07:00
21 March 2005
Presented by Sandy Burnett.
Music includes, from 7.00am
Ravel: Une Barque sur l?Ocean
Ulster Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Shostakovitch: Polka from The Golden Age (arr Anatoly Liuimov for marimba)
Rainer Kuisma (marimba)
Arcadelt: Lamentationes
Currende
Erik van Nevel (conductor)
Paganini: Variations on a Theme of Rossini (arr for two cellos by P Tortelier)
Paul and Maud Tortelier (cellos)
English Chamber Orchestra
Bach: Prelude in E flat, BWV 552,1
Ton Koopman (Silbermann organ of St Marien, Freiberg)
Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, Op 43 Act 1
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
From 8.30am
Ravel: Piano Trio in Am
Tortelier
Yan Pascal Tortelier (violin)
Paul Tortelier (cello)
Maria de la Pau (piano)
Lalande: Miserere mei Deus secundum - grand motet for soprano and choir
Claire Lefilliatre (soprano)
Le Poeme Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre (director)
10:00
21 March 2005
With Rob Cowan.
Featuring Mendelssohn piano music and recordings by Louis Kaufman
Steiner: In the Library (Gone with the Wind)
MGM Orchestra (leader Louis Kaufman)
Max Steiner (conductor)
Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Op 19 Nos 3 and 6; Op 38 Nos 2 and 6
Ignaz Friedman (piano)
JS Bach: Himmelskonig, sei willkommen, Cantata BWV 182
Claudia Hellmann (alto)
Helmut Krebs (tenor)
Erich Wenk (bass)
Heinrich Schutz Choir, Heilbron
Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra
Fritz Werner (conductor)
Bloch: Violin Sonata No 1
Louis Kaufman (violin)
Tina Pozzi (piano)
Berlioz: Queen Mab Scherzo (Romeo and Juliet)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch (conductor)
Carter: Suite from the Ballet Pocahontas
American Composers? Orchestra
Paul Dunkel (conductor)
Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Op 19 Nos 1 and 2
Stefan Askenase (piano)
Kern: The Song is You
Louis Kaufman (violin)
Leonard `Tiny? Berman (piano)
12:00
Elgar (1857 - 1934)
Part One
1/5. The Man Who Didn?t Belong: Donald Macleod looks at Elgar's life. Celebrated as the greatest English composer since Purcell, Elgar never felt part of the society he epitomised.
Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma') for Orchestra, Theme only
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)
Elgar: Froissart Op 19
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Downes (conductor)
Elgar: Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology, Op 45
The Finzi Singers
Paul Spicer (conductor)
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Paul Tortelier (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
[Rpt of Mon 12.00pm]
13:00
Elena Prokina
21 March 2005
Presented by Fiona Talkington from Wigmore Hall, London. One of the world?s leading sopranos, Elena Prokina, evokes the sultry melancholy of Spain through the eyes and ears of great Russian composers past and present.
The programme includes:
Dargomizhsky: Bolero - Sierra-Nevada is Shrouded in Mist
The Night Zephyr Streams the Aether.
Tchaikovsky: Serenades Opp 63 and 65
Shostakovich: Spanish Songs, Op 100
Minkov: The Crying of the Guitar (Garcia-Lorca)
Elena Prokina (soprano)
Elena Abeleva (piano)
14:00
BBC NOW and BBC Singers
Graeme Kay presents the first of four programmes this week featuring highlights of a concert given by the BBC Singers at last year's Norwich Festival, of music for the season of Passiontide and Easter.
Early English polyphony by Whyte and Tye sits alongisde music by Bridge, James MacMillan and Shostakovich. Former New Generation Artist Lawrence Power is the soloist in Walton's viola concerto.
Bridge Suite for String Orchestra
Richard Hickox (conductor)
Robert Whyte: Christe qui lux es et dies III
Tye Peccavimus cum patribus nostris
Bo Holten (conductor)
James MacMillan: The World?s Ransoming
Christine Pendrill (cor anglais)
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
Shostakovich, (arr Barshai): Chamber Symphony
Lesley Hatfield (director)
Walton: Viola Concerto
Lawrence Power (viola)
Nicholas Kok (conductor)
16:00
21 March 2005
Tommy Pearson is in conversation with composer Gabriel Yared. Best known now for his many collaborations with director Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley, Cold Mountain), his long and varied career has included work with French pop sensation Johnny Hallyday, legendary arthouse director Jean-Luc Godard, and the score for Betty Blue.
17:00
21 March 2005
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and keeps us up to date with what's happening in the arts world.
19:00
21 March 2005
Series in which Joan Bakewell talks to guests about their beliefs, the influences that have shaped them and their ideas about life's big questions. Today she talks to poet Benjamin Zephaniah.
19:30
BBC Philharmonic
Complete performance
Leeds Festival Chorus, and BBC Philharmonic conducted by Simon Wright perform Maxwell Davies' Canticum canticorum and Haydn's Mass in Dm, Missa in angustiis (Nelson mass).
