An Enlightened Historian: Edward Gibbon
Glinka Spanish Overture No 1: Dresden State
Orchestra/NeviUe Marriner
7.09
Kreisler Praeludium and Allegro Oscar Shumsky (violin) Milton Kaye (piano)
7.15 Warlock Capriol Suite: Bournemouth SO/ George Hurst
7.30am News
7.35 Schubert Overture in C (In the Italian Style) Stockhom Sinfonietta/ Neeme Jarvi
7.42 Mozart Selection from Cosi fan tutte arranged for wind by JN Wendt: Maurice Bourgue Wind Band
7.47 Britten Suite:
Death in Venice: ECO/ Steuart Bedford. Records
Gesualdo and Victoria
Both composers flourished in the years around 1600, and both are noted for the intensity of their compositions, but the styles of their music are very different.... Music in honour of the Virgin performed by Tallis Scholars/ Peter Phillips
Westminster Cathedral
Choir/David Hill Gesualdo Ave , dulcissima Maria;
Ave Regina coelorum Victoria Missa Ave
Maris Stella
Gesualdo Precibus et meritis; Maria, mater gratiae
Victoria Two settings of Ave Maria.
Producer Graham Dixon. Records
Schubert, orch Webem Six German Dances
I (0 820): RIAS SO/
Matthias Bamert
German Folk Songs BBC Singers/ Pierre Boulez
Eflat, Op 87
Schubert Ensemble
10.20 Glazunov Violin Concerto, Op 82
Andrei Korsakov (violin)
USSR SO/Igor Golovtchin
10.41 Brahms Komm herbei, Tod, Op 17 No 2;
Gesang aus Fingal, Op 17 No
London Symphony Chorus Women's Voices/ Richard Hickox
Frank Lloyd , Stephen Stirling (horns)
Rachel Masters (harp)
10.51 Anthony Powers Etudes-Tableaux Book 1
(first broadcast)
Schubert Ensemble
11.14 Schubert Wind
Octet in F (D 72)
Members of Bamberg SO (Hummel and Powers recordings in association with Hill Samuel Investment Management Ltd)
conductor Paul Daniel
James MacMillan Tryst Schubert Symphony No 9 in C (Great)
Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin)
Dmitri Alexeev
(piano) live from St John 's,
Smith Square, London. Shostakovich Sonata, Op 134
Brahms Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108
(Repeated Saturday at 1.05pm; 0 TICKETS: L3.50, available from 11.00am today or in advance from the box office, tel 07 1-[number removed]
A nine-part series in which Lyndon Jenkins explores post-war recordings of Beethoven symphonies that have stood the test of time.
3: Symphony No 3 (Eroica)RPO, conductor
Thomas Beecham
Purcell Sonata in G minor for two violins and continuo; Suite for harpsichord No 6 in D Handel Trio Sonata in F, Op 5 No 6
Hellendaal Sonata for cello and continuo, Op 5 No 7
Stanley Harpsichord
Concerto, Op 10 No 4
played by Graham Barber. Max Reger
0 Traurigkeit, 0 Herzeleid Rheinberger Sonata in D minor No 11, Op 148
with Michael Berkeley. Producer Andrew Mussett
The actress Diana Rigg is playing Cleopatra in Dryden's All for Love at London's Almeida Theatre. She talks to Paul Allen about her career in theatre, film and television.
Producer Fiona McLean
BBC Symphony Chorus conductor
Michael Schonwandt
J S Bach jauchzet frohlocket, auf preiset die Tage! (from Christmas Oratorio)
Poul Ruders Symphony
Beethoven Quartet in F minor, Op 95
Dvorak Quartet in F, Op 96 (American)
played by Peter Frankl.
Kurtag Games, Book III (extracts)
Bartok Three
Rondos Andras Szollosy
Paesaggio con morti
Colin Tudge in conversation with six scientists.
3: The greatest story.
John Barrow , Professor of Astronomy at Sussex University, explores physicists' desire to devise a theory to explain the material world.
Producer Deborah Cohen
with Mark Russell and Robert Sandall.
Producer Anthony Cheevers
Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No 1, Op 10; Autumn, Op 8; Sarcasms for piano,
Op 17, Symphony No 1 in D (Classical); They Are Seven, Op 30
As broadcast this morning on R5