Presented by Tommy Pearson. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Lauridsen Ave Maria Polyphony, director Stephen Layton Brahms Variations on a theme by Paganini, Op 35 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
8.00-9.00: Britten Matinées Musicales
National Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor
Richard Bonynge Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor Maxin Vengerov , Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur
With Rob Cowan. Including some of the recordings of Bach's motets recommended in yesterday's CD Review. Plus:
Purcell Overture: Timon of Athens
The English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock Morley Hard by a Crystal Fountain
Consorte of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley Khachaturian Gayne (excerpts)
National PO, conductor Loris Tjeknavorian Chernyavsky I've Been at a Party; Kalinka Nadezhda Plevitskaya (mezzo), with piano Chopin Waltzes , Op 64 Nos 2 and 3 Vlado Perlemuter (piano)
Mozart Symphony No 41 in C, K551 (Jupiter) Cleveland Orchestra, conductor George Szell
Bach Toccata in D, BWV912 Lise de la Salle (piano) Haydn Solo e Pensoso, H XXIVb 20
Arleen Auger (soprano), Handel and Haydn Society, director Christopher Hogwood
Debussy, transcr Hartmann 11 Pleure dans Mon Coeur ; La Fille aux Cheveux de Un; Beau Soir Philippe Graffin (violin), Claire Desert (piano) Finzi Let Us Garlands Bring, Op 19 Roderick Williams (baritone), lain Burnside (piano) James Hewitt Yankee Doodle with nine variations Olivier Baumont (harpsichord)
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The architect Nicholas Grimshaw , whose public buildings have included the international rail terminal at London's Waterloo Station and the Eden Project in Cornwall, shares his musical passions for Bach, Haydn, Schumann, Britten and Thomas Ades with Michael Berkeley.
Carissimi Catherine Bott celebrates the 400th anniversary of Giacomo Carissimi , one of the most celebrated Italian composers of the 17th century.
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize
1/5. lain Burnside and Humphrey Burton are at the New Theatre in Cardiff to follow every stage of the renowned, biennial, week-long song competition. Today they report on the first four of the 18 international competitors. The next programme is on Tuesday at 1pm
BBC Singer of the World Hears is on BBC4 tomorrow night at 8.30pm
New series 1/4. Humphrey Burton looks at families for whom music is their lifeblood. Today he meets the three generations of the Wallf isch family. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived imprisonment in Auschwitz because she played the cello in the camp's orchestra. She married international pianist Peter Wallf isch. Their son Raphael is also a cellist, and of Raphael's children, Benjamin is a composer and conductor, Joanna is a jazz singer and Simon is a baritone and a cellist. They discuss how music is an integral part of family life, with recordings of various members of the family performing music with very particular family ties.
From Gloucester Cathedral.
Responses: Sumsion. Psalms: 42,43 (Wesley). First Reading: Genesis 1, vv1-8. Canticles: Wood in D. Second Reading: John 1, vvl-14. Anthem: In the Beginning (Copland). Organ Voluntary: Hommage a Igor Stravinsky (Naji Hakim ). Director of music Andrew Nethsingha.
Assistant director of music Robert Houssart.
Including a major interview with the charismatic conductor, pianist and composer André Previn as he celebrates his 75th birthday with a London Symphony Orchestra concert series. Plus a profile of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski and, as part of the BBC's A Picture of Britain series, an investigation into the relationship between landscape and music. Introduced by Tom Service . Producer Jeremy Evans
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Conductor Marin Alsop
Bernstein described his mixture of opera, rock, blues, Broadway and the Catholic mass as "a theatre piece about a mass". This work for singers, players and dancers caused a storm of controversy at its first performance in 1971. Presented by Tommy Pearson. Recorded last week at the Barbican Hall, London. Bernstein Mass
Jean Genet 's darkly disturbing play about suppressed hatred and oppression, newly translated for radio by Neil Bartlett.
Set in 1940s Paris, two sisters indulge in erotic and secret rituals of revenge against their wealthy employers - with fatal consequences.
Music by David Pickvance Director Gemma Jenkins
Hector Berlioz 1803-69 1/5. Berlioz the Songwriter
David Cairns and Donald Macleod discuss
Berlioz's contribution to songwriting.
This series was last broadcast Mon 23-Fri 27 May at 12 noon
With Louise Fryer. Rossini Stabat Mater 2.00 Lipatti Fantaisie, Op 8 2.25 Sibelius Symphony No 13.05 Wikander
An Evening Early in Spring 3.15 Bach Lute Partita in C minor, BWV997 3.40 Purcell Timon of Athens (excerpt) 4.00
Demersseman Concert Fantasy, Op 36 4.15 Berlioz Marche Hongroise (La Damnation de Faust) 4.20 Weber Invitation to the Dance 4.25 Ravel Violin Sonata in G 4.45 Gershwin, arr Lundin Porgy and Bess (excerpts) 5.00 Mortelmans Lyrical Poem 5.10 Chopin Polonaise in C minor, Op 40 No 2
5.15 Du Mont 0 Salutaris Hostia 5.20 Turina Circulo, Op 91
5.35 Faure En Prière 5.35 Hiie Phantasy 5.45 D Scarlatti Two Keyboard Sonatas in C, Kk420 and 4215.50 Tallis Loquebantur Variis Linguis 5.55 Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis 6.10 Crusell After Friend's Death 6.15 Norman String Quartet in C, Op 42
6.45 Wagenaar Overture: Frithjof's Sea Voyager
