07:00
2 October 2005
Presented by Martin Handley.
From 7.00am
Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
London Philharmonic
Vernon Handley (conductor)
Liszt: Two Legends - St Francis of Assisi Preaching to the Birds and St Francis of Paola Walking on the Waves
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Mozart: Flute Concerto No 2 in D, K314
Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Berlin Philharmonic
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
From 8.00am
Rossini: Overture - The Barber of Seville
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)
Francisco Guerrero: In Exitu Israel
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral
His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts
James O'Donnell (director)
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes - ballet in 3 deals
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
Michel Stern (conductor)
09:00
2 October 2005
Rob Cowan introduces some surprises and treasures from his record collection. Regular features include The Innocent Ear, and Rob's recommendation for a Bargain Hunter CD. There's also a chance to hear a recording of Andrew Green's The Bells. The programme includes:
Christopher Ball: Comedy Overture (from Scenes from a Comedy)
The Adderbury Ensemble
Christopher Ball (conductor)
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)
Fauré: Aurore; Le secret
Gérard Souzay (baritone)
Dalton Baldwin (piano)
Mercadante: Flute Concerto in D
James Galway (flute)
I Solisti Veneti
Claudio Scimone (conductor)
Philippe Royllart: Rex Karole, Johannis genite
The Early Music Consort of London
David Munrow (conductor)
Bach: Contapunctus 4 (from The Art of Fugue)
Juilliard String Quartet
Rossini, arr Respighi: Rossiniana
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet (conductor)
Gottschalk: Le Banjo
Noël Lee (piano)
Beethoven: Romance No 2 in F, Op 50
Herman Krebbers (violin)
Residentie Orchestra, The Hague
Willem van Otterloo (conductor)
Pergolesi: Confitebor tibi Domine
Ann Monoyios (soprano)
Balthasar-Neumann Choir, Freiburg
Baroque Orchestra
Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)
Gordon Jacob: William Byrd Suite
Eastman Wind Ensemble
Frederick Fennell (conductor)
12:00
Sheila Hancock,
Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Sheila Hancock, who has appeared in countless stage productions, most recently The Anniversary. Her film credits include Three Men and a Little Lady and Sally Potter's Yes, and she has starred in many comedy series for BBC TV. Sheila has recently published The Two of Us, a moving memoir of her marriage to actor John Thaw.
Her musical passions include piano concertos by Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Rachmaninov, chamber music by Beethoven, Elgar and Britten, and Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.
13:00
Birds in Medieval Music
The medieval world was laden with symbolism in both religious and secular life, much being made of the significance of nature. Lucie Skeaping takes a look at the ways that birds were symbolised and represented in medieval music.
14:00
2 October 2005
Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert from the Wigmore Hall in which tenor Iain Bostridge is accompanied by Graham Johnson in settings by Schumann of poems by Heinrich Heine.
Schumann:
Liederkreis, Op 24
Abends am Strande, from Op 45
Dein Angesicht, from Op 127
Lehn' deine Wang, from Op 142
Du bist wie eine Blume, from Op 25
Belsatzar, Op 57
Mein Wagen rollet langsam, from Op 142
Dichterliebe, Op 48
15:30
Philip King
Visual artists talk to Robert McNab about the music they listen to while working and how that music relates to the images they create. 4/4. Sculptor Philip King.
16:00
2 October 2005
Brian Kay introduces listeners' requests, including Strauss' Metamorphosen; Ravel's Valse Nobles et Sentimentales; and highlights from Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.
17:45
Iannis Xenakis
A special edition focusing on the Greek-born, French composer Iannis Xenakis. Working as an architect with Le Corbusier after the Second World War, Xenakis developed a radical musical style based on the principles and sounds of nature. As a major Xenakis festival opens in London, Tom Service talks to those who knew him well and to the musicians who play his mesmeric music.
18:30
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Swansea Festival
Rimsky-Korsakov's fairy-tale images of the Orient and a barnstorming piano concerto by Prokofiev, recorded at the Brangwyn Hall, as part of the Swansea Festival.
Prokofiev: Symphony No 1, Op 25, in D - Classical; Concerto for piano and orchestra No 5, Op 55, in G
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade - symphonic suite, Op 35
Nicolai Demidenko (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Alexander Titov (conductor)
20:10
Days and Nights in Bedlam
By Fred D'Aguiar.
Set in a London mental hospital in the early 1980s.
When Otis is taken to the closed ward, he is desperate to return to his Queen Penelope, and his Kingdom. While the staff diagnose him as delusional, fellow patients Larry and Harry plot to reach this Kingdom first - and take Otis' Queen as their own.
Otis ...... Mo Sesay
Gary ...... Don Gilet
Deirdre ...... Daniela Nardini
April ...... Alex Tregear
Harry ...... Stephen Critchlow
Larry ...... Carl Prekopp
Penelope ...... Janice Acquah
Carol Bayne (director/producer)
21:30
Santiago Calatrava
John Tusa continues his series of conversations with some of the world's greatest artistic originators. He meets Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
22:15
2 October 2005
The sounds of Trinidadian steel pan and Senegalese kora combine in a session from Fimber Bravo and Kadialy Kouyate.
