Understanding Societies: The World We Have Lost
with Catriona Young.
7.05 Rossini Bute Quartet No 1 in G
7.35 Monteverdi Ave Maris
Stella (Vespers 1610)
7.45 Smetana
Wallenstein's 's Camp
8.05 Schubert Rondo in D
(D608)
8.20 Nielsen
An Evening at Giske
8.45 Dvorak
Drobnosti, Op 75a Discs
Presented by Jill Anderson Johann Pisendel
Concerto in D
Roland Straumer (violin) Virtuosi Saxoniae , conductor Ludwig Guttler Sylvius Weiss Allemande (Suite in F minor)
Konrad Junghanel (lute)
Jan Zelenka Trio Sonata No
5 in Zefiro Ensemble
Johann Heinichen Pastorale per la notte di Natale Vivaldi
Concerto in G minor (RV5 76) Virtuosi Saxoniae/Guttler Discs
with Andrew Lyle , including Purcell The Comical History of Don Quixote (excerpts)
Academy of Ancient Music/ Christopher Hogwood
10.10 Mozart String
Quintet in G minor (K516) Allegri Quartet Iris Juda (viola)
10.40 Reger Sonata in B flat, Op 107
Michael Collins (clarinet) Kathryn Stott (piano)
11.10 Rubinstein
Don Quixote
Slovak Philharmonic, conductor Michael Halasz
11.30 Haydn Symphony No 93 in D
Salzburg Mozarteum
Orchestra/Jeffrey Tate
Repeated from yesterday
11.30pm
conductor Richard Hickox
John Wallace (trumpet) John Harle (saxophone) The third in a series of lunchtime concerts featuring music by 20th-century British composers recorded in three City of London churches.
From St Giles, Cripplegate, in the heart of the Barbican, Penny Gore introduces music by Elgar and Tippett together with the world premiere of a double concerto by John Hopkins.
Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings
Hopkins Concerto for trumpet and saxophone (first performance)
Tippett Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli A Classic Arts production
Last year the BBC Singers and their principal conductor Simon Joly took up residencies in two of London's conservatoires.
In the first of two programmes,
Michael Emery talks to students at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Poulenc Timor et tremor
David Knotts Look , stranger, at this island now Itamar Erez Two Chippewa Songs
Alexander Levine Tsarevich
Julian Bond Come unto Me
Poulenc Vinea mea electa
Second programme tomorrow
10.05pm
Gloucester's claim to musical fame rests on more than its one-third share in the Three Choirs
Festival. Sir Hubert Parry , Gerald Finzi ,
Herbert Howells and Ivor Gurney all lived in or around the city. As Britain's "composer county", Gloucestershire also numbers
Vaughan Williams and Hoist among its native sons.
Andrew Green presents a selection of music largely from between the wars - an important period in the city's history - including
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
Gumey Songs
Finzi Severn Meadow
Howells Magnificat (Gloucester Service)
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
The Sampling Sessions 2: 1 + 1 = ?
Composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich have both used simple arithmetic in their music. In today's
"session", Ron Woodley and Eliot Kennedy sample, subtract and add together some of their compositions using pop music studio technology.
from Glasgow with Geoffrey Baskerville. Vivaldi Sinfonia in C
6.03 Berlioz Romeo et
Juliette (excerpts)
7.03 Debussy Violin Sonata Producer Simon Lord
from Studio 1,
Birmingham.
Lindsay Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in F, Op 77 No 2
Stravinsky Three Pieces
8.05 Beethoven and the Critics
What the critics said about the composer in his lifetime.
8.25 Beethoven String
Quartet in E flat, Op 127
2: Literature
Following in the steps of Auden and MacNeice,
Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell try out new poems at a reading in Reykjavik, and search for the sagas with Matthias Johannessen , writer and editor of Morgunnbladid.
Next programme tomorrow 9.45pm
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Alexander Gibson
Timothy Hugh (cello)
Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor
In 1770 the English music historian Charles Burney undertook a tour of Europe to gather material for his General History of Music. In the first of three programmes, John Moffat reads from Burney's journal, starting with his visit to
Paris and his encounters with the composers Claude-Benigne Balbastre and Armand-Louis Couperin Music played by the Locatelli Trio.
Producer Lindsay Kemp
Little Englands
A nation of shopkeepers? Workshop of the world?
Richard Coles continues a week of programmes taking a provocative look at how the English attempt to define themselves.
Producer Abigail Appleton
BBC Concert Orchestra conductor Jane Glover
Reger A Comedy Overture
Boris Blacher Variations on a theme of Paganini Dohnanyi Suite in F sharp minor, Op 19
Repeated tomorrow 12 noon Jane Glover 's Opera House: Radio 4 Wednesday 8.45pm
