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| Bruckner Remembered | ...`A Child of Nature?'. STEPHEN JOHNSON investigates the man behind the music, with recollections by Bruckner's friends and students.... |
| Cd Review Summary | ...STEPHEN JOHNSON reviews new recordings of orchestral music, including Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra from Christoph Eschenbach and Seiji Ozawa, and Mahler's Sixth Symphony from Ivan Fischer.... |
| Cd Review Round-up 2007 | ...Harriet Smith, STEPHEN JOHNSON and Simon Heighes choose their favourite recordings of 2007, and Andrew challenges them to see what they can buy for Â50. Will they go for quality or quantity? Buying in a shop or online, or maybe opt for some digital downloads?... |
| Cd Review | ...Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to all that's new in the world of recorded music. Guests Rob Cowan, Hilary Finch and STEPHEN JOHNSON choose some of their favourite new recordings of the past year and Radio 3 listeners set them some Christmas challenges.... |
| Composer Of The Week | ...STEPHEN JOHNSON joins Donald Macleod to explore the landscapes of Herefordshire and Worcestershire that inspired much of the music of Edward Elgar.... |
| Composers In The Countryside | ...Simon Halsey returns to the place of its premiere, Gloucester Cathedral, and talks to music critic STEPHEN JOHNSON.... |
| Conductor Files, The | ...STEPHEN JOHNSON delves into the BBC's written and sound arcHIVes to examine the musical achievements of three of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's chief conductors.... |
| Critic's Choice | ...Richard Osborne is joined by Michael Oliver, STEPHEN JOHNSON, Edward Seckerson and Roderick Swanston to discuss their favourite discs of the year.... |
| Discovering Music | ...Dvorak originally conceived his three overtures, In Nature's Realm, Carnival and Othello as a philosophical three movement romantic tone poem depicting Nature, Life and Love. STEPHEN JOHNSON explores some of the links between the three pieces and the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Matthew Rowe offer a rare opportunity to hear them performed as a sequence.... |
| Edward Elgar (1857-1934) | ...STEPHEN JOHNSON joins Donald Macleod to explore the landscapes of Herefordshire and Worcestershire that inspired much of the music of anniversary composer Edward Elgar.... |
| Edward Elgar | ...STEPHEN JOHNSON and Donald Macleod explore the landscapes of Herefordshire and Worcestershire that inspired much of Elgar's music.... |
| Ferocious Anti-pessimist, The | ...STEPHEN JOHNSON presents a tribute to Robert Simpson, the composer, writer and polemicist who died in November. With contributions from musicians who knew and worked with him, including Vernon Handley, Christopher Marwood, Bayan Northcott and Stephen Plaistow. Music includes the `Severo' movement from Simpson's String Quartet No 15, played by the Vanbrugh Quartet, and a complete performance of his Symphony No 2 by the Bournemouth SO/Vernon Handley.... |
| Fifth Thoughts | ...STEPHEN JOHNSON talks to Gerard McBurney and Sian Edwards about Tchaikovsky's much misunderstood Fifth Symphony.... |
| Franz Schubert (1797-1828) | ...Donald Macleod is joined by writer and broadcaster STEPHEN JOHNSON to explore the highly productive 'Indian summer' of Schubert's final years.... |
| Journey Of Winterreise, The | ...STEPHEN JOHNSON traces the story of Schubert's great song-cycle and explores Dietrich Fischer Dieskau's many recordings of the work.... |
| Kaleidoscope Feature | Cast and Crew |
| Longest Tour, The | ...STEPHEN JOHNSON tells the story recounting the evacuation of the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.... |
| Made In Britain | ...STEPHEN JOHNSON also offers his thoughts on Herbert Howells's youthful Piano Quartet in A minor, a work that he considers to be an unacknowledged masterpiece.... |
| Music Machine | ...For centuries, composers have borrowed other people's tunes to form the theme for a set of variations. Possibly the best-known and most used theme is from Pagaini's Caprice No 24 in A minor for solo violin. With the help of musicologist and critic STEPHEN JOHNSON, Verity Sharp sets out to discover why so many composers - including Brahms, Rachmaninov and Andrew Lloyd Webber - have been moved to write variations on this theme.... |
| Music Matters | ...Author Patrick Carnegy takes a look at the history of staging Wagner; while writer and broadcaster STEPHEN JOHNSON talks about his often rocky relationship with the composer. Soprano Dame Anne Evans and bass Sir John Tomlinson talk about both the physical and mental strain of performing in such a vast work.... |
| One Hundred Years Of The Yellow Label | ...Six programmes in which STEPHEN JOHNSON explores the history of the Deutsche Grammophon record label.... |
| Opera In Action | ...The first of six programmes in which STEPHEN JOHNSON rediscovers some great opera performers. 1: Alfredo Kraus. The Spanish tenor Alfredo Kraus, who died recently, astonished audiences by singing Bellini, Verdi and Donizetti with unrivalled youthful lyricism even in his seventies.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...STEPHEN JOHNSON presents concerts from the BBC Archives voted for by Radio 3 listeners, featuring some of the great moments of musical broadcasting.... |
| Proms Feature - Brave Words, Brave Music | ...STEPHEN JOHNSON asks if Shostakovich's music can only be understood against the political and historical background of the composer's time, or if the music speaks for itself. With contributions from Solomon Volkov, editor of Shostakovich's memoirs `Testimony'; composer Gerard McBurney; cellist and author Elizabeth Wilson; and musicologists David Fanning, Allan Ho and Dmitri Feofanov. With readings by Christopher Scott.... |
