VIPs: Marie Curie
7.00 Record Review
Presented by Richard Osborne.
Strauss Prelude (Capriccio) Raphael Ensemble
7.16 Hummel Introduction,
Theme and Variations in F,
Op 102
Ernest Rombout (oboe)
Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Johan Kracht
7.32 Frescobaldi
Bergamasca (Fiori musicali) Ton Koopman (organ)
7.38 Mozart
Symphony No 29 in A
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Guido Cantelli
8.01 Schubert
Sonata in B flat (D960) Radu Lupu (piano)
8.44 Musorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain
London Philharmonic, conductor Klaus Tennstedt
9.00 Building a Library Vaughan Williams's s
Symphony No 4 by Edward Greenfield. Richard
Wigmore on new releases of baroque music.
(BWV 1052)
Pierre Hantai (harpsichord) Le Concert Français
10.38 Locatelli Concerto grosso in B flat, Op 1 No 3 Concerto Koln
10.55 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D
(BWV 1050)
David Roblou (harpsichord) Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin) Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) New London Consort, director Philip Pickett
11.15 Reissues
RCA's Jascha Heifetz
Collection gathers together all the commercially released recordings from this giant among violinists.
Robert Cowan has been listening to it and guides us through some of the highlights.
11.35 Conus Violin
Concerto in E minor
Jascha Heifetz (violin)
RCA Victor SO/Izler Solomon Producers Patrick Lambert and Clive Portbury Discs
Revised repeat Wed 3.00pm
Second of two programmes in which Christopher Page and his guests
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson and John Woolrich
explore the influence of medieval and Renaissance music on 20th-century composers. Producer Kate Bolton
The Indian Spice Trail
2: Into the Cardamom Hills
This week Leslie Forbes goes inland on her quest to find links in the chain of spices connecting India to its ancient trading partners in the Mediterranean.
Producer Matt Thompson
BBC BOOK: Leslie Forbes 's
Recipes from the Indian Spice Trail, £16.99
Beethoven Quartet in A minor, Op 132
Shostakovich Quartet No 7 Mozart Quartet in G (K387) Rpt
with David Mellor.
Alfred Brendel remembers his mentor, the Swiss pianist Edwin Fischer , who liked to joke that his father (born in 1826) was a contemporary of Beethoven. Like Beethoven's works, which he championed,
Fischer's records are the Holy Bible of pianism for many players - including his former pupil.
Bach Fantasia in A minor
(BWV 922) (1937);
Largo (Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056) (1938)
The Well-tempered Clavier (excerpts) (1933-35) Beethoven Andante cantabile (Piano Trio in B flat, Op 97) (Archduke) Arioso; Fugue (Piano
Sonata, Op 110) (1938)
Schubert Diejunge Nonne (D 828); Impromptus
(D 899, Nos 2-4) (1938) Producer Nick Morgan Discs
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs
ADDRESS:Jazz Record Requests BBC Radio 3. Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Ivan Hewett looks at a new novel about Dvorak's love-life and discovers that the reality is even stranger than the fiction.
Also, can a pig have a love-life? H K Gruber's new theatre piece reveals all. Producer Anthony Sellors
Repeated tomorrow at 12.15pm
Piano Trio in E flat (H XV 30) Peter Frankl (piano) Gyorgy Pauk (violin)
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)
Romeo et Juliette
Gounod's opera in five acts to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre. This new production by Nicolas Joel is sung in French.
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal
Opera House, conductor Charles Mackerras
Acts 1 and 2 8.15 Softest Music to
Attending Ears
What happens when Romeo and Juliet fall into the hands of composers as disparate as Gounod, Bernstein and Bellini?
Graham Fawcett reflects on Shakespeare's story as seen through musical eyes.
8.35 Act 3
9.15 Shakespeare and the Fairy Tale
Marina Warner, author of From the Beast to the Blonde, considers the uses
Shakespeare made of fairies and fairy tales in his plays, including A
Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet.
9.35 Acts 4 and 5 Sponsored by Goldman Sachs
Six programmes which explore the workings of the mind through science and art. 2: Perspective
Professor Steve Jones examines the manifestations of perspective in art and music from Brunelleschi to
Boulez, and tries to discover how our brains concoct dimensions that simply are not there. Producer Peter Croasdale
Chris Parker introduces a recording of a concert given in the Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham, earlier this year by this American composer, arranger and drummer with his group Empty Suits, during their Contemporary Music Network Tour.
The band includes Herb Robertson (trumpet, trombone), Steve Gaboury (keyboards),
Michael Cain (keyboards, vocal) and Jerome Harris (bass).
Previte Fantasy and nocturne; Smack dab; Waltz; Inside and outside stories; Circus music.
To air During the interval, Bobby Previte talks to Chris Parker about the great variety of his work, including writing music for the Moscow Stateb Circus in 1990.
