07:00
17 November 2005
Penny Gore continues to mark Sir Charles Mackerras' 80th birthday, featuring:
From 7.00am
Suk: Fantastic Scherzo, Op 25
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Britten: Fanfare for St Edmundsbury
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Chabrier: L' Invitation au voyage
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Ursula Leveaux (bassoon)
Graham Johnson (piano)
From 8.30am
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Wind Ensemble
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Haydn: Symphony No 51 in B flat
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Frans Brüggen (conductor)
Bach: Cantata No 71 - Gott ist mein König, BWV 71, For the Town Council Inauguration
Wilhelm Wiedl (treble)
Paul Esswood (alto)
Kurt Equiluz (tenor)
Lieuwe Visser (bass)
Tölz Boys' Choir
Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
10:00
17 November 2005
Jonathan Swain continues to feature Poulenc piano works and recordings by Galina Vishnevskaya.
Schubert: Die Zauberharfe, D644 - Overture
Staatskapelle Dresden
Willi Boskovsky (conductor)
Poulenc: Nocturnes Nos 1, 2 & 4
Francis Poulenc (piano)
Suk: Meditation on an Old Czech Chorale, Op 35a
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Sejna (conductor)
Britten: The Poet's Echo, Op 76
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Mstislav Rostropovich (piano)
Poulenc: Concert Champętre
Emil Gilels (piano)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Kyril Kondrashin (conductor)
Shostakovich: Seven Romances to Poems by Alexander Blok, Op 127
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
David Oistrakh (violin)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Moisei Vainberg (piano)
Handel: Concerto Grosso in Cm, Op 6, No 8
English Baroque Orchestra
Hermann Scherchen (conductor)
Poulenc: Rondeau & Adagietto (Les Biches)
Francis Poulenc (piano)
12:00
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
The Price of Success
Brahms was never one to make allowances for other people, in his life or his music. Donald Macleod explores how this often difficult man won over his audiences to become the most respected composer of his era.
Wiegenlied
Thomas Allen (baritone)
Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Schicksalslied
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Robert Shaw (conductor)
Liebeslieder Walzer, Op 52 (selection)
Edith Mathis (soprano)
Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto)
Peter Schreier (tenor)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Karl Engel (piano)
Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano)
Variations on a theme of Haydn, Op 56a
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
13:00
Cutting Edge Haydn
Programme Three
Mary Ann Kennedy introduces a concert from the Bute Hall of Glasgow University, featuring Hungary's celebrated period-instrument string quartet on a rare visit to the UK.
Haydn: string quartets - Op 64, No 3, in B flat; Op 64, No 5 in D - Lark
Festetics Quartet
Istvan Kertesz, Erika Petöfi (violin)
Peter Ligeti (viola)
Rezsö Pertorini (cello)
14:00
Touring Japan
Continuing a series of excerpts from concerts recorded by the BBC Singers on their tour of Japan earlier this year. Plus orchestral music with links to Japan through composers and performers. Featuring the Ulster Orchestra and presented by Graeme Kay.
Revueltas: Janitzio
Enrique Barrios (conductor)
Chilcott: Tandem
Ulster Orchestra
City of Belfast Youth Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa (conductor)
Bingham: Water Lilies
Edward Cowie: Lyre-Bird Motet
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
Revueltas: Redes
Enrique Barrios (conductor)
Rodrigo: Fantasia para un gentilhombre
Eduardo Fernandez (guitar)
Adrian Leaper (conductor)
15:40
17 November 2005
CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present the programme for younger listeners. With music about a railway going up the side of a volcano and Victor Herbert's March of the Toys.
Denza, Luigi (arr Schoenberg): Funiculi, Funicula
Soloists of the National Opera of Lyon
Moszkowski: Mousse de Champagne
Martin Jones (piano)
Daniel Perron: Mon Pere N'a Plus Que Cinq Poulets
Daniel Perron and Friends
Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E 3rd mov
Wynton Marsalis (trumpet)
English Chamber Orchestra
Raymond Leppard (conductor)
Newman, Randy: You've Got a Friend in Me (from Toy Story)
Randy Newman and Lyle Lovett
Herbert, Victor: The March of the Toys (from Babes in Toyland)
The New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp (conductor)
16:00
17 November 2005
More from this month's featured artist Mantovani, including music by the man who was credited with creating the sound of the famous cascading strings, Ronald Binge.
Plus, Adrian Leaper conducts the Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Haydn Wood's Suite, London Cameos.
17:00
17 November 2005
Sean Rafferty is joined by composer and multi-instrumentalist John Surman who plays saxophones and electronics live in the studio.
Flautist Martin Feinstein and harpsichordist Robert Howarth perform pieces from the baroque, with Martin performing on his exact copy of a Johann Joachim Quantz flute. After 7.00pm, conductor Richard Hickox is joined by director Olivia Fuchs and counter-tenor William Towers to talk about the Royal Opera's new production of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
19:30
Sir Charles Mackerras at 80
Dvorák
Continuing a series of concerts to celebrate the landmark birthday of a conductor dubbed 'the musician's musician'. A concert from the 2004 BBC Proms, in which Sir Charles conducted the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in an all Dvorák programme. As he recalls, in conversation with Donald Macleod, it was a great occasion, and a great pleasure to conduct Dvorak's 9th symphony on what would have been the composer's birthday.
Antonín Dvorák: Scherzo capriccioso; Violin Concerto; Symphony No 9
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Sarah Chang (violin)
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
21:30
17 November 2005
Gabriel Gbadamosi investigates the controversial opening of the Darwin Museum in New York at a time when Darwin is under fire in the US. Plus playwright Richard Bean about Moliere's The Hypochondriac.
22:15
17 November 2005
A contemporary take on traditional Ainu culture from Japan and the virtuosic shamisen playing of Shinichi Kinoshita.
Plus 13th Century cantiagas by Alfonso X El Sabio; Pharoah Sanders' epic spiritual journey The Creator Has a Master Plan, and Wibutee - recorded at this year's London Jazz Festival. Presented by Fiona Talkington.
00:00
William Alwyn (1905-1985)
Part Five
One of Alwyn's long-cherished dreams while serving out his years writing film scores was to compose for the stage, and once he'd settled into his new home in Suffolk, he spent the next 14 years working on two operas.
Donald Macleod presents highlights from the second, based on August Strindberg's play of the same name, and introduces one of his last orchestral works, inspired by the 17th Century English writer Sir Thomas Browne.
Naiades
Anna Noakes (flute)
Gillian Tingay (harp)
Symphony No 5 - Hydriotaphia
London Philharmonic Orchestra
William Alwyn (conductor)
Miss Julie (extracts)
Miss Julie ...... Jill Gomez
Jean ...... Benjamin Luxon
Kristin ...... Della Jones
Philharmonia Orchestra
Vilem Tausky (conductor)
01:00
17 November 2005
17 November 2005
With Jonathan Swain.
1.00am
The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): The Consecration of the House Overture, Op 124
1.14am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Concerto for flute, harp and orchestra, K299, in C
Gro Sandvik (flute)
Stéphanie Astier (harp)
1.46am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Symphony No 1, Op 38, in B flat - Spring
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Aldo Ceccato (conductor)
2.22am
Mosonyi, Mihaly (1815-1870): Studies for the teaching of the Interpretation of Hungarian Music
Klara Körmendi (piano)
2.36am
Raichev, Alexander (1922-2003): Symphony No 2 - The New Prometheus
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vasil Stefanov (conductor)
3.22am
Papandopulo, Boris (1906-1991): Dodolice, Op 27
Slovenian Chamber choir
Miljenka Grdan (soprano)
Vladimir Krpan (piano)
Vladimir Kranjcevic (conductor)
3.42am
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976): A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Milen Nachev (conductor)
4.00am
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695): Chaconne (Dioclesian)
Rachel Beckett, Marion Scott (recorder)
Jakob Lindberg (lute)
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
4.03am
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958): Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
4.17am
Ward, John (c.1589-1638): Fantasia No 1 ŕ 5
The Rose Consort of Viols
John Bryan, Alison Crum, Sarah Groser, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland (viol)
4.21am
Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643): Toccata per Spinettina e Violino
Musica Fiata, Köln
Roland Wilson (director)
4.25am
Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643): Canzona vigesima seconda detta la Nicolina
Peter Hannan (recorder)
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)
Christel Thielmann (viola da gamba)
4.30am
Allegri, Gregorio (1582-1652), abellimenti by Stanislaw Krupowicz: Miserere mei Deus
Camerata Silesia
Anna Szostak (conductor)
4.43am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Toccata in C, Op 7
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
4.49am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Water Music Suite No 2 in D
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5.00am
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764): Suite in G
Yur-Eum Woodwind Quintet
Ji-Young Rhee (flute)
Sun-Young Oh (oboe)
Joung-Min Song (clarinet)
Hyun-Suk Shin (horn)
Young-A Lee (bassoon)
5.15am
Carissimi, Giacomo (1605-1674): Vanitas vanitatum
Olga Pasiecznik, Marta Boberska (soprano)
Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble
5.26am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Piano Sonata in Fm, Op 57 - Appassionata (1st movement)
Xaver Scharwenka (piano)
5.37am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Neue Liebeslieder, Op 65
Anna-Maria Miranda (soprano)
Clara Wirtz (alto)
Jean-Claude Orleac (tenor)
Udo Reinemann (baritone)
Noël Lee, Christian Ivaldi (piano)
6.00am
Livadic, Ferdo (1799-1878): 2 Scherzos
Vladimir Krpan (piano)
6.05am
Enescu, Georges (1881-1955): Romanian Rhapsody in D, Op 11, No 2
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Sergiu Comissiona (conductor)
6.17am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Mädchenblumen, Op 22
Sine Bundgaard (soprano)
Christen Stubbe Teglbjaerg (piano)
6.29am
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907): Piano Concerto in Am, Op 16
Marián Lapsansk? (piano)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava
Lénard Ondrej (conductor)
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