA UEBERSCHAER.
SARA RULGONI (mezzos). JULIA CONWELL (sop) Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conductor
Giuseppe Sinopoli

The first of five talks by Israel Zamir about the complex relationship he formed with the Nobel prize-winning novelist,
Isaac Bashevis Singer , his father, from whom he was separated as a boy.
At the age of 5. Singer left Poland for New York. Israel and his mother went to
Russia and then Palestine.
Twenty years later the two men were eventually reunited in New York.
Next programme tomorrow 9.10pm

George Perle Quartet No 8 (Windows of Order) (first UK performance)
Berg Lyric Suite

Robert Sandall and Mark Russell with more unusual sounds, including a studio session from improvisers Tenko and Tatsuya Yoshida. Producer Philip Tagney

The Doleful Dumps
Elizabethan and Jacobean music from court, street and tavern by Gibbons. Dowland, Johnson,
Nicholson and others.
Musicians of the Globe, director Philip Pickett
Catherine King (mezzo) Repeated tomorrow 12 noon

Letterbox 1.20 Singing Together