History: the Second Reform Act
with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Rossini String Sonata No 1 in G
Members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
7.16 Satie Quatre préludes flasques Pascal Roge (piano)
7.38 Hindemith
Symphonic
Metamorphoses of themes by Carl Maria von Weber Berlin PO, conducted by The Composer
8.05 Villa-Lobos
Prelude No 2 in E
Eduardo Fernandez (guitar)
8.21 Saint-Saens
Romance, Op 67
Barry Tuckwell (horn)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
8.43 Bax
In the Faery Hills
Ulster Orchestra, conductor
Bryden Thomson Discs
presented by Maurice Lindsay
Symphony No 19 in D (G521)
New Chamber Orchestra of Berlin, conductor
Michael Erxleben
String Quintet in D (G276)
Smithsonian Chamber
Players
Symphony in E flat, Op 12 No 2
New Philharmonia
Orchestra, conductor
Raymond Leppard Discs
presented from Birmingham by Chris Wines.
10.00 Falla La Vida
Breve (Act 2, sc 1)
Gabriel Moreno (baritone) National Orchestra of Spain, conductor Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos
10.07 J Strauss (son), arr Berg Wine , Women and Song
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
10.21 Music from the Clavierbiichlein compiled by Bach for his wife Anna Magdalena performed by Tragicomedia
10.26 Prom Artist of the Week: Emanuel Ax (piano)
Debussy Pour le piano
10.40 Weber Leyer und Schwerl (Bk II) BBC Singers
11.17 Dvorak Piano Trio in E minor, Op 90 (Dumky)
Emanuel Ax (piano)
Young Uck Kim (violin) Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor Adrian Leaper Melanie Armitstead
(soprano)
Rossini Overture: the Barber of Seville
Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte
Arriaga Symphony in D Turina Canto a Sevilla
(piano)
Haydn Sonata in C minor (HXVI20)
Schubert Sonata in B flat
(D960)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Philip Fowke (piano)
Rachmaninov Symphonic poem: Prince Rostislav Khachaturian Piano
Concerto
Stravinsky Symphony in E flat. Op 1
Backbeat
Dick Witts looks at the highs and lows of being on the road. Musicians tell their best gig stories, and there's information to help soloists or orchestras on tour. Plus a radio comic strip on the band that wants to be bigger than King Kong.
Music, news, interviews and arts stories from
Birmingham presented by David Owen Norris , whose guests include stars of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
5.15 Mozart
Symphony No 38 in D (Prague)(Finale)
6.25 Bliss
.4 Colour Symphony Producer Jeremy Haves
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
The second American orchestra of the week in the first of two concerts.
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Emanuel Ax (piano)
Lutoslawski: Symphony No 4
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor (K466)
8.30 Sue Knussen talks to Ernest Fleischmann, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
8.50 Sibelius: Symphony No 2 in D
(Simultaneous Broadcast with BBC2)
A history of the Royal
Philharmonic Society in four nightly parts. 1: Symphonies on Subscription. In 1813, a group of London musicians and music enthusiasts pooled their ready cash to found the Philharmonic
Society. What they created is now the second oldest concert-promoting organisation in the world. In the first of four programmes, Andrew Green charts the society's history from its earliest days, when concerts were given in rooms above what is now
Oxford Circus tube station.
Catherine Bott (soprano) Andrew King (tenor)
Michael George (baritone) Frances Kelly (double harp) Pavlo Beznosiuk (lira da braccio/Renaissance violin) Tom Finucane (lute/guitar) director Philip Pickett (recorder)
Carnival songs, dances and popular music of the Italian Renaissance
Ivan Hewett looks at the work of the London
Sinfonietta, which celebrated its 25th birthday last year, and that of similar European ensembles - the Ensemble
Modern of Frankfurt and the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Paris. With contributions from Pierre Boulez ,
Walter Zimmermann. Nicholas Snowman,
Paul Crossley , Gavin Bryars and David Robertson.
(Rot'
conductor Adrian Leaper Virginia Kerr (soprano)
Schreker 6Kleine Stucke; Song Cycle: Vom Ewigen Leben; Suite: Der
Geburtstag der Infantin
