Charlotte Erickson : a Historian of Emigration
with Andrew McGregor ,
7.05 Handel Handbook:
Handel Trio Sonata in B flat
(HWV 380)
7.32 Poulenc Oboe Sonata
7.47 Simply Satie:
Satie Gnossienne No 6
8.05 Reger Schweigen (Choruses, Op 39)
8.24 Medtner Danza
Festiva, Op 38 No 3
8.49 Wagner Entry of the Gods into Valhalla (Das Rheingold) Discs
Patrick O'Connor introduces
Offenbach's last great success.
La fille du tambour-major Spirited convent girl Stella discovers that nothing her mother, the Duchess della Volta, told her about life and love is strictly true. A dashing lieutenant, a drummer boy and a vivandière give the aristocrats more than they bargained for when they are billeted at the castle, while Stella finds love - and her real father.
Choeurs Rene Duclos
Orchestre de la Societe des
Concerts du Conservatoire, conductor Felix Nuvolone
with Edward Blakeman , including
Carl Stamrtz Symphony in G
10.15 Artist of the Week:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone)
Schubert Schwanengesang (excerpts)
10.30 Weber Konzertstuck
11.15 Mozart Die
Zauberflbte (excerpts)
11.30 Schumann
Symphony No 4 in D minor
conductor Lionel Friend
Copland An Outdoor Overture
Philip Flood Kicking Down Sibelius Symphony No 3 Repeated from yesterday
11.30pm
with Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Friday Chamber Music
I from Stoneyhurst
College, Blackburn, during Blackburn Piano Week.
David Golub (piano)
Byrd Third Pavan and Galliard (My Ladye Nevells Booke); Sellinger's Round Mendelssohn Three
Fantasies, Op 16
Enesco Pavane, Op 10 No
Beethoven Sonata in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2 (Moonlight)
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2.00 Schools
The Song Tree: Music Course 1 - Melody
Muddle's Music Machine
2.15 Together Stories 2.30 Dance Workshop 2.50 Poetry Corner
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3.00 Mining the Archive In the last of four programmes from the Aldeburgh Festival, Susan Sharpe presents part of a concert given in June 1978 featuring the first performance of Thel by Gordon Crosse and the Lyric Triptych by Krzysztof Meyer.
Peter Pears (tenor)
Contrapuncti, conductor Michael Lankster
Series producer Anthony Sellors
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4.20 Turns of the Century
An audio lexicon of the great English comedy performers. Peter Nichols introduces Ken Dodd.
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4.30 Lyrae Cambrenses Gwyn L Williams presents the first of three programmes on the traditional music of Wales.
This week, the crwth, the pibgorn and witches' feet. Producer Gwyn L Williams
Developments in modern technology have made it possible to reduce music to a stream of digits and display the result as a series of coloured shapes on a computer screen.
Tommy Pearson asks if this futuristic art is the shape of things to come.
Jeremy Nicholas plays a selection of music including Suppe Overture: Light Cavalry
6.03 Chopin Introduction and Variations in B flat, Op 12
6.30 Tchaikovsky Concert Fantasia in G, Op 56 Producer Peter Thresh
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Richard Fawkes meets the 93-year-old percussionist who talks about working with Benjamin Britten over a 40-year period and who played in almost all of Britten's opera premieres, including the Venice opening of The Turn of the Screw.
(For details see Monday)
Sarah Walker discusses the electric guitar as a serious instrument with guitarist/composer Tim Brady.
Also included in the programme are highlights from his solo concert at the Sonic Arts Network's Plugged! weekend in London last February.
10.50 Music from the Year Zero
Christopher Fox presents the second of three features on the Darmstadt based postwar modernists, ending with Bemd Alois Zimmermann's s Trumpet
Concerto (Nobody knows de trouble I see) of 1955. To end the programme, excerpts from the recent CD of duetting improvisations by cellist Frances-Marie Uitti and Jonathan Harvey on electronics - Imaginings. Producer Philip Tagney
Repeated from Monday 12 noon
