Each day this week presenter Penny Gore focuses on the composers and performers of a European country. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Balakirev Overture on Russian Themes (Russia) Philharmonia, conductor Lovro von Matacic Schumann Papillons, Op 2 Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Musorgsky The Lad's Dream: Sorochintsy Fair Viko Obnosov (tenor), Russian State Symphonic Cappella and SO, conductor Valeri Poliansky Borodin Polovtsian
Dances (Prince Igor) Kirov Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Valeri Gergiev
8.30-10.00: Beethoven String Quartet in C, Op 59 No 3 (Razumovsky) Borodin Quartet Tchaikovsky Overture: 1812, Op 49
New York PO, conductor Leonard Bernstein
With Rob Cowan. Featuring Bach's
Well Tempered Clavier and recordings by French violinist GinetteNeveu.
Bach Well Tempered Clavier: Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV846 Edward Aldwell (piano) Prelude and Fugue in C minor,
BWV847 Kenneth Gilbert (harpsichord)
10.11 Sibelius Violin Concerto, Op 46 Ginette Neveu , Philharmonia, conductor Walter Susskind
10.44 Bach Well Tempered Clavier: Prelude and Fugue in C sharp, BWV848 Rosalyn Tureck (piano)
Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor, BWV849 Daniel Chorzempa (organ)
10.57 Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet Philharmonia , conductor Guido Cantelli
11.17 Bach Prelude and Fugue in D, BWV874 (Well Tempered Clavier) Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
11.28 Chabrier Fete Polonaise (Le Roi
Malgré Lui) Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Ernest Ansermet
11.43 Bizet Finale, Act 4: Carmen Pai
Tassinari (Carmen: soprano), Franco Corelli (Don Jose: tenor), Turin Radio Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Arturo Basile
11.55 Bach, arr Lewis Fugue in D, BWV850b (Well Tempered Clavier) John Lewis (piano)
(1797-1828) 1/5. Formative Years:
Schubert in Love? In conversation with Donald Macleod , Leo Black , author of a study of Schubert's religious nature, traces its influence on a variety of works. GesangderGeisteruberdenWassern, D714 Arnold Schoenberg Choir and Ensemble, conductor Erwin Ortner
Kyrie; Credo; Agnus Dei (Mass No 1 in F,
D105) Prague Chamber Choir, Virtuosi di Praga, conductor Andreas Weiser
Geheimnis, D491 Werner Krenn (tenor), Gerald Moore (piano)
Overture in the Italian Style in D, D590 Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch
Sanctus and Benedictus (Mass No 4 in C, D452) Lucia Popp (soprano), Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch
Producer Piers Burton-Page Repeated Sun 12 midnight
From the Wigmore Hall in London.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.
Truls Mork (cello), Kathryn Stott (piano) Miaskovsky Cello Sonata No 1, Op 12 Prokofiev Cello Sonata, Op 119
Rachmaninov Vocalise, Op 34 No 14
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Towhetthe appetite forthe BBCSO'sJohn Cage weekend starting on Friday, a series of music by Cage's peers and predecessors. Presented by Graeme Kay.
Virgil Thomson Suite: The Plow That Broke the Plains
Hanson Elegy in Memory of my Friend Sergei Koussevitzky
Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements Conductor Andrew Davis
Hovhaness Meditation on Zeami Conductor Douglas Bostock
Ives The Unanswered Question Conductor Leonard Slatkin Roy Harris Symphony No 3 Conductor Grant Llewellyn
Music for younger listeners presented by CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson. With music for amorous dogs, fast machines and strange harps.
As Sondheim's Sweeney Todd makes its debut run at the Royal Opera House,
Edward Seckerson hosts an exploration of the current boundaries between opera and musical theatre. Guests include Antonio Pappano , Thomas Allen , Julia McKenzie and Paul Gemignani.
ADDRESS: Stage and Screen, Room 220, Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreen@bbc.co.uk
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and arts news.
Martin Handley presents a concert from the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.
Isobel Van Keulen (violin), Halle' Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder
Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor
Luke Bedford Rode with Darkness (first performance; BBC commission) Shostakovich Symphony No 6
Susan Hitch considers the life and works of psychoanalyst Carl Jung , and Will Self's first collection of short stories, Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe. Producer Ariane Koek
Fiona Talkington presents piano improvisations by Josep Maria Balanya and John Wolf Brennan , the music of Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi and sound sculptor Claudine Brahem , and a waltz from the Chiapas highlands of Mexico. And throughout the week, music from accordionist Karen Tweed.
2/5. With Donald Macleod.
A Prayer for the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty; The Most High and Mighty Christianus , the Fourth King of Denmark, His Galliard; Dowland's Adieu for Master Oliver Cromwell ; The Second Book of Songs (excerpts); Wilt Thou Unkind , Thus Reave Me? Repeated from Tuesday
With Louise Fryer.
Swedish chamber music: Emil Sjogren Piano Sonata No 2 in A, Op 44 Ture
Rangstrom Suite No 2 for violin and piano (In Modo Barocco) Ludvig Norman String
Quartet in E, Op 20 1.50 Sibelius Symphony No 6 2.20 Schubert Die Schone Mullerin , D795 3.25 Rachmaninov Etudes-Tableaux , Op 39 Nos 1-6 3.50 Strauss Dance of the Seven Veils; Ah! Du Wolltest Mich Nicht Deinen Mund Kussen Lassen (Salome)
4.15 Alpaerts Salome 's Dance of the Seven Veils 4.25Lassus Luxuriosa Res
Vinum 4.30 Pisendel Sonata in C minor for two oboes 4.35 Saint-Saens Morceau de
Concert in G, Op 154 4.50 Dupre Cortege et Litanie 5.00 Faure Piano Quartet No I in C minor, Op 15 5.30 Rangstrom Violin
Partita 5.45Schuyt Voi Bramate, Ben Mio
5.50 Abel Symphony in D, Op 10 No
6.00 Bach Orchestral Suite No I in C,
BWV1066 6.20 Melartin Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 60 6.50 Wagner Prelude, Act 3: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg