With Andrew McGregor. Beethoven Overture:
The Ruins of Athens
South German RSO, conductor Neville Marriner
6.35 Beethoven Symphony No 2 in D
Prague Chamber PO, conductor Libor Pesek
7.05 Clementl Piano
Sonata in D. Op 40 No 3 Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
7.32 Nielsen Saga-Drom Danish National RSO. conductor Gennadi
Rozhdestvensky
8.05 Symphony Series:
Mozart Symphony No 24 in B flat (K182)
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Muti
8.43 Bach Sonata in G minor (BWV 1001)
Itzhak Perlman (violin) Editor Andrew Lyle Discs
This week's programmes continue the Dvorak symphony cycle.
Vivaldi Concerto in G minor
(RV577) (per l'orchestra di Dresda)
Taverner Players, director Andrew Parrott
9.10 Granados El Pelele
(Goyescas)
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
9.15 Dvorak Symphony No 4 in D minor
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik
A Mentom Radio production Discs
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas in Cardiff. Mathias Fanfare
John Scott (organ)
10.05 Franck Le Chasseur maudit
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
10.25 Artist of the Week:
John Lill (piano)
Beethoven Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 31 No 3
10.50 Prokofiev New
Year's Eve Ball (Waltz Suite) BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Martyn Brabbins
10.55 Purcell We must assemble by a sacrifice (Circe)
Christopher Keyte (bass) Tavemer Choir
Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
11.00 Wagner Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Gotterdammerung)
Anne Evans (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
11.20 Verdi Ave Maria
(Four Sacred Pieces) Philharmonia Chorus, conductor Carlo Maria
Giulini
11.30 Rachmaninov Piano
Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor John Lill (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Producer Gwawr Owen
FAIREST ISLE
(b 1935)
Presented by Jonathan Cross in conversation with the composer.
Scenes and Arias
Elizabeth Woollett (soprano) Susan Bickley (mezzo) Jean Rigby (alto)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder
Personae
Alan Gravill (piano) Producer Philip Tagney
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 BBC Lunchtime
Concert
From St John's,
Smith Square,
London.
Endellion Quartet
Bruno Giuranna (viola)
Bartok String Quartet No 3 Mozart String Quintet in G minor (K516)
Repeated next Sunday at 6.30pm
2.00 Schools
The Song Tree 2.15
Storybox 2.25 Let's Move
2.45 First Steps in Drama
3.00 The BBC
Orchestras
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Gunther Herbig Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor
FAIREST ISLE
3.45 National Trust
Instruments
In the first of three further programmes, Sophie Yates plays the early 18th-century Barton spinet at Blickling Hall in Norfolk.
Music by Handel and Thomas Ame.
Producer Graham Dixon
4.30 You Take Some Skins ...
A six-part series in which
Russell Davies unravels the complex relationship between black and white jazz musicians from the earliest days to the present. 2: Two-Tone Stomp Rpt
Exams
Tommy Pearson begins a user's guide to music examinations with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. Producer Chris Wines
With Natalie Wheen.
Bach Chromatic Fantasia in D minor (BWV 903a)
6.03 Scriabin Poeme-
Nocturne, Op 61
6.30 Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht
Producer Edward Blakeman
FAIREST ISLE
Purcell's s semi-opera, first performed in London in 1695. Emma Kirkby and Catherine Bott (sopranos)
Paul Agnew (tenor)
David Thomas and Paul
Robinson (basses)
Academy of Ancient Music Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Christopher Hogwood
STATES OF MIND
At the beginning of a series of journeys into extreme states of mind,
Michael Ignatieff discovers the polar extremes of manic depression.
Producer Clare McGinn
Next programme tomorrow
9.00pm
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The last in the present series of concerts from
Bristol in which composers discuss their music.
Tonight Chris de Souza is joined by the Dutch composer Rudi van Dijk. Anthony Marwood (violin) Kyoko Hashimoto (piano)
Ravel Violin Sonata (1897) Van Dijk Violin Sonata
Stravinsky Duo concertant A Classic Arts production
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a unique mix of musical styles and influences.
Penny Gore introduces a recital by French pianist Bernard d'Ascoli .
Schumann Kreisleriana
Chopin Ballade No 2 in F, Op 38; Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor. Op 31 Producer Nigel Wilkinson
German 12-14
1.40 Spanish 14-16
