Semiotics and Visual Art

with Paul Guinery , who includes an early masterpiece by Handel.
7.00 Ravel
Introduction and Allegro Jane 's Minstrels
7.15 Brahms
Warum ist das Licht gegeben
King's College Choir, Cambridge, conductor Stephen Cleobury
7.30 Handel
Dixit Dominus
Taverner Consort and Players, conductor Andrew Parrott
8.05 Bach
Prelude and Fugue in C (BWV547)
Peter Hurford (organ)
8.20 Brahms
Geistliches Lied
King's College Choir, Cambridge, conductor Stephen Cleobury
8.25 Stravinsky
Suite: The Firebird
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Ronald Zollman
Producer Gautam Rangarajan

John Lanchbery: La Fille malgardee (excerpts) - ROH Orchestra, conducted by The Composer

9.20 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 15 (Rakoczy March) - Georges Cziffra (piano)

9.25 Grieg Peer Gynt (Act 4) - Barbara Hendricks (sop) Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

9.48 Schein Suite No 7 in A minor - His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts

9.56 Bridge Summer - Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor Norman del Mar

10.07 Composer of the Week: Mozart
Sanctus and Benedictus (Mass in C minor) - Soloists Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner

10.17 Rameau Suite: Les Indes Galantes - La Chapelle Royale, conductor Philippe Herreweghe

10.33 Beethoven Piano Sonata in F, Op 54 - Alfred Brendel (piano)

10.46 Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor - Heinrich Schiff (cello) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn

11.33 Albinoni Concerto in C - John Wallace (trumpet) Philharmonia Orchestra

11.41 Artists of the Week: Busch Quartet
Mendelssohn Capriccio in E minor, Op 81 No 3

11.47 Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings - Peter Pears (tenor) Barry Tuckwell (horn) London Symphony Orchestra, conductor The Composer

(Discs)

Presented by Ivan Hewett. This week, new biographies of Leonard Bernstein and' Peter Warlock , a preview of Benedict Mason's new opera Playing Away and a report from the Glasgow Mayfest.

Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
Beethoven
Symphony No 4 in B flat
1.35 Interval Reading: Moscheles remembers
Beethoven.
1.45 Symphony No 7 in A

Red Byrd Fretwork
Dering City Cries Byrd Pavan
"Canon 2 in 1" Gibbons Fantasia a 2; In nomine a 5 Byrd
Though Amaryllis dance in green; Browning (The leaves be green)
Dering Country Cries
Musgrave Wild Winter (first performance) Dering Fantasia a 5 Lupo Fantasia a 5 (Ardo si: Ardi e gela)
Gibbons Cryes of London

conductor Libor Pesek
Ivan Moravec (piano)
Nicholas Maw The World in the Evening
Schumann Piano
Concerto in A minor
Beethoven
Symphony No 8 in F

Roy Porter reviews a week in the arts and talks to
Alison Prince , author of a new biography of Kenneth Grahame.
Producer Razia Iqbal

Piano Sonata in B flat,
Op 106 (Hammerklavier) Alfredo Perl (piano)

"The Lord has instructed me to take of your number, seven virgins for comfort and succour."
There's another chance to hear the adaptation by Mike Harris of Jane Rogers's novel, set in Ashton-under-Lyne in 1830. The seven women tell their story as the Prophet prepares for the end of the world.

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Presented by Anthony Payne. Jane Manning (soprano)
Jane's Minstrels, conductor Roger Montgomery
Payne The Song Streams in the Firmament
Keith Gifford
Moon Madness
Todd Brief Idols
(first UK broadcasts) Producer Andrew Kurowski

Together with his studio guest Simon Heighes. Brian Wright introduces an all-Bach programme.
Sinfonia (Cantata No
42); Ascension Oratorio (Cantata No 11);
Concerto in C for three violins (BWV 1064); Easter Oratorio
(BWV249)
Monika Frimmer (soprano) Ralf Popken (countertenor) Christoph Pregardien (tenor) David Wilson Johnson (bass) Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/ Gustav Leonhardt