Gombrich on Art and Illusion

with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 Faure Sicilienne , Op 78
7.15 Walton, arr Hindmarsh A Wartime Sketchbook
7.45 Britten Canticle III:
Still falls the rain
8.05 Handel Handbook:
Handel Trio Sonata in B flat. Op 2 No 3
8.24 Mozart Temerari ! ...
Come scoglio (Cosi fan tutte)
8.32 Walter Leigh
Concertino for harpsichord and strings
Producer Andrew Lyle Discs

(1845-1924)
In the week of the 150th anniversary of Faure's birth, Roger Nichols , in conversation with Jean-
Michel Nectoux , presents a chronological survey of the composer's 60-year creative life.
1: 1864-1879
"He lacks a fault which in an artist is a virtue: ambition."
(Camille Saint-Saens) Berceuse
Robert and Gaby Casadesus (piano duet)
Dans les ruines d'une abbaye Maggie Teyte (soprano) Gerald Moore (piano)
Lydia Charles Panzera (baritone) Magdeleine Panzera-Baillot (piano)
Nocturne No 1 in E flat minor
Eric Heidsieck (piano) Les djinns
Alix Bourbon Vocal
Ensemble
Toulouse Capitole
Orchestra/Michel Plasson Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor
Domus
Producer Edward Blakeman

from Glasgow with Mary Miller. This week, duos, duets, double concertos and sounds from Latin America.
10.10 Poulenc Sonata for two pianos
Andrew Ball and Julian Jacobson (pianos)
10.45 James MacMillan
Three Dawn Rituals
Scottish CO/The Composer
11.05 Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia Huapango
BBC Scottish SO, conductor Odaline de la Martinez
11.25 Artist of the Week:
Jaime Laredo
(violin/director)
Mendelssohn Octet in E flat for strings, Op 20 with ensemble
Producer Simon Lord

In the fourth of six programmes, Jim Hiley continues his celebration of British and American musicals with a selection of songs illustrating the musical at its most extravagant and excessive. Rpt

with Susan Sharpe.
1.00 BBC Lunchtime
Concert from St John 's,
Smith Square.
Chantal Juillet (violin)
Raphael Wallfisch (cello) Pascal Roge (piano)
Faure Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 117; Piano Trio in D minor, Op 120
Repeated next Sunday 6.30pm
2.00 The BBC Orchestras
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Levon Chilingirian (violin) Simon Rowland-Jones
(viola)
Philip de Groote (cello) Tippett Triple Concerto Mahler
Symphony No 1 in D
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3.40 An Outside View
Leading performers and composers from around the world voice their opinions on British music. Today, the Swedish trumpeter Hakan Hardenberger.
Producer Susan Kenyon
3.45 Music for Organ played by Christopher Herrick. The second of two recordings made in Lindevangs Church, Copenhagen.
Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G minor (BWV 542) (Great) Schumann Six Fugues on the name BACH, Op 60
4.30 Sinatra's Jazz
Mel Hill traces the part played by jazz and jazz musicians in the evolution of Frank Sinatra 's highly distinctive vocal style. In the second of four programmes, he looks at Sinatra's career as a solo artist on the Columbia label, where his main appeal was as a singer of sweet, slow ballads. Producer Derek Drescher

Tommy and the Lindsays Tommy Pearson joins the Lindsay Quartet in Sheffield.

with Natalie Wheen.
Gershwin Three Preludes
6.03 Chopin Polonaise in E flat, Op 26 No 2
6.30 Bloch Oh America
(Epic Fantasy: America) Producer Jessica Isaacs

conductors Yan Pascal
Tortelier and Peter Maxwell
Davies
Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)
Ravel Rapsodie espagnole Maxwell Davies Trumpet Concerto;
Symphony No 5 Debussy La mer
Recorded last month in the Avery Fisher Hall
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The composers
William Alwyn and Elizabeth Lutyens wrote music that was stylistically poles apart: his tonal and romantic, hers serial and iconoclastic. But they shared a lengthy friendship which survives in the many letters they wrote to each other - letters that were by turn humorous, passionate, witty and scurrilous and in which they revealed to each other the ups and downs, the light and the darkness, of their different creative lives. This week. Andrew Palmer introduces four selections he has made from the Alwyn/Lutyens letters, which are read by Tessa Worsley and John Turner. Producer Michael Emery
Next programme tomorrow
9.05pm

Edith Mathis (soprano) Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo)
Peter Schreier (tenor)
Andreas Schmidt (baritone) Graham Johnson and Wolfram Rieger (pianos) Brahms Liebeslieder , Op
52: Three Quartets, Op 64; Neue Liebeslieder, Op 65

with Robert Sandall and Mark Russell.
Producer Philip Tagney

Penny Gore introduces a Russian edition.
Arensky Suite No 1 in F for two pianos
Stephen Coombs and Ian Munro (pianos)
Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) John Lenehan (piano)
Bortkiewicz Preludes: No 7 in F sharp; No 8 in D flat Stephen Coombs (piano) Repeated tomorrow at 12 noon