presented this week by Chris de Souza. Music, news, weather and arts news, including:
7.00 Shostakovich
Scherzo, Op 7
USSR Ministry of Culture SO/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
7.45 Bach, arr Walcha Contrapunctus XVIII
Helmut Walcha (organ)
8.00 Schubert, arr Newbould
Scherzo (Symphony in D, D708A)
Academy of St
Martin/Neville Marriner
8.35 Crusell Clarinet
Concerto No 1 in Eflat Thea King (clarinet)
LSO/Alun Francis. Records
Saint-Saens' Years at the Madeleine
From 1857 to 1877, Camille Saint-Saens was organist at one of the most prestigious churches in Paris, St Marie-Madeleine . This week,
Richard Langham Smith visits
Napoleon's great "temple" to talk to French musicologist Jean-Michel Nectoux.
1: St Merri, Satan and the Salon
Music in Parisian churches had both a serious and a gaudy side: Saint-Saens embraced the two.
Danse macabre (arr Lemare) Wayne Marshall (organ) Mass
Isabel Balmori-Padesca (sop) Annelise Theodoloz (alto) Laurent Dami (tenor)
I Alain Clement (baritone)
Marie-Claire Alain (organ) Lausanne Vocal
Ensemble/Michel Corboz Romance, Op 36
Gilbert Coursier (horn) .Annie d'Arco (piano) Records
Producer Tim Thorne
Rameau
Castor et Pollux: Prologue Les Arts Florissants/
William Christie
10.35 Pièces de clavecin en concerts No 2
Frans Bruggen (flute)
Sigiswald Kuijken (violin) Wieland Kuijken (gamba) Gustav Leonhardt
(harpsichord)
10.50 Quam dilecta La Chapelle
Royale/Philippe Herreweghe
11.10 Nouvelk Suite in A
William Christie (harpsichord)
11.30 Castor et Pollux:
Act 2 (excerpt)
Les Arts Florissants/ William Christie
David Mellor introduces recordings of the German conductor Hans Knappertsbusch.
Producer Patrick Lambert
live from St John 's, Smith Square, London.
Gaudier Ensemble
Schubert
Octet in F (D803)
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Jerzy Maksymiuk
Arnaldo Cohen (piano) Michael Torke Green (first UK performance) Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World)
(Given last October in St Andrew 's Hall, Norwich, during the Norfolk and Norwich Festival)
Charles Camilleri 's new piece for organ based on the works of Teilhard de Chardin played by Kevin Bowyer in Coventry Cathedral.
Andrew Green with music, conversation and arts news.
Producer Ray Abbott
North German Radio SO conductor Hans Zender
Heinrich Schiff (cello) live from Hamburg Mendelssohn
Overture: Die sch6ne
Melusine
Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor
8.05 Wir lachen doch!
What makes the Germans laugh? Andrew Sachs chats to Loriot - Germany's most acclaimed comedian at his home in Bavaria.
8.25 Bemd Alois
Zimmermann Impromptu Reger Four Portraits after Arnold Bocklin
Over the next five evenings, the American writer
Edward Swift tells stories of his childhood in the Texan
Big Thicket, a refuge for criminals, renegades and religious maniacs.
1: Grandfather's Finger Producer Elizabeth Burke
conductor Bo Holten
Gombert Ave Maria ; Pater noster, Ave sanctissima
Maria Sandstrom A New
Heaven and a New Earth; Es istgenug; Hear my prayer, 0 Lord
The Adagio through which we
Know Albinoni's name is not his work. This series seeks to discover the real Albinoni through his chamber music and cantatas.
Albinoni Sonata in D minor, Op 6 No 4; Sonata in B minor, Op 4 No 6
Bach Fugue on a theme of Albinoni (BWV 951)
Albinoni Sonata in D, Op 6 No 7
Locatelli Trio
Producer Graham Dixon
Robert Sandall and Mark Russell present a selection of music mixing styles and influences.
Producer Sarah Devonald
Sophie Yates plays music by the initiator of the French harpsichord school, with musical tributes from composers influenced by him.
Chambonnieres Suite
No 1 in A minor
Louis Couperin Suite in C D'Anglebert Tombeau de M de Chambonnieres
Froberger Prelude Couperin Prelude a limitation de Monsieur
Froberger
Chambonnieres Suite
No 2 in C
Except in Scotland. As broadcast this afternoon on R5
