Music and news with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 J C Bach Overture in E, Op 18 No 5
English Symphony
Orchestra, conductor William Boughton
7.24 Brahms
Intermezzi: in A, Op 76 No 6; in A minor, Op 76 No 7
Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
7.49 Bax Roscatha
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson
8.05 Rosenmuller Sonata in E minor for two violins
La Petite Bande
8.25 Tallis 0 sacrum convivium
Winchester Cathedral Choir, conductor David Hill
8.37 Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals
Pascal Roge and Cristina Ortiz (pianos) London Sinfonietta, conductor Charles Dutoit
Discs
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Presented by Brian Morton and James MacMillan.
MacMillan (bl959)
Visitatio Sepulchri (first broadcast)
Scottish Chamber
Orchestra, conductor
Ivor Bolton
From Glasgow, with Mary Miller, who meets some musical heroes and joins Radio 3's Artists of the Week, the Whistlebinkies, for a ceilidh.
Including at approximately:
10.05 Rachmaninov Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 3 No 2 - The Composer (piano roll)
10.10 Edward McGuire Calgacus - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Takuo Yuasa
11.00 Shostakovich Incidental Music: Hamlet, Op 32 - BBC Scottish SO, conductor Martyn Brabbins
11.25 Ludwig Thuille Sextet in B flat for piano and wind quintet, Op 6 Eichendorff Quintet, Ingeborg Baldaszti (piano)
Repeated from yesterday
11.30pm
The first of six programmes.
Britten Quartet
Tippett String Quartet No 1
Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op 135
The Song Tree: Music
Course 1 - The Vanishing Hole 2.15 Together Stories
2.30 Dance Workshop 2.50 Poetry Corner
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John Amis introduces classic performances of music by Sir Michael Tippett.
Tippett Concerto for Orchestra London Sinfonietta/ Simon Rattle (1984)
The Vision of St Augustine David Wilson-Johnson (bar) BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Richard Armstrong (1987) interspersed with the rarely heard Four Inventions for two recorders played by Philip Pickett and Rachel Beckett.
Producer Patrick Lambert
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Sheena Wellington explores the music of the workplace in the second of three programmes devoted to the song and instrumental traditions of Scotland.
Producer lain Macinnes
Tommy Pearson presents a megamix of music and sounds from the Iberian peninsula.
Producer Christina Pritchard
Natalie Wheen presents arts news, interviews and music, including
Rameau Les Indes galantes (excerpts)
6.03 Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales
7.03 Hoist Uranus, the magician (The Planets) Producer Gwen Hughes
The first concert in the Pierre Boulez 70th Birthday Celebration series, in which he conducts the LSO and world-class artists in his own music and a varied repertoire reflecting his own tastes.
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Stravinsky The Song of the Nightingale Boulez Notations I-IV
Webern Six Pieces, Op 6
Bartok Piano Concerto No 1
Recorded last Sunday at the Barbican Hall, London
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4: Jane Sharp
The final programme comes from a 17th-century herb garret, formerly attached to St Thomas 's hospital in London. Sarah Dunant talks to Ludmilla Jordanova , Professor of Cultural
History at York University, about midwife Jane Sharp , author of just one book,
The Midwives Book (1671). Her manual offered women information on anything concerning childbirth, including, for the first time, detailed anatomical descriptions in English instead of Greek or Latin. Series producer Julia Eisner
Clementi Sonata in G minor, Op 30 No 3 (Didone Abbandonata)
John McCabe (piano) Discs
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by Henry Purcell.
A world away from later
Italian opera, this compact masterpiece is perhaps closer to Court masque and may well have been first presented in the tiny theatre at Whitehall Palace.
Taverner Consort and Players/Andrew Parrott
A Taverner Concerts production
The first of two programmes which explore the psychology of music. 1: The Well-Tempered Listener
Why do we listen to music? What does it do for us?
Peter Evans investigates listeners' perspectives of structured sounds.
Producer Peter Croasdale
Sarah Walker 's nocturnal offerings this week range from a landmark work by the young
Harrison Birtwlstle , Tragoedia, in a vintage recording by the Melos Ensemble, through the recently released performance of An
Imaginary Landscape conducted by Paul Daniel , to a pair of pieces from the twilight zone: Phantom Waltz by Meredith Monk and The De-Certified Highway of Dreams, taken from a new disc by American piano duo Double Edge.
Producer Alan Hall
