Europe and a Changing World: Trading Places
Bizet Carmen Suite No 1 BBC Scottish SO/ Takuo Yuasa
7.11 Wilfred Josephs Monkchester Dances
BBC Concert Orchestra/ Ashley Lawrence
7.28 Bliss Hymn to Apollo BBC Welsh SO/ Grant Llewellyn
7.40 Liszt Piano Concerto
No 1 in Eflat
Dmitri Alexeev (piano)
BBC Welsh SO/Mark Elder
8.00 Kodaly
Dances of Galanta
BBC Concert Orchestra/ Ashley Lawrence
8.17 Sibelius
Symphony No 1 in E minor BBC Scottish SO/ James Loughran
Divertimento, Op 86
9.19 Artist of the Week:
William Bennett (flute) Vivaldi
Flute Concerto in C minor
(RV441)
9.30 Sibelius
The Swan of Tuonela
9.39 Dvorak
In the Spinning Rooms; In stormy times (From the Bohemian Forest)
9.47 Rossini, arr Respighi La boutique fantasque
10.07
Mozart Ruhe Sanft (Zalde)
10.15
Susato Dances from the Danserye
10.20
Byrd Miserere mei; Haec Dies
10.27 Composer of the Week preview:
Haydn Harpsichord
Concerto in D (H XVIII 2)
10.49 arr
Canteloube Chut Chut , Pastorale; Lou Coucut (Songs of the Auvergne)
10.59
Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso
11.14
Schumann Waldscenen (excerpts)
11.25
Walton Belshazzar 's Feast
In the first of three programmes celebrating the English choral tradition, Timothy Day and Christopher Page look back over a century of singing nurtured in English cathedrals and chapels.
Beginning with a recording of the Choirmen of Westminster Cathedral made in 1909, they trace the changes in musical styles and tastes and the effects of improved recording techniques on performance standards. Producer Kate Bolton
On 25 March 1965 the first of Peter Boizot 's chain of highly successful pizza restaurants opened in London's West End. Leslie Forbes joins him and restaurant designer Enzo Apicella to chew over a period pizza and recall the birth of the British pizzeria.
conductor
Peter Maxwell Davies Marios Argiros (oboe) Sibelius
Prelude: The Tempest
Maxwell Davies Oboe Concerto (Strathclyde Concerto No 1)
Sir Charles - His Pavan
Sibelius Symphony No 6 in D minor
Willi Zimmerman and Barbara Suter (violins) Nicolas Corti (viola) Peter Horr (cello)
Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 77 No
Brahms String Quartet in A minor, Op 51 No 2
director Peter Phillips
Tallis Loquebantur variis linguis; Lamentations I Sheppard/esa salvator seculi; Spiritus sanctus; Verbum caro
4.15 Interval Reading
4.25
Mundy Adoloscentulus sum ego; 0 Lord, the Maker of all things; 0 Lord, I bow the knee; Vox Patris caelestis
(Part of the British Library Stefan Zweig Series)
Partita No 6 in E minor
(B WV 830)
Andras Schiff (piano)
The Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, 22 May 1953.
Igor Stravinsky and Dylan Thomas meet to discuss ideas for an opera.
Ron Woodley presents the story of what might have been one of the most exciting artistic collaborations of the century. With contributions from Robert Craft, James A Davis , Paul Ferris and Stephen Walsh. Readers Donald McBride and John Church.
Producer Andy Cartwright
Krzysztof Smietana (violin) John Blakely (piano)
Stravinsky Suite itatienne Schumann Sonata in D minor, Op 121
Total Eclipse by Christopher Hampton. Paris , 1871. Into the precarious peace of Verlaine's marriage bursts Rimbaud - 16, aggressive, uncouth and a poetic genius.
Director Alison Hindell
Music by Olivier Messiaen and the two composers he most admired.
Joan Rodgers (soprano) Ameral Gunson (mezzo) BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Joly
Messiaen - Le tombeau resplendissant
Debussy - La damoiselle elue
Messiaen - L 'Ascension
Stravinsky - Canticum Sacrum
A piece for speaking voice on two-track tape based on texts by Gertrude Stein , composed and performed by Leigh Landy.
Nouritza Matossian introduces one of the most overpowering yet least known works from 1968.
Xenakis's ballet
Kraanerg is a cosmic vision encompassing a world population explosion.
Xenakis Kraanerg: ballet music for 4-channel tape and orchestra
Alpha Centauri Ensemble/ Roger Woodward
