Penny Gore with news, weather and music, including
Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op 114 Sabine Meyer (clarinet), Oleg Maisenberg (piano), Heinrich Schiff (cello)
7.05 Arensky Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky
Byelorussian Chamber Orchestra, conductor Valery Poliansky
7.21 Lully Laudate Pueri Les Arts Florissants, director William Christie
8.05 Handel Overture-Suite in D for Trumpet, Strings and Continuo Ludwig Guttler, Virtuosi Saxoniae
8.31 Poulenc Sinfonietta
New London Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp

With Peter Hobday. arr Gervaise French Renaissance
Dances
Piffaro, directors Joan Kimball and Robert Wiemken
9.07 Bach Two-Part Inventions,
BWV772-786
Andras Schiff (piano)
9.29 Mendelssohn Overture;
Scherzo; Notturno; Wedding March (A Midsummer Night's Dream) Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado
Discs

With Mairi Nicolson.
Rameau Overture: Dardanus
Orchestra of the 18th Century, conductor Frans Bruggen
10.06 Mozart Piano Sonata in C, K545 Andras Schiff
10.18 Copland Appalachian Spring Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
10.53 Saint-Saens Calme des Nuits;
Les Fleurs et les Arbres
Monteverdi Choir, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
11.00 Artist of the Week:
Olivier Charlier (violin)
Dutilleux L'Arbre des Songes BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
11.35 Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker (Act 2, excerpts)
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vasili Sinaisky

3: Towards Trans-Ethnicism
David Nicholls introduces music from other cultures by Cowell and his contemporaries. With spoken contributions from Lou Harrison , Carol Oja and Cowell himself. Cowell Ostinato Pianissimo
Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, conductor Paul Price
United Quartet
Composers Quartet
Colin McPhee Tabuh-Tabuhan
American Composers Orchestra, conductor Dennis Russell Davies
Cowell Persian Set
Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, conductor Richard Auldon Clark
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm

From the Wigmore Hall, London.

Christodoulos Georgiades (piano)

Haydn Sonata in C minor, H XVI 20

Skalkottas 32 Piano Pieces: Little Peasant March; Reverie in the Olden Style; Catastrophe in the Jungle

Chopin Impromptu No 3 in G flat, Op 51; Nocturne in C minor, Op 48 No 1

Liszt Valse Oubliee No 1; Hungarian Rhapsody No 15 in A minor (Rakoczy March)

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With Susan Sharpe , including
Bach Toccata in C minor, BWV911
Martha Argerich (piano)
Britten Rejoice in the Lamb
Soloists, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, James Lancelot (organ), conductor Philip Ledger
Schoeck Concerto quasi una Fantasia Bettina Boller (violin),
Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra conductor Andreas Delfs
Producer Peter Thresh
Discs

I From Christ Church
Cathedral, Oxford.
Responses (Reading)
Psalms 98-101 (Walmisley, Russell, Whitlock, Attwood)
First Lesson: Hosea 11
Magnificat (Francesco Durante )
Second Lesson: Matthew 2, wl3-end Nunc Dimittis, Tone III (Palestrina) Anthem: Gaudent in Coelis (Peter Philips)
Hymn: Lord, Hear the Praises of Thy Faithful (Coelites Plaudent)
Organ Voluntary: Allegro-Fuga
(Concerto in D minor after Vivaldi, BWV596) (Bach)
Organist Stephen Darlington. Sub-organist David Goode.
Organ scholar Philip Millward. Repeated tomorrow 1.00am
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Towards the Millennium: the Sixties
Benjamin Britten 's War Requiem was composed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962. Tommy Pearson takes an in-depth look at this sixties masterpiece.

With Andrew Green , including Glazunov Spring
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
5.40 Beethoven Six National Airs with Variations, Op 105 Olli Mustonen (piano) Producer Nick Morgan

In Wagner's early opera, a Knight of the Holy Grail is sent to rescue the wrongly accused Elsa but has to return to Montsalvat when she asks the forbidden question: who are you? This production from the Royal Opera House was much praised upon its revival last month.
Royal Opera House Chorus,
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conductor Valery Gergiev
7.15 The James Naughtie Interview James Naughtie talks to Dame
Gwyneth Jones , Ortrud in tonight's Lohengrin, about the role, the Royal Opera House, and her ambitious plans to restore a castle and opera house in the Welsh valleys.
7.35 Act 2
9.05 Paperback Writers
Towards the Millennium: the Sixties
The third of five programmes about the books and authors of the sixties.
Camille Paglia may have risen to fame as a feminist in the nineties, but she claims still to be a child of the sixties. In conversation with Andy Martin , she calls for a return to the radical agenda of the sixties and identifies herself with a popular icon - Emma Peel of The Avengers. Next programme tomorrow 9.15pm
9.30 Act 3

What makes a modern impresario?
From Renaissance royalty to Diaghilev or Sir Cameron Mackintosh , the vitality of public performance has often been dependent upon the flair of a fabulous fixer. Tony Palmer investigates the means and motivation of influential patrons and producers in the arts today and asks if individuals still have more influence than institutions. Producer Erika Wright

With Graham Sadler.
3: Innocence Sacrificed
The stories of Idomeneus and Jephthah, the one from classical legend, the other from the Old Testament, are closely related. Each warrior vows that, if successful in battle, he will sacrifice the first creature he meets on his return home. The tragic consequences may be heard in two of the most powerful operas of the pre-Ramiste period - Campra's
Idomenee and Monteclairs Jephte. Excerpts from both are performed by William Christie and Les Arts Florissants.
Plus Monteclair's Pyrame et Thisbe sung by Monique Zanetti (soprano), Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor) and Jean-Francois Gardeil (baritone). Repeated from last Wednesday

Digby Fairweather in conversation with musician and writer
Dick Sudhalter.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Leonardo Lopez Linares
(baritone) and Madalit Lamazares (piano) perform arias by Mozart, Donizetti and Verdi and songs by Latin American composers.
2.00 BBC Philharmonic/Yan Pascal Tortelier John McCabe Symphony No 1; Fire at Durilgai
3.00 Schools
3.00 Time and Tune 3.20 Together
3.40 Dance Workshop 4.00 EAL: Dance Workshop 4.20 Scottish Resources 10-12 4.40 Talking Points
5.00 Sequence