With Penny Gore.
Schubert Violin Sonata No 2 in A,
D385
Fabio Bondi ,
Olga Tverskaya (fortepiano)
7.05 Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew
Themes
Angela Malsbury (clarinet),
David Pettit (piano), Coull Quartet
7.32 Lotti La Vita Caduca
Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
8.05 Albeniz, arr Halffter Rapsodia Espanola
Jean-François Heisser (piano), Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, conductor Jesus Lopez-Cobos
8.20 JCF Bach Sonata in F for Two
Violins and Continuo, FV2 No 3
London Baroque
8.33 Bridge Suite for String Orchestra English Chamber Orchestra, conductor David Garforth
With Catriona Young.
Strauss Prelude: Capriccio - Raphael Ensemble
9.11 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique) - Russian National Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Pletnev
(Discs)
With John Toal.
Howells King's Herald
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox
10.05 Artist of the Week:
Michala Petri (descant recorder)
William Babell Recorder Concerto in C, Op 3 No 1
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, director Kenneth Sillito
10.13 Poulenc Two Marches and an Intermezzo
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Steuart Bedford
10.18 Mompou Three Variations on a Theme of Chopin Laurent Martin (piano)
10.23 Debussy Rhapsody
John Harle (saxophone), Ulster
Orchestra, conductor Steuart Bedford
10.34 Martlnu Serenade No 4
(Divertimento)
Prague Chamber Orchestra, conductor Oldrich Vlcek
10.42 Korngold Symphonic
Serenade for String Orchestra BBC Philharmonic, conductor Matthias Bamert
11.13 Corelli Sonata in C. Op 5 No 9 Michala Petri (recorder),
George Malcolm (harpsichord)
11.29 Lennox Berkeley Symphony No 1 Ulster Orchestra, conductor Steuart Bedford
With David Fallows.
Orfeo (Act 4)
New London Consort, director Philip Pickett
Sonata sopra Sancta Maria; Magnificat (1610 Vespers) the Sixteen, director Harry Christophers
Questi Vaghi Concenti Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm
The British broadcast premiere of Vivaldi's 18th opera, first performed in Rome in 1724 and recorded here last July at London's Royal College of Music. Based on historical fact, the work tells the story of ploughboy Giustino, who defeats wild bears, sea dragons and other obstacles to rise to prominence in the Byzantine army, eventually becoming emperor. Sung in Italian, and performed by La Serenissima:
Directors Adrian Chandler and Giulia Nuti
What was the first opera? Tommy Pearson tries to answer this tricky question with the help of conductor Sian Edwards.
Repeat
With Nicola Heywood Thomas , including
Shostakovich Festive Overture
Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
5.40 Monteverdi Lamento darianna
Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
6.05 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet
(excerpts)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
6.30 Mozart String Quintet in E flat, K614
Hausmusik
Producer Gwawr Owen
A concert given in 1995 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall , including a recently discovered early Romanze by Richard Strauss.
Conductor Matthias Bamert , Emma Johnson (clarinet)
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622 Strauss Romanze
Takemitsu Requiem for strings
Haydn Symphony No 44 in E minor (Trauer) Repeat
Geoffrey Hosking , professor of Russian history at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, meets five British people who have travelled often and widely in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
4: Colonel Roy Giles of the Defence Research Agency on the military.
George Pratt introduces a concert given by the Yorkshire Baroque
Soloists, director Peter Seymour , in the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall at the Music Department of the University of York.
Muffat Florilegium Secundum No 1 in D minor (Nobilis Juventus)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier Pour le Sacre d'un Eveque; Pour un Reposir
Muffat Florilegium Secundum No 3 in A minor (Illustres Primitiae) Producer Lindsay Kemp
Repeated tomorrow 2.15pm
Including the first in Night Waves's new monthly series, New York
Stories. Bill Buford , literary editor of The New Yorker and former editor of Granta, presents a personal view of American culture. And
Humphrey Carpenter talks to Granta editor Ian Jack about a vision of contemporary Britain emerging in new writing. Producer Edwina Wolstencroft
Broadway Revisited
Humphrey Burton introduces excerpts from Mass (1971), the Jerome Robbins ballet The Dybbuk (1947), and 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue (1976), Bernstein's ill-fated collaboration with Alan Jay Lemer. Among today's guests are the composer's daughter Jamie Bernstein Thomas , who has performed in Mass, and Patricia Routledge , who played the First Lady in the original production of 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue, which she described as "a diamond-studded dinosaur".
Repeated from last Thursday
With Dave Gelly. Further excerpts from the Stan Tracey 70th birthday concert given last month at the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London.
Pianist Tracey was joined by Andy Cleyndert (bass), and Clark Tracey
(drums), plus trumpeters Guy Barker , Henry Lowther , Derek Watkins , Tony Fisher and Gerard Presencer , trombonists Malcolm Griffiths , Pete Beachill and Roger Williams , and saxophonists Bobby Wellins , Don Weller , Peter King ,
Mornington Lockett , Art Themen , Andy Panayi and Julian Arguelles.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Choral Evensong from Trinity College, Cambridge
Introit: Epiphany Responsary (Marlow) Processional Hymn: As with Gladness (Dix)
Responses (Smith)
Psalms 41, 42, 43 (Marlow after
Mendelssohn, Wesley, Verdi, Brahms) First Lesson: Isaiah 9, w2-7
Magnificat for Double Choir, Op 164 (Stanford)
Second Lesson: 1 John 1, wl-7
Nunc Dimittis for Double Choir (Hoist) Anthem: Thou Must Leave Thy Lowly Dwelling (Berlioz)
Hymn: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise (St Edmund)
Organ Voluntary: Von Himmel Hoch , BWV606 (Bach)
Repeated from yesterday 4.00pm
2.00 Fortepianist Pablo Cano plays music by Felix Lopez , Montero and Pricto
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Workshop 3.20 Let's Move 3.40 Words Alive 3.55 First
Steps in Drama 4.10 Drama Workshop 4.30 Infant History
4.40 Check it Out
5.00 Sequence
