With Andrew McGregor.
Quantz Flute Sonata No 273 in G Rachel Brown (flute), Mark Caudle (cello),
James Johnstone (harpsichord)
6.15 Handel Water Music: Suite in F
London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington
7.05 Weber Overture and March
(Turandot)
Philharmonia, conductor Neeme Jarvi
7.34 Strauss Suite: Der Rosenkavalier
Halle Orchestra , conductor John Barbirolli
8.05 Grainger Ramble on Themes from "Der Rosenkavalier"
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
8.35 Dohnanyl Variations on a Nursery Song
Mark Anderson (piano),
Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra, conductor Adam Fischer
With Peter Hobday.
Handel Concerto Grosso in E minor,
Op 6 No 3
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
9.14 Brahms Clarinet Sonata in E flat. Op 120 No 2
Michel Portal, Mikhail Rudy (piano)
9.36 Debussy Trois Chansons de Charles d "Orleans
Monteverdi Choir, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
9.43 Glazunov The Sea
Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
With Chris Wines in Birmingham. Bizet Les Voici! (Carmen, Act 3) Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli
10.11 Couperin Sonata
(L'Espagnole) (Les Nations) Amsterdam Quartet
10.19 Weber, transcr Liszt
Konzertstuck Hamish Milne (piano)
10.29 Artist of the Week:
Arleen Auger (soprano)
Strauss A selection of songs Irwin Gage (piano)
10.47 Szymanowski Violin Concerto No 2
Thomas Zehetmair ,
City of Birmingham SO, conductor Simon Rattle
11.09 Taffanel Fantasia on Themes from "Der Freischutz"
Leslie Newman (flute), John Lenehan (piano)
11.21 Grieg Lyric Suite Halle Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli
11.39 Wolf Morike Lieder (excerpts) Arleen Auger (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano)
11.51 Busoni Sonatina No 6 super Carmen
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
With Gerard McBurney.
Today's programme includes the second of Glinka's colourful Spanish postcards and excerpts from his fairy-tale opera about the improbable adventures of the knight Ruslan searching for his beloved Ludmilla.
Summer Night in Madrid (Spanish Overture No 2)
USSR Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov Do Not Sing to Me
Irina Arkhipova (soprano), Natalia Rassudova (piano)
Desire
Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), Semyon Skigin (piano)
Nocturne in F minor (La Separation) Olga Tverskaya (fortepiano)
Ruslan and Ludmilla (Acts 1 and 2, excerpts)
Anna Netrebko (soprano),
Konstantin Pluzhnikov (tenor), Vladimir Ognovienko (bass),
Kirov Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev
Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm
Soprano Hildegard Behrens talks to Rodney Milnes about the title role of Richard Strauss 's Elektra, with excerpts from the recording of the opera she made in 1988 with Seiji Ozawa conducting and a cast including Christa Ludwig , Nadine Secunde and Jorma Hynninen.
Judith Howarth (soprano),
Ivan Kusnjer (baritone), Reiko Watanabe (violin), BBC Symphony Chorus
Wagner Overture: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Conductor Andrew Davis
Dvorak Te Deum
Conductor Jiri Belohlavek
Dvorak Violin Concerto in A minor
Vaughan Williams A London Symphony (Symphony No 2) Conductor Andrew Davis
Penny Gore introduces a recital by the Skampa Quartet and the pianist Nikolai Demidenko.
Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor, (D703)
Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 57
Repeated from yesterday 10pm
GCSE/ALevel
Verity Sharp looks at Bach's monumental Goldberg Variations for keyboard.
Sean Rafferty talks to composer
Steve Reich as he prepares for the first UK performance of his new work, Hindenburg. The music in today's programme includes Janacek's
String Quartet No 1, performed at
6.40 by the Hagen Quartet.
Petroc Trelawny introduces the world premiere of the first version of Mahler's cantata Das Klagende Lied, given earlier this month in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. Pamela Coburn (soprano), Jadwiga Rappe (mezzo),
Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor), Hakan Hagegard (bass), Manchester Boys' Choir,
Halle Choir and Orchestra, conductor Kent Nagano
Mahler, ed Reinhold Kubik Das
Klagende Lied (first version) (first performance)
Poets'Fan Mail
Five poets read a newly commissioned verse letter to a poet from the past they admire.
Tonight the Caribbean writer Olive Senior reads her letter to the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
Madeleine Mattar (piano) Mozart Sonata in F, K332
Chopin Impromptus: in A flat, Op 29; in F sharp, Op 36; in G flat, Op 51; Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66
Celebrating the Glory of the Voice The fifth of eight programmes from the York Early Music Festival is a Schubertiad given in July in the Assembly Rooms, York, by Barbara Schlick and Yvonne Seymour
(sopranos), Philip Daggett and Jason Darnell (tenors), Mark Rowlinson and Simon Carrington (baritones), Martin Robson (bass),
Peter Seymour (fortepiano) and the ladies of the Yorkshire Bach Choir.
Introduced by George Pratt. Schubert An die Musik; Das Dorfchen ; Trinklied; Erlkonig;
Ganymed; Psalm 23; Lacrimoso son to; Nachthelle; Der Tod und das Madchen; Standchen Repeated tomorrow 4pm
Hermione Lee talks to Doris Lessing about the second volume of her autobiography, Walking in the Shade, and about the politics, passions and poverty of London in the fifties. Plus a report from the opening night of The Good Woman of Sharkville at the West Yorkshire Playhouse - Brecht set in the backstreets of an African township by Janet Suzman. Producer Fiona Bailey
With Christopher Page.
4: The Father of Joyfulness
Today's programme explores the chansons of Gilles Binchois and Hayne van Ghizeghem , including
Hayne's most celebrated work, De Tous Biens Plaine - an international success in its day - and music for 15th-century lute, so different from its much more famous Elizabethan descendant.
Repeated from last Thursday
Cornettist Ruby Braff and Steve Voce consider two giants of jazz - Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Choral Evensong from Chichester Cathedral
Repeated from yesterday 4pm
2.00 Brahms Piano Quartet No 2 in A, Op 26 Eric Le Sage (piano), Kolja Bracher (violin), Harboii Schlichtig (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Workshop 3.20 Let's Move
3.40 Words Alive! 3.55 First Steps in Drama 4.10 Listen and Write 4.30
Alphabet Time 4.40 Facal a Leabhar
I 5.00 Sequence
