With Stephanie Hughes , including
Dvorak Song to the Moon (Rusalka) Yvonne Kenny (soprano),
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conductor Wlodzimiersk Kamirski
6.45 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis BBCSO, conductor Andrew Davis
7.08 Allegri Miserere
Tallis Scholars, director Peter Phillips
7.28 Mozart Horn Quintet in E flat, K407 Timothy Brown ,
ASMF Chamber Ensemble
8.07 Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
8.38 Schubert Nottumo in E flat,
D897 Trio Fontenay
With Peter Hobday.
Korngold Suite: Much Ado about Nothing London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn
9.11 Schumann String Quartet in A, Op 41 No 3 Hagen Quartet
9.39 Faure Suite: Pelleas et
Melisande French NO, conductor Charles Munch Discs
With Chris Wines.
Marini Sinfonia , Three Ballettos and Two Sarabandes
Cambridge Musick
10.10 Tippett Songs of Ariel
Martyn Hill (tenor), Andrew Ball (piano)
10.17 Artist of the Week:
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Weber Piano Sonata No 3 in D minor
10.39 Beethoven Incidental Music:
The Consecration of the House
(excerpts) Sylvia McNair (soprano), Berlin Radio Chorus, Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado
10.55 Masterprize:
Russell-Smith Quiet Earth BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Richard Bernas
11.08 Haydn Cello Concerto in C Jacqueline du Pre,
English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
11.37 Chopin Polonaise in A flat, Op 53 Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
11.45 Smalley Piano Trio Gould Trio
3: Ridin' High. Paul Guinery uncorks some vintage Porter from the late 1930s, when the American songwriter's music and lyrics were virtually unsurpassed in capturing the essence of the era. Period recordings by stage and film stars of the day illustrate the story of a charmed life that was to be shattered in 1937 by a personal tragedy that Porter struggled heroically to overcome. Discs
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm
From the Adrian Boult Hall ,
Birmingham.
Sophie Daneman (soprano). Eugene Asti (piano)
Schubert Die Vogel; Im Frijhling; Die Mutter Erde ; Suleika I
Berg Seven Early Songs
Mendelssohn Auf Flugeln des Gesanges, Op 34 No 2; Die
Liebende Schreibt , Op 86 No 3;
Wenn Sich Zwei Herzen Scheiden,
Op 99 No 5; Neue Liebe, Op 19a No 4; Nachtlied, Op 71 No 6
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Susan Sharpe invites listeners' requests for music inspired by the folk tradition.
Producer Brian Jackson Discs
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Sean Rafferty explores horror and how it can be conveyed in music as he investigates an exhibition of Hammer Horror at London's Museum of the Moving Image. Music today includes works by Josquin and Kodaly.
The second of eight recitals from London's Wigmore Hall, introduced by lain Burnside .
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Faure Poème d'un Jour
Debussy Trois Poemes de Paul Verlaine
Ravel Don Quichotte a Dulcinée Gumey Four songs
Anon Victorian and Edwardian ballads
The second of eight programmes of recordings made by London dance bands in the 1920s and 1930s.
Ambrose and His Orchestra. In the 1930s, they played the Mayfair Hotel, the Embassy Club, Ciro's and the Cafe de Paris. With vocalists Vera Lynn , Sam Browne and Evelyn Dall. Repeat
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
From the Royal Festival Hall, London. The final concert celebrating Prokofiev's music culminates in a concert performance of his first opera - a gory and tragic tale of rivalry in 15th-century Venice.
Introduced by Humphrey Carpenter.
Valentina Tsydypova (soprano), Liubov Sokolova (mezzo), Viktor Lutsyuk (tenor), Vadim Repin (violin), London Philharmonic, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Prokofiev, arr Rozhdestvensky Five Balmont Poems, Op 23
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2
8.30 St Petersburg: City of Multiple Personalities
Prokofiev started composing Maddalena in St Petersburg. Solomon Volkov and others investigate the impact of the fictional city on the cultural life of the real St Petersburg.
Maddalena
London Philharmonic Choir
Ashes and Phoenixes
One particularly significant feature of the musical landscape of postwar Germany was Darmstadt, which emerged as a centre for contemporary music. Stephen Johnson visits the International Music Institute in Darmstadt and talks to Karlheinz
Stockhausen about his involvement in the avant-garde movement there.
Penny Gore introduces the first of two recitals by Janet Hilton (clarinet) and Ronan O'Hora (piano).
Weber Invitation to the Dance
Mendelssohn Clarinet Sonata in E flat
Producer Nigel Wilkinson
Revised repeat tomorrow 4pm
Patrick Wright discusses architecture "of the people, for the people". What do buildings have to teach modern designers? In the first Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture,
Paul Oliver argues for recognition of untaught architectural skills. Producer Julian May
3: Medieval Romance. Excerpts from Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, Le Cid and Griselidis. Discs
Repeated from last Wednesday
Digby Fairweather meets Dick Sudhalter. Revised repeat
With Donald Macleod.
Bad Kissengen Summer Festival
1.00 Barcelona SO/Lawrence Foster, Mischa Maisky (cello) Gerhard
Soirées de Barcelone Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No 1 Eigar Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D
Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish)
2.35 Granados La Maja Dolorosa
Katarina Karneus (mezzo), Kok-Ting Chong (piano) Schumann Piano Trio No 2 in F, Op 80 (3rd mvt) Gould Trio
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
