Caribbean and Asian
Workers
with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 Bizet Petite suite:
Jeux d'enfants
7.16 Handel Handbook:
Handel Recorder Sonata in D minor, Op 1 No 9
7.32 Mendelssohn
Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
8.05 Steve Martland
Principia
8.08 Oswald Sonata on Scots Tunes
8.32 Mozart Divertimento in D (K136) Discs
2: Music for the Masses
In 19th-century Paris, the only true measure of success was in the opera house. Widor's operas went down well at the time, but today they await rediscovery. The organ loft at Notre Dame gave his pupil Vierne an opportunity to impress the upper echelons of Parisian society. Richard Langham
Smith discovers a museum where Vierne's achievements are displayed for all to see.
Widor Suite: Maitre Ambros
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth Salve Regina (Symphony No 2)
Marcel Dupre (organ) Vierne Improvisation: Marche episcopale
The Composer (organ) Kyrie; Gloria (Mass)
Matrise de Notre Dame
MaitrTse de la Resurrection
Cathedral Choirs of Notre
Dame
Pierre Cochereau and Jacques Marichal (organs) director Jehan Revert
from Birmingham with Chris Wines , including
Bach Concerto in C for three harpsichords (BWV 1064)
Andrew Davis and Philip Ledger (harpsichords) Academy of St Martin , director Raymond Leppard (harpsichord)
10.18 Chopin Polish
Songs, Op 74 (excerpts)
Elisabeth Soderstrom (sop) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
10.42 Wagner A Faust Overture
LPO/Adrian Boult
10.54 Artists of the Week:
City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra
Saint-Saens Le carnaval des animaux
John Ogdon and Brenda Lucas (pianos) conductor Louis Fremaux
11.17 Mozart Divertimento in B-flat (K137)
11.48 Michael Berkeley Coronach
Guildhall String Ensemble
Repeated from yesterday
11.30pm
with Susan Sharpe.
FAIREST ISLE
1.00 BBC Festival of Brass 1995
The third of eight concerts of British brass band music is given by European
Champions the Williams Fairey Band, conductor
Peter Parkes. Introduced by Paul Hindmarsh.
Eric Ball Song of Courage Adrian Cruft Chess Pieces
(first broadcast) Edward Gregson Connotations
Judith Bingham The Stars Above: the Earth Below
(first broadcast)
Philip Wilby Dragons Arise (first broadcast)
2.00 Schools
Playtime 2.15 Time to Move 2.35 Ghostwriter
2.45 Le Club
FAIREST ISLE
3.00 British Cities
Oxford
As a leading university and cathedral city, Oxford has a rich and well-documented musical tradition. The 18th century was a particularly active period, with the founding of the Holywell
Music Room, the visits of Handel and Haydn and an array of colourful personalities among local musicians. Susan
Wollenberg, University
Lecturer of Music at Oxford, presents a selection of music from the Oxford of this time.
Producer Chris Wines
Tommy Pearson investigates the different ways in which traditional or "world" music is treated on the three BBC
Radio music networks.
with Mairi Nicolson.
5.16 Mozart Overture:
Le nozze di Figaro
6.03 Chopin Ballade No 2 in F. Op 38
6.35 Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Producer Paul Hindmarsh
Prokofiev's opera, with a libretto by the composer, after the novella by Dostoyevsky.
"While this cacophony of sounds, with its incredible intervals and enharmonic tones, may be very interesting to those who love powerful musical sensations, it is completely uninteresting to the singers, who in the course of a whole season have barely managed to learn their parts."
With these words the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg rejected
Prokofiev's opera in 1917. Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, conductor Valery Gergiev
The second of five plays by Neil Cargill. The Champs de Mars is blasted by a musical duet between Sax and his adversaries. The victory is bloodless, but a revenging blade awaits the inventor of the saxophone. For details see yesterday
Next play tomorrow 9.05pm
Trio in G (Wo037) Chinook Trio Discs
Rossini's Ermione receives its first British production at Glyndebourne. Judi Dench stars in a revival of Absolute Hell by Rodney Ackland. Roy Porter gets the first-night verdicts and investigates images of health and sickness in conversation with American historian Sander Gilman. Producer Sarah Barnett
Royal College Concerts with Chris de Souza.
A High-Priz'd Noise
The Parley of Instruments Renaissance Violin Band, director Peter Holman , in a programme of dance music from the Court of Charles I, including works by Alfonso Ferrabosco.
Robert Johnson. William Lawes and Stephen Nau.
Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
Contes mysterieux
