Anthony Burton introduces two hours of new releases. Mozart Schon weichet dir, Sonne (Thamos,
Konig in Agypten, K345) Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot
Gardiner
7.10 Fine Partita
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
7.25 Saint-Saens Cello
Concerto No 1 in A minor Sophie Rolland (cello) BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gilbert Varga
7.47 Honegger Pacific
Toulouse Capitole
Orchestra, conductor
Michel Plasson
7.55 Martin Trois Danses
Heinz Holliger (oboe) Ursula Holliger (harp) Academy of St Martin , conductor Neville Marriner
8.15 J C Bach Sonata in C minor, Op 17 No 2
Robert Woolley (fortepiano)
8.35 Janacek Lachian
Dances
Brno State Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Frantisek Jilek
9.00 Building a Library
Mendelssohn's Elijah by Roderick Swanston. David
Fanning on new releases of piano music.
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10.20 Record Release
Beethoven 12 Variations on a Russian Dance
(WoO 71)
Olli Mustonen (piano)
10.32 Debussy Images oubliées
Jos Van Immerseel (piano)
10.46 Chopin Piano Sonata No 3, Op 58
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
11.20 Reissues Bernard
Keeffe has been listening to some of Lorin Maazel 's recordings from the 60s and 70s, recently reissued on Decca's mid-price label Ovation.
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11.40 Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Hamlet, Op 67
Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Lorin Maazel
Producers Clive Portbuiy and Patrick Lambert
Discs
The first of two programmes exploring the music of the Russian
Orthodox Church.
Until the 18th century, the Church fostered an ancient and rich tradition of monophonic chant and curious (to our ears) dissonant harmonies which owe nothing to Western musical theory. Christopher Page's guest is Michael Fortunatto.
Producer Kate Bolton
Philip French quarries gems from the BBC Sound
Archives. This week, Robert Graves on "A poet and his public".
Overture: Satyricon; Concerto Pastorale;
Piano Concerto in E flat Ronan O'Hora (piano)
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Kenneth Montgomery
In the second of an eight-part survey, Anthony Rooley introduces his selection from Monteverdi's Second Book of Madrigals, published in 1590, performed by the Consort of Musicke. Discs
Galina Solodchin and John Trusler (violins)
John Underwood (viola)
Jonathan Williams (cello)
Haydn String Quartet in B flat, Op 1 No 1 (La Chasse)
Schubert String Quartet in A minor (D804)
I from the Royal I Opera House, London.
Die Meistersinger von
Nurnberg Wagner 's epic "comic opera" in three acts is a human tale of passion, intrigue and love. It's also an affirmation of the power of great German art.
Tonight's performance of Graham Vick 's new production stars
John Tomlinson as the heroic poet-cobbler Hans Sachs, Nancy Gustafson as Eva and Gosta Winbergh as Walter - her knight in shining armour.
Presented by Donald Macleod.
Royal Opera Chorus Royal Opera House
Orchestra, conductor
Bernard Haitink
Act
5.25 Music Matters
This week Ivan Hewett visits Antwerp, 1993's City of Culture, to find out why the director Eric Antonis declares that "art and democracy do not mix". And a look back at the music of London's Georgian pleasure gardens.
6.00 Act 2
7.00 The James Naughtie Interview
The first of a new series in which James Naughtie talks to people who make opera happen.
Tonight it's the director of this evening's opera, Graham Vick.
7.40 Act 3
(In association with Cable and Wireless pic)
by Simon Gray.
With Jack Shepherd as George Blake and Bill Nighy as Sean Bourke.
The facts are that George Blake , sentenced to 42 years' imprisonment, was "sprung" from Wormwood Scrubs by Sean Bourke , who subsequently visited him in Russia.
The play speculates on the curious association between such strange bedfellows.
Director Jane Morgan
Forsaking his Acoustic and Elektric bands, the pianist Chick Corea gave a rare solo recital in the Royal Festival Hall in March.
He included Blue Monk and Round Midnight by Thelonious Monk,
Sophisticated Lady by Duke Ellington, a prelude by Scriabin, and a group of his own Children's Songs. The recording is introduced by Brian Morton , who talks to Chick Corea during the interval.
