Arts: The Second Reform Act
Bax Tintagel
LSO/John Barbirolli
7.17 Sarasate
Zigeunerwiesen, Op 20 Jascha Heifetz (violin) RCA Victor SO/
William Steinberg
7.35 Rossini Overture:
The Thieving Magpie
Chicago SO/Fritz Reiner
7.45 Suk Fantasy in G minor, Op 24 Josef Suk (violin)
Czech PO/Karel Ancerl
8.10 Wagner Overture: TannhSuser
Philharmonia/
Otto Klemperer. Records
Byrd: Music for the Catholic Church
Mass for five voices with the propers for All Saints Day from Gradualia The Sixteen/
Harry Christophers Pavan and Galliard:
Tregian Davitt Moroney (harpsichord)
Ave regina caelorum Chanticleer. Records
Music by women composers, from the 12th-century nun
Hildegard of Bingen to the American folk-song collector Ruth Crawford Seeger. Also three
British composers, born 48 years after one another: Ethel Smyth , Elisabeth Lutyens and Judith Weir. Two remarkable performers - Jacqueline Du Pre and Jane Glover ; and one piece by a token man:
Songs of Womanhood, by Rutland Boughton.
Producer Christopher Marshall
conductor Takuo Yuasa
Peter Rbsel (piano) Liszt Festklange Strauss Burleske
Don Juan
Audubon String Quartet Haydn Quartet in B flat, Op 50 No 1
Bartok Quartet No 2 (R)
conductor
Nicholas Cleobury
Philip Martin (piano)
Nicholas Thorne Eight Movements, Op 22 (first UK broadcast)
Barber Piano Concerto
Piston Symphony No 1 (first UK broadcast)
Andre Campra Salve regina; Domine Dominus noster; Benedic anima mea
Jill Feldman (soprano) Philomel (R)
Peter Frankl (piano)
Chopin Four Mazurkas, Op 24
Schumann Fantasy Pieces, Op 12
Chopin Four Mazurkas, Op 30 (R)
Royal College of Music SO Stravinsky Le Roi des étoiles conductor Colin Welford Scelsi Pfhat (first UK performance) conductor Paul Hoskins Hesketh Harlequin (first performance)
Messiaen Couleurs de la Cité Celeste
Neil Roxburgh (piano) Stravinsky Le Sacre du printemps conductor
Edwin Roxburgh
The influential American jazz pianist Bill Evans died ten years ago. In the first of five programmes, Brian Hennessey looks at Evans's career, which began with the Jerry Wald orchestra. The high point of the 50s for
Evans was when he was asked by Miles Davis to join his Quintet.
Most scientists believe the mysteries of biology will one day be reduced to explanations at the molecular level.
Geneticist
Richard Lewontin of Harvard
University is one of the few who disagree. He tells Lewis Wolpert why he finds most modern science misguided, and how he copes with his role of outsider and critic.
Producer Alison Richards
Karine Georgian (cello) BBC Philharmonic leader Dennis Simons conductor
Krzysztof Penderecki live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. Sibelius
The Swan of Tuone/a Penderecki
Cello Concerto No 2
8.15 The New
Penderecki Charles Bodman Rae investigates the process which has transformed Penderecki from avant-garde to neo-romantic; with Nigel Osborne , Paul Patterson , Adrian Thomas and the composer himself. (R)
8.35 Dvorak Symphony
No 9 in E minor (From the New World)
Madame de Treymes Edith Wharton 's tale of how a man's fight for the woman he loves leads to a confrontation with a powerful and devious French family. Narrator Valerie Sarruf.
Adapted by John Peacock Director Jane Morgan
Piano Trio No 1 in F
Maria de la Pau (piano) Yan Pascal Tortelier
(violin); Paul Tortelier (cello). Records
Dohnanyi
Cello Sonata in B minor
Sextet in C
