大象传媒

With James Jolly. This week musicians and music associated with the Aldeburgh Festival, and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the festival's current artistic director, is our Artist of the Week.

10.00
Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.4 in G major, BWV1049
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DECCA 425 726-2

10.20
Mozart
Symphony No.29 in A major, K.201
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DECCA 444 323-2

10.45
Artist of the Week

Bach
Contrapunctus XIV, Fuga a 3 Soggetti (The Art of Fugue)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
DG 477 7345

10.53
Britten
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34
London Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DECCA 417 509-2

11.10
Anon.
Paul's Steeple
Trio Sonnerie
with Stephnen Stubbs (guitar)
TELDEC 4509 90841-2

11.20
The Friday Virtuoso

This week's Friday Virtuoso is British pianist Clifford Curzon who performs Liszt's Sonata in B minor. The work was described by Wagner, Liszt's son-in-law, as "beyond all conception beautiful; great, lovely, deep and noble", and it is these qualities that Curzon emphasizes in his performance. Liszt's music can often be heard as inflated, superfluous and over-the-top, but in Curzon's hands, while delivering the pyrotechnic displays with great bravura, it is the spiritual and the humane nature of the composer that is revealed.

"Curzon is more meticulous than anyone in his observance of Liszt's tempo and tonal indications... There is wonderful delicacy in his playing and plenty of full-blooded excitement." (Gramophone)

Liszt
Piano Sonata in B minor
Clifford Curzon (piano)
DECCA 452 306-2.

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