With Andrew McGregor , including Dvorak String Quartet No 13 in G, Op 106 Chilingirian Quartet
6.40 Poulenc Flute Sonata
Timothy Hutchins ,
Jane Creaser Hutchins (piano)
7.05 Bruckner Os Justi Netherlands Chamber Choir, conductor Uwe Gronostay
7.32 Bach Italian Concerto in F,
BWV971 Davitt Moroney (harpsichord)
8.05 Weber Overture: Der Freischutz
Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli
8.48 Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor Libor Pesek
With Peter Hobday.
Handel Concerto Grosso in D, Op 6 No 7 Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
9.14 Beethoven Piano Sonata in G, Op 49 No 2 Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
9.23 Verdi Follie ! Delirio Vano e
Questo.... Sempre Libera (La Traviata) Cheryl Studer (soprano),
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor James Levine
9.28 Saint-Saens Symphony No 1 in E flat
French National Radio Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon Discs
With Geraint Lewis.
Mendelssohn Hb'r Mein Bitten
Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, conductor Christopher Robinson
10.10 Haydn Symphony No 90 in C La Petite Bande, conductor Sigiswald Kuijken
10.40 Mathias Helios
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Grant Llewellyn
10.55 Faure Nocturne No 13 in B minor, Op 119
Martin Roscoe (piano)
11.00 Artist of the Week:
Conductor Yevgeni Mravinsky Prokofiev Symphony No 6 Leningrad Philharmonic
11.35 Rachmaninov The Pied Piper, Op 38 No 4 Joan Rodgers (soprano), Howard Shelley (piano)
11.40 Scriabin Etude in D sharp minor, Op 8 No 12
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
11.45 Trad, arr Britten Avenging and Bright; Sail On, Sail On; Oft in the Stilly Night Ian Bostridge (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
11.55 Chopin Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op 30 No 4
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
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Behind the Facade With Sandy Burnett.
3: Through Gilded Trellises - the Triumph of Belshazzar Four Songs after
Sitwell Jill Gomez (soprano), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Belshazzar's Feast
Benjamin Luxon (baritone), London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Georg Solti
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm
From the Wigmore Hall, London.
Toby Spence (tenor),
Richard Watkins (horn), Julius Drake (piano) Schubert Aufdem Strom ;
Erster Verlust , D226; Liebesbotschaft; Standchen (Schwanengesang); Rastlose Liebe , D138
Schumann Adagio and Allegro for Horn and Piano, Op 70
Britten Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain
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This week Susan Sharpe invites listeners' requests for music written in celebration of buildings. Producer Brian Jackson Discs
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From Bristol Cathedral.
Introit: Nation Shall Speak
Peace unto Nation (Barry Rose ) Responses (Smith)
Psalm 136 (Walmisley)
First Lesson: Ecclesiastes 6
Office Hymn: 0 Son of God, Eternal Love (Warrington)
Canticles: Wood in F
Second Lesson: Luke 18, w35-end
Anthem: Blessed City, Heavenly Salem (Bairstow)
Hymn: Ye Holy Angels Bright (Darwall's 148th)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude et Danse Fugee (Litaize)
Director of music Christopher Brayne. Organists David Hobourn and Claire Proud .
Repeated tomorrow lam
Continuing the theme of Aldeburgh's Britten and Haydn Festival,
Sean Rafferty talks to Paul Cassidy , viola player in the Brodsky Quartet and owner of Britten's own viola, about the Britten and Haydn quartets which the Brodsky Quartet performs in Aldeburgh at the weekend. Music includes Vivaldi's motet In Furore,
Chopin's Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52, and Falla's El Amor Brujo at 6.40.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Richard Hickox conducts a semi-staged performance of two British operatic masterpieces. Holst's
Savitri - like the Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, a product of his fascination with the mystical East - tells of the beautiful Savitri's victorious encounter with Death, who has come to take her on the west coast of Ireland. There, many young lives are lost to the merciless sea, bringing grief and then resignation to those left behind. Penny Gore introduces a performance given on Saturday at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge.
Cambridge University Choir, City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Hoist Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda (Group Three); Savitri Vaughan Williams Riders to the Sea
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The third of four readings by Ian Gibson from his new biography of Salvador Dali. New York, New York. In the thirties and forties, Dali was the most famous modern painter in America. And in 1937, when he set sail with his wife for New York for the first time, they had every intention of taking the city by storm.
Frank Bridge's suite made a profound impression on the young Benjamin Britten , and he later became a pupil of the composer. It is performed here by the Ulster Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley.
Penny Gore introduces a recital by Anthony Pike (clarinet) and John Lenehan (piano).
Saint-Saens Clarinet Sonata in E flat,
Op 167
Busonl Elegy
Reger Clarinet Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 49 No 2 Producer Nigel Wilkinson Repeated tomorrow 4pm
What is the future for the Arts
Council of England? With its leadership uncertain and an increasingly proactive Department of Culture, Media and Tourism, is it time for the Arts Council to rethink its role? Tony Palmer investigates its current form and future prospects. And as each month seems to bring another resignation or change of direction, he considers the state or arts leadership in this country more widely. Producer Matthew Dodd
With Gerard McBumey.
I Remember the Wonderful Moment;
Waltz-Fantasy; Let My Prayer Be Fulfilled; Sextet in E flat
Repeated from last Wednesday
Dave Gelly introduces some classic recordings by John Dankworth and Cleo Laine.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Prague Spring Festival Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra/Vladimir Valek, Jirina Markova (soprano), Ivan Kusnjer (bass) Novak About the Eternal Longing Suk Praga Zemlinsky Lyric Symphony
2.25 Haydn Sonata in E flat, H XVI 52 Christoph Berner (piano)
3.00 Schools
3.00 Time and Tune 3.20 Together
3.40 Dance Workshop 4.00 Radio Showcase 4.05 Primary Geography
4.20 Scottish Resources 10-12
4.40 Talking Points
5.00 Sequence
