With Andrew McGregor , including
Chopin Scherzo in E flat, Op 55 No 2 Elisabeth Leonskaya (piano)
6.09 Sibelius Karelia Suite
Helsinki Philharmonic, conductor Leif Segerstam
7.03 Beethoven Overture: The
Consecration of the House
Philharmonia, conductor Otto Klemperer
7.32 Liszt Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat
Jean-Yves Thibaudet ,
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
8.05 Vivaldi Concerto in D for Two
Mandolins, RV532
Paul O'Dette and Robin Jeffrey , Parley of Instruments
8.42 Faure Suite: Pelleas et
Melisande
New Philharmonia, conductor Andrew Davis
With Penny Gore.
Komgold Theme and Variations, Op 42
German Symphony Orchestra, conductor John Mauceri
9.11 Grieg Lyric Pieces, Op 38 Gerhard Oppitz (piano)
9.30 Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 5 No 2
Mstislav Rostropovich ,
Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Discs
With Nicola Heywood Thomas , including
Stravinsky Ebony Concerto Michael Collins (clarinet), London Sinfonietta, conductor Simon Rattle
10.10 Artist of the Week:
Karita Mattila (soprano)
Gounod Jewel Aria (Faust) Philharmonia, conductor John Pritchard
10.25 Messiaen L 'Ascension
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
10.50 Mozart Wind Serenade in B flat, K361 (Adagio)
Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble
11.00 Reger An die Hoffnung Karita Mattila (soprano), Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado
11.15 Britten Four Sea Interludes
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor David Atherton
11.40 Scriabin Poem of Ecstasy
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. conductor Eliahu Inbal
With Susan Sharpe. 2: Symphony of Fire
Danse de la Pauvreté et de Parfait
Amour (La Pisanella)
Swiss-Italian Radio Orchestra, conductor Jia Lu
Due Canzoni Corali
BBC Singers, conductor Simon Joly Violin Sonata
Jean Fournier , Ginette Doyen (piano)
Sinfonia del Fuoco (first UK broadcast)
Ettore Nova (baritone),
Swiss-Italian Radio Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Jacques Mercier Repeated next Tuesday 11.30pm
Haydn Plus
The second of eight concerts given last year in St George's, Brandon Hill , Bristol, based around the chamber works of Haydn.
Introduced by Chris de Souza. Ronald Brautigam (piano)
Haydn Piano Sonata in E minor, H XVI 34
Cramer Piano Sonata in D, Op 25 No
Haydn Piano Sonata in G minor, H XVI 44
Debussy Hommage a Haydn
Haydn Piano Sonata in C, H XVI 50 Repeat
Conductor Mariss Jansons, Dmitri Sitkovetsky (violin)
Rossini Overture: William Tell
Brahms Violin Concerto in D
Mahler Symphony No 1 in D
This Sporting Life. lain Burnside chooses some sporting songs.
In at the Deep End - the Big Mix Verity Sharp finds out what a record producer does and tries her hand at producing a CD featuring the Sloane Square Syncopators. She takes to the stage with the group and tests her vocal talents as their lead singer.
Sean Rafferty presents a steam locomotive played by a music machine - or Honegger's Pacific 231 played by the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson, at 6.00.
Jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis plays Hummel and pianist Pascal Roge plays Poulenc.
And who was The Real Mahler? Biographer Jonathan Carr claims to reveal the man behind the myth.
The second of four recitals from Belfast introduced by Stephanie Hughes. This concert, given by the Bingham Quartet, includes two quartets written in Ireland and one which began life as incidental music for a staged soliloquy by Samuel Beckett.
Philip Glass String Quartet No 2 (Company)
Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op 18 No
8.10 Book of the Month
What can we learn from history?
Are professional historians simply another form of storyteller?
The last few years have seen a crisis in the professional study of history as cultural theory undermined its traditional goals. But in his new book, In Defence of History,
Richard J Evans fights back. Fellow historian Roy Porter takes up his argument and reflects on his own ideas of history.
8.30 Norman Hay String Quartet in A Elizabeth Maconchy String Quartet No 5
Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Tales from Yoknapatawpha County To mark 100 years since the birth of William Faulkner , Ron Berglas reads five short stories set in Faulkner's mythical Mississippi county.
2: Ambuscade. "Father was not big; it was just the things he did that made him seem big to us," says
Bayard Sartoris , a young boy growing up during the American Civil War. Faulkner's beautifully told story, seen through the eyes of the children, also examines the relationship between the master of the house and his family with their black servants.
Conductor Vasili Sinaisky
Henze Three Hartmann Pieces
Lindberg Arena
Norman Mailer , never a writer to shrink from a challenge, takes on the greatest story ever told in his new novel, The Gospel According to the Son - a first-person account of the life of Jesus Christ. And it is no surprise that Mailer's Son is considerably tougher than his gospel model. Richard Coles talks to
Norman Mailer about rewriting the Scriptures and explores the way other writers have tackled the story of Christ in fiction and biography.
Plus a profile of Atom Egoyan as The Sweet Hereafter, acclaimed at the Cannes Rim Festival, opens in Britain. And, in his regular column for Night Waves, Bill Buford of the New Yorker reflects on cultural news and gossip from across the Atlantic.
Producer Abigail Appleton
In Vienna in 1871, Clementi and Mozart had to spend Christmas Eve amusing the Emperor and his guests with a contest of keyboard skills. Presented by David Byers in conversation with Malcolm Binns.
Reader Anthony Finigan.
Piano Sonata in G minor, Op 34 No 2 Vladimir Horowitz
Symphony No 1 in C minor Philharmonia, conductor Francesco d'Avalos Repeated from last Tuesday
Digby Fairweather introduces the Plymouth-based traditional jazz band, the Roger Marks' Armada Jazz Band.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Leonard Slatkin , Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1
Bruckner Symphony No 2 in C minor
3.00 Schools
3.00 Playtime 3.15 Time to Move
3.35 Let's Make a Story 3.50 Drama Workshop 4.10 In the News Special Edition 4.30 Hop, Skip and Jump
4.45 Eadar Eisdeachd
5.00 Sequence