| Reissues | ...STEPHEN JOHNSON on recent Brahms reissues on EMI References, including songs from bass Alexander Kipnis, string quartets from the Lener Quartet, and music for piano from Wilhelm Backhaus.... |
| Robert Simpson (1921 - 1997) | ...In conversation with the writer and broadcaster (and close personal friend of Simpson) STEPHEN JOHNSON, Donald Macleod discusses Simpson's character, and the rich body of work he bequeathed us.... |
| Robert Winston's Musical Analysis | ...He hears a convincing case from fellow sufferers Kay Redfield Jamison and STEPHEN JOHNSON that Schumann suffered from bipolar disorder, and not syphillis, as has been claimed previously. He also meets pianist Lucy Parham, who introduces him to the music of Schumann's imaginary friends.... |
| Russian Piano School, The | ...The so-called Russian Piano School is often thought to centre on Rachmaninov, but Scriabin and Medtner were also key to its development. The three composer-pianists ultimately found very different languages for the piano. STEPHEN JOHNSON and Gerard McBurney discuss where this new virtuosity stemmed from and why it came to an end.... |
| Shostakovich, A Journey Into Light | ...Presenter STEPHEN JOHNSON was diagnosed with serious clinical depression and this is his story. That depression almost proved fatal, and it's the music of Shostakovich which he says has helped him survive. Yet Shostakovich is the composer of some of the darkest, most despairing music ever written. How can that music have something to say to Stephen and other people like him?... |
| Sibelian Landscapes | ...It is often remarked how the music of Sibelius seems to capture and evoke the very essence of his native Finland. Half a century after the composer's death, STEPHEN JOHNSON travels to Finland to explore some of the distinctive landscapes and cultural forces that shaped the Sibelius' creative imagination.... |
| Taking Note | ...The Symphony was made famous by its Adagietto being featured in the film Death in Venice. But conductor Sakari Oramo, composer Anthony Payne and musical expert STEPHEN JOHNSON draw out the thrill and beauty of each movement of this mighty 5th Symphony.... |
| To The Greater Glory Of God | ...Was Bruckner a visionary simpleton or a subtle musical architect? STEPHEN JOHNSON investigates the recollections of Bruckner's friends and colleagues for an insight into the mind that created these extraordinary musical structures.... |
| Twenty Minutes - A Sound Read | ...Ivan Hewett is joined by actress Fiona Shaw and the critic and broadcaster STEPHEN JOHNSON to review recently published books on music. This month's edition features `Igor Stravinsky: a Creative Spring' by Stephen Walsh - the first volume of a new study which promises to get closer to the real man than any previous biography; Michael Chanan's `From Handel to Hendrix', which explores the role of the composer in society; and `Concerto Conversations' by Joseph Kerman, which offers a fresh perspective on this musical genre.... |
| Twenty Minutes | ...During the interval Stephanie Hughes talks to the conductor Leonard Slatkin as he embarks on his final Proms season with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and is joined by STEPHEN JOHNSON to discuss one of this year's major themes - ENGLISH music at the crossroads in 1934.... |
| Unrepentant Bourgeois | ...Mravinsky Night A portrait of Mravinsky the man and artist. STEPHEN JOHNSON travels to Mravinsky's home town of St Petersburg to talk to the people who knew him, including the conductors widow, Alexandra Mikhailovna Valina Mravinsky and members of Mravinsky's Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra. Followed by: Mussorgsky: Dawn on the Moscow River - Prelude to Act 1 'Khovanshchina' Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yevgeny Mravinsky (Recorded in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire February 21st 1965). / "Mravinsky Night A portrait of Mravinsky the man and artist. STEPHEN JOHNSON travels to Mravinsky's home town of St Petersburg to talk to the people who knew him, including the conductors widow, Alexandra Mikhailovna Valina Mravinsky and members of Mravinsky's Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra. Followed by: Mussorgsky: Dawn on the Moscow River - Prelude to Act 1 'Khovanshchina' Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yevgeny Mravinsky (Recorded in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire February 21st 1965). ".... |
| Vaughan Williams - Valiant For Truth | ...Marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams, STEPHEN JOHNSON presents an elegiac portrait of the man and composer. Travelling across England - the country Vaughan Williams so loved - to see the places he lived and worked, and meet the people who knew him, Johnson tries to get a little closer to an underrated mind.... |
| Vaughan Williams In Paradise | ...STEPHEN JOHNSON examines Vaughan Williams's spiritual quest as reflected in his music.... |
| Walton Day - Walton And The Archive | ...STEPHEN JOHNSON explores Walton recordings in the BBC archives, including the composer conducting his Cello Concerto and his Coronation Te Deum.... |
| While They Decide | ...The jury has retired to consider its verdict and the audience waits. Backstage at the Barbican, under the chairmanship of Chris de Souza, a panel including actor Simon Callow, conductor Jane Glover and critic STEPHEN JOHNSON try to predict the outcome and offer their own conclusions on the Masterprize competition.... |
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