Programme Index

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With Martin Handley.
Haydn Piano Sonata in C minor, H XVI 20
6.30 Reger, arr Schoenberg
Eine Romantische Suite, Op 125
7.00 Rachmaninov
Suite No 2 for two pianos, Op 17
7.30 Elgar Triumphal Procession (Caractacus)
8.00 Duparc Lenore
8.30 Strauss Oboe Concerto

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Handley.

Stephanie Hughes presents highlights from recent concerts around Europe. Plus a look at arts news from the Sunday newspapers with Cathy Packe.

Milhaud Scaramouche - Anthony and Joseph Paratore (pianos)

9.10 Schubert Variations (Octet in F, D803) - Fiona McCapra (violin), Isabella van Keulen and James Boyd (violas), Guy Johnston (cello), Dominic Seidis (double bass), Michael Collins (clarinet), Robin O'Neill (bassoon), David Pyatt (horn)

9.25 Vivaldi Arias Sara Mingardo (mezzo) - Europa Galante, conductor Fabio Biondi

9.40 Mozart Violin Concerto No 1 in B flat, K207 - Midori, Anima Eterna

10.15 Stravinsky Concerto for Strings - Finnish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste

10.30 Liszt Gretchen (A Faust Symphony, 2nd mvt) - Christian Zacharias (piano)

10.50 Bartok Two Portraits, Op 5 - Roland Dagaureil (violin), Paris Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez

11.00 Schelle Psalms - La Capella Ducale, Musica Fiata, director Roland Wilson

11.25 J.C. Bach Chamber music - International Summer Academy of Music, director Simon Standage

11.30 Berlioz Les Nuits d'Ete - Lilli Paasikivi (soprano), Finnish CO, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes
Newspaper reviewer:
Cathy Packe
Producer:
Anthony Sellors

Brian Kay 's selection this week includes music by Scott Joplin and by Ronald Binge , the man responsible for
Mantovani's cascading string sound. Ron Corp conducts the New London Orchestra in a recording of Ketelby's In a Persian
Market and there is music by this month's featured composer, Eric Coates.

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Kay
Music By:
Scott Joplin
Unknown:
Ronald Binge
Unknown:
Eric Coates.

Christopher Cook examines what exile has meant to writers and artists down the ages, including Rabbi Neuberger on the Jewish diaspora, Oliver Taplin on Ovid's Poems of an Exile, Nicholas Mann on Petrarch's surprisingly modern views on statehood, Valentine Cunningham on the generation of British romantics for whom self-imposed exile was often an extension of the Grand Tour, and Homi Bhaba on what contemporary writers make of exile in a world linked by the World Wide Web.

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Rabbi Neuberger
Unknown:
Oliver Taplin
Unknown:
Nicholas Mann
Unknown:
Valentine Cunningham

Another chance to hear opera critic Rodney Milnes talking to conductor
Edward Downes about Giuseppe Verdi 's opera Stiffelio, which the composer later revised underthe title Aroldo. Downes reconstructed the score of the earlier version, and today's programme includes excerpts from the 1993 Covent Garden production. (R)

Contributors

Conductor:
Rodney Milnes
Conductor:
Edward Downes
Unknown:
Giuseppe Verdi

Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. Tommy Pearson presents a concert of 20th-century music featuring the first performances of Boulez's latest orchestration of his early piano Notations and Tobias Picker 's newly commissioned cello concerto. The evening opens with pastoral scenes from New England and concludes in triumph with Janacek's orchestral fanfare - a work that requires nofewerthan 25 brass instruments.
Paul Watkins (cello), BBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor David Robertson Ives Three Places in New England
Boulez Notations I-IV and VII (UK first performance of Notation VII)
8.15 Twenty Minutes
Writers Kersten Glandien and David Hendy consider how radio might evolve in the" new media" age with delegates from an international radio conference.
8.35 Picker Cello Concerto (BBC commission; first performance) Janacek Sinfonietta

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Unknown:
Tobias Picker
Cello:
Paul Watkins
Conductor:
David Robertson
Unknown:
Kersten Glandien
Unknown:
David Hendy

By Jeffrey Robinson.

Another chance to hear a play inspired by Czech playwright Karl Capek's 1921 allegory Rossum's Universal Robots. In Jeffrey Robinson's play cyberspace has insinuated itself into every aspect of life, but in whose interest does it act?
(R)

Contributors

Writer:
Jeffrey Robinson
Director:
Dave Batchelor
Helena Glory:
Gayanne Potter
Frankie:
Angus MacInnes
Domain:
Henry Ian Cusick
Dr Gall:
Joanna Tope
Marius:
Derwent Watson
Cesar/Pannise:
Simon Tait
Alquist:
Emma Currie

With Jonathan Swain.

Bach Violin Concerto in E, BWV1042

12.45 Rautavaara A Requiem in Our Time, Op 3

1.00 Franz Beck Ouverture: La Mort d'Orphee

Mozart Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K339

Beck Stabat Mater

2.40 Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 77, No 1

3.05 Strauss Tod und Verklarung

3.30 Respighi Rossiniana

4.00 Glick Oboe Sonata

4.20 Sibelius On a Balcony by the Sea, Op38 No2

4.30 Vivaldi Concerto in A, RV335 (Cuckoo)

4.45 Avison Concerto No 4 in A minor

5.00 D. Scarlatti Sonata in D minor, Kk9

5.10 Bach Concerto in A minor for four keyboards, BWV1065

5.20 Johan Wagenaar Concert Overture: Fruhlingsgewalt

5.30 Mozart Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat

5.50 Barrios Mangore Waltzes, Op 8 Nos 3 and 4

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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