With Lucie Skeaping.
Tippett Suite in D Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Georg Solti
6.25 Mozart Piano Concerto No 13 in C, K415 ECO, director Daniel Barenboim (piano)
7.03 Debussy Rondes de Printemps (Images) London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn
7.32 Verdi Don Carlos (Ballet Music) BBC Philharmonic, conductor Edward Downes
8.08 Beethoven Piano Sonata in F, Op 10 No 2 Daniel Barenboim
8.21 Monteverdi Beatus Vir
Taverner Consort and Players, director Andrew Parrott
8.40 Walton Partita
LPO, conductor Bryden Thomson
Nielsen Overture: Maskarade
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
9.08 Schubert, arr Tausig Marche Militaire, D733 No 1
Yevgeni Kissin (piano)
9.15 German Three Dances from
"Henry VIII " Northern Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
9.24 Henry VIII Consort Piece No 12; Pastyme with Good Companye; Consort Piece No 22 Sirinu
9.31 Albinoni Concerto in F. Op 9 No 3 Maurice Andre (trumpet),
Daniel Arrignon (oboe), Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner
9.42 Copland I Bought Me a Cat; At the River; Ching-a-Ring Chaw (Old American Songs) Willard White
(bass), Graeme McNaught (piano)
9.49 Ireland Epic March
LSO, conductor Richard Hickox
10.00 Mid-Programme Feature - Ensembles:
Schubert String Quintet in C, D956 (2nd mvt) Guarneri Quartet, Bernard Greenhouse (cello)
10.14 Beethoven Quintet in E flat for Piano and Wind, Op 16 (3rd mvt) Terence MacDonagh (oboe), Jack Brymer (clarinet), Alan Civil (horn), William Waterhouse (bassoon), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
10.21 Delibes Lakme (Rower Duet) Joan Sutherland tsoprano),
Jane Berbie (mezzo), Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra/Richard Bonynge
10.27 Martinu Sinfonietta Giocosa (1st mvt) Dennis Hennig (piano), Australian CO, conductor Charles Mackerras
10.43 Dvorak Slavonic Rhapsody in A flat, Op 45 No 3 Montreal SO, conductor Charles Dutoit Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
Raphael Wallfisch
Joan Bakewell talks to cellist Raphael Wallfisch. Revised repeat
Ivan Hewett dons his hard hat and visits the site of the Royal Opera House development to see where the £214m has gone. Plus a report from France on how the opera scene has become a political hot potato. Producer Jessica Isaacs
A recital given last October at St George's, Brandon Hill , Bristol.
Olaf Bar (baritone), Julius Drake (piano) Schubert Die Schone Mullerin
The first of three selections of British ballet music.
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth Lambert Suite:
Horoscope Gordon The Rake's Progress
* Brian Kay 's Pick of the Week: p36
Birtwistle, Berio, Benjamin and Bainbridge are just a few of the many contemporary composers who have been inspired to write new music for old instruments. Christopher Page is joined by Bayan Northcott and John Woolrich to find out more.
Producer Kate Bolton. FACTSHEET WEB PAGE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/factsheets E-MAIL: [address removed]
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Michael Schmidt introduces recordings made by the Swedish mezzo Anne Sofie von Otter .Producer Mark Rowlinson
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
58: Anton Chekhov : The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard in 1903. It was his final work and is seen by many as the century's greatest play. Translator Michael Frayn and actress and director Janet Suzman discuss the mood and symbolism of the play. Producer Lore Windemuth
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Anthony Burton introduces works first performed in 1975. Rameau Les Boreades
Orchestra of the 18th Century, conductor Frans Briiggen
Viktor Ullman Der Kaiser von Atlantis
(Scene 3)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Lothar Zagrosek
Ligeti San Francisco Polyphony
Swedish RSO, conductor Elgar Howarth Shostakovich Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin Yevgeni Nesterenko
(bass), Yevgeni Shenderovich (piano) Schnrttke Prelude in Memoriam
Dmitri Shostakovich
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Boulez Rituel in Memoriam Bruno
Maderna BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the Composer Producer Philip Tagney
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Poet and playwright Derek Walcott , who won the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1992, talks to
David Dabydeen about the events and issues that have influenced his life and work. Much of his writing is rooted in the Caribbean, and he talks particularly about the experience of living in St Lucia - where the programme was recorded - and the impact of history on the islands of the region. He also introduces readings from his own and other writers' poetry and prose. Producer Tony Phillips
Repeated from yesterday 12 noon
Brian Kay introduces a performance of Haydn's The Creation, the resounding response of the ageing composer to the oratorios of Handel. Nancy Argenta (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Gwynne Howell (bass),
BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, conductor Richard Hickox Producer Lindsay Kemp
By William Shakespeare. In this new dramatisation by Sue Wilson and Malcolm McKee , it is 1936 and a cruise liner arrives at Ephesus, where BBC travel reporter Gervaise Ffoulkes finds himself caught up in some strange local customs. with Brian Parr , Clive Kneller , Julia Watson , Amanda Root , Bridget Turner , Richard Pasco , Clifford Rose , Sunny Ormonde, Malcolm McKee. Christopher Scott. Terry Molloy , Ian Brooker and Cathy Sara
(Postponed from 3 January)
Ritmo: the Music of Latin America
Mike Gonzalez presents six programmes exploring the varied ethnic musical traditions of Latin America.
1: From Son to Salsa. Mike Gonzalez goes back to the rhythmic roots of salsa with percussionist Snowboy, who demonstrates the rhythms of the bata drums, the son and the mambo. Producer Nadine Welter
Conductor Niklas Willen , Leslie Howard (piano)
Schubert, transcr Liszt Wanderer Fantasy
Berio, after Schubert The Rendering
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Soloists, Cologne Chamber Chorus, Collegium Cartusianum / Peter Neumann Handel Ode for St
Cecilia's Day Purcell Praise the Lord, 0 Jerusalem, Z46; Welcome to all the Pleasures, Z339 (St Cecilia's Day Ode) Bach Cantata No 19: Es Erhub Sich ein Streit
2.40 Beethoven Violin Sonata in A, Op 12 No 2 Salvatore Accardo, Michele Campanella (piano)
3.00 Danijel Dane Skerl Concerto No 3 (Intonazioni Concertanti) Slovenian PO, conductor Niklaj Aleksejev
3.35 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 (Serioso) Helsinki Quartet
4.05 Debussy Etudes (Book 2) Roger Woodward (piano) 4.30 Oskar Morawetz Divertimento Nova Scotia SO/Georg Tintner
4.45 Handel Sonata in B flat,
Op 2 No 3 Musica Alta Ripa
5.35 CPE Bach Quartet No 1 in A minor, Wq93 Les Adieux
5.50 Chopin Impromptu, Op posth Dubravka Tomsic (piano)