Ambient relaxing sound: dawn at Oxleas Wood. (Binaural sound - listening will be enhanced by the use of headphones)
with Catriona Young , including at approximately
7.05 Rossini
String Sonata No 6 in D
Bologna Teatro Communale Orchestra, conductor
Riccardo Chailly
7.30 Handel Coronation
Anthem: Zadok the Priest
Choir of King's College, Cambridge,
English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Philip Ledger
7.40 Rachmaninov
Variations on a Theme of Corelli Martin Jones (piano)
8.05 Mozart
Serenade in D (K239) (Serenata notturna) English Chamber
Orchestra/Jeffrey Tate
8.30 Strauss
Freundliche Vision, Op 48 No
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) Berlin RSO, conductor
George Szell
8.40 Brahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn Berlin PO, conductor Claudio Abbado
Discs
Presented by John Thornley. Allegro in A minor
(Lebenssturme) (D947) Imre Rohmann and Andras
Schiff (piano duet)
Auf dem Strom (D943) Peter Schreier (tenor) Peter Damm (horn)
Walter Olbertz (piano) Piano Trio in B flat
(D898)
Beaux Arts Trio
Discs
with Piers Burton-Page . Haydn
Piano Trio in E
(HXV28)
Vera Beths (violin)
Anner Bylsma (cello) Robert Levin (piano)
10.15 Scarlatti Sonatas in D (Kk397 and 18) Maggie Cole (harpsichord)
10.20 Artists of the Week: Bournemouth Sinfonietta
Honegger Concertino Tamas Vasary (director/piano)
10.30 Bartok
Five Songs, Op 16 Mary King (mezzo) Andrew Ball (piano)
10.50 Scariatti
Sonata in G (Kkl44)
Maggie Cole (harpsichord)
10.55 Tchaikovsky Fantasy: The Tempest
Bournemouth Symphony' Orchestra, conductor Andrew Litton
11.30 Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No 6
Dang Thai Son (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Alexander
Lazarev
Dmitri Alexeev (piano)
Debussy Nuages; Fêtes (Nocturnes)
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor
Musorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures from an Exhibition
Robin Holloway , in conversation with Stephen Plaistow , introduces two of his own works and a favourite piece by Benjamin Britten.
Holloway
Five Madrigals Britten
Hymn to St Cecilia Holloway
Hymn to the Senses
BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury
BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra conductors Richard Bernas and Tan Dun
Clive Swansbourne (piano) Stravinsky Scènes de ballet
Ian McQueen Phaedrus
(BBC commission - first performance)
Tan Dun Symphony: Death and Fire
Bartok Dance Suite
The training of performers in the Indian classical tradition starts not with the instrument but with the memory.
Dharambir Singh reveals the secrets of a sitar player to Errollyn Wallen.
Music and arts events with Mairi Nicolson in Manchester, where her guest is the American conductor James DePreis t.
Including at approximately
5.15 John Foulds April-
England
6.03 Ravel Alborada del gracioso
6.35 Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol
7.10 Brahms Waltz in A minor, Op 39 No 14 Producer Paul Hindmarsh
from Studio One.
Simon Keenlyside
(baritone)
Malcolm Martineau (piano) Debussy
Nuits d'étoiles; Les
Angelus; Mandoline Poulenc
Chansons gaillardes Mazurka; Un poeme;
Le disparu; A sa guitare; Montparnasse; Paganini Quatre Poemes de
Guillaume Apollinaire Deux Poèmes de Louis
Aragon
8.15 Poulenc in His Own
Words
A brief look at the life and music of Francis Poulenc as related in his correspondence and biographies.
8.35
Poulenc Teljour , telle nuit Faure Vocalise; Spleen;
Mandoline;
Lydia; Le secret; Rive d'amour
Another story from the BBC's latest annual collection of radio stories, which is published next week. The Pact by Joyce Carol Oates.
Read by Stuart Milligan.
Stephanie Gonley and Leo Phillips (violins) James Boyd (viola)
Sally Pendlebury (cello) Gubaldulina
String Quartet No 3 Mendelssohn
String Quartet in F minor, Op 80
Humphrey Carpenter assesses the new Oxford
Companion to the Bible. Producer Emma Kingsley
Third of six programmes.
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Gregory Rose
Timothy Hugh (cello) Haydn
Symphony No 88 in G Francaix Fantaisie; La douce France
Ambient relaxing sound: heartbeat.