Language and the Novel

with Andrew McGregor.

7.05 Morago Commissa mea pavesco

7.10 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E (RV269) (The Four Seasons: Spring)

7.40 Francaix Wind Quintet No 1

8.05 Saint-Saens Phaeton, Op 39

8.21 Brahms Scherzo in E flat minor, Op 4

8.32 Quartet Collection: Haydn String Quartet in B flat, Op 71 No 1

(Discs)

Curt Carlsson presents music by Emil Sjogren
(1853-1919), including two of his Erotikon piano pieces played by Wilhelm Stenhammar , songs sung by Anne Sofie von Otter
(mezzo) with Ralf Gothoni (piano), the Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor with Leo Berlin (violin) and Greta Erikson (piano), and three of the Legends, Op 46 played by Per Thunarf on the organ of St Clara, Stockholm. The programme ends with Elegy at the Bier of Emil Sjogren by Hugo Alfven.
Producer Andrew Lyle

with Piers Burton-Page . Handel
Concerto grosso in B flat, Op 3 No 1
10.10 Bach Motet: Der
Geist hilft unsrer
Schwachheit auf (BWV 226)
10.20 Artist of the Week:
Steven Isserlis (cello) Glazunov Song of the Minstrel, Op 19
10.25 Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin
10.55 Bax
Northern Ballad No 1
11.05 Purcell
Incidental music: The
Gordian Knot Unty'd
11.15 Bach Cello Suite No
5 in C minor (BWV 1011)
11.40
Brahms Schicksalslied , Op 54
FAIREST ISLE

Roderic Dunnett presents the last in the present series of highlights from neglected operas from the age of Empire.
7: Charles Vllllers Stanford
The Travelling Companion Of Stanford's ten operas, The Travelling Companion, written in 1916, is his last and most refined.
Chorus of the Royal Opera House
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth Producer Tim Thome

from St John 's,
Smith Square.
Marjana Lipovsek (contralto) Graham Johnson (piano) Schubert Abendbilder ; Himmelsfunken; Der
Jungling auf dem Hugel; Nachthymne;
Das Madchen ; Der Tod und das Madchen; Waldesnacht Musorgsky Songs and Dances of Death
Repeated next Sunday 6.30pm

20th-century Soundbites
2.15 Storybox 2.25 Let's Move 2.45 First Steps in Drama

BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Panufnlk Symphony No 10 Lutoslawski Livre pour orchestre

Graham Barber plays the earliest surviving English keyboard music from the Robertsbridge Fragment (cl320), as well as other North European music, on the 1457 organ in Rysum in Ost-Friesland.

In the first of eight programmes pianist and composer Stan Tracey , one of Britain's leading jazz musicians, talks to Geoffrey Smith about his first efforts on accordion with an RAF gang show.
Producer Derek Drescher
Repeated Thursday 10.15pm

Tommy Pearson joins the members of the London
Gabrieli Brass Ensemble for the start of a brass week. Producer Chris Wines

with Andrew Green.
5.25 Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela (Legends)
6.03 Mozart Gloria
(Coronation Mass)
6.30 Beethoven Piano
Sonata in E flat, Op 81a (Les adieux)
7.03 Wagner Prelude: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Producer Andrew Mussett
FAIREST ISLE

from the Royal Festival Hall,
London.
Graham Ashton (trumpet) BBC SO/Andrew Davis Elgar
Symphonic Study: Falstaff David Sawer Trumpet
Concerto (first performance)
8.25 Honoured Abroad
David Huckvale looks at how the music of British composers at the turn of the century was received on the Continent.
8.45 Elgar Enigma Variations Sponsored by Landrover
THE FORTIES

First of five programmes in which Stephen Johnson explores how music written before, during and after the Second World War changed Britain's musical landscape.
1: The Eve of Catastrophe Producer Simon Lord
Next programme tomorrow 9.00pm

Brindisi Quartet
In the fifth programme of the series featuring composers working with young artists, Chris de Souza talks to Colin Matthews
, whose String
Quartet No 1 is receiving its first broadcast performance. Berg String Quartet, Op 3 Colin Matthews String Quartet No 1
A Classic Arts production

with Robert Sandall and Mark Russell.
Producer Philip Tagney

Helen Garrison introduces a second group of concerts recorded out and about on the Early Music Network.
This week, a programme of Baroque chamber music by Florilegium.
Leclair Deuxieme récréation de musique Handel
Trio Sonata in G, Op 5 No 4 Vivaldi Concerto in G minor
(RV104) (La notte) Telemann
Concerto a 4 in A minor
Producer Lindsay Kemp
Repeated tomorrow at 12 noon

Triple Bill - Comfort
Herself. Part 11.30 Poetry of Passion 2.00 Dance
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