Learning through Life: A Question of Minorities
with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Takemrtsu Utau
(lake (I Just Sing) Shin-yu Kai Choir, conductor Shin Sekiya
7.15 Paganini Sonata concertata
Gil Shaham (violin)
Goran Sollscher (guitar)
7.32 Rameau Les Incas du Perou (Leslndes galantes)
Orchestra of the 18th
Century, conductor Frans Bruggen
8.05 Keyboard Compendium: Bach Goldberg
Variations Nos 13-18
Glenn Gould (piano)
8.22 Puccini Tu, tu amore? Tu? (Manon Lescaut)
Renata Tebaldi (soprano) Franco Corelli (tenor) Suisse Romande
Orchestra, conductor
Anton Guadagno
8.37 Janacek Lachian
Dances
Brno State PO, conductor Frantisek Jilek Discs
4: Pagodas, Gamelans and Gigues
A miscellany of songs and piano pieces reflecting Debussy's love of the exotic - near and far, past and present. Robin Holloway 's selection includes the orchestral
Gigues, the piano prelude Pagodes and the Trois chansons de Bilitis sung by Regine Crespin.
Chris de Souza introduces more music written with young people in mind, including Hoist's St Paul's Suite, some Schumann duets and at approximately
10.35 Artists of the Week: The Sixteen
Locke Super flumina, Babylonis London Baroque, conductor
Harry Christophers
10.45 Taneyev
Symphony No 2
Philharmonia Hungarica/ Werner Andreas Albert
11.20 Fayrfax Sanctus (Missa 0 Bone Jesu) The Sixteen, conductor
Harry Christophers
11.50 Hoist
Fugal Concerto Divertimenti
Christine Messiter (flute) Malcolm Messiter (oboe) conductor Peter Broadbent
Clive Bennett presents
Handel's three-act opera Scipione in a new recording directed by Christophe Rousset.
Nobility and deception are at the heart of this opera set in the wake of a victory during the Punic Wars in 209BC, when the Roman army under Scipio defeated the Carthaginians at the Spanish port of New Carthage. Sung in Italian.
Les Talens Lyriques
with Julian Farrell
(bass clarinet)
Hlndemith Kleine Kammermusik , Op24No2
Ligeti Six Bagatelles Janacek Mladi
Unsung Heroes: Twenty-Seven Choruses
The Guy Barker Quintet play jazz. But their apparently improvised form is a carefully constructed craft, except when hijacked by greedy soloists - or inspiration.
Music, news and arts stories with Geoffrey Baskerville.
Producer Svend Brown
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle
Maria Ewing (soprano)
A typically wide-ranging programme from Simon Rattle and his orchestra, including a recent work by Mark-Anthony Turnage.
Sibelius Tapiola
Mark-Anthony Turnage Drowned Out
8.15 Prom Premieres
Modern works premiered at the Proms are analysed by composer Alwynne Pritchard. Tonight he looks at Messiaen's early song-cycle Poemes pour Mi, first performed in its orchestral version in Britain during the 1971 season. With contributions from Howard Skempton, George Benjamin and James Clarke.
8.35 Messiaen Poemes pour Mi
Debussy La Mer
(Simultaneous broadcast (concert only): with BBC2)
The memoirs of Max
Beerbohm, caricaturist and parodist. Tonight, Max recalls Sarah Bernhardt 's
Hamlet and the music-hall artist Dan Leno. With Derek
Jacobi as Beerbohm.
(Final programme tomorrow 9.40pm)
In this recording from the 1985 Proms season,
Michael Collins is the soloist in Aaron Copland 's Clarinet Concerto, with the BBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor
Dennis Russell Davies.
Born 100 years ago, Ben Nicholson is widely regarded as one of the greatest modern British artists. To mark his centenary, Frank Whitford traces Nicholson's career, goes on a journey in search of the places that inspired him, and asks whether the artist's work reflects a quintessentially English sensibility. With contributions from Sir Alan and Lady Bowness, Jake and Rachel Nicholson ,
Margaret Gardiner , Patrick Heron ,
Professor Norbert Lynton , Angela Verren-Taunt and Felicitas Vogler.
The Voices of DaUapiccola
Like all good Italians, Luigl Dallapiccola (1904-75) was obsessed with the human voice. lain Burnside picks out some of the highlights of his hugely varied repertoire.
Divertimento in Quatro Esercizi
Tre Laudi
Canti di Prigionia Quatro Liriche di Antonio Machado
Preghiere
Producer Adam Gatehouse
