With Andrew McGregor.
Handel Suite in E, HWV430
(The Harmonious Blacksmith) Paul Nicholson (harpsichord)
6.31 Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3
Olli Mustonen , German SO, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
7.05 Beethoven Romance No 2 in F
David Oistrakh (violin), Czech Philharmonic, conductor Karel Ancerl
7.44 Martinu Tre Ricercari Czech
Philharmonic, conductor Jiri Belohlavek
8.05 Building a Library: Best of the Bunch An excerpt from Wagner's Parsifal.
8.28 Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor Robert Cohen , RPO, conductor Charles Mackerras
With Catriona Young.
Elgar Overture: Froissart London Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Slatkin
9.14 Strauss Parergon zur "Sinfonia Domestica"
Peter Rosel (piano left-hand), Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Rudolf Kempe
9.36 Scriabln Poem of Ecstasy New York PO, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli Discs
With Chris Wines.
W F Bach Keyboard Concerto in F, F44 London Baroque
10.26 Johann Strauss (son) Waltz: The Blue Danube
Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan
10.36 Artist of the Week:
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat,
K595
ECO, conductor Jeffrey Tate
11.09 Copland Symphony No 3 New York Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein
11.49 U2, arr Gibbons Cease Composers' Ensemble
Richard Langham Smith talks to Tasmin Little about modern approaches to Franck's music. Les Eolides
Belgian NO, conductor Andre Clutyens
Piano Quintet in F minor (2nd mvt) Alfred Cortot (piano), International Quartet Violin Sonata in A
Tasmin Little, Martin Roscoe (piano) Repeated next Friday 12 midnight
From Studio 7, introduced by Rodney Slatford.
Douglas Boyd (oboe), Susan Tomes (piano), Maggie Cole (harpsichord), Enno Senft (double bass), Jeremy Cormes (percussion)
Dutilleux Oboe Sonata
Poulenc Oboe Sonata
Dutilleux Les Citations
The fifth volume (Cinquieme Concert) from Rameau's Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts, performed by Robert Kohnen (harpsichord), Barthold Kuijken (flute),
Sigiswald Kuijken (violin) and Wieland Kuijken (viola da gamba). Discs
George Pratt introduces the sixth of seven programmes from the 1996 York Early Music Festival, a performance recorded last July at the Church of Saint Michael-le-Belfry. Julie Kennard (soprano),
Catherine Denley (contralto), Martyn Hill (tenor),
Michael George (bass),
Yorkshire Bach Choir and Baroque Soloists, director Peter Seymour Haydn Mass in B flat (Theresienmesse)
Repeated from yesterday 10.00pm
In the third of four programmes,
Susan Sharpe uncovers memorable
BBC archive recordings made by some well-loved British musicians. The programme includes the opening work in John Barbirolli 's final concert just days before his death, part of Solomon's last studio recording, and Janet Baker in glorious voice with Reginald Goodall.
Elgar Introduction and Allegro Halle Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli
Schubert Piano Sonata in A, D664 Solomon
Schubert The Shepherd on the Rock Margaret Price (soprano), Jack Brymer (clarinet), Erich Leinsdorf (piano)
Brahms Sonata in E flat, Op 120 No 2 Max Rostal (viola), Colin Horsley (piano) Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 64 No 4
Amadeus Quartet
Wagner Wesendonk Lieder Janet Baker (mezzo),
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Reginald Goodall Producer Peter Thresh
Tuning
Tommy Pearson investigates tuning in different cultures.
With Jeremy Nicholas , including
Rossini Overture: II Turco in Italia National Philharmonic, conductor Riccardo Chailly
6.03 Bach Prelude and Fugue in A ("Well-tempered Clavier", Bk 1) Edwin Fischer (piano)
6.30 Saint Saens Septet in E flat, Op 65
Michel Beroff (piano)
Maurice Andre (trumpet) and friends Producer Ray Abbott
The last of three concerts this week in which the BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrates the music of William Walton.
Conductor Andrew Davis , Piers Lane
(piano), Juliet Stevenson and Richard Stilgoe (speakers)
Watton Sinfonia Concertante; Symphony No 2; Façade
A concert given yesterday at the Royal Festival Hall, London
A week of specially commissioned new poems from five of the best voices in poetry today.
5: The Shadow of God by Ken Smith. Every Lent, the streets of Mohacs in southern Hungary go wild with noisy, hairy, masked men as the Buso
Festival takes place - a vision of the ancient world in the 20th century. Ken Smith 's poem records this and one of the triggers for the mayhem - the slaughter of 30,000 Hungarians in one day by the invading Turkish army of the Ottoman Empire in 1526.
Stravinsky Two Wolf Songs: Herr, Was Tragt der Boden Hier; Wunden Tragst Du Anne Murray (mezzo),
Ensemble InterContemporain, conductor Pierre Boulez
Wolf In dem Schatten Meiner Locken
Ann Murray (mezzo),
Graham Johnson (piano) Discs
Sarah Walker introduces a concert of four first performances given by the City of London Sinfonia and conductor Richard Hickox at last weekend's
Playing in the New festival at London's Barbican Centre. The concert begins with a new work selected earlier in the day at a workshop organised by the Society for the Promotion of New Music, and is followed by Diana Burrell 's Dunkelhvide Manestraler.
During the interval, Sarah Walker talks to Richard Hickox about the dozens of new British works commissioned by the City of London Sinfonia over its 25-year history. The concert then concludes with John Tavener 's The
Hidden Face and Barry Guy 's Concerto for Orchestra (Fallingwater). Producer Philip Tagney
With Paul Kildea.
Death
Overture: The Bartered Bride
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor Libor Pesek
Dalibor (Act 2, Scene 1)
Vilem Pribyl (tenor), Prague National Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Jaroslav Krombholc
Libuse's Prophecy (Libuse)
Eva Urbanova (soprano), Prague
National Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Oliver Dohnanyi Veno
BBC Singers, conductor Ronald Corp Evening Songs
Mark Milhofer (tenor), Paul Kildea (piano)
Repeated from last Friday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 The South German Radio Chorus and conductor Marcus Creed perform works by Britten, Mendelssohn and Maxwell Davies
2.10 Pianist Eva Smirnova plays music by Brahms, Schubert, Chopin and Rachmaninov
3.15 The Daedalus Ensemble plays music by Rossi
4.15 Mahler, compl Cooke Symphony No 10 BBC NO of Wales, conductor
Mark Wigglesworth
5.00 Les Arts Florissants/William
Christie perform works by Charpentier
6.00 Sequence