Humour in Classical Music
Rossini Overture: The
Italian Girl in Algiers
National PO/
Riccardo Chailly
7.09 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 12
Jorge Bolet (piano)
7.20 Bax Symphonic Scherzo
RPO/Vernon Handley
7.30am News
7.35 Dukas The
Sorcerer's Apprentice
Berlin PO/James Levine
7.46 Falla Ritual Fire j Dance (El amor brujo)
Montreal SO/Dutoit
7.51 Françaix Danses exotiques
Mainz Wind Ensemble
8.02 Chopin Polonaise in A flat, Op 53 (Heroic)
I Malcolm Frager (piano)
! 8.09 Gounod Ballet music from Faust
Rotterdam PO/
David Zinman. Records j 8.30am News
conductor Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano)
Poulenc Sinfonietta
Mozart Piano Concerto
No 11 in F (K 413) (R)
from 10.55 Gombert Lugebat David Absalon Hilliard Ensemble
9.41 Boyce Solomon : Part Bronwen Mills (soprano) Howard Crook (tenor) Parley of Instruments and Choir/Roy Goodman
10.21 Mozart Quartet in B flat (K 589) Endellion String Quartet
10.45 Mehul Symphony No 2 in D: Les Musiciens ' du Louvre/Minkowski
11.10 Shostakovich ; Violin Concerto No Boris Belkin RPO/Ashkenazy. Records
England v India:
Third day of the First
Cornhill Test at Lord's.
1.05pm News
1.10 A View from the Boundary: with guest the Rt Hon John Major , MP.
1.30 County Scoreboard
1.40-6.30 Commentary Producer Peter Baxter
(soprano and piano) Schubert Im Fruhling; Die Mainacht; Erntelied; Herbst; Winterlied; An mein Hen; Frohlingsglaube Britten The Poet's Echo Roberto Gerhard Cancionero (1957) (R)
Four reflections on the public understanding of science by Professor John Durant.
3: Where Scientific Terms Come From
Martin Myslivecek Peter Eben Toccata Urban Three Spanish Pieces Petr Fiala Sonatina Milan Tesar Four Childhood Moods
Sonata in A minor (K310) and Sonata in A (K 331) played by Christopher Kite on a Viennese fortepiano made by Johann Fritz 1813. (R)
Six programmes. 2: Follies Mark Steyn features performances from Follies in Concert, recorded at the Lincoln Center, with Barbara Cook , Lee Remick , Mandy Patinkin , George Hearn and Elaine Stritch.
Late-17th-century concertos and sonatas by Torelli, Giovan Battista Vitali , Cazzati and the young Corelli, played by London Baroque . (R)
Schumann's Cello Concerto has been recorded over 30 times, yet it is hardly a popular crowd-puller. Leo Black looks at changes in approach to the work over half a century and considers the relationship between soloist and conductor. Producer Arthur Johnson
Piano music by William Baines (1899-1922) played by Eric Parkin. Coloured Leaves;
Silverpoints; Nocturne (Piano Sonata No 2);
Twilight Pieces; The Chimes
Colin Parr (clarinet) CBSO Chorus, Simon Halsey Singers City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Brahms Symphony No 4
8.10 Peter Paul Nash talks with American composer John Adams about his growing reputation as a conductor.
(R)
8.30 Debussy Rhapsody for clarinet and orchestra
John Adams Harmonium
In 1829 Washington Irving travelled to
Granada where, staying at the old Moorish
Palace of Alhambra, he soon fell under the spell of its exotic tales.
1: The Legend of the Arabian Astrologer
Reader Neville Jason. Producer John Theocharis
Mono (R)
Mathias Quartet No 3
10.15 Interval Reading
10.20 Schubert Quartet in A minor (D 804) (R)
played by the pianist Paul Crossley. Records
Prapancham Sitaram (flute);
Anoor Ramkrishna (violin); Vidwan Rajagopal (mrdangam)
