Week Commencing 7 March 2010 on 5MBS 99.9FM

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CD of the Week

This week’s CD of the Week is a Chandos recording of chamber works by Cyril Meir Scott, the English composer, writer, and poet. As a composer he was a romanticist, but his work also reflects some impressionist qualities.

Scott wrote around four hundred works, including four symphonies, and three operas. Some of his compositions have previously been recorded by Chandos, and our CD of the Week contains the premiere recordings of his Piano Trio No 1; Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano; Piano Trio No 2 and Cornish Boat Song. The recording was made in 2009 and features the Gould Piano Trio, plus Robert Plane (clarinet), Mia Cooper (violin) and David Adams (viola).

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Highlights of the week

Cantate Domino has music for the 3rd Sunday of Lent including Bach’s Cantata BWV54 and his motet Jesu, meine freude. In Cantabile, you can hear Schumann’s Symphony #4 and music of Chopin arranged by Glazunov in Chopiniana. More music by Bach in Baroque and Before with his Mass in B Minor.

Bruckner’s Symphony #7 is the centrepiece for Sounds Classical on Monday morning. John Field’s Piano Concerto #2 and Reinecke’s Symphony #1 are featured in Cantabile. In Chamber Music, you can hear Tchaikovsky’s String Sextet op.70 – Souvenirs de Florence.

One of the all-time great symphonies – Beethoven’s Choral Symphony #9 is featured in Tuesday’s Sounds Classical together with less familiar Symphony #9 by Shostakovich. Music by two Russian composers is included in Cantabile – Balakirev’s Piano Concerto op.1 and Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini. Tuesday Concert in the evening has one of the most lyrical of the cello concertos – Elgar’s Cello Concerto.

The brassy Sinfonietta by Janacek is one of the works you can hear in Sounds Classical on Wednesday morning and in the afternoon program Cantabile, there’s Benedict’s Piano Concerto in E flat together with Handel’s Organ Concerto #13 - The Cuckoo and the Nightingale.

On Thursday, Sounds Classical has music from the Classical era with Pergolesi’s Salve Regina, Mozart’s Piano Concerto #21 and Beethoven’s Symphony #7. Little known Russian composer Rubinstein’s Symphony #3 is one of the works to be heard in Cantabile.

The Gaelic Symphony by rarely heard English composer Amy Beach is one of the works in Friday’s Sounds Classical. The 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth is celebrated in Cantabile with an arrangement of his music for the ballet Les Sylphides. The 1st Piano Concerto of Tchaikovsky is also on the program.

More ballet music features in Saturday Morning Concert with Les Patineurs by Meyerbeer together with Paganini’s Violin Concerto #6. In Saturday Night Classics, the beautiful Shepherd on the Rock by Schubert together with Clementi’s 4th Symphony can be heard.

Kaleidoscope

In our weekly arts magazine, Kaleidoscope, Brian Payne's guests discuss concerts and performances coming up in the next few weeks.

This week, Brian previews the music to be played by the Soloists of the Australian Chamber Orchestra in their current tour. Works include movements from Vaughan Williams, Oboe Concerto; C.P.E. Bach, 'Cello Concerto in A minor; Britten, Lachrymae; J.S.Bach, Concerto for violin and oboe and a new work for double bass and strings by Australian composer Matthew Hindson.

The Soloists of the Australian Chamber Orchestra perform at the Adelaide Town Hall at 8pm on 16 March 2010.

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