Generals of the Revolution:
Brunei
Music, news and weather with Piers Burton-Page , including at approximately
7.00 Byrd Quomodo Cantabimus
The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers
7.40 Martinu La revue de cuisine
Saint Paul Chamber
Orchestra, conductor Christopher Hogwood
8.00 Shostakovich
Incidental Music to
Hamlet, Op 32
Leningrad Chamber Orchestra, conductor Eduard Serov
8.30 Malcolm Arnold
Guitar Concerto, Op 67 Julian Bream (guitar) City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle Discs
Anthony Burton talks to
Michael Tippett about his life and music.
The singing will never be done Triple Concerto (2nd mvt)
Ernst Kovacic (violin) Gerard Causse (viola)
Alexander Baillie (cello) BBC Philharmonic
Orchestra, conducted by the composer
The Blue Guitar
(2nd and 3rd mvts) Norbert Kraft (guitar) String Quartet No 5 Lindsay Quartet
The Mask of Time (conclusion)
Faye Robinson (soprano) Sarah Walker (mezzo) Robert Tear (tenor) John Cheek (bass) BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis. Discs
conductor
Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano)
Thomas Trotter (organ)
Strauss Don Juan , Op 20 Mozart
Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat (K595)
Salnt.Saëns Symphony No 3 in C minor, Op 78 (Organ)
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Prokofiev Piano Sonata No Discs
Settings by Mahler of texts from the great collection of German folk poetry. Lucia Popp (soprano)
Andreas Schmidt (baritone) Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Leonard Bernstein
Robert Crawford String Quartet No 2
Dvorak String Quartet No 14 in A flat
Bedfordshire County Youth Orchestra, conductor Michael Rose
Kathleen Livingstone (soprano)
Margaret Cable (mezzo) Bedfordshire Combined
Choirs
Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture
Mahler Symphony No 2 (Resurrection)
Fretwork:
Wendy Gillespie
Richard Campbell Julia Hodgson Susanna Pell
Richard Boothby William Hunt
Nicholas Parle (organ) Jenkins
Fantasias: No 3 in C minor; No 4 in D minor William Lawes Consort Suite No 4 in G minor
Jenkins Fantasy No 8 in A minor
In Nomine No 1
Alex Knapp presents songs and dances of the exuberant and controversial Hassidic traditions which grew up in the Jewish ghettos and villages of Eastern Europe - including the habbad and niggun, melodic expressions of the yearning for divine bliss; and a re-creation of a Jewish wedding feast. Producer John Thomley
Music, news, interviews and arts reports with Edward Greenfield. Producer Sarah Devonald
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
London Baroque, conductors Charles Medlam and Stephen Cleobury
Lynne Dawson (soprano) Derek Lee Ragin and Timothy Wilson (countertenors)
Stephen Varcoe (bass) Choir of King's College, CambridgeÃ
Byrd Laetentur coeli; Tribue Domine; Attolite portas; O lux beata Trinitas; Laudate pueri
8.10 Mr Handel of Brook Street, W1
"George Frederick Handel, you are charged with having bewitched us for 20 years". Michael Oliver conjures up some of Handel's closest friends and most ardent supporters, who enjoyed the music and company of this "portly and humorous man".
8.30 Handel Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 6 No 6; Silete Venti
Purcell Come ye Sons of Art
Cats, cauliflowers, clowns and celestial longings - an exploration in sound and music of the artist Joan Mirõ's Harlequin's
Carnival (1924), with music by Richard Attree.
Producer Piers Plowright
Janet Hilton (clarinet) Ronan O'Hora (piano) Berg
Four Pieces, Op 5 Brahms
Clarinet Sonata in E flat, Op 120 No
Mlro's Dream of Creation
Richard Calvocoressi celebrates the centenary of Joan Miro 's birth by looking again at the career and achievements of a man with the unconscious simplicity of a peasant, but who possessed one of the most fertile imaginations of any artist this century. Producer Judith Bumpus
Alan Hall introduces an atmospheric open-air performance of a late work by the late John Cage : Fifty Eight for concert band.
Producer Philip Tagney
