Literature: Englands of the Mind
Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Simply Satie:
Satie Gnossienne No 5
Pascal Roge (piano)
7.09 Boccherini Cello
Sonata in E flat (G10)
Richard Lester and David
Watkin (cellos)
7.32 Beethoven Concert aria: Ah! Perfido
Kirsten Flagstad (soprano) Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
8.05 Bernstein Mambo
(West Side Story)
Baltimore SO, conductor
David Zinman
8.08 Purcell Portfolio:
Purcell Songs and catches
8.32 Mozart Symphony No 30 in D
English Concert, conductor Trevor Pinnock
Discs
Patrick O'Connor introduces another sparkling masterpiece.
La vie parisienne
In 1860s Paris, a visiting Swedish baron and baroness and a gullible
Brazilian get mixed up with the demi-monde in the persons of a notorious actress, a saucy glove-seller and two rather promiscuous young men about town.
Grand Orchestre
Symphonique, conductor Andre Girard
with Edward Blakeman.
Including
Hahn Le bal de Beatrice d'Este
New London Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp
10.15 Artist of the Week:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone)
Schumann Dichterliebe
(excerpts)
Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
10.30 Mendelssohn
Konzertstuck in F minor
Thea King (clarinet)
Georgina Dobree (basset horn)
LSO/Alun Francis
11.15 Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (excerpts)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone)
Berlin German Opera
Orchestra/Eugen Jochum
11.30 Schubert Symphony No 4 in C minor (Tragic) BBC SO/John Pritchard
Repeated from yesterday
11.30pm
with Susan Sharpe.
FAIREST ISLE
1.00 City of London Sinfonia director Andrew Watkinson
(violin)
Paul Silverthorne (viola) The last in the series of lunchtime concerts of music by 20th-century
British composers given in City of London churches. Presented by Penny Gore from St Katharine Cree ,
Leadenhall Steet.
Vaughan Williams Violin Concerto (Concerto accademico)
Robin Orr Rhapsody for strings
John Woolrich Ulysses Awakes
Britten Simple Symphony
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
FAIREST ISLE
3.00 A Singers' Celebration
The last of the BBC
Singers' 70th anniversary concerts, recorded last week in St John's, Smith
Square.
Conductor Jane Glover
Britten Sacred and Profane
Maconchy Still falls the rain Sally Beamish Shadow and Silver (BBC commission, first performance)
3.40 Singers Talking
Anthony Burton talks to past and present members of the BBC Singers about a singer's life.
3.50 Debussy Chansons de Charles d'Orleans
Sally Beamish Shadow and Silver (repeat performance) Poulenc Mass in G
Series producer Michael Emery
FAIREST ISLE
4.35 The British Touch
In the final programme of British harpsichord music, Neal Peres da Costa introduces and plays
Richard Jones Suite No 1 in D minor (excerpts)
Francesco Geminiani Deux pieces de clavecin
John Stanley Concerto in D (after Op 2 No 1)
Series producer Lindsay Kemp
Synaesthesia is a rare medical condition which causes people to see vivid displays of colour when they listen to music. Tommy Pearson investigates.
Music, arts news and interviews from Birmingham, presented by Humphrey Carpenter.
Including at approximately:
6.03 Chopin Mazurka in B minor, Op 33 No 4
6.50 Vaughan Williams Scherzo (A Sea Symphony)
7.20 Schubert, transcr Liszt Erlkonig
from the Snape Maltings
Concert Hall.
Imogen Cooper (piano)
Mozart Fantasia in C minor
(K396)
Schumann Kreisleriana , Op 16
8.50 Interval
A musical fantasy based on the character Kapelmeister Kreisler , created by E T A Hoffman.
9.10 Schubert Sonata in A
(D959)
Richard Fawkes meets the prima ballerina, who recalls dancing in the production of Carmen with which the first season at Covent Garden began after the Royal Opera House's wartime service as a dance hall.
(For details see Monday)
(Final programme tomorrow 9.30pm)
On what would have been
Peter Pears 's 85th birthday, his recording of Britten's song-cycle A
Birthday Hansel with Osian Ellis (harp).
Valentine Cunningham opens his ears to the latest live instalment of Horizontal Radio, a pan-
European interactive audio adventure, and ponders where such experiments might lead.
Producer Erika Wright
conductor Lionel Friend
Copland An Outdoor Overture
Philip Flood Kicking Down Sibelius Symphony No 3 Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
