With Tommy Pearson. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Tallis Audivi Vocem Tallis Scholars , director Peter Phillips Mozart Symphony No 33 in B flat, K319 English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
8.00-9.00: Bruhns Praeludium in G Piet Kee (organ of Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark)
Beethoven, arr Mitropoulos String Quartet in F, Op 135 Strings of the Vienna PO, conductor Leonard Bernstein Janacek Gloria (Glagolitic Mass) Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano), Frantisek Livora (tenor), Jan Hora (organ), Prague Philharmonic Chorus,
Czech PO, conductor Charles Mackerras
With Rob Cowan. Regular features include The Innocent Ear and a Bargain Hunter CD recommendation. Plus a recording from the Biber survey in yesterday's CD Review. Music also includes:
Franck Pièce Héroïque
Marie-Claire Alain (organ)
Maxwell Davies Lullaby for Lucy
BBC Singers, conductor Simon Joly
Beethoven Piano Sonata in E, Op 14 No 1 Jan Panenka
Respighi The Birds LSO, conductor Antal Dorati Rachmaninov Aleko 's Cavatina (Aleko) Mark Reizen (bass), Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, conductor Vassili Nebolsin
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Michael Berkeley 's guest is novelist James Hamilton-Paterson , whose first novel,
Gerontius, won the 1989 Whitbread First
Novel Award. His musical tastes encompass two members of the Bach family, Haydn,
ETA Hoffmann, Richard Strauss , Elgar and the American composer Ned Rorem.
The Great Fire of London
Lucie Skeaping surveys the music written in London at the time of the Great Fire of 1666.
Stephanie Hughes presents a recital from Wigmore Hall by German baritone
Christian Gerhaher and his accompanist Gerhold Huber , who perform lieder by Robert Schumann. Schumann Myrthen , Op 25 (excerpts);
Dichterliebe, Op 48; Sechs Gedichte und
Requiem, Op 90; Die Lowenbraut, Op 31 No 1; Derarme Peter , Op 53 No 3; Belsatzar, Op 57
Tom Robinson talks to cellist Steven Isserlis about why he regards Catalan cellist Pablo Casals as such an iconic musician. With recordings of solo Bach, chamber music by Schubert and Beethoven, and orchestral pieces by Dvorak and Schumann. Producer Alan Hall
Among this week's selection of requests are rarities by cellist Amaryllis Fleming, daughter of painter Augustus John and half-sister of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Plus Peter Maxwell Davies's Ojai Festival Overture, Vladimir Horowitz playing Bach at Carnegie Hall, and the first in a series of listeners' recommendations of composers conducting their own works.
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Tom Service interviews mezzo Janet Baker , one of the most beloved voices of the 20th century. Plus a look at Joachim Kohler 's new biography of Richard Wagner. And, with a season of horror films at the National Film
Theatre, a look at the way music has expressed fear in the movies. Producer Paul Frankl
Strings Attached: William Primrose Centenary Viola Festival
Born in Glasgow in 1904, Primrose was one of the world's greatest viola players and commissioners of new music for the instrument. This Glasgow festival celebrating his art and legacy began in November with the first performance of a BBC commission played by one of today's leading violists. Presented by Sandy Burnett.
Lawrence Power (viola), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins Andrew Toovey Viola Concerto (first performance; BBC commission)
Dvorak Symphonic Variations, Op 78
Coverage of this festival continues tomorrow at 7.30pm and in Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Tuesday-Friday at lpm
Edward Albee 's classic American play is given a new production. Two married couples tear each other's lives apart in a drunken brawl after a university party. For the older couple, George and Martha, it's part of the ritual of their marriage; but on this particular night things go too far.
Director Cherry Cookson
1/5. The Journey to the First Symphony Danish composer Carl Nielsen started sketching his first symphony during his travels in Europe in 1890, completing it at the age of 27. Donald Macleod looks at five of Nielsen's six symphonies this week, each of which marks a stage in the composer's life. Springtime on Funen, Op 42 (excerpt) Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Summer Song, Op 10 No 3 Elisabeth Rehling (soprano), Dorte Kirkeskov (piano)
Song behind the Plough, Op 10 No 4
Jorgen Klint (bass), Rosalind Bevan (piano)
String Quartet No 1 (excerpt) Zapolski Quartet Symphony No 1 LSO, conductor Andre Previn Repeated from Monday
With Louise Fryer.
Mendelssohn St Paul 3.00 Bach Cor Anglais Concerto in A, BWV1055 3.15 Reger Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, Op 135b 3.35 Schulhoff Duo for violin and cello
3.50 Bartok Suite: The Miraculous Mandarin 4.05 Hiev String Quartet No 1 4.25 Purcell Birthday Ode: Come Ye Sons of Art Away4.50 Rubinstein, transcr Lhevlnne Kamenniy-Ostrov , Op 10 No 22 5.00 Mozart Overture: Don Giovanni 5.05 Strauss Traumerei. Op 9 No 4
5.05 Kodaly Jesus and the Traders 5.15 Hungarian Tradition Dances from Csiksomelyo 5.20 Hellendaal Cello Sonata, Op 5 No 7 5.30 Bach Cantata No 54: Widerstehe doch derSunde 5.40 Mllhaud Suite,
Op 157b (Le Voyageur sans Bagages) 5.50 Prokofiev, an anon Waltz Suite 6.00 Szymanowski String Quartet No 1, Op 37 6.20 Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Op 53
6.30 Mozart Vinlin Cnnrertn Nn 4 in D K91R