conducted by KARL MUCHINGER Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F
Pergolesi Flute Concerto in G JEAN PIERRE RAMPAL (flute)
(piano)
Mozart Rondo alia turca
Bartok Mikrokosmos : Book 4 Nos 22, 23, 32, 42
Liszt Les Jeux d'eau a la Villa d'Este;
Gondoliera Beethoven Andante favori Mozart Trio in E (K 542) with YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) GASPAR CASSADO (cello) Records
Schiitz Motet: Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich?: MONTEVERDI CHOIR; ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS HIS MAJESTIES SAGBUTTS AND
CORNETTS/JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Beethoven Serenade in D, Op 8 JASCHA HEIFETZ (violin) WILLIAM PRIMROSE (viola)
GREGOR PIATIGORSKY (Cello) Field Piano Concerto No 2 in A flat: RENA KYRIAKOU (piano) BERLIN SO/C. A. BUNTE
Saint-Saens La Muse et Ie poete ULF HOELSCHER (violin) RALPH KIRSHBAUM (Cello)
NEW PHILHARMONIA/PIERRE DERVAUX Kaljo Raid Symphony No 1 SNOINEEME JARVI. Records
with Michael Oliver
... a revolution if it doesn't rain....
Denmark is probably the only country whose composers readily admit to a spirit of national identity in their work. In conversation with a number of Denmark's leading composers, Michael Oliver sifts the evidence for a clue to the elusive Danish character. Producer ANDREW KUROWSKI
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by JAMES CLARK conducted by TADAAKI OTAKA PETER DONOHOE (piano)
Daniel Jones Dance Fantasy
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in c minor
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra (Given last month in St David 's Hall, Cardiff, in association with Lloyds Bank)
RALPH KIRSHBAUM (cello) and ROGER VIGNOLES (piano)
Beethoven Variations on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' Op 66 Shostakovich Sonata in D minor, Op 40
Schumann Fantasiestiicke , Op 73. BBC Manchester (R)
conducted by COLIN DAVIS Hindemith Symphonic metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Haydn Symphony No 99 in E flat Beethoven Symphony No 5 in c minor, Op 67
Over the next few days
Peter Hill is performing the Catalogue d'oiseaux. With this in mind, Michael Hall examines the music to provide a clue to this most private and impenetrable of Messiaen's works, and offers a way in for the listener. Piano examples played by PETER HILL.
Producer ANDREW KUROWSKI
PETER HILL plays one of the masterpieces of 20th-century piano music, in five programmes this week.
Book 1: Le Chocard des Alpes (alpine chough); Le Loriot
(golden oriole); Le Merle bleu (blue rock thrush)
TOKYO STRING QUARTET
Schubert Quartet in c (D 32) Bartok Quartet No 2
5.20* Interval Reading
5.25* Schubert Quartet in D minor (D 810) (Death and the Maiden)
(Given in November 1988 in the Elmwood Hall, Belfast, aspartofthe Belfast Festival at Queen's) BBC Northern Ireland
An Italian expedition in the company of painters Daniel de Angeli , Sandro Chia and Klaus Mehrkens ; gallery owners Enzo Cannaviello , Bruno Lorinzelli , and Richard Del Marco ; critics Christos Joachimides ,
Rosa Maria Letts ,
Weiland Schmied and Caroline Tisdall ; and Norman Rosenthal , organiser of the exhibition
Italian Art in the 20th Century which opens at the Royal Academy, London, on 14 January. Story told by Geoffrey Whitehead.
The guide is Zelah Clarke. Researched and compiled by SANDA MILLER
Producer PIERS PLOWRiGHT with acknowledgements to ANNA ACHILLI JARVIS
BBC SINGERS chorusmaster MALCOLM HICKS BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by RODNEY FRIEND conducted by LOTHAR ZAGROSEK BRIGITTE FASSBAENDER (mezzo-soprano)
ROLAND HERMANN (baritone) Brahms Song of Destiny; Alto Rhapsody;
Song of the Fates Schoenberg
Accompaniment to a Film
Scene; Die gliickliche Hand; Modern Psalm
(Given in October 1988at the Philharmonieaspartofthe 1988Berlin Festival)
A short story by LUIGI PIRANDELLO , translated by NORMAN THOMAS DI GIOVANNI.
Read by Anthony Jackson (R)
(piano)
Bartok Suite: Out of Doors Chopin Two Nocturnes Chopin Four Mazurkas
9.40* Interval Reading
9.45* Schubert Sonata in B flat (D 960) (R)
An Epiphany-tide Service of readings, music and meditation live from the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge. Gaude et laetare (Sweelinck) Prayers
Ecce virgo concipiet (Sweelinck) Reading (RSV): Isaiah 8, v 22 and 9, w 1-2
Hymn (EH 19): A great and nughty wonder
Hodie Christus natus est (Sweelinck)
Reading (rsv): Ecclesiastes 3, w 10-11
Angelus ad pastores ait (Sweelinck)
Reading (RSV): Luke 2, w 15-19 In illo tempore (Sweelinck)
Hymn (EH 44): What star is this? Reading (rsv): Matthew 2, v 1 andv9
Ab oriente venerunt magi (Sweelinck) Prayers
Hymn (EH 45): Hail to the Lord's anointed
Gaudete omnes (Sweelinck) Organ voluntary: Puer nobis nascitur (Sweelinck) Director of Music RICHARD MARLOW
Organ Scholars RICHARD PEARCE and JAMES MORGAN
Quartet in A minor (1889)
SIBELIUS ACADEMY QUARTET. Record
