Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Vivaldi Concerto in B flat (Conca) (RV163) I Musici
7.10 Humperdlnck Abends will ich schlafen gehen (Hansel und Gretel)
The Composer (piano roll)
7.32 Shostakovich Ballet
Suite No 4
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
8.05 Brahms
Academic Festival Overture
LSO, conductor Pierre Monteux
8.25 Grieg
En Svane, Op 25 No 2 Anne Sofie von Otter
(soprano)
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
8.30 Gibbons
The Silver Swan
The Cambridge Singers, director John Rutter
8.42 Bax The Tale the Pine
Trees Knew
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson Discs
Ravel and the Orchestra
Paul Guinery presents the spectacularly orchestrated ballet score.
Daphnis et Chloe
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
with Chris de Souza.
More songs from
Winterreise with Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau, and Liszt's transcriptions of them, and at approximately
10.00 Artist of the Week:
Tasmin Little (violin) Rubbra
Violin Concerto, Op 103 RPO, conductor Vernon Handley
10.35 Scarlatti Sonatas: in C minor (Kk4); in G minor (Kk22); in B flat (Kk392) Christopher Kite (harpsichord)
10.45 Dellus
Violin Sonata No 2
Tasmin Little (violin)
Martin Roscoe (piano)
11.00 Brahms Warum ist das Licht gegeben (Two Motets, Op 74 No 1)
BBC Singers, conductor Simon Joly
11.10 Mozart Symphony No 1 in C (K16) English Concert, conductor Trevor Pinnock
11.30 George Lloyd Sonata
Tasmin Little (violin)
Martin Roscoe (piano)
This week, Jill Anderson presents the first of two recitals of French string music.
Poulenc Violin Sonata
Faure Berceuse, Op 16
Franck Violin Sonata in A
Krzysztof Smietana (violin) John Blakely (piano)
Repeated from yesterday 11.30pm
Der Ring des Nlbelungen
This month, Opera Matinée presents the complete Ring cycle by Wagner, staged this summer at the Bayreuth Festival.
Today, Clive Bennett presents the first episode, Das Rheingold , the story of the theft of the legendary gold from the Rhinemaidens by Alberich, of Wotan's theft of it from him, and of its acquisition by the giants Fasolt and Fafner.
Bayreuth Festival
Orchestra, conductor James Levine
David Roblou (harpsichord) J S Bach Capriccio in B flat (Sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo,
BWV 992)
Four two-part inventions; Four three-part inventions C P E Bach Variations on "La Folie d'Espagne" (Wqll8);
Minuet in C minor; Marche in D; Polonaise in G minor (Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook 2)
J S Bach Ricercare a 3 (Musical Offering, BWV 1079)
Jurassic Rock
Julian Gregory disinters that lumbering dinosaur of the 70s called progressive rock, and reveals some surprising parallels to it from musical history.
from Birmingham with Humphrey Carpenter whose guest is the conductor Daniel Harding , talking about his association with the CBSO. Including
6.00 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat
(BWV 1051)
6.30 Bartok Rhapsody No 1 for violin and orchestra
Producer Jeremy Hayes
from the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh.
Kaymond Leppard conducts the Scottish Chamber
Orchestra and soprano Lynne Dawson in a programme of the music Mozart wrote in or for the Czech capital. Mozart
Overture: Don Giovanni ;
Six German Dances (K509); Bella mia fiamma (K528); Ah fuggi il traditor; In quali eccessi ... Mi tradi (Don Giovanni );
Symphony No 38 in D (Prague)
During the interval
Raymond Leppard talks to Mary Miller.
Sponsored by Christian Salvesen pic
Five programmes in which Jeremy J Beadle considers major artistic movements of the modern period. 4: Futurism
Rpt Last programme tomorrow
9.00pm
Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin)
Anthea Gifford (guitar) Giuliani
Sonata in E minor, Op 25 Pagan Inl
Sonata No 11 (Centone di sonate)
In this third programme, composer, pianist and band-leader Carla Bley talks to Alan Plater about her large-scale opera Escalator over the Hill, with a libretto by poet Paul Haines , which she completed in 1973. Repeated from Monday 4.30pm
A new production of Oliver!, starring Jonathan Pryce , opens tonight at the Palladium in London -
Christopher Cook gets the very first verdict on this long-awaited, much publicised show. And he investigates the significance of the Saatchi Collection of modern art. Producer Jerome Weatherald
The baritone Francois le Roux and pianist Roger Vignoles delve into the provocative and evocative world of the French cabaret.
(Repeated tomorrow 12 noon)
