Renaissance Music
Presented by Richard Osborne.
Dvorak Legends, Op 59 (excerpts)
7.20 Trad, arr Britten The plough boy; There's none to soothe; Sweet Polly Oliver ; The Miller of Dee; The foggy, foggy dew; 0 waly, waly; Come you not from Newcastle?
7.36 Brahms
Piano Trio in B, Op 8
8.14 Shostakovich
Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings
8.38 Humperdinck
Shakespeare Suite No 2
Beethoven's String Quartet in E flat, Op 127 by John Warrack. Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
on new releases of Renaissance and Baroque choral music, including the latest disc of Monteverdi Madrigals from Concerto Italiano.
De Torres
Mas no puede ser
10.30 Guillaume Tessler In a grove most rich of shade John Dowland 0 sweet woods, the delight of solitarienesse
10.45 Jacques Arcadett La pastorella mia Flllppo Azzalolo
Ti partir cor mio caro
10.52 Bach Cantata No
180 (Schmucke dich, o liebe Seele)
Edward Seckerson has been listening to recent reissues on the Mercury Living Presence label, including music by Brahms, Musorgsky, Strauss and Gershwin.
11.35 Debussy Iberia (Images)
Detroit SO/Paul Paray
Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert Discs
Revised rpt Wednesday 3.00pm
George Pratt 's guests David Golub and Timothy Roberts demonstrate how the style and technique of playing Baroque and Classical keyboard music on period instruments can influence interpretations of the same repertoire on a modern piano.
Producer Kate Bolton
The first in a five-part series about films of the 1940s.
1: A Matter of Life and Death
Nigel Andrews examines how the war was fought and peace envisioned by British film-makers, from the patriotism of Pimpernel
Smith to the quiet sacrifice of The Way to the Stars.
With the voices of Sir John Mills ,
Professor Jeffrey Richards , Diana Morgan , Erwin Hiller , Sidney Cole , Kevin Jackson and Ian Christie.
Producer Mark Burnan
Michael Chance
(countertenor)
Christopher Wilson (lute)
Alastair Ross (harpsichord) The first of six vocal recitals recorded at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, including music by Monteverdi Dowland , , Handel and Purcell. Presented by Linda Ormiston.
Producer Svend Brown
with Roderick Swanston.
7: Gustav Leonhardt chose
Bach's The Art of Fugue for his Vienna debut in 1950. Forty-five years later, this great keyboard player of Baroque music still makes few compromises in presenting music of the past to today's audiences. Including:
Bach Contrapunctus No 6 (The Art of Fugue)
Bach Concerto in C minor
(BWV 1060)
Dowland From silent night (A Pilgrim's Solace)
Purcell Since from my dear Astrea's sight
Lawes Fantasia in F (Consort Sett a 6) Leonhardt Consort Sweellnck
Chorale Variations on "Ich rufzu dir"
Duphly Chaconne in F (Troisieme livre)
Bach Easter Oratorio
(excerpt)
Producer Nick Morgan Discs
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs
Ivan Hewett talks to
Heritage Secretary Stephen Dorrell and his Labour counterpart Chris Smith about financing the arts. Also a survey of recent trends in gospel music, and how colliery bands are coping with the changing times.
Producer Anthony Sellors
Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm
La Traviata
Verdi chose the story of a fallen woman because he thought it was a "subject of the times which others would not have done". At the time, his audacity did not pay off, but audiences today consider it one of his greatest operas. Presented by Peter Allen. Sung in Italian.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, conductor John Fiore Act
7.00 Interval
Father Owen Lee talks about La Traviata. And Technique at Work The fourth of Will
Crutchfield's occasional series on the operatic voice.
7.30 Act 2
8.30 The Opera Quiz
Edward Downes tests the opera knowledge of his guests Alison Ames , John Ardoin and Father Owen Lee.
8.55 Act 3
Texaco supports the Metropolitan Opera Radio Network which is broadcast on R3 through the EBU
Sir Arthur Streeb Greebling (Peter Cook ) has agreed to discuss his scandalous involvement in retrospective patenting.
A TalkBack production
In the second of four programmes of early and contemporary music introduced by John Woolrich , the Rose Consort of Viols and guest soloists Emily van Evera , Joanne Andrews and Catherine King perform three recent song-cycles by Malcolm Bruno , Elizabeth Uddle and Harrison Blrtwlstle
(arranged Bruno). In between, four-part ayres, pavans and galliards by John Dowland.
Next prog 7 March at 9.20pm
Brian Morton talks to vocalist Norma Winstone about her new CD with pianist Jimmy Rowles and about her group, New
Friends. Plus music on disc from saxophonists
Joe Henderson , lain Ballamy and Sadao Watanabe and singer Billy Eckstine. Producer Derek Drescher
