Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Handel Handbook:
Handel Trio Sonata in C minor, Op 2 No la L'Ecole d'Orphee
7.16 Vaughan Williams
Tuba Concerto in F minor
Patrick Harrild (tuba) London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor
Bryden Thomson
7.32 MacCunn The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Scottish National
Orchestra, conductor Alexander Gibson
8.05 Bernstein Overture:
Candide
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Lukas Foss
8.18 Victoria Magnificat primi toni
Choir of Westminster
Cathedral, conductor James O'Donnell
8.36 Janacek Taras Bulba
Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
Discs
Presented by David Huckvale.
Today, film music by Erich Wolfgang Korngoid , the Viennese opera composer who came to Hollywood in 1934 "to do one film" and stayed to write 18 more. With excerpts from his scores for The Sea Hawk, A
Midsummer Night's Dream, Captain Blood and The
Adventures of Robin Hood and from the cello concerto he arranged from his music for Deception. Plus scores by Bernard Herrmann , including the Concerto
Macabre from Hangover Square, On Dangerous Ground, Beneath the Twelve Mile Reef and the Hitchcock classic Psycho. With Joaquin Achucarro
(piano), Francisco Garbarro (cello), the National
Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Gerhardt and Bernard
Herrmann and the Utah
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Varujan Kojian. Discs
with Edward Blakeman , including
10.00 Artist of the Week:
Colin Davis (conductor) Tippett The Midsummer Marriage (excerpts)
Joan Carlyle (soprano)
Alberto Remedios (tenor)
Raimund Herincx (baritone) Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
10.30 Jolivet Chant de Linos
Emily Beynon (flute)
Andrew Zolinsky (piano)
10.45 Faure Preludes: in G minor, Op 103 No 3; in F, Op 103 No 4
Albert Ferber (piano)
10.50 Chopin Barcarolle in F sharp, Op 60; Nocturnes: in A flat, Op 32 No 2; in F minor, Op 55 No 1
Vlado Perlemuter (piano)
11.40 Mozart Symphony No 31 in D (Paris)
Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Colin Davis
Penny Gore presents a piano recital by Graham Scott.
Mozart Piano Sonata in E flat (K282) Schoenberg
Three Pieces, Op 11
Debussy Les terrasses des audiences; Ondine; Général Lavine - eccentric
(Preludes, Bk II)
Liszt Variations on "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen" Repeated from yesterday
11.30pm
with Susan Sharpe.
1.00 The BBC Orchestras
BBC Philharmonic conductor Charles Mackerras
Shostakovich Symphony No 10
2.00 Schools
Playtime 2.15 Time to Move 2.35 Ghostwriter
2.45 Le Club
3.00 Advance Guard
Martin Cotton surveys the early festivals of the International Society for Contemporary Music and the British works performed there.
4: 1928-30. Cheers and catcalls for Walton's
Facade and Stravinsky's Les noces in Siena, while Frank Bridge meets
Webem and Falla. Berthold
Goldschmidt's uncompromising Piano
Sonata stuns the Swiss, and the decade goes out with a crash from
Alexander Mosolov 's Iron
Foundry.
Tommy Pearson looks at the effect of music on unborn children.
Music and arts news with Mairi Nicolson , from Manchester.
5.45 Strauss Zueignung , Op 10 No 1; Morgen, Op 27 No 4
6.03 Chopin Fantaisie -Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66
6.35 Bloch Schelomo
Producer Paul Hindmarsh
from Studio One, Birmingham.
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Alexander Toradze (piano) Haydn Sonata in G minor (H XVI 44)
Ravel Miroirs
8.15 Not a Turn for the Worse
From the mouths of the professionals, a definitive guide to the practised art of page turning.
8.35 Arno Babadjanian Six Pictures
Prokofiev Sonata No 7
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Four programmes on cinema music.
"It's always pain, you need diplomacy," says Maurice Jarre. Philip Dodd finds out what compromises composers have to make when working for music's greatest patron - the cinema. (Rpt)
(Next programme tomorrow 9.55pm)
BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Arturo Tamayo James Dillon Helle Nacht;
Ignis Noster
Richard Coles reports on the first night of Theatre Clwyd's production of Tennessee Williams's play The Rose Tattoo, and David Harrington talks about some strange sounds. Producer Sarah Barnett
Utrecht 94
Andrew Manze introduces an all-Beethoven recital given at last year's Holland Early Music Festival by Dutch fortepianist Ronald Brautigam.
Beethoven Eight Variations on Gretry's "Une fièvre brulante" (WoO72); 15
Variations and Fugue on an original theme, Op 35
(Eroica); Sonata in C, Op 53 (Waldstein)
Repeated tomorrow at 12 noon
1.00 Primary RE: Islam
1.30 Infant History