Andrew McGregor with music, news and weather, including
Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor
6.39 Vivaldi Concerto in F
(RV567)
7.05 Tavener Magnificat ; Nunc Dimittis (Collegium Regale)
7.57 Brahms Cello Sonata in F, Op 99
8.05 Beethoven Zur
Namensfeier
8.39 Mozart Piano Trio No 2 in E flat (K498) (Kegelstatt)
Editor Andrew Lyle
With Catriona Young. This week featuring pieces from the second, Italian book of Liszt's Années de pèlerinage, and English music for strings.
Parry Lady Radnor's Suite LSO/Adrian Boult
9.14 Liszt Sposalizio
(Annees de pelerinage) Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)
9.22 Brahms Violin Sonata
No 3 in D minor Op 108 Itzhak Perlman (violin)
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
9.43 Kodaly Dances of Galanta
London Philharmonic, conductor Georg Solti
A Mentorn Radio production Discs
With Edward Blakeman.
This week's programmes begin with music from the 14th-century Chantilly Codex, celebrate the centenary of the arrival of the cinema in London and feature the debut recording of the Deutsche
Kammerphilharmonie. Including
10.05 Prokofiev Suite: Lieutenant Kije
Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Andre Previn
10.25 Artist of the Week:
Nicholas Daniel
(cor anglais)
Debussy Rapsodie Julius Drake (piano)
10.40 Brossard Qui non diligat te (Elevations et motets)
Parlement de Musique
11.25 Britten Wind Sextet
Haffner Wind Ensemble
11.40 Ravel Suite: Mother Goose City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Producer Edward Blakeman
(1888-1989)
Paul Guinery explores the astonishing output of the American songwriter who never learnt to read music or master a keyboard, yet whose unforgettable songs held up a glittering mirror to his contemporaries for half a century.
1: Come On and Hear!
Today, he taps the pulse of Berlin's early years with rare recordings, including some by the "singing waiter" himself.
Producer Paul Guinery
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 BBC Lunchtime
Concert
I From St John 's,
Smith Square,
London.
Truls Mork (cello)
Harvard Gimse (piano) Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C, Op 119
Strauss Cello Sonata in F,
Op 6
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 Yan Pascal
Tortelier
Franck Symphony in D minor
Rpt
3.45 Couperin
In 1958, a small red book of music by the 17th-century composer
Louis Couperin was discovered in Britain, containing over 70 varied pieces for organ. Few of them were performed until last year, when Davitt Moroney played them in their entirety over two days at the Abbey of Saint-Michel at Thierache, northern
France.
Producer Brian Jackson
4.30 Misterioso
In the fifth of six programmes exploring the life of pianist and composer Thelonious
Monk, Ian Carr concentrates on 1957, a year in which Monk, with saxophonists like John Coltrane and Coleman Hawkins , produced some of the greatest performances of his music. In that year he also met Gerry Mulligan , who talks about their work together.
Five Working Composers All this week Sarah Walker experiences the working days of a breed whose strongest compulsion is to compose music. Today, she visits Barrington Pheloung , composer of the Inspector Morse theme.
Rpt
With Andrew Green , including Chabrier Espana
6.03 Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge
6.40 Mozart Rondo in A minor (K511)
Producer Nick Morgan
Conductor George Hurst Martin Roscoe (piano)
Beethoven Overture: The
Consecration of the House
Elgar Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma) Brahms Piano Concerto
No 2 in B flat
Five daily profiles of composers in which
Sam Richards focuses on one of the persistent tensions of 20th-century music, between the urge to innovate and the need for an anchor in tradition.
Vaughan Williams and the Folk Song Movement
For Vaughan Williams "the art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation". But how did folk music change when he took it out of the countryside and into the concert hall?
Producer Matthew Dodd
A programme of music by three of the most important English composers of the early 17th century. The
Rose Consort of Viols play fantasies, variations and dance music by Thomas Tomkins and Orlando Gibbons , and the BBC
Singers, conducted by Bo Holten , perform motets and anthems by Tomkins, Gibbons and Thomas
Weelkes.
Rpt
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall
present a unique mix of musical styles and influences.
John Thornley introduces the first of two programmes featuring the Audubon
Quartet in works by Erno Dohnanyi.
Beethoven String Quartet in C minor, Op 18 No 4
Dohnanyi String Quartet No 2 in D flat
Producer John Thornley
Letterbox 1.20 Singing Together
