Maths: Relations

with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Boccherini
Octet (Notturno) in G, Op 38 No 4
Tafelmusik, director
Jeanne Lamon
7.20 Satie
3 Gymnopedies
Pascal Roge (piano)
7.30 Mozart Piano
Concerto No 3 in D (K40) Yvonne Loriod (piano)
L'Orchestre du Domaine
Musical, conductor Pierre Boulez
8.05 Handel The King Shall Rejoice
Choir of Westminster Abbey English Concert, conductor Simon Preston
8.30 Philips
Pavan and Galliard
Parley of Instruments
8.40 Stanford Irish
Rhapsody No 4 in A minor
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley

Domenico Scarlatti
Sonatas: in D minor
(KkUl); in G (Kk454-455)
Andreas Staier
(harpsichord)
Alessandro Scarlatti
Lamentations for Holy Week: First Lesson of Matins for Good Friday Noemi Rime and Martina
Lins (sopranos)
Le Parlement de Musique, director Martin Gester
Domenico Scarlatti
Sonatas in B flat
(Kk544-545)
Ton Koopman (harpsichord) Alessandro Scarlatti
Lamentations for Holy
Week: Second Lesson of Matins for Good Friday Noemi Rime and Martina
Lins (sopranos)
Le Parlement de Musique, director Martin Gester

Artist of the Week:
Janet Baker (mezzo)
Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben, Op 42 Martin Isepp (piano)
10.23 Dvorak Wind
Serenade in D minor, Op 44
Academy of St Martin , conductor Neville Marriner
10.47 Mahler 5Ruckert Songs
Janet Baker (mezzo) New Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor
John Barbirolli
11.07 Martinu
Symphony No 4
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson
11.40 Wolf 10 Songs to texts by Goethe
Janet Baker (mezzo)
Barry MacDaniel (baritone) Paul Hamburger and Ernest Lush (pianos)

Vivaldi wrote more than 40 operas, and substantially revived several of them for different productions. The music of his serious opera Montezuma (1733), about the conquest of Mexico by Fernando Cortes , has been lost, but the libretto survives.
Jean-Claude Maigoire has constructed an opera to this text following a common 18th-century practice of drawing on music from different sources. Because the language and expression of early eighteenth-century opera seria was fairly generalized, brilliant and passionate arias from several Vivaldi operas have been easily fitted to words which here explore the same emotions as in the originals. Sung in Italian.
La Grande Ecurie et la
Chambre du Roy, conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire. Discs

Talich Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op
Janacek String Quartet No 1, "Kreutzer Sonata" Dvorak String Quartet No 13 in G

Andrew Green talks to US composer Morton Gould. Producer Andrew Mussett

BBC Philharmonic conductor Edward Downes
Kathryn Stott (piano) Beethoven Piano
Concerto No 2 in B flat
Khrennikov Symphony No 2 (first UK performance)

In the fourth of five talks comparing British and American musical life,
Andrew Porter discusses going to a concert.

The Semi-Finals
Music from the last round of the semi-final recitals to decide which six pianists will go forward to the Concerto finals tomorrow and on Saturday. Presented by Stephen Plaistow.
(The finals begin tomorrow at 6.55pm)

In the last of six programmes on the development of jazz, Max Easterman looks at and the birth of two opposing movements. Trumpeter Lou Watters led the first real revivalist band, playing back-to-the-roots King
Oliver-style jazz. By contrast, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie was beginning to develop elements of bebop style with the Cab Calloway Band, and his future colleague, saxophonist Charlie Parker , was making his first records with Jay McShann 's band.

David Owen Norris presents a reappraisal of his legacy.

Canteloube Songs of the Auvergne
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Jeffrey Tate
Britten Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse; La belle est au jardin d'amour; The Miller of Dee; Ca' the yowes; The ploughboy Peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamin Britten (piano) Bartok Four Old
Hungarian Folksongs
Orphei Drangar , conductor Eric Ericson
Berio Folksongs
Jard van Nes (mezzo) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor
Riccardo Chailly. Discs