With Edward Seckerson.
6.30 Schubert Symphony No 5 in B flat Orchestra of the 18th Century, conductor Frans Briiggen
7.15 Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra Moscow Chamber and Bath Festival Orchestras, conductor Rudolf Barshai
8.03 Beethoven Overture: The
Creatures of Prometheus
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
8.37 Kodaly Dances of Galanta London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Istvan Kertesz
Weber Overture: Euryanthe Philharmonia, conductor Neeme Jarvi
9.17 Schubert Heidenroslein; An die Musik; Der Musensohn Bryn Terfel (baritone),
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
9.24 Barber Adagio for strings Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein
9.35 Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A (3rd mvt) Netherlands Wind Ensemble
9.41 Mendelssohn Hear My Prayer Jennifer Adams Barbaro (soprano), BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Stephen Cleobury
9.52 Kuhlau Overture: Lulu Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Schonwandt
10.00 Mid-Programme Feature - Piano Duets: Milhaud Le Boeuf sur le Toit Stephen Coombs and Artur Pizarro
10.17 Anon Dances for Two Couples (The English Dance Master) New York Renaissance Band, conductor Sally Logemann
10.23 Albinoni Concerto in A minor Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
10.31 Composer of the Week: Schutz Ach Herr, Straf Mich Nicht in Deinem Zorn Heinrich Schutz Choir, Symphoniae Sacrae Chamber Ensemble, Philip Jones Brass
Ensemble, conductor Roger Norrington
10.38 Constant Lambert Pomona: Ballet in One Act English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd Jones
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Joan Bakewell talks with the acclaimed soprano Felicity Lott. Revised repeat
Ivan Hewett looks at a new incarnation of Beethoven as Twyla Tharp choreographs Diabelli to the celebrated set of variations. Plus a look at whether music festivals are losing their individual identities. Producer Jessica Isaacs
Chris de Souza introduces a piano recital given at the Bath International Music Festival by Barry Douglas. Berg Sonata, Op 1
Chopin Ballades: No 1 in G minor, Op
23; No 3 in A flat, Op 47
Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, Op 87: No 3 in G; No 4 in E minor; No 24 in D minor
Rachmaninov Moments Musicaux,
Op 16; Etudes-Tableaux, Op 39: No 5 in E flat minor; No 9 in D
7: The Loudest Dance Band in America.
Natalie Wheen continues her series celebrating five of the major North American orchestras with the first of two programmes on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She traces the evolution of Chicago's orchestral tradition from the early days of Theodore Thomas and Frederick Stock through to the golden ages of Fritz Reiner and Georg Solti , talking to players and to president Henry Fogel. Music includes the orchestra's first ever recording - Mendelssohn's Wedding March, made in 1916 - and excerpts from Franz Schmidt 's Symphony No 2 and Lutoslawski's Symphony No 3.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Elaine Feinstein celebrates Lotte Lenya. Producer Mark Rowlinson
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
74: Andre Gide : Fruits of the Earth
With Patrick Pollard and Gide biographer Alan Sheridan. Producer Clare Hughes
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Ivan Hewett introduces works first performed in 1937. Irving Berlin This Year's Kisses Billie Holiday (vocal),
Copland El Salon Mexico Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Zinman Berg Lulu (excerpt)
Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel
Orff Carmina Burana (excerpt)
Barbara Bonney (soprano) Anthony Michaels-Moore (baritone), Arnold
Schoenberg Choir, Vienna Boys' Choir, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn
Shostakovich Symphony No 5 (1st mvt) St Petersburg Philharmonic, conductor Yuri Temirkanov
Producer Tony Sellors
A reassessment of the work and reputation of Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen to mark the centenary of her birth. She was eclipsed by the first great modernist generation, but Neil Corcoran argues that her work reflects the anxieties of cultural identity, rootlessness and displacement which are at the heart of modern literature.
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Repeated from yesterday 12 noon
By Howard Barker. The Bishop of Albertina, a tiny state in old Europe, has proposed to Rocklaw, the town's intellectual, that all undesirables should be put together and carried off on a Ship of Fools. But Rocklaw is plagued by jealousy when his wife follows her lover on board.
Music by Elizabeth Parker Director Richard Wortley
Haydn Piano Trio in A, H XV 9
Brahms Piano Trio No 3 in C minor,
Op 101 Repeat
With Brian Kay.
Stanford Songs of the Sea Benjamin Luxon (baritone),
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Norman Del Mar
Delius To Be Sung of a Summer
Night on the Water Cambridge Singers, conductor John Rutter
Elgar Scenes from the Bavarian
Highlands Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor
Norman Del Mar
Britten Five Flower Songs Monteverdi Choir , conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes , Op 35 BBC Singers, David Willison and James Kirby (piano duet), conductor Brian Kay Repeat
Conductor Grant Llewellyn , Della Jones (mezzo)
Grace Williams Sea Sketches
John Metcalf Museum of the Air
Charlie Barber Shut Up and Dance! Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A
With Jonathan Swain.
1.00 A concert of choral music given by Ars Nova , conductor
Frans Rasmussen. Music by Tallls, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgren , de Wert, Cage, Norgard, Norholm,
Charles Amirkhanian , Lobo and Langgaard.
2.05 Grieg, orch Hans Sitt Four Norwegian Dances
2.25 Brahms, orch Schoenberg Piano Quartet in G minor, Op 25
3.10 Weber Der Freischutz (excerpts)
3.20 Abel Cello Sonata in A
3.25 Caplet Divertissement No 1
3.30 Henry du Mont 0 Salutaris Hostia
3.35 Debussy Suite Bergamasque
3.55 Gluck Overture: Iphigenie en Aulide
4.10 A Scarlatti Toccata in D minor
4.30 Schubert Rosamunde :
Incidental Music
5.00 Kunzen Overture: Erik Ejegod
5.05 Milhaud Three Psalms of David
5.15 Cigllc Harp Concertino
5.30 Haydn Variations, H XVII 3
5.50 Escosa Three Dances, for harps
5.55 Brahms Two Waltzes. Op 39