With Andrew McGregor.
Veracini Overture No 5 in B flat
Musica Antiqua Koln , director Reinhard Goebel
6.18 Dvorak Symphony No 6 in D Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi
7.05 Purcell 0 Dive Custos (Elegy upon the Death of Queen Mary)
Michael Chance and James Bowman
(countertenors), the King's Consort, director Robert King
7.38 Janacek Sinfonietta
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik
8.05 Moszkowski Caprice Espagnole Stephen Hough (piano)
8.35 Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488
Artur Rubenstein ,
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, conductor Alfred Wallenstein
With Peter Hobday.
Gorecki Three Pieces in Old Style Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, conductor Agnieszka Duczmal
9.10 Handel Love Sounds the Alarm
(Acis and Galatea)
David Thomas (bass),
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, conductor Nicholas McGegan
9.14 Debussy String Quartet Hagen Quartet
9.41 Stravinsky Capriccio Olli Mustonen (piano),
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy Discs
With Piers Burton-Page . Artist of the Week:
Gillian Weir (organ)
Balbastre Allegretto Pastorale Lefebure-Wely Pastorale in A
10.04 Ernest Tomlinson Aladdin
(excerpts)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
10.16 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 4
(From Old Notebooks) Sviatoslav Richter
10.36 Finzi Let Us Garlands Bring Bryn Terfel (baritone),
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
10.53 Stravinsky Concerto for Two Pianos
Benjamin Frith and Peter Hill
11.05 Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G LPO, conductor Jiri Belohlavek
11.46 Bruhns Nun Komm der Heiden
Heiland Gillian Weir
(organ)
With Stephanie Hughes. 4: The Virtuoso
Britain did not value its own brand of professional virtuoso/composer, but the public was prepared to pay handsomely to hear specimens from the Continent. Thalberg and, especially, Moscheles made fortunes in London as a resu
lt. George Frederick Pinto might have become an exception - but he died at 20 of "dissipation".
Cramer Study No 19 in D Ian Hobson (piano)
Pinto Grand Sonata in C minor (1803) Riko Fukuda (fortepiano)
Moscheles Piano Concerto in G minor
Michael Ponti , Philharmonica Hungarica, conductor Othmar Maga
Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm
The third of five programmes devoted to Schubert's operas, broadcast to mark the bicentenary of his birth. David Owen Norris introduces Die
Freunde von Salamanka (The Friends of Salamanka), with contributions from Schubert biographer
Elizabeth Norman McKay. The work dates from 1815, when the 19-year-old Schubert was beginning to master the genre. He was very dependent upon his friends throughout his short life, so the plot was particularly relevant. This recording was made at the 1993 Edinburgh Festival. Jeremy Sams 's narration is read by Juliet Stevenson.
Scottish Opera Chorus,
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Robertson
Penny Gore presents a series of string quartets by Bohemian contemporaries of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, played by the Salomon Quartet.
Johan Baptist Vanhal String Quartets: in A, Op 33 No 2; in E flat (1787)
An occasional series featuring concerts given by foreign orchestras at the 1996 BBC Proms in London's Royal Albert Hall.
The Oslo Philharmonic introduced a work by Alfred Janson that was new to the Proms. Janson has a mixed jazz and classical background, and the threads of popular music emerge again in Dvorak's symphony and Bartok's symphonic study.
Oslo Philharmonic, conductor Manfred Honeck
Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
Janson Interlude for Orchestra
Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World)
(Repeat)
Caroline Swinburne listens to the music of the Afrikaners and hears how it is developing political connotations.
With Geraint Lewis , including
Oliver Knussen Flourish with Fireworks
London Sinfonietta, conducted by the Composer
5.25 Handel Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 3 No 2 English Concert, conductor Trevor Pinnock
5.40 Copland In the Beginning Kathryn Turpin (mezzo),
Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, conductor Christopher Robinson
6.05 Grace Williams Fairest of Stars
Janet Price (soprano),
LSO, conductor Charles Groves
6.20 Berlioz Queen Mao Scherzo (Romeo and Juliet)
Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Colin Davis
6.35 Brahms Violin Sonata No 1 in G, Op 78
Josef Suk , Julius Katchen (piano) Producer Gwawr Owen
Introduced by Brian Morton. Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the orchestra for a programme dominated by images of the sea.
Conductor Alexander Lazarev ,
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) Glazunov The Sea
Saint-Saens Piano Concerto
No 5 in F (Egyptian)
8.15 Beneath the Waves
Juliet Stevenson reads from Virginia Woolf's The Waves against a background of Debussy's sea pieces.
8.35 Rimsky-Korsakov Sadko Debussy La Mer
Five original short stories written around news events.
4: Death Comes for the Pope By Mark Lawson.
A murder mystery set in a boys' school between the death of Pope John Paul and the appointment of Pope John Paul II. Read by Greg Wise.
Anthony Rooley introduces highlights of an all-Dowland recital given last month at the Wigmore Hall, London, by the American lutenist Paul O'Dette. Producer Lindsay Kemp
Repeated tomorrow 2.15pm
Though The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome remain her best known works, Edith Wharton 's prolific output included novels, short stories and non-fiction work. Hermione Lee investigates what light is shed on Wharton's fascinating career by a new selection of letters, many of which have never been published before. Producer Fiona Bayley
With Chris de Souza.
4: The True Art
CPE Bach Symphony, Wql82 No 5; Concerto in G, Wq43 No 5.
Quantz Flute Sonata in B flat; Trio Sonata in C minor.
Repeated from last Thursday
With Campbell Burnap.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Choral Evensong from St Paul's Cathedral.
Repeated from yesterday 4.00pm
2.00 Music from the 1996 Copenhagen Early Music Festival. Battalia play music by Turini, Clma and Falconierl.
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
