With Penny Gore.
Suk About Mother, Op 28 Niel Immerman (piano)
7.05 Rachmaninov Capriccio Bohemian Philharmonia, conductor Neeme Jarvi
7.32 Saint-Saens Melodies Persanes
Francois Le Roux (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
8.05 Schumann Overture: Manfred
Berlin Philharmonic, conductor James Levine
8.21 Purcell Suite: Abdelazer
Purcell Quartet
8.41 Britten Simple Symphony Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. conductor lona Brown
With Peter Hobday.
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C sharp minor
Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)
9.09 Chausson Chanson Perpétuelle Jessye Norman (soprano), Ronald Patterson and Salvatore Sansalone (violins), Jean-Pierre Pigarre (viola), Lane Anderson (cello), Michel Dalberto (piano)
9.17 Prokofiev Sinfonia Concertante
Mischa Maisky (cello),
Russian National Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Pletnev
Discs
With Edward Blakeman.
Eyck Courante Mars
Nancy Hadden (Renaissance flute)
10.05 Artists of the Week:
St Paul Chamber Orchestra
Mozart Violin Concerto No 1 in B flat,
K207
Director Pinchas Zukerman (violin)
10.30 Gorecki Euntes Ibant et
Flebant
BBC Singers, conductor Bo Holten
10.40 Schubert Sonata in A minor,
D821 (Arpeggione)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Benjamin Britten (piano)
11.30 Gounod Symphony No 1 in D St Paul Chamber Orchestra. conductor Christopher Hogwood
A Bid for Freedom, 1777-82 With Richard Wigmore. 4: 1780-1781
Mozart's first operatic masterpiece stunned Munich, but it still did not get him a steady job.
Misera, Dove Son !, K369 Edith Mathis (soprano),
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, conductor Leopold Hager Oboe Quartet in F, K370 Neil Black (oboe),
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Idomeneo (excerpts)
Soloists, Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Ballet Music: Idomeneo (excerpts) Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood Discs Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm
An extended edition presenting Berlioz's huge operatic masterpiece The Trojans complete in a recording from La Scala, Milan, conducted by celebrated Berlioz interpreter Colin Davis.
In part one, The Fall of Troy, Jane Henschel leads the cast as the prophet of doom, Cassandra. The Trojans, rejoicing in their enemies' gift of the wooden horse, ridicule Cassandra's gloomy warnings of the city's destruction. But the warnings prove all too accurate, and Cassandra and the Trojan women kill themselves. As she had also prophesied, however, the heroic prince Aeneas escapes with his army to found a new Troy in Italy.
Part two, The Trojans at Carthage, finds Aeneas dallying en route with Dido, queen of Carthage. But can Aeneas deny his destiny?
Sung in French.
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conductor Colin Davis
Zambia and Zimbabwe
Caroline Swinburne meets women musicians in Zimbabwe and learns the problems of making it to the top in a country where sexist attitudes are widespread.
Next programme tomorrow 5.00pm
With Linda Ormiston , including
5.30 JC Bach Overture: Catone in Utica New Philharmonia, conductor Raymond Leppard
6.05 Beethoven Variations on "Ich
Danke Dein ", WoO 74
Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow (pianos)
6.30 Berwald String Quartet No 2 in A minor
Yggdrasil Quartet
7.00 Ginastera Malambo
Mexico Festival Orchestra, conductor Enrique Batiz Producer Svend Brown
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
WJTfn From Studio One, Maida Vale ULfcJ Conductor Martyn Brabbins Rolf Hind (piano).
Varese Deserts
Lindberg Piano Concerto (UK premiere)
Alessandro Vinao Apocryphal Dances (BBC commission; first performance)
Broadcaster and journalist Andrew Neil recalls his student days in the sixties.
Echoes down the years, from Pan and Echo by Sibelius to a Canzon in Echo by Gabrieli. Discs
The sixth of seven programmes for Holy Week in which Harry Christophers conducts soloists from the Sixteen and principals from the Symphony of Harmony and Invention in seven cantatas entitled Membra Jesu Nostri by Dietrich Buxtehude. Tonight's excerpt is Ad Cor, and the programme opens with Alan Howard reading John Donne's Batter My Heart.
(Next programme tomorrow 2.05pm)
A five-part radio autobiography. 4: Politics and Poems
Andrew Manze introduces the first of two programmes in which the New
London Consort, director Philip Pickett. perform chamber cantatas for
Eastertide by Georg Philipp Telemann. With Catherine Bott (soprano),
Christopher Robson (countertenor) and Michael George (bass-baritone). Producer Lindsay Kemp
Repeated tomorrow 2.15pm
Robert Southey was expelled from Westminster School for founding a magazine called The Flagellant but went on to become one of the most prolific writers of his day. Though
Roderick, the Last of the Goths and The Curse of Kehama may be little read now, Southey's reputation has been perhaps unfairly eclipsed by more famous Romantic poets. Hermione Lee considers the claims of a new biography which attempts to restore his position in history. The programme also includes first-night news of Richard Eyre 's new production of King Lear.
Producer Fiona Bailey
4: San Quentin and Afterwards With David Nicholls.
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 , conductor Howard Hanson
Repeated from last Thursday
Digby Fairweather introduces the second part of the Ray Brown Trio concert recorded at the 1996 Glasgow International Jazz Festival.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Choral Vespers from Westminster Cathedral
Repeated from yesterday 4.00pm
2.00 Secular Baroque cantatas by Caldara, Rossi, Merula and Scarlatti, performed by Gloria Banditelli (mezzo) and Con Fusa
3.10 Martijn van den Hoek (piano) reconstructs a salon recital by Liszt
4.20 BBC Philharmonic/Yan Pascal
Tortelier Tchaikovsky Overture: Romeo and Juliet Respighi Pines of Rome
5.00 Sequence
