Jews and Christians in Renaissance Venice
with Paul Guinery.
Haydn Piano Concerto in D (H XVIII 11)
Emanuel Ax (piano) Franz Liszt CO
7.20 Ferdinand David
Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Schubert Dieter Klocker (clarinet) Czechoslovak RSO/ Gemot Schmalfuss
7.31 Hindemith Concerto
(Der Schwanendreher)
Geraldine Walther (viola) San Francisco SO / Herbert Blomstedt
8.00 Schumann Piano
Quartet in C minor (1829) Andre Previn (piano)
Young Uck Kim (violin) Heiichiro Ohyama (viola) Gary Hoffman (cello)
8.21 Elgar Falstaff LSO/Jeffrey Tate
9.05 Record Review with Anthony Burton. Building a Library:
Bach's Motets by Roderick Swanston. Robert Philip with new releases, including a triangular match between Norrington, Gardiner and Hamoncourt.
10.35 Record Release
Berlioz
SymPhonie fantastique in John Eliot Gardiner 's new recording with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique made in the hall at the Paris Conservatoire where it was premiered.
11.30 Ivan Hewett reviews reissues of 20th-century music, including
Hans Rosbaud 's 1951 recording of Messiaen's Turangalilasymphonie and Gyorgy Sandor 's complete recording of Bartok's
Mikrokosmos, and ending with an American reissue of Schoenberg's Concerto for string quartet and orchestra after Handel's
Concerto Grosso, Op 6 No 7, played by the Lennox Quartet with the LSO conducted by Harold Farberman.
Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury
(9.05-10.35am repeated Wednesday 2.00pm)
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Schubert Sonata in B flat (D960)
1.50 At the Piano with Claude Debussy A reminiscence by Marguerite Long
1.55 Debussy 12 Etudes
The most idiosyncratic analysis ever of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung. Anna Russell whizzes through the story of the epic four-opera cycle at breakneck speed, bringing extraordinary clarity to opera's most complex plot.
Koussevitzky Foundation Commissions: 1944-45 The tenth of 12 programmes by Humphrey Burton reflecting the rich legacy of the Russian-bom conductor and patron of contemporary music Serge Koussevitzky (1874-1951). With contributions from composer Lukas Foss and Tod Perry Jr , Manager of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Koussevitzky's last years. Milhaud Symphony No 2 Paris Conservatoire
Orchestra/Georges Tzipine Messiaen
TurangalOa-symphonie Yvonne Loriod (piano) Jeanne Loriod (ondes martenot)
Toronto SO/Seiji Ozawa Discs
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Ray Abbott
Christopher Cook presents this week's arts discussion programme, which focuses on the issue of gender. Producer Ronni Davis
Bach
Sonata in C (BWV 529)
Peter Hurford (organ). Disc
Das Rheingold
Wagner's epic cycle Der
Ring des Nibelungen begins with the story of how the Nibelungs' gold is stolen from the Rhine Maidens, prompting a quest for the recovery of the ring forged from it which is the pivot of the whole cycle. The Met's Artistic Director, James Levine , conducts.
Metropolitan Opera House Chorus and Orchestra conductor James Levine (An EBU presentation in association with the Texaco
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network)
('Die Watkure' next Saturday at
6.30pm)
I In which the I biologist Lewis Wolpert explores the personal and creative aspects of doing science. 1: Asking Nature
Carlo Rubbia is the ebullient and outspoken Italian director of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN).
What compels him to drive deeper and deeper into the heart of matter?
Producer Alison Richards
Corelli Sonata in D minor, Op 5 No 7 Locatelli Sonata da camera in F, Op 6 No 2 Elizabeth Wallfisch
(violin)
Richard Tunnicliffe (cello) Paul Nicholson
(harpsichord/organ)
The first of two programmes.
Cristobal Halffter Cello Concerto No 2
Boris Pergamenshikov (cello) Bavarian RSO/ The Composer
More than 30 years ago,
Jimmy Giuffre (reeds), Paul Bley (piano) and Steve Swallow (bass) came together and produced classic, ground-breaking recordings. Now they are working together again and in October toured for the Contemporary Music Network. Brian Morton introduces a recording of the concert they gave in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, and talks to Steve Swallow during the interval.
