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With Peter Hobday.
Haydn Symphony No 94 in G (Surprise) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
9.24 Puccini In Questa Reggia (Turandot)
Eva Turner (soprano), orchestra, conductor Stanford Robinson
9.30 Puccini Crisantemi
Hagen Quartet
9.38 Busoni Two Studies for Doctor
Faust
Royal Philharmonic, conductor Daniell Revenaugh Discs
With Nick Morgan.
Handel Overture: Esther
Philidor Ensemble
10.08 Artist of the Week:
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
CPE Bach Sonata in G minor, Wq65 No 17
10.23 Suk Fantasy, Op 24
Raphael Oleg (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Libor Pesek
10.48 Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat,
Op 70 No 2
Gerard Poulet (violin),
Christophe Henkel (cello), Pascal Devoyon (piano)
11.17 Johann Nauwach Jetzund
Kompt die Nacht
Herbey Andreas Scholl (countertenor)
11.22 JA Stepan Piano Concerto in B flat
Andreas Staier (fortepiano) Concerto Koln
11.50 Schutz Auf dem Gebirge, SWV396
Ashley Stafford and Michael Chance (countertenors), His Majesties
Sagbutts and Cornetts, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
With Paul Hindmarsh.
"Kodaly's music is much more gentle and human than mine." (Bartok) After the turmoil of the post-1918 political upheavals, Bartok and Kodaly are established as the two giants of Hungarian music.
Kodaly The Viennese Musical Clock (Hary Janos )
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Antal Dorati
Bartok Violin Sonata No 2 (2nd mvt) Gidon Kremer , Yuri Smirnov (piano) Kodaly Psalmus Hungaricus
Peter Svensson (tenor), Copenhagen Boys' Choir, Danish National Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
Bartok Dance Suite
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez
Repeated next Tuesday 11.30pm
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Charles Mackerras
Mahler Symphony No 7
Penny Gore introduces the first of two programmes of music by Debussy and Szymanowski played by Vanya Milanova (violin) and Caroline Palmer (piano).
Debussy Images (Book 1)
Szymanowski Nocturne and Tarantelle Debussy Violin Sonata
Repeated from yesterday 9.45pm
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Owain Arwel Hughes John Lill (piano)
Beethoven Overture: Leonore No 3
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
Ensemble Bash
Tommy Pearson joins the percussion group Ensemble Bash and students from Longford Community School in Feltham at the Harrow Arts Centre,
London, to explore some of the huge variety of instruments that the group play - from orchestral percussion instruments to African drums and junk instruments.
With Humphrey Carpenter , including Chabrier Overture: Gwendoline
Vienna Philharmonic, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
6.05 Bach Prelude and Fugue in G minor ("Well-tempered Clavier", Bk 2) Paris Saxophone Quartet
6.35 Mozart Symphony No 25 in G minor, K183
English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Benjamin Britten Producer Jeremy Hayes
The first of six recitals from the Concert Hall, New
Broadcasting House.
Introduced by Rodney Slatford. Brodsky Quartet:
Michael Thomas and Ian Belton
(violins),
Paul Cassidy (viola),
Jacqueline Thomas (cello)
Prokofiev String Quartet No 2 (on Kabardinian Themes)
Schubert String Quartet in B flat, D112
8.30 A Practical
Utopia Paul Allen goes to Halifax to visit
Dean Clough , once the largest carpet factory in Europe, but now converted by businessman and pianist Sir Ernest Hall into a centre where commerce and the arts flourish.
8.50 Shostakovich String Quartet No 2, Op 68
Patrick Wright continues his conversations with those eschewing the centre of conventional culture.
2: Gillian Barlow , Slade artist turned flower painter.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor Martyn Brabbins
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 1 in G minor (Winter Daydreams)
Geoffrey Hill is one of the most intense and deeply allusive of contemporary English poets and his work addresses myth, history and legend, as well as the condition of Christianity. He talks to
Richard Coles about his first collection for a decade, Canaan. Zimmermann's Die Soldaten has been described as one of the most important works composed in the postwar period. Night Waves reviews the opening night of the first British production, at the English National Opera. Producer Julian May
See also tomorrow 5.15pm
2: Cherubini and the Terror
Brahms described Cherubini's 1797 opera Medea as "the work we musicians recognise among ourselves as the highest peak of dramatic music". Graham Fawcett explores this torrid tale of sexual jealousy, revenge and infanticide which was given the white-hot treatment by Maria Callas. Most of tonight's highlights come from her celebrated 1957 studio recording, though the programme also includes excerpts from the original French version, Medee, sung by Josephine Barstow.
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conductor Tullio Serafin Discs Repeated from last Tuesday
BBC Big Band
With Richard Niles. John Wallace conducts the BBC Big Band in a programme of clarinet classics including Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue and Riffs, first performed by Benny Goodman ; Stravinsky's Ebony
Concerto, written for Woody Herman ; and Jerry Gray 's original arrangement for Artie Shaw of the Carioca. Soloists are Jay Craig and Clive Hitchcock.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Yefim Bronfman (piano), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Lorin Maazel
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E
3.00 Schools
3.00 Playtime 3.15 Time to Move
3.35 Let's Make a Story 3.50 Listen and Write! 4.10 In the News 4.30
Hop, Skip and Jump 4.45 Anns a' Bhad
5.00 Sequence