The Uses of Learning
The first of a series
Chopin 12 Etudes, Op 10 Louis LORTIE (piano) (R)
Series producer GORDON STEWART
led by CHRISTOPHER HIRONS conducted by JIRI STAREK Holst St Paul 's Suite
Reger Lyrical Andante
Dvorak Serenade in E, Op 22 (R)
Elgar Serenade for strings ECO/YEHUDI MENUHIN
Martinu Concerto da camera ULRICH LEHMANN (violin)
ZURICH CO/EDMOND DE STOUTZ
Brahms Sonata in f minor, Op 5 SOLOMON (piano)
Glazunov Symphonic fantasy: The Kremlin, Op 30
BAMBERG SO; ALDO CECCATO
Vaughan Williams Toward the Unknown Region
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY
CHORUS; CBSO/NORMAN DEL MAR Records
Presented by Michael Oliver Schoenberg's Testimony:
Peter Paul Nash considers the unfinished opera Moses undAron.
Czeching the Repertoire: a conversation with the pianist Radoslav Kvapil.
The Survival of the Mandolin: its place in chamber and orchestral music surveyed by James Ellis.
A Would-Be Wandering Minstrel: Peter Palmer marks a double anniversary -Joseph von
Eichendorff and Hugo Wolf. Producer ANDREW LYLE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 2. 00pm)
led by DENNIS SIMONS conducted by GÜNTHER HERBIG JOHN LILL (piano)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 inc(K467)
(Given on 12 January in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester) BBC Manchester
Peter Atkins , lecturer in Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford, reflects on some aspects of language and how we use it.
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 8. 10pm)
Regis Pasquier (violin) Bruno Pasquier (viola) Roland Pidoux (cello)
Mozart Divertimento in E flat (K563)
(A re-broadcast of last Monday's BBC Lunchtime Concert)
Paul Bailey talks to the novelist Jeanette Winterson.
Julian Budden introduces the fifth of six operas by Mozart and his contemporaries. La clemenza di Tito
Opera seria in two acts Music by Mozart (1791)
Libretto by CATERINA MAZZOLA after METASTASIO (sung in Italian)
Mozart's penultimate opera, commissioned for the coronation of the new Emperor, Leopold II was a throwback to the baroque in its form, its use of castrati and in being a celebration of a magnanimous ruler. It is set in Rome in AD 79.
CHORUS OF THE GRAND THEATRE,
GENEVA; SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by RODERICK BRYDON (Swiss Radio recording)
(Salieri's 'Axur, re d'Ormus' tomorrow at 8. 40pm)
MURRAY PERAHIA (piano)
Mozart Fantasia in D minor (K 397); Sonata in D (K 576)
Schumann Fantasy Pieces, Op 12
in E flat, Op 81a (Les Adieux); Sonata in A flat, Op 110 (Austrian Radio recording)
Wolf's Italian Songbook Alan Blyth examines the differing approaches to these 'refined, delicately-honed miniatures....'. (R)
led by NICHOLAS WOOD conducted by ALBERT ROSEN ANNE QUEFFELEC (piano) Rossini Overture: The Silken Ladder
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor
(Given in 1986 in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool) BBC Manchester
Peter Cropper (violin) Ronald Birks (violin) Robin Ireland (viola)
Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello) Anthony Gilbert Quartet No 2 (BBC commission: first performance)
Ravel Quartet in F
Schubert Quartet in D minor
(D 810) (Death and the Maiden) (Given on 7 July in the Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, in association with the National Westminster Bank pk, aspartofthe 1987
Cheltenham Festival) BBC Pebble Mill
recorded in Manchester Cathedral
Introit: Miserere mei (Byrd)
Versicles and responses (Byrd) Psalm 106 (Barnby, Clark)
Readings (rsv): Deuteronomy 30, vv 11-20; Hebrews 2, w 5-18 Office hymn (AMR 84):
0 maker of the world, give ear Canticles: The Second Service (Byrd)
Anthem: Civitas sancti tui (Byrd)
Hymn (AMR 211): Jesu, grant me this, I pray
Organ voluntary: Salve Regina (Bull)
Master of the Choristers
STUART BEER
Organist GORDON STEWART BBC Manchester
To bring to a close the first
Sunday of Lent, Palestrina's setting of a text recalling the Virgin's sorrow at the suffering of her Son.
TAVERNER CONSORT directed by ANDREW PARROTT Record
