With Humphrey Carpenter , including Praetorius Wachet Auf , Ruft Uns die
Stimme La Capelle Ducale, Musica Fiata , director Roland Wilson
6.05 Mozart String Quintet in C, K515 Hausmusik
7.05 Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D667 (Trout)
Pamela Frank (violin), Rebecca Young (viola), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Emanuel Ax (piano)
7.35 Prokofiev Suite: The Love for
Three Oranges French National
Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel
8.05 Dvorak String Quartet in F, Op 96 (American) Skampa Quartet
8.40 Kodaly Dances of Galanta Hungarian State Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Adam Fischer
Kuhlau Overture: The Robber's Castle
Danish NRSO, conductor Michael Schonwandt
9.08 Rodrigo Fantasia para un
Gentilhombre (2nd mvt) Craig Ogden (guitar), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Sachio Fujioka
9.18 Handel Let Thy Hand Be
Strengthened New College Choir,
King's Consort, director Robert King
9.27 Schubert Marche Militaire No 1 in D Isabel Beyer and Harvey Dagul (piano duet)
9.33 Elgar Carissima Northern
Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
9.38 Mendelssohn I Would That My Love, Op 63 No 1; Greeting, Op 63 No 3 Isobel Baillie (soprano),
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Gerald Moore (piano)
9.44 Chopin Krakowiak Claudio Arrau (piano). LPO, conductor Eliahu Inbal
10.00 Ten o'Clock Feature -
Shakespeare in Music:
Walton The Mousetrap; Ophelia's Death (Hamlet)
ASMF, conductor Neville Marriner
10.09 Berlioz La Mort d'Ophélie Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo),
Myung-Whun Chung (piano)
10.17 Matthew Locke The Tempest Musicians of the Globe, director Philip Pickett
10.27 Composer of the Week:
Mozart Fantasia in C minor, K475
Alfred Brendel (piano)
10.40 Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
LSO, conducted by the Composer Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
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Barbara Hendricks
Joan Bakewell talks to American lyric soprano Barbara Hendricks , who celebrates her 50th birthday this month. Revised repeat
Ivan Hewett looks beyond
Scheherazade and The Flight of the Bumble Bee to investigate the music of Rimsky-Korsakov, who died 90 years ago. Plus a look at how the music industry is being transformed through "music on demand" on the internet and cable.
Producer Jessica Isaacs
From the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge.
Hymn to the Mother of God
(Tavener). Hymn: Hail to the Lord's Anointed
The Apple Tree (Poston)
First Lesson: Jeremiah 23, wl-6
Hymnus in Adventus Domini (Palestrina) Second Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5, wl-11 and 23-24 The Clouded Heaven (Judith Bingham ) (first performance)
The Holly and the Ivy (arr Walford Davies) Third Lesson: Micah 4, wl-4
Out of Your Sleep Arise and Wake (David Sadler ) (first broadcast)
Fourth Lesson: Matthew 4, wl3-25
Hymn: Come Thou Long Expected Jesus This Is the Record of John (Gibbons) Fifth Lesson: Isaiah 52, w7-ll
Hymn to the Virgin (Britten)
Sixth Lesson: John 1, wl9-29
Hymn: Hark the Glad Sound (descant: Oxley)
The Hereford Carol (arr Robinson) Seventh Lesson: Micah 5, w2-4
As Dew in Aprylle (Warlock) Magnificat: Sumsion in G
Eighth Lesson: Luke 1, w26-42 Christmas Proclamation (Tavener) Hymn: 0 Come All Ye Faithful (descant: Robinson)
Organ Voluntary: Toccata from "Le Tombeau de Couperin" (Ravel)
Director of music Christopher Robinson. Organ scholar lain Farrington.
* Brian Kay 's Concert of the Week: page 53
Quintet for Piano and Wind
Rudolph Vrbsky (oboe),
Richard Stoltzman (clarinet), Robert Routch (horn), Alexander Heller (bassoon), Rudolf Serkin (piano)
Christopher Page visits a medieval hospital in Norwich. Daniel Snowman and historian David Starkey look around the remains of Whitehall Palace , home to the monarchy and site of some of the most momentous events in English history, from the time of Henry VIII until it was destroyed by fire 300 years ago. Producer Kate Bolton
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
A weekly series exploring the recorded legacy of the great singers of our century. David Madden , British high commissioner in Cyprus, talks about the Greek mezzo Agnes Baltsa. With music by Mozart and Verdi. Producer Mark Rowlinson
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
47: Vladimir Nabokov : Lolita Producer Peter Kavanagh
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Anthony Burton introduces excerpts from sacred and secular music first performed in 1964. Richard Rodney Bennett Aubade Dallapiccola Parole di San Paolo
Messiaen Couleurs de la Cite Celeste
Berio Folk Songs
Panufnik Sinfonia Sacra Producer David Stevens
To mark the centenary of the birth of CS Lewis, Denys Hawthorne explores the author's early years and family influence. He also considers the historical background against which Lewis grew up in Belfast - an uncertain time of growing support for Irish independence coupled with increasing unionist opposition. Producer Judith Elliott
Repeated from yesterday 12 noon
Three plays by Andrew Rissik.
2: The Death of Achilles. With
Paul Scofield as Hermes and Toby Stephens as Achilles. The story resumes in the final year of the Trojan War. With the conflict unresolved and stalemate prevailing, Achilles quarrels with Agamemnon, his supreme commander.
For cast see yesterday. The final play, Helen at Ephesus. is broadcast at 9.30pm
Apollo (1947 version)
CBSO, conductor Simon Rattle
3: Helen at Ephesus. In the final play, Troy has fallen. Agamemnon returns to face the judgement of his wronged wife, Klytemnestra.
Menelaos and Helen, divided from each other by shipwreck and storm, finally begin the spiritual journey towards forgiveness and self-knowledge. For cast see yesterday
Sacred Music of India
The series of programmes on music from India. Repeat
Conductor Peter Maxwell Davies ,
Simon Butterworth (saxophone), Duncan McTier (double bass)
Maxwell Davies Overture: Mavis in Las Vegas (first performance)
Caltabiano Saxophone Concerto Maxwell Davies Strathclyde Concerto No 7
Sessions Suite: The Black Maskers
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Mahler Symphony Series
Symphony No 9 Netherlands Radio Philharmonic/Edo de Waart
2.25 Franck Prelude , Fugue and Variation Robert Silverman (piano)
2.50 Brahms Cello Sonata in E minor, Op 38 Ciril Skerjanec, Mojca Pucelj (piano)
3.20 Tchaikovsky Meditation in D minor, Op 42 No 1
Anatoly Bazhenov (violin), Ukranian NSO/Volodimir Sirenko
3.30 Rued Langgaard Symphony No 4 (Fall of the Leaf) Danish NRSO/ Michael Schonwandt
4.05 Bach Three-Part Inventions,
BWV787-801 Glenn Gould (piano)
4.45 Wagier Prelude: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Finnish RSO/ Jukka-Pekka Saraste
5.30 Haydn Symphony No 64 in A
(Tempora Mutantur) Netherlands CO/ Siebe Riedstra
5.55 LeFebure Doctor Bonus et
Amicus Dei Currende/Erik van Nevel
