Assignment 103

Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Byrd
Sing joyfully unto God Tallis Scholars , director Peter Phillips
7.08 Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in Brandenburg Consort, director Roy Goodman
7.40 Respighi
Ancient Airs and Dances:
Suite No 3
Berlin PO, conductor
Herbert von Karajan
8.05 Gullmant
Grand choeur in G minor,
Op 84
Daniel Roth (organ)
8.14 Handel Handbook:
Handel
Trio Sonata in C (HWV 403) L'Ecole d'Orphee
8.32 Robert Fayrfax Ave Dei Patris Filia
Cardinal's Musick, conductor Andrew Carwood
Discs

Introduced by Jan Smaczny. The Noonday Witch
Czech PO/Vaclav Neumann The Devil and Kate (excerpts) Brno Janacek Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Jiri Pinkas
Discs

with Andrew Lyle , including Boyce
Symphony No 8 in D minor
English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
10.10 Mozart
Serenade in C minor (K388) Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble
10.45 Artist of the Week:
Jacqueline du Pre (cello) Beethoven
Piano Trio in E flat, Op 70 No 2
Pinchas Zuckerman (violin) Daniel Barenboim (piano)
11.35 Bartok
Suite: The Wooden Prince
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Atherton

Spotlight on Margaret Price lain Burnside talks to the Welsh soprano, who looks back over her career and picks some of her favourite recordings.
Repeated from yesterday 11.30pm

with Susan Sharpe.
1.00 City of London Sinfonia conductor Richard Hickox
Kim Walker (bassoon)
The second in a series of lunchtime concerts of 20th-century British music given in City of London churches. Introduced by Penny Gore from St Giles, Cripplegate. Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Judith Weir
Isti mirant stella
Richard Rodney Bennett Bassoon Concerto (first performance)
A Classic Arts production
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
3.00 The BBC
Orchestras
BBC Philharmonic conductor George Hurst John Lill (piano) Beethoven
Overture: The Consecration of the House
Eigar
Enigma Variations Brahms
Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat
FAIREST ISLE
4.35 The British Touch
In this week's programme of early British music for harpsichord,
James Johnstone introduces and plays
Orlando Gibbons
Fantasia No 8 in D minor
William Croft
Suite No 6 in D minor
John Blow
Ground in E minor

Luke Daniels gives Tommy Pearson the lowdown on a slightly more esoteric keyboard instrument - the accordion.

Cardiff Singer of the World 1995
Nicola Heywood-Thomas introduces a special edition of the programme with news, views and interviews with contestants and members of the jury, including Dame Joan Sutherland.
Producer Gwawr Owen.
See also 10.30pm

from English
National Opera,
Declan Donnellan 's new production of Kurt Weill and Berthold
Brecht's opera. This is the company's first ever staging of this 20th-century masterpiece.
The motto of the paradise city of Mahagonny is
"Do it!", and there is only one capital offence - poverty.
Crooks:
English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Sian Edwards
Act
8.25 Interval Talk
Christopher Wintle talks to Kim Kowalke of the Kurt
Weill Foundation , about tonight's opera.
8.40 Act 2
9.25 Glimpses of Bertort Brecht
Barbara Brecht-Schall remembers her father, and Alec McCowen reads some of Brecht's poetry in a feature compiled by Noel Witts.
Rpt
9.40 Act 3

On this fourth day of the competition,
Elaine Padmore and her guests will tonight be concentrating on the lieder prize in this fiercely contested title.

Larry Kramer , award-winning writer and gay activist, talks to
Christopher Cook about his new book on artistic responses to Aids, Reports from the Holocaust.
Producer Sarah Barnett

BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor Martyn Brabbins Britten
Symphonic Suite: Gloriana Delius
In a Summer Garden;
Brigg Fair
Repeated tomorrow at 12 noon.