The beginning of an evening of programmes from the East Church in Kirkwall, Orkney, celebrating the 21st St Magnus Festival.
5.15 In Tune
Presented by Linda Ormiston, with guests Kathryn Stott, the Yggdrasil Quartet, composer Marc Yeats and festival poet Kenneth White. Including Grieg String Quartet in G minor No 1 (3rd mvt) Yggdrasil Quartet
6.30 Bach Concerto for Oboe d'amore, Strings and Basso Continuo in A major, BWV1055 -Ã Simon Standage (violin), David Reichenberg (oboe), English Concert conductor Trevor Pinnock
7.30 Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Geoffrey Baskerville introduces a concert given last Saturday at St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, featuring one of the festival's many commissions, James MacMillan's Tryst. There is also the fascinating juxtaposition of Schubert's Unfinished symphony with new orchestrations of songs written at around the same time.
Conductor Mathias Bamert, David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Mozart Cassation in G, K63 (Final-Musik)
MacMillan Tryst
8.10 Putting Down Roots
St Magnus has attracted many great musicians to Orkney - Isaac Stern, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Jean-Yves Thibaudet included - but balances the glamour with a firm commitment to the community and education work. Festival director Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Glenys Hughes and composer Alisdair Nicolson discuss the value of this aspect of the event.
8.30 Schubert, orch Harper Three Songs
Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished)
9.30 Farewell to Stromness
Six distinguished poets (all St Magnus Festival poets in their time) read their own specially commissioned tributes to writer George Mackay Brown, who died last year. The poets are Seamus Heaney, Iain Crichton Smith, Liz Lochead, Stewart Conn,Ã Edwin Morgan and Kenneth White.
10.00 Voices
As the skies darken over Orkney, a recital of Scottish and English courtly songs of darkness and light, introduced by Linda Ormiston. Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Jacob Heringman (lute)
Johnson Hark, Hark! The Lark
Scottish anon Begone Sweit Night
Anon, attrib Montgomery Lyk as the Dum Solsequium
Campion To His Sweet Lute Apollo; When to Her Lute Corina Sings
Rosseter When Laura Smiles; What Then Is Love but Mourning?
Campion It Fell on a Sommers Daie; Sing a Song of Joy
Pilkington Rest, Sweet Nymphs
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
10.45 Mixing It
An eclectic mix of music with Scottish connections from the Ayre Hotel Bar in Kirkwall, with Mark Russell and Robert Sandall. Including a live set from Talitha MacKenzie and her band, giving traditional songs and "mouth-music" a contemporary twist.
Music Details: see BBC1 Ceefax page 652
