Reformers and Secular
Authority
with Penny Gore.
7.05 Butterworth
The Banks of Green Willow
7.22 Handel Handbook:
Handel Recorder Sonata in F, Op 1 No 11
7.41 Rameau Dardanus
(excerpts)
8.05 Weber Clarinet
Concertino in E flat, Op 26
8.21 Purcell Portfolio:
Purcell A selection of songs
8.47 Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso, Op 66
Producer Andrew Lyle Discs
Jill Anderson presents music by three late 18th-century composers: Georg Druschetzky (1745-1819), Leopold Kozeluch (1747 1818) and Franz Krommer (1759-1831).
Mozart, arr Druschetzky Die Zauberflote (excerpts) (first broadcast)
Kaisers Harmonie
Kozeluch Piano Sonata in F minor, Op 38 No 3
Christine Faron (fortepiano) Krommer Octet Partita in F minor, Op 57
Chamber Orchestra of Europe Wind Soloists Producer Jill Anderson
with Chris de Souza.
10.05 Artists of the Week:
Borodin Quartet
Haydn Seven Last Words on the Cross: Introduction
10.10 Beethoven Overture:
Leonore No 1
10.20 Brahms String Quartet in C minor, Op 51 No 1
11.00 Havergal Brian
Symphony No 6 (Sinfonia Tragica)
11.30 Haydn Seven Last
Words on the Cross: Sonata I
11.40 Finger Suite: The Spirit of the Age
Producer Chris de Souza
A series on operetta in which Sir Roy Strong embarks on a six-part musical journey through roaring Ruritania, and finds a treasure trove of undiscovered music.
1: Strauss or Sondheim?
An introduction to the form and its history, charting a clear line from the popular musical theatre of John Gay and Mozart to musicals by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.
A Heavy Entertainment production Repeated Friday 12 midnight
with Susan Sharpe.
MUSIC LIVE 95
1.00 Lunchtime Concert from Birmingham Town Hall.
Carmina Quartet
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Haydn String Quartet in C, Op 76 No 3 (Emperor)
Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34
For tickets ring (0121) [number removed]
2.20 The BBC
Orchestras
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Yuzuko Horigome (violin) Weber
Overture: Der Freischutz
Grieg Suite: Sigurd Jorsalfar Chausson Poeme , Op 25
Sibelius Symphony No 1 in E minor
3.45 The Stations of the Cross
First of two programmes introduced by Clair Jaquiss in which Simon Wright plays the symphonic poem by Marcel Dupre on the organ of Ampleforth Abbey.
4.30 New series
You Take Some Skins....
In six programmes, Russell Davies unravels the complex relationship between black and white jazz musicians from the earliest days of jazz to the present.
1: Bouncin' Around
Jazz was created about 100 years ago by black
Americans, some of whom had recently been slaves. But whites made the first jazz record, in 1917, and some of the great jazz clubs, like Harlem's Cotton Club, were white-only venues. A Perryscope production
What's New?
Charles Hazlewood visits the Royal Academy of Music to meet Rolf Hind - a pianist with a buzz for contemporary music. Plus news of the British Contemporary Piano Competition.
Producer Jessica Isaacs
with Andrew Green.
from Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Conductor Andrew Davis
BBC Symphony Chorus (Women's voices)
Debussy Iberia (Images) Poul Ruders Concerto in Pieces (Purcell Variations) (BBC commission, first performance)
8.05 A Cosmic Symphony: The Mirror Crack'd
The second of two talks in which music critic Jamie James traces the evolution of the concept of celestial harmony from its beginnings to the 20th century.
With the advent of Romanticism, the serenity of the old order was overturned, but has there been a return to the search for cosmic harmony?
8.25 Holst Suite: The Planets
During this week, four film directors outline their cinematic dream projects. Tonight, Alex Cox.
A Unique Broadcasting production Next programme tomorrow
9.50pm
The Chairman Dances - BBC SO/Andrew Mogrelia
(Disc)
from the International Convention Centre, Birmingham.
As the festivities draw to a close, Radios 1, 2 and 3 band together for a simultaneous live relay of a special Music Live 95 commission: a spectacular collaboration between Jools Holland, John Dankworth, John Harle and Michael Nyman. With the Jools Holland Big Band, the BBC Big Band and the Michael Nyman Band, and Cleo Laine, Sarah Leonard, Paul Roachford and Ruby Turner.
from the Rep Theatre Bar in Birmingham.
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall introduce a set from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra interspersed with unusual sounds on CD.
with Joanna Pinnock.
Chantal Juillet (violin)
Raphael Wallfisch (cello) Pascal Roge (piano) Debussy
Cello Sonata in D minor
Ravel Violin Sonata in G;
Berceuse sur le nom de
Gabriel Faure
Faure Serenade for cello and piano, Op 98
Ravel Sonata for violin and cello
Repeated tomorrow at 12 noon