With Andrew McGregor.
Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor
6.44 Ravel Daphnis et Chloe: Suite No 2
7.05 Liszt Aux Cypres de la Villa d'Este 11
7.32 Sibelius Piano Trio
8.05 Boccherini Symphony in E flat, Op 35 No 5
8.23 Brahms Sextet No 2 in G, Op 36
With Peter Hobday.
Beethoven Overture: Egmont Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
9.09 Field Piano Concerto No 5 in C
(L'lncendie par I'Orage)
Miceal O'Rourke , London Mozart
Players, conductor Matthias Bamert
9.37 Haydn Symphony No 95 in C minor
Cleveland Orchestra , conductor George Szell Discs
With Nick Morgan.
Nielsen Prelude, Act 2: Maskarade Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
10.05 Artist of the Week:
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
Haydn Sonata in C, H XVI 35
10.18 Brahms Three German Folk
Songs
Sanford Sylvan (baritone), David Breitman (piano)
10.25 Rameau Grand motet: In
Convertendo
The Sixteen, Le Concert Français, conductor Edward Higginbottom
10.50 Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor
Andreas Staier (pianoforte cl850), Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, conductor Philippe Herreweghe
11.18 Michael Haydn String Quartet in G minor, P120
Mosaiques Quartet
11.40 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Boyd Neel String Orchestra
"The composer has completely absorbed the idiom of peasant music, which has become his mother tongue." (Bartok on Kodaly)
Paul Hindmarsh introduces two works which reveal how different the "mother-tongues" of the composers had become by the mid-twenties. Kodaly The Battle and Defeat of Napoleon (Hary Janos )
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra , conductor Antal Dorati
Bartok Piano Concerto No 1
Stephen Kovacevich ,
LSO, conductor Colin Davis
Kodaly The Spinning Room (closing scene)
Eva Andor (soprano), Erzsebet
Komlossy (contralto), Gyorgy Melis (baritone), Hungarian Radio and Television Chorus, Budapest
Philharmonic, conductor Janos Ferencsik
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm
Harpsichordist Jane Chapman gives the first concert in the autumn season of lunchtime concerts from .
Pebble Mill.
Jacquet de la Guerre Suite in A minor Louis Andriessen Overture: Orpheus Ligeti Continuum
Royer La Marche des Scythes; Le Vertigo
Whitty Vertigo (first broadcast)
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With Susan Sharpe , including
Handel Coronation Anthem: The King Shall Rejoice
Chorus and Academy of St Martin, conductor Neville Marriner
Danzi Flute Concerto No 3 in D minor
Andras Adorjan , Munich Chamber
Orchestra, conductor Hans Stadlmair Martinu Field Mass
Ivan Kusnjer (baritone), Miroslav Kejmar (trumpet), Czech
Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Jiri Belohlavek
Producer Peter Thresh Discs WRITTEN REQUESTS:
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From Norwich Cathedral.
Introit: Locus Iste (Bruckner)
Responses (Nicholas)
Psalms 49, 50 (Walmisley, Goss, Crow) First Lesson: Ecclesiasticus 43, w
13-end
Office Hymn: 0 God, Thy Soldiers' Crown and Guard (Deus Tuorum Militum)
Canticles: Norwich Service (Patterson) Second Lesson: Revelation 15
Anthem: Greater Love (Ireland) Hymn: Psalms of Glory
Organ Voluntary: Symphonie II (final) (Vierne) Organist and master of the music David Dunnett. Assistant organist Neil Taylor.
Repeated tomorrow 1.00am
Ensemble Bash
Tommy Pearson and Ensemble Bash take a look at how percussion provides the basic rhythms for all kinds of dance music all over the world.
The English National Opera production of Bernd Alois
Zimmermann's Die Soldaten - the first in Britain - opened last night at the London Coliseum.
Anthony Burton talks to the conductor. Elgar Howarth , and to the singer who takes the central role of Marie, American soprano Lisa Saffer. Including
5.35 Kalliwoda Concertino in F
6.05 Mozart Violin Concerto No 4 in D, K218
6.45 Zimmermann Trumpet Concerto (Nobody Knows de Trouble I See) Producer Ray Abbott
Fourteen programmes exploring the symphonic legacy of Anton Bruckner a century after his death.
8: A Monumental Symphony
"After numbers three and four, the growing pains of Bruckner's new type of symphony were over." (Deryck Cooke )
Stephen Johnson examines
Deryck Cooke 's assertion with contributions from Bruckner scholars.
The programme culminates in a performance of the Symphony No 5 in B flat by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Gunter Wand
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3: Dick Gaughan , uniting political protest and Scottish folk music.
Sonata No 3 in C, BWV1005 Repeat Final programme Friday 9.35pm
Baritone William Dazeley and pianist and presenter lain Burnside explore some of the many settings of AE Housman's poetry.
Benjamin Burrows The Half-Moon Westers Low, My Love; From Far, from Eve and Morning; The Long Road; Bredon Hill
John Ireland We'll to the Woods No
More
CW Orr Hughley Steeple
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs When I Was One-and-Twenty
Graham Peel In Summertime on Bredon
Arnold Bax In the Morning Julian Philips Eclogue
Butterworth Bredon Hill; Oh, Fair
Enough Are Sky and Plain; When the Lad for Longing Sighs; On the Idle
Hill of Summer; With Rue My Heart Is Laden
Producer Adam Gatehouse
Repeated next Monday 3.45pm
The London Film Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary with more than 340 programmes showing over 18 days. But does the sum of such a festival add up to more than its parts? Tony Palmer talks to Robert Altman and, as debate continues over the festival's future, discusses its role with outgoing director Sheila Whitaker. Plus first-night news of Peter Oswald 's new verse-play Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards.
Producer Nicki Paxman
Cherubini Overture: Les Deux
Journées; Me Separer de Mon Epoux (Les Deux Journees); Etude No 2 for French Horn and Strings; Les
Abencerages (Act 2, excerpt); Requiem in C minor (Dies Irae) Discs Repeated from last Wednesday
BBC Big Band
Richard Niles introduces the BBC Big Band in session with Stan Tracey.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Cologne RSO/Hans Vonk
Stravinsky The Fairy's Kiss
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor
3.00 Schools Time and Tune
3.20 Together
3.40 Dance Workshop
4.00 History 9-11
4.20 Scottish Resources 10-12
4.40 Talking Points
5.00 Sequence
