Last night. Sicily's opera house reopened after a 20-year closure with a production of Verdi's Aida starring Luciano Pavarotti. Petroc Trelawny introduces reports direct from Palermo, and at 8.25, Pavarotti sings Celeste Aida accompanied by the Orchestra of La Scala, conductor Lorin Maazel. Music also includes Arthur Benjamin 's Jamaican Rhumba, performed by the Cleveland Orchestra - conductor
Louis Lane - after the 7.00 news.
And after the arts news at 7.30, a birthday tribute to William Shakespeare - Thomas Morley 's It Was a Lover and His Lass, a setting of words from As You Like It, performed by the Musicians of the Globe.
With Peter Hobday.
Ravel Introduction and Allegro Mélos Ensemble
9.11 Schumann PhantasiesUicke , Op 12 Artur Rubinstein (piano)
9.40 Bach Flute Sonata in A,
BWV1032, Barthold Kuijken,
Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
9.54 Ravel Minuet on the Name of Haydn Louis Lortie (piano)
9.57 Haydn Symphony No 45 in F sharp minor (Farewell) Orpheus CO
Angela Gheorghiu
Joan Bakewell talks to Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu about her operatic roles on stage and on record and how she plans her career. The programme includes arias by Puccini and songs by Grieg and Satie from her most recent CD.
Musical Dynasties
With Richard Baker. In a quiet corner of 18th-century Bohemia, the Bendas turned music into a small family business. Frantisek Benda numbered
Frederick the Great among his customers, while his brother Jiri perfected the melodrama and influenced Beethoven and Weber.
Including excerpts from:
Frantisek Benda Symphony in C
Slovak CO, conductor Bohdan Warchal
Frantisek Benda Flute Sonata in E minor Barthold Kuijken, Wieland Kuijken (cello),
Bob van Asperen (harpsichord) Jiri Benda Song selection Emma Kirkby (soprano),
Timothy Roberts (fortepiano) Jiri Benda Sinfonia No 5 in G
Prague CO, conductor Christian Benda
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
With Jonathan Swain.
Piano Sonata No 5, Op 53 Sviatoslav Richter
The Poem of Ecstasy Cleveland
Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel Prelude, Op 48 No 4;
Danse Languide , Op 51 No 4; Nuances, Op 56 No 3; Desir, Op 57 No 1;
Caresse Dansée, Op 57 No 2;
Poeme No 1, Op 69 Dag Achatz (piano) Piano Sonata No 6, Op 62 Roger Woodward
Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight
Penny Gore introduces the third of six concerts of French music given by the City of London Sinfonia last year in the Church of St Giles,
Cripplegate, London.
City of London Sinfonia Soloists, director Andrew Watkinson
Saint-Saens Septet in E flat, Op 65 Maurice Ohana Sundown Dances
Poulenc Sextet Repeat
BBC Philharmonic
Conductors Owain Arwel Hughes and Yan Pascal Tortelier ,
Jason Howard (baritone),
Huddersfield Choral Society, Halle Choir
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Bridge Suite: The Sea
Elgar Enigma Variations
Walton Belshazzar 's Feast
Repeated from yesterday 10pm
Musical Collaborations
Tommy Pearson finds out about the collaborative work required to create an education project like the BBC Philharmonic's Aiming High, which has involved 450 year-nine students from north Staffordshire over the past year. He talks to Martin Maris , the BBC Philharmonic's education and community co-ordinator; and to composer Bill Connor about the making of From a Kiln in the Corner of the Sky.
On World Book Day, Humphrey Carpenter talks to Gottfried Wagner, great-grandson of the composer, about "He Who Does Not Howl with the Wolf" - a disturbing autobiographical expose of his family's past.
At 6.35 Faure's orchestral suite Pelleas and Melisande.
Live From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, a concert celebrating the richness of the European contribution to the International Society for Contemporary Music. The Halle Orchestra's programme includes Berg's Violin Concerto, one of the most famous of all ISCM-associated works, and UK premieres of an orchestral work from Italy and a song cycle from Finland. Introduced by Chris de Souza.
Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Penelope Walmsley-Clarke (soprano), Soloists from the Royal Northern College of Music, Halle Orchestra, conductor Kent Nagano
Ligeti Apparitions
Kaija Saariaho Chateau de l'Ame
Berg Violin Concerto
8.35 ISCM New Music 98
Lynne Walker takes to the streets and canals and visits municipal buildings and the city's performing spaces to find out about Manchester's first Festival of Contemporary Music.
8.55 Berio Ekphrasis-Continuum II
Private View
Five programmes this week in which Nicholas Ward-Jackson explores the contemporary art world. In the fourth programme, he talks to Ilya and Emilia Kabakov as they race against time to install their Palace of Projects inside London's Roundhouse. The Palace contains 67 rooms which house characters dreaming and scheming their way to the end of the century.
Lucie Skeaping introduces a recital by cellist David Watkin and fortepianist Howard Moody.
Beethoven Variations on Handel's
"See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes", WoO 45
Anton Kraft Divertimento
Jean-Louis Duport Theme and Variations (Duo Concertante)
Beethoven Variations on Mozart's "Ein
Madchen Oder Weibchen", Op 66
Producer Lindsay Kemp. Rptd tomorrow 4pm
What does work mean at the end of the century? Paul Allen discusses a new book, Closing: the Life and Death of an American Factory, which focuses on the experiences of six people from manager to labourer when a family business is bought out and closed. As the British government again puts employment at the heart of its agenda, does work remain central to identity? And, on World Book Day, Sarah Dunant reports from Peru, where a project to establish rural libraries has had a profound political and cultural impact. Producer Lore Windemuth
With Digby Fairweather. Campbell Burnap reviews the latest CDs.
With Misha Donat.
Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op 34;
Was Zieht zu Deinen Zauberkreise ;
Klage; Das Veilchen im Thale; Er an Sie; Konzertstuck in F minor, Op 79 Repeated from last Thursday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Prague RSO Weber Overture: Preciosa Donizetti Cor Anglais
Concertino in G Conductor
Ondrej Kurac , Jitka Tomsickova (cor anglais) Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor Conductor Vladimir Valek
2.00 Weiss Suite No 21 in G minor
Konrad Junghanel (lute)
2.40 Ravel Suite: Mother Goose
Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Workshop 3.20 Let's
Move! 3.40 Words Alive! 3.50 First
Steps in Drama 4.05 Listen and Write
4.30 Liszt Ballade No 2 in B minor
Erik Suler (piano)
5.00 Schubert Marches
Caractéristiques in C, D968b Wyneke Jordans and Leo van Doeselaar (pianos)
5.05 Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale Gelders Orchestra. conductor Georges Octors
5.40 Vivaldi Cantata: All' Ombra di
Sospetto Irena Baar (soprano), Tomaz Lorenz (violin), Maks Strmcnik (organ)
