Talking about the Enlightenment

Presented by Anthony Burton. Hovhaness Symphony No 2 (Mysterious Mountain) Seattle Symphony, conductor Gerard Schwarz
7.20 Brahms Violin
Sonata No 2 in A, Op 100 Vladimir Spivakov (violin) Mikhail Rudy (piano)
7.43 Krommer Symphony in C minor, Op 102
London Mozart Players, conductor Matthias Bamert
8.15 Scriabin Piano
Sonata No 3 in F sharp minor, Op 23
Yuki Matsuzawa (piano)
8.37 Ravel
Bolero Berlin PO/Pierre Boulez
9.00 Building a Library Handel's Israel in Egypt by John Steane. Stephen Plaistow reviews new releases of contemporary music by Benedict Mason , Dominic Muldowney , Mark-Anthony Tumage and others.
10.15 Record Release
Kevin Volans String
Quartet No 2 (Hunting: Gathering)
Balanescu Quartet
10.40 Gavin Bryars Glorious Hill
Hilliard Ensemble
10.53 Benedict Mason
Double Concerto
Michael Thompson (horn) David Purser (trombone) London Sinfonietta, conductor Diego Masson
11.15 Reissues
Robert Philip has been listening to reissues of the Flonzaley Quartet, the Busch Quartet and the Boyd Neel String Orchestra.
11.38 Mozart String Quartet in D (K575) Flonzaley Quartet
Producers Patrick Lambert and Clive Portbury. Discs
(Revised 3.00pm)

Philip Pickett talks to
George Pratt about past and future projects with the New London Consort.
Producer Kate Bolton

3: His Lordship Abo Snores A look at crime and punishment from Piers
Plowman to The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
Compiled by Leo Aylen.
Producer Fiona McLean

Thomas Zehetmair (violin) Tabea Zimmermann (viola) Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Schubert Allegro in B flat (D471) Schoenberg Trio, Op 45 Mozart Divertimento in E flat (K563)

performs Suk's anthology of piano pieces on childhood, Christmas, sleep and death, the Six Lullabies, Op 33.

Richard Osborne presents a nine-part series to celebrate the conductor's
80th birthday. 6: Verdi
With reminiscences from
Christopher Bishop and Carlo Maria Giulini himself.
Overture: La Forza del
Destino
Philharmonia Orchestra
Il Trovatore (Act 3)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di
Santa Cecilia
Don Carlos (Act 4, excerpt)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus Royal Opera House Orchestra
Rigoletto (Act 3)
Vienna State Opera Chorus Vienna Philharmonic

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Tim Thome. Discs

Presented by Ivan Hewett. What makes music beautiful? The art of musical aesthetics. Also, the folly and grandeur of the armchair conductor part 2 - and a bingo hall turned opera house.
Producer Anthony Sellors

Vanessa Latarche (piano) Impromptu No 1 in A flat, Op 29; Prelude in D flat, Op 28 No 15; Introduction and Variations on a theme of Hirold, Op 12; Waltzes: in B minor, Op 69 No 2; in G flat, Op 70 No 1;
Barcarolle in F sharp, Op 60

Mozart's three-act opera in the Welsh National Opera production, from the New Theatre, Cardiff. Sung in an English translation by Amanda Holden.
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, conductor Ivor Bolton Act
8.15 The James Naughtie Interview
James Naughtie talks to Tim Albery, director of this evening's production.
8.35 Act 2
9.45 The Pit
Julia Eisner explores the subterranean world of pit musicians.
10.05 Act 3
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Bernardo Scares is a clerk in a Lisbon office whose life is dominated by obsessive routine and day-dreaming. He keeps a diary in which he records his thoughts and his impressions of the city that he loves.
Steve Hodgson reads from Fernando Pessoa 's masterpiece, written in the early part of this century. A Perryscope production (Part 2 next Saturday)

This week, Brian Morton presents a profile of the Candid label and talks to its young trombone star Luis Bonilla , saxophonist
Evan Parker and record producer Alan Bates , who has been associated with the label for many years.
The catalogue ranges from Otis Spann and Max Roach to Cal Massey and Booker Little.
Producer Derek Drescher