American Conversations:
Noam Chomsky

Andrew Lyle introduces an edition including an unfamiliar Spanish Mass.
Sainte-Colombe Le Retour
Jordi Savall and Christophe Coin (viols)
7.10 Francisco Vals Kyrie and Gloria (Missa Scala Aretina) Soloists
London Oratory Choir
Thames CO/John Hoban
7.30 Kodaly Suite: flary Janos
BBC Scottish SO/Maksymiuk
7.55 Seiber Serenade
Budapest Wind Ensemble
8.10 Vals Credo; Sanctus; Agnus Dei (Missa Scala Aretina)
8.35 Schumann
Introduction and Allegro appassionato
Vanessa Latarche (piano) BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Jiri Starek
Producer Piers Burton-Page

Rimsky-Korsakov Introduction and Wedding March (The Golden Cockerel)
BBC PO/Yan Pascal Tortelier
9.12 Handel, arr Beecham The Faithful Shepherd (excerpts)
LPO/Thomas Beecham
9.29 Liszt Concert Waltz on "Lucia" and "Parisina"
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
9.39 Britten Simple Symphony
English Chamber Orchestra, conductor The Composer
9.57 Artist of the Week: Philip Pickett (director)
Anon Ich was ein chint
(Carmina Burana)
Catherine Bott (soprano) New London Consort
10.01 Orff Uf dem Anger (Carmina Burana) Shin-Yu Kai Choir
Berlin State and Cathedral
Boys' Choir
Berlin PO/Seiji Ozawa
10.16 Falla El Corregidor y la Molinera
Aquarius, conductor Nicholas Cleobury
10.30 Smetana Pochod and Polka in D
Czech PO/Vaclav Neumann
10.36 Composer of the Week: Dvorak In the Spinning-
Rooms (Bohemian Forest)
Duo Tal and Groethuysen (pianos)
10.42 Locke Suite No 3
Hesperion XX
11.00 Haydn Symphony No 73 (La Chasse)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
11.30 Howells Snapshots Margaret Fingerhut (piano)
11.38 Biber Battalia a 10 New London Consort, conductor Philip Pickett
11.50 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) LSO/Lorin Maazel
Producer Edward Blakeman. Discs
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In the Music Room at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton,
Guy Woolfenden and team captains David Owen Norris and Daryl Runswick are joined by journalist and editor Robert McCrum and astronomer and xylophonist Dr Patrick Moore. A Classic Arts production

Great composers have based much of their best-loved music on myth, legend and fairy stories.
Tony Robinson tells contemporary versions of the original tale against a background of the music they inspired. This week, how Hansel and Gretel were lost in the woods, came across a cottage made of sweets and fell foul of the witch who lived inside. With music from Humperdinck opera. A Ladbroke production

Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra/Bernard Haitink Ravel
Ballet: Ma mère Voye
Mahler Symphony NolinD

Andante and Variations for two pianos, two cellos and horn; Songs from
Spanisches Liederspiel Judith Howarth (soprano) Jean Rigby (mezzo) Robert Tear (tenor)
Henry Herford (baritone) Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70
Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44

conductor Claus Peter Flor
Kees Hulsman (violin)
Shostakovich Symphony No
Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in D minor (Op posth) Janacek Sinfonietta

Duncan Druce discusses the performance of Beethoven's String Quartet in A minor, Op 132 over
70 years of recording, from the Lener and Capet
Quartets in the 1920s to contemporary groups.

from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
A rare performance of an opera by one of the most colourful characters in British music, a tragic tale of love in an 18th-century Cornish fishing village.
Ethel Smyth The Wreckers
Huddersfield Choral Society BBC Philharmonic, conductor
Odaline de la Martinez
Act
8.10 Ethel Smyth
Mary-Jean Hasler introduces memories of Dame Ethel
Smyth from the archives, with contributions from
Thomas Beecham ,
Avril Wood and Adrian Boult.
8.30 Acts 2 and 3

The last in the short
Terrible Tyrants season of despot dramas, David Zane Mairowitz's musical satire features a deathbed concert by a shoe-collecting dictator's wife which is dedicated to bringing him back to life. It stars Josette
Simon as the Gal.
Music composed and arranged by Trevor Allan
Director Ned Chaillet

(piano)
Debussy Images (Book 2) Mozart Sonata in B flat
(K333)
Debussy Preludes (Book 1)

Piano Concerto, Op 42 Alfred Brendel (piano) Baden-Baden Radio
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Gielen