With Sarah Walker. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Komgold Overture: Schauspiel Haydn String Quartet in B fiat. Op 64 No 3
8.00-9.00: Falla Canciones Populares Espanolas
Strauss Burleske for piano and orchestra
With Rob Cowan. Regularfeatures include The Innocent Ear and a Bargain Hunter CD recommendation. Plus excerpts from the recording of Mozart's Die Zauberflote recommended on yesterday's CD Review. Other music includes:
Busoni Giga , Bolero e Variazione (An die
Jugend) (after Mozart) Anatol Ugorsky (piano) Wieniawski Polonaise Brilliant No 1, Op 4 Jascha Heifetz (violin), Emanuel Bay (piano) Bach Air (Orchestral Suite No 3 in D,
BWV1068) (Air on a G String) Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), unnamed string orchestra directed by Nikolai Anosov Couperin La Francoise (Les Nations,
Premiere Ordre) Frans Briiggen (flute), JaapSchroder (violin), Anner Bylsma
(cello), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) Email your comments to: cowancollection@bbc.co.uk
Michael Berkeley 's guest today is the writer John Julius Norwich , whose musical choices range from the Viennese classics to Monteverdi, Rossini and Verdi.
Follow the Lieder. Lucie Skeaping traces the early development of German Lied. With music by Oswald von Wolkenstein , Adam von Fulda , Heinrich Isaac and LudwigSenfl.
Praise and Be Prepared!
A programme of American songs of praise interspersed with John Cage 's Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano, plus the first performance of his Variations I for Stephen Montague. Presented by John Tusa , live from LSO St Luke's in London.
Rolf Hind (piano), Deborah Miles-Johnson (mezzo), BBC Symphony Chorus, conductor Stephen Jackson
Henry Billings Let Tyrants Shake Their Iron Rod (Tune: Chester)
Virgil Thomson Four Southern Hymns
John Cage Sonatas 1, 2 and 3 (Sonatas and Interludes)
Alan Hovhaness Psalm 143: Hear My Prayer, OLord, Op 149 Ives Psalm 67
Randall Thompson Alleluia
John Cage Sonatas 4, 5 and 6 (Sonatas and Interludes)
Aaron Copland In the Beginning
John Cage Sonatas 11 and 12 (Sonatas and Interludes); Variations I for Stephen Montague (first performance)
4/4. Deborah Bull talks to
Shobana Jeyasingh about how hymns and Indian classical music have inspired her unique choreography. With music by Michael Nyman , Louis Couperin , Kevin Volans and llayaraja. Producer Lucy Greenwell
Cage and the New York School
Live from the Barbican in London. John
Tusa introduces music by the group of composers associated with Cage in the 1950s, members of the New York School. Ralph van Raat (piano), Clio Gould (violin), London Sinfonietta, conductor David Porcelijn Morton Feldman Madame Press Died Last
Week at Ninety
Christian Wolff Spring
John Cage Concerto for Prepared Piano
4.50 Twenty Minutes: Here's One I Made Earlier Pianist and composer
Stephen Montague lifts the lid on the prepared piano.
5.10 Earle Brown Centering
John Cage Apartment House 1776
Tom Service discusses the life and legacy of John Cage with experts, enthusiasts
- and those who knew him. Producer Paul Frankl
The Moving and the Still
By Howard Barker. In a monastery in 1450 a young scribe is passionately committed to his art. Then, a printing press from Germany arrives at the scriptorium.
Director Peter Kavanagh
Cage and Friends
Live from the Barbican Centre, London. John Tusa presents music by John Cage and works by two of his friends: Lou Harrison and Morton Feldman.
Frances M Lynch and Nicole Tibbels
(sopranos), Rolf Hind (piano), Paul Watkins (cello), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre-Andre Valade
Cage Songbooks (excerpts); A Flower;
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs; Seven Haiku
8.50 Twenty Minutes: In the Company of Mushrooms Ivan Hewett , who like John Cage is obsessed with mushrooms, discusses mycology with chef Antonio Carluccio and author Elios Schaechter.
9.10 Lou Harrison Symphony No 4 (lstmvt) Morton Feldman Cello and Orchestra
CagelOl (first UK performance)
Listening to the voices of present-day inhabitants of the Crimea, historian
Catherine Merridale investigates why there have been so many Crimean wars. Producer Tim Dee
1/5. Formative Years: Schubert in Love? With Donald Macleod and Leo Black.
Repeated from Monday
With Louise Fryer. Palestrina, arr Soriano Missa Papae
Marcelli Sandstrom Surge Aquilo
Frank Martin Mass Swedish Radio Chorus
2.05 Faure Nocturne in E flat, Op 36
2.10 Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain
2.35 Mozart String Quartet in G, K387
3.05 Sibelius Four Songs 3.15Jarnefelt The Sound of Home 3.25Canis Tota
Pulchra Es 3.30 Schenck Viola da Gamba
Sonata in E minor, Op 9 No 5 3.45 Pachelbel Canon and Gigue in D 3.50 Bach Cantata No 54: Widerstehe doch derSunde
4.05 Beethoven Variations on Quant' EPiu Bello , Wo069 4.10 Grieg Triumphal March (Sigurd Jorsalfar) 4.20 Martinu Variations on a Slovak Theme 4.30 Janequin La Chasse 4.35 Handel Rejoice Greatly,
0 Daughters of Zion (Messiah) 4.40 Wilms Rondo-Polonaise in D 4.50
Sarasate Zigeunerweisen , Op 20 5.00 Hannikainen First Snow 5.05 Kodaly Adagio
5.15 Debussy Prélude a I 'Apres-Midi d 'un Faune 5.25 Moszkowski Romance sans
Paroles 5.30 Purcell The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation 5.35 Henry Eccles Double Bass Sonata in G minor 5.45
Glinka Susanin 's aria (A Life for the Tsar)
5.50 Chopin Ballade in G minor, Op 23
6.00 Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
6.20 Rudolf Escher Ciel , Airet Vents
6.35 Dohnanyi Piano Quintet No 2, Op 26