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

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

Interview with Rowena Cutting Audentior Symphony Orchestra

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