Patterns of Consumption: The Affluent and the Poor
Mozart
Symphony No 32 in G BBC Philharmonic/
Jean-Claude Casadesus
7.09 Korngold
Symphonic Serenade BBC Philharmonic/ Gyorgy Lehel
7.41 Debussy Iberia (Images)
8.03 Respighi Pines of Rome
BBC SO/Andrew Davis
8.25 Suk A Fairy Tab Suite (Raduz and Mahulena)
BBC Concert Orchestra/ Jiri Starek
Grieg Prelude, Sarabande andRigaudon (Holberg Suite)
9.16 Nielsen
Helios Overture
9.27 Artist of the Week:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Tchaikovsky Andante cantabile
9.35 Bach, arr Swingle Fugue in C minor (Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk I)
9.41 Marcello
Oboe Concerto in C minor
9.52 Borodin Polovtsian
Dances (Prince Igor)
10.04 Mozart Andante and Variations (K501)
10.13 Bruch Violin
Concerto No 1 in G minor
10.36 Handel
Ballet music: II Pastor Fido
10.47 Glinka Cradle Song
10.54 Ives
Variations on 'America'
11.03 Byrd iMudibus in Sanctis
11.09 Lefebure-Wely Sortie in Eflat
11.14 Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World). Records
Handel and Opera Seria What to Handel was his most important music is the least performed. Donald Burrows and George Pratt discuss the paradox.
Producer Kate Bolton
Philip French quarries gems from the BBC Sound
Archives. This week, a talk about Marcel Proust by his friend
Prince Antoine Bibesco.
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) Richard Stoltzman (clarinet) BBC Welsh SO conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Stravinsky Fireworks Rachmaninov Piano
Concerto No 3 in D minor
2.10 Interval Reading
2.15
Takemitsu Fantasma / Cantos
Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird
A choral sequence for Lent on the theme of martyrdom recorded last summer in the Priory Church, Edington, Wiltshire. Readings from The Martyrdom of Polycarp and Dietrich Bonhoeffer 's poem
Stations on the Road to
Freedom.
Constitues eos principes (plainsong); He wants not friends (Bow Brickhill); Ne irascaris, Domine (Byrd); Effuderunt sanguinem sanctorum (plainsong); Disposer supreme (Old 104th); Civitas sancti tui (Byrd); Salvator mundi (I) (Tallis); In felix ego (Byrd); 0 God, thy soldier's crown (Gonfalon Royal); Jesus tombe sous Ie poids de sa croix (Dupre).
Directors of Music
Peter McCrystal , David Trendell and Jeremy Summerly. Organist Jeremy Filsell.
Peter Donohoe (piano) Busoni Toccata
Prokofiev Sonata No 5, Op 38
Bartok Sonata
4.45 Kiki - Queen of Montpamasse George Melly revisits the haunts of this muse, mistress and toast of artists and writers, who personified the bohemian life of 1920s Paris.
5.05 Ives
Variedairsandvariations
Messiaen
Preludes Nos 4 and 6 Schoenberg
Five Pieces, Op 23
Gershwin Song Book
Dowland's songs to poetry by Sir Henry Lea on his retirement from the court of Elizabeth I performed by Emma Kirkby (soprano) and Anthony Rooley (lute). Record
(violin and cello)
Prokofiev Sonata for solo violin, Op
Bach Cello Suite No 1 in G
(BWV 1007)
Ravel Sonata for violin and cello
The Butcher of Baghdad by John Spurting. In a bunker under
Baghdad, the president's beautiful mistress soothes him with stories of a legendary Arabian Nights caliph and the poet who denounced his regime.
Director Richard Wortley
A concert from the LSO's
Festival of Britten given earlier this evening in the Barbican Hall, London. Lynda Russell (soprano) Barry Douglas (piano)
LSO/Mstislav Rostropovich Simple Symphony Piano Concerto
10.05 Interval Reading
10.10 Les Illuminations
Sinfonia da Requiem
The Consort of Musicke directed by Anthony Rooley plays music from Dowland's collection of instrumental music Lachrymae, published in 1604. Record
As a prelude to the 50th birthday of the Society for the Promotion of New Music, Michael Gorodecki speaks to SPNM administrator
Richard Steele and introduces three works from Dutch group Het Trio: Andrew Keeling 's Distant Skies, David Kosviner 's Trio
1992 and Robin Gosnall 's Deteriorated Image. Plus works for two pianos by Dutchmen Huib Emmer and Diderik Wagenaar played by Cees van Zeeland and Gerard Bouwhuis. Producer Andrew Kurowski
(SPNM birthday concert next Sunday)