with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 Tchaikovsky Suite: The Sleeping Beauty
7.25 Gottfried Finger Suite in G minor (Farewell)
7.41 Weill String Quartet
8.05 Liszt
Valse Impromptu (S213)
8.20 Vivaldi Concerto in G minor (RV460)
8.39 Blow Mark how the lark and linnet sing
Producer Andrew McGregor Discs
(born 24 November 1934) The first of the week's programmes focusing on five of Schnittke's concertos and tracing the extraordinary changes that have taken place in his style.
Presented by Michael Hall. Violin Concerto No 2
Mark Lubotsky (violin) Malmo SO/Eri Klas
Concerto Grosso No 1
Gidon Kremer and Tatiana
Gridenko (violins)
Yuri Smirnov (harpsichord and prepared piano)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Heinrich Schiff Producer Alan Hall
Stephanie Hughes presents a week of programmes from Belfast, including four Soviet symphonies and concert arias by Mozart.
Ravel Alborada del gracioso Ulster Orchestra, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
10.05 Lili Boulanger Hymn to the Sun
Jeanette Ager (mezzo) New London Chamber
Choir/James Wood
10.10 Artist of the Week:
Barry Douglas (piano) Liszt
Hungarian Fantasy (S123) LSO/Juni'ichi Hirokami
10.30 Mozart Bella mia fiamma, addio (K528) Felicity Lott (soprano)
London Mozart Players, conductor Jane Glover
10.45 Jonathan Harvey Serenade in Homage to Mozart
Members of the London
Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Andrew Parrott
11.15 Symphonic Steppes: Prokofiev Symphony No 5 BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor
Rudolf Barshai
Producer Terry Black
Geoffrey Baskerville continues his journey into the world of the 19th-century operatic impresario. Today, music by Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi.
Producer Simon Lord Discs
from St John's, Smith Square .
Dong-Suk Kang (violin) Pascal Devoyon (piano)
Mozart Sonata in A (K526) Grieg Sonata in G, Op 13
Radio Q and A 2.05 Word
Games 2.15 Storybox 2.25 Let's Move 2.45 First Steps in Drama
Paul Hindmarsh introduces a recital of Russian anthems, motets and folk song arrangements for unaccompanied male voices, performed by the Roussland Soglasie Male Voice Choir of St
Petersburg, conductor Alexander Govorov.
Rpt
Ton Koopman plays the organ of the Grote Kerk in Edam. Music by Scheidemann, Siefert and Duben, who took
Sweelinck's influence as far afield as Hamburg, Danzig and Stockholm. Froberger is also represented, since his music became popular in the Netherlands.
American composer, pianist and bandleader Carla Bley has produced several outstanding works during the last 30 years, in particular Escalator over the Hill. In the first of six programmes, she talks to Alan Plater about her life and work, recalling her religious and musical background, her career move into New York nightclubs as a cigarette girl, and her early compositions for musicians like George Russell and Gary Burton , notably A
Genuine Tong Funeral for the latter, which first brought her public recognition.
Series producer Derek Drescher Repeated Thursday 10.15pm
How many living composers can you name? The role of the job has changed greatly since the days of Court
Composer and Churchman. Tommy Pearson investigates.
Producer Christina Pritchard
Andrew Green presents this afternoon's programme of arts news interviews, and plays a selection of music including
Bach Gigue (Partita No 5 in G,BWV 829)
6.50 Rautavaara
The Fiddlers
Producer Andrew Mussett
A concert given yesterday in honour of the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra's
Associate Conductor and Composer.
Kathryn Stott (piano)
Jonathan Carney (violin) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor
Peter Maxwell Davies
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Maxwell Davies Concert
Suite: Caroline Mathilde
8.20 Interval
Peter Maxwell Davies talks to Chris de Souza about nearly four decades of music-making.
8.30 Ireland
Piano Concerto
Maxwell Davies
A Spell for Green Corn
Iwan Russell-Jones looks at five pillars of Americana and asks if the west, far from becoming secular, is steeped in religious feeling - for the sacred icons of popular culture. 1: Coca-Cola
Producer Michael Roberts Next programme tomorrow
9.05pm
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) with Catherine Edwards (piano) in a programme including
Schumann's Dichterliebe, Britten's On This Island and Shakespeare settings by Aikin,
Vaughan Williams , Quitter, Howells, Tippett and Geoffrey Bush. Rpt
Robert Sandall and Mark Russell
present a unique mix of musical styles and influences.
Producer Philip Tagney
The third in the current season of Radio 3 early music invitation concerts, introduced by Chris de Souza.
This week, the viol consort
Fretwork and the vocal ensemble Red Byrd perform anthems and consort music by Thomas Tomkins.
Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
