With Andrew McGregor. News, weather and music including
Bruch String Quintet in A minor
Allegri Quartet, Patrick Ireland (viola)
6.35 Copland Appalachian Spring New York Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein
7.05 Scarlatti Sonata in D, Kk23 Luc Beausejor (harpsichord)
7.38 Haydn Symphony No 50 in C Hanover Band, director Roy Goodman
8.05 Weber Overture: Abu Hassan
Philharmonia, conductor Neeme Jarvi
8.24 Nielsen Symphony No 4 (Inextinguishable) BBC Philharmonic, conductor Bryden Thomson
With Peter Hobday.
Arriaga Overture: The Happy Slaves Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
9.08 Sibelius Incidental music:
Kuolema Gothenburg Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
9.29 Ernst Variations on "The Last
Rose of Summer"
Maxim Vengerov (violin)
9.38 Prokofiev Suite: Lieutenant Kije Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado Discs
Stephanie Hughes continues her exploration of works published as Op 1. Honegger Pacific 231
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
10.08 Eisler An die Kleinen
Radioapparat Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Aribert Reimann (piano)
10.15 Artists of the Week:
Brodsky Quartet
Weill String Quartet No 1
10.35 Sting The Secret Marriage The Composer (voice/piano)
10.38 Stephen Montague Snakebite Orchestra of St John 's, Smith
Square, conductor John Lubbock
10.54 Gade Elverskud (part 3) Eva Johansson (soprano), Anne Gjevang (contralto), Poul Elming (tenor), Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir, conductor Dmitri Kitaenko
11.11 Webem Passacaglia, Op 1 Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado
11.22 Bach, orch Webem Ricercar a 6 (Musical Offering, BWV1079) Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado
11.31 Bach Motet: Singet dem Herm Stockholm Bach Choir, director Nicholas Harnoncourt
11.45 Berg Die Nachtigall: Traumgekront: Leibesode;
Sommertage Jessye Norman (soprano), London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez
Geoffrey Baskerville introduces works by composers who were in Paris in 1750. Today, music inspired by water, from a heavy rainshower and a naval battle to apocalyptic thunderclaps and a shipwreck.
Corrette Les Giboulées de Mars
Sandrine Pasquier (harpsichord)
Corette Concerto Comique No 25: Les Sauvages et la Furstemburg Musica Antiqua Koln, director Reinhard Goebel
Corette Divertimento No 2: Combat
Naval
Jukka Tiensuu (harpsichord) Duphly La du Buq
Mondonville Sonata No 5 in G
(Pieces de Clavecin)
Simon Standage (violin),
Lars-Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) Corrette Grand Jeu avec Tonnerre
Sylvain Ciaravolo (organ)
Corrette Les Voyages d'Ulysse John Holloway (violin),
Davitt Moroney (harpsichord) Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm
The second of three programmes in which Pierluigi Petrobelli , director of Italy's National Institute of Verdi
Studies, plays a selection from the institute's uniquely rich collection of Verdi on disc and talks to Piers
Burton-Page about the performances. Today's programme includes recordings by Claudia Muzio and strange arrangements of the quartet from Rigoletto.
The fifth of eight programmes featuring music by Brahms and works dedicated to him by his friends and admirers.
Gould Trio: Lucy Gould (violin), Martin Storey (cello),
Gretel Dowdeswell (piano)
Fuchs Piano Trio in C, Op 22 Brahms Piano Trio in B, Op 8
Conductor Andrew Mogrelia
Dvorak Legend in G minor, Op 59 No 3 Bax Summer Music
Fibich Symphony No 1 in F
Penny Gore introduces a recital by the young British pianist Viv McLean. Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 13 (Pathetique)
Chopin Polonaise-Fantasy in A flat. Op 61
Ravel Sonatine
Repeated from yesterday 10pm
Electronics and Digits
Verity Sharp explores the world of music and machines.
Cultural Thieving. An interview with Greg Roberts , sampling expert and drummer with band Dreadzone. He shows Verity Sharp how sampling has changed contemporary music and gives her a quick lesson in drum loops.
Humphrey Carpenter introduces a special
Aldeburgh Festival programme. broadcast live from the Jubilee Hall.
Among the guests are the Brindisi Quartet, who will be playing live. Including
5.45 Schubert Impromptu in F minor, D935 No 1
Imogen Cooper (piano)
6.15 Brahms String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 51 No 2 Brindisi Quartet
Producer Jeremy Hayes
Conductor Colin Davis , Radu Lupu
(piano), Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano), Karl Magnus Fredriksson (baritone), London Symphony Chorus
Mozart Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491
8.05 Layton on Kullervo Robert Layton discusses the background to the Kullervo Symphony.
8.20 Sibelius Kullervo Symphony
David Owen Norris rescues four much-maligned musical reputations from the slings and arrows of outrageous prejudice and snobbery. 3: Antonio Salieri. "The man who murdered Mozart!" ...Or the great teacher who inspired both Beethoven and Schubert and wrote some good and original music of his own. Next programme tomorrow 9.50pm
Andrew Manze introduces a rare period-instrument performance by the Revolutionary Drawing Room of Mendelssohn's Octet in E flat, Op 20.
Producer Lindsay Kemp
Repeated Monday 4.15pm
Tony Palmer reviews A Book of Memories, the latest novel by Hungarian writer Peter Nadas.
Ghosts, corpses and repressed nightmares of Europe's recent past find their way into this autobiographical work, which has already become a huge bestseller on the continent. Producer Fiona Bailey
4: Sea Fever. The composer explores another of his creative obsessions.
Hornpipe (Comedy for Winds) Vega Wind Quintet
Blowing Blue (Diversions) The Fairer Sax
Recitative; Gloria (Mass of the Sea) Christopher Keyte (bass), Brighton Festival Chorus, Royal Philharmonic, conductor Geoffrey Simon The Tides of Mananan
Philip Dukes (viola)
Overture: Songs of the West BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth Repeated from last Thursday
Campbell Burnap introduces more highlights from the 1997 EBU Jazz Festival held in Espoo, Finland.
! With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Choral Evensong from Llandaff Cathedral
! Repeated from yesterday 4pm
2.00 Moscow Quartet Strauss Piano Quartet. Op 13 Nuno Leal To Mahler Eduard Napravnik Piano Quartet in A minor, Op 42
3.30 Bartok For Children (Bk 4) Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
3.50 Camerata Academica, conductor Franz Welser-Most .
Olli Mustonen and Raija Kerppo (pianos) Beethoven Overture: Coriolan
Mozart Concerto in E flat for Two
Pianos, K365; Symphony in E flat.
K543; Masonic Funeral Music, K477
5.00 Sequence
