Shakespeare: Acting Cleopatra
Soler Sonata in F sharp (R 90)
Virginia Black (h'chord)
7.05 Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol Montreal SO/ Charles Dutoit
7.21 Debussy La Soiree dans Grenade
Cecile Ousset (piano)
7.30am News
7.35 Mozart Oboe
Quartet: Heinz Holliger Orlando Quartet
7.54 Strauss Du meines
Herzens Kronelein ; Cacilie; Standchen-,
Zueignung Margaret Price (soprano) Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano)
8.05 Copland Rodeo (complete ballet)
St Louis SO/Slatkin Records
The second of six programmes.
Jean-Baptiste Lully Anima Christi
Les Arts Florissants/ William Christie
Marais Tombeau pour M de
Lully Sarah Cunningham , Ariane Maurette
(violas da gamba)
Mitzi Meyerson (h'chord) Lully Miserere
Donna Brown (soprano) Guillemette Laurens
(mezzo), Howard Crook , Herve Lamy (tenors) Peter Kooy (bass)
Choir and Orchestra of La Chapelle Royale/ Philippe Herreweghe Records
The second of nine programmes tracing the Canadian pianist's career. Beethoven Piano Concerto
No 2 in Bflat, Op 19 Leningrad PO/
Vladislav Slovak
Bach Partita No 6 in E minor (BWV 830)
Presented by Peter Paul Nash.
'Nothing is true except what is unsaid.'
Henry Zajaczkowski examines paradoxes in Tchaikovsky's character. Also, Jan Smaczny reports back from a conference on Dvorak in New Orleans.
Moscow Virtuosi conductor
Vladimir Spivakov
Mozart Symphony No 29 in A (K 201)
Shostakovich, arr Barshai Chamber
Symphony
11.45 Interval Reading
11.50 Vivaldi The Four
Seasons
The last programme in the series in which
Philip French quarries gems from the BBC Sound Archives.
This week: Rose
Macaulay talks about Building a Library.
(First broadcast in 1949) Producer Tim Suter
Paul Guinery presents a further selection of requests from listeners who have written in over the last few weeks with donations to Comic Relief.
A setting of the Latin text by the Estonian composer Arvo Part.
Hilliard Ensemble , Capricorn, Western
Wind Chamber Choir, director Paul Hillier
Records
Alfred Brendel (piano) Haydn Sonata in C minor (H XVI 20) Schumann Etudes symphoniques
4.45 Alfred Brendel talks with Natalie Wheen.
5.10 Beethoven
Six Variations, Op 34
Sonata in A flat, Op 110
From Ripon Cathedral a commemoration with words and music of themes relating to the events of Palm Sunday and Holy Week.
The meditation is led by the Dean of Ripon, the Very Rev
Christopher Campling.
Organist and Master of the Choristers Ronald Perrin.
Hosannah to the Son of David (Gibbons); The
Lamentations (Bairstow); Love One Another
(Wesley); Love Bade Me Welcome (Williams);
Loving Shepherd of Thy Sheep (Cooke); And the Peace of God Which
Passeth All Understanding (Purcell); I Wrestle and Pray (Bach); How Beautiful Are the Feet (Handel); Thy Word Is a Lantern; It Is a Thing Most
Wonderful (Moore);
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree (Holman); God So Loved the World
(Stainer); But Thanks Be to God (Handel)
Biber Mystery Sonatas: The Sweating of Blood;
The Crowning with Thorns: The Carrying of the Cross John Holloway (violin) Davitt Moroney
(organ, harpsichord) Tragicomedia
Kings
An account of Books
1 and 2 of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue , performed by Alan Howard. Music by Donald Fraser. In the ninth year of the war, the Greeks are still outside the walls of Troy. Achilles and Agamemnon quarrel over a slave girl and the gods, with pitiless caprice, intervene and so change the destinies of heroes and host, armies and cities.
Director Liane Aukin
conductor Neeme Jarvi Daniel Stabrawa (violin) Arvo Part Symphony No
Prokofiev Violin Concerto
No 1 inD, Op 19
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64
Ad ubera portabimini The second of seven
Holy Week cantatas by Buxtehude, in a Lutheran devotional context.
Haydn String Quartet, Op 64 No 2 in B minor Egon Wellesz Quartet No 5
