With Andrew McGregor.
6.00 Mozart A Musical
Joke (K522)
6.25 Nielsen Symphony No 4 (Inextinguishable)
7.05 Satie Trois
Gymnopedies
7.47 Brahms Alto
Rhapsody, Op 53
8.05 Purcell Portfolio:
A selection of songs
8.43 Lambert Mr Bear
Squash-you-all-flat Discs
Handel Wedding Symphony (Saul, Act 2)
English Concert, director Trevor Pinock
9.05 Bach Cello Suite No 1 in G (BWV 1007)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
9.22 Duparc Elegie ; Extase Gerard Souzay (baritone) Dalton Baldwin (piano)
9.29 Beethoven Variations on a Fugue in E flat, Op 35 (Eroica)
Glenn Gould (piano) Discs
With Chris de Souza.
10.05 Artist of the Week:
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello) Barber Cello Sonata
10.25 Rachmaninov
Panteley the Healer
10.30 Alwyn Symphony No 4
11.10 Prokofiev Symphony-Concerto
11.55 Bartok Allegro barbaro
Presented by Jeremy Siepmann.
4: Chopin the Teacher
Introduction and Grande
Polonaise in C, Op 3 Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Martha Argerich (piano) 12 Etudes, Op 10
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Fugue in A minor (1841)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Mazurkas: in C sharp minor, Op 63 No 3; in C, Op 33 No 3
Artur Rubinstein (piano) Etude in F minor, Op 25 No 2
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Nocturne in D flat, Op 27
No 2
Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano) Discs
With Susan Sharpe.
FAIREST ISLE
1.00 Wartime at the National Gallery
A second chance to hear the five-part series in which Robert Philip traces the history of the daily chamber-music concerts founded by Myra Hess in October 1939 and given throughout the Second
World War. Including music by Beethoven and Brahms played by Hess and the Griller Quartet.
2.00 Schools
Radio Showcase 2.05 In the News 2.25 Something to Think About 2.40 Music
Workshop
FAIREST ISLE
3.00 Cupid and Death
A masque by James Shirley with music by Matthew Locke and Christopher Gibbons.
Cupid and Death are fellow guests at a country inn. The host's chamberlain, thwarted in his plans to inherit a fortune, takes revenge by exchanging their arrows. Mother Nature is appalled to see her laws overturned and calls on higher gods to intervene.
Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley Rpt
FAIREST ISLE
4.30 An Outside View
Austrian violinist Ernst
Kovacic voices his opinion of British music.
Mozart Violin Concerto No
4 in (K218)
Scottish CO, director
Ernst Kovacic (violin)
Producer Susan Kenyon Discs
The Big Sing
4: Staying in Tune
A cappella music can spell danger for choirs. Are there tips for staying in tune? Ali Carter seeks advice from
David Willcocks and close harmony group the Close Shaves.
With Mairi Nicolson in Manchester.
Rachmaninov Polka de W R
6.03 Hindemith Overture:
Neues vom Tage
6.30 Ravel Piano Concerto in Producer Paul Hindmarsh
Conductor Tadaaki Otaka
John Lill (piano)
Tchaikovsky Fantasy
Overture: Romeo and Juliet
Rachmaninov Piano
Concerto No 4 in G minor
Lutoslawski Symphony No 3
Given in in June in the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
JOHN KEATS
(1795-1821)
Richard Mabey investigates the Ode to a Nightingale.
How good a naturalist was Keats?
Final programme tomorrow
10.30pm
A Choral Fantasia
Janet Baker (soprano) Ralph Downes (organ) Purcell Singers
ECO/Imogen Holst Lyric Movement
Cecil Aronowitz (viola) ECO/Imogen Holst
Composer Nicola Lefanu talks to Chris de Souza about her new piece, featured in this programme and performed by the Lyric Quartet with countertenor Nicholas Clapton.
Byrd Ye Sacred Muses
Lefanu Cancion de la luna
(first performance)
Schubert String Quartet in A minor (D804)
A Classic Arts production
Can philosophy provide us with answers to the big questions, or is it an arcane practice with nothing to say to the postmodern world? Roy Porter contemplates the meaning of life and joins the search for the philosopher's stone in Britain.
Producer Mohit Bakaya
FAIREST ISLE
The third of four programmes in which the BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra performs British symphonies of the early 1950s.
Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Peter Lawson (piano)
Rawsthome Piano Concerto
No
Hamilton Symphony No 2
FAIREST ISLE
4: A Health to the King
GNVQ 1.30 Primary
Geography 2.00 Libreria: Spanish Stories
