Countdown to Algebra
with Richard Osborne.
Bach
Concerto in D (BWV 1054) Gabriel Tacchino (piano) Ensemble Orchestral de
Paris/Jean-Pierre Wallez
7.21 Haydn String Quartet in F, Op 77 No 2
Alban Berg Quartet
7.50 Mozart Symphony No 41 in C (Jupiter)
Vienna PO/Riccardo Muti
8.33 Johann Strauss (son) Der Zigeunerbaron (Act 2, excerpt)
Saffi PAMELA COBURN (soprano)
Zsupan RUDOLF SCHASCHING (tenor)
Czipra JULIA HAMARI (soprano)
Barinkay HERBERT LIPPERET (tenor) Arnold Schoenberg Choir Vienna SO, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Wolf by Edward Greenfield. Bruce Wood on new releases of Purcell, including William Christie 's recording of King Arthur.
(Act 3)
Tessa Bonner and Catherine Bott (sopranos)
Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor) Peter Harvey (baritone) The Purcell Simfony , director Catherine Mackintosh
in G; In guilty night Gabrieli Consort and Players/Paul McCreesh
Soloists
Tragicomedia, conductors Stephen Stubbs and Erin Headley
Robert Philip discusses available recordings of Beethoven symphonies with Richard Osborne and invites your questions. Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert Discs
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Personalities from all walks of life share their musical tastes with composer
Michael Berkeley. Today's guest is writer P D James, world-famous for her brilliant crime novels featuring Commander Adam Dalgleish. As befits the creator of such a cultured character, her musical tastes are eclectic and wide-ranging - from
Gibbons to Gimbel and Fox.
A Classic Arts production
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Six programmes introduced by Leslie Forbes. 3: Ulster Bread
Everyone in Ulster loves their bread, and nobody bakes it better than Norah Brown in her County Tyrone kitchen. What is the secret ingredient?
MUSIC LIVE 95
from Birmingham Town Hall, with Christopher O'Riley (piano) Bach Flute Sonata in G minor (BWV 1020) Prokofiev
Flute Sonata, Op 94
1.55 Birmingham's "Hansom" Hall
Reflections past and present on the Town Hall in Birmingham.
2.05 Poulenc Flute Sonata
Wldor Suite, Op 34
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conductor Jiri Belohlavek
Kathryn Stott (piano)
Beethoven Piano Concerto
No 4 in G; Symphony No 1 in See also Tuesday 2.00pm
MUSIC LIVE 95
from the Edwardian
Tea Rooms of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Part-songs and piano music by two 19th-century composers who were also prolific correspondents: Johannes Brahms and Clara schumann Jane Glover conducts the BBC Singers, with pianist Susan Tomes. With readings by Prunella Scales and Timothy West.
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs
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Presented by Ivan Hewett. This week, the latest volume of a Mahler biography to be published in English translation.
Pianist Marthanne Verbit talks about bad boy of music George Antheil. Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
Repeated tomorrow at 12.15pm
France's top early music tenor in recital with lutenist
Pascal Monteillet , featuring airs de cours and songs by Purcell.
MUSIC LIVE 95
from Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
Conductor Mariss Jansons
Cheryl Studer (soprano) Brahms
Symphony No 3 in F
8.10 Strauss's Last Years
Afraid of being called to account at a de-Nazification tribunal, Richard Strauss , Germany's most famous conductor and composer, went into penniless exile in Switzerland. John
Deathridge follows
Strauss's final years through the recollections of his close friends.
8.30 Strauss
Four Last Songs Bartok Suite: The
Miraculous Mandarin
Concert sponsored by the Wales Tourist Board
Michael Rosen presents a new monthly poetry magazine featuring performance, interviews and reviews.
In this first edition, the lost reputation of Arthur Hugh
Clough, a week in the life of the Scottish poet Jackie Kay and an interview with Irina Ratushinskaya , who also reads two new unpublished poems. Producer Fiona McLean
Mozart String Quartet in B flat (K458) (La chasse) Janacek String Quartet
No 2 (Intimate Letters)
MUSIC LIVE 95
from Ronnie Scott 's, Birmingham.
Geoffrey Smith presents the 12-piece Cuban group, led by pianist Chucho Valdes.
They play traditional Cuban music blended with the harmonies of bop and the rhythms of Africa, using as many as 35 different instruments.
from the Shimla
Pink Restaurant.
Birmingham.
Pianist Stan Tracey , one of this country's leading jazz musicians, plays solo and with fellow pianist
John Critchinson , a stalwart of the Ronnie Scott Quintet.
