Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor. including at approximately
7.05 Mendelssohn, arr W T Best War March of the Priests (Athalie)
Thomas Trotter (organ)
7.32 Anon Cypriot Advent antiphon: 0 rex virtutem gloria
Huelgas Ensemble and Schola/Paul van Nevel
8.05 Praetorius Nun komm der Heiden Heiland
Choir of Westminster
Cathedral
Parley of Instruments, conductor David Hill
8.16 Debussy Images (Book II)
Arturo Benedetti
Michelangeli (piano)
8.40 Quartet Collection: Haydn String Quartet in E flat, Op 33 No 2 (Joke) Salomon Quartet Discs
Presented by Paul Hindmarsh.
"They have dancing platforms on the crossroads here - Irish dancing of course. I am soaking myself in traditional fiddling (and) planning to work some of this idiom into the concerto. Some of these people have a terrific technique ..." - Moeran on his Violin Concerto.
Warlock Passing By
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Roger Vignoles (piano)
Moeran Fantasy Quartet Sarah Francis (oboe) English String Quartet
Warlock The First Mercy; The Fox
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Roger Vignoles (piano) Moeran Violin Concerto
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin)
Ulster Orchestra, conductor
Vernon Handley
Warlock Piggesnie
Benjamin Luxon (baritone) David Willison (piano)
from Glasgow with Mary Miller , including a blast of Wagner.
10.20 Artist of the Week:
John Wallace (trumpet) Wagner Kaisermarsch The Wallace Collection
10.35 Mozart Piano
Concerto No 25 in C (K503) Pascal Roge (piano)
BBC Scottish SO, conductor George Hurst
11.05 George Anthell Trumpet Sonata
John Wallace (trumpet) Simon Wright (organ)
11.20 Massenet Suite
(Cendrillon)
Hong Kong Philharmonic, conductor Kenneth Jean
11.30 Petr Eben Red
Window (Windows, after Marc Chagall )
John Wallace (trumpet) Simon Wright (organ)
11.40 Ravel Violin Sonata
Ernst Kovacic (violin)
David Owen Norris (piano)
Repeated from yesterday 11.30pm
Der Ring des Nibelungen Siegfried
The third instalment of Wagner's epic cycle from this year's Bayreuth
Festival, presented by Clive Bennett. Sung in German.
Woodbird JOYCE GUYER (sop)
Bayreuth Festival
Orchestra, conductor
James Levine
Act
2.30 The Bayreuth Experience
In the next four Ring intervals, four visitors to this year's Bayreuth
Festival talk about what it was like for them.
1: Lord Gowrie, Chairman of the Arts Council
2.40 Act 2
4.05 The Bayreuth Experience
Four reflections on this year's Bayreuth Festival. 2: The conductor
David Parry.
4.15 Act 3
Byte the Music
Mike Edwards examines the amazing editing powers of computers. When you buy a so-called live recording, how much of it is really live? Producers of the world's top pop and opera performers reveal some of the tricks of the trade.
David Owen Norris presents a seasonal edition from
Birmingham with guests, arts news and music.
6.30 Busoni Sonatina No 4
(In diem Nativitatis Christi 1917)
7.00 Purcell Behold I Bring Glad Tidings
Producer Jeremy Hayes
Elizabeth Wallfisch and Alison Bury (violins) James Bowman
(countertenor)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Frans Briiggen
Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D (BWV 1068);
Cantata No 169: Gott soil allein mein Herze haben
8.20 Interval
Dr Charles Burney travelled throughout Europe during the 18th century to research his book A
General History of Music. Joe Dunlop reads extracts from his journal written during his stay in Leipzig. home of the Bach family.
8.30 Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins
(BWV 1043);
Orchestral Suite No 4 in D
(BWV 1069)
Richard Eyre , Director of the Royal National Theatre. reads a third extract from his recently published autobiography.
Final programme Fnday 8.55pm
performed by Lowri Blake (cello)
Caroline Palmer (piano) Henze Serenade for solo cello
Elliott Carter Cello Sonata
Rpt
Composer, pianist and bandleader Carla Bley , like her legendary predecessors Duke Ellington ,
Charles Mingus and Gil Evans , has made a speciality of supplying made-to-measure musical settings for a succession of brilliant soloists. In this fifth programme, she talks to Alan Plater about her association with, among others, trombonist Gary Valente , trumpeter Lew Soloff and tenor saxophonist Andy Sheppard. Repeated from Monday 4.30pm
Glass, light and colour: with seasonal pictures of stained glass windows all around, Michele Roberts explores the history and practice of the art and visits the glass gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Producer Abigail Appleton
Food, Glorious Food! lain Burnside invites you into the kitchen for a gastronomic feast in song. Producer Jessica Isaacs
Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
