07:00
Martin Handley
Including at 7.00am:
Langgaard: Two Tone Pictures
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
Copland: Have mercy on us, O my lord; Sing ye praises to our King
Corydon Singers
Matthew Best (conductor)
8.00am
Chapi: El tambor de granaderos (Prelude)
Madrid Community Orchestra
Miguel Roa (conductor)
Haydn: Sonata in E flat
Emanuel Ax (piano)
9.00am
Richard Shepherd: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem
Martin Ings (trumpet)
David Halls (organ)
Choir of Salisbury Cathedral
Richard Seal (director)
Smetana: Richard III
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
10:00
6 May 2007
In the wake of the local government elections, Iain takes politics and the nature of leadership as his theme. Music includes:
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Wilhelm Furtwangler (conductor)
Shostakovich: Incidental music for King Lear (excerpts)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)
Plus music by Verdi and John Adams.
12:00
Kenneth Cranham
Michael Berkeley talks to actor Kenneth Cranham.
He is well known for his performances on screen, where he has appeared in numerous TV detective series and dramas, and on stage in West End productions. He was cast as the giant logger Paul Bunyan in Francesca Zambello's production of Britten's operetta for the Royal Opera House.
His musical choices include pieces by Britten, Prokofiev and Mozart as well as examples of his passion for jazz and blues.
13:00
Purcell and the Odes to Queen Mary
Purcell and the Odes to Queen Mary: Catherine Bott considers the music for the collection of annual birthday odes written for Queen Mary by her Composer in Ordinary, Henry Purcell.
14:00
6 May 2007
Chi-chi Nwanoku presents listeners' requests, featuring music by Krommer and Nielsen, and Schubert's Trout Quintet, D667.
The celebrity musical request, chosen by Roger Neill of Music Preserved, is for a vintage recording by Australian soprano Margherita Grandi.
16:00
From Ripon Cathedral
From Ripon Cathedral.
Introit: Behold, my servant (Christopher Rathbone)
Responses: Clucas
Office Hymn: Walking in a garden (Dun Aluinn)
Psalms: 32, 33, 34 (Perrin, Eden, Mitchell, Maw, How)
First Lesson: Daniel 6, vv1-23
Canticles: Ripon Service (Stanley Vann)
Second Lesson: Mark 15 v46 - 16 v8
Anthem: My beloved spake (Hadley)
Final Hymn: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (St Fulbert)
Organ Voluntary: Rhapsody No 4 (Howells)
Director of music: Andrew Bryden
Assistant director of music: Thomas Leech
17:00
Handel's Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
Charles Hazlewood is in the heart of Handel's London at St James's, Piccadilly, to explore the maestro's Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne. He is joined by soloists Rebecca Outram, Iestyn Davies, Michael George, a small chorus and his period ensemble Harmonieband.
18:30
Paul Hillier
Award-winning conductor Paul Hillier joins Aled Jones to talk about his prolific career on the international choral scene.
From Perotin to Part, his wide-ranging passion for music is explored through recordings by the Hilliard Ensemble, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Theatre of Voices and Ars Nova.
20:00
Blindness
By Jose Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind: patient zero in a contagion of blindness that sweeps through a city. The authorities isolate the blind in a mental asylum. Blind thugs take over. When all are blind, all the rules change. What it is to be human must also change.
21:30
Something in the Air
In a unique personal memoir of the Second World War, playwright Peter Nichols explores the strange, chilling, now almost comical recordings of the Nazi swing band Charlie and His Orchestra, perhaps the oddest-ever surviving examples of black propaganda.
22:15
A Dante Sequence
Dante's journey from the infernal underworld to Paradise in The Divine Comedy has inspired writers and composers through the ages.
In this sequence, poems by WH Auden, Samuel Beckett, TS Eliot and Stevie Smith are interwoven with translations of the original by Benedict Flynn and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and music by Liszt, Messiaen and Salvatore Sciarrino.
00:00
Music for the Act of Union
A look at the flavour of the musical outpourings in England and Scotland in the first few decades following the Act of Union that, 300 years ago on 1 May, abolished separate parliaments for England and Scotland, an event greeted with joy and anger on both sides of the border.
Plus an examination of the background to the Union.
01:00
6 May 2007
6 May 2007
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Die Schöpfung (The Creation)
Gabriel, Eva ...... Yuko Kamahora (soprano)
Uriel ...... Shigehiro Sano (tenor)
Raphael, Adam ...... Kazunori Kubo (baritone)
Choir of Tokyo College of Music
NHK Symphony Orchestra
Jun'ichi Hirokami (conductor)
2.47am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Concerto Pathetique
Viktor Chuchkov (piano)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
3.07am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Trio in G
The Grieg Trio
3.38am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Music for the Royal Fireworks
Collegium Aureum
4.01am
Schnizer, Franz Xaver (1740-1785): Sonata No 1 in C
Gonny van der Maten (organ)
4.14am
Pezel, Johann Christoph (1639-1694): Tower Music from Leipzig Intrada 1-3
The Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble
4.20am
Lindberg, Oskar (1887-1955): Gammal fäbodpslam fran Dalarna
Karin Lindqvist (soprano)
Pro Musica Chamber Choir
Jan Yngwe (director)
4.24am
Lysenko, Mykola (1842-1912): Fantasy on Two Ukrainian Themes
Yuri Shut'ko (flute)
Ukrainian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)
4.32am
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): Folketone
Anders Kilström (piano)
4.35am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): String Quartet, Op 11 (Andante cantabile)
Shauna Rolston (cello)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4.42am
Orff, Carl (1895-1982): In Trutina (Carmina Burana)
Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Kamirski (conductor)
4.44am
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857): Valse-Fantasie in B minor
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Robl (conductor)
4.53am
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936): Mazurka in F sharp minor
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
5.00am
Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich (c.1620-1680): Sonata XII (Sacroprofanus concentus musicus)
Gradus ad Parnassum
Concerto Palatino
Konrad Junghänel (director)
5.05am
Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594): Hort zu ein news gedicht; Ein guten Raht; Im Mayen
The King's Singers
5.15am
Förster, Kaspar (1616-1673): Sonata a 3 in B flat
Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble
5.22am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Concerto in C (Allegro)
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet)
Colm Carey (organ)
5.27am
Söderman, August (1832-1876): Three songs from Idyll and Epigram
Swedish Radio Choir
Eric Ericson (conductor)
5.33am
Dela, Maurice (1919-1978): Sonatine
Peter Oundjian (violin)
William Tritt (piano)
5.45am
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): Maskerade Overture
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michael Schonwandt (conductor)
5.50am
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826): Aufforderung zum Tanz
Arthur Schnabel (piano)
6.00am
Palmgren, Selim (1878-1951): Overture to Cinderella
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
George de Godzinsky (conductor)
6.05am
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868): Non più mesta (La Cenerentola)
Tuva Semmingsen (soprano)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
6.09am
Lipinski, Karol Józef (1790-1861): Variations on a Theme of Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
Miroslaw Lawrynowicz (violin)
Krystyna Makowska-Lawrynowicz (piano)
6.24am
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953): Cinderella (Suite No 1)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
6.52am
Alpaerts, Flor (1876-1954): Salome's Dans van de zeven sluiers
Vlaams Radio Orkest
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