Arts: Language in Hard Times
Poulenc Sextet for Piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn
Nash Ensemble/ Lionel Friend
7.20 Faure Impromptus No 2 in F minor, Op 31, and No 3 in A flat, Op 34 Cecile Ousset (piano)
7.30am News
7.35 Carlos Chavez
Republican Overture: Chapultepec
Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra/Enrique Batiz
7.42 Vivaldi Concertos in G minor (RV 157) and in G (RV 146) Capella Savaria/
Nicholas McGegan (harpsichord)
7.54 Rossini, trans
Liszt Soirees musicales
Part 2, Nos 2, 8, 10, 12 Jenojando (piano)
8.15 Hoist
St Paul 's Suite Guildhall String Ensemble/
Robert Salter (violin) Records
Brazilian Impressions Philharmonia/
Geoffrey Simon Quartetto dorico Fairfield Quartet
Ancient Airs and Dances:
Suite No 2
Boston Symphony
Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa
Susan Sharpe presents a special edition of Midweek Choice made up of requests from listeners who have phoned in over the last two weeks with donations to
Comic Relief.
Records
Michael Roll (piano) BBCPO leader Dennis Simons conductor Markus Stenz
Schubert Overture-.
Rosamunde Mozart Piano Concerto
No 25 in C (K 503)
Brahms Symphony No I in C minor
Cummings String Trio live from Broadcasting House,London.
Haydn String Trio in G, Op 53 No I
Martinu String Trio (1934)
Beethoven String Trio in G minor, Op 9 No 3
Vaclav Talich and the Czech Philharmonic
Orchestra.
Smetana Vltava , Tabor, Blanik (Ma Vlast) (Mono records: 1929)
Live from Bramdean School in Exeter.
Introit: Lift Thine Eyes (Mendelssohn)
Responses: Sumsion
Psalms: 104, vv 1-23 (Plainchant )
First Lesson (AV): Numbers 14, vv 1-25.
Office Hymn: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Rockingham)
Canticles: Kenneth Long in F
Second Lesson: II Timothy I
Anthem: King of Glory, King of Peace (William H Harris )
Hymn: There Is a Green Hill Far Away (Horsley)
Vesper: God Be in My Head (Walford Davies )
Organ Voluntary: Pax Vobiscum (Karg-Elert)
'I have not come to this tavern to sleep.... ' The second of two programmes of songs and dances introduced and performed by members of the Jumprava Folk Band, from Riga.
with Richard Baker.
Producer David Gallagher
A discussion on an issue of the moment chaired by Robert Hewison. Producer Rachel Yorke
leader Carl Darby conductor Rudolf Barshai
Cecile Ousset (piano) live from the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea.
Prokofiev Two Waltzes
(War and Peace)
Piano Concerto No 3 in C. Op 26
8.10 Beethoven in Heiligenstadt Beethoven spent the summer of 1802 in this village near Vienna in a vain attempt to cure his deafness. And it was in a house there, still only in his early 30s, that he penned his 'will'.
Piers Burton-Page visited the house with Otto Biba, Chief Librarian of the Viennese Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.
8.30 Beethoven
Symphony No 3 in Eflat, Op 55 (Eroica)
Two documentaries by Professor John Taylor of King's College, London. 1: Before Zero
Can science explain the creation of the universe and the origin of the laws of physics?
Producer Julian Brown
String Quartet in E flat, Op 71 No 3
Aeolian String Quartet Record
conductor Simon Joly. The mezzo-soprano Judith Bingham introduces the last programme in this series - recorded at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt last December.
Messiaen Cinq rechants Takemitsu Wind Horse
Series producer John Evans
J S Bach
Oboe d'amore Concerto in A (BWV 1055): Cantata No 127: Herrjesu Christ wahr'Mensch und Gott
(Quinquagesima 1725); Trio Sonata No 3 in D minor; Contrapunctus 9 (Art of Fugue)
As broadcast this morning on R5