00:00
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
Part One
The French composer Emmanuel Chabrier holds a unique position in musical history. His ground-breaking harmonies were cited as formative influences on later composers such as Ravel, Debussy and Poulenc. Although he was better educated than most amateurs, Chabrier was a largely self-taught musician and spent the first 18 years of his working life as a civil servant before switching to a career composing full time.
Espana
Vienna Philharmonic
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Marion
S'en va-t-a l'ou
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano)
Impromptu in C
Jean Casadesus (piano)
Lied
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Graham Johnson (piano)
Excerpts from Fisch-ton-Kan
Jean-Louis Georgel (baritone)
Mireille Delunsch (soprano)
Francis Dudziak (baritone)
Orchestra du Collegium Musicum de Strasbourg
Roger Delage (director)
L'invitation au voyage
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano)
Ursula Leveaux (bassoon)
Overture to Gwendoline
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Jean-Paul Penin (conductor)
01:00
2 October 2005
2 October 2005
With John Shea.
1.00am
The Romanian Radio Chorus
Cucu, Gheorghe (1882-1932): De frumusetea fecioriei tale - Pobodie melody after Macarie leromonahul
Lungu, Nicolae (1900-1993): Stihira a Il-a (Sticheron)
Cucu, Gheorghe (1882-1932): Stihiri (Sticheron) din Catavasiile întâmpinarii Domnului - melody after Dimitrie Suceveanu
Cirescu, Ioan D (1889-1980): Excerpts from the Orthodox Liturgy
Donceanu, Felicia (b.1931): Tatal Nostru (Lord's Prayer), Op 30, No 2
Monica Muresan (soprano)
F Paraschiv (tenor)
Emil Sassu (baritone)
C Deheleanu (bass)
Romanian Radio Chorus
Dan Mihai Goia (conductor)
2.09am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) arr Józef Koffler: Goldberg variations, BWV 988, arranged for string orchestra
Amadeus Polish Radio Orchestra
Agnieska Duczmal (conductor)
3.27am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Keyboard Sonata in G
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
3.41am
Kraus, Joseph Martin (1756-1792): Sinfonie in D, VB 143
Concerto Köln
4.00am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) arr Danzi, Franz (1763-1826): Excerpts from Die Zauberflöte, arr for 2 cellos
Duo Fouquet
Elizabeth Dolin, Guy Fouquet (cello)
4.11am
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883): Prelude and Act III Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde)
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
4.30am
Mägi, Ester (b. 1922): Vahtralt Valgoő Pilve Pääle (Maple Way to Milky Cloud)
Tartu Űlikooli Akadeemiline Naiskoor (Tartu University Academic Female Choir)
Vaike Uibopuu (conductor)
4.32am
Ernesaks, Gustav (1908-1993): Kutse (The Call)
Mati Turi (soloist)
Estonian National Male Choir
Ants Soots (director)
4.35am
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): Chaconne for piano, Op 32
Anders Kilström (piano)
4.45am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Eins ist not, ach Herr, dies Eine, BWV 453; Jesu, deine Liebeswunden, BWV 471; Auf, auf! Die rechte Zeit ist hier, BWV 440
Marco Fink (bass baritone)
Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano)
Domen Marincic (gamba)
Dalibor Miklavcic (organ)
4.50am
Strauss, Johann Jr (1825-1899), arr. Schoenberg: Rosen aus dem Suden (Roses from the South) for harmonium, piano and string quartet
Canadian Chamber Ensemble
Raffi Armenian (conductor)
5.00am
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943): Barcarolle; Romance; Humoresque (Morceaux de Salon), Op 10
Duncan Gifford (piano)
5.12am
Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967): Adagio
Kálmán Berkes (clarinet)
Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
5.20am
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695): Rejoice in the Lord Always, Z49
Robert Lawaty (countertenor)
Robert Pozarski (tenor)
Miroslaw Borczynski (bass)
Sine Nomine Chamber Choir
Concerto Polacco Baroque Orchestra
Marek Toporowski (director)
5.29am
Fesch, Willem de (1687-c.1757): Concerto in D, Op 5, No 1
Musica ad Rhenum
5.37am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Fantasia in C (Dirksen 54)
Leo van Doeselaar (organ)
5.43am
Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725), Text by Guarini: Cor mio, deh non languire (Dear Heart, I Prithee do Not Waste Away)
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (director)
Emma Kirkby, Evelyn Tubb, Deborah Roberts, Tessa Bonner (soprano)
Mary Nichols (alto)
5.49am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): 9 Variations on Quant e piu bello for piano, from Paisiello's opera La molinara, WoO 69
Theo Bruins (piano)
5.55am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Symphony No 16 in C, K128
The Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan
Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)
6.08am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Hostkvall (Autumn Evening), Op 38, No 1
Soile Isokoski (soprano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
6.13am
Negrea, Martian (1893-1973): Psalm 123
Romanian Radio Chorus
Dan Mihai Goia (conductor)
6.19am
Shchedrin, Rodion Konstantinovich (b. 1932) after Bizet, Georges (1838-1875): Carmen ballet suite
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Milen Nachev (conductor)
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