VIPs: Simone de Beauvoir

Presented by Richard Osborne.
Philips Fantasia in G Paul Nicholson
(harpsichord)
7.14 Handel Coronation
Anthem: The King Shall Rejoice (HWV 260) Choir of Winchester
Cathedral
Brandenburg Consort conductor David Hill
7.27 Brahms Cello Sonata in F, Op 99
Pablo Casals (cello)
Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano)
7.59 Janacek Taras Bulba
Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik
8.23 Schumann Symphony No 1 in B flat (Spring)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Muti

A Wilhelm Furtwangler survey by Richard Osborne. Rodney Milnes on new opera releases including
Domingo's latest recording of Verdi's Otello.

Rossini La Donna del Lago (Finale, Act 1)
La Scala Chorus and Orchestra, Milan, conductor Riccardo Muti
10.35 Berlioz Les Troyens (Act 4, excerpt)
Montreal Symphony Choir and Orchestra, conductor
Charles Dutoit

Stephen Johnson investigates different styles of European quartet-playing in recent reissues of the Busch, Bohemian, Prague and Vienna Concert House
Quartets.
11.35 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 Busch Quartet
Producers Patrick Lambert and Clive Portbury Discs

from the Hessenhuis
Gallery, Antwerp.
Christopher Page and Christopher Wilson visit an exhibition of paintings and etchings depicting musical scenes and instruments from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Producer Kate Bolton

The Indian Spice Trail
Leslie Forbes traces the flavours and people along the old spice routes of India.
4: Bombay!
Four fights, one rape, eight songs and a mother-in-law/daughter confrontation: it's the perfect recipe for a masala Bollywood hit. But is it any good for the culture? And why is Thali the ultimate in flirtation?
Producer Matt Thompson
BBC BOOK: Leslie Forbes 's
Recipes from the Indian Spice Trail, £16.99

(cello and piano)
Saint-Saens Cello Sonata in C minor, Op 32
Lekeu Sonata in G
Martinu Cello Sonata No 1
Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 65 Rpt

with David Mellor.
Clarinettist Jack Brymer celebrates the art of his predecessors and considers how easy it is for the great players of his instument to be taken for granted. He points to this century's rich lineage of clarinettists from Frederick
Thurston to
Benny Goodman and Reginald Kell. The programme begins with a comparison of playing styles in a composite performance of Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A (K581) Reginald Kell (1945)
Charles Draper (1928) Leopold Wlach (1950s) Benny Goodman (1938) plus excerpts from
Debussy Rapsodie No 1 Gaston Hamelin
Bliss Quintet
Frederick Thurston
Wndemrth Concerto
Louis Cahuzac
Brahms Quintet in B minor, Op 115
Alfred Boskovsky Simpson Quintet Bernard Walton
Krommer Concerto in E flat,
Op 36
Jack Brymer
Producer Nick Morgan Discs

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs
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This week Ivan Hewett visits Liverpool to investigate the many and varied musical activities that make up the city's Mersey Sound.
Producer Anthony Sellors
Repeated tomorrow at 12.15pm

Chausson's Arthurian opera in three acts, to the composer's own text. has been called "the most
Wagnerian opera Wagner never wrote".
The plot centres on the last days of the Round Table, on Guinevere's passion for Lancelot, Lancelot's spiritual crisis and Arthur's final departure. Sung in French.
Netherlands Radio Chorus and Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Edo de Waart

A series ofsix programmes which explore the workings of the mind through science and art.
4: Codes and Communication
The way we communicate is done entirely by code, whether it is music, poetry, language or pictures. This week Professor Steve Jones
tries to discover where the coding stops and communication starts, from mathematics and modern music to the codes inside the brain.
Producer Peter Croasdale

Chris Serle introduces recordings of two groups from this event which took place in the Blackheath Concert Hall in February. Vocalist Carol Grimes and her Acoustic Group perform mainly songs by herself and pianist Janette Mason. Trombonist Annie
Whitehead was commissioned by Jazz
Moves to write the music for her new group, the Annie Whitehead Experience, which includes Jasper van T'Hof (keyboards) from Holland and Kim Clarke
(bass) from America.
During the interval Annie Whitehead talks to Chris
Serle about the problems associated with being a woman jazz musician. Producer Derek Drescher