Talking about the Enlightenment
7.02 Cipriano de Rore Calami sonum ferentes
Huelgas Ensemble, conductor Paul van Nevel
7.07 Alfonso Ferrabosco II Dovehouse Pavan
Musica Dolce
7.11 Vaughan Williams Six Studies in English Folksongs
Janet Hilton (clarinet) Keith Swallow (piano)
7.21 Stravinsky Four Russian Peasant Songs
Brendan Thomas, Joanna Hensel, Robert Stroh and Lynn Jarman (horns)
Women's voices of the New London Chamber Choir and the Voronezh Chamber Choir/James Wood
7.26 Ethel Smyth Cello Sonata in A minor, Op 5
Friedemann Kupsa (cello) Celine Dutilly (piano)
7.48 Machaut De toutes fleurs
Richard Levitt (countertenor) Studio der Fruhen Musik, director Thomas Binkley
7.57 Stravinsky Cantata
Yvonne Kenny (soprano) John Aler (tenor)
London Sinfonietta and Chorus/Esa-Pekka Salonen
8.21Tavemer Gloria (Western Wynde Mass)
Choir of New College, Oxford/Edward Higginbottom
8.30 Bliss Clarinet Quintet Janet Hilton (clarinet) Lindsay Quartet
(Discs)
Jeremy J Beadle looks forward to next week's concerts. Actor
Timothy West talks about his pick of the week, and Alexander Goehr introduces the British premiere of his Colossos or Panic. Plus other interviews and details of the mystery conductor competition.
with Richard Osborne.
Brahms Piano Concerto
No 2 in B flat
Solomon (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Issay Dobrowen
10.18 Copland Suite: The Red Pony
Boston Pops Orchestra, conductor John Williams
10.45 Dvorak String
Quintet in E flat, Op 97 Members of the Vienna
Sextet
11.19 Delibes Fantaisie aux divins mensonges (Lakme)
Leopold Simoneau (tenor) Lamoureux Orchestra, conductor Pierre Dervaux
11.26 Borodin Symphony No 2 in B minor
State SO of Russia, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov Producer Clive Portbury. Discs
Richard Burnett shows
George Pratt around
Finchcocks, his Georgian manor house and home to a collection of historical keyboard instruments.
In his back garden in Hatfield, Michael Guerra has applied the principles of permaculture, a practice of cultivation which attempts to reflect the diversity, stability and resilience of nature itself.
Liz Moloney visits him to discover what happens to a garden where nature is helped to take its course. Producer Hilary Dunn
The third of nine operatic performances by the great soprano, presented by Gordon Stewart. Today, Verdi's Don Carlo.
Sung in Italian.
Including at 3.05 Mirella
Freni talking about the role of Elisabetta.
Don Carlo JOSE CARRERAS (tenor)
Chorus of the Deutsche
Opera, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Herbert von Karajan Discs
Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten ;
Summa; Festina Lente Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor Richard Studt
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall. Discs
Howard Goodall presents a programme recorded at the Festival of Baroque Music in St James 's Church,
Piccadilly. Questions from listeners and members of the audience are answered by oboist Nicholas Daniel , Purcell scholar Curtis Price , and editor of Early Music magazine Tess Knighton. A Ladbroke production
Josquin Desprez Motet: Benedicta es
Veljo Tormis
Piispaja pakana Josquin Desprez
Chansons: Allegrez may; Mille regretz; A l'ombre d'ung buissonnet;
Nimphes, nappees; Petite camusette
Richard Rodney Bennett
Sermons and Devotions: settings of sermons and poems of John Donne
from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Stephen Hough (piano) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Litton Bliss Introduction and Allegro
Rachmaninov Piano
Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor
Jerrold Northrop Moore ,
Michael Kennedy , Stephen Banfield and Robert Meikle comment on the circumstances surrounding Symphony No 2 and its significance within Elgar's creative output.
8.35 Elgar Symphony No 2 in E flat
by Kaj Nissen. translated from the Danish by Hans
Christian Andersen. Victoria is a ten-day-old baby in an incubator fighting for her life, but she already has a past. Seven-year-old Ciara Janson plays Victoria. Director Janet Whitaker
The Modern Jazz Quartet have been playing together for more than 40 years.
Geoffrey Smith introduces a recording of the group in concert at the Theatre
Royal, Bath, in 1987. Ellington Rockin in Rhythm Milt Jackson Echoes
John Lewis The golden striker; Three winds;
Milano; The Kansas City breaks; Sacha's march
Milt Jackson Reunion Blues
Bernice Petkere Lullaby of the Leaves
Percy Heath The Watergate Blues
John Lewis Valeria
Sigmund Romberg Softly as in a morning sunrise John Lewis Encounter in Cagnes; West Indian Stomp