Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Vivaldi Sonata in D minor (RV63) (La Follia) Musica Antiqua Koln 7.15 Coates London Suite
Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Charles Groves
7.32 Mendelssohn
Intermezzo; Nocturne (A
Midsummer Night's Dream) Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
8.05 John Adams A Short
Ride in a Fast Machine
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle
8.10 Gibbons 0 clap your hands
Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, director
Christopher Robinson
8.36 Beethoven Symphony No 1 in C
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor Bruno Walter
Discs
Presented by Misha Donat. Violin Sonata in D minor,
Op 108
Joseph Szigeti (violin) Egon Petri (piano)
Gesang aus Fmgal, Op 17 No
Anthony Halstead and Christian Rutherford (horns) Delyth Wynne (harp) Monteverdi Choir, conductor John Eliot
Gardiner Horn Trio in E flat, Op 40
Aubrey Brain (horn) Adolf Busch (violin)
Rudolf Serkin (piano) Discs
from Glasgow with Mary Miller , including
Verdi / Lombardi (excerpts) Soloists
Ambrosian Singers
RPO/Lamberto Gardelli
10.30 Schumann Violin
Concerto in D minor
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Muti
11.00 Artist of the Week:
Philip Langridge (tenor)
Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (excerpts)
11.15 Saint-Saens
Symphony No 2 in A minor BBC Scottish SO/ Stewart Robertson
London Baroque perform music by the gifted 17th-century Italian composer Alessandro Stradella.
Repeated from yesterday 11.30pm
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Tasmin Little (violin) Bruch
Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor
Sibelius
Symphony No 6 in D minor Rpt
Playtime 2.15 Time to Move 2.35 Listen!
BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Rupert Bawden BBC Singers
Susan Knight (viola) Bartok
Hungarian Folksongs
Bawden Days of the Hawk (BBC commission - first performance)
Berio Chemins 3
Bawden Two Choruses
(first performance) Bartok Dance Suite
played by David Russell. Asencio
Collectici intim
Barrios Mangore La
Catedral; Una Limosna por el amor de dios; Waltz in G Rpt
Lord Onslow is back in the House to explain everything you need to know modern musical genres. Today, he delves into the world of thrash metal to explain exactly what makes it different from plain old rock music, and finds out why so many young people like "that devilish noise".
Featuring interviews with Lemmy from Motorhead and Abbadon from Venom.
Music and arts events from
Cardiff with Nicola Heywood-Thomas
, including Mendelssohn Overture:
The Marriage of Camacho
6.30 Elgar
Serenade for Strings
7.03 J S Bach
Sanctus (Mass in B minor) Producer Gwawr Owen
from the Royal Festival Hall,
London.
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Conductor Neville Marriner
Sally Beamish
Walking Back (ASMF anniversary commission - first performance) Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor
8.15 Interval
Denis McCaldin looks back over the Academy's first 35 years, in conversation with Sir Neville Marriner (Artistic and Music Director), Monya Winzer Gilbert (General
Manager) and Erik Smith (record producer).
8.35 Schumann
Symphony No 4 in D minor Concert sponsored by Nuclear Electric
The second of ten short talks on defining moments of German Romanticism.
The Magic of the Night
As night fell the romantic imagination truly came alive in its world of shadows, stars and moonlight. From the music of Schumann to the poetry of Novalis, the onset of darkness became synonymous with dream states, reverie and trance. Roger Cardinal puts out the light and peers into the gloom to ask why to be a romantic was to stake everything on the nocturnal impulse.
Next programme tomorrow 9.15pm
In the second programme of the series, Mark Russell takes us to the frozen waters of the north of Sweden where the Sami people live.
A Bird Symphony by Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa is made simply of natural sounds from his homeland and last year won the Prix Italia Special Prize.
Live from the Festival Club, Tony Palmer joins the party at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature with Czech novelist and jazz enthusiast Josef Skvorecky and humourist Miles Kington , with music from the Festival
All Stars.
Producer Abigail Appleton
BBC Philharmonic conductor
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Tasmin Little (violin)
Elgar Elegy ; Violin Concerto in B minor
Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
Radio Numbertime 1.20
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