Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor, including at approximately:
7.05 Purcell Portfolio: Purcell Fantasia a 3 (Z733) - Vienna Concentus Musicus
7.08 Elgar Serenade for strings - London Philharmonic, conductor Vernon Handley
7.32 Quartet Collection: Haydn String Quartet in C, Op 50 No 2 (Prussian) - Aeolian Quartet
8.05 Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride - London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Bruno Walter
8.12 Handel Pena tiranna (Amadigi) - James Bowman (countertenor), King's Consort, director Robert King
8.35 Debussy Nocturnes - Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.
(Discs)
Andrew Lyle presents recordings of Paul Hindemith performing his own music.
String Trio No 2
Szymon Goldberg (violin) The Composer (viola)
Emanuel Feuermann (cello) Theme with four variations
(The Four Temperaments) Hans Otte (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by The Composer Discs
from Birmingham with Chris Wines, including
Vaughan Williams Sir John in Love (excerpt)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Meredith Davies
10.10 Beethoven Variations on "Bei Mannem welche Liebe fuhlen"
Lowrie Blake (cello) Ian Brown (piano)
10.19 Artist of the Week: Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
Sibelius Lemminkainen's Return (Lemminkainen Legends)
Los Angeles Philharmonic
10.25 John Gay Since laws were made (Beggar's Opera)
Adrian Thompson (Macheath) The Broadside Band, conductor Jeremy Barlow
10.28 Liszt Consolations Nos 3 and 4 Jorge Bolet (piano)
10.37 Tchaikovsky String Quartet No 3 in E flat Moscow Quartet
11.20 Busoni Turandot's Boudoir (Frauengemach-Greensleeves)
John Ogdon (piano)
11.25 Beethoven Cello Sonata in A, Op 69 Lowrie Blake (cello) Ian Brown (piano)
11.50 Holst St Paul's Suite
Repeated from yesterday 11.30pm
Cherubini's heroic opera Lodoiska, to a text by Claude-Francois Fillette-Loraux, tells of Count Floreski's rescue of his beloved Lodoiska from the castle where she has been imprisoned by the villainous Baron Dourlinski.
Sung in French.
Roger Chase (viola) Ian Brown (piano)
Joachim Variations , Op 10 Paganini Sonata in C minor Jongen Introduction and Dance, Op 102
conductor Emmanuel Krivine
Olli Mustonen (piano)
Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor
What was the first opera? Tommy Pearson tries to answer this tricky question with the help of Sian Edwards , Musical Director of English National Opera.
including 6.15 Beethoven Symphony No 2 in D
7.03 Schubert
Liebesbotschaft
Producer Jeremy Hayes
FAIREST ISLE
A concert of music by Purcell, live from the Wigmore Hall, London. Barbara Bonney (soprano)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo) The King's Consort, director Robert King
Oh, the sweet delights of love; Draw near, you lovers; If music be the food of love; Trio Sonata in G minor; My dearest, my fairest; Music for a while; Oh, fair Cedaria; 0 dive custos (Elegy on the death of Queen Mary)
8.20 Plague and Fire
The 17th century believed that England was being tested by God - tested, like Ninevah, to the point of destruction. Ruth
Richardson discusses with David Harley , the impact of the Great Plague of 1665 on the minds of Purcell's contemporaries.
8.40 Purcell
Love, thou art best; One charming night; The Plaint; Celemene, pray tell me; Sonata in G minor
(Chaconne); Incassum, Lesbia; Fairest Isle
FAIREST ISLE
A contemporary of Wren, Dryden and Purcell, Roger North left a mass of writings about music - noting his own experiences and the trends of the day.
4: Of Ecclesiasticall Musick
With Simon Callow as Roger North.
Final programme tomorrow
9.35pm
plays a selection of Dvorak's Legends, Op 59 from a new recording conducted by Charles Mackerras. Discs
Repeated from Monday 4.30pm
Peggy Reynolds explores how a generation of Irish writers are tackling the changing face of Europe in fiction, and talks to
Timberlake Wertenbaker about her new translation of Jean Anouilh 's Leocadia. Producer John Goudie
Throughout the 20th century, the USA has had a number of composers who have spurned the fashions of the moment and written songs in a straightforward, approachable idiom, lain Burnside introduces song-cycles by two of them,
Samuel Barber and Ned Rorem , and music by an earlier and arguably more experimental American composer, Charles Griffes. Catherine Pierard (soprano) Stephen Coombs (piano)
Griffes Three Tone Images, Op 3
Rorem Four Poems of Tennyson
Griffes Three Poems, Op 9 Barber Despite and Still, Op 41
Gdffes Four Impressions Producer Christopher Marshall Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
