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7.05 Composer of the Week:
Telemann Quartet in G (Tafelmusik No 1)
Amsterdam Baroque
Soloists/Ton Koopman
7.32 Dubois Toccata in G
Marie-Claire Alain (organ)
7.45 Delibes
Suite: Coppelia
Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
8.05 Purcell
Overture: The Fairy Queen Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor Ronald Thomas
8.20 Berlioz Reverie et caprice, Op 8
Guillermo Figueroa (violin) Orpheus CO
8.30 Liszt
Piano Sonata in B minor
Maurizio Pollini (piano) Discs
The composer tells of his "aimless activities" as a teenager, and how he came to Leipzig University to study law. Soon he is running the opera in the city, and makes his peace with his mother, who finally permits him to follow a musical career.
Telemann's autobiography is read by Simon Callow , and today's music includes a Concerto for flute, oboe d'amore and viola d'amore, a Missa brevis and the Suite: Don Quixote.
with Piers Burton-Page , including at
10.03 Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos 6-10
Yaara Tal and Andreas
Groethuysen (piano duet)
10.15 Mateo Flecha
Ensalada: El Fuego Collegium Vocale of Cologne, director Jordi Savall
10.55 Artist of the Week:
James Blades (percussion) Britten Curlew River
(excerpt)
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) Bryan Drake (bass) English Opera Group
Orchestra, conducted by The Composer
11.05 Hummel Piano
Sonata in E flat, Op 13 lain Burnside (piano)
11.35 Schubert Symphony No 2 in B flat
BBC SO/David Atherton
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.
Repeated from yesterday 11.30pm
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Alun Francis
Douglas Boyd (oboe)
Henze Symphony No 1
Mozart Oboe Concerto in C
(K314) Brahms
Serenade No I in D, Op 11
Hugh Keyte introduces the second of two programmes of German songs by Orlando de Lassus and by his predecessors Isaac and Senfl.
2: Separation and despair, the joys and perils of wine and women, and a competitive Nose Dance. Caroline Trevor (alto) Simon Berridge ,
Julian Podger and Charles Daniels (tenors)
Mike McCarthy (bass) Fretwork
Producer Susan Kenyon
In the second programme to mark the publication of the New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, co-editor Rhian Samuel introduces music from the 20th century, including works by Boulanger,
Bacewicz, Ustvolskaya, Weir and Saariaho.
The performers are
Nona Liddell (violin), Christopher Van Kampen (cello),
Timothy Lines (clarinet and bass clarinet),
John Constable and Andrew Ball (piano), Fiona Kimm (mezzo), and Ian Honeyman (tenor).
(A Heavy Entertainment production)
Nocturne
The quintessential little black number - romantic music neat. But it wasn't always so ... John Rink takes a look at the origins of the genre with Brian Beattie.
with Mairi Nicolson , from the Concert Hall of New
Broadcasting House,
Manchester. Her guests are the 50 members of the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra and Big Band, conductor Clark Rundell.
5.20 Hoist
Chaconne (Suite in E flat)
6.03 Guy Woolfenden Gallimaufrey
Producer Paul Hindmarsh
from Studio One,
Pebble Mill.
Christian Blackshaw (piano) Mozart Sonata in D (K311)
Schumann
Fantasiestucke, Op 12
8.20 1828: That Was the Year That Was....
Gerry McCarthy explores some of the prevailing fashions and events in Vienna during the year Schubert died.
8.40 Schubert
Sonata in B flat (D960)
2: On your way to the office or the supermarket, you look up and catch a glimpse of something that wasn't there before: a mullioned window, a minaret, an onion dome.
Suddenly you find yourself in one of Italo Calvino 's
Invisible Cities.
Next programme tomorrow
9.15pm
with Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Moeran
String Quartet in E flat Bax
Oboe Quintet
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Mike Maran celebrates the centenary of Robert Louis
Stevenson's death with five journeys through his life and work.
Including specially written songs performed by Rod Paterson.
3: Travels with a Donkey Next programme Thursday
10.05pm
Icons, mosaics, manuscripts, ivory and gold ...
As a new exhibition opens at the British Museum,
Christopher Cook investigates the rich legacy of Byzantine art.
Producer Abigail Appleton
BBC Concert Orchestra conductor Alfred Walter
Berger Rondino Giocoso
Apostel
Five Austrian Miniatures
Von Einem
Suite pas de coeur Janacek
Lachian Dances
Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
