The Cold War: The Soviet View

Sonata a 5: English
Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Recorder Sonata inBflat(HWV377)
Michel Piguet (recorder) Luciano Contini
(theorbo)
Concerto grosso in B minor, Op 6 No 12 Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus
Harnoncourt. Records

Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op 21 (Berlin, 1827): Bamberg SO/ Claus Peter Flor Carl Zelter Um
Mitternacht (Berlin,
1818): Dietrich Fischer -Dieskau (baritone) Aribert Reimann
(fortepiano)
C P E Bach Concerto in A for harpsichord and strings (Wq 29) (Berlin, 1753): Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/ Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
Busoni Fantasia after Bach (Berlin, 1909) Geoffrey Douglas
Madge (piano). Records

Today East Berlin's voters take part in the first free local elections since the recent revolution in the GDR. The newly elected
East Berlin City Council is expected to link up fairly soon with the West Berlin Senate in order to re-establish an administration for the whole of Berlin.
With the help of local commentators, James Naughtie introduces a study of the weekend's political scene - including a review of the German press.
9.05am
Sacred Concert
Hassler Motet : Jubilate Deo: Windsbach Boys' Choir/Karl-Friedrich
Beringer
Liszt Variations on Bach's 'Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Sagen'
Ulrich Bremsteller (organ of Liibeck Cathedral)
Bach Cantata No 12:
Weinen, Ktagen, Sorgen, Sagen: Helen Watts (alto) Adalbert Kraus (tenor) Wolfgang Schone (bass) Gachinger Kantorei Bach Collegium Stuttgart/Rilling (SFB recording)
10.00am
Koechlin Sonata for oboe, flute, harp and string quartet, Op 221
Wind Septet, Op 165 played by members of the Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra.
(SFB recording)
10.30am
Music Weekly East + West = ?
With the advent of Germany's unification, the city's two musical communities face a bewildering number of problems in their search for artistic, economic and administrative unity. Michael Oliver samples the views and thoughts of composers, administrators, performers and academics from both sides of the wall.
11.15am
Berlin PO conductor
Claudio Abbado
Maurizio Pollini (piano) Ernst Senff Choir
Brahms Song of Destiny Schumann Piano
Concerto in A minor
Brahms Symphony No 3 (The opening concert of the Berlin Festival, recorded by RMS last September)
12.45pm
The Art Merger
Professor Peter Betthausen , Director of East Berlin's National
Gallery, and Dr Angela Schneider , Curator of 20th-century Art at the New National Gallery in West Berlin, discuss the joint future of their institutions.
1.00pm
Voices above the Din Satirical and political song seems to thrive in times of conflict. Berlin, which has seen more conflict than most cities, has produced a crop of songwriters and singers who face difficulties in a variety of ways.
Philip Brady illustrates some of that variety.
1.30pm
Tuning In:
Listening to Berlin
John Tusa discusses the future of the city's radio broadcasting with Dr Wolfgang Seifert of SFB,
Siegfried Buschschluter of RIAS and Thomas Silberstein ofDDR Rundfunk, and introduces Stimme - Voices: a compilation, drawn from radio documentaries of both
East and West, that gives a taste of how Berlin's broadcasters have responded to recent events.
2.30pm
Music behind the Wall
Michael Oliver introduces a selection of new and recent music by East Berlin composers and discusses with some of them what reunification means for their livelihood.
With works by Paul Heinz Dittrich
Gunter Kochan
Georg Katzer
Siegfried Matthus and Udo Zimmermann.
4.00pm
Berlin RSO
Past.... conductor
Ferenc Fricsay
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
4.50 The baritone
Dietrich Fischer -
Dieskau was bom in Berlin and still lives there. He talks with John Drummond about the city and introduces the Shostakovich work which he sings after the interval.
5.00 ... and Present conductor
Vladimir Ashkenazy Shostakovich Suite after Poems by Michelangelo (with Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau)
Strauss Symphonic poem: Also sprach Zarathustra (SFB recording)
6.20pm
Berlin 2000
Forward to its glorious past? As Europe coalesces around Berlin, Joachim Nawrocki of Die Zeit explores the future of Germany's one-time political and intellectual capital.
6.50pm
Round-Up Discussion John Tusa and guests discuss the future of Berlin and assess the trends apparent from the day's local elections in East Germany. Editors Brian Barfield ,
Clive Bennett , Tim Suter Producers Julian Hale ,
Elizabeth Burke , Andrew
Kurowski Harry Schneider

Live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a homage from the London Sinfonietta to their long-standing artistic director who died last year.

Maxwell Davies: Threnody on a plainsong for Michael Vyner - conductor David Atherton

Ravel Suite: Mother Goose - conductor Bernard Haitink

Gorecki Dobra noc Takemitsu Litany - Paul Crossley (piano)

Henze: New work - conductor Oliver Knussen

Weill: Kleine Dreigroschenmusik - conductor Simon Rattle

9.00 Anthony Burton talks to composers and colleagues of Vyner, including Elliott Carter, Witold Lutoslawski, Sir Michael Tippett, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Simon Holt, Paul Crossley and Nona Liddell.

9.20 Lutoslawski: Chain 1 - conducted by the composer

Osborne: Eulogy - conductor Oliver Knussen

Berio: Leaf

Birtwistle: Ritual Fragment

Knussen: Secret Song - Nona Liddell (violin)

Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms - London Sinfonietta Chorus/Esa-Pekka Salonen

A sequence recorded in Tewkesbury Abbey. Readings from the Revelations of Divine Love by Dame Julian of Norwich, read by Daphne Rogers.
Organ: La Source de vie (Messiaen); Motets by Victoria: Jesu, dulcis inemoria; Popule meus; Surrexit pastor bonus; 0 quam gloriosum;
Veni Sancte Spiritus; Litaniae de Beata Virgine
Organ: Desseins iternels (Messiaen): Exon
Singers/Christopher Tolley; Organist
Andrew Lumsden BBC Pebble Mill

Ruth Geiger (piano) Haydn Sonata in B minor (H XVI 32)
Beethoven Sonata in E, Op 109 (R)
(see also Tuesday at 8.40pm)