Poetry and the End of Empire: Larkin and Hughes

with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Boccherini Duo in G for two violins, Op 5 No 1 Igor Ozim and Primoz Novsak (violins)
7.15 Offenbach Overture:
Orpheus in the Underworld New York Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Leonard Bernstein
7.32 Handel Handbook:
Handel Violin Sonata in E,
Op 1 No 15
Jascha Heifetz (violin) Emanuel Bay (piano)
8.05 Chopin Prelude in D flat, Op 28 No 15 (Raindrop)
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
8.10 Purcell Portfolio:
Purcell A selection of songs
8.32 Shostakovich
Symphony No 9
USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra/
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Discs
FAIREST ISLE

Introduced by Kate Bolton. 4: Dalliance, Departure and Despair
William's Consort Sett a 6 in F alongside amorous love songs and more impassioned outpourings by Henry including Sweet, stay awhile, Go, lovely rose and I rise and grieve.

with Piers Burton-Page . Bruckner Osjusti
BBC Singers, conductor James O'Donnell
9.50 Artist of the Week:
Clara Haskil (piano)
Mozart Piano Concerto No
24 in C minor (K491) Lamoureux Orchestra, conductor Igor Markevitch
10.20 Dohnanyi Serenade in C, Op 10
Vienna String Trio
10.45 Weill The New
Orpheus, Op 15
Judith Howarth (soprano) Stephen Bryant (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Jan Latham-Koenig
11.10 Forqueray Suite No 1 in D minor (excerpts)
Oscar Milani (harpsichord)
11.15 Bruckner
Locus iste
BBC Singers, conductor James O'Donnell
11.25 Schumann
Waldszenen, Op 82 Clara Haskil (piano)
11.45 Verdi Te Deum (Four Sacred Pieces)
South German Madrigal Choir
Ludwigsberg Festival Orchestra, conductor
Wolfgang Gonnenwein

Repeated from yesterday
11.30pm

with Susan Sharpe.
FAIREST ISLE
1.00 City of London Sinfonia director Barry Tuckwell (horn)
Maidwyn Davies (tenor)
The first in a second series of lunchtime concerts from city churches, featuring music by 20th-century
British composers. Penny Gore introduces this programme from
St Bartholomew-the -Great,
Smithfield.
Hoist Brook Green Suite
Alexander Goehr Fugue on the Notes of Psalm IV
Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings
A Classic Arts production of a concert sponsored by HSBC Holdings
2.00 Schools
Radio Q & A 2.05 In the News 2.25 Something to Think About: Infant
Assemblies 2.40 Music
Workshop: Music Course 3 Jiving Jukeboxes
FAIREST ISLE
3.00 A Singers' Celebration
The third of the BBC
Singers' 70th anniversary concerts, recorded in April at St John's, Smith Square, and conducted by their new chief conductor elect
Stephen Cleobury.
Christopher Hughes (organ) Bach Komm , Jesu Komm !
(BWV 229)
Andrew Simpson
The Hollow Hills (BBC commission, first performance)
Howells Requiem
3.45 Singers Talking Anthony Burton talks to BBC Singers past and present about the process of singing.
3.55 Andrew Simpson The Hollow Hills (repeat performance)
Parry At the round earth's imagin'd corners: Lord, let me know mine end (Songs of Farewell) Bach
Lobet den Herrn (BWV 230) Final concert in a fortnight
FAIREST ISLE
4.35 The British Touch
In the third of five programmes of early British keyboard music, Gary Cooper (harpsichord) introduces and performs John Munday Robin Giles Famaby
Bonny Sweet Robin
Thomas Morley Pavana
Anon Barafostus 's Dreame
Thomas Tomkins
Barafostus 's Dreame

World Music in London
Dirk Campbell talks to Dumkhang-La, a folk musician and member of the small community of Tibetans in London.

from Glasgow with Linda Ormiston , including
Boyce Symphony No 2 in A
6.03 Chopin
Funeral March (Piano
Sonata No 2 in B flat minor)
6.30 Kodaly
Suite: Hary Janos
7.03 Schumann
Overture: Julius Caesar
Producer Svend Brown

conductor Barry Wordsworth Dong-Suk Kang (violin)
Elgar Introduction and Allegro Saint-Saens Violin Concerto
No 3 in B minor
Berlioz Rêverie et caprice Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5

Spalding Gray Talks to Himself
Spalding Gray gets beneath Spalding Gray the actor.
Final programme tomorrow 9.45pm

Steven Isserlis (cello)
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano) Beethoven Seven
Variations on "Bei Mannern , welche Liebe fuhlen" (Wo046): Sonata in C, Op 102 No 1; Twelve
Variations on "Ein Madchen oder Weibchen", Op 66 Schumann Three
Romances, Op 94
Mendelssohn Sonata in D, Op 58

Humphrey Carpenter asks whether musicals are inherently trivial and reviews the first night of Brecht and Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the English National Opera.
Producer Beatty Rubens

BBC Concert Orchestra conductor Barry Wordsworth Glan Francesco Maliplero Armenia; Pause del silenzio
I: Stradivario; Gabrieliana Repeated tomorrow 12 noon