Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Vivaldi Concerto in C
(RV443)
Michala Petri (recorder)
I Solisti Veneti , conductor
Claudio Scimone
7.23 Songbook Series: Wolf
Italienisches Liederbuch
Nos 5-8
Felicity Lott (soprano) Peter Schreier (tenor)
Graham Johnson (piano)
7.32 Beethoven
Symphony No 8 in F Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Pierre Monteux
8.05 Mendelssohn, transcr Rachmaninov
Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Howard Shelley (piano)
8.22 F
Couperin Laetentur coeli (Motet for St Bartholomew)
Michael Chance and James
Bowman (countertenors) Mark Caudle (viola da gamba)
Robert King (organ)
8.32 Shostakovich
Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings
Yevgeni Kissin (piano) Vassili Kan (trumpet)
Moscow Virtuosi, conductor Vladimir Spivakov Discs
Christopher Page explores the famous Missa: Gloria tibi Trinitas performed by the Taverner Choir, conductor Andrew Parrott
Discs
with Piers Burton-Page , including
Julius Harrison
Bredon Hill
Christopher Warren-Green (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth
10.20 Beethoven
Sextet in E flat, Op 71 Vienna Wind Soloists
10.40 Artist of the Week:
Jacques Thibaud (violin) Mozart
Sonata in A (K526)
Marguerite Long (piano)
11.00 lbert
Féerique
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Robert Ziegler
11.10 Parry
Theme and 19 Variations
Anthony Goldstone (piano)
11.25 Harold Truscott
Symphony in E
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, conductor Adrian Leaper
Interspersed with settings of Housman's A Shropshire Lad.
The Song of the Angels "Not Angles, but Angels" was the witty response of St Gregory the Great to the sight of blond English slaves for sale in a Roman marketplace.
Chris de Souza presents five concerts of vocal music from pre-Reformation
England, beginning with Bedyngham's Missa sine nomine and motets by Plummer and Hothby sung by the Hilliard Ensemble. Repeated from yesterday
11.30pm
BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Andrew Davis
Haydn Symphony No 87 in A
Schumann Symphony No 3 in E flat (Rhenish)
Playtime 2.15 Time to Move 2.35 Listen!
Piers Burton-Page presents four explorations of the pastoral theme in British music, based on William Empson 's celebrated exercise in literary criticism. 2: The Pastoral of the Innocence of Man and Nature, or In Summertime, on Bredon ...
The links between music, literature and painting, as revealed in excerpts from works by Handel, Elgar, Bliss, Vaughan Williams.
Balfour Gardiner and Hoist.
Producer Piers Burton-Page
Tommy Pearson gets to the bottom of the mysteries of the ear with the help of ENT specialist Dr David Garfield Davies, and asks how musicians cope with hearing loss.
from Belfast with Sean Rafferty. Including at approximately
5.20 Suppe
Overture: Pique-Dame
6.15 Handel
Cantata: Nel dolce dell'oblio
6.45 Mendelssohn
Hear my prayer
7.00 Verdi
0 horror! .. In pity hear me now (
Simon Boccanegra , Act 2)
Martin Butler and Stephen Pruslin 's opera in two acts. Opera meets comic book in the story of Craig, a hero for the 1990s who sets out to reach the top. His voyage of self-discovery leads from boardroom to boiler-room, from ice world to outer space.
This recording is of the world premiere given by Mecklenburgh Opera at the Queen Elizabeth Hall ,
London, last June. The cast of 49 characters is sung by just five singers.
Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone)
Simone Sauphanor (soprano)
Annemarie Sand (mezzo) Kevin West (tenor)
Andrew Slater (bass) Mecklenburgh Opera Ensemble, conductor
Anne Manson
Martin Butter 's BBC commission
Hootenanny is broadcast next Sunday at 9.15pm
Chris Nicholson continues to explore the novelties of late 17th-century England, talking to historian Faramez Dabhoiwia about the invention of the street lamp. Next programme tomorrow
9.15pm
Raphael Ensemble
Boccherini Sextet in F minor, Op 23 No 4 Brahms
Quintet in G, Op 111 See also tomorrow 9.25pm
Nocturnes: No 3 in A flat; No 11 in E flat
Daniel Adni (piano)
Next programme tomorrow
10.00pm
Roy Porter heads west to explore the power of the frontier in American culture, and dusts off some little-known but newly acclaimed poetry from the American Civil War.
Producer Paul Quinn
BBC Philharmonic conductor Jane Glover
Elgar
Overture:
Cockaigne Barry Guy After the Rain Britten
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Repeated tomorrow at 12 noon
History 9-111.40 Tales from Europe
