Generals of the Revolution:
Bessemer and Steel
with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat (BWV1051)
English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
7.22 Faure Trois
Romances sans paroles, Op 17
Pascal Roge (piano)
7.30 Mozart Concertone in C (K190)
Jaap Schroder and Marilyn McDonald (violins)
Smithsonian Chamber
Orchestra
8.05 Biber Ne Cedite Mentes
Niederaltaicher Sholaren , conductor Konrad Ruhland
8.25
Glazunov Elegie , Op 44
Nabuko Imai (viola)
Roland Pontinen (piano)
8.45 Stanford
Irish Rhapsody No 2 in F minor, Op 84
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley. Discs
Presented by William Mival.
Fireworks
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Antal Dorati
Symphony in C
CBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by The Composer
Cantata
Yvonne Kenny (soprano) John Aler (tenor)
London Sinfonietta, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.
(Discs)
Artist of the week:
Rafael Kubelik
Wagner Overture: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra
10.10 Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 1 in C
Geza Anda (piano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
10.43 Jan Kubelik
Minuet in the Old Style Vaclav Snitil (violin) Josef Hala (piano)
10.47 Suk String Quartet in B flat, Op 11 Kocian Quartet
11.16 Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor
Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik
In the second of three programmes, an augmented Joachim Trio plays the best-known of Chausson's three major chamber pieces, the hybrid Concerto for violin, piano and string quartet. Chausson Très calme (String Quartet in C minor, Op 35)
Rebecca Hirsch and Clare MacFarlane (violins) James Boyd (viola)
Caroline Dearnley (cello) Haydn Variations in F minor (H XVII 6)
Mikhail Pletnev (piano) Chausson
Concerto in D, Op 21 Rebecca Hirsch (violin) John Lenehan (piano) Clare MacFarlane and Leland Chen (violins) James Boyd (viola)
Caroline Dearnley (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra, conductor
David Robertson
Pascal Devoyon (piano) Strauss Don Juan
Ravel Piano Concerto in G Vaughan Williams Symphony No 6 in E minor
Ian Munro (piano)
Gubaidulina Musical Toys Grechaninov A Child's Day, Op
Rachmaninov Moments Musicaux, Op 16
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
James MacDonald Reid (bagpipes)
Igor Oistrakh (violin) Maxwell Davies
An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No 2
Shostakovich
Symphony No 10
Music, news, interviews and arts stories, from
Birmingham with Michael Berkeley.
Producer Jeremy Hayes
L'ltaliana in Algeri from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
The Italian Girl in Algiers,
Rossini's comic opera to a libretto by Angelo Anelli.
Sung in Italian. Presented by Piers Burton-Page .
This is the first opera in the Royal Opera's new season to be broadcast, and the first of Radio 3's annual series of 12 live relays from Covent Garden. Marilyn
Home heads a superb cast of Rossini specialists in this delightful comedy in which two Italian lovers dupe a lecherous Algerian ruler. (mezzo)(tenor )(bar) (bass) (sop)(mezzo)(bass)
Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Carlo Rizzi
Act
8.35 Marilyn Home , recognised as one of opera's great Rossinians, talks to Rodney Milnes about her career as an opera singer, and reveals how she copes with the demands Rossini puts on the voice.
8.55 Act 2
Rhapsody No 2
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, director Michael Tilson Thomas (piano) Discs
Roy Porter presents tonight's programme, which includes a first night review of Troilus and Cressida at the Contact Theatre,
Manchester, and a studio performance by the Smith Quartet.
Producer Trevor Showier
Anne Sofie von Otter
(soprano)
Bengt Forsberg (piano) Nils-Erik Sparf (viola) Brahms Eight Gypsy Songs, Op 103; Two Songs, Op 91
Grieg Haugtussa Discs
Except in Scotland.
As broadcast 9.00-10.25am on R5
Shakespeare - Julius Caesar
