Culture and Belief in Europe: The Faust Legend

with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 Ponchielll Il
Convegno: Divertimento for two clarinets
7.20 William Lawes
Fantasia-Suite No 2 in G
7.50 Bach OJesu Christ , meine Lebens Licht
(BWV118b)
8.05 Prokoflev
Overture on Hebrew
Themes, Op 34
8.22 Rimsky-Korsakov Prince Ivan 's Aria
(Kashchei the Immortal)
8.30 Hovhaness
Symphony No 22 (City of Light). Discs

(died 14 June 1594) 2: Requiem for the New Orpheus
To mark the anniversary day, Mark Brown conducts Pro Cantione Antiqua in Lassus's Requiem for four voices. The movements are interspersed with readings from eulogies and memorials to the composer, and with instrumental elaborations of his much-admired setting of the chanson Susanne un Jour by composers from all over Europe.
Presented by Hugh Keyte.

with Chris de Souza.
10.05 Orff Die SSnger der Vorwelt
BBC Singers
London Sinfonietta, conductor Simon Joly
10.15 Artist of the Week:
Nikolai Demidenko (piano) Medtner Piano Concerto
No 2 in C minor
BBC Scottish SO, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk
11.00 Bush Symphony No 2 (Guildford)
LSO/Nicholas Braithwaite
11.25 Chopin Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor
Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
11.35 John Adams The
Wound Dresser
David Wilson-Johnson (bar) BBC SO/Andrew Mogrelia

conductor Adrian Leaper Michael Thompson (horn) Strauss Prelude and Dance Scene (Ariadne auf Naxos)
Reger Scherzino for horn and strings; Romantic Suite Strauss
Horn Concerto No 1 in E flat

2.00 First Steps in Drama

2.15 Letterbox

2.25 Time to Move

2.45 Le Club

The first of two programmes featuring two recent chamber works by Diana Burrell.
Lowri Blake (cello)
Caroline Palmer (piano) Schumann, arr Gendron
Three Romances, Op 94 Burrell
Heron (first broadcast) Busoni Serenata; Kulta Selle (Variations on a Finnish Theme)

BBC Philharmonic conductor Enrique Barrios Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Lutoslawski Fanfare for
Lancaster University Beethoven Overture:
Leonora No 3
Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No 1
Mozart
Adagio in E (K261) Stravinsky Suite: The
Firebird (1919 version) (Given at Lancaster University and sponsored by Barclay's Bank)

Tommy Pearson discovers some musical instruments that not only sound good but also look stunning. He visits Birmingham
Conservatoire to talk to Mark Lockett about its
Javanese gamelan complete with carved dragons, and to Andrew Garlick who elaborately decorates the harpsichords he makes.

Music, news and arts stories with Mairi Nicolson from Manchester. Including at approximately
5.20 Schubert
Die schone Mullerin (excerpts)
6.03 Dvorak
Carnival Overture
7.02 Sandy Wilson , arr Maxwell Davies
Suite: The Boyfriend Producer Paul Hindmarsh

The first broadcast performance of a new opera with music by Benedict Mason and text by Howard Brenton , given by Opera North at the Grand Theatre, Leeds. Playing Away is a livid, vicious travesty of the Faust legend, and its target is the football scene, with its stars, officials, hooligans and wheeler-dealers. Presented by Piers Burton-Page . (tenor) (soprano) (mezzo)(bantone) (bass) (bar) (mezzo)(bass) (mezzo) (countertenor) (sop)
Opera North Chorus English Northern
Philharmonia/Paul Daniel

Kenneth Shenton reflects on the languishing reputations of five English composers. 2: Thomas Attwood
Mozart's favourite pupil and one of Mendelssohn's best friends, Attwood was organist at St Paul's and composer to the Chapel Royal.
(Next programme tomorrow 9.55pml

with Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Moeran
String Quartet in E flat
Britten Six Metamorphoses after Ovid
Bax Oboe Quintet

Christopher Cook discusses a major exhibition of the work of R B Kitaj at the Tate Gallery in London.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor Grant Llewellyn Rebecca Evans (soprano) Schubert
Overture in D (D556)
Mozart Vado , ma dove?
(K583); Voi avete un cor fedele (K217)
Haydn Symphony No 101 in D (Clock)

1.00 As broadcast 2.00-3.00pm
2.00 Word Games 2.10
Something to Think About: Infant Assemblies