Language in Hard Times

with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 Vivaldi Sopranino Recorder Concerto in C
(RV443)
7.15 Grieg
Peer Gynt: Suite No 1
7.43 Enescu
Violin Sonata (Torso)
8.05 Beethoven Overture:
The Creatures of Prometheus
8.20 Songbook Series: Wolf Italienisches
Liederbuch Nos 33-35
8.32 Koechlin
Les Bandar-Log
Producer Andrew Lyle
Discs FAIREST ISLE

(C1490-1550)
Carver and the Court
John Purser and Isobel Preece present sacred and secular music of the early
16th-century Scottish court, setting the scene for a week of music by its greatest composer, Robert Carver. Including the motets 0 bone Jesu for 19 voices and Gaude flore virginale for 5 voices, performed by the Taverner Choir/Andrew Parrott Producer Svend Brown

with Edward Blakeman , featuring this week five legends, four trio sonatas, three birthdays, two romantic symphonies and the king of instruments. Dvorak Legend No 4 in C ECO/Charles Mackerras
10.00 Artist of the Week:
Marie-Claire Alain (organ) Poulenc Organ Concerto French National Radio
Orchestra/Jean Martinon
10.20 Voices and Viols:
Music by Gibbons,
Tomkins, Carter and Stroman
BBC Singers/Bo Holten Rose Consort of Viols
10.45 An 80th birthday tribute to pianist Sviatoslav Richter
11.25 C P E Bach
Trio Sonata in B flat
(Wql61 No 2)
Nancy Hadden (flute)
Catherine Mackintosh (violin) Lucy Carolan (harpsichord) Erin Headley (viola da gamba)
11.40 Boccherini
Symphony No 4 in D minor (La casa del diavolo)
London Festival Orchestra, conductor Ross Pople
THE FORTIES

The second of three programmes in which Richard Osborne traces the fortunes of the Vienna State Opera company in the decade following the bombing of its home theatre in 1945, with reminiscences from Sena Jurinac.
Music by Mozart, Smetana, Verdi and Strauss is sung by Erich Kunz, Anton Dermota, Wilma Lipp, Walther Ludwig, Sena Jurinac, Ljuba Welitsch, Ludwig Weber and Hilde Rossel-Majdan .

from St John's, Smith Square.
Barbara Bonney (soprano) Thomas Schuback (piano)

Mozart Ridente la calma (K152); Der Zauberer (K472); Die Verschweigung (K518); Sei du mein Trost (K391); Das Kinderspiel (K598); An Chloe (K524)

Mendelssohn Neue Liebe; Der Mond; Pagenlied; Nachtlied; Fruhlingslied

Grieg Varen, Op 33 No 2

Stenhammar I skogen

Sjogran Jag giver min dikt till varen

Alfven Skogen sover

Sibelius Var det en drom, Op 37 No 4

(Repeated next Sunday 6.30pm)

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

BBC Concert Orchestra conductor Martin Handley Lorraine McAslan (violin) Franck Symphonic Poem: Les Eolides
Rimsky-Korsakov Fantasy on Two Russian Themes,
Op 33
Smetana Symphonic Poem: Hakon Jarl

Naji Hakim (organ)
Hakim Mariales (first performance)
Langlais Trio (Mosaïques) Hakim Variations on two themes; Improvisation

In the third of eight programmes, pianist and composer Stan Tracey talks to Geoffrey Smith about becoming house pianist at Ronnie Scott's in 1960 and accompanying visiting American stars like Zoot Sims and Sonny Rollins.
(Repeated Thursday 10.15pm)

Tommy Pearson finds out how composers combine lines of music into interesting and often complicated textures.

Andrew Green with arts news and music, including:

5.25 Beethoven Overture: Coriolan

6.03 Ravel Trois chansons

6.35 Schubert Fantasy in C (D760) (Wanderer)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Ida Haendel (violin)

Bach, arr Elgar Fantasia and Fugue in C minor

Hugh Wood Symphony

Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor

As part of Science Week Radio 3 presents five views of the most important scientific developments of the 1940s.

Biologist Lewis Wolpert on the work proving that genes are made of DNA.
(Next programme tomorrow 9.25pm)

Granados's colourful Spanish piano cycle, played by Alma Petchersky.
Los Requiebros; Coloquio en la reja; El fandango de Candil; Quejas a la maja y el ruisenor; El amor y la muerte; Epilogo

With Mark Russell and Robert Sandall, including a studio session from Pere
Ubu vocalist David Thomas and the 2 Pale Boys: "wracked, folkily avantgarde neo-theatrics." (Time Out)

Presented by Alison Wray.

Salomon Quartet

Haydn String Quartet in B flat, Op 33 No 4

Mozart String Quartet in B flat (K458) (Hunt)

(Repeated tomorrow at 12 noon)

Scene on Radio - Dear Nobody
by Berlie Doherty: Drama

1.30 German 16+: Deutschlandspiegel