Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Offenbach Overture:
Orpheus in the Underworld Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor
Antonio de Almeida
7.13 Granados Danza espanola No 5
Julian Bream (guitar)
7.38 Vllla-Lobos Harmonica
Concerto
Robert Bonfiglio (harmonica)
New York Chamber
Symphony, conductor Gerard Schwarz
8.05 Grieg, orch Sttt
Norwegian Dance, Op 35 No
ECO, conductor
Raymond Leppard
8.20 Purcell Porfolio:
Purcell A selection of songs
8.32 Quartet Collection:
Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 54 No 1
Lindsay Quartet Discs
Christopher Page introduces the Missa:
Mater Christi , performed by the choir once presided over by Taverner himself, that of Christ Church, Oxford. Discs
with Susan Sharpe , including piano pieces by Howard Skempton , songs by Aaron Copland and at approximately
9.45 Enesco Romanian
Rhapsody in A, Op 11 No 1 Royal Scottish Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
10.00 Schumann Cello
Concerto in A minor
Pablo Casals (cello)
Prades Festival Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
10.30 Stravinsky Septet Columbia Chamber
Ensemble
10.45 Dufay Missa : Ecce Ancilla Domini
Pomerium Musices , director
Alexander Blachly
11.10 Dubois Toccata in G
Peter Gould (organ)
11.20 Tchaikovsky Serenade for strings Academy of St Martin, conductor Neville Marriner Producer Chris de Souza Discs REQUESTS: Midweek Choice,
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BBC Philharmonic conductor Jane Glover
Elgar Overture: Cockaigne Barry Guy After the Rain Britten Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Rptd from yesterday 11.30pm
from Studio 1.
An Obsession with Schumann
Mayumi Seiler (violin)
Caroline Palmer (piano) Bach Sonata No 5 in F minor (BWV 1018) Schumann Sonata in D minor, Op 121
Together: An Assembly for Schools 2.20 Time and Tune: Music Course 2 - Dig It 2.40 Drama Workshop
Presented by Anthony Burton.
Building a Library
Mozart's String Quintets: in D (K593); in E flat (K614), by Richard Wigmore. Revised rpt from Saturday
9.00am
from the Chapel of Trinity College
Cambridge.
Introit: Responsum, accepit Simeon (Palestrina) Responses: Byrd
Psalm 40 (after Byrd)
First Lesson: Exodus 13, w 1-2 and 11-16 Office Hymn: Sing how the age-long promise (Iste confessor)
Canticles: Palestrina (for double choir)
Second Lesson: Hebrews
10, w 1-10
Anthem: Senex puerum portabat (Palestrina)
Hymn: Hail to the Lord who comes (Old 120th)
Organ Voluntary: Fantasia (Byrd)
Director of music
Richard Marlow
Organ scholars Christopher Allsop and Andrew Lamb
In the 5th century BC the Greek philosopher
Pythagoras decided that the cosmos was an ordered mechanism, It soon became accepted wisdom that the smooth operation of the planets created a celestial harmony.
Tommy Pearson explores the Music of the Spheres.
Andrew Green presents this afternoon's edition of arts news and interviews and plays music, including Tchaikovsky Mazurka (Swan Lake)
from the Wigmore Hall, London.
Margaret Price (soprano) Thomas Dewey (piano)
Richard Baker introduces the renowned Welsh soprano in a popular programme of songs by Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Schumann.
(Part 2)
Bach Die Katze lasst das
Mausen nicht (Kaffee Cantata, BWV 211)
Producer Andrew Mussett
A further concert in the Pierre Boulez 70th Birthday Celebration series, given at the Barbican Hall, London. Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Francoise Pollet (soprano) Lucy Shelton (mezzo) London Voices
Debussy Nocturnes Bartok
Piano Concerto No 2
Boulez
Le Visage nuptial Recorded last Sunday
Another novelty from Henry Purcell 's time is investigated by Chris Nicholson , who talks to historian Michael Harris about the birth of the modern newspaper.
Next programme tomorrow
10.20pm
String Quintet in F, Op 88 played by the Raphael Ensemble
Nocturnes: No 5 in B flat; No 13 in D minor; No 15 in Daniel Adni (piano)
Next programme Friday 10.30pm
Repeated from Monday 4.30pm
"The best British humour depends on cruelty and self-destruction":
Tony Palmer chairs a round-table polemical debate. Producer John Goudie
Jill Anderson introduces a recital by the Leopold String Trio. Schubert
Allegro in B flat (D471) Martinu Trio No 2
Beethoven
Trio in G, Op 9 No
Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
Listen and Read 1.20
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