with Andrew Lyle. Music, news, weather and events in the arts world, including:
7.00 Vaughan WilliamsThe Lark Ascending Iona Brown (violin) Academy of St
Martin/Neville Marriner
7.30 Poulenc Trio for oboe, bassooon and piano Maurice Bourgue (oboe)
Amaury Wallez (bassoon) Pascal Roge (piano)
8.00 Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue Louis Lortie (piano)
Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit
8.30 Dvorak Serenade for Wind in D minor, Op 44 Nash Ensemble. Records
Richard Strauss
Executive producer Peter Alward talks to Stephen Johnson about the practicalities of recording the music of Strauss. With excerpts from:
Der Rosenkavalier
Dresden Staatskapelle conductor Bernard Haitink
Elektra Vienna PO/Georg Solti Ein Heldenieben
New York PO/Willem
Mengelberg (Mono, 1927)
Music of land, sea and sky featuring the English Sinfonia conducted by Edward Downes and Charles Groves.
Malcolm Arnold
Sinfonietta No 1
Andante Cantabile
From Sea to Sky (first broadcast)
Concerto in F, Op 10 No 1 (La Tempesta di Mare) Michala Petri (soprano recorder)
Academy of St Martin / lona Brown
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
The Banks of Green Willow
Concerto in D, Op 10 No 3 (II Gardelino) Michala Petri (sopranino recorder)
In Plymouth Town (first broadcast)
Water Music (excerpts)
Janacek's opera about a woman who, having been given an elixir of eternal life, has lived for over 300 years in various guises. She schemes to get the magic formula so that she can die - others want it so they can live for ever.
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Charles Mackerras. Records
The second of two programmes.
Alexander Baillie (cello) Martin Roscoe (piano) Sonata in F, Op 5 No 1
Sonata in C.Op 102 No 1
conductor Andrew Mogrelia Tasmin Little (violin) Busoni, arr John Adams Berceuse
élégiaque, Op 42
Barber Violin Concerto Ives, orch
William Schuman Variations on 'America'
David Owen Norris 's guest is the pianist AndrasSchiff.
With news, weather and the latest from the arts world. Producer Ray Abbott
Luba Organasova
(soprano), Jadwiga Rappe (mezzo-soprano), Uwe Heilmann (tenor), Jan-
Hendrik Rootering (bass) Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra conductor Colin Davis
Paul Scofield with the fourth of five readings from the letters of Seneca to Lucilius.
Thoughts in a Dark Tunnel
(Final programme tomorrow
9.30pm)
Endellion Quartet Haydn
Quartet in C, Op 54 No 2 Weir
String Quartet
Antwerp is this year's
European City of Culture, but what will it mean for the city's inhabitants? Robert Hewison investigates how Europe promotes itself.
Producer Sally Flatman
Montserrat Figueras (soprano)
Jose Miguel Moreno (guitar)
Prepdrame la tumba; De amor en las prisiones; Si dices que mis ojos; Las mujeres y cuerdas (Seguidilhs)
Introduction and variations on the air
'Marlbroug for solo guitar Ti ricordi che giurasti; Povero cor t'inganni; lo mentitor, Perduta Vanima (Ariette italiane) Introduction and variations on Mozart's '0 cara armonia for solo guitar, Cesa de atormentarme; El que quisiera amando;
Muchacha ya la verguenza (SeguidiUas)
Las quejas de Maruja
