With Penny Gore.
6.10 Schumann Symphony No 4 in D minor
6.45 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E flat, RV253 (La Tempesta di Mare)
7.00 Rossini La Danza (Tarantella Napoletana)
7.30 Poulenc Four Penitential Motets
8.05 Hely-Hutchlnson Carol Symphony
8.45 Borodin Polotsvian Dances (Prince Igor)
With Donald Macleod.
Mendelssohn, arr Rachmaninov Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream) Sergei Rachmaninov (piano)
Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Op 36 Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Nunc Dimittis (Vespers) St Petersburg
Cappella, director Vladislav Chernushenko Rhapsodyon a Theme of Paganini William Kapell (piano), Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner
The director of music at King's College,
Cambridge, prepares this year's Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols.
With Stephanie Hughes.
Arnold Overture: Tam O'Shanter
Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
10.14 Rachmaninov Suite No 1, Op 5 (Fantaisie-Tableaux)
John Ogdon and Brenda Lucas (pianos)
10.40 Duparc L 'Invitation au Voyage; La Vague et la Cloche; Elegie Gerard Souzay (baritone), Dalton Baldwin (piano)
10.55 Liszt, arr Busoni La Campanella (Transcendental Studies after Paganini) John Ogdon (piano)
11.00 Delibes Coppelia (Act 3) Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Richard Bonynge
Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music 1999 Lucie Skeaping introduces a recital given in St James 's, Piccadilly, in July, devoted to solo songs from the Italian Baroque and from later times in Vienna.
Sarah Mingardo (soprano),
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord/fortepiano)
Monteverdi Arianna 's Lament: Lasciatemi
Morire (L 'Arianna); Se I Languidi Miei Sgardi (Lettera Amorosa) (Madrigals, 1619); In un Fiorito Prato (L 'Orfeo)
Frescobaldi Cento Partite sopra
Passacagli (Keyboard Book, 1637)
Monteverdi Di Misera Regina (// Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria)
Mozart Ariette : Dans un Bois Solitaire, K308; Das LiedderTrennung , K519; Als Luise die Briefe Ihres Ungetreun Liebhabers Verbrannte , K520;
Abendempfindung an Laura, K523;
An Chloe , K524; Fantasia in D minor, K397 Schubert An die Musik, D54 7;
DerJunglinganderQuelle, D300;
An Silvia, D891; Du Bist die Ruh, D776
Another chance to hear a recital given at the Aldeburgh Festival in June, in which pianist Alfred Brendel appears in an unusual role - as reader of his own poetry. Excerpts from his collection One Finger Too Many are interspersed with piano music by Ligeti and Kurtag played by Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
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Ulster Orchestra
Martin Hill (tenor), conductors Ronald
Corp, Paul Hoskins and Jacek Kaspszyk Toch Overture: Pinocchio Reger Comedy Overture Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Hindemith Suite: Tuttifantchen
Fenby Overture: Rossini on Ilkla Moor
Jacob The BarberofSeville Goes to the Devil Faure Suite: Masques etBergamasques Finzi Farewell to Arms
Dunhlll The Wind among the Reeds Warlock Capriol Suite
From Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Introit: The Universe (Edward Harper ). Responses (Leighton). Psalm 108
(Ouseley). Office Hymn: The Advent of Our God (St Thomas). First Lesson: Jeremiah 30, w7-ll. Canticles: Second Service
(Leighton). Second Lesson: Acts 4, wl-12. Anthem: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
(Vaughan Williams). Hymn: Hark! The Glad Sound (Bristol). Organ Voluntary: Les Bergers et les Anges (from La Nativite du Seigneur, Messiaen). Director of music Stephen Darlington. Sub-organist David Goode. Assistant organist Clive Driskill-Smith
An uninterrupted selection of Christmas music through the ages.
Peter Guide to the Orchestra
3: Strings. Konnie Huq meets the string players of the BBC Philharmonic. Plus Simon Thomas 's Stringed Instrument Fact File and a look at what Britten wrote for strings in The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.
Another chance to hear Joan Bakewell 's interview with conductor Simon Rattle. (R)
In this third conversation with Ivan Hewett , HC Robbins Landon remembers how the film Amadeus inspired him to write five books on Mozart, including the bestselling Mozart the Golden Years.
A live performance of Verdi's comic opera Fa/staffgiven as the opening production at the new Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden. Graham Vick 's dramatic new production can also be seen on BBC2. Bryn Terfel leads the cast as the fat and lecherous knight of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.
Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Bernard Haitink Parti
8.50 Twenty Minutes:
Falstaff Julian Evans talks to American scholar Harold Bloom about the character of Shakespeare's Falstaff and his new book, Shakespeare, the Invention of the Human.
9.10 Part 2
3: 1944-5: Theatres of War and Peace
Verity Sharp introduces English music from Taverner to Tavener, Mundyto Martland.
In the third of this week's programmes of listeners' highlights from the past year, Alyn Shipton talks to altoist Jackie McLean. (R)
With Jonathan Swain.
12.05am Schuncke Grand Sonata, Op 3
12.30 Wolf-Ferrari Suite Concertino in F minor
12.50 Parac Pastorale
1.00 Shostakovich Symphony No 6
Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor
2.10 Schumann Humoreske, Op 20
2.35 Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso
2.50 Merikanto Scherzo for orchestra
3.00 Weiner Serenade in Fminor
3.20 Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings
3.45 Ord Adam Lay Ybounden Part Magnificat
4.00 Baker Contours
4.10 Forqueray La Morangis ou la Plissay
4.15 Schoeck Violin Concerto in B flat
4.55 Hendrik Andriessen Magna Res EstAmor
5.00 Wagner Prelude, Act 1: Lohengrin
5.05 Liszt Liebestraume
5.15 Brahms Four Songs, Op 17
5.35 Faure Elegie
5.45 Elgar Serenade for Strings
