Sunday 18th October 2009
Time: 10:00 to 12:00 (2 hours long)

Narratives.

Iain Burnside focuses on narratives in music and is joined by novelist Patrick Gale to explore works by Prokofiev, Liszt, Elgar and Ravel that use musical means to cast a narrative spell.

Sunday 22nd November 2009
Time: 10:00 to 12:00 (2 hours long)

With Iain Burnside.

As part of BBC Radio 3's Purcell Weekend, Iain presents live music from the Purcell Quartet, who play sonatas by Henry Purcell and Arcangelo Corelli, and he also accompanies John Mark Ainsley in Purcell realisations by Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett. Concordia perform a St Cecilia's Day Ode from a concert in July 2009 and the BBC Singers explore two completions of Purcell's anthem Hear My Prayer. Iain's guest is film-maker Tony Palmer.