With Andrew McGregor. Melgas Popule Meus
The Sixteen, director Harry Christophers
6.14 Bruckner Symphony "No 0" in D minor
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
7.05 Bach Two-Part Inventions
Nos 13-15, BWV 784-786
Andras Schiff (piano)
8.05 Building a Library: Best of the Bunch
Songs by Henri Duparc
8.18 Schoenberg Pelleas und Melisande
German Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
With Catriona Young.
Chabrier Pastoral Prelude
Vienna Philharmonic, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
9.07 Debussy Pour les Notes Repetees; Pour les Sonorités Opposees; Pour les Arpèges Composes; Pour les Accords (Etudes, Nos 9-12)
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
9.26 Tchaikovsky November (The Seasons)
Viktoria Postnikova (piano)
9.30 Vivaldi Laudate Pueri in G, RV601
Lynne Dawson (soprano),
The King's Consort, director Robert King Discs
With Edward Blakeman.
Artist of the Week:
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia
St Louis Symphony Orchestra
10.05 Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli
BBC Singers,
His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, conductor Bo Holten
10.40 Duparc Aux Etoiles (entr'acte) Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
10.50 Barber Piano Sonata
Philip Mead
11.10 Stephen Montague Paramell Va Philip Mead (piano)
11.15 Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5
Philharmonia, conductor Leonard Slatkin
5: The Lonely Desert Man - an Australian Visionary
In the final programme of the week, Penelope Thwaites explores Percy Grainger 's involvement with early music in conversation with Andrew
Lyle, including his arrangement of La Belle Aronde; and with world music, including his orchestration of Debussy's Pagodes and his own Eastern Intermezzo for tuneful percussion. Finally, a performance of his spectacular ballet The Warriors, in a recording by the Philharmonic
Orchestra, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.
Repeated next Friday at 12 midnight
Haydn Plus
A new season of lunchtime concerts from St George's, Brandon Hill ,
Bristol, featuring the chamber music of Joseph Haydn. Introduced by Chris de Souza.
Jamie MacDougall (tenor), Joachim
Trio: Rebecca Hirsch (violin), Caroline Dearnley (cello), John Lenehan (piano) Haydn Piano Trio in C. H XV 21;
Five Scottish Folk Songs for Voice and Piano: Maggy Lauder; Mary's Dream; Bannockburn; Bonnie Wee Thing; My Love She's but a Lassie Yet Martinu Piano Trio No 2
Producer Wendy Thompson
Bach, transcr Busoni Capriccio in B flat, BWV992
Hamish Milne (piano)
Andrew Manze introduces a special programme marking the 50th anniversary of the London Bach
Society. The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, is directed by Timothy Brown in motets by three members of the Bach family: Johann Sebastian ,
Johann Christoph and Johann Ludwig. Repeated from yesterday at 10.00pm
Sandy Burnett celebrates the 70th birthday of Australian-born soprano Joan Sutherland with a programme of rare recordings from the BBC archives. Dating from the late fifties and early sixties, these recordings capture "La Stupenda" - as the Italians hailed her - on the eve of her ascent to international superstardom. Including;
Bach's Mein Glaubiges Herz (Cantata No 68)
Liszt's Die Loreley and excerpts from Weber's Euryanthe, Handel's Alcina and Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.
Producer Peter Thresh
Putting Composers in Their Place Verity Sharp ends her musical pilgrimage with Gustav Hoist , visiting Pittville in Cheltenham and exploring the house at the composer's birthplace that has now become a museum.
With Andrew Green , including
5.15 Debussy Fetes (Nocturnes)
6.05 Mendelssohn Overture: Ruy Bias
6.20 Bach Prelude and Fugue in E ("Well-tempered Clavier", Bk 2)
6.35 Brahms FAE Sonata for Violin and Piano
Producer Ray Abbott
From the City Hall, Perth, the BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra and their new chief conductor, Osmo Vanska , are joined by violinist Tasmin Little. Introduced by Geoffrey Baskerville.
Busoni Berceuse Elegiaque
Mozart Symphony No 41 in C (Jupiter)
8.15 Kenneth Loveland
Music critic Kenneth Loveland - now aged 80 - talks to opera singer Robert Lloyd about an era when Mozart was unfashionable; when the editor for the Daily Argos in Newport, Gwent, could become a critic for The Times; and when the conductor on the bus in Oxford Street would call out, "Queen's Hall up the road, change here for Henry Wood ".
8.35 Brahms Violin Concerto in D
ARABIC SEASON
John Theocharis concludes the series about contemporary Egyptian poetry. 5: Pictures Not Books
Mohammed Mitwalli is in his 20s. He does not believe in the traditional role of the Arab poet as a kind of public spokesman. Translations read by Nicholas Boulton , Jane Whittenshaw and Keith Drinkel.
Excerpts from Akhnaten, an opera by Philip Glass based on the life of this ancient Egyptian king, performed by countertenor Paul Esswood , the Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra and conductor Dennis Russell Davies.
Discs
Sarah Walker introduces a concert given last Tuesday night by the London Sinfonietta, with conductor John Adams , from the American
Independents series at London's South Bank Centre.
Michael Gordon Yo Shakespeare Javier Alvarez Quemar las Naves John Adams Gnarly Buttons
Frank Zappa The Perfect Stranger; Dupree's Paradise
John Adams I Was Looking at the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky And at approximately
11.30 American Mavericks
David Revill presents the second of a three-part series investigating some of the radical American composers who won an early reputation in the postwar years and finds out how their music has developed. Tonight, he talks to electronic-music composer David Behrman. Unforseen Events; Fishing for Compliments
Ben Neill (mutantrumpet) Producer Philip Tagney
Hildegard of Bingen 0 Choruscans Stellarum
Sequentia
Part Annum per Annum; Seven Magnificat Antiphons
BBC Singers, conductor Bo Holten
Hildegard of Bingen 0 Cruor Sanguinis 0 Vis Aeternitatis
Part Passio (John 19, w 16-30) Hilliard Ensemble , director, Paul Hillier
Repeated from last Friday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Soprano Ruth Ziesak and pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr perform songs by Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn , Schumann and Brahms
2.15 Ruth Ziesak (soprano), French Radio Philharmonic, conductor
Marek Janowski Henze Symphony No 8 Britten Les Illuminations
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
3.55 The Grieg Trio play music by Sommerfeldt and Grieg
5.00 Mozart Serenade in D, K250
(Haffner) Prague Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
6.00 Sequence