5.55 Networks. Matrices and Functions
6.15 Marxism and Art
6.35 Assignment 103
With Paul Guinery.
Maxwell Davies An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise
BBC NO of Wales/Grant Llewellyn
7.18 Plainchant In festo sanctissimi corporis Christi
Introitus: Cibavit eos; Graduale: Oculi omnium; Offertorium:
Sacerdotes Domini ; Communio: Quotiescumque maducabitis
Pro Cantione Antiqua , director Mark Brown
7.28 Tomkins The Perpetual Round Bernhard Klapprott (harpsichord)
7.30 Bach Church Cantatas:
Bach Cantata No 20: 0 Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort
Lena Lootens (soprano), Christopher Robson (countertenor),
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Tallis Chamber Choir,
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. director Gustav Leonhardt
See also Friday 7.30pm
7.58 Tomkins Worcester Brawls
Bernhard Klapprott (harpsichord)
8.00 Elgar Serenade for strings
London Philharmonic/Vernon Handley
8.13 Tomkins 0 sing unto the Lord
Worcester Cathedral Choir/Donald Hunt
8.17 Grigny Pange lingua Stephen Farr (organ)
BBC Singers/Stephen Cleobury
8.30 Bryars The Green Ray
John Harle (saxophone), BBC NO of Wales, conductor Martyn Brabbins Producer Antony Pitts
Tenor Ian Bostridge takes a look at the week ahead on Radio 3. Producer Helena Morrissey
Artist of the Week: Czech Philharmonic
Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso Conductor Karel Sejna
9.17 Vivaldi Flute Concerto in F,
RV433 (La Tempesta di mare) Judith Hall (flute), London
Divertimenti, conductor Paul Barritt
9.48 Debussy Trois chansons de Charles d'Or/éans
Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner
9.55 Saint-Saens Fantasy: Africa
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano), Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra/Andre Previn
10.06 Haydn The Creation (excerpts) Soloists, Chicago Chorus and Symphony Orchestra/Georg Solti
10.25 Chopin Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor. Op 31
Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
10.33 Purcell Thy hand, Belinda (Dido and Aeneas)
Janet Baker (mezzo), St Anthony Singers, ECO/Anthony Lewis
10.45 Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)
Vienna Philharmonic/von Dohnanyi
11.21 Giordano La Mamma morta
(Andrea Chenier)
Maria Callas (soprano). La Scala Orchestra/Herbert von Karajan
11.41 Composer of the Week:
Weber Mass No 2 in G (Jubel-Messe) Soloists, Stuttgart Hymnus Choir, Keltsch Instrumental Ensemble, conductor Gerhard Wilhelm
Producer Piers Burton-Page
With Ivan Hewett. This week.
Gustav Leonhardt at the Spitalfields festival; what happens in the music department of a Bristol school: and the role of the police band in modern society.
Repeated from yesterday 5.45pm
The last of six programmes in which Michael Billington talks to actors about key roles in the repertoire.
Kenneth Branagh and Michael Pennington discuss their approaches to playing Hamlet.
BBC Symphony Orchestra American Tour
Conductor Andrew Davis ,
John Lill (piano)
Berlioz Overture: Le Corsaire
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G
Delius Brigg Fair
Bartok Suite: The Miraculous Mandarin
A concert given last October at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia
George Pratt and Joshua Rifkin discuss so-called historically informed performances, whose authenticity may be questionable as successive generations interpret their musical heritage. With examples of French
Baroque music as seen through the eyes of Bach; Bach reinterpreted by Stravinsky; ragtime heard in German translation; and Kurt Weill 's music as it seems he intended it to be heard.
Producer Kate Bolton
Chris de Souza presents the last of four concerts from this year's Bath Festival. This week, three of the artists in residence combine to perform three sonatas, two familiar favourites and one rarity.
Dmitri Sitkovetsky (violin), Yuri Zhislin (violin), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Beethoven Violin Sonata in F. Op 24 (Spring)
Prokofiev Sonata for two violins, Op 56
Brahms Violin Sonata in G, Op 78 Given earlier this month at the Guildhall
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad. Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to wonder whether in Latin America truth was stranger than fiction, or whether novels were truer than history".
A story of the cult of magical realism. Bob Peck reads from Gabriel Garcia
Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude, and Nick Caistor visits the mythical town of Macondo. where the novel is set. Producer Mick Webb
(violin), Martin Roscoe (piano)
Brahms Violin Sonata in A, Op 100 Szymanowski The Fountain of Arethusa (Myths)
Ravel Violin Sonata in G
Last Monday's BBC Lunchtime Concert
By Pierre Corneille , translated from the French by Jeffrey Wainright.
Rodrigo - son of veteran warrior Don Diego - and the Count's daughter Ximene seem set for a life of happiness together. But when the Count insults Diego in a fit of jealousy, Rodrigo challenges him to a duel: an action that has terrible consequences. Rodrigo's family honour is satisfied. but can Ximene ever accept his hand?
Music by Mia Soteriou .
Director Peter Kavanagh Rpt
To conclude Choir Works' Elgar season, Brian Wright presents his early oratorio The Light of Life in the context of a six-part mass-setting from the reign of Queen Mary. Jeremy
Summerly visits Worcester Cathedral, where the oratorio was first performed 100 years ago at the Three Choirs Festival.
Christopher Tye Mass "Euge bone" Choir of King's College. Cambridge, conductor Philip Ledger Elgar The Light of Life
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox Producer Antony Pitts Discs
Dancing with Elks
In the second of two programmes of folk music recorded in Norway,
Mike Adcock presents gammeldans or "old-dance" ensembles, religious songs, Hardanger fiddles, flutes, dulcimers, bagpipes. gangarfrom Setesdal, and a Chaos Reel.
Producer John Thornley
Building a Library
Roderick Swanston compares available recordings of Cesar Franck 's three Organ Chorales.
Edward Seckerson and Martin Cotton discuss new releases of orchestral music. including in their survey recordings of Shostakovich by Vladimir Ashkenazy , Barber by Leonard Slatkin , and Bruckner by Georg Solti.
Revised rpt of yesterday 9.00am
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Operatic arias by Donizetti,
Puccini. Verdi, Mozart and Strauss. Various vocal soloists are accompanied by the Slovak
Philharmonic, conductor Conrad Artmuller
2.35 Vienna CO/Yehudi
Menuhin Mozart Divertimento in B flat. K137
Beethoven Triple Concerto in C Haydn Symphony No 94 in G (Surprise)
3.55 Vocal and instrumental music by Turin! and Cima performed by Scaramouche
