With Stephanie Hughes , including Beethoven Violin Sonata in G, Op 30 No 3 Gidon Kremer , Martha Argerich (piano)
6.49 Handel Organ Concerto in B flat, Op 4 No 2
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, director Ton Koopman (organ)
7.04 Bernstein Overture: Candide
New York Philharmonic, conducted by the Composer
7.54 Debussy Reflets dans I'Eau (Images) Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
8.05 Bizet La Fleur Que Tu M'Avais Jetee (Carmen) Placido Domingo
(tenor), French National Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel
8.40 Ginastera Estancia Mexico City Philharmonic, conductor Enrique Batiz
With Peter Hobday.
Telemann Concerto in E flat for Two Horns - Andrew Joy and Charles Putnam, Musica, Antiqua Koln, director Reinhard Goebel
9.15 Schumann Violin Sonata No 2 in D minor, Op 121 - Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich (piano)
9.48 Myslivicek Wind Octet No 2 in E flat - Harmoniemusik
(Discs)
With Mark Rowlinson.
Vaughan Williams Overture: Henry V London Brass Virtuosi, conductor David Honeyball
10.09 Byrd 0 Mistress Mine Sophie Yates (virginal)
10.14 Grainger 0 Mistress Mine
Polyphony, conductor Stephen Layton
10.17 Tchaikovsky Elegy in G Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
10.26 Artist of the Week:
Jascha Heifetz (violin)
Walton Violin Concerto Cincinnati
SO, conductor Eugene Goossens
10.54 Schubert Psalm 23
BBC Singers, Susan Tomes (piano), conductor Jane Glover
11.00 Masterprize:
Stephen Hartke Ascent of the Equestrian in a Balloon
BBCPO, conductor Philip Ellis
11.15 Nedbal Valse Triste
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor Libor Pesek
11.21 Britten Cantata: The World of the Spirit (excerpts)
Susan Chilcott (soprano), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo), Martyn Hill (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Britten Singers, BBC Philharmonic, conductor Richard Hickox
11.47 Strauss Festmusik der Stadt
Wien Locke Brass Consort, conductor James Stobart
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
With Piers Burton-Page . 5: In Extremis
Three Pieces, Op 18 John Ogdon (piano) The Deluge Alison Wells (soprano),
Teresa Shaw (contralto), Music Projects London, conductor Richard Bernas
String Quartet No 3 The Lindsays
Repeated next Friday 11.30pm
From Studio 7, Manchester
Introduced by Rodney Slatford.
David Pyatt (horn), Martin Jones (piano) Danzl Horn Sonata in E flat, Op 28 Strauss Andante ,
AV86a Mendelssohn Andante and Rondo
Capriccioso, Op 14
Hlndemlth Horn Sonata
George Malcolm
A tribute to George Malcolm , choirmaster, conductor, harpsichordist and teacher.
Sandy Burnett explores the many facets of an extraordinary musical life, hearing from Stephen Cleobury and Ian Partridge about Malcolm's continental-sounding choir at
Westminster Cathedral, for whom
Britten wrote his Missa Brevis. There is also the opportunity to hear Malcolm as harpsichordist and pianist, plus the fruits of his long association with the Aldeburgh
Festival and Philomusica of London.
Britten Missa Brevis
Westminster Cathedral Choir
Bartok Bagatelle, Op 6 No 12
Bach The Art of Fugue, BWV1080 (Contrapunctus 2)
Malcolm Boogie ; Quem Vidistis Pastores
Purcell Sweeter than Roses
(Pausanias)
Ian Partridge (tenor)
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
Revised repeat
Classical London
Chris de Souza introduces the last of four concerts from Radio 3's special day of Invitation Concerts at the Royal Academy of Music celebrating the musical life of late-18th-century London. This week the Choir of New College, Oxford, conducted by Edward Higginbottom , perform church anthems by Jonathan Battishlll , John Stanley and William Crotch.
The Big Divide
A group of Benedictine monks found fame when they recorded an album of Gregorian chant, and the surprise appeal of the recording has encouraged a few more ventures. Two of the latest girl groups are
Anonymous 4 and Medieval Baebes. It seems there is something sexy about early music. Tommy Pearson sets out to discover what.
As Gidon Kremer continues his celebration of Schubert's bicentenary at London's Barbican Centre,
Sean Rafferty examines the career of this versatile violinist. Music includes
Strauss's majestic Four Last Songs from Kiri Te Kanawa. And Sean
Rafferty takes a look at Christmas choice CDs and stocking-fillers.
A concert given in April in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, as part of conductor Ton Koopman 's project to perform and record all of Bach's cantatas.
Ruth Ziesak (soprano),
Elisabeth von Magnus (contralto), Paul Agnew (tenor),
Klaus Mertens (bass), Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra, director Ton Koopman
Bach Cantata No 75: Die Elenden
Sollen Essen: Cantata No 104: Du
Hirte Israel, Hore; Cantata No 76:
Die Himmel Erzahlen die Ehre Gottes
Young Screenwriters - Hollywood In the Nineties
In the final programme, Christopher Cook talks to Daniel Walters , writer of Batman Returns, Heathers and the multi-million-dollar film that became a famous Hollywood disaster, Hudson Hawk.
String Quartet No 2 in D Eleonora Quartet
In the final programme from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music
Festival, Stephen Pratt introduces a portrait of the French composer
Pascal Dusapin. The ensembles Ars Nova and Accroche Note, with Francoise Kubler (soprano),
Armand Angster (clarinet) and Philippe Nahon (director), give the UK premieres of recent works including Cascarndo.
Comoedia and Aria. And there is more from the recital given by the cellos of the BBC Philharmonic, including Henze's Being Beauteous, with soprano Anu Komsi.
5: Out of This World. Paul Guinery charts the composer's final creative years with a look at Porter's scores in the 1950s: three Broadway shows, including Can-Can, and a trip to the West Coast for a Hollywood classic - High Society. The recordings from these years prove that Porter's talent had not deserted him.
Repeated from last Friday
American pianist and composer Stan Kenton , who died in 1979, led various big bands with great success for almost 40 years but stirred up controversy in 1950 when he formed his Innovations in Modern Music
Orchestra, employing up to 40 musicians. In this four-part series,
Max Harrison looks at this ambitious, experimental project and puts it in its historical context. Numbers featured in the first programme include
Incident in Jazz, Thermopylae and House of Strings by Graettinger. Repeated from Saturday 6pm
With Donald Macleod.
Continuing the Ring cycle from the 1997 Bayreuth Festival.
Wagner Gotterdammerung
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, conductor James Levine
6.00 Sequence
