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With James Jolly. This week musicians and music associated with the Aldeburgh Festival, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the festival's current artistic director, is our featured artist, and our Beethoven piano cycle continues with a performance by Friedrich Gulda.

10.00
Grainger
Molly on the Shore
English Chamber Orchestra
Steuart Bedford (conductor)
LONDON 425 159-2

10.04
Artist of the Week

Debussy
Reflects dans l'eau; Poissons d'or (Images)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
WARNER CLASSICS 0927-43088-2

10.13
Haydn
Cello Concerto in C major, Hob.VIIb:1
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello/director)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
EMI CDC 749305-2

10.38
Ravel
Introduction and Allegro
Melos Ensemble
DECCA 421 154-2

10.49
Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle

Beethoven's Sonata in E flat major, Op.27 No.1 is the featured sonata today. Unfairly neglected in favour of its famous "Moonlight" companion, this work marked a radical breakthrough, a new sense of freedom in Beethoven's piano writing. With its coquettish dancing andante, a breathless moto perpetuo, romantic full-bodied adagio, and improvisatory fugal finale the work expresses the emotional turmoil Beethoven was suffering at the time of its composition as his deafness threatened his livelihood as a performing musician.

The pianist Friedrich Gulda was born to take on the challenges of this sonata. Trained in the classical tradition in its home town of Vienna, from the 1950s onwards he cultivated an interest in jazz, and he brings the best of both styles to his performance of this sonata.

Sonata in E flat major, Op.27 No 1 (quasi una fantasia)
Friedrich Gulda (piano)
BRILLIANT 92773

11.05
Britten
Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DECCA 417 509-2

11.33
Butterworth
Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad
Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
DG 445 946-2.

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