With Andrew McGregor , including
Wagner Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Gotterdammerung) Vienna Philharmonic , conductor Hans Knappertsbusch
6.16 Debussy Estampes Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
7.05 Gabrieli Dulcis Jesu a 20 Gabrieli Consort and Players, director Paul McCreesh
7.32 Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1
Joshua Bell , Montreal Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
8.05 Grainger Handel in the Strand City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
8.43 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2 (Moonlight) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Editor Andrew Lyle
Penny Gore continues the sequence of Grieg's Lyric Pieces.
Grieg Lyric Pieces, Op 57 Daniel Adni (piano)
9.24 Mozart Der Vogeif anger Bin Ich Ja (Die Zauberflote)
Gerhard Husch (baritone), Berlin PO, conductor Thomas Beecham
9.27 Glazunov Poeme Lyrique Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
9.37 Chabrier Suite Pastorale
Vienna Philharmonic, conductor John Eliot Gardiner Producer Tony Cheevers Discs
With Mark Rowlinson , including
Purcell Rejoice in the Lord Alway James Bowman (alto),
Charles Daniels (tenor),
Michael George (bass), the King's Consort, conductor Robert King
10.09 Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vasili Sinaisky
10.15 Schumann Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 63 Florestan Trio
10.45 Artist of the Week:
Choir of New College, Oxford Mendelssohn Hear My Prayer Director Edward Higginbottom
10.57 Byrd Hugh Ashton 's 's Ground John McCabe (piano)
11.05 Robert Saxton Chacony for Left Hand John McCabe (piano)
11.15 Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade BBC Philharmonic/Vasili Sinaisky Producer Paul Hindmarsh
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Christopher Cook explores the extraordinary variety of music written by the so-called Second Viennese
School of composers in Vienna and Hollywood during the first half of this century. 1: Imaginary Landscapes
Alexander Goehr and Anthony Payne talk about the powerful expressiveness of this music.
Schoenberg Accompaniment to a Film Scene Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Heinz Holliger
Berg Piano Sonata, Op 1 Alfred Brendel
Webern Three Little Pieces, Op 11 Siegfried Palm (cello),
Aloys Kontarsky (piano)
Schoenberg Die Gluckliche Hande Siegmund Nimsgern (bass), BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez
Producer Gwyn L Williams
Repeated next Monday 11.30pm
This performance was given at
St John's, Smith Square, London in 1996 by Felicity Lott (soprano) and Roger Vignoles (piano). Britten On This Island
Poulenc Airs Chantes; La
Grenouillere; La Courte Paille
Britten Oft in the Stilly Night; The Last Rose of Summer; Le Roi S'En
Va-t'En Chasse; La Belle Est au
Jardin damour, Fileuse; Quand J'Etais chez Mon Père
Repeat
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Tippett Ritual Dances (The
Midsummer Marriage); Piano Concerto Conductor George Hurst , Benjamin Frith (piano)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 in F minor Sibelius Valse Triste
Conductor Ole Schmidt
Repeated from yesterday 12.15pm
Scottish Traditional Music
A series about Scottish folk music must inevitably start with the bagpipes. Verity Sharp visits the Piping Centre in Glasgow where the director of piping, Roddy Macleod , introduces her to the instrument's history and the students who flock there today to master the playing technique.
Producer Christina Pritchard
E-MAIL: music.machine@bbc.co.uk
In between preparations for his recital at the Royal Festival Hall on Thursday, guitarist John Williams joins Sean Rafferty to talk about the music of Leo Brouwer. There is news from Poole, where the Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestra present a full-scale dramatic production of the relationship between Haydn and Mozart in My Dear Mozart. Sean
Rafferty talks to director
Jonathan Alver and to the composer of a new operatic musical inspired by Oscar Wilde 's novel The Picture of Dorian
Gray. Music includes Elgar's
Introduction and Allegro and Thomas Tallls 's Spem in Alium, framing the news at 6.00, and Stravinsky's concerto Dumbarton Oaks , before
7.00, when Sean Rafferty picks the best of the current New Releases. Producer Nicki Paxman
The great conductor Georg Solti died on 5 September 1997. Humphrey Carpenter presents an evening celebrating the man and his music, including the comments and recollections of Sir Georg's friends and musical collaborators from around the world.
7.35 Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla London Symphony Orchestra
7.40 Budapest and Back Again Humphrey Carpenter investigates the most significant achievements and milestones in Sir Georg Solti 's long career.
8.00 Mahler Symphony No 5 (2nd mvt) Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8.15 A Lion at the Opera
Solti was welcomed at opera houses the world over. Humphrey Burton surveys Solti's operatic work with the help of the singers, musicians and directors with whom he collaborated, including Birgit Nilsson , Kiri Te Kanawa and Sir Peter Hall.
8.45 Strauss Der Rosenkavalier
(Trio; closing duet)
Vienna Philharmonic
9.00 The Fastest Baton in the West
Recollections of Solti on and off the rostrum from, among others, Angela Gheorghiu , Murray Perahia and Bryn
Terfel - interspersed with comments from Georg Solti himself.
9.40 Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10.20 The Essential Solti
Richard Osborne chairs a discussion with Patrick O'Connor and Jonathan
Swain about the key recordings in Solti's vast legacy.
10.55 Wagner Immolation scene (Gotterdammerung)
Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Vienna Philharmonic
Editors Piers Burton-Page , John Goudie
Novelists
Lawrence Norfolk , author of Lempriere's Dictionary and The
Pope's Rhinoceros, introduces his next book, which is about a contemporary suicidal love affair and boar-hunting in ancient Greece. Producer Louise Greenberg
Susan Sharpe explores the work of a man who transformed Italian music in the first quarter of this century and has been almost forgotten since his death. 1: The Ship on the Quay at
Famagusta (La Pisanella); Oedipus Rex: Three Symphonic Preludes; Morning Hymn (La Nave) (first UK performance); I Pastori; Fedra
(Preludes to Act 1 and Act 3); The Death of Fedra
Repeated from last Monday
Digby Fairweather begins a week-long celebration of Antonio Carlos Joblm with an interview with his son Paulo, who leads the Jobim/Morelenbaum Quartet in a special concert. Producer Terry Carter
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Songs by Carl Loewe Performed by Hermann Prey
(baritone) and Michael Endres (piano)
2.15 Mozart String Quartet in G minor, K516 Vanbrugh Quartet, Patrick Ireland (viola)
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Box 3.15 Something to
Think About 3.30 The Song Tree 3.45 Radio Showcase 3.50 Stories and Rhymes 4.00 Together Stories 4.15 Music for Dance 4.30 Hopscotch
4.45 Scottish Resources 7-9
5.00 Sequence