Modern Art: Pissarro -
Politics and Painting

Paul Guinery introduces performances of four substantial classics, including a new performance by the BBC Singers of an unfamiliar liturgical work by Dvorak.
7.02 Bach Four Pieces
(Claviertibung III) Peter Hurford (organ)
7.20 Rachmaninov
The Isle of the Dead, Op 39
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Jerzy Maksymiuk
7.45 Brahms String Quintet in F, Op 88 Members of the Berlin
Philharmonic Octet
8.15 Dvorak Mass in D
BBC Singers, conductor John Poole
Margaret Phillips (organ) Producer Piers Burton-Page

Walton
"Spitfire " Prelude and Fugue
9.12 Bach
Well- Tempered Klavier, Book 1: Preludes and Fugues in D and D minor (BWV 850-1)
9.18 Bach, arr Schoenberg Schmucke dich; Komm, Gott schopfer
9.25 Berlioz
Marche Hongroise;
Chanson Gothique (La Damnation de Faust)
9.35 Puccini, arr Bayless Musetta 's Waltz (La Boheme)
9.40 Delius, arr Beecham Over the Hills and Far
Away
9.53 Handel
Chandos Anthem No 6:
As Pants the Hart
10.16
Sarasate Fantasia on Themes from Carmen
10.29 Artist of the Week: Boris Christoff (bass) Trad, arr Potorjinski Bandoura
Trad, arr Labinsky-Tchernoyarov
Le long de Piterskaia
10.35 Tchaikovsky Suite No 4 in G:
Mozartiana
10.58 Hasselmans
La Source
11.03 Mahler, arr David and Colin Matthews Early Songs
11.14 Debussy
Danse sacrée et danse profane
11.23 J C Bach
Symphony for double orchestra, Op 18 No 1
11.37 Boris Christoff (bass) Musorgsky
Desire; Gopak
11.43 Suk Praga
Producer Edward Blakeman. Discs

Antje Weithaas (violin)
Michael Sanderling (cello)
European Community Youth Orchestra, conductor
Kurt Sanderling
Brahms Double Concerto in A minor
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor

Stephen Plaistow introduces the first of four concerts from the West Road Concert Hall reflecting the quartet's residency this year. Haydn
String Quartet in C. Op 33 No 3 (Bird) Beethoven
String Quartet in F, Op 135 Brahms
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34 with Martin Roscoe (piano) A Cavendish production

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Tasmin Little (violin)
Sibelius Symphony No 6 Bruch
Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor
Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No 1

The pick of the arts week and a refreshing radio diary. Producer Neil Trevithick

Amanda Roocroft (soprano) City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Handel Sinfonia ; Ah, mio cor (Alcina)
Haydn Symphony No 44 in E minor (Trauer)
Mozart Exsultate Jubilate
(K165)

Clifford Odets passionately captured the feel of a New York union meeting in the depth of the Depression in 1935 with this ground-breaking drama.
This production was recorded in front of a live audience at the Paris Studio in London, with William Hootkins as the union secretary Harry Fatt , and Bob Sherman as the First Voice.
Producer Ned Chaillet

Ruth Geiger (piano)
Bach Capriccio on the Departure of a Beloved Brother (BWV 992) Beethoven
Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 81a (Les Adieux)

A special programme to mark Robin Holloway 's
50th year. Oliver Knussen , in conversation with the composer, introduces studio recordings of Holloway's Double
Concerto and Suite for solo saxophone. Also, a concert recording of the Violin Concerto. Producer Philip Tagney

Presented by Brian Wright.

Dvorak: Stabat Mater - Krisztina Lati (soprano), Mariana Paunova (contralto), Richard Margison (tenor), Thomas Paul (bass), Prague Philharmonic Chorus, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jiri Belohlavek

Szymanowski: Stabat Mater - Jill Gomez (soprano), Bernadette Greevy (mezzo), David Wilson-Johnson (bass), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen