5.55 Maths: Maxima and Minima
6.15 Developing World
6.35 At Summer School
With Paul Guinery.
7.02 Tallis Loquebantur variis linguis BBC Singers, conductor Simon Joly
7.08 Beethoven Grosse Fuge in B flat, Op 133
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Thomas Dausgaard
7.27 Bach's Church Cantatas:
Bach Cantata No 187: Es wartet alles auf dich
Michael Emmermann (boy soprano),
Paul Esswood (alto), Max van Egmond (bass), Hanover Boys' Choir, Ghent Collegium Vocale, Leonhardt Consort , conductor Gustav Leonhardt
Including 7.40 Tess Knighton reflecting on Bach's cantatas.
7.54 Bax Tintagel BBC NO of Wales, conductor David Atherton
8.10 Purcell Jehova , quam multi sunt hostes, Z135
BBC Singers, conductor Simon Joly
8.18 Stravinsky Danses concertantes BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Alun Francis
8.39 Gorecki Totus tuus
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conductor Stephen Cleobury Producer Verity Sharp
Conductor Mark Elder looks ahead to the week on Radio 3.
See also Wednesday 7.30pm
Presented this week by Aled Jones. Wagner Overture: Der fliegende Hollander
9.15 Handel Waft her, angels (Jephtha)
9.21 Mozart Piano Sonata in C, K545
9.35 Barber Adagio for strings
9.44 Mendelssohn / waited for the Lord (Symphony No 2) (Hymn of Praise)
9.52 Sibelius Finlandia
10.00 Schubert Du bist die Ruh;
Der Musensohn
10.07 Proms Artist of the Week:
Andras Schiff (piano)
Bach French Suite No 4 in E flat, BWV 815
10.20 Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
10.36 Villard/Reisfeld, arr Brian Kay The Jimmy Brown Song
10.41 Rossini, arr Berr String Sonata No 6 in D
10.53 Composer of the Week:
Weill Lust (The Seven Deadly Sins)
10.58 Chopin Two Nocturnes, Op 27
11.10 Puccini Non piangere, Liu (Turandot)
11.14 Hildegard of Bingen Columba aspexit
11.21 Vivaldi Concerto in C for two trumpets, RV537
11.30 Stanford Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Evening Service, Op 115)
11.40 Debussy Danse sacrée et danse profane
11.51 Haydn Symphony No 84 in E flat
12.17 Mozart Rondo in D, K485
12.24 Mathias Let the people praise Thee, 0 God
Producer Gwawr Owen
Radio 3's lighthearted classical music quiz returns to test the knowledge and ingenuity of experts and celebrity guests alike. Joining chairman Guy Woolfenden at the 1996 Aldeburgh Festival are regular team captains
David Owen Norris and Daryl Runswick and this week's guests, actors John Wells and Richard Pasco.
Executive producer Wendy Thompson
Eight myths retold, written by Michelene Wandor.
1: Persephone and Ceres
The story of Ceres, goddess of the earth, and her daughter Persephone, who was abducted to the underworld.
With music by Stravinsky. Producer Jessica Isaacs
BBC Symphony Orchestra Conductor Andrew Davis , Dmitri Sitkovetsky (violin) Delius Brigg Fair
Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1
Elgar Symphony No 1 in A flat
A concert given last October in the Royal
Festival Hall, London and sponsored by Land Rover
Canons have been used to give shape to musical works from primitive popular songs to the most complex compositions. George Pratt and Bayan Northcott take a look at this enduring form, with music by composers including Machaut Palestrina ,
Purcell, Bach and Mozart. Repeat
A recital by the Canadian pianist Louis Lortie , given in June last year in the Wigmore Hall, London.
Schumann Blumenstuck in D flat, Op 19; Carnaval, Op 9
Mendelssohn, transcr Liszt Auf Flugeln des Gesanges
Schumann, transcr Liszt Widmung Rachmaninov Prelude in C minor,
Op 23 No 7; Etude-Tableau in E flat minor, Op 39 No 5
Chopin Impromptu in G flat, Op 51; Ballade in F minor, Op 52
On the 200th anniversary of Robert Burns 's death, John Purser discovers a man who - in his radical inspirations, his Masonic ideals, his understanding of the land on which he was raised and his relationship with women - is very different from the poet celebrated at Burns suppers.
With music performed by Jo Miller. Producer Dave Batcheior
Flute Concerto
Susan Milan,
City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Discs
Repeated from yesterday 9.00am
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Kurt Weill The Silver Lake
Kurt Weill's gritty, jazz-influenced musical play is the last thing he wrote before leaving Germany in 1933 and provides a vivid reflection of that turbulent era.
London Sinfonietta Chorus, London Sinfonietta, conductor Markus Stenz
Act 1
8.25 Speak Low (When You Speak Love)
John Walsh leafs through the recently published correspondence between Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya.
8.45 Acts 2 and 3
Kurt Weill is the Composer of the Week. Monday to Friday 12 noon.
By Ola Rotimi. From the ancient
Yoruba culture comes a myth with a surprising similarity to Oedipus Rex. King Odewale has ruled the land of Kutuje for 11 years. Now, with plague devastating its people, an oracle decrees that the curse on the land can only be lifted when the murderer of the previous king is punished. King
Odewale vows to pursue the killer without mercy. Adapted and directed by Yvonne Brewster.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4
In the first of two programmes, Nick St George introduces traditional music from Brittany and reveals how traditions are being kept alive there.
In the first of eight programmes,
Adrian Jack explores recordings of Schumann's great Piano Quintet. Producer Nigel Wilkinson
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Mahler Symphony No 3
Marta Benackova (mezzo), Prague Philharmonic Chorus, Prague
Children's Choir, Prague Radio
Symphony Orchestra/Vladimir Valek
2.40 A recital of vocal music by Les Menestrals, including Landini,
Wolkenstein and Machaut.
3.45 Romanian National Radio
Orchestra/Emanuel Elenescu Lalo, Massenet. Strauss, Berlioz
5.00 Sequence