07:00
4 February 2007
Presented by Martin Handley.
Including at 7.00am
Vivaldi: Concerto in C, RV180 (Il piacere)
Academy of Ancient Music
Andrew Manze (violin/director)
Lassus: Lamentatio prima (Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae)
Collegium Regale
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
8.00am
Copland: Quiet City
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
Mozart: Symphony No 21
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Ton Koopman (conductor)
09:00
4 February 2007
Rob Cowan introduces some favourite recordings.
Featuring The Innocent Ear (music played with minimal introduction to encourage listening without preconceptions) and the recording of Haydn's Symphony No 88 recommended on CD Review.
The programme includes:
Bruckner: Symphony No 0
Philharmonia Orchestra
Lovro von Matacic (conductor)
Vivaldi: Concerto in C, RV187
Pinchas Zukerman (violin)
English Chamber Orchestra
Smetana: Vendulka's aria (The Kiss)
Jarmila Novotna (soprano)
RCA Victor Orchestra
Frieder Weisssman (conductor)
Franck: Les Djinns
Frantisek Maxian (piano)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Jean Fournet (conductor)
Holst: Nocturne (A Moorside Suite)
English Chamber Orchestra
Imogen Holst (conductor)
Mozart: Dein bin ich (Il re pastore)
Erna Berger (soprano)
Oscar Shumsky (violin)
George Schick (piano)
Chabrier: Overture (Gwendoline)
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Paul Paray (conductor)
Glazunov: Waltz in D, Op 42 No 3
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
Liszt: St Francis of Paula Walking on the Waves
Tamas Vasary (piano)
Hurlstone: Variations on a Hungarian Air
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor)
Grieg: Sonata in Am, Op 36
Esther Nyffenegger (cello)
Gerard Wyss (piano)
Dvorak: My Home
Staatskapelle Berlin
Otmar Suitner (conductor)
12:00
James May
Michael Berkeley's guest is Top Gear presenter James May, who plays piano and flute and studied music at university.
His choices include music by Dunstable, Francois Couperin, Bach, Chopin, Britten and Messaien, alongside a very unusual rendering of the Top Gear theme tune.
13:00
Regensburg Early Music Days Festival
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from two concerts given in last year's Regensburg Early Music Days Festival. One concert has a Chinese theme and features music by the Italian scientist and missionary Matteo Ricci, who spent the last 27 years of his life in China.
14:00
Florestan Trio
Stephanie Hughes introduces a recital by the Florestan Trio, recorded at the Wigmore Hall.
Dvorak: Piano Trio in B flat, Op 21
Eben: Piano Trio
Schubert: Trio in E flat, D929
16:00
4 February 2007
Brian Kay introduces listeners' requests, including Delius's On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Peter Maxwell Davies's An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise, Haydn's Keyboard Sonata No 53 and Finzi's sublime Dies Natalis.
17:45
4 February 2007
As the English Folk Dance and Song society celebrates its 75th anniversary, Tom Service visits Lincolnshire. From Percy Grainger's field recordings of folksong at Brigg to the peal of tuned bells at Croyland Abbey, he asks how music shapes the sense of where we live.
18:30
Brazil
Aled Jones talks to choir director Celso Antunes about the choral tradition in Brazil and introduces a specially recorded concert of Brazilian music by the BBC Singers.
20:15
Two Men from Delft
By Stephen Wakelam.
In 1675, at the time of the death of his close friend Johannes Vermeer, Antony Van Leeuwenhoek made an astonishing discovery. He was the first person to identity bacteria.
Antony Van Leeuwenhooek ...... Stephen Tompkinson
Christiaan Huygens ...... Alex Jennings
Maria Van Leeuwenhoek ...... Emma Noakes
Elisabeth Vermeer ...... Alex Tregear
Music by Sylvia Hallett.
Viol played by Vanessa Coode.
Directed and produced by Jeremy Mortimer.
21:30
The Struggle for Language
The Struggle for Language. 3/3: Afrikaans. Playwright Mike Van Kraan explores a language under threat following the collapse of apartheid.
3/3. Afrikaans
Will the collapse of apartheid in South Africa lead to the eventual demise of the Afrikaans language? For playwright Mike Van Kraan, this is personal. Brought up by his Afrikaans-speaking parents, he refused to speak the language as a young man as a means of fighting apartheid. Yet today, in the new South Africa, his children are coming home from school speaking Afrikaans. Mike goes on a personal journey to define for himself the struggle for the language. Contributors include F W De Klerk and Andre Brink.
22:15
4 February 2007
Andy's unusual mix of music from the UK and around the world. Featuring a session from the young English folk musician Tim van Eyken and his band.
00:00
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Sound Secrets: A Tangled Web
Berg's richly expressive music left a hidden legacy. Concealed among the notes of his pieces were revelations about his private life, waiting to be discovered. Donald Macleod picks up the trail during the composer's troublesome teens.
Seele, wie bist du schöner (Soul, how much lovelier you are)
(From Five Orchestral Songs to Picture-Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg)
Jessye Norman (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)
Jugendlieder (Youthful songs, 1901-8) Nos 1, 2
Jessye Norman (soprano)
Ann Schein (piano)
Four Pieces for clarinet and piano, Op 5 (1913)
David Peck (clarinet)
Scott Holshouser (piano)
7 Early songs for voice and piano
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
01:00
4 February 2007
4 February 2007
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00am
Morley, Thomas (1557/8-1602): Gaude Maria; Agnus Dei
Byrd, William (1543-1623): Psallite Domino; Senex puerum probat; Lumen ad revelationem
1.16am
Salter, Timothy (b. 1942): Eternity
1.21am
Gibbons, Orlando (1583-1625): O Clap Your Hands Together; O Lord in Thy Wrath
1.31am
Stanford, Charles Villiers (1852-1924): Justorum animae; Beati quorum via
1.40am
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934): Feasting I watch; The Prince of Sleep
1.47am
Skempton, Howard (b.1947): Sowing
1.50am
Cashian, Philip (b.1963): Music for an Empty Sky
1.54am
Howells, Herbert (1892-1983): The Summer is Coming
2.01am
Anon: O Waly Waly; Coasts of High Barbary; Blow the Wind Southerly; A Beautiful Summer Time
Ionian Singers
Timothy Salter (conductor)
2.16am
Kodaly, Zoltan (1882-1967): Summer Evening
Hungarian Radio Orchestra
Gyorgy Lehel (conductor)
2.34am
Vieuxtemps, Henri (1820-1881): Cello Concerto No 1
Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello)
Swedish RSO
Paavo Berglund (conductor)
3.03am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Symphony No 9
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Jan Soderblom (conductor)
3.50am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Fantasie in Fm, Op 49
Xaver Scharwenka (piano)
4.03am
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962): Praeludium and Allegro
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Valerie Tryon (piano)
4.09am
Strauss, Johann II (1825-1899): Roses from the South
Canadian Chamber Ensemble
Raffi Armenian (conductor)
4.18am
Folquet de Marseille (c.1155-1231): Si tot me sui a tart aperceubutz
Annemieke Cantor (voice)
4.23am
Anon: Istampitta Belicha
Ensemble Unicorn
Michael Posch (recorder)
4.30am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Der König von Thule; Der Fischer
Christoph Prégardien (tenor)
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
4.36am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Melodrama; Dance of the Tumbers (Snow Maiden)
BBC PO
Vassily Sinaisk
5.00am
Walton, William (1902-1983): Sonata for Strings
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
Roy Goodman (conductor)
5.26am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Paul Wittgenstein (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bruno Walter (conductor)
5.42am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): La mer
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
6.06am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Overture in F for 2 chalumeaux, 2 violette and basso continuo
Collegium Aureum
Franzjosef Maier (conductor)
6.17am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Sorge nel petto (Rinaldo)
Graham Pushee (countertenor)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Paul Dyer (director)
6.22am
Gallot, Jacques (1620-c.1698): Pičces de lute in Fm
Konrad Junghänel (lute)
6.33am
Sandstrom, Jan (b. 1954): Surge Aquilo
Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble
6.41am
Brumby, Colin (b. 1933): Festival Overture on Australian Themes
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Richard Mills (conductor)
6.51am
Scott, James Sylvester (1886-1938): Paramount Rag
Donna Coleman (piano)
6.55am
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961):The Gum-Sucker's March
Symphony Nova Scotia
Georg Tintner (conductor)
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