Piers Burton-Page 's choice of music, with news, weather, travel and a glance at the weekend ahead.
Cherubini
Mass in A (Coronation)
Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra/Riccardo Muti Record
Haydn
Symphony No 82 in C (The Bear)
Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra/Bernard Haitink
10.28 Debussy Petite Pièce
Première
Rapsodie Stephen Bennett (clarinet) Joyce Riddell (piano)
10.38 Rossini
Petite Caprice (Style Offenbach)
Leslie Howard (piano)
10.41 Poulenc
Litanies a la vierge noire Lyons National Choir and Orchestra/Serge Baudo
10.48 Debussy Mandoline
Jessye Norman (soprano) James Levine (piano)
10.50 Henri Sauguet
Sonatine en deux cliants et un intermède
Stephen Bennett (clarinet) Joyce Riddell (piano)
11.06
Rossini Domine Deus
(Petite Messe solonnelle)
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) Leone Magiera (piano)
11.12 Stravinsky Suite: Pulcinella
Academy of St Martin, Neville Marriner
11.35 Sauguet Le chat Felicity Lott (soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano)
11.39 Poulenc
Clarinet Sonata
Stephen Bennett (clarinet) Joyce Riddell (piano)
(soprano)
The first of six recitals live from the Concert Hall of New
Broadcasting House.
Andrew Wilde (piano)
Bach, transcr Busoni Chaconne in D minor
Liszt Petrarch Sonnet 104
(Années de Pelerinage)
Beethoven Sonata in F minor. Op 57 (Appassionato)
Stephen Johnson presents the first in a new series featuring
BBC archive recordings of British festivals from the 1960s. Today, Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the 1964 Proms.
Mendelssohn Overture:
The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) Debussy Prelude a l'après-midi d'unfaune
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A (K622)
Jack Brymer (clarinet)
2.50 Stephen Johnson explores the history of the BBC's Sound Archives.
3.00 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 4 in F minor Series producer Philip Tagney
(viola)
Sophie Rahman (piano)
Hugh Wood Variations, Op 1
Paul Patterson The
Tides ofMananan for solo viola
Britten Lachrymae
Carol Tingey presents music recorded in Nepalese mountain villages among wandering minstrels, blacksmiths and the Damai caste of tailor-musicians, with wedding bands, rice-transplanting songs and music for the gods.
Producer John Thornley
Michael Berkeley presents an edition from Wales at the start of this year's Cardiff Festival.
Producer John Jones
live from St David's Hall.
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a them of Paganini
7.55 Preserving Prague
In the three years since the Velvet Revolution, the city of Prague has been considering urgently how to preserve what remains of its architectural splendour. Martin Burt reports on the efforts being made by British and Czech architects as they work on the churches and palaces, the Tyl Theatre and the townhouse facades of the old quarter.
8.15 Smetana Ma vlast
The Death of Amantacha In the penultimate programme, William T Vollman reads from his new novel Fatliers and Crows, a narrative of the Jesuits in Quebec and the third volume of his "symbolic history" of America.
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Which famous American dramatist wore a mink coat when he went to his swimming pool? What did Tennessee Williams do for New Orleans? How many streetcars have survived? Why should unarmed tourists steer clear of the Desire Housing Project?
Did the owner of a funeral parlour water the plants of his conservatory with human blood? Biographer Ronald Hayman and producer Piers Plowright savour the mysteries and the rich gumbo of the Vieux Carre. Recorded on location in New Orleans.
Sarah Walker presents the first of a new series of late-night listening, featuring contemporary classics and lending an ear to what's new. Tonight, a tribute to the late John Cage featuring some of his most innovative sounds from the 30s and 40s.
John Tilbury plays pieces for prepared piano, and the Ensemble Bash reconstruct the Three
Constructions.
Producers Alan Hall and Philip Tagney
