Music, news and weather with Piers Burton-Page , including
7.15 Arnold
Sinfonietta No 1 San Diego CO/ Donald Barra
7.35 Mozart
Horn Quintet in Eflat (K407) Ab Koster (horn)
Archaibudelli Ensemble
8.10 Walton Johannesburg Festival Overture
London PO/
Bryden Thomson
The Mendelssohns -
Fanny and Felix 5: Last Years.
Felix Mendelssohn
Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream) Bamberg SO/
Claus Peter Flor
Fanny Mendelssohn Im Wald, Op 3 No 6;
Abendlich schon rauscht der Wald, Op 3 No 5 Heidelberg Madrigal
Choir/Gerald Kegelmann Piano Trio in D, Op 11 Dartington Piano Trio Felix Mendelssohn
Andante in E, Op 81 No 1 Coull Quartet
Finale (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Lucia Popp (soprano) Bamberg SO and Chorus/Claus Peter Flor Records
Mozart Serenade in G
(K525) (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)
SukCO/JosefSuk
10.18 Debussy
Six Epigraphes antiques: Nos 1 and 2 Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky (piano duet)
10.25
Suk Serenade in E, Op 6 SukCO/JosefSuk
10.55 Debussy
Six Epigraphes antiques: Nos 3 and 4 11.00 Mendelssohn
Symphony for Strings No 10 in B minor
SukCO/JosefSuk
11.10 Debussy
Six Epigraphes antiques: Nos 5 and 6 11.16
Dvorak Serenade in E, Op 22
11.46 Debussy Rhapsody John Harle (alto saxophone) Academy of St Martin/ Neville Marriner
The Cambridge Musick: Robert Ehrlich (recorder) Mark Levy (gamba) Richard Eggar (harpsichord) Bach Sonata in B minor
(BWV 1030)
Marais Le Labyrinthe Telemann
Sonata in D minor
(Esserazii Musici )
Stephen Johnson introduces a concert from the 1969 Edinburgh
International Festival.
Isaac Stern (violin) Leonard Rose (cello)
Eugene Istomin (piano) Haydn Trio in E flat (H XV 10)
Beethoven Trio in C minor, Op 1 No 3
2.45 Isaac Stem talks about playing trios.
2.55 Schubert
Trio in E flat (D929)
conductor Rudolf Barshai
Prokofiev
Ballet: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
In the second of two programmes featuring African music of possession and trance, Janet Topp-Fargion introduces spirit possession ceremonies from Madagascar and Zimbabwe; the Bori cult of the Hausa people of northern Nigeria, in which each of some 400 spirits has his or her own tune; the Aka pygmy ritual in which drum rhythms combine with the hallucinogenic properties of the bondo tree; and the healing songs of the San Bushmen of the Kalahari desert.
Producer John Thornley
Richard Baker presents music, with news, weather and a look ahead to the weekend.
Producer Ray Abbott
Live from the Queen
Elizabeth Hall , London. The second of two BBC concerts of Spanish music, ancient and modem, to mark the Columbus anniversary, begins with one of the most important song collections of Renaissance Spain, which remained in the library of Columbus's family. Cancionero de la
Columbina
New London Consort director Philip Pickett
8.25 The Colombus
Journal
Every night of his voyage of discovery in 1492 Columbus faithfully kept a journal for the eyes of his sovereign masters
Ferdinand and Isabella.
Extracts from the journal are read by Donald Macleod.
8.45 Albeniz
Evocacion; Rondena;
Almeira; Triana (Iberia) Rafael Orozco (piano)
9.20 Hot Velvet
Julian Hale joins drinkers in a pulsating designer bar in Barcelona and talks to its creator, Juli Capella.
9.40 Gerhard
Symphony No 3 (Collages) BBC Symphony
Orchestra/Andrew Davis
BBC Singers
Imogen Barford (harp) Lowrie Blake (cello)
Nicholas Daniel (oboe) conductor Stephen Jackson Naissance de Venus
Cantata from Proverbs Psalm 121
Chamber Symphony No 6
Steve Jones spans the gulf between the arts and the sciences. This month, sex - from why there are only two genders and what's revealed by an academic study of human sexuality, to erotic art and literature. Producer Julia Durbin
From Mutantrumpet to pebbles and Confucius
Ben Neill Dis-Solution II
David Lang Orpheus Over and Under
Cornelius Cardew
The Great Learning, Paragraph 1
Presented by Philip Tagney. Producer Alan Hall
Except in Scotland. As broadcast this morning on R5
English Study Texts:
The Friends, by Rosa Guy (4)