With Andrew McGregor.
Verdi Overture: La Battaglia di Legnano
6.12 Beethoven String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131
7.05 Harty A Comedy Overture
7.32 Mozart Flute Quartet No 1 in D, K285
8.05 Svendsen Norwegian Arts Carnival
8.46 Dvorak Five Songs of Nature Editor Andrew Lyle
This week Peter Hobday takes the reins and features Handel's concerto grossos from the Op 3 collection. Handel Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 3 No 1
Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Marc Minkowski
9.10 Allegri Miserere
Westminster Cathedral Choir, conductor James O'Donnell
9.22 Schubert Duo in A, Op 162 David Oistrakh (violin), Frida Bauer (piano)
9.40 Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole Paris Orchestra, conductor Charles Munch Producer Tony Cheevers Discs
Stephanie Hughes presents a week of programmes from Belfast. including all of Mozart's mature piano trios, and concerti grossi from Locatelli to Bloch.
Boccherini Overture in D
Ulster Orchestra, conductor John Lubbock
10.08 Alwyn Concerto Grosso No 2
City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
10.22 Artist of the Week: Wynton Marsalis (trumpet)
Biber Sonata for eight trumpets and orchestra
ECO, conductor Raymond Leppard (See also 5.00pm)
10.31 Mozart Piano Trio in C, K548 Beaux Arts Trio
10.53 Gumey In Flanders
Benjamin Luxon (baritone), David Willison (piano)
10.59 Haydn Symphony No 83 in G minor (Hen)
Ulster Orchestra, conductor John Lubbock
11.20 Jolivet Trumpet Concerto No 2
Wynton Marsalis, Philharmonia, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
11.32 Francaix Scuola di Ballo
Ulster Orchestra, conductor John Lubbock
Graham Fawcett explores the music of two Italian composers who dominated French opera in the aftermath of the Revolution:
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) and Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851).
1: The French Revolution of Luigi Cherubini
Highlights of Cherubini's 1791 rescue opera Lodoiska, a work which Beethoven openly acknowledged as a strong influence on his own opera Fidelio 13 years later.
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conductor Riccardo Muti Producer Clive Portbury Discs
Repeated next Monday at 11.30pm
From St John 's, Smith
Square, London.
Vermeer Quartet
Wolf Italian Serenade
Carter String Quartet No 1 Repeated next Sunday 6.00pm
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Nicholas Cleobury , Della Jones (mezzo)
Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish) Falla El Amor Brujo
Montsalvatge Canciones Negras
Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol
Joan Rodgers (soprano),
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Schumann Liederkreis , Op 39
Rachmaninov The Lilacs, Op 21 No 5; The Pied Piper, Op 38 No 4: Oh, Do Not Sing to Me, Op 4 No 4;
Daisies, Op 38 No 3; Do Not Believe Me, Op 14 No 7
Repeated from last Wednesday
Russell Davies presents the last of six programmes exploring the history of the violin in jazz.
In Europe, Jean Luc Ponty made jazz violin a contemplative, almost medieval instrument. In America, Billie Bang gave it a gritty social realism.
Natalie Wheen talks to trumpeter Wynton Marsalis - currently Radio 3's Artist of the Week - and visits students at Manhattan School of Music to find out how to get started in the field of jazz.
Jeremy Nicholas presents a programme commemorating the death of Edward German exactly 60 years ago today.
German Overture: Richard III
RTE Concert Orchestra, conductor Andrew Penny
6.05 Bach Prelude and Fugue in E minor ("48", Bk2) Colin Tilney (piano)
6.30 German Theme and Six
Diversions
RTE Concert Orchestra, conductor Andrew Penny
7.00 A feature celebrating German's life and music.
Producer Ray Abbott
From Manchester. Conductor
Michael Tilson Thomas
Mahler Adagio (Symphony No 10) Debussy La Mer
ARABIC SEASON
8.20 The East in the North
Aurangzeb Iqbal explores the ways in which the Islamic people of Bradford have resisted or absorbed their surroundings in their lives and art.
8.40 Lou Harrison A Parade for
Michael Tilson Thomas
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
ARABIC SEASON
Five programmes exploring deserts in reality, myth and imagination. Vast Eternities
Martin Buckley travels to the deserts of Arabia and Central Asia, talking to nomads and desert explorers, including Wilfred Thesiger.
Producers Martin Buckley and Julian Wilkinson
Pianist Gordon Fergus-Thompson plays music by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla , who died 50 years ago this week. Also in the programme are pieces by Falla's elder contemporary Isaac Albeniz and three preludes by Debussy inspired by Spain. Debussy La Puerta del Vino; La Soirée dans Grenade;
La Serenade Interrompue
Falla Le Tombeau de Claude
Debussy; Fantasia Betica
Albeniz Evocacion; El Albaicin (Iberia) Repeated tomorrow 2.25pm
Mark Russell introduces a piece specially commissioned for the medium of radio.
Alarmed and Dangerous By Christopher Fox.
The issuing of warnings, from the fearful apparitions of the Old
Testament to glorious heavenly fanfares, is intimately related to the history of the trumpet. In this multilayered programme, original music for the trumpet and brass choir is heard against urban soundtracks. With recordings by trumpet soloist
Mark Robinson and the Albany Brass Ensemble, plus contributions from performer and trumpet historian Crispian Steele-Perkins , and psycho-acousticians
Dr Roy Patterson and Dr Judy Edworthy. Readings by Fiona Talkington Producer Alan Hall
(1882-1961)
Andrew Lyle explores aspects of the extraordinary Australian composer in conversation with Penelope Thwaites. Discs Repeated from last Monday
JAZZ WEEK
With Digby Fairweather. The
Don Weller Quartet recorded in concert at the Appleby Jazz Festival.
Producer Terry Carter. Continues tomorrow
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Bruckner Symphony No 8 in C minor Rotterdam Philharmonic, conductor Hans Vonk
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
