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Sandy Burnett and his guest Timothy West preview the Radio 3 week.
Mozart Overture: Der
Schauspieldirektor
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
9.07 Glazunov Spring BBC Philharmonic, conductor Richard Hickox
9.17 Schubert, transcr Liszt Standchen
Dmitri Bashkirov (piano)
9.23 Masek Serenade in D
Pragense Collegium Musicum
9.39 Komgold Military March BBC Philharmonic, conductor Matthias Bamert
9.48 Borodin Polovtsian Dances
(Prince Igor) Philharmonia, conductor Herbert von Karajan
10.02 Bach Oboe Concerto in A,
BWV1055
Stephen Hammer , Bach Ensemble , conductor Joshua Rifkin
10.24 Composer of the Week: Webern Langsamer Satz Carmina Quartet
10.34 Poulenc Suite Frangaise French National Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
10.47 Gibbons Cries of London
Red Byrd, Fretwork
10.55 Tchaikovsky Waltz (Eugene Onegin )
Royal Philharmonic, conductor Thomas Beecham
11.02 Artist of the Week:
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
Schumann Toccata in C, Op 7
11.09 John Gardner Saxophone
Quartet
The Fairer Sax
11.43 Schubert Symphony No 9 in C (Great)
Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Georg Solti Producer Piers Burton-Page
Ivan Hewett presents the magazine exploring current issues in the musical world. This week, music in ancient Rome, a new look at neglected composer Vincent d'lndy, and how to write a good national anthem. Repeated from yesterday 5.45pm
SCHUBERTIAD
Gather Ye Rosebuds
Gordon Stewart selects some
Schubert songs with a floral theme. Producer Adam Gatehouse
BBC Symphony Orchestra Conductor Andrew Davis ,
Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Berlioz Overture: Beatrice and Benedict
Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor
Tippett Symphony No 4 Repeat
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to one of the world's finest and most varied collections of musical instruments. George Pratt talks to curator Laurence Libin and introduces music played on restored Amati and Stradivarius violins, a Cristofori fortepiano, a 1666 Zenti harpsichord, and an early Italian spinettino.
Producer Kate Bolton
SCHUBERTIAD
Six recitals by Andras Schiff.
4: Sonatas: in E, D157, in A, D664; in C minor, D958 Repeat
This year marks the centenary of the discovery of the electron, and the text books report that Crick and Watson discovered the structure of DNA in 1953. But is it really possible to attribute a single date and a name or two to findings such as these, which changed science? Peter Evans explores what discovery means for scientists now and in the past and asks if there are any parallels with creativity in the arts. Producer Deborah Cohen
London Brass, conductor Stephen Cleobury Stravinsky Octet
Gabrieli Jubilate Dec; Timor et
Tremor (1615)
Stravinsky Mass
Last Monday's BBC Lunchtime Concert
By David Pownall.
In the last years of his life, one of the largest literary figures of the 20th century, Ezra Pound , fell silent. The man who had been branded a traitor and judged insane by American authorities abandoned poetry and chose instead to communicate with that other prodigious talent, Claudio Monteverdi.
Director Eoin O'Callaghan
The five domes of St Mark 's, Venice, inspired Stravinsky's late Canticum Sacrum, just as its four galleries had inspired the polychoral music of Schutz. Brian Wright introduces recent performances of both works, together with a Stockhausen work for four choruses, four orchestras and four conductors.
Stravinsky Canticum Sacrum Neil Mackenzie (tenor), Brindley Sherratt (bass),
BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Robertson
Schutz Magnificat Anima Mea; Da Pacem, Domine; Deutsches
Magnificat
Dresdener Kreuzchor (conductor Rudolf Mauersberger ), Oxford Camerata (conductor Jeremy Summerly )
Stockhausen Carre
BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra, conductors
David Robertson , Pascal Rophe , Richard Bernas and Robert Ziegler Producer Antony Pitts
The last of eight programmes in which Richard Widdess explores the wide range of traditional music of faith and festivity on the Indian subcontinent.
Space, Time and Music
Music for weddings and other festivals, for the beginning of the day, and for the end of the universe. Producer John Thornley
Building a Library
John Steane compares the available recordings of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte. Hilary Finch reviews new releases of chamber music, including Schubert from the Takacs Quartet, Schumann from the Hagen Quartet, and Mendelssohn on period instruments plus Brahms from the Schubert Ensemble of London.
Revised repeat from yesterday 9.00am
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Stefano Landi La Morte d'Orfeo
Tragicomedia, Currende, conductor Stephen Stubbs
3.00 Chamber Music played by Korean musicians, including
Debussy La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin Dvorak Humoresque, Op 101 No 7
Chopin Nocturne in E flat, Op 9 No 2
3.55 Jadwiga Rappe (mezzo), Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Romand Chamber Choir, Pro Arte Chorus,
Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Armin Jordan Berg Suite: Lutu Brahms Alto Rhapsody; Song of Destiny
5.00 Sequence