With
Penny Gore . Strauss Prelude (Capriccio)
6.50 Stanley Organ Concerto in E, Op 10 Nol
7.00 Schubert Overture in D in the Italian
Style, D590
7.40 Janacek On an Overgrown Path, Book 1 (excerpts)
8.05 Purcell Incidental music (Abdelazer)
8.35 Hindemith Symphonic
Metamorphoses on a theme of Weber
5: Mozart in Prague (1 787). By 1787
Mozart's opera Le Nozze di Figaro had been a huge success and he'd been commissioned to write Don Giovanni. The new opera was very well received, Mozart was at last offered an appointment at court, and Constanze was expecting another baby-there was a lot to be hopeful about. Symphony No 38 in D, K504 (Prague) Czech PO, conductor Rafael Kubelik Masonic Funeral Music, K4 77 Staatskapelle Dresden, conductor Peter Schreier
Bella Mia Fiamma , K528 Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Vienna Chamber Orchestra, conductor Gyorgy Fischer Don Giovanni (final scene)
Luba Orgonosova and Charlotte Margiono (sopranos), Eirian James (mezzo),
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), lldebrando d'Archangelo (baritone), Julian Clarkson (bass), English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Michael Donaghy talks about his new travelling poetry show A Fine Excess.
With Jonathan Swain.
Ravel Alborada del Gracioso
Chicago SO, conductor Fritz Reiner
10.13 Brahms Three Intermezzi , Op 117 Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
10.28 Rameau Hippolyte etAricie (excerpt) Patricia Petibon (soprano), Eirian James (mezzo), Mark Padmore (tenor), Les Arts Florissants, conductor William Christie
10.46 Stravinsky Le Chant du Rossignol Chicago SO, conductor Fritz Reiner
11.08 Brahms Four Pieces, Op 119 Emanuel Ax (piano)
Artist in Focus: Emma Kirkby
Brian Kay talks to the British soprano and introduces some of her more recent concert and studio performances. Hasse Solitudini Campestre With London Baroque
Bach Cantata No 199: Mein Herz
Schwimmt im Blut With the Freiburg
Baroque Orchestra directed by Gottfried von der Goltz
Handel Cantata: ArmidaAbbandonata, HWV105 With the Academy of Ancient Music directed by Andrew Manze
Bach Cantata No 82a: Ich Habe Genug With the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra directed by Gottfried von der Goltz
Beyond Bach II
Lucie Skeaping introduces the second of four concerts repeated from last year's
Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music at St John's, Smith Square, in London. Today cellist Richard Lester and pianist Susan Tomes perform music by Bach and some of his admirer-arrangers.
Bach, arr Schumann Suite No 3 in C,
BWV1009 Bach , arr Busoni Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue
Bach, arr Gounod Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de piano de Bach Bach Viola da Gamba Sonata in G, BWV1027(R)
Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo andJuliet Conductor Grant Llewellyn Scriabin Poem of Ecstasy Conductor Grant Llewellyn
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 2 Steven Isserlis , conductor Mark Wigglesworth Glazunov Symphony No 7 in F Conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Erroll Garner
Julian Joseph introduces recordings by the popular American pianist, including a BBC session from 1964 with Edward Calhoun (bass) and Kelly Martin (drums).
Sean Rafferty introduces news from the arts world and a selection of music.
Wigmore Hall Centenary Concert II
In the second of the Wigmore Hall's gala centenary concerts, Stephanie Hughes introduces some of today's greatest singers in a programme devised and accompanied by Graham Johnson , entitled An Evening of Magic and Miracles. Barbara Bonney (soprano), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Matthias Gome (baritone),
Zachary Williamson (boy soprano),
Edin Karamazov (lute),Graham Johnson (piano)
8.00 Interval: The Story of the Wigmore Hall
Performers associated with the Wigmore Hall reflect on how mere bricks and mortar have inspired such universal affection and respect. Introduced by Anthony Burton.
8.25 Part 2
Paul Allen and guests discuss the impact of a new interest in pictures of the past and what they reveal. Plus a review of Closerto Heaven, Jonathan Harvey 's new musical with the Pet Shop Boys.
John Butcher and Steve Noble
This week's show features a session by two of the UK's leading improvisers: John Butcher (saxophone) and Steve Noble (percussion). Butcher is the leader of a generation of saxophone players who have taken on board the extended techniques pioneered by Evan Parker , and Steve Noble is a veteran of Derek Bailey 's Company Festival and the Hans Koch Big Band. Presented by Jez Nelson , who also presents his monthy roundup of new contemporary jazz releases.
Producers Steve Shepherd and Kathryn Willgress
With Jill Anderson.
A complete performance of Rossini's La Cenerentola.
3.40 Kodaly Dances from Galanta
3.45 Martinu Clarinet Sonata
4.00 Schickhardt Concerto in G minor
4.25 Verdi Alzira (excerpts)
4.40 Eespere Sub Specie Quietatis
4.50 Bernstein Overture: Candide
5.05 Puccini, transcr Epstein La Boheme (excerpts)
5.15 Falla, arr Gregor Piatigorsky Ritual Fire Dance (El Amor Brujo)
5.25 Praetorius Meine Seele Erhebt den Herrn (Deutsches Magnificat)
5.40 Wagner O Du Mein Holder Abendstern (Tannhauser)
5.45 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in F minor
