07:00
30 April 2005
Presented by Martin Handley.
Music includes, from 7.00am
Rossini: Sinfonia from Il Turco in Italia
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Schumann: Waldszenen, Op 82
Maria Joao Pires (piano)
From 8:30am
Kabalevsky: Spring, Symphonic Poem, Op 65
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Igor Golovschin (conductor)
Bridge: Mid of the Night
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)
Ireland: April
Eric Parkin (piano)
09:00
30 April 2005
Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's newest releases.
Richard Wigmore recommends a version of Haydn's String Quartets, Op 76 from the currently available recordings.
Jeremy Siepmann reviews new piano recordings, including Mozart sonatas from Alfred Brendel and Richard Goode, Schumann from Maurizio Pollini, Tchaikovsky from Mikhail Pletnev, and Rachmaninov from Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Plus there's an interview with organist Dame Gillian Weir who talks about recordings including the complete works of Messiaen, Bach in Leipzig and her new disc on the restored organ of the Royal Albert Hall.
Disc of the Week:
Browne: Stabat Mater
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director)
13:00
Recorder player Dan Laurin
In conjunction with the From Sweden Festival, Andrew Manze travels to Stockholm to meet recorder player Dan Laurin. Music includes pieces by Van Eyck, Telemann, Vivaldi and John Eccles.
14:00
Serenades and Symphonies
Charles Hazlewood explores the very different ways in which Richard Strauss and Igor Stravinsky approached writing for the wind ensemble. He compares the youthful and the mature Strauss through the Serenade and Sonatina No 1, and examines how Stravinsky marshalled his larger forces in the iconic Symphonies of Wind Instruments.
Strauss: Serenade, 1881 and Romance and Minuet, 1943
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments, 1926
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Douglas Boyd (conductor)
15:00
30 April 2005
A Night Out in Aleppo: Samir Farah introduces a concert from a former palace in the old city of Aleppo in Syria, given by the Al Kindi Ensemble, directed by Julien Jalal Eddine Weiss.
16:00
From the Cheltenham Jazz Festival
Claire Martin presents a special programme live from the Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Guests include German saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock.
17:00
30 April 2005
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Request your favourite jazz cut by email: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
18:00
The Musical World of Keith Jarrett
Never Let Me Go - Part One
Alyn Shipton begins a series of conversations with pianist and composer Keith Jarrett, who celebrates his 60th birthday next month.
In this first programme, Jarrett talks about his current trio, about free improvisation, and about his early career in the 1960s as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and the Charles Lloyd Quartet.
18:30
Gounod's Faust
Acts One and Two
Roberto Alagna and Soile Isokoski star in a new Metropolitan Opera production of this ever-popular French opera. Presented from New York by Margaret Juntwait.
During a visit from the debonair Mephistopheles, the despairing and elderly philosopher Faust is manipulated into surrendering his immortal soul in exchange for the alluring promise of eternal youth and the love of a beautiful woman.
Marguerite ...... Soile Isokoski (soprano)
Siebel ...... Kristine Jepson (mezzo-soprano)
Faust ...... Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Valentin ...... Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
Mephistopheles ...... Rene Pape (bass)
Marthe ...... Jane Bunnell (mezzo-soprano)
Wagner ...... Patrick Carfizzi
Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera
James Levine (conductor)
[Continues at 7.50pm after The Met Opera Quiz]
19:25
30 April 2005
Brian Zeger puts listeners questions to Stuart Hamilton, Lotfi Mansouri and Terrence McNally.
19:50
Gounod's Faust
Act Three
Act 3. Faust. Live from the Met: Roberto Alagna and Soile Isokoski star in a new Met production. Presented from New York by Margaret Juntwait. [Continues at 9.10pm after Interval]
20:40
A story by Anne Enright set in the interval of Faust
The Concert Interval: In Anne Enright's commissioned story we find out about the odd goings-on during the interval of a production of Faust. Read by Sorcha Cusack.
21:10
Gounod's Faust
Acts Four and Five
Acts 4 and 5. Faust. Live from the Met: Roberto Alagna and Soile Isokoski star in a new Met production. Presented from New York by Margaret Juntwait.
22:15
30 April 2005
Ian McMillan presents the literature and performance show, with new work from Chimamanda Adichie and Philip Hensher, with a close-reading of David Hughes classic novel The Pork Butcher.
23:00
James MacMillan and Deirdre Gribbin
Two composers with Celtic roots, James MacMillan and Deirdre Gribbin are the focus tonight, beginning with a studio session of choral works introduced by Ivan Hewett.
James MacMillan: A Child's Prayer, On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin
Graham Fitkin: Ending
Deirdre Gribbin: Yeats Sang
BBC Singers
Stephen Disley (organ)
Nicholas Kok (conductor)
Sarah Walker also presents a CMN Tour concert recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, and discusses its innovative staging with Deirdre Gribbin and director Lou Stein.
James MacMillan: The Road to Ardtalla, James MacMillan I, A Meditation on Iona
Deirdre Gribbin: Venus Blazing
Ernst Kovacic (violin)
Britten Sinfonia
Pierre-Andre Valade (conductor)
Arvo Part: ... which was the son of
BBC Singers
Nicholas Kok (conductor)
Stephen Disley (organ)
01:00
30 April 2005
Part One
With Jonathan Swain.
1.00am
The Men's Choir of St Basil's cathedral, Moscow, sing music for the Orthodox Easter Day, including anonymous and traditional pieces, together with music by Chesnokov, Shvedov, Golovanov and Bortnyansky.
Sergei Krivobokov (conductor)
2.04am
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op 37b
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)
2.46am
Sibelius: En Saga
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
3.08am
Tournier: Images, Op 35
Erica Goodman (harp)
Members of the Amadeus Ensemble
3.19am
Dvorak: Piano Trio No 3 in Fm, Op 65
The Grieg Trio
4.01am
Dutsch: Overture, The Croatian Girl
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Hannu Koivula (conductor)
4.13am
Beethoven: 32 Variations in Cm, WoO80
John Ogdon (piano)
4.25am
Handel: Vo'dar pace a un alma ultiera, from Tamerlano
Derek Lee Ragin (countertenor: Tamerlano)
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
4.30am
Corelli: Sonata da Chiesa in A, Op 1, No 3
London Baroque
4.37am
Mendelssohn: Overture, Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt, Op 27
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
4.50am
Chopin: Etude, Op 10, No 1 in C
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
4.52am
Blow: The Graces' Dance
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (director)
05:00
30 April 2005
Part Two
Jonathan Swain concludes this morning's programme.
5.00am
JS Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in Dm (BWV903)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
5.12am
Traditional: The Evening Bells
Men's Choir of St Basil's Cathedral, Moscow
Sergei Krivobokov (conductor)
5.15am
Anonymous: Many Years to Come, Sacred Song
Men's Choir of St Basil's Cathedral, Moscow
Sergei Krivobokov (conductor)
5.17am
Mozart: Duos from Cosi fan Tutte
Duo Fouquet
5.26am
Piazzolla: Adios Noni?o (tango)
Musica Camerata Montreal
5.35am
Villa-Lobos: Prelude No.3 in A minor
Norbert Kraft (guitar)
5:42am
Cripriano de Rore: O voi che sotto l'amorose insegne
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (director)
5.48am
Wagner: Allmacht'ge Jungfrau, from Tannhauser
Anita Valkki (mezzo-soprano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Okko Kamu (conductor)
5.54am
Falla: Noches en los jardines de Espa?a
Eduardo del Pueyo (piano)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Jean Fournet (conductor)
6.17am
Strauss: Befreit, Op 39, No 4
Mark Pedrotti (baritone)
Stephen Ralls (piano)
6.23am
Sullivan: Symphony in E, Irish
BBC Philharmonic
Richard Hickox (conductor)
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