Andrew McGregor with news, weather, travel and music, including Purcell My Beloved Spake, Z28 James Bowman (alto),
John Mark Ainsley (tenor),
Charles Pott and Michael George (basses),
Quiristers of Winchester College, The King's Consort and Choir, director Robert King
6.14 Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite No 1 Norwegian Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ari Rasilainen
7.05 Elgar La Capricieuse Xue-Wei (violin),
Pamela Nicholson (piano)
7.32 Rlmsky-Korsakov Overture: Russian Easter Festival
NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leopold Stokowski
8.05 Building a Library - Best of the Bunch:
Verdi La Forza del Destino (excerpts) Roger Parker 's chosen recording
8.36 Gershwin Suite: Catfish Row
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
With Penny Gore.
Stravinsky Fireworks - Philharmonia, conductor Robert Craft
9.05 Grieg Lyric Pieces, Op 54 - Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
9.28 Brahms Serenade No 2 in A - London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Istvan Kertesz
(Discs)
With Nicola Heywood Thomas. including
Artist of the Week:
Karita Mattila (soprano)
Villa-Lobos Cantilena (Bachiana Brasileira No 5)
Academy of St Martin in the Reids, conductor Neville Marriner
10.05 Matthus Concerto for
Orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Brian Wright
10.35 Mendelssohn String Symphony No 13 in C minor Concerto Koln
11.55 Churchill, arr HJelt Taas Paiva Kaunein On (Lumikki)
Karita Mattila (soprano), Tapiola Sinfonietta, conductor Pekka Savijoki
Susan Sharpe explores the music of a man who transformed Italian music in the first quarter of this century. 5: The Last Hunt
Dance of Love and Death (La Pisanella)
Italian Radio Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
L' Ultima Caccia di Sant'Uberto (first UK performance)
BBC Singers and Concert Orchestra, conductor Simon Joly Trio in A
Leila Rasonyi (violin) Laszlo Fenyo (cello) Alpaslon Ertungealp (piano)
Aria (Augurio Nuziale) (first UK performance)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrea Quinn
Adjuro Vos , Filiae Jerusalem; Oscuro e il Ciel
Adriana Martino (soprano), Benedetto Ghiglia (piano) Repeated next Friday 11.30pm
Brindisi Quartet
Shostakovich String Quartet No 11, Op 122
Mozart String Quartet in E flat, K428
Leopold Stokowski made his first appearance with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1912. Sixty years later, the nonagenarian conductor delighted London audiences with a repeat performance of the original concert. Today's programme recreates the event, which was broadcast live from the Royal Festival Hall in 1972.
Sylvia Marcovici (violin) - Wagner Overture: Die Meistersinger
Debussy Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Glazunov Violin Concerto in A minor
2.50 Fantasia on Stokowski
Archive sounds and souvenirs.
3.00 Brahms Symphony No 1 in C minor
Tchaikovsky Marche Slave
Celebrating the Glory of the Voice The second of eight programmes from the York Early Music Festival introduced by George Pratt.
This concert was given last July in the Guildhall.
Rose Consort of Viols,
Christopher Wilson (lute)
Dowland's Lachrimae or Seaven
Teares is performed with meditations on the stages of a journey written by Anthony Rooley. Reader David Thomas. Repeated from yesterday 10pm
In at the Deep End - the Big Mix Tommy Pearson joins a team of CD marketing people and tries to catch a few eyes and ears with his CD, Hypothetically Speaking.
Bach, Bruch and David Byme are part of Sean Rafferty 's music mix today, plus a special performance of Shostakovich's Jazz Suite No 2 performed by Richard Chailly and the Royal Concertgehouw Orchestra at
6.35. Choreographer Christopher Gable talks about the new sound and new look of an old favourite as Northern Ballet prepare for their opening of Giselle. Plus the inside story of the rise and fall of Cardiff Opera House.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Three of a Kind
From the Royal Festival Hall, London. Andrew Davis launches the Three of a Kind series with a concert featuring works by each of the Second Viennese School composers. Pierre Amoyal (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Webem Six Pieces for Orchestra,
Op 6
Berg Violin Concerto
8.15 Schoenberg
Why is Schoenberg's music so difficult to understand? Misha Donat talks to composers Alexander Goehr and George Benjamin about why, nearly half a century after his death, resistance to Schoenberg remains as strong as ever.
8.35 Schoenberg Pelleas et Melisande
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
fates from Yoknapatawpha Country To mark 100 years since the birth of William Faulkner , Ron Berglas reads five short stories set in Faulkner's mythical Mississippi county. 5: The Jail
Kirsteen McCue introduces the first performance of Blitzschlag for Flute and Orchestra by James Dillon and his orchestral work Uberschreiten.
Recorded at the Edinburgh
International Festival last month, the soloist is Pierre-Yves Artaud , with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins. The programme also features pianist William Howard in a sonata by Sally Beamish.
Producer David McGuinness
In his last years, Clementi hoped posterity might remember him for his symphonies - but a servant burned the parcels of manuscripts after his death. Presented by David Byers in conversation with Malcolm Binns.
Reader Anthony Finigan.
Gradus ad Pamassum (Bk 1, selection) Vladimir Horowitz (piano) Symphony No 4 in D Philharmonia, conductor Francesco d'Avalos
Piano Sonata in B minor, Op 40 No 2 Nikolai Demidenko
Repeated from last Friday
The second in a four-part series telling the story of jazz band leader Sun Ra. Jez Nelson investigates some of the extraordinary demands placed on Ra's musicians. Repeated from Saturday 6pm
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
5.00 Sequence
