Music, news, arts news and weather with Andrew McGregor, including:
7.00 Nielsen: Helios Overture - Swedish RSO/Esa-Pekka Salonen
7.40 Bax: Russian Suite - London Philharmonic/Bryden Thomson
8.00 Couperin: Sonata (L'Imperiale) (Les Nations) - European Baroque Soloists
8.35 Beethoven: String Quartet in C minor, Op 18 No 4 - Quartetto Italiano
(Records)
Vivaldi
4: Carnival and the Theatre
With extracts from the journal of Edward Wright 's visit to Venice in the 1720s read by Martin Jarvis.
Concertos from La Cetra,
Op 9: No 1 in C; No 6 in A; No 8 in D minor. No 10 in G;No 12 in B minor
Simon Standage (violin) Academy of Ancient Music/
Christopher Hogwood Records
Strauss Don Juan
Royal Liverpool PO/ Libor Pesek
10.18 Mozart
Horn Quintet in Eflat (K407)
Dennis Brain (horn) Griller Quartet
10.34 Schumann Gesdnge der Frtihe David Wilde (piano)
10.48 Clara Schumann , transcr Liszt
Geheimes Flustem
David Wilde (piano)
10.52 Gliere
String Sextet No 3 in C, Op 11
Raphael Ensemble
11.22 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 2 in C minor (Little Russian)
Oslo PO/Mariss Jansons
Fantasiestiicke in A minor, Op 88
Borodin Trio
String Quartet in A, Op 41 No 3
Melos Quartet. Records
Handel's opera seria in five acts to a libretto by Nicola Haym after Quinault.
Magic is a central ingredient in the resolution to this story of tangled relationships hingeing on the final revelation that
Teseo is Egeo's son. Sung in Italian.
Egeo, King ofAtliens, in love with his ward Agilea, but bethrothed to
Les Musiciens du Louvre conductor
Marc Minkowski. Records
Midori (violin)
Robert McDonald (piano) Faure
Sonata in A, Op 13
Ysaye Reve d'enfant
Sarasate Zigeunerweisen Elgar Salut d'amour
Prokofiev, arr Heifetz March (The Love for Three Oranges)
Eduard Poldini , arr Kreisler
La poupee valsante
Music, news, weather and arts news with David Owen Norris.
Producer Fiona Sheldermine
A Celebration of Icelandic Culture.
Eileen Hulse (soprano), Rosemary Eliot (flute).
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Richard Bemas. Atli Heimir Sveinsson, Hjakk. Thorkell Sigurbjomsson, Euridice. Haflidi Hallgrimsson, Words of Winter. Jon Leifs, Geysir.
The Legend of the Cross Professor John White of University College, London, gives the fourth of five talks on the religious art of Piero della Francesca. (Final programme tomorrow. at
9.50pm)
The second of two programmes.
Dances and character pieces by the father of French clavecinistes,
Chambonnieres. and three of his successors, D'Anglebert, Louis Couperin and Forqueray, performed by Skip Sempe (harpsichord).
Shostakovich
String Quartet No 8
Haydn String Quartet in Eflat, Op 71 No 3
Frist of four programmes about the jazz trumpeter Bunk Johnson.
Roy Porter with a first-night review of Misery, a new play based on Stephen King 's bestseller and starring Bill Paterson and Sharon Gless. Producer Fiona McLean
The soprano Maria Repas Gonsalves and the guitarist Pedro Caldiera
Cabral give a recital from the domestic repertory of Portuguese song - or modhinas - from about the year 1800.
