Arts: The Faust Legend

Presented by Paul Guinery and, from 9.05am, Anthony Burton. First, Paul Guinery introduces two hours of new releases.
J C Bach Symphony in E flat, Op 18 No
Academy of Ancient Music/ Simon Standage (violin)
7.15 Schubert Tantum ergo; Psalm 23
Soloists; Vienna Opera Concert Society Chorus
Vienna P O/Claudio Abbado
7.27 Nino Rota
Trombone Concerto
Christian Lindberg (trombone) Tapiola Sinfonietta/ Osmo Vanska
7.42 Brahms Cello Sonata in E minor, Op 38 Andres Diaz (cello)
Samuel Sanders (piano)
8.10 Bartok Five
Hungarian Songs Julia Hamari (mezzo)
Hungarian State Orchestra/ Janos Kovacs
8.22 Mozart Piano
Concerto No 20 in D minor
(K466)
John O'Conor (piano)
Scottish C O/Mackerras
9.00 News
9.05 Building a Library Scarlatti's Sonatas by Lionel Salter. Peter Paul
Nash reviews Kurt Masur 's new cycle of Beethoven's symphonies, the first based on the Critical Edition by Gülke and Hauschild. Alan
Blyth takes stock of Hyperion's voyage through
Schubert's complete songs, now at the half-way stage.
10.35 Record Release
A selection of Schubert songs from the recent
Hyperion volume with Lucia Popp (soprano) and Graham Johnson (piano).
10.50 Beethoven
Symphony No 6 in F Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra/Kurt Masur
11.35 Vllla-Lobos
Missa Sdo Sebastido
Corydon Singers/ Matthew Best
12.10 Anthony Burton talks to Graham Johnson , who has masterminded
Hyperion's mammoth project to record all Schubert's songs.
12.42 A further selection of Schubert songs, performed by Peter Schreier (tenor) and Graham Johnson
(piano).
Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury. Discs

(soprano)
Ivar Anton Waagaard (piano) A recital based on settings of Henrik Ibsen and Arne Garborg.
Grieg Solveig 's Song (Peer Gynt)
Adolf Soderman Solveig 's Lullaby (Peer Gynt)
Stenhammar Margit 's Aria (The Feast at Solhaug) Vagn Holmboe Three Songs, Op 34 (first performance)
Wemer Egk Schlafnun und ruh dich aus (Peer Gynt) Wolf Gudmunds erster Gesang; Gudmunds zweiter Gesang (Das Fest auf Solhaug)
Grieg Spillemaend Delius Spielmann
Grieg Margretes vuggesang Delius Wiegenlied Grleg En fugelvise
Delius Ein Vogelweise Grieg Ku-lok (first UK performance); Song-cycle: Haugtussa
(Given last November in the Wigmore Hall, London, in association with Kvaemera.s., as part of the Tender Is the North festival)

Mozart, arr Triebensee La ClemenzadiTito
(excerpts) Disc

Eighth of ten programmes. Bernstein and the 20th
Century
New York PO/Bernstein Ives The Unanswered
Question
Berg Violin Concerto Isaac Stern (violin)
Copland Piano Sonata
Leonard Bernstein (piano) Carter Concerto for
Orchestra
Ligeti Atmosphères Stravinsky Les Noces Soloists; English Bach Festival Chorus and Percussion Ensemble/ Leonard Bernstein
Ives Central Park in the Dark. Discs

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Ray Abbott

Christopher Cook reassesses classical myths in Roberto Calasso's book Cadmus and Harmony and modern theatrical interpretations - via Brendan Keneally's The Trojans, Sir Peter Hall's Lysistrata and the Caribbean relocation of the Phaedra myth in Felix Crosse's The Pan Beaters - with the help of Oliver Taplin, Margaret Walters and Nigel Spivey.

Borodin's opera of love and warfare, set in 12th-century Russia - one of the milestones of Russian nationalism - broadcast in a performance given last month by the Kirov Opera. Sung in Russian. (baritone) (soprano) (tenor) (bass) (bass) (mezzo) (sop) (sop)
Kirov Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev Part
8.50 The Song of Igor's Campaign
John Klier of University
College, London, reflects on the curious fate of the unique epic from which Borodin drew Prince Igor.

Poet Kathleen Raine is 85 on Monday. Here, she talks to Roberta Berke about her life and work and her impatience with contemporary British poetry. Reader Janet Suzman. Producer Piers Plowright

Hungarian Radio Chamber Ensemble/Diego Masson Franco Donatoni Tema
Luca Francesconi Da capo

Brian Morton introduces new and reissued recordings on CD, including saxophonists Joe Lovano and Ned Roghenberg , pianist Bheki Mseleku , and the music of Jimmy Van Heusen . Alyn Shipton reviews biographies of Benny Goodman by Ross Firestone and of Mahalia Jackson
by Jules Schwerin and two books by Bill Crow. Producer Derek Drescher