With Penny Gore. News, weather and music including
Gershwin An American in Paris
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor James Levine
7.05 Howells Rhapsodic Quintet for clarinet and strings, Op 31 Thea King (clarinet), Britten Quartet
7.32 Glazunov Triumphal March Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Yondani Butt
7.50 Salieri Symphony in D (La Veneziana)
Budapest Strings, conductor Karoly Botvay
8.05 Verdi Stabat mater (Four Sacred Pieces)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Cambridge University Music Society, London Philharmonic, conductor Stephen Cleobury
8.46 Monteclair Cantata: La Mort de
Didon
Nancy Argenta (soprano), Trio Sonnerie
Johann Strauss (son) Polka: Unter Donner und Blitz
Royal Concergebouw Orchestra, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
9.04 Leoncavallo Vesti la giubba (I Pagliacci)
Jose Carreras (tenor), Philharmonia, conductor Riccardo Muti
9.08 Beethoven Piano Sonata in A,
Op 2 No 2
Richard Goode (piano)
9.31 Haydn Cello Concerto in D, H Vllb2
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Academy of St Martin , director Ion Brown
Discs
With Mary Miller , including Lou Harrison Bowl Bells
David Abel (violin),
Julie Steinberg (piano),
William Winant (rice bowls/ chopsticks)
10.05 Artist of the Week:
Pablo Casals (cello)
Beethoven Cello Sonata in F,
Op 5 No 1
Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
10.35 Ginastera, arr Assad Piano Sonata No 1, Op 22
Sergio and Odair Assad (guitars)
10.50 Buxtehude Nimm yon uns. Herr du treuer Gott
Soloists, Collegium Vocale , Orchestra Anima Eterna, conductor Jos van Immerseel
11.03 Berwald Septet in B flat
Nash Ensemble
11.25 Nicky Hind Rain (electroacoustic piece)
11.35 Gade Echoes from Ossian
Orchestra of the Aarhus Royal
Academy of Music, conductor Ole Schmidt
11.50 Turina La Oracion del torero
Hollywood Quartet
Dupré's improvisations for Notre-Dame vespers were to lead to a brilliant recital career, while Duruflé's skills with instrumental colour won him a reputation as "the best orchestrator since Ravel". Tim Thome meets Duruflé's wife Marie-Madeleine Duruflé-Chevalier, who was a pupil of Dupré.
Dupré Vêpres de la vierge (excerpt) - Philippe Lefebvre (organ), Cambridge Schola Gregoriana, David Hill (organ), director Mary Berry
Duruflé Andante and Scherzo - BBC Concert Orchestra/Murray Stewart
Dupré Quartet - Clemens Quatacker (violin), Kris van Severen (viola), Carlo Schmitz (cello), Jozef Sluys (organ)
Duruflé Prelude et fugue sur le nom d'Alain - Marie-Madeleine Duruflé-Chevalier (organ)
Repeated next Tuesday 11.30pm
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Manchester International
Cello Festival
Rodney Slatford introduces the second of three programmes of highlights from this year's festival at the Royal Northern College of Music, at which some of the world's leading cellists were present. This selection comes from the gala and the concert entitled Homage to Casals, and includes Britten Suite No 1, Op 72 Natalia Gutman
Prokofiev Sonata , Op 119
Frans Helmerson with Ian Brown (piano)
2.00 The BBC Orchestras
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Vassily Sinaisky
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor
3.05 New series
Singers Plus ...
The first of four concerts recorded earlier this year at St John's, Smith Square, in which the BBC Singers are joined by guest performers to explore 400 years of music for voices and instruments.
Conductor Stefan Parkman ,
Susan Tomes (piano)
Mendelssohn Im Grunen , Op 59
Clara Schumann Three Romances for piano, Op 11
Fanny Mendelssohn Nottumo for piano Robert Schumann Four Partsongs for double chorus, Op 141
Brahms Five Partsongs for double chorus, Op 104; Three Intermezzi from Op 119 for piano; Zigeunerlieder
Performing Arts Schools
Tommy Pearson visits the Coventry Centre for Performing Arts.
On the day of a children's concert at the Ulster Orchestra's Belfast prom concerts, Sean Rafferty talks to Martin Drury, director of the Ark, Dublin's cultural centre for children.
Includes Johann Strauss (son) Overture: Die Fledermaus
6.03 Debussy, orch Caplet Children's Corner
6.35 Britten Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell (Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra)
From the Snape Maltings Concert Hall.
Martyn Hill (tenor), Nash Ensemble , conductor Martyn Brabbins
Henze Adagio adagio for piano trio: Kammermusik for tenor, guitar and chamber orchestra
8.45 A portrait of Friedrich Holderlin. Presented by Chris Wines .
9.05 Britten Six Holderlin Fragments for voice and piano
Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44
Four investigations into the current identity of the English.
2: Deep and Beleaguered England Visions of England and Englishness from the political right. Patrick Wright examines the opinion that an ancient historical essence has been irrevocably eroded by the welfare state, bureaucrats and Eurocrats, and visits a butcher who flies the Union
Jack and blames BSE on Arthur Scargill
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Next programme tomorrow 9.10pm
(piano)
William Alwyn Fantasy-Waltzes Discs
John Milton was not only one of Britain's greatest poets but also one of the most teasing - his career and opinions are as fascinating as his verse. Tony Palmer explores the poet's public and private lives with modern poet and Milton biographer Peter Levi. And he visits the Dutch port of Rotterdam, fast becoming one of the architectural centres of Europe. Producer Abigail Appleton
Exploring Weber's works through the comments of composers who have both loved and learnt from his music.
"With the composition of Euryanthe, Weber was the first to set foot in a new land. It's a miraculous divination of the dramatic form of the future."
(Franz Liszt )
Liszt's recollections introduce highlights from Weber's neglected opera Euryanthe together with works for the keyboard including the Konzertstuck for piano and orchestra. Repeated from last Tuesday
Steve Voce continues his trip down the byways of jazz with vibes player Terry Gibbs.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Saar RSO/Lu Jia
Messiaen Les Offrandes oubliwes
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622 Rainer Muller van Recum (basset clarinet), La Clemenza di Tito (excerpt)Ã
Shostakovich Symphony No 9
2.30 The Clement Janequin Ensemble - directed by Dominique Visse - perform 16th-century French chansons
3.30 Ingeborg Baidaszti (piano)
Schubert Sonata in A minor, D537; Four Impromptus, D935: Fantasy in C (Wandererfantasie), D760
5.00 Sequence
