with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 MacCunn Overture:
The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
7.15 Buxtehude Sonata in C for two violins and continuo (BuxWV 266)
7.32 Sallinen
Songs from the Sea
8.05 Weber, orch Berlioz Invitation to the Dance
8.20 Handel A miravi io son intento (Italian Duet No 8)
8.32 Quartet Collection: Haydn String Quartet in G minor, Op 20 No 3
Producer Andrew McGregor Discs
(1681-1767). An anthology published in 1740 by music historian Johann Mattheson includes Telemann's autobiography. It can be heard this week, read by Simon Callow , who plays a cross-section of the composer's prodigious output.
Today Telemann recalls his school years, and his first attempts at composition and conducting - with the aid of a few boxes. The music includes a setting of the Magnificat, a Fantasia for solo flute and the Suite in A minor played by Michala Petri (recorder). Producer Nigel Wilkinson
with Piers Burton-Page .
10.03 Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos 1-5
Yaara Tal and Andreas
Groethuysen (piano duet)
10.15 Mateo Flecha
Ensalada: La Justa
Collegium Vocale of Cologne
10.30 Artist of the Week:
James Blades (percussion) Britten The Turn of the Screw (excerpts)
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano) English Opera Group
Orchestra/The Composer
11.20 Chabrier Trois valses romantiques
Andrew Ball and Julian
Jacobson (pianos)
11.40 Debussy Printemps BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Christopher Adey Producer Piers Burton-Page
No, that creaking you can hear isn't the scenery. Opera plots are notoriously rickety, with composers and librettists papering over the cracks in various nefarious ways. In this series, Rodney Milnes seeks out six of these time-honoured techniques, and discovers that the quickest way from A to B isn't always the least convincing. 1: Disguise
Producer David Gallagher
from St John 's,
Smith Square.
Hamish Milne (piano) Gillian Weir (organ)
Reubke Piano Sonata in B flat minor; Sonata in C minor on Psalm 94 for organ
BBC Welsh Chorus
Noriko Ogawa (piano) conductor Grant Llewellyn Ethel Smyth Overture: The Wreckers
Shostakovich Piano
Concerto No 2
Judith Weir The Ride over
Lake Constance
Hoist Suite: The Planets
Concert given in St David 's Hall, as part of the Cardiff Festival 1994
The last of three programmes presents the finalists of the competition. Introduced by William Robson. Sowerby Pageant played by Alan Morrison
Rheinberger Sonata in A minor played by Suzanne Rohn Alain Deuxieme fantaisie
Durufle
Toccata (Suite, Op 5) played by James Diaz
Series producer William Robson
In the fourth instalment of her conversation with Alan Plater
, composer, bandleader and pianist
Carla Bley reflects on the comic, the controversial and the subversive in her musical career and on the hostile audiences armed with tomatoes and beer bottles.
Repeated Thursday 10.15pm
Music Noir
A week of dark themes begins with Carl Davis and Patrick Rayner explaining the devices they use to create night atmospheres on soundtracks and the airwaves. Presented by Brian Beattie.
Producer Svend Brown
with Andrew Green.
Producer Andrew Mussett
from the Rudolfinium, Prague.
Jan Hasenohrl (trumpet)
Magdalena Hajossyova (sop) Katerina Kachlikova
(contralto)
Leo Marian Vodicka (tenor) Miroslav Podskalsky (bass) Jaroslav Tuma (organ) Kuhn Mixed Chorus
Czech Radio SO, conductor
Vladimir Valek
Martinu Symphony No 6
(Fantaisies symphoniques) Vaclav Trojan Concertino for trumpet and small orchestra
8.15 Mucha's Collection
Alphonse Mucha was one of the most celebrated artists of the Art Nouveau movement. Christopher Cook looks around his substantial art collection with his daughter-in-law, Geraldine.
8.35 Janacek
Glagolitic Mass
1: A voyage through the avenues and alleyways of Italo Calvino 's Invisible
Cities: Cecilia, Eusapia, Zobeide, Maurilia ...
Are these exotic, faraway places or just different names for the great
Metropolis familiar to us all? Producer Tessa Watt
Next programme tomorrow 9.35pm
The second in a short series in which Stephen Plaistow introduces music by Birtwistle along with pieces which have had some influence on the composer's style.
Varese: Octandre - French NO/Kent Nagano
Birtwistle: Ritual Fragment - London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments - London Sinfonietta/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Birtwistle: Verses for Ensembles - Netherlands Wind Ensemble, The Hague Percussion Ensemble/James Wood
with Robert Sandall and Mark Russell.
Producer Philip Tagney
Frances Kelly performs 17th-century music for double harp by Trabaci, Mayone, Frescobaldi and Luigi Rossi , and accompanies soprano Evelyn Tubb in arias by Caccini, d'lndia, Landi and Barbara Strozzi.
Introduced by Simon Heighes. Producer Lindsay Kemp
Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
