With Penny Gore.
Reger Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart Berlin Symphony Orchestra, conductor Hans-Peter Frank
6.33 Mozart Oboe Concerto in C, K314 John Mack , Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi
7.05 Carlo Farina Capriccio Stravagante
European Community Baroque
Orchestra, director Monica Huggett
7.32 Vaughan Williams Five Variants on "Dives and Lazarus"
New Queen's Hall Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth
8.05 Bach Trio Sonata No 6, BWV530 Lionel Rogg (organ)
8.41 Copland Clarinet Concerto Paul Meyer ,
ECO, conductor David Zinman
With Peter Hobday.
Musorgsky, arr Rimsky-Korsakov Intermezzo in Modo Classico
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov
9.08 Bach Three-Part Inventions,
BWV787-801
Andras Schiff (piano)
9.34 Haydn String Quartet in B flat, Op 76 No 4 (Sunrise) Takacs Quartet discs
With Mairi Nicolson.
Rameau Overture: Platée
Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Marc Minkowski
10.12 Artist of the Week:
Olivier Charlier (violin)
Grieg Violin Sonata No 3 in C minor, Op 45
Brigitte Engerer (piano)
10.40 Tchaikovsky Valse des Fleurs; Pas de Deux; Valse Finale (The Nutcracker, Act 2) BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vasili Sinaisky
11.00 Mozart Piano Sonata in B flat,
K570
Mitsuko Uchida
11.25 Poulenc Stabat Mater
Janice Watson (soprano),
BBC Singers, BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
4: San Quentin and Afterwards
David Nicholls considers the effects on Cowell's music of his four years' imprisonment and his subsequent marriage, with contributors including Joel Sachs , Wayne Shirley and Robert Osborne.
Cowell Grinnell Fanfare
London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble, conductor Christopher Bowers -Broadbent
Hymn and Fuguing Tune No 2
Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, conductor Richard Auldon Clark
Lou Harrison String Trio New Music Consort
Cage Sonatas Nos 1 and 2 (Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano) Louie Goldstein
Cowell Daybreak ; The Little Black Boy Robert Osborne (baritone), Mary Ann Hart (mezzo), Jeanne Golan (piano) Symphony No 4 (Short Symphony) Eastman Rochester Orchestra conductor Howard Hanson
Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm
The last of five programmes in which singers talk to Rodney Milnes about their interpretations of particular operatic roles. Nicolai Gedda talks about the title role in Massenet's
Werther, with excerpts from the recording he made with Victoria de los Angeles, as Charlotte, and the Paris
Orchestra, conducted by Georges Pretre. Producer Peter Tanner
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Martyn Brabbins , Susan Parry (mezzo)
Falla Interlude and Dance (La Vida
Breve); El Amor Brujo; Three-Cornered Hat: Suites Nos 1 and 2 Repeat
Conductor Stephen Jackson , Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano),
Deborah Miles-Johnson (mezzo), Neil Mackenzie and Chris Hobkirk
(tenors), Simon Birchall (bass)
Rutti Magnificat ; Alpha and Omega; Nunc Dimittis; Missa Angelorum; 0 Magnum Mysterium
In later years, Igor Stravinsky was increasingly drawn to the music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. In the second of two programmes, Anthony Burton compares some of Stravinsky's late works with their models. Including music by Bach, Giovanni Gabrieli and Gesualdo.
Towards the Millennium: the Sixties
Tommy Pearson looks at the continuing influence of the sixties on today's pop music.
With Sean Rafferty , including Tchaikovsky Elegy
RPO, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
5.45 Rossini Overture: The Siege of Corinth
Hanover Band, conductor Roy Goodman
6.15 Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat Mark Bennett , English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
Producer David Byers
Another concert in the series by the BBC orchestras and BBC Singers devoted to the music of Igor Stravinsky. Tonight's programme, recorded last Sunday in London's Royal Festival
Hall, includes the work which alerted
Diaghilev to Stravinsky's talent, an early song cycle, and his second ballet. Sarah Walker (mezzo)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Mark Wigglesworth
Fireworks; Apollo; The Faun and the Shepherdess; Petrushka (1911)
Towards the Millennium: the Sixties
The fourth of five programmes about books and authors in the sixties.
Andy Martin talks to novelist and Nobel laureate Saul Bellow. His novels explored the decade with unusual depth, sensitivity and scepticism. After a serious illness,
Saul Bellow gives his first broadcast interview exclusively to Radio 3. Next programme tomorrow 9.50pm
That was how Elgar referred to Cyril Scott. Yet according to Scott, the mistake he made was to write too many catchy songs. Tenor Philip Doghan sings a selection, and Julian Lloyd
Webber performs Pastoral and Reel.
Rabbi Julia Neuberger recalls her student days in the sixties.
Women in Early Music
In the last of four programmes, lutenist Anthony Rooley and soprano Evelyn Tubb offer a boisterous tribute to the talents of Restoration actress
Mrs Bracegirdle , with music by Purcell, Eccles, Blow and others. Repeated tomorrow 2.15pm
Yeats the poet has long been acclaimed as one of the great voices of 20th-century literature, but what of Yeats the man of action, heavily involved in the politics of his country? Humphrey Carpenter discusses Yeats's legacy with biographer Roy Foster.
Yeats scholar John Kelly , and writers Fintan O'Toole and Anne Enright. TP McKenna reads from Yeats's verse and Irish band Nervous perform their setting of Yeats's poem He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. Producer Abigail Appleton
With Graham Sadler.
4: Crossing the Boundaries
Pre-Ramiste opera had a profound influence on almost every aspect of contemporary music-making. But the influence was not all one way. Today Graham Sadler explores the interaction of music for the stage with other musical genres. Including Monteclair's cantata La Bergere, excerpts from Act 4 of his opera
Jephte, and Clerambault's cantata La Muse de I 'Opera.
Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm
Digby Fairweather presents a studio session by clarinettist Monty Sunshine and his band.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Choral Evensong from Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
Repeated from yesterday 4.00pm
2.00 Andras Schiff (piano)
Bach English Suite No 4 in F,
BWV809 Schubert Fantasy in F minor for piano duet, D940 (with Imre Rohmann ) Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903
Scarlatti Sonata in F minor, Kk519
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
