with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 Handel Water Music Suite No 1 (excerpts)
English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
7.25 Britten Reveille
Lorraine McAslan (violin) John Blakely (piano)
7.32 Prokoflev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit
8.05 Wagenaar Overture: Twelfth Night
Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly
8.25 Mozart Ave Verum
Corpus (K618)
Netherlands Chamber Choir
La Petite Bande, conductor Sigiswald Kuijken
8.32 Shostakovich Piano
Concerto No 2 in F
The Composer (piano) French National Radio
Orchestra/Andre Cluytens Discs
Presented by David Wyn Jones. Mozart and Mannheim
Mozart Piano Sonata in C
(K309)
Andras Schiff (piano)
Ballet Music: Idomeneo
(excerpts)
English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner
Danzi String Quartet (Aus Figaro)
Sinnhoffer Quartet
Introduction, Theme and Variations
Dieter Klocker (clarinet) Berlin Radio SO/Jesus Lopez-Cobos. Discs
with Chris de Souza.
Uipzig: Five Centuries of Music-Making
More vocal and instrumental music from
Schein to Weill, including
10.04
Schumann Requiem fur Mignon, Op 98b
Paula Bott and Pamela
Priestley-Smith (sopranos) Teresa Perrett (contralto) Mark Wildman (bass) BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Simon Joly
10.20 Bach Orchestral
Suite No 3 in D
(BWV1068)
Amsterdam Baroque
Orchestra, director
Ton Koopman
10.45 Kuhnau Biblical
Sonata No 5 (The Saviour of Israel: Gideon) Christian Brembeck
(harpsichord)
10.53 Mendelssohn Lass , OHerr, mich Hulfe finden, Op 96
Nathalie Stutzmann
(contralto)
Guillaume Tourmiaire (organ) Gulbenkian Foundation
Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Michel Corboz
11.05 Artists of the Week: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral) conductor Kurt Masur
Time, love, human frailty and fate are the themes of Monteverdi's Venetian opera. The story is based on the last part of the Odyssey, but Penelope, not Ulysses, is the centre of attention. She has waited years for his return: now that he is here, can she accept him? Presented by Donald Macleod. Sung in Italian.
Concerto Vocale conductor Rene Jacobs Discs
(Monteverdi's Orfeo next rues 7.00pm)
conductor Richard Pittman
Judith Hall (flute)
Ellen Taaffe Zwlllch
Prologue and Variations Wallingford Rlegger Dichotomy
Charles Griffes Poem
David Owen Norris in Birmingham, with guest Nikolaus Hamoncourt.
Including at approximately
5.03 Mozart Concerto in E flat for two pianos (K365) (1st mvt)
6.00 Beethoven
Symphony No 1 in C
7.00 Zelenka Hipocondrie Producer Jeremy Hayes
from the Royal
Festival Hall, London. conductor Bernard Haitink
Emanuel Ax (piano)
Mozart Piano Concerto
No 22 in E flat (K482)
8.05 Plus ca change
Donald Rayfield , Professor of Russian at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, reflects on the curious weakening of literary output in Eastern
European countries, now that writers are free to pursue genres other than their well-rehearsed one of silence.
8.25 Shostakovich Symphony No 8
Last in the history of the Royal Philharmonic Society. The Search for Identity The society played a significant part in sustaining London's musical life during the Second World
War. But in the years since then the society has had to re-think its role as a concert-promoting body and find new ways of justifying its existence. Andrew Green talks to RPS administrator
Richard Fisher.
Series producer Fiona Shelmerdine
Haydn's settings of words by Anne Hunter , sung by Carolyn Watkinson
(contralto), with Glen Wilson (piano). discs
Hermione Lee discusses the world premiere of a play by Rod Wooden about Ket's rebellion in Norfolk in 1549. Producer Trevor Showier
Body Language lain Burnside presents an anatomy lesson in song, with music ranging from Brahms to the Beatles, from Poulenc to Piaf.
Except in Scotland.
As broadcast 9.0010.05am on R5
