With Andrew McGregor.
Beethoven Overture: The
Consecration of the House
Haydn Symphony No 102 in B flat
BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra/Horia Andreescu Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations
Leonid Gorokhov (cello) BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra/Jerzy Maksymiuk
7.05 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F
7.32 Nielsen Overture: Helios
8.05 Ibert Trois pieces breves
8.25 Brahms Flammenauge , dunkles Haar; Zum Schluss: Nun ihr Musen, genug!
(Neue Liebeslieder, Op 65) Discs
Handel Water Music: Suite in Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, conductor
Nicholas McGegan
9.10 Johann Strauss (son) Waltz: The Blue Danube Berlin PO/Erich Kleiber
9.19 Haydn Piano Sonatas: Sonata in D (H XVI 42) Alfred Brendel (piano)
9.33
Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini Leningrad PO, conductor
Yevgeni Mravinsky Discs
With Mark Rowlinson.
Saint-Saens Danse macabre
10.06 Anon Four Planctus (Las Huelgas manuscript)
10.20 Rachmaninov Vocalise
10.25 Artist of the Week: Alfreda Hodgson (mezzo)
Vaughan Williams The House of Life
10.50 Picchi Intavoltura di Balli d'Arpicordo (excerpts)
10.55 Brahms Violin Concerto in D
11.50 Saint-Saens Overture: Occident et orient
"I just love Norway just because it's so poor, just because in practical matters we are such idiots
... anybody can be rich and practical."
Peter Paul Nash follows
Grieg's hero Peer Gynt on his feckless career and looks at Grieg's exploration of his native folk music.
Discs
Presented by Susan Sharpe.
Six programmes in which Mark Steyn explores forgotten musicals.
4: America's Songwriter
Irving Berlin was America's most successful songwriter, equally at home in Hollywood, Tin Pan Alley and on the Broadway stage. Berlin's daughter Mary Ellin Barrett recalls the early show As Thousands Cheer, which gave birth to one of the master songsmith's biggest hits, along with songs from Miss Liberty (1949) and Mr President (1962).
A Cat's Whiskers/Rewind production
Repeated Friday at 12 midnight
Playtime 2.15 Time to Move 2.35 Listen!
In the twenties philanthropist Andrew Carnegie ventured into music publishing.
Annual competitions were run to decide which new pieces were to be published, and the resulting, beautifully printed scores were distributed to libraries.
Some of these pieces are now well known. Others have fallen into oblivion and have been specially recorded for Radio 3.
In the first of three programmes, Lewis Foreman presents a selection including excerpts from Howells Piano Quartet in A minor
Bridge The Sea
Bainton Before Sunrise
Boughton The Immortal Hour
Hoist Hymn of Jesus Producer Tony Sellors
Are there any notes hiding between the keys of the piano? Will A sharp ever be B flat? Tommy Pearson investigates the phenomenon addressed in Bach's 48 pieces for a "well-tempered" keyboard. oRpt
Music, interviews and the arts from Birmingham, with Guy Woolfenden.
Producer Jeremy Hayes
conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Yuzuko Horigome (violin) Weber Overture:
Der Freischutz
Bruch Scottish Fantasy in G minor
Sibelius Symphony No I in E minor
Alf Howard in Down St Mary works with cob - subsoil mixed with winter-grown straw - from which walls have been built in Devon since the 12th century.
Next programme tomorrow 9.20pm
The third of 15 programmes featuring the songs of Britten, given last Tuesday in the Wigmore Hall, London. Britten and Mozart
Rosa Mannion (soprano) Julius Drake (piano)
Mozart An Chloe (K524); Das Lied der Trennung (K519); Als Louise die Briefe (K520);
Abendempfindung (K523) Britten Evening, morning, night; Birthday Song for-
Erwin; Everyone sang: Not even summer yet; The Red Cockatoo
Mozart Ridente la calma
(K152); Oiseaux, si tous les ans (K307); Dans un bois solitaire (K308)
Britten French Folk Songs
Mark Russell introduces the second of four radiogenic compositions focusing on specific times and places. James Young 's specially recorded sound-portrait of the city of Moscow, Last Train to Taganskaya, captures the composer's own memories of his time in the city during the past year. using tiny samples of the music of four Moscow composers and sounds from the city's famous underground railway. Producer Philip Tagney
Terence Davies , acclaimed for his journeys back into his own Liverpool childhood in films such as Distant
Voices, Still Lives, now charts the course of an American childhood in The
Neon Bible. Tony Palmer reports on the film, an evocation of the Deep South in the 1940s.
Producer Paul Quinn
Richard Stokes introduces a programme of partsongs by Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, performed by the Dutch group, the Lost Maples.
Producer Lindsay Kemp
Tales from Europe
1.30 Le Club
