With Penny Gore, including
Strauss Suite from Keyboard Pieces by Francois Couperin (excerpts)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Erich Leinsdorf
6.45 Schutz Psalmen Davids (excerpt) Cantus Colin, Concerto Palatino, conductor Konrad Junghanel
7.00 Francaix Wind Quintet No 2 HaffnerWind Ensemble Of London
8.00 Shostakovich The Tale of the Silly Little Mouse Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
8.30 Tchaikovsky The Seasons (excerpts) Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
8.40 Haydn String Quartet in B flat, Op 1 No 1 (La Chasse) Aeolian Quartet
(1882-1961)
With Donald Macleod.
1: Childhood and Australia. Percy Grainger was a unique musical phenomenon: an only child brought up by his doting mother in Melbourne; and a brilliant pianist in Edwardian London, blessed with matinee-idol good looks and with an idiosyncratic view of life. The first of this week's five programmes explores his roots and his fascination with the works of Kipling and ends with his orchestral masterpiece. Over the Hills and Far Away
Lotta Hough and the Composer (pianos)
Mowgli 's Song against the People; Morning Song and Night Song in the Jungle; The Only Son Polyphony, director Stephen Layton Fisher's Boarding House; We Were Dreamers Ulster Orchestra, conductor Kenneth Montgomery
Blithe Bells (A Free Ramble on Bach 's Aria) Leslie Howard (piano)
The Warriors City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle Producer Andrew Lyte
Jude Kelly. The first of five programmes this week in which the artistic director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Jude Kelly , begins preparation for her latest production, Singing in the Rain. Producer Fiona MacLean
With Stephanie Hughes , featuring orchestral excerpts from Rameau's operas and performances by Wilhelm Backhaus. lbert Bacchanale Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
10.15 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 111 Wilhelm Backhaus
10.37 Rameau Hippolyte etAricie (excerpts) La Petite Bande, director Sigiswald Kuijken
10.58 Britten Six Metamorphoses after Ovid Heinz Holliger(oboe)
11.13 Chausson Soirde Fete Toulouse
Capitole Orchestra/Michel Plasson Producers Tony Cheevers and Andrew Herbert
Last July a small village high in the Swiss
Alps hosted one of the best-kept secrets of European music-making-the Verbier Festival and Academy. Helen Wallace introduces the first of this week's five programmes from the festival and talks to some of the participants. Including music performed by the Orchestra of the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia. Strauss Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche Conductor Kent Nagano
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D
Hilary Hahn , conductor Neville Marriner Strauss Closing Scene (Capriccio) Barbara Hendricks (soprano), conductor Kent Nagano Producer Lyndon Jones
Stephanie Hughes presents today's recital from the Wigmore Hall, London. Nelson Goerner (piano) Berg Sonata , Op 1
Schubert Four Impromptus, D935 Repeated Saturday 1pm
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Hoddinott Welsh Dances (Suite No 3) Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor John Lill (piano)
Smetana Ma Vlast (Vltava) Sibelius Symphony No 1
Graeme Kay continues his series examining the portrayal of nationality in opera. Today he investigates Spain, land of the castanet, toreador and zarzuela - all of which feature in today's programme. Producer Paul Evans
With Humphrey Carpenter. Music includes at 5.40 Grieg's Lyric Suites played by Emil Gilels (piano) and at 6.35 Prokofiev's
Suite: Lieutenant Kije performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under ClaudioAbbado.
Anthony Burton introduces a concert given last night in London's Barbican Centre, includingthe UK premiere of Penderecki's new symphony.
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello),
LSO, conducted by the Composer
Penderecki Symphony No 5 (first UK performance); Cello Concerto No 2
Kenneth Sillito (violin),Robert Smissen (viola), Stephen Orton (cello), Hamish Milne (piano)
Brahms Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 60(R)
Flirtation, boredom and monogamy are among the subjects Adam Phillips has turned his attention to in the past. In his latest book, Darwin's Worms, Phillips examines the concept of mortality in a culture indelibly marked by the works of Freud and Darwin. He discusses his findings with Richard Coles. Plus, a look at My Century, the latest book by the recent winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Gunter Grass ; a review of the San
Francisco Ballet at Sadler's Wells; and news of another winner as the results of the Booker Prize deliberations are announced.
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Verity Sharp opens this week's late-night listening with north Indian dhrupadsinging by the Dagar Brothers, the New World jazz of trumpeter John Hassell and piano music from Bach to John Wolf Brennan. Producer Antony Pitts
Composer and saxophonist
Duncan Lamont directs his band in a programme of newly written music, including part of his Through the Looking Glass Suite. He talks to Alyn Shipton about his career, which includes writing children's television themes such as Spot and Mr Benn. Producer Terry Carter
With Susan Sharpe.
12.05am Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV543
12.15 Piazzolla Prelude, Fugue and Divertimento
12.35 Segerstam Impressions of Nordic Nature: No 4
12.50 Mozart Overture: Cosi Fan Tutte
1.00 Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV988
Bach, arr Myra Hess Jesu Bleibet Meine Freude
1.50 Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor
2.15 Suk Elegy, Op 23
2.25 Weiss Suite No 17 in F minor
2.50Ã Moszkowski Valse in E, Op 34 No 1
3.05 Jozsef Sari To the Memory of Bartok
3.20 Mozart Grande Sestetto Concertante in E flat, K364
3.55 Hellendaal Sonata Prima in G, Op 5
4.00 Strauss An Alpine Symphony
5.05 Mozart Horn Concerto No 3 in E flat, K447
5.20 Liszt Petrarch Sonnet No 123 (Annees de Pelerinage, Book 2)
5.30 Purcell Come, Ye Sons of Art, Away (Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary)
5.50 Massenet Meditation (Thais)
