With Jonathan Swain.
Locatelli Concerto Grosso in D, Op 1 No 9
Capella Istropolitana , conductor Jaroslav Krecek
7.14 Lutoslawski Little Suite
Polish NRSO, conductor Antoni Wit
7.26 Brahms Fantasies, Op 116 Helene Grimaud (piano)
7.50 Janacek Our Father
Lydie Hartelova (harp), Josef Ksica (organ), Prague Chamber Choir, conductor Josef Pancik
8.06 Ireland Violin Sonata No 2 in A minor
Paul Barritt , Catherine Edwards (piano)
8.33 Wagner Brunnhilde 's
Immolation Scene (Gotterdammerung) Jane Eaglen (soprano),
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conductor Mark Elder
9.00 Building a Library
David Fanning compares the available recordings of Borodin's
Symphony No 2 in B minor. Graham Sadler reviews new releases of Baroque choral music, including a new reconstruction of Bach's St
Mark Passion and music by Telemann, Charpentier and Rameau. Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm
10.15 Record Release
Bach Unser Mund sei Voll Lachens, BWV110
Vasilika Jezovsek (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Mark Padmore
(tenor), Peter Kooy (bass), Collegium Vocale , director Philippe Herreweghe
10.42 Charpentier Les Plaisirs de Versailles
Les Arts Florissants, director William Christie
11.15 Reissues
Robert Cowan reports on the latest reissues from Biddulph, including Thomas Beecham and the London
Philharmonic playing Mozart,
Beethoven and Schubert, and Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Discs
Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert E-MAIL: record.review@bbc.co.uk
DISC DETAILS: see BBC1 Ceefax page 651
Another chance to hear Michael
Berkeley's conversation with Germaine Greer. Her choice of predominantly vocal music includes Baroque works by Victoria, Couperin and Handel, and music by Schubert, Brahms, Mahler and John Cage. Repeat
Last of the explorations of the material world with Hannah Andrassy. 6: Stretch
"Remember who commended thy yellow stockings."
(Malvolio to Olivia in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night)
Producer Julian Wilkinson
The last in the series in which Humphrey Burton traces the history of the Philharmonia Orchestra.
This programme charts the ups and downs of the orchestra through the seventies and eighties, its struggles for survival and attempts to regain its pre-eminence among London orchestras. The programme includes contributions from Riccardo Muti, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Simon Rattle and members of the orchestra, with excerpts from:
Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 1 in G minor (Winter Daydreams) (1st mvt)
Verdi Aida, conductor Riccardo Muti
Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 in C, K467
Director Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Sibelius Symphony No 5 (1st mvt) conductor Simon Rattle
Puccini Manon Lescaut (Intermezzo)
Mahler Symphony No 7 (3rd mvt) conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli
Messiaen Turangalila Symphony (5th mvt) conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Offenbach Overture: La Vie Parisienne conductor Herbert von Karajan
Return of the series showcasing some of the world's best young orchestras. In the first of eight programmes, Kirsteen McCue introduces a concert given by the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland at the end of their European summer tour in August last year. Conductor Ole Schmidt ,
Roberta Alexander (soprano)
Elgar Overture: Alassio (In the South) Strauss Four Last Songs
Shostakovich Symphony No 10 Producer David McGuinness
With Geoffrey Smith. Producer Felix Carey Discs
Ivan Hewett explores the musical traditions linked to the Chinese New
Year; looks at the Fluxus movement, which brought together European and American artists; and introduces a review of a new novel telling the realistic story of two orchestras competing for funding. Producer Jessica Isaacs
Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm
Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte's multi-layered, three-act opera buffa, based on Beaumarchais's play La Folle Journee ou le Mariage de Figaro. This Met revival of the late Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's production is notable for the return of soprano Kiri Te Kanawa to the role in which she had her first great success, and for the appearance of Dawn Upshaw - a famous Susanna - in the role of the pageboy Cherubino. Sung in Italian.
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Leopold Hager
Act 1
7.25 Lorenzo da Ponte: Life after Mozart
Through the memoirs of the poet and librettist of Mozart's Le Nozze, Adrian Mourby traces Da Ponte's colourful life, from his expulsion from Vienna in 1791 to his flight from London in 1805. With Cyril Shaps as Da Ponte.
7.45 Act 2
8.40 The Met Opera Quiz
Listeners' questions are put to a panel of three opera experts.
Address for Questions: The Met Opera Quiz, [address removed]
9.05 Acts 3 and 4
Texaco supports the Metropolitian Opera International Radio Network, which is broadcast on Radio 3 through the EBU
The second of five programmes in which Iwan Russell-Jones examines the theology behind the belief that we are living at the end of time.
Millions of fundamentalist Christians, many of them in America, believe that the biblical Book of Revelation refers to events in our own time.
2: Reading the Signs
On the day that JFK was assassinated in Dallas, America lost its innocence; all its problems worsened from that day on. The city also boasts the Dallas Theological Seminary, the academic home of apocalyptic theology, which has sent ministers and missionaries out across the world for half a century, armed with an education in the end times.
Copland Violin Sonata (1943) Ernst Kovacic ,
David Owen Norris (piano)
Brian Morton introduces a concert recorded at last year's Glasgow
International Jazz Festival featuring legendary bebop singer Betty Carter and her young trio of Travis Shook
(piano), Vashon Johnson (bass) and Byron Landham (drums). They performed a set of her own original songs and jazz standards.
With John Shea.
1.00 Jazz from Oslo Petter Wettre and friends
2.30 Irena Grafenauer (flute),
Maria Graf (harp), Vienna Chamber Orchestra/Neville
Marriner Mozart Overture: Le Nozze di Figaro; Concerto in C for Rute and Harp,
K299 Beethoven Symphony No 2 in D
3.40 Christos Papageorgiou and George Petrou (piano duet) Bernardo Pasquini Sonata in D minor
Schumann Andante and Variations in B flat, Op 46 Martinu Three Czech Dances Rachmaninov Suite No 2
4.40 Finnish RSO/Paavo Berglund
Mendelssohn Overture: Midsummer
Night's Dream
Kokkonen .. .durch einen Spiegel Shostakovich Symphony No 15
6.00 Sequence
