The Political Imagery of Queen Elizabeth I
with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Couperin
Les Goûts-réunis
Raglan Baroque Players, conductor Nicholas
Kraemer
7.14 Britten Four Sea
Interludes (Peter Grimes ) English Symphony
Orchestra, conductor
William Boughton
7.32 Liszt Transcendental
Study No 8 (Wilde Jagd)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
8.05 Grieg Concert
Overture: In Autumn. Op 11 Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Neeme Jarvi
8.19 Tavener Lamentation.
Last Prayer and Exaltation Patricia Rozario (soprano) lain Simcock (handbells)
8.31 Mozart Symphony No 41 in C (Jupiter) Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Karl Bohm
Discs
The 1930s. Susan Sharpe looks at Walton's most successful decade when he produced one of his greatest and most expansive works, his First Symphony. Crown Imperial
Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Andre Previn
Set me as a seal upon thine heart
Finzi Singers, conductor Paul Spicer
Three Songs on Poems by Edith Sitwell
Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
Malcolm Martineau (piano) Symphony No 1
London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor
Andre Previn
Discs
Live from Belfast, with Stephanie Hughes.
Gershwin Overture: Strike
Up the Band
Buffalo Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Michael Tilson Thomas
10.15 Michael Torke
The Yellow Pages
London Sinfonietta, conductor David Miller
10.25 Sibelius
Pelleas et Melisande
Ulster Orchestra, conductor
Adrian Leaper
10.40 Artist of the Week:
Joan Sutherland
Bellini
Casta Diva (Norma) London Symphony
Orchestra and Chorus, conductor Richard Bonynge
10.45 Percy Grainger
Fantasy on Porgy and Bess for two pianos
Katia and Marielle Labeque
(pianos)
11.10 Bellini Ah! non credea mirati ...Ah! non giunge (La Sonnambula)
Joan Sutherland (soprano) Nicola Monti (tenor)
Fernando Corena (bass) Orchestra and Chorus del
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , conductor Richard Bonynge
11.30 Sibelius
Symphony No 6 in D minor Ulster Orchestra, conductor
Adrian Leaper
The Doleful Dumps
Elizabethan and Jacobean music from court, street and tavern by Gibbons. Dowland. Johnson.
Nicholson and others.
Musicians of the Globe. director Philip Pickett
Repeated from yesterday 11.30pm
Paul Hindmarsh presents a selection of the band's recent performances. including the premiere of a piece for band and live electronics by Philip Wilby. John McCabe
Northern Lights
Philip Wilby Lowry Sketchbook conductor Howard Snell
Bramwell Tovey
Coventry Variations conducted by the Composer Philp Wilby
Dance before the Lord
(NYBB commission, first performance) conductor Roy Newsome
Playtime. 2.15 Time to Move. 2.35 Listen!
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Isabelle van Keulen (violin) Mendelssohn
Overture: Ruy Bias. Op 95 Mozart
Violin Concerto No 5 in A
(K219) Brahms
Symphony No 4 in E minor
Symphony, Op 39
Hamish Milne (piano)
Does the interval of a third really hold a special place in music? Professor Basil Deane
thinks it does.
Producer Chris Wines
Mairi Nicholson from
Manchester with an edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of the BBC Philharmonic.
The completion of Andras Schiff 's complete cycle of Beethoven's piano concertos performed over two evenings at the Edinburgh Festival this year, with the London
Philharmonic Orchestra. conductor Bernard Haitink.
Beethoven Overture:
Egmont: Piano Concerto No 1 in C; Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor)
See also Thursday 7.30pm
The second of five talks by Israel Zamir about his relationship with his father, Isaac Bashevis Singer. Sitting in Steinberg's on Broadway. Israel asks his father, "Do you really believe in demons and ghosts or is it a literary trick to help you handle complicated subjects?"
Next programme tomorrow 9.00pm
A concert by the Nash Ensemble , recorded earlier this year on London's
South Bank. featuring the premiere of Simon Holt 's all fall down, inspired by the plague verse "Ring a Ring a Roses". Oliver Knussen 's first book of Songs without Voices (with Lionel Friend , conductor) and Olivier Messiaen 's Quartet for the End of Time.
Humphrey Carpenter kicks off a new series of the late night arts programme in Manchester. Riot police and helicopter surveillance contribute to a dramatic portrayal of the Peterloo Massacre.
Humphrey Carpenter and guests report from the scene and discuss the aims and achievements of the "City of Drama". Producer Abigail Appleton
BBC Philharmonic conductor Matthias Bamert
Tchaikovsky Symphonic Ballad: The Voyevode.
Op 78: Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique)
Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
