Countdown to Trig
with Richard Osborne.
Tchaikovsky Serenade for strings, Op 48
Norwegian CO, conductor lona Brown
7.34 Arensky Piano Trio in F minor, Op 73 Beaux Arts Trio
8.10 Debussy Prélude a I'apres-midi d'un faune
Halle Orchestra , conductor John Barbirolli
8.21 Satie Trois mélodies
Frederica von Stade
(mezzo)
Martin Katz (piano)
8.27 Beethoven Symphony No 1 in C
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Tess Knighton explores different interpretations of the medieval songs
Carmina Burana on which
Carl Orff based his famous choral work. Edward
Seckerson and John
Deathridge discuss new opera releases.
Revised repeat tomorrow
11.15pm
Mozart La Clemenza di Tito
(Act 1, excerpt)
Academy of Ancient Music Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Christopher Hogwood
10.50 Walton Troilus and Cressida (Act 2, excerpt)
Chorus of Opera North English Northern
Philharmonia, conductor
Richard Hickox
11.14 Schreker Die
Gezeichneten (Act 3, excerpt)
Berlin Radio Chorus
German Symphony
Orchestra, Berlin, conductor Lothar Zagrosek
11.39 Strauss Salome
(final scene)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor
Christoph von Dohnanyi Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert Discs
Actor John Nettles , best-known for his TV role as Bergerac, talks to composer Michael Berkeley about his musical and theatrical experiences with a little help from Baez and Beethoven.
A Classic Arts production
FAIREST ISLE
Hand-Raised Pork Pie
In the fifth of six programmes, Leslie Forbes travels to Melton Mowbray , the home of the pork pie, and asks what's in a name?
Producer Cathy Drysdale
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Kathryn Stott (piano) Debussy
Cello Sonata in D minor
Faure Cello Sonata in D minor, Op 109; Romance in A, Op 69; Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 117
Messiaen Louange a l'éternité de Jesus (Quatuor pour la fin du temps)
Franck Cello Sonata in A
Concert sponsored by Watmoughs (Holdings)
BBC Philharmonic conductor
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) Faure Suite: Pelleas et
Melisande; Ballade in F sharp
Ravel Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand
Tommy Pearson presents four special extended programmes.
2: The Music of Iberia
Producer Chris Wines
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall
Discs
Presented by Ivan Hewett. This week, the latest volume of Henri-Louis de la Grange 's Mahler biography and a debate about whether musical scholarship has been corrupted by the record industry.
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
Repeated tomorrow at 12.15pm
Richard Strauss 's opera to a text by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, in a performance given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in March. Sung in German. Presented by James Naughtie.
Footmen to the Marschallin
MALCOLM CAMPBELL and JOHN,
WINFIELD (tenors), PASCHAL ALLEN and DONALDSON BELL (basses)
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal
Opera House, conductor Andrew Davis
Act
7.45 James Naughtie Interview
James Naughtie talks to the conductor of this evening's performance, Andrew Davis.
8.05 Acts 2 and 3
by Michelene Wandor , inspired by Ludovico Ariosto 's 16th-century epic poem Orlando Furioso.
Music arranged by Michelene Wandor and performed by Siena:
Michelene Wandor (recorder and viol) Brian Capleton and Roy Marks (viols) Producer Piers Plowright
See also tomorrow 5.45pm
In the first of two programmes, Alyn Shipton introduces recordings of two contrasting duos. The music of Paul Rogers
(bass) and Paul Dunmall
(saxophones/flutes/pipes), playing under the name
Folk, is jazz improvisation inspired by the folk tradition. The other duo combines two world-famous percussion players - from Scotland Evelyn Glennie and from Brazil Nana
Vasconcelos - fulfilling for the first time their long-held ambition to play together. Producer Derek Drescher