With Andrew McGregor.
Fayrfax Maria Plena Virtute Cardinally Musick, director Andrew Carwood
6.24 Bax Violin Concerto
Lydia Mordkovitch ,
London Philharmonic, conductor Bryden Thomson
7.05 Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue, Op 87 7 No 9
Tatiana Nikolaeva (piano)
7.31 Vlottl Violin Concerto No 22 in A minor
Elizabeth Wallfisch ,
Brandenburg Orchestra , conductor Roy Goodman
8.05 Scheldt Canzona super
Cantionem Gallicam "Est-Ce Mars?";
Galliarda: La Battaglia
His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts
8.35 Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
With Penny Gore.
Haydn Piano Trio in E flat H XV 30 Vera Beths (violin), Anner Bylsma (cello), Robert Levin (piano)
9.22 Loewe Der Nock
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Jorg Demus (piano)
9.30 Foerster Shakespeare Suite ,
Op 76. Prague Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vaclav Smetacek Discs
With Chris de Souza, including another of Shostakovich's Five Satires with Galina Vishnevskaya and Artist of the Week Mstislav Rostropovich. Bach Sonata in D minor, BWV964
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)
10.25 Brahms Schicksalslied
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Lothar Zagrosek
10.40 Britten Cello Sonata
Mstislav Rostropovich , The Composer (piano)
11.00 Howells Credo (Missa Sabrinensis)
Janice Watson (soprano),
Della Jones (mezzo), Martyn Hill (tenor), Donald Maxwell (baritone), London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
11.20 Schumann Arabeske , Op 18 Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
11.25 Miaskovsky Cello Concerto
Mstislav Rostropovich , Philharmonia, conductor Malcolm Sargent
The Divine
Pergolesi Paul Guinery introduces music by the most frequently performed of this week's composers, including arias from it Maestro di Musica and Lo
Frate Innamorato , and the first part of his most famous work, La Serva
Padrona, in a Hungarian performance with Katalin Farkas as the crafty servant girl and Jozsef Gregor as her grumpy and elderly employer. Plus arias from one of the big hits of the 1760s, Niccolo Plcclni 's La Cecchina. Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm
From the Wigmore Hall,
London, the final concert of the spring season. Sorrel Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 71 No 2 Elgar String Quartet in E minor Producer John Thornley
With Susan Sharpe. Including
Schumann The Two Grenadiers
Friedrich Schorr (baritone),
Berlin State Opera Orchestra, conductor Leo Blech
Mozart, arr Anon Grande Sestetto Concertante (after Sinfonia Concertante. K364) L'Archibudelli
Strauss Panathenaenzug
Peter Rosel (piano), Dresden
Staatskapelle, conductor Rudolf Kempe
Producer Peter Thresh Discs
From the Chapel of Clare College, Cambridge.
Introit: We Praise Thee, 0 Father
(Gibbons)
First Preces (Gibbons)
Psalms: Awake Up My Glory (Psalms 57, w9-12; 118, W19-24 (Gibbons) First Lesson: Deuteronomy 4, wl4-31 Office Hymn: A Song of Joy (Gibbons) Canticles: Full Service (Gibbons)
Second Lesson: 2 Timothy, 1, wl-14 Responses (Smith)
Anthem: If Ye Be Risen (Gibbons) Hymn: 0 Lord of Hosts (Gibbons)
Organ Voluntary: Fantasy; In Nomine (Gibbons)
Concordia, Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Director of music Timothy Brown. Organ scholars James Grossmith and Andrew Henderson.
Repeated tomorrow 1.00am
Hocket
Tommy Pearson and Will Menter discuss how music changes when one culture borrows from another, and introduces some of Menter's hocketing music - for his own slate marimba and for African thumb piano.
With Andrew Green , including Granados Villanesca
(Danzas Espanolas)
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
5.45 Grainger Soldier, Soldier Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Penelope Thwaites (piano)
6.05 Debussy Trois Chansons de Charles d' Orleans
Cambridge Singers, director John Rutter
6.30 Pleyel Symphony in C, Op 66 London Mozart Players, conductor Matthias Bamert
Producer Andrew Lyle
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Conductor Elgar Howarth ,
Christian Lindberg (trombone), Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)
Blrtwlstle Refrains and Choruses
Folke Rabe Tintomara
Jan Sandstrom Cantos de la Mancha
(first performance)
Karin Rohnqvist Taromir 's Time Birtwistle Endless Parade
Tom Paulin introduces the third part of Arthur Hugh Clough 's satirical verse novel. Tonight Claude decides to follow Mary to Florence. Readers
Nicholas Boulton and Samantha Bond.
A sequence of lute music including a Fantasia by the 16th-century
Hungarian virtuoso Balint Bakfark played by Julian Bream , and Sonata VI by Giovanni Zamboni played by Luciano Contini.
Penny Gore introduces a recital by pianist Kevin Kenner , a prizewinner at the International Chopin Competition in 1990. Chopin Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 45; Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op 44; Waltz in A flat, Op 42; Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor, Op 39;
Nocturne in B, Op 62 No 1; Four Mazurkas, Op 67
Repeated tomorrow 4.15pm
While The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn remain the most popular and best known writings of Mark Twain , his later sombre works are in many ways as remarkable. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg exposes the venality of a small complacent town, and The
Mysterious Stranger tells the story of Satan at work in 16th-century Austria. Humphrey Carpenter examines some of the lesser-known works of Mark
Twain through the volumes of Shelley Fisher Fishkin 's major new edition The Oxford Mark Twain. Producer Fiona Bailey
With Roderic Dunnett.
Quo Vadis (excerpts) Original soundtrack
Madame Bovary Waltz
City of Prague Philharmonic, conductor Kenneth Alwyn
String Quartet No 1 (Scherzo) New World Quartet Violin Concerto
Jascha Heifetz , Dallas Symphony Orchestra, conductor Walter Hendl Repeated from last Wednesday
Digby Fairweather introduces the second part of a concert given at Adrian Boult Hall as part of Birmingham Jazz's 20th anniversary. Featuring original music and performances by Barbara Thompson , Dave O'Higgins , Albert Mangelsdorff and the Julian Joseph Trio.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra. The second of five weekly visits to Amsterdam. Conductor
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Gidon Kremer (violin), Yuri Bashmet (viola) Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor Schnittke Symphony No 6; Concerto for Three
3.00 Schools
3.00 Time and Tune 3.20 Together
3.40 Dance Workshop 4.00 Music for Dance 4.15 Listen and Write 4.40
Le Club 4.55 Come and Praise Special
5.00 Sequence