Handel Harp Concerto in B flat major, Op 6 No 4 Andrew Lawrence-King (harp); Taverner
Players/Andrew Parrott
7.14 Saint-Saens
Morceau de Concert, Op 154: Vanessa McKeand
(harp); English Chamber
Orchestra/Edmon Colomer
Variations on a Rococo
Theme, Op 33
Lynn Harrell (cello)
Cleveland Orch/ Maazel
7.53 Elgar
Harmony Music No 2 Athena Ensemble
8.04 Ravel
Piano Concerto in G Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
(piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra/ Ettore Gracis
Producer Adam Gatehouse Records
conductor Alfred Walter
Martin Roscoe (piano) Beethoven Overture:
King Stephen Dohnanyi Variations on a nursery song
Kodaly Concerto for Orchestra
with Richard Osborne.
Record Review
Building a Library:
Martinu's six symphonies by Bernard Keeffe.
Richard Wigmore on discs of songs.
10.40 Record Release
Taneyev Overture: The Oresteia: Philharmonia Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi
11.00 Schreker Four
Songs: Lucia Popp (sop) Irwin Gage (piano)
11.11 Mozart Piano
Concerto No 12 in A (K414) Yevgeny Kissin (piano) Moscow Virtuosi/ Vladimir Spivakov
11.39
Musorgsky Songs and Dances of Death: Tom Krause (bar) Irwin Gage (piano)
12.03 Janacek
Violin Concerto
(Pilgrimage of a Soul)
Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Philharmonia
Orchestra/Libor Pesek
12.16 Haydn
Summer (The Seasons)
Barbara Bonney (soprano) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Andreas Schmidt (bass) Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner
Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury. Records
(Record Review is repeated on Wednesday at 2.00pm)
Scientists and mathematicians reveal how a favourite fact about the universe has for ever changed their view of it. Miranda Robertson , scientific journalist and editor, on why cancer research was led the right way for the wrong reason. Producer Matt Thompson
Dittersdorf Quartet No 5 in Eflat
Mozart Quartet in G (K387)
Schubert Quartet in A minor (D804)
conductor Tadaaki Otaka Raphael Oleg (violin) William Mathias In Arcadia (first performance)
Mendelssohn Violin
Concerto in E minor, Op 64
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique)
Benjamin Frith (piano) Schumann
Davidsbündlertänze
Liszt Petrarch Sonnet 104
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Ray Abbott
The week in the arts with Christopher Cook.
Reviews: Three books:
Peter Ackroyd 's English Music, Race by Studs
Terkel and The Angel of Darkness by Emesto Sabato.
Opinions: Susannah Clapp and Peter Kemp.
Features: "But I digress....": The parenthesis in literature; The contemporary fairytale.
Producers Tim Dee and Nick Ware
New World Quartet
Curtis Macomber and Vahn Armstrong (violins) Benjamin Simon (viola) Ross Harbaugh (cello)
Prokofiev String Quartet No 1 in B minor, Op 50
Ligeti String Quartet No 2
La Belie
Helene Offenbach 's opera bouffe in three acts continues a series of operas connected with the ten-year siege of Troy. Helen of Troy was the "most beautiful woman in the world". Before the performance,
Arthur Marwick discusses "the danger of beauty". (sop)(tenor)(tenor) (bass) (bar) (mezzo) (tenor)(sop) (tenor) (bar)
Capitole Toulouse Chorus and Orchestra conductor Michel Plasson Records
Four readings by Nigel Anthony from novelist Tim Parks 's colourful account of life in the Italian village where he has lived for ten years.
1:4/8
Producer Duncan Minshull
(Part 2 on Monday at 9.15pm)
A young Dutch ensemble shows how cosmopolitan the musical repertory was in 17th-century Amsterdam. Music by Locke,
Benedictus, Reincken, Buonamente and Purcell. Udbhava Wilson Meyer and Mimi Mitchell (violins) Susanne Braumann (viola da gamba)
Fred Jacobs (theorbo)
The first of four programmes from the 1992 festival features the duo of John Surman (saxophones and bass clarinet) and John Taylor (piano) recorded earlier this week in the Guildhall, Bath. Introduced by Miles Kington , who talks to John Surman in the interval.
