With Andrew McGregor. News, weather and music including
Vivaldi Flute Concerto in F, Op 10 No 5 Patrick Gallois (flute),
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
6.24 Bantock Hebridean Symphony RPO, conductor Vernon Handley
7.05 Robert Johnson Domine in virtute tua /
Cappella Nova/Alan Tavener
7.32 Haydn String Quartet in C, Op 33 No 3 (Bird) Lindsay Quartet
8.05 Holst Ave Maria
Choir of Westminster Cathedral, conductor James O'Donnell
8.32 Mozart Piano Sonata in G, K283
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
With Catriona Young. Heino Eller Dawn
John Digney (oboe), Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
9.09 Beethoven Piano Sonata in E flat. Op 27 No 1 Emil Gilels (piano)
9.26 Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1
Gil Shaham (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn
9.48 Chabrier Fete polonaise (Le Roi malgre lui)
Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Ernest Ansermet
Discs
With Piers Burton-Page .
Thomas Phillips Crows in the cornfield Hilliard Ensemble
10.04 Finger Sonata
Musica Antiqua Koln/Reinhard Goebel
10.10 Verdi 0 patria mia (Aida) Galina Gorchakova (soprano),
Kirov Opera Orchestra/Valery Gergiev
10.17 Trad Aj alje lipo; Sviralka Vujicsics
10.24 Artists of the Week:
Endellion Quartet
Bartok String Quartet No 3
10.40 Stricker Cantata: Dorinda io parto Sibylla Rubens (soprano), Musica Antiqua Koln/Reinhard Goebel
10.47 Bach Goldberg Variations 16-30, BWV 988
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)
11.29 Denis Apivor Fantasy Concertante Frank Lloyd (horn), BBC Scottish SO, conductor Nicholas Kraemer
11.57 Hatton When evening's twilight Hilliard Ensemble
David Byers ' guest Roy Goodman recalls his astonishment at hearing the opening bars of Berwald's
Sinfonie singulière as a student some 25 years ago.
Festival of the Bayaderes
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Ulf Bjorlin
Piano Trio in E flat (excerpt)
Jozsef Modrian (violin), Gyorgy Kertesz (cello), Kalman Drafi (piano)
Symphony No 3 in C (Sinfonie singuliere) Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Okko Kamu
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Concert Hall
From the Wigmore Hall, London.
David Pyatt (horn), Martin Jones (piano) Beethoven Horn Sonata in F, Op 17 Poulenc Elegie for horn and piano Debussy Ondine; La Terrasse des audiences du clair de lune; General
Lavine - eccentric (Preludes for piano, Bk 2)
Koechlin Horn Sonata, Op 70 TICKETS: phone (0171) [number removed]
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With Susan Sharpe , including Adam Overture; La Poupee de Nuremberg
Munich Radio Orchestra/Kurt Redel Lalo Aubade (Le Roi d'Ys) Beniamino Gigii (tenor), Vito Carnevali (piano)
Schumann, transcr Liszt Widmung Leslie Howard (piano)
Bochsa Harp Concerto No 1 in D minor
Lily Laskine (harp), Lamoureux
Concerts Orchestra/Jean-Baptiste Mari Morton Gould West Point Symphony Eastman Wind Ensemble, conductor Frederick Fennell Producer Peter Thresh Discs
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4.00 Choral Evensong
From Lincoln Cathedral.
Introit: How beautiful upon the mountains (Stainer)
Responses (Sumsion)
Psalms 15 and 92 (Turle, Bennett)
First Lesson: 2 Samuel 15, w 17-21
Office Hymn: Let the round world (Deus tuorum militum)
Canticles: Whitlock - fauxbourdons
Second Lesson: John 11. w 1-16
Anthem: Though I speak with the tongues of men (Bairstow)
Hymn: Blessed Thomas, doubt no longer (Regent Square)
Organ Voluntary: Carillon, Op 27 No 4 (Dupre)
Organist and master of the choristers Colin Walsh. Assistant organist Jeffrey Makinson.
Repeated tomorrow 1.00am
Scales
Tommy Pearson focuses his attention on pentatonic and whole-tone scales and asks what they are, where they came from and who uses them.
With Jeremy Nicholas , including
Grainger Over the Hills and Far Away Sydney SO, conductor John Hopkins
6.03 Tchaikovsky Cantata: Ode to Joy London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Derek Gibson
6.30 Brahms A selection of Hungarian dances
Various artists
Producer Ray Abbott
From St Paul's Cathedral, a performance from the 1996 City of London Festival of Delius's largest choral work, which sets words from Friedrich Nietzsche's great affirmation of humanist values.
Thus spake Zarathustra. Joan Rodgers (soprano), Jean Rigby
(mezzo), Nigel Robson (tenor), Peter Coleman-Wright (baritone), Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth Symphony
Chorus and Orchestra/Richard Hickox Parti
8.10 Nietzsche and Philosophy
Paul Guinery talks to Michael Tanner about the philosophy embodied in Nietzsche's enigmatic and poetic text.
8.20 Part 2
Five readings of contemporary fiction from around the world.
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
By Luis Sepulveda , translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush.
In the heart of the Amazonian jungle, a settler discovers that he will always be excluded from the forest people's way of life. Reader Tim Pigott-Smith . Producer Jill Waters
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo) With Bengt Forsberg (piano) lain Burnside introduces the second programme from a recital given in March at the Vienna Musikverein by the Swedish mezzo, who performs songs by Schumann. Producer Adam Gatehouse
Christopher Cook profiles American playwright Sam Shepard as a new season of his work opens in London. Also tonight, a report from the stalls as the innovative young director Tim Supple takes on Shakespeare's
Comedy of Errors; and a look at the reinvention of the Cold War as Brian
De Palma 's Mission: Impossible opens in Britain. Producer Julian May
With Chris de Souza.
Piano Quartet. Op 26
Anthony Goldstone (piano), Cummings Trio
Youth Music (1st mvt)
Seattle Northwest CO/Alun Francis / Had a Dove Simon Woolf (treble). Steuart Bedford (piano) Violin Concerto
Ulf Hoelscher (violin), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Simon Joly Repeated from last Wednesday
3: The Toast of Chicago
Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens recordings are about to change the course of both jazz and popular music.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 French Radio
Philharmonic/Pinchas
Steinberg Kodaly Dances ofGalanta Bartok
Cantata profana Denes Gulyas (tenor), Csaba Airizer (baritone), French Radio Chorus Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique)
2.25 Vocal music by Victoria,
Marenzio and Alessandro Scariatti performed by Capella Transylvania, conductor Cornel Groza
3.30 Monte Carlo Philharmonic/James Depreist Bortz Symphony No 1 Barber Symphony No 1 Beethoven Violin Concerto in D Frank Peter
Zimmermann (violin)
5.00 Sequence
