Witness to Change
Mozart
Overture: Le Nozze di
Figaro
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mark Wigglesworth
7.05 Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
BBC Philharmonic, conductor
Yan Pascal Tortelier
7.27 Ravel
La valse
BBC Philharmonic, conductor
Jean-Claude Casadesus
7.41 Bartok
Suite: The Miraculous Mandarin
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Mark Wigglesworth
8.02 Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
Raphael Oleg (violin) BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
8.31 Haydn
Symphony No 99 in E flat BBC Welsh Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Mark Wigglesworth
Artist of the Week:
Trevor Pinnock , harpsichordist and director of the English Concert. Boyce
Symphony No 2 in A
9.12 Lehar
Gold and Silver Waltz, Op 79
9.22 Boccherini
Guitar Quintet No 4 in D (Fandango)
9.40 Butterworth
The Banks of Green Willow
9.48 Byrd
0 Lord, Make Thy Servant Elizabeth
9.51 Ginastera
Dances (Estancia)
10.05 Puccini
Love Duet (Madama Butterfly)
10.21 Composer of the Week preview:
Gershwin 's Wonderful; The Man I Love; Strike Up the Band
10.31 Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor
11.02 Anon
In Taberna Quando Sumus (Carmina Burana)
11.05 Orff In Taberna
(Carmina Burana)
11.16 Bach
Prelude and Fugue in F minor (Well-
Tempered Clavier)
11.25 Falla
Nights in the Gardens of Spain. Discs
In the second of three programmes celebrating the English choral tradition,
Christopher Page talks to
Timothy Day and John Potter. Producer Kate Bolton
Music for the church, home and court by Purcell and his English contemporaries. 4: Town and Country
A musical celebration of town and country life. Discs
England v Australia
Ball-by-ball commentary on the fourth day's play of the First Cornhill Test at
Old Trafford by Brian Johnston , Jonathan Agnew ,
Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Neville Oliver. With expert comment from
Trevor Bailey and David Lloyd. Scorer Bill Frindall. (Morning coverage on Radio 5)
3.45-4.00 At the Bookstall A look at early-season cricket publications.
A selection of music on disc.
Radio 3's season of the complete plays of Christopher Marlowe, in honour of his quatercentenary, continues with his political thriller about the king who put his heart before his kingdom. Edward II is about love and kingship, the burden of responsibility and the use and abuse of power.
Despite God's appointment of this mercurial king, the barons are spitefully aware of their own strength and determined to ensure that Edward fulfils their own power fantasies. Nothing annoys them more than Edward's uncertainty about what should take precedence - his own deep bond to his favourite Piers Gaveston or his duty to God and his country.
The director of this production, Clive Brill, says: "We've used a string quartet to drive the story forward, to underline the inner wranglings of the mind versus the need for political expedience, and to complement the tangled ambitions and complex emotions."
To complement this production, Radio 4 presents a new play by Colin Haydn Evans,
Gaveston, tomorrow at 7.45pm.
Lady Margaret .FEDERAY HOLMES Music by Dominique Legendre played by the Ad Hoc String Quartet and Maclek Hrybowicz (percussion) Director Clive Brill
conductor
Mark Wigglesworth
Janice Cairns (soprano) Jean Rigby (contralto) Robert Tear (tenor) Mark Beesley (bass)
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
Strauss Tod und Verkldrung
Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral)
(Given last December in the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow)
In the second of two programmes featuring the Nash Ensemble,
Susan Bradshaw introduces recent s of three new works.
Conductor Lionel Friend , with Lucy Shelton (soprano) Elena Firsova Odyssey Dmitri Smimov
Eight-Line Poems Petr Eben
Piano Quintet
