Petroc Trelawny with music to start the day and news and views from the arts world, including reaction to the opening of Opera Factory's last ever production - The Snake Shed Its Skin. Music this morning includes
Brahms's Academic Festival Overture at 6.05, Parry's I Was Glad sung by the Westminster Abbey Choir after the news at 7.00, and piano music by Debussy played by Pascal Roge at 8.05.
With Peter Hobday.
A Scarlatti Sinfonia di Concerto
Grosso No 12 in C minor
William Bennett (flute), I Musici
9.12 Brahms Three Intermezzos,
Op 117 Julius Katchen (piano)
9.28 Hoist Egdon Heath
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox
9.46 Britten Canticle No 3: Still Falls the Rain
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor). Michael Thompson (horn), Roger Vignoles (piano)
9.59 Grieg Symphonic Dances
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Paavo Berglund
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Joan Bakewell talks to Vladimir
Ashkenazy about his career in the west, how he decided to settle with his family in Switzerland, and his devotion to the music of Mozart,
Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Schubert and Schumann.
Patronage
With Donald Macleod. The Princesse de Polignac - heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune - was one of the most striking figures in Parisian society between the wars. A great patron of the arts, she commissioned music from many of the finest composers of her time. The programme includes excerpts from: Ravel Pavane
Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa Smyth The Wreckers
Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Alexander Gibson
Falla El Retablo de Maese Pedro
Matrix Ensemble, conductor Robert Ziegler
Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos
Sylviane Deferne and Pascal Roge , Philharmonia, conductor Charles Dutoit
With Misha Donat. Weber wrote:
"Euryanthe must be something completely new - it must stand alone on its peak."
Euryanthe (excerpts)
Leipzig Radio Chorus,
Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Marek Janowski
Repeated next Wednesday 12 midnight
Mairi Nicolson introduces a celebration of the music of Percy Grainger , with choral settings of folk songs from the British Isles, original songs and characteristic piano miniatures, including Country Gardens, Irish Tune from County Derry, The British Waterside, Brigg Fair, Bridal Lullaby and Shallow Brown.
Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Martin Hindmarsh (tenor),
Penelope Thwaites (piano), Britten Singers, conductor Simon Wright Repeat
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductors George Hurst and Guido Ajmone-Marsan , Martin Roscoe (piano) Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides
(Fingal's Cave); Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 in C
Brahms Symphony No 3 in F
From St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
Introit: This Joyful Eastertide (Wood) Responses(Rose)
Psalms 130, 131 (Purcell, CH Lloyd) Office Hymn: The Lamb's High
Banquet We Await (Deus Tuorum Militum)
First Lesson: Exodus 13, wl-16
Canticles: Brewer in D
Second Lesson: Matthew 28, wl6-end
Anthem: Let All the World (Vaughan Williams)
Hymn: The Strife Is O'er (Victory)
Collegium Regale (Te Deum) (Howells) Organ Voluntary: Toccata from Organ Symphony No 5 (Widor)
Director of music James Thomas.
Assistant director of music Scott Farrell.
Actor Mandy Patinkin talks to Sean Rafferty about his new CD
Mamaloshen, which means "mother tongue" - a collection of Yiddish standards and renditions from Irving Berlin to Paul Simon. And Russian pianist Dmitri Alexeev plays in the studio. Music on disc includes
Strauss's Burlesque at 6.35.
A concert given yesterday at the Barbican Hall, London, to celebrate the 50th birthday of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, which gave its first concert on 21 April 1948. John Eliot Gardiner conducts the orchestra for the first time in a programme of two
20th-century classics, starting a European tour which ends in Mahler's adopted city of Vienna. Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo),
Keith Lewis (tenor), National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Janacek Sinfonietta
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde
Boxing Clever
The third of five conversations about the state of British television.
Today's guest is David Elstein , chief executive of Channel 5 and recently appointed visiting professor in broadcast media at Oxford University.
Chamber music by Pachelbel, performed by Musica Antiqua Koln , director Reinhard Goebel.
A series in which Piers Lane gives an introduction to the world of the piano.
A look at how the study evolved from a simple technical exercise to one of the most exciting types of music in the pianist's repertoire.
Debussy Pour les Cinq Doigts - Mitsuko Uchida
Chopin Etude in E, Op 10 No 3 - Vladimir Ashkenazy
Alkan Etude a Mouvement Semblable et Perpetuel, Op 76 No 3 - Marc-Andre Hamelin
Rachmaninov Etude-Tableau in E flat, Op 33 No 7 - The Composer
Liszt Mazeppa (Transcendental Studies) - Claudio Arrau
Liszt La Campanella (Grand Etudes de Paganini) - Gyorgy Cziffra
Rimsky-Korsakov, arr Cziffra The Flight of the Bumble-Bee - Arcadi Volodos
Saint-Saens Toccata, Op 72 No 3 - Cecile Ousset
(Repeated tomorrow 4pm)
Yasmina Reza 's Art has become one of the most talked-about plays of the decade. As her new comedy The
Unexpected Man receives its British premiere tonight, Laura Cumming explores Reza's European appeal. And as a major new biography of Lawrence Durrell is published, Night Waves asks if Durrell's life now makes better reading than his fiction. Producer Lore Windermuth
A set from the Pete Allen Jazz Band.
D Scarlatti Sonata in D, Kk490
A Scarlatti Marc Antonio e Cleopatra D Scarlatti Sonata in D minor, Kk90
A Scarlatti Abramo, il Tuo Sembiante
D Scarlatti Sonatas: in F minor, Kk466; in F minor, Kkl84 Repeated from last Thursday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Danish NSO/Nikolai Malko, Isaac Stern (violin) Beethoven
Overture: Leonora No 3 Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor
2.00 Brahms Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 25 Viktor Simciska (violin), Milan Telecky (viola), Juraj Alexander (cello), Helena Gafforova (piano)
3.00 Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E minor Polish RSO/Antoni Wit
4.00 Cantatas by Buxtehude Le Nouveau Concert: de Reyghere
(soprano), de Roos and Denecker (recorders), Watillon (bass viol), Penson (organ/harpsichord)
4.10 Schumann Camaval, Op 9 Rem Urasin (piano)
4.40 Nicolas Renier L'Indifférence Punie
Ricard Duguay (tenor), Arion Ensemble
5.00 Tartini, arr Kreisler Variations on a Theme of Corelli Jela Spitkova (violin), Tatiana Franova (piano) Brahms Serenade No 1 in D
Kitchener-Waterloo SO/Armenian
Froberger Lament on the Death of Ferdinand III Jacques Ogg (harpsichord)
