Presented by Martin Handley.
7.00 8.00 : Svendsen Norwegian Rhapsody No 2, Op 19 Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor, Op 49
8.00 9.00 : Wagner The Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walkure) Dussek Piano Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 61 (Elegie Harmonique) Monteverdi Magnificat (Vespro delta Beata Vergine)
With Rob Cowan. Including the recording of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire recommended on yesterday's CD Review. The programme includes: Boyce Symphony No 5 in B flat
Menuhin Festival Orchestra/Yehudi Menuhin Rossini String Sonata No 3
NBC Symphony Orchestra/Arturo Toscanini Beethoven Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 27 No (Quasi una Fantasia) Bruno Leonardo Gelber Haydn Symphony No 94 in G (Surprise) Bavarian RSO/Carlo Maria Giulini
Turina Rapsodia Sinfonica Alicia de Larrocha (piano), LPO/Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos
Fasch Concerto for two oboes and bassoon
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra/Jeanne Lamon
Michael Berkeley 's guest is the film director Sally Potter. Her musical passions include tangos by Pugliese and Piazzolla, and piano music by Bach, Beethoven and Henry Cowell.
Made in Britain Month
8/8. Concerto Caledonia play Scottish music, including items from James Robertson 's music book of 1800, and music by James Oswald and Alexander Reinagle. And Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits the Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments in Edinburgh. Presented by Catherine Bott.
Presented by Stephanie Hughes.
Frank Peter Zimmerman (violin), Heinrich Schiff (cello), Christian Zacharias (piano)
Schubert Piano Trios: in B flat, D898; in E flat, D929
2/2. Hymns and Odes. Christopher Cook looks at the British fascination with St Cecilia. With music by Finzi, Boyce, Philips, Blow. Howells and Britten.
Listeners' requests, including Saint-Saens's
Organ symphony, the Bassoon Concerto in B flat by Mozart's contemporary Antonio Rosetti , and Ravel's Introduction and Allegro.
PHONE: [number removed]0300 (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) email via www.bbc.co.uk/radio3 Address: 3 for All, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YO
Why Are We Downhearted about the Arts?
Arts circles are becoming depressed by the endless fight for funding, the decline of public education and the wilful idiocy of mass media. But arethings really so bad? Could the appetite for artistic and spiritual experience be growing outside the institutional circuit? With Norman Lebrecht and guests. Listeners may ring or email their views. Email: lebrecht.live@bbc.co.uk or phone (during the programme): [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Producer Tony Cheevers
From the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge. Advent Prose: Rorate Coeli (Byrd). Processional Hymn: 0 Come, 0 Come, Emmanuel. Bidding Prayer. Carol: A Tender Shoot (Goldschmidt). The Message of Advent: Sentence and Collect. Antiphons: 0 Sapientia; 0 Adonia. First Lesson: Isaiah 11, vvl-5. Carol: I Know a Flower (Jackson). Second Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5, vv1-11. Motet: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Bairstow).
The WordofGod: Sentence and Collect. Antiphons: 0 Radix Jesse; 0 Clavis David. Motet: The Cry of Elisha after Elijah (Lewis). Third Lesson: Micah 4, vv1-4. Motet: Richte Mich Gott (Mendelssohn). Fourth Lesson: Luke 4, vv14-21. Hymn: Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus.
The Prophetic Call: Sentence and Collect.
Antiphons: 0 Oriens; 0 Rex Gentium Carol:
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (arr Willcocks). Fifth Lesson: Malachi 3, vvl-7. Motet: The Clouded
Heaven (Bingham). Sixth Lesson: Matthew 3, vv1-11. Hymn: On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry. The Christ Bearer: Sentence and Collect. Antiphon: 0 Emmanuel. Carol: Telling God's Story
(Wilberforce). Seventh Lesson: Luke 1, vv39-49.
Motet: Ave Maria (Elgar). The Magnificat: Jackson in G. Eighth Lesson: John 3, vv1-8. Sentence and Christmas Collect. Carol: There Is a Flower (Rutter). Hymn: Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending. College Prayer and Blessing. Organ Voluntary: Wachet auf (Bach). Director of music David Hill. Organists Paul Provost and Leon Charles.
A new radio version of William Shakespeare's drama - with a contemporary twist.
(A Midsummer Night's Dream is on BBC1 tomorrow at 8.30pm)
The Malian city of Timbuktu possesses a unique manuscript collection of world importance.
Joan Baxter enters into the homes and libraries of the people who are bringing this rich history into the 21st century. Producer Louise Yeoman
With Susan Sharpe.
Handl Motets (selection)
1.54 Mouton Pieces de lute in C minor
2.23 Franck 11 Miniatures
2.38 Schoenberg Pelleas und Melisande, Op 5
3.21 Reqer Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht, Op 110 No 2
3.38 Haydn Piano Sonata in C minor, H XVI20
3.56 Handel Overture: Giulio Cesare
3.59 Wassenaer Concerto Armonico No 2 in B flat
4.11 A. Scarlatti Toccata in A
4.20 Schubert Der Pilgrim, D794
4.25 Lithander Divertimento No 1
4.34 Beethoven Overture and ballet music: Prometheus
4.51 Bach, arr Manze Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565
5.00 Byrd O Lord, How Vain
5.06 Grieg Ase's Death (Peer Gynt)
5.10 Tchaikovsky String Quartet in D. Op 11 (2nd mvt)
5.17 Gesualdo Tribulationem et Dolorem Inveni
5.21 Mozart Dove Sono (Le Nozze di Figaro)
5.27 Wolf Italian Serenade
5.36 Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
5.48 Linnala The Sea; Valsette
5.55 Glazunov Lyric Poem in D flat, Op 12
6.06 Messiaen Theme and Variations
6.15 Brahms Five Choral Songs, Op 104
6.29 Ravel String Quartet
