With Andrew McGregor.
Boyce Symphony No 7 in B flat
6.12 Rachmaninov Symphony No 1 in D minor
7.05 J Strauss (son) Polka: Die Zeitlose
7.32 Purcell The Summer's Absence
Unconcerned We Bear
8.05 Josef Strauss Waltz : Zeit-Bilder
8.35 Bach Overture in C, BWV1066 Editor Andrew Lyle
Catriona Young begins a survey of the Debussy preludes.
CPE Bach Symphony in D, Wql83 Nol
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Gustav Leonhardt
9.11 Offenbach Overture:
Die Rheinnixen
Philharmonia, conductor Antonio de Almeida
9.16 Debussy Danseuses de Delphes; Voiles; Le Vent dans le Plaine; Les Sons et les Parfums Tournent dans
I'Air du Soir (Preludes, Bk 1 Nos 1-4) Walter Gieseking (piano)
9.28 Brahms String Quintet No 1 in F Juilliard Quartet. Walter Trampler (viola) Producer Tony Cheevers Discs
With Mary Miller.
Artist of the Week:
Reinhard Goebel (violin/director)
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G Musica Antiqua Koln
10.12 Rachmaninov Discord, Op 34 No 13; Vocalise, Op 34 No 14
Joan Rodgers (soprano), Howard Shelley (piano)
10.25 Arnold Horn Concerto No 2
Alan Civil, English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
10.38 George Benjamin Relativity Rag the composer (piano)
10.44 Faure Penelope (excerpt)
Monte Carlo Philharmonic, conductor Charles Dutoit
11.10 C P E Bach Fantasia in C, Wq61 No 6
Colin Tilney (clavichord)
11.17 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G
Musica Antiqua Koln, director Reinhard Goebel
11.32 Benjamin Meditation on Haydn's Name the composer (piano)
11.35 Haydn Symphony No 55 in E flat (Schoolmaster)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins Producer David McGuinness
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The Harmonious Silence of Heaven
The Estonian Arvo Part is the inventor of a new kind of music; Hildegard of Bingen was a 12th-century abbess with the gift of prophecy. The Passion narrative, central to both composers, is woven through the week's programmes, which begin today with music that aspires beyond the mirror of Creation to the very seat of God. Part Passio (John 18, w 1-11)
Hildegard of Bingen 0 Magne Pater ; 0 Virtus Sapientiae; 0 Ignis Spiritus Paracliti
Part Spiegel im Spiegel
Hildegard of Bingen 0 Vos Angeli Part The Beatitudes
Hildegard of Bingen Laus Trinitati Part Arbos
Producer Antony Pitts
Repeated next Monday 11.30pm
From St John 's, Smith Square, London.
Thomas Quasthoff (baritone), Charles Spencer (piano) Schubert Winterreise
Repeated next Sunday 6.30pm
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor Thierry Fischer
Frank Martin Ouverture en Hommage a Mozart
Mozart Symphony No 25 in G minor Stravinsky Symphony in C
Their Kind of Song: Kit and the Widow lain Burnside invites Kit and the Widow to choose their favourite songs, which they do with their outlandish blend of humour and high camp. Repeated from last Wednesday
Russell Davies presents a six-part series exploring the history of the violin in jazz.
After the war, Charlie Parker experimented with string orchestra backings, while Stuff Smith flirted with bebop.
Cacophony Now
1: Scrape, Screech and Scratch
We have four years left to get used to the music of this century. Schoenberg believed that the history of 20th-century music charts the emancipation of dissonance. If Chopin's piano music was once considered a hideous din, what is cacophony now?
Robert Worby goes to Amsterdam in search of contemporary revolutionaries. Producer Lizzie Jackson
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Siegfried
The third part of Wagner's epic cycle of operas is dominated by a completely new character: Siegfried, the young hero who knows no fear and could save the world. His almost fairytale adventures lead him through danger involving dwarves and dragons to the ecstasy of love with Brunnhilde, watched over by Wotan in his new-found wisdom as the Wanderer.
Presented by Piers Burton-Page .
Nibelung dwarves:
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conductor Bernard Haitink
Act
6.15 How the Magic Works
Mark Geller , Professor of Semitic Languages at University College,
London, has been sifting through the thousands of Babylonian incantations against demons inscribed on clay tablets and vessels in the storerooms of the world's great museums. He reflects on how psychologically astute they seem to us now and suggests the appeal they might have held for Freud.
6.50 Act 2
8.00 Surviving Wagner
Three fantasies in which characters reflect on the Ring and their roles in it. 2: Erda. With Eleanor Bron.
8.30 Act 3
Gotterdammerung is broadcast live on Saturday at 3.50pm
ARABIC SEASON
Five programmes to fill a gap in the history of philosophy.
1: The Importance of Translation
Professor Richard Sorabji , Dr Basim Musallam and Dr Oliver Leaman discuss the way in which Islamic thinkers took ancient Greek philosophy, developed it and passed it back to the West.
Producer Piers Plowright
For nearly 50 years, excellence and inventiveness in radio programme-making have been celebrated by the Prix Italia, an international festival and competition hosted by Italian broadcasters. Tonight, Mark Russell introduces highlights of this year's submissions in the Radio Music category and talks to some of those involved both in staging the awards and in producing the programmes. With excerpts from Referendum, a radio opera by Jon Balke (Norway); Impermanence by Robert Iolini
(Australia); Footprints in New Snow, a new documentary composition for radio by Christos Hatzis (Canada);
Supplementary-Kinky on 4, directed by Co de Kloet (Netherlands); and Grains of Voices by Ake Parmerud (Sweden). Producer Alan Hall
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String Quartet in 0 minor, Op 74 (Andante con Variazoni)
Berne Quartet Aeolsharfe; Einsamkeit
Gunther Wiessenborn (piano) Repeated from last Monday
Digby Fairweather returns to host a two-part concert by Field of Blue, a band co-led by Jacqui Dankworth and Harvey Brough , recorded at Ronnie Scott 's, Birmingham. Producer Terry Carter
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Rotterdam PO/Kurt Sanderling, Louis Lortie (piano) Haydn Symphony No 39 in G minor Ravel Piano
Concerto for the Left Hand
Shostakovich Symphony No 6
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Box 3.15 Something to
Think About 3.30 The Song Tree 3.45 Stories and Rhymes 3.55 Together Stories 4.10 Singing Together 4.30
Hopscotch 4.45 Scottish Resources 7-9
5.00 Sequence
