Stephanie Hughes with arts news and music, including at 6.30 Ravel's Piano Concerto in G played by Pascal Roge and the Montreal SO, conductor Charles Dutoit ; at 7.20
Wagner's prelude to Die Meistersinger played by the Royal Philharmonic, conductor Enrique Batiz ; and after the 8.00 news Handel's aria Let the Bright Seraphim from Samson sung by Kiri Te Kanawa.
With Penny Gore.
Mozart Overture: The Magic Flute Berlin Staatskapelle, conductor Herbert von Karajan
9.07 Bach Preludes and Fugues Nos 15-20 ("48", Book 1) Glenn Gould (piano)
9.30 CPE Bach Harpsichord Concerto in A, Wq29 Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, director Ton Koopman
9.50 Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A Berlin Staatskapelle, conductor Herbert von Karajan
Barbara Hendricks
American soprano Barbara Hendricks takes her roles as goodwill ambassador for the United Nations
High Commission for Refugees and special adviser on intercultural relations to the director general of Unesco very seriously. She talks to Joan Bakewell about this work and also about her own human-rights association, the Association for
Humanitarian Action. Music includes
Copland's The World Feels Dusty and the soprano solo from Mahler's Symphony No 4.
With Donald Macleod.
Just over a year ago, the Italian city of Assisi was rocked by a series of earthquakes which damaged the 13th-century basilica dedicated to its most famous former inhabitant. Eight hundred years earlier, a young man known for riotous living had a vision in which an image of Christ nailed to the cross spoke to him. As a result, Giovanni Francesco Bernardone gave away all his possessions and took up the life of a hermit.
Music includes:
Michael Haydn St Francis Mass (excerpt) - Hungarian Radio and TV Chorus, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, conductor Helmuth Rilling
Liszt St Francis of Assisi (Legendes) - Leslie Howard (piano)
Messiaen St Francis of Assisi (excerpt) - Jose van Dam (baritone), Jean-Philippe Courtis (bass), Paris Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa
Presented by Jeremy Summerly. Early in the 16th century, Josquin spent a year at the court of Ferrara. There, he composed the Missa Hercules dux Ferrarie, performed in this programme by A Sei Voci , director Bernard Fabre-Garrus .
Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight
Music for Advent and Christmas
Susan Sharpe introduces the first of five weekly concerts for the Christmas season, recorded in the 12th-century Temple Church in London. Noe, Noe! Birmingham-based choir Ex Cathedra and director
Jeffrey Skidmore start things off in a concert recorded earlier this month of music by Renaissance and early Baroque masters, including Monteverdi's Missa in Illo Tempore and works by Lassus, Guererro, Weelkes and Bouzignac.
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductors Vassily Sinaisky , Mark Wigglesworth and Tadaaki Otaka , Julian Rachlin (violin)
Musorgsky, ed Rimsky-Korsakov A Night on the Bare Mountain Janacek Sinfonietta
Brahms Violin Concerto in D
Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra
Repeated from yesterday 10pm
Unusual Instruments
The Wagner tuba was specially invented by the composer for his operatic cycle The Ring. Verity Sharp investigates.
Sean Rafferty explores the life and music of maverick composer, performer and instrument designer Harry Partch , who invented the "Bloboy" and the "Boo". Music includes at 5.40 Prokofiev's brilliant filmic depiction of the Battle on the Ice from Alexander Nevsky ; and before the 7.00 arts news Mozart's
Symphony No 29 in A, K201.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
From the Barbican, a concert given as part of the Inventing
America series which includes a classic piece of American contemporary music by Steve Reich. The Desert Music pulls no punches about the decline of man in the modern age and the wasteland of civilisation, post-Hiroshima.
BBC Singers, City of London Sinfonia, conductor Marin Alsop
Frank Zappa The Perfect Stranger; Dupree's Paradise
Milton Babbitt Around the Horn
Ruth Crawford Seeger Three American Songs
8.10 New Music
She studies Tallis, he deals in reinforced concrete. So what is the attraction? A new story by Carol Shields specially commissioned with BBC
Music Magazine. Reader David Threlfall.
8.30 Steve Reich The Desert Music
Private View
Nicholas Ward Jackson joins Jane and Louise Wilson as they prepare for the shoot of their new film at the decommissioned Greenham Common air force base. As they rummage through hangers and bunkers, the Wilsons discuss their fascination with the Cold War and talk about the experience of filming Stasi City Berlin.
York Early Music Festival 1998 Taking Our Leave. Lucie Skeaping introduces another compilation from this year's York Early Music Festival. Byrd Content Is Rich Emma Kirkby (soprano), Rose Consort of Viols Cipriano de Rore Missa Practer
Rerum Serium (Sanctus; Benedictus) Gabrieli Consort , director Paul McCreesh
Daniel Batchelar Pavan
Nigel North (lute)
Handel Farewell Ye Limpid Springs and Floods (Jephtha); Oft on a Plat of Rising Ground (L 'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)
Batchelar Monsieur 's Almain
Nigel North (lute)
Giovanni Gabrieli 0 Jesu Mi Dulcissime
Gabrieli Consort , director Paul McCreesh
Jacques Arcadelt It Bianco e Dolce Cigno
Orazio Vecchi 11 Bianco e Dolce Cigno Gibbons The Silver Swan Emma Kirkby (soprano), Rose Consort of Viols
Producer Mark Rowlinson. Rptd tomorrow 4pm
How far can people from one culture ever fully understand another? Do outsiders see more clearly, or are we all condemned to simplification and stereotype? Italian writer Roberto Calasso won international acclaim for his evocation of the mental landscape of Greek classical culture, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony. In his new book, Ka, he has turned to India, exploring the notion of Indianness through its stories and customs. Paul Allen and guests discuss Ka and other Western attempts to define a sense of difference in the East. Producer Anthony Denselow
Alyn Shipton talks to Dave Brubeck , who is currently celebrating the 40th anniversary of his first British tour.
Horn Trio in E flat, Op 40; A German Requiem
Repeated from last Thursday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Mahler Symphony Series Symphony No 8 (Symphony of a Thousand) Alessandra Marc , Gwynne Geyer and Regina Nathan (sopranos), Doris Soffel and Nancy Maultsby (contraltos), Vinson Cole (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Andrea Silvestrelli (bass), City of Elburg Boys' Choir, Leipzig Opera
Chorus, Netherlands Radio Choir and Philharmonic/Edo de Waart
2.25 Kuhnau Sonata No 3
Luc Beausejour (harpsichord)
2.40 Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor, D703 Watteau Quartet
3.00 Schools
3.00 Alphabet Time 3.10 Music Workshop 3.30 Let's Move 3.50 Words Alive! 4.05 First Steps in Drama 4.20 Listen and Write 4.40
Standard Grade English
5.00 Mozart Five Contredances, K609 Nova Scotia SO/Georg Tintner
5.05 Arensky Suite No 1 in FJames Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton (pianos)
5.35 Walton March; Elegy;
Scherzetto Ian Sadler (organ)
