Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Puccini 0 Mio Babbino Caro (Gianni Schicchi ) Renee Fleming (soprano), LPO, conductor Charles Mackerras CPE Bach Piano Sonata in F sharp minor, Wq52 No 4 Mikhail Pletnev Mozart String Quartet in A, K169 Eder Quartet
8.30-10.00: Reinecke Sextet in B flat, Op 271 Manfred Klier (horn),
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet
Janacek Lachian Dances
Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Frantisek Jilek Telemann Suite: Don Quichotte
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
With Jonathan Swain.
Mozart Symphony No 32 in G, K318
Prague CO, conductor Charles Mackerras
10.09 Dowland The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (excerpts)
Pro Cantione Antiqua, Christopher Wilson (lute), William Hunt (viola da gamba), director Ian Partridge (tenor)
10.24 Listener request:
Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor, D845 Andreas Staier (period piano)
11.02 Schutz Hodie Christus Natus Est; Fill Mi,
Absalon Pro Cantione Antiqua, London Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble, Ian Gammie (violone), Alan Cuckston (organ), conductor Edgar Fleet
11.19 Mozart Symphony No 34 in C, K338 Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, conductor Frans Bruggen
11.45 Ravenscroft
Yonder Comes a Courteous Knight; I Cannot Come Every Day: Give Us Once a Drink
Pro Cantione Antiqua, conductor Mark Brown
2/5. Foreign Culture. Donald Macleod investigates how Ravel was able to incorporate exotic flavours into his original compositions by drawing on imagination rather than personal experience. Cats' Due: (L'Enfant et les Sortileges)
Jane Berbie (soprano), Camille Maurane
(baritone), French Radio National Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel
Alborada del Gracioso (Miroirs) Vlado Perlemuter (piano)
Asie (Sheherazade) Maria Ewing (soprano),
City of Birmingham SO, conductor Simon Rattle Overture: Sheherazade New York Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez
How's Your Mug? (L'Enfant et les Sortileges)
Jacqueline Miura (mezzo), Mark Tucker (tenor), LSO, conductor Andre Previn
Chansons Madecasses Jessye Norman (soprano), Michel Debost (flute),
Renaud Fontanarosa (cello) Rptd on Monday at midnight
BBC New Generation Artists in Manchester
1/4. The young Polish ensemble the Royal Quartet kick off this series of recitals recorded at the Bridgewater Hall. Introduced by Verity Sharp. Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 77 No 1 Bartok String Quartet No 6
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Presented by Sarah Walker
Bartok Dance Suite Conductor llan
Volkov John McLeod Percussion Concerto
Colin Currie , conductor Yasuo Shinozaki
Ligeti Romanian Concerto Conductor llan Volkov Stanley Bate Symphony No 3 Conductor Edward Gardner
An arrangement of Blackbird by the Beatles, a song from Disney's The Jungle Book, and a musical description of the planet Mercury, presented for younger listeners by Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson.
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Songs that describe the hallucinogenic, the phantasmagorical and the hypersensitised, including Schubert's night songs, the surreal sound-world of early Schoenberg and Berg, and the psychedelic visions of the late 20th century. Presented by lain Burnside.
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, with guests and news of the arts world.
Shostakovich Complete String Quartets
3/6. Stephanie Hughes introduces another concert from London's Wigmore Hall. Eva Ostrovsky (piano), Aviv Quartet
Shostakovich String Quartet No 15, Op 144; Piano Quintet, Op 57
3/6. Piano Sonata in C, K279 Shani Dikuka
Piano Sonata in E flat, K282 Boyan Kirilov Kolarov
2/5. The Return of Faith. Paul Allen and guests discuss China's surprising, new-found relationship with the "opium of the masses". How much is it an attempt to temper the excesses of the new consumer capitalism, and how much to protect against the disillusionment of China's 100 million itinerant workers for whom the economic miracle has not yet happened but upon whom the economy, and the 2008 Olympics, depends? Producer Zahid Warley
Verity Sharp with Arvo Part's Spiegel im Spiegel and a mid-16th-century ricercare by Modena.
3/5. Heiligenstadt. With Donald Macleod. Overture: The Creatures of Prometheus
Scottish CO, conductor Charles Mackerras Violin Sonata in C minor, Op 30 No 2
Gideon Kremer , Martha Argerich (piano)
Abscheulicher; Prisoner's Chorus (Fidelio, Act 1) Soloists, Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Otto Klemperer Rptd from wed at 12 noon
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