Petroc Trelawny with music, news and the latest from the arts world to start the day, including a review of the first night of Harvey Goldsmith 's lavish production of Verdi's Aida at Earls Court in London. Music includes Handel's Let the Bright
Seraphim sung by Kathleen Battle with Wynton Marsalis (trumpet) and St Luke's Orchestra at 7.05. And, to end the programme, Paul Daniel directs the English Northern Philharmonia in Walton's
Johannesburg Festival Overture.
Peter Hobday introduces more chamber music by Ravel, and a recording by pianist Artur Rubinstein. Ravel Violin Sonata in G
David Oistrakh , Frida Bauer (piano)
9.18 Handel Sing unto God
Gillian Fisher (soprano),
James Bowman (alto), John Mark Ainsley
(tenor), Michael George (bass), Choir of New College, Oxford, the King's Consort, director Robert King
9.36 Bach Flute Sonata in E minor,
BWV1034 Barthold Kuijken,
Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord), Wieland Kuijken (cello)
9.52 Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No
2 in G minor Artur Rubinstein ,
Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
10.15 Ravel Tzigane Augustin Dumay (violin), Maria-Joao Pires (piano)
Angela Gheorghiu
Joan Bakewell talks to Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu about her plans for the future and how she wants to bring music to new audiences. The programme includes arias by Catalani, Bellini and Donizetti, and Gheorghiu reveals her favourite among her own recordings.
Musical Dynasties
With Richard Baker. In the mid-19th century, the waltz took Europe by storm. And today, the dance is still primarily associated with one family - the Strausses - and one place - Vienna. But not everything was in three-four time, and family relations were not always harmonious. Including: Johann Strauss (father) Sperl-Galop; Lorelei Waltz
Johann Strauss (son) Perpetuum Mobile
Josef Strauss Waltz: Village Swallows Eduard Strauss Bahn Frei
Johann Strauss III Coronation Waltz
Vienna PO, conductor Willi Boskovsky
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
With Jonathan Swain.
Piano Sonata No 7 (White Mass) Robert Taub
Prometheus
Martha Argerich (piano), Berlin Vocal Academy, Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado
Piano Sonata No 10 Roberto Szidon
Vers la Flamme, Op 72
Nikolai Demidenko (piano) Repeated next Friday 11.30pm
A concert given last Sunday at
Belfast's Waterfront Hall by Romain