introduced by Paul Guinery.
Mozart Serenade in Eflat (K375)
Steve Martland and his
Band
7.25 Milhaud
Symphony No 2
Toulouse Capitole
Orchestra/Michel Plasson
7.53 Liszt
Après une lecture du Dante (Annees de Pèlerinage) Stephen Hough (piano)
8.10
Brumel Gloria (Mass "Et ecce terrae motus")
Tallis Scholars/Phillips
8.20 Chopin
Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor
Louis Lortie (piano)
Philhannonia/Neeme Jarvi
9.05 Anthony Burton introduces an edition devoted to new releases.
John Deathridge compares Wagner Ring cycles, beginning today with Das Rheingold and Die Walkure in new releases from
Levine, Haitink and Sawallisch and reissues from Boulez and Goodall.
Stephen Dodgson monitors the progress of the Hanover Band's complete Haydn symphonies. And Roger Nichols reviews a new 10-CD survey of Spain's historic organs.
10.35 Record Release
Haydn Symphony No 43 in Eflat (Mercury) Hanover Band/ Roy Goodman
11.02 Wagner
Die Walkure (Act 1, sc 3) in John Deathridge 's preferred new version.
11.35 Michael Oliver laments the inadequacy of most companies' reissues for Spanish year but finds some hidden gems elsewhere, including the French series INA
Mémoire Vive.
12.25 Faure Piano Quintet No 2 in C minor, Op 115 Vlado Perlemuter (piano) Parrenin Quartet. Records Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury
(9.05-10. 35am repeated
2.00pm Wednesday)
When Columbus returned from his first voyage of discovery, he was received at court in Barcelona by Ferdinand and Isabella. A contemporary description of the joyful meeting by Bartolome de las Casas is read by Donald McLeod.
The composer Francisco de Penelosa joined the Spanish Royal Chapel in the 1490s, and this reconstruction places his
Missa Ave Maria amid the splendour of the ceremonial of the imperial
Spanish court. Westminster Cathedral Choir conductor James O'Donnell Producer Graham Dixon
Sonata No 4 in F sharp Eight Studies, Op 42
Sonata No 9 Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano)
Richard Osbome presents a series of 12 programmes documenting 150 years of music-making. 5:1908-1927
During a period of radical change, the orchestra's fortunes were in the hands of the enigmatic Felix von Weingartner. Strauss Suite: Le bourgeois gentilhomme conductor Clemens Krauss (Mono. 1952)
Berg Wozzeck (Act 3)
Vienna State Opera Chorus conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi
Beethoven Symphony No 3 in Eflat (Eroica) conductor Felix von Weingartner
(Mono, 1936) Records
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Ray Abbott
Christopher Cook presents this Dublin edition, which includes an examination of the short story form and the Collected Stories of John McGahern ; a review of The Cosmological
Pictures - Gilbert and George at the Irish
Museum of Modem Art; and highlights of the Dublin Theatre Festival.
Producer Abigail Appieton
Gyorgy Kurtag Offidum Breve, Op 28
Schubert Quartet in D minor (D810) (Death and the Maiden)
Instrumental music by Guami and Giovanni Gabrieli.
Hesperion XX/Jordi Savall Record
Festival of BBC
Orchestras live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
Joan Rodgers (soprano) Christine Cairns (mezzo) Laurence Dale (tenor)
David Wilson-Johnson (bar) BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
Worcester Festival Choral Society
Elgar The Kingdom Parts 1-3
9.05 Memories of Elgar Louise Chapman , aged 92, who worked in the Elgar household after the First World War, recalls life with the great composer and his wife.
9.25 Parts 4 and 5 (In association with Midlands Electricity)
by Federico Garcia Lorca. A rare chance to hear one of Lorca's early surrealisitc folk plays.
Elderly Don Perlimplin falls in love with the beautiful young Belisa.
When she is unfaithful five times on their wedding night, Don Perlimplin seeks an extraordinary revenge.
Directed and adapted by Nick Ward An Essential Production
The South African pianist, whose debut album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, earlier this year. With drummer Marvin
"Smitty" Smith and bass player Chamett Moffett from America, saxophonist
Jean Toussaint from the Antilles, and Eddie Parker (flutes) from this country. Introduced by Ben Watson.
