Talking about the Enlightenment

Presented by Paul Guinery.
7.02 Gregorian chant Messe de quatrième dimanche apres Paques
7.16 Britten Four Sea
Interludes (Peter Grimes )
7.33 Purcell 0 Lord God of Hosts (Z37)
7.39 Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations
8.00 Mozart Mass in C minor (Weisenhausmesse)
8.44 Weelkes Voluntary No 2
8.47 Purcell Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei (Z135) Producer Anthony Pitts

Writer and broadcaster
Humphrey Carpenter previews the Radio 3 week.

Handel Water Music Suite
No 1 in F
9.17 Ravel Pavane pour une infante defunte
9.25 Bemers Fantaisie espagnole
9.35 Mozart Ave verum corpus (K618)
9.39 Artist of the Week:
Frans Briiggen (recorder) Telemann Overture; Les
Plaisirs (Overture-Suite in A minor)
9.48 Ireland Sea Fever; The Vagabond; The Bells of San Marie
9.55 Shostakovich Jazz
Suite No 2
10.20 Mozart London
Notebook (excerpts)
10.28 Bach Mass in B minor (excerpts)
10.38 Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A
Village Romeo and Juliet)
10.50 Liszt Les Jeux d'eau a la Villa d'Este
10.58 Donizetti, orch
Wolfgang Hoffman Oboe Concerto in F
11.15 Nedbal Valse triste
11.21 Composer of the Week:
Parry I know my soul hath power; Never weather-beaten sail
11.27 Damase Sonate en concert
11.40 Bizet Symphony in C Producer Edward Blakeman
Discs

Repeated from yesterday 5.45pm

Dear John.... lain Burnside selects some songs that reveal what it feels like to get the push.

For Love, Not Money In the last of three programmes exploring the tradition of amateur music-making in Britain, Sarah Walker visits members of the City of York Guidhall
Orchestra, the East London
Late Starters Orchestra and the Salomon Orchestra.
See also Tuesday 3pm

The second of four concerts including all of Vaughan Williams's nine symphonies.
Bournemouth SO, conductor Richard Hickox
Jonathan Carney (violin)
Symphony No 6 in E minor The Lark Ascending
A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No 3)
Recorded last night in the Barbican Concert Hall.
(Next programme Thursday 5 October)

In 15th-century England, choral music flourished in royal and private chapels, in colleges and ecclesiastical foundations.
Christopher Page and Eamon Duffy look at the institutions that produced some of the finest musical treasures of the period. Producer Kate Bolton
See also 4.45pm

Relcha Andante and Adagio Ravel, air Jones Le
Tombeau de Couperin

Music from the greatest pre-Reformation manuscript of English church music. Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conductor Stephen Cleobury Fayrfax Magnificat
Thomas Preston Felix namque II
Hacomplaynt Salve Regina Thomas Preston Felix namque V
John Browne Stabat mater

Karl Marx observed that America was ripe for revolution. Indeed, the USA has never lacked for activists, radical movements or firebrands, from the Wobblies to the Black Panthers and the Communist Party to Earth First. But why are these groups so often footnotes in the political history of a nation that was born out of revolution?
In the company of three generations of activists and historians, Christopher Cook explores the dilemma of the American left.

The second of three recitals by Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin), Paul Nicholson (fortepiano) and Richard Tunnicliffe (cello). Sonata in A (K12)
Sonata in E minor (K304) Sonata in B flat (K15) Sonata in A (K305)

By William Shakespeare. Radio Drama North in collaboration with Northern
Broadsides Theatre
Company bring
Shakespeare's most famous antihero to life in a chilling and down-to-earth production.
.Barrie Rutter's brusque Yorkshire Richard III is a villain capable of the most refined cruelties as the Houses of York and Lancaster descend into spiralling violence.
Music by Conrad Nelson
Musicians Conrad Nelson, Andy Weir and Laurence Evans Director Kate Rowland

Brian Wright presents
Herbert HoweHs 's biggest choral work - his Mass of the Severn - in its new and first commercial recording. Howells Missa Sabrinensis
Janice Watson (soprano) Della Jones (mezzo) Martyn Hill (tenor)
Donald Maxwell (baritone) London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Discs

Building a Library
Debussy's String Quartet in G minor by Peter Paul Nash
. Jonathan Swain on new releases of Russian orchestral music.
Revised rpt from yesterday 9am