Join Martin Clarke and Heather Harrison from 10am on wycombesound.org.uk  

playing some outstanding classical music to make it the perfect soundtrack to your Sunday morning

 

Another busy show this week including interviews with David Smith, conductor of Abbots Langley Orchestra plus Rowena Cutting, Chair of Audentior Symphony Orchestra

 

Bizet: L’Arlesienne Suite No 1 2nd movement – incidental music for a play by Alphonse Daudet

Delius: On hearing the first cuckoo in Spring – listen to how the clarinet represents the cuckoo in this musical painting

 

Edward’s Insights: Copeland – American Songs Shaker Song and I Bought Me a Cat – reflections about 2 pieces from this contemporary composer often referred to as the Dean of American Music

 

Faure: Pelleas et Melisande Sicilienne – some more incidental music from a play that Debussy then wrote an opera about

Beethoven: Egmont Overture – with a theme of freedom and national liberation that inspired Beethoven throughout his life

 

Interview with David Smith Abbots Langley Orchestra

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Mozart: Symphony No 32 all movements – composed in 1779 following Mozart’s return from Paris and written in the form of an Italian symphony – 3 short movements

Schubert: Symphony No 4 2nd and 3rd movements – composed when Schubert was aged 19 and when he felt too impatient to continue teaching at his father’s school

Fritz Kreisler: Liebesleid – a melancholic piece which translates as Love’s Sorrow

 

FOR OUR COFFEE BREAK THIS WEEK we have soothing Piano Concerto in C major 2nd movement Adagio by the lesser known Danish pianist Friedrich Kuhlau whose composing life straddled the Classical and Romantic eras

 

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor 2nd movement Andante allegro non troppo – a much-loved tender piece which hears the bassoon bridging the first to the second movement

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Interview with Rowena Cutting Audentior Symphony Orchestra

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Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A 2nd movement Adagio – one of the most well known melodic pieces  

Schubert: Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished) 1st movement Allegro moderato – thought by some that Schubert had intended to write a 2 movement symphony

J Strauss II: Die Fledermaus Overture – where champagne and glamour meets mistaken identity and revenge

Bach: Orchestral Suite No 4 in D major Bourree I and II – a dance of French origin slightly faster than a gavotte