Family History:
Re-viewing the Family
Presented by Andrew McGregor, including at approximately:
7.05 Handel Concerto grosso in F, Op 3 No 4 - Hans-Martin Linde (recorder) Cappella Coloniensis
7.23 Saint-Saens Two Choruses, Op 68: Calme des nuits; Les fleurs et les arbres - Monteverdi Choir, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
7.32 Mozart Serenade in D (K239) (Serenata notturna) - Soloists of Australia, conductor Ronald Thomas
8.05 Will Gregory Hoe Down - Apollo Saxophone Quartet
8.25 Sibelius Valse triste - Ralf Gothoni (piano)
8.38 Canteloube Songs of the Auvergne (Set 4) - Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Jeffery Tate
(Discs)
This week's presenter
Balint Vazsonyi is himself a distinguished Hungarian-born pianist who studied with Dohnanyi in America. Symphony No 1 (first UK broadcast)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Jean-Yves Ossonce
Presented by Stephanie Hughes in Belfast.
Glazunov Saxophone Concerto
Gerard McChrystal (saxophone)
Ulster Orchestra, conductor
Takuo Yuasa
10.25 Prom Artist of the Week: Jean-Yves Thibaudet
(piano)
Ravel Oiseaux tristes
(Miroirs)
10.35 Franck Violin Sonata
Joshua Bell (violin)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
11.05 Warlock The Curlew
Ian Partridge (tenor)
Music Group of London
11.25 Dave Heath Out of the Cool
Gerard McChrystal (saxophone)
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Takuo Yuasa
11.35 Milhaud Le boeuf sur le toit
Ulster Orchestra, conductor
Takuo Yuasa
11.55 Mozart Soave sia il vento (Cosi fan tutte)
Amanda Roocroft and Rosa
Mannion (sopranos)
Carlos Feller (baritone)
English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner
Penny Gore presents a recital by Emily Beynon
(flute) and Elizabeth Burley (piano).
Copland Duo
Barber Canzone
Bartok, transcr Arma Suite paysanne hongroise Martinu flute Sonata Repeated from yesterday
11.30pm
With Paul Guinery.
1.00 The BBC
Orchestras
BBC Philharmonic conductor Edward Downes
Shostakovich Symphony No 7 (Leningrad)
2.20 A Celebration of the Clarinet
The final programme in the series featuring central works of the clarinet repertoire. Today's programme includes one of Luciano Berio 's extraordinary sequence of pieces exploring the possiblities of different solo instruments, chamber music Bartok wrote for the great jazz clarinettist Benny Goodman , and the quartet Messiaen composed in a World War II prison camp and scored for the instruments that he and fellow inmates could play. Michael Collins (clarinet) Dmitri Sitkovetsky (violin) Christopher van Kampen (cello)
Michel Dalberto (piano) Berg Adagio (Chamber Concerto)
Berio Sequenza IX Bartok Contrasts
3.10 Michael Collins talks to Andrew Lyle.
3.15 Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time
Series producer Misha Donat
4.10 The BBC
Orchestras
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor En
Shao Weber Overture: Oberon
Sigurbjomsson Orchestra Trolls
Beethoven Symphony No 8 in
A Fusion Reaction
Julian Gregory explores the successes and failures of music that fuses styles, cultures and even centuries.
Rpt
Music and arts news from
Birmingham presented by David Owen Norris.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
The first of two Proms this week by one of Europe's leading orchestras, which is noted for its Mahler tradition.
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
Berg, orch Verbey Piano Sonata
Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
8.05 Interval
Paul Banks discusses the real musical argument of Mahler's First Symphony.
8.25 Mahler Symphony No 1
2: The Attraction of Opposites
Jeremy Summerly tries to resolve some of the most serious clashes from 16th-century England. Rpt
Next programme tomorrow 9.15pm
Beethoven String Quartet in A minor, Op 132 Rpt
See also Thursday 9.45pm
FAIREST ISLE
The musical achievements of the composer, transcriber and journalist
Philip Heseltine (alias Peter Warlock ) contrast with his image as a womaniser who dabbled in the occult and liked a drink. Andrew Green attempts to sum up one of the greatest characters of English 20th-century music and asks how far the compositions are the key to understanding the complexities of the man. Rpt
See also Thursday 10.45pm
The fourth of seven concerts from this year's York Early Music Festival, introduced by George Pratt. Mark Chambers and Simon
Clulow (countertenors) Nigel North (baroque guitar/archlute) Timothy Roberts (harpsichord)
Countertenor duets and music for guitar and harpsichord by Mattels, Corbetta, Purcell, Blow and Eccles.
Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
