Countdown to Algebra
with Paul Guinery , who today includes secular and sacred music from Hungary.
7.02 Elgar Overture: Froissart
BBC Philharmonic/ Vernon Handley
7.15 Handel Sonata in F, Op 1 No 11
Wissam Boustany (flute) leuan Jones (harp)
7.25 Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op 24 Emanuel Ax (piano)
7.50 Kodaly Missa Brevis Soloists
Brighton Festival Chorus/ Laszlo Heltay
Christopher Bowers -Broadbent (organ)
8.30 Weiner Hungarian Folk Dance Suite, Op 18 Philharmonia Orchestra/ Neeme Jarvi
Producer Piers Burton-Page
Bax Overture to a Picaresque Comedy London Philharmonic/Bryden Thomson
9.14 Dowland
Lachrimae Antiquae Fretwork
Christopher Wilson (lute)
9.18 Jenkins Six Airs
New York Kammermusiker
Double Reed Ensemble/ llonna Pederson
9.29 Debussy Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune Los Angeles PO/ Andre Previn
9.40 Artists of the Week: Academy of St Martin Chamber Ensemble
Mozart Divertimento in E flat (K113)
9.53 Dvorak Polonaise in E flat
Duo Crommelynck
10.00 Composer of the Week: Kern
Overture: Very Warm for May
National PO/John McGlinn
10.05 Lalo Rapsodie norvegienne
Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra/Antonio de Almeida
10.17 Thuille Sextet in B flat, Op 6
Dennis Russell Davies (piano)
Stuttgart Wind Quintet
10.48 Weber Wie nahte mir der Schlummer ...
Leise, leise, fromme Weise (Der Freischutz) Elisabeth Grummer (soprano)
Berlin PO/Joseph Keilberth
10.57 Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon duodecimi toni a 10; Canzon noni toni a 12 Wallace Collection/Simon Wright
11.04 Scarlatti Sonatas: in A minor (Kkl75) and A (Kk279)
Marcelle Meyer (piano)
11.17 Elgar Symphony No 1 in A flat
London Philharmonic/Vernon Handley
Producer Edward Blakeman
Discs
conductor Georg Solti Bartok Concerto for
Orchestra
Brahms Symphony No 1 in C minor
La rousserolle effarvatte
(Catalogue d'oiseaux) Messiaen's musical description of a day in the life of the reed warbler, played by Anatol Ugorski (piano) Discs
Novelist James Hamilton
Paterson's story is specially commissioned with BBC
Music Magazine.
A strange little man joins the family gathering. He sips some beer, eats some sausage rolls and, quite without ceremony, introduces himself as Robert Schumann ...
Read by Nigel Anthony. Producer Duncan Minshull
A recital of songs performed by John Mark Ainsley (tenor) and Julius Drake (piano).
BBC Philharmonic conductor Edward Downes
Peter Donohoe (piano) Strauss Don Juan
Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor
Gliere Suite: The Bronze
Horseman
Christopher Cook heads for the Wye Valley and the seventh Hay Festival of literature and arts.
Producer Claire McGinn
(cello)
Malcolm Bilson (fortepiano) Beethoven Sonata in G minor, Op 5 No 2
Sonata in A, Op 69
After his successful collaboration with Bertolt
Brecht in pre-Nazi Germany, Kurt Weill enjoyed a second career as a writer of musicals in wartime New York. He loved America. "I was
American before I arrived there," he said. But in this new play by Bruce Stewart he has to re-define his relationship with Brecht - now an exile in Hollywood - and remarry his first wife, the singer Lotte Lenya.
Director Shaun MacLoughlin
Paul Hindmarsh introduces a studio recording of the Goldberg Ensemble, director Malcolm Layfield , and pianist Peter Lawson , in some of the music featured in their recent series of new music concerts in Manchester.
Piers Hellawell Memorial
Cairns (1992)
Janet Owen Thomas Cantus
(sur la mode seconde) Lyell Cresswell The Pumpkin Massacre Karen Tanaka
Homage en crystal
Erkki-Sven Tuur Insula
Deserta
Producer Paul Hindmarsh
In conversation with Derek Watson, Brian Wright introduces two great Romantic masses - and a tribute to their source of inspiration, J.S. Bach.
Liszt Missa Solemnis - Veronika Kineses (soprano) Klara Takacs (alto) Andras Molnar (tenor) Janos Toth (bass) Hungarian Radio Chorus and SO/Andras Ligeti
Prelude and Fugue on BACH - Marie-Claire Alain (organ)
Bruckner Mass No 3 in F minor - Maria Stader (soprano) Claudia Hellmann (alto) Ernst Haefliger (tenor) Kim Borg (bass) Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eugen Jochum
Producer Gautam Rangarajan