Maxwell Davis, Peter: Canticum Canticorum for SATB solists, chorus and orchestra [2001]
Haydn: Mass, H 22.11 in Dm, Missa in angustiis (Nelson Mass)
BBC Philharmonic
Simon Wright (conductor)
Leeds Festival Chorus
Susanna Glanville (soprano)
Louise Poole (mezzo-soprano)
Mark Wilde (tenor)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
21:10
Bartok
The Hebrides Ensemble play Bartok's Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano.
21:30
21 March 2005
As a new adaptation of Electra at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, sets Sophocles tragedy to 1950s Ireland. Paul Allen and guests explore why the Emerald Isle is such a good place to retell the classics.
22:15
21 March 2005
Fiona Talkington plays tracks from Martin Simpson's new CD Kind Letters, and marks Holy Week with polyphony from Sardinia, music for organ by Messiaen, and Tomas Luis de Victoria's Responsories for Tenebrae.
00:00
Muzio Clementi (1752 - 1832)
Part Two
2/5. Donald Macleod looks at the relationship between Muzio Clementi and three great composers of his time, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.
Sonata in B flat, Op 24, No 2
Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
Symphony in B flat, Op 18
London Mozart Players
Matthias Bamert (conductor)
Sonata Op 34, No 2
Christopher Szaja Sager
[Rpt of Tue 12.00pm]
01:00
21 March 2005
Part One
With John Shea.
1.00am
From the 2004 Proms
Skampa String Quartet
Itamar Golan (piano)
recorded on 19th July in the Victoria & Albert Museum, as part of the Chamber Proms series
Janacek: String Quartet No 1, The Kreuzer Sonata?
Dvorak: Piano Quintet No 2 in A , Op 81
1.50am
Mendelssohn: Variations Serieuses, Op 54
Antonia Geiger-Eichorn (piano)
2.05am
Sibelius: Symphony No 1 in Em, Op 39
Rumanian National Radio Orchestra
Horia Andreescu (conductor)
2.45am
Nielsen: I seraillets have (In the Seraglio Garden); Irmelin Rose (5 Songs to poems of Jacobsen) Op 4, Nos 2 and 4
Mattias Ermedahl (tenor)
Anders Kilstrom (piano)
2.50am
Brahms: Cello Sonata No 2 in F, Op 99
Claudio Bohorquez (cello)
Marcus Groh (piano)
3.15am
Bellini: Eccomi in lieta vesta?. Oh! Quante volte (I Capuleti e i Montecchi)
Adriana Marfisi (soprano)
Oslo Philharmonic
Nello Santi (conductor)
3.25am
Spohr: Notturno for Wind and Turkish Band in C, Op 34
Octophorus
Paul Dombrecht (conductor)
4.00am
Mozart: Overture - Idomeneo
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4.05am
Carl Ludwig Lithander: Divertimento No 1
Mikael Helasvuo (period flute)
Tuija Hakkila (fortepiano)
4.10am
Debussy (orch. Ravel): Danse (Tarantelle styrienne)
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
4.20am
Ravel: Tzigane ? rapsodie de concert
James Ehnes (violin)
Wendy Chen (piano)
4.30am
Frescobaldi: Canzona vigesima, detta La Lipparella; Canzona decimanova, detta La Capriola, Canto e Bass
Musica Fiata Koln
Roland Wilson (director)
4.35am
Karl Doppler: Souvenir de Prague, Op 24
Matej Zupan, Karolina Santl-Zupan (flutes)
Dijana Tanovic (piano)
04:50
21 March 2005
Part Two
John Shea concludes this morning's programme.
4.50am
JC Bach: Quintet in F, Op 11, No 3
Les Adieux
5.00am
Corelli: Sonata da Chiesa in G, Op 1, No 9
London Baroque
5.05am
Sigismondo d?India: Filli mirando il cileo (Phyllis gazing at the sky)
The Consort of Musicke
5.10am
Erkki Melartin: Lohdutus (Consolation)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)
5.15am
Carlos Salzedo: Chanson dans la Nuit
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
5.20am
Bach: Fantasia in A, BWV 922
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
5.25am
Marais: Tombeau pour Monsr. de Lully (Suite ? Book 2 No 5 in Bm)
Ricercar Consort
Henri Ledroit (conductor)
5.35am
Juozas Naujalis: Motet - Caligaverunt
Kaunas State Choir
Petras Bingelis (conductor)
5.40am
Edouard Lalo: 2 Aubades
CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Swift (conductor)
5.50am
Beethoven: Variations and a Fugue on a Theme from Prometheus, in E flat, Op 35, Eroica
Theo Bruins (piano)
6.15am
Hans Gal: Serenade, Op 46
Symphony Nova Scotia
Georg Tintner (conductor)
6.30am
Aloys Fornerod: Concert for Two Violins and Piano, Op 16
Sibylle Tschopp and Mirjam Tschopp (violins)
Isabel Tschopp (piano)
6.45am
Bach (orch Webern): Ricercata from Bach?s Musical Offering, BWV 1079
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Wolfgang Fortner (conductor)
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