With Edward Seckerson. Monteverdi Mentre VagaAngioletta
6.40 Salieri Piccola Serenata in B
7.00 Rossini Overture: The Silken Ladder
7.40 Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor
8.00 Mozart Soave Sia il Vento (Cosi Fan Tutte)
8.40 Schumann Konzertstuck in F. Op 86
Boyce Symphony No 1 in B flat
9.15 Boddecker Natus EstJesu
9.20 J Strauss (son) Waltz: Morning Papers
9.30 Debussy Danse; Mazurka
9.45 Howells A Spotless Rose; Here Is the Little Door; Sing Lullaby
10.00 Tchaikovsky Suite: The Nutcracker
10.20 Pleyel Trio Concertant in E flat
10.35 Bach Cantata No 152: Tritt auf die
Glaubensbahn
10.50 Musgrave Excursions
11.00 Bemers Fantaisie Espagnole
11.15 Haydn Piano Sonata in C, H XVI 50
11.50 Vivaldi Dopo un' Orrida Procella (Griselda)
11.55 Milhaud Ballet: La Création du Monde
Geoffrey Smith explores what it is about
American music that makes it sound
American. From Copland's cowboy ballets to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue; from Ives's Three Places In New Englandto Ellington's Harlem and from Partch's home-made instruments to the anti-symphonic electric groups of Reich and Glass. With contributions from musicologists Dave Nicholls and Misha Donat , conductor Leonard Slatkin and composers Steve Reich , Steve Montague , John Adams , Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson. (R)
Verity Sharp presents a recital of music by Sibelius given at London's Wigmore Hall earlier this month.
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Nils Erik -Sparf (violin), Bengt Forsberg (piano) Music includes:
Sibelius Songs, Op 13
Scene d Amour (Scaramouche, Op 71)
Songs: Hennes Budskap , Op 90 No 2; Var Deten Drom, Op 3 7 No
Songs: Lenzgesang, Op 50 No 1; Die Stille Stadt, Op 50 No 5; Saf, SafSusa, Op 36 No 4; Fagellek, Op 17 No 3
Serenade, Op 79 No 4; Humoresque, Op 115 No 3; The Bells (Capriccietto, Op 115 No 4)
Songs: HertigMagnus, Op 57 No 6; Norden,Op90Nol
Pieces for violin and piano, Op 116
John Ireland. Drawing on the BBC archives, Piers Lane considers the reputation of the English composer and pianist John Ireland. The programme includes a recording of his song cycle The Land of Lost Content, with tenor Peter Pears , and the Piano Concerto with Eileen Joyce and Malcolm Sargent. John Ireland is featured on a BBC Legends CD available from retail outlets now.
Bach Cities: Leipzig and Dresden. In his final years, Bach devoted his composing energies to extended works such as the B Minor Mass and The Art of Fugue. But as a performer, he was busy giving regular concerts of smaller-scale pieces. Joshua Rifkin traces the story of Bach's last period and looks for answers to the many questions about Bach's life, his personality and his music in the churches, palaces and coffee houses of Leipzig and Dresden.
In March of this year composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim celebrated his 70th birthday. While in Britain earlierthis month Sondheim took time off to sit at a piano with Jeremy Sams and talk about the important things in life- "colour and light", music and art. See also Tuesday 2 January 7.30pm
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From Wilton's Music Hall in London's East End, Karl Minns and Owen Evans, better known as the Nimmo Twins, host a guide to fooling illustrated by classic fool scenes from Shakespeare, performed by a cast of distinguished actors.
A Late Night Prom given at the Royal Albert Hall in 1992. Anne Dawson (soprano), Lontano, BBC
Singers, conductor Odaline de la Martinez Villa-Lobos Choros No 7; Quartet for flute, alto saxophone, celeste, harp and women's voices; Bachianas Brasileiras No 9; Bachianas Brasileiras No 5; Nonet(R)
Christmas Cantatas from Germany
Paul Guinery introduces three seasonal rarities from 19th-century Germany.
Thora Einarsdottir (soprano), Detlef Roth (baritone), German Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra/Robert Gritton Bruch Die Flucht der Heilige Familie, Op 20
Mendelssohn Vom Himmel Hoch
Rheinberger DerStem von Bethlehem, Op 164
Colin Currie (percussion). Boys of Manchester Grammar School Choir, Withington Girls School Choir, conductor James Macmillan
James MacMillan Britannia ; Magnificat; Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
With Jill Anderson.
Part Kanon Pojakanen
2.15 Gade Octet in F for strings, Op 17
2.50 Ravel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
3.10 Schubert Don Gayseros, D93
3.25 Karlowicz Stanislav and Anna, Op 12
3.50 Zelenka De Profundis in D minor (Psalm 129)
4.00 Touchemoulin Sinfonia in B flat
4.15 JCF Bach Trio in C
4.25 Rosenmuller Sinfonia Quinta
4.45 Svendsen Carnival in Paris
5.00 Hummel Overture No 1 in B flat, Op 101
5.15 Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No 1
5.30 Mozart Divertimento in D, K136
5.45 Fesch Concerto in G, Op 5 No 3
