with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 Mozart Serenade in D
(K239) (Serenata Notturna)
7.18 Purcell Portfolio:
Purcell A selection of songs
7.48 Bach Partita No 1 in B flat (BWV 825)
8.05 Amy Beach Scottish Legend
8.21 Chausson
Chanson perpétuelle
8.32 Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge Discs
FAIREST ISLE
Presented by Brian Morton in conversation with the composers.
Thea Musgrave (bl928) Mary Queen of Scots (excerpts)
Virginia Opera Association Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Peter Mark
William Sweeney (bl950) An Rathad Ur
Tommy Smith (saxophone) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Takuo Yuasa
Sally Beamish (bl956)
Gala Water (first broadcast) Robert Irvine (cello)
with Susan Sharpe , including Medtner
Dithyramb, Op 10 No 2 Hamish Milne (piano)
10.10 Prokofiev Violin
Concerto No 2
Dmitri Sitkovetsky (violin)
LSO, conductor Colin Davis
10.35 Chopin Bolero , Op 19
Lily Dymont (piano)
10.45 Telemann
Suite in A minor
Michala Petri (recorder) Academy of St Martin , director lona Brown
11.10 Soler
Concerto No 1 in C
Peter Hurford and Thomas Trotter (organs)
11.20 Robert Simpson
Adagio (String Quartet No 5) Delme Quartet
11.35 Kabalevsky
Suite: The Comedians
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Charles Groves
Producer Chris de Souza
Discs
BBC Philharmonic
Repeated from yesterday 11.30pm
from Studio 1.
An Obsession with Schumann
Ian Bostridge (tenor) Julius Drake (piano) Schumann
Liederkreis, Op 24 and settings of Heine and Morike by Hugo Wolf.
Together: An Assembly for Schools 2.20 Time and Tune: Music Course 2 - Dig It 2.40 Drama Workshop
Presented by Anthony Burton. Building a Library:
Vivaldi's Gloria in D
(RV589) by George Pratt. Revised rpt from Saturday
9.00am
from St Paul's
Cathedral.
Introit: Tu es vas electionis
(Philips)
Responses: Leighton Psalm: 119 w 41-56
(West, Jones)
First Lesson: Isaiah 56 w
1-8
Canticles: Bairstow in D
Second Lesson: Philippians 3 w 1-14
Anthem: 0 what their joy and glory must be (Harris) Hymn: We sing the glorious conquest (King's Lynn)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in D (Franz Schmidt )
Director of music John Scott
Sub-organist Andrew Lucas
Tommy Pearson visits Madrid to find out what makes Spanish music sound Spanish.
Producer Chris Wines
Andrew Green presents this afternoon's edition of arts news and interviews and plays music including Berlioz
Overture: Benvenuto Cellini
Producer Andrew Mussett
from the Wigmore
Hall, London.
Richard Baker presents an all-Schubert programme featuring the fortepiano duo Melvyn Tan and Ronald Brautigam.
FAIREST ISLE
- Havergal Brian 's opera in a prologue and three acts.
The rediscovery in 1977 of the long-lost full score of this mammoth work led to its first-ever performance, a BBC studio recording made in January 1983.
The Tigers are a regiment of First World War conscripts, whose comic escapades while in training under
Dad's Army-style leaders were devised by Brian as a distraction from the real horrors of that war. With no concern for practicalities, he wrote for 44 soloists
(including a man on an elephant), several choruses and a vast orchestra.
And in numerous roles:
MARILYN HILL SMITH (sop), .
ANNEMARIE OWENS , AMERAL GUNSON
(mezzos), PAUL CROOK ,
HARRY NICOLL , JOHN WINFIELD ,
KENNETH WOOLLAM (tenors). IAN CADDY ,
ALAN OPIE , HENRY HERFORD. ALAN WATT .
NORMAN WELSBY (bars),
RICHARD ANGAS. DENNIS WICKS (basses) BBC Singers
BBC SO/Lionel Friend Prologue and Act 1
7.55 Interval
Calum MacDonald talks about Havergal Brian and The Tigers.
8.05 Acts 2 and 3 FAIREST ISLE
3: Margaret Fell
Sarah Dunant presents the third in the series, from
Swarthmoor Hall in Cumbria.
Kate Peters, lecturer in history at the University of Birmingham, explores the life and work of Quaker activist Margaret Fell who was converted to Quakerism in her mid-30s and dedicated the rest of her life to the cause. It is through the efforts of Margaret Fell that the modern Quaker movement exists today.
Final programme Friday 8.55pm
Repeated from Monday 4.30pm
The acclaimed young director Katie Mitchell has revived Strindberg's moody morality play Faster for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Michele Roberts presents a review from the first night. Producer Louise Swan
Jill Anderson introduces a programme of Russian wind music featuring the Haffner Wind Ensemble with the pianist Angela Hewitt .
Glinka Trio in D minor for clarinet, bassoon and piano Tcherepnin Two pieces for oboe and piano
Rimsky-Korsakov Quintet in D flat for piano and wind Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
Listen and Read 1.20
Verseplay 1.40 Infant History
