American Conversations:
Henry Waxman

with Catriona Young.
7.05 Schumann
Overture: Manfred
7.35 Keyboard Compendium: Bach Toccata in D minor
(BWV913)
7.55 Purcell Remember not, Lord, our offences
8.05 Martinu Nonet
8.40 Pachelbel Suite in G
8.55 Stravinsky Fireworks, Op 4 Discs

presented by Andrew Manze. Sonata VfSonatae violino solo, 1681) Romanesca
Serenade a 5 (Der Nachtwdchter) Musica Antiqua Koln. director Reinhard Goebel
Harmonia Artificiosa ariosa (Part VII) Purcell Quartet Laetatus$um;
Lauda Jerusalem
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal, director
Christopher Jackson Discs

Susan Sharpe plays requests for music by women composers, including Madeleine Dring 's Betjeman Songs and at approximately
10.01 Ethel Smyth
Overture: The Wreckers
SNO/ Alexander Gibson
10.15 Imogen Hoist String Quartet No 1 Brindisi Quartet
10.30 Fanny Mendelssohn Oratorio on Biblical
Scenes (excerpts)
Isabel Lippitz (soprano) Annemarie Fischer-Kunz
(contralto)
Hitoshi Hatano (tenor)
Thomas Thomaschke (bass) Cologne Kurrende Chorus and Orchestra, conductor
Elke Mascha Blankenburg
10.45 Diana Burrell
Concertante
Guildhall String Ensemble, director Robert Salter
11.10 Clara Schumann
Piano Trio in G minor, Opl7
Dartington Piano Trio Producer Chris de Souza Discs
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BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Lorraine McAsian (violin) Nigel Clayton (piano) Debussy
Violin Sonata in G minor
Ravel Pièce en forme d'habanera
Faure Berceuse , Op 16.
Violin Sonata in A, Op 13

directed by Paul Nicholson (harpsichord)
Handel Concerto grosso in F, Op 6 No 9
Mathias Threnos for string orchestra
Bach Harpsichord
Concerto No 1 in D minor
(BWV1052)

Stravinsky's Symphonyof Psalms was the composer's highly original response to a Koussevitsky commission for a symphony. He produced a work for chorus and orchestra with both elements on an equal footing. Jonathan Swain assesses how conductors on record have interpreted this unusual design. They include Markevitch,
Ansermet, Bernstein and Stravinsky himself.
Producer Anthony Cheevers

recorded in Canterbury Cathedral.
Introit: Laudibus in Sanctis
(Byrd)
Responses (Hendrie) Psalm 89 (Hopkins,
Mornington, Hopkins) First Lesson: 2 Samuel
18,wl9-end (RSV)
Magnificat (Giles Swayne ) Second Lesson: Acts 44, w23-31 (RSV)
Nunc Dimittis: Chichester
Service (Berkeley)
Anthem: Lo, the full, final sacrifice (Finzi)
Hymn: 0 praise ye, the Lord (Laudate Dominum)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude sur les grands jeux (Langlais) Organist and Master of the Choristers: David Flood
Assistant Organist: Michael Harris

Tommy Pearson discovers the art of performing melodies, with hints from violinist Andrew Manze and singer Emma Kirby.

Richard Baker presents this afternoon's programme of arts news and plays a selection of music including
5.15 Prince Albert Jubilate

I from the Royal
Albert Hall. London.
The annual organ Prom is given by Christopher Herrick. Elgar Organ Sonata No 1 in G(1st mvt)
Bridge Adagio in E
Britten Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria
Edwin Lemare
Concert Fantasia
Robin Holloway Organ Fantasy Elgar, arr Sinclair
Pomp and Circumstance March No 4

More music and news.

7.10 Coleridge-Taylor: You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis (Hiawatha's wedding feast)

from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Sylvia McNair (soprano)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo) Christoph Pregardien (tenor) Alastair Miles (bass) Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Mozart
Mass in C minor (K427)
8.50WirLachenDoch!
Andrew Sachs chats to
Gerhard Polt about Bavarian humour.
9.10 Beethoven
Symphony No 5 in C minor

3: Friendship
Frances Partridge talks to
Christopher Cook about the Bloomsbury philosophy of friendship.
(Rpt. Final programme Friday 9. 35pm)

... or how
Joseph Korzeniowski Conrad struggled with rats, writers and revolution in the Garden of England. Norman Rodway reads from Conrad's short story Amy Foster.
Producers Ronald Hayman and Piers Plownght

with Jill Anderson.
Trio in D, Op 70 No 1 (Ghost)
Gould Trio
String Quartet in C.
Op 59 No 3 (Razumovsky) Endellion Quartet