Radio 3's new regular Sunday sequence, presented by Penny Gore .
Including today at 8.00 and
8.45 motets by John Tavener sung by the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral,
Oxford, conductor Stephen Darlington ; more from Peter Hurford 's BBC Bach organ survey, including at 7.15
Fantasia in G (BWV572) and 8.25 Trio Sonata No
6 in G(BWV 530); and at
7.25 Schumann's Piano
Concerto played by Imogen Cooper.
Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast) Vienna Philharmonic, conductor James Levine
9.15 Bach Have Mercy
Lord (St Matthew Passion) Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) David McCallum (violin) National Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Malcolm Sargent
9.24 Composer of the Week: Shostakovich Ballet Suite
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Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
9.38 Debussy Claire de Lune
Pascal Roge (piano)
9.44 Vivaldi Mandolin
Concerto in C (RV425) Ugo Orlandi (mandolin) I Solisit Veneti , conductor Claudio Scimone
9.54 Saint-Saens Air and Danse Bacchanale
(Samson et Dalila) Montreal Symphony, conductor Charles Dutoit
10.02
Mozart Divertimento in B flat
(K270)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
10.15 Robert Farnon
Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra
Raymond Cohen (violin) Royal Philharmonic, conductor The Composer
10.32 Beethoven
Prisoners' Chorus
(Fidelio)
Chicago Symphony, conductor Georg Solti
10.41
Boccherini Symphony in B flat, Op 12 No
National Philharmonic, conductor Raymond Leppard
11.02 Bartok Hungarian Sketches, Op 38
Chicago Symphony, conductor Fritz Reiner
11.13 Liszt La
Campanella;
Liebestraum No 3
Jorge Bolet (piano)
11.24 Artist of the Week:
Lindsay Quartet
Dvorak Romance (String Quartet No 5 in F minor)
11.33 Elgar The Music Makers
Linda Finnie (contralto)
London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson
Discs
Including Hugh Macdonald and John Eliot Gardiner on a newly discovered Berlioz Mass, and the continuing debate about the Performing Right Society. Presented by Ivan Hewett.
BBC Symphony Orchestra In the fourth concert of this series, recorded last week at the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, Andrew Davis conducts neo-classical works by these composers. Lynne Dawson (soprano) John Graham Hall (tenor) David Wilson-Johnson
(baritone)
Stravinsky Concerto in E flat (Dumbarton Oaks) Strauss Le Bourgeois
Gentilhomme Stravinsky Pulcinella (Final concert Tuesday 7.30pm)
Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin) Roger Vignoles (piano)
Beethoven Violin Sonata in A, Op 12No
Brahms Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op
Grieg Violin Sonata No 2 in G, Op 13
Ravel Tzigane
conductor Neeme Jarvi
Truis Mork (cello) Arvo Part Fratres
Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No 1
Franz Schmidt
Symphony No 3
Lisa Jardine talks to essayist Gore Vidal , whose collected works are published this week. Producer Adrian Washboume
Vespers
St Petersburg Glinka State Choir
by Marieluise Fleisser. The first in a season of three European plays recently revived at London's Gate Theatre is by Germany's greatest and most original female dramatist. Written in 1926, while she was Brecht's lover, the play records the effects of an army visit to a small German town.
Music by Stephen Warbeck Director Kate Rowland
Ben Watson introduces a concert given by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and American guitarist Bill Frisell , conducted by composer Mike Gibbs.
Danny Longstaff (trombone) Colin Lilley (flutes)
Berio Sequenza No 5 Bill Frisell
Guitar Improvisations Reich
Vermont Counterpoint Mike Gibbs
Bloods of Dust
(commissioned by Birmingham Jazz- first performance)
First in a regular series featuring oratorios and other large choral works. Tonight, presenter George Guest talks with conductor
John Eliot Gardiner about the Monteverdi Choir and his approach to a baroque masterpiece.
Bach Mass in B minor
Nancy Argenta , Lynne Dawson , Jane Fairfield,
Jean Knibbs and Patricia
Kwella (sopranos)
Carol Hall and Mary Nichols (mezzos)
Michael Chance , Patrick Collin and Ashley Stafford (countertenors)
Wynford Evans , Howard Milner and Andrew
Murgatroyd (tenors)
Richard Lloyd Morgan and Stephen Varcoe (basses) Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot
Gardiner. Discs
