Saturday 11 March 10am … in Centres Of Music, programmer Jennifer Foong looks at the alumni of the Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. The program ranges chronologically from Pachelbel and Mozart through to Manuel de Falla and Erwin Schulhoff, a Czech composer who died of tuberculosis in the Wülzburg concentration camp in 1942. He is represented by his String Sextet, a work embued with “youthful esprit and … courageous expressivity”.
Saturday 11 March 8pm … in The Life Of A Composer, programmer James Nightingale focuses on Niccolò Jommelli, an Italian composer of the 18th century notable for his operas which melded “German complexity, French decorative elements and Italian brio”. His Requiem was the most popular setting until Mozart’s usurped it.
Wednesday 15 March 2pm … in the third part of Andre Previn, programmer Gerald Holder continues his survey of that talented musician. Previn appears as pianist in compositions by Mozart and Scott Joplin, and conductor of a variety of works including his own Piano concerto, played here by Vladimir Ashkenazy.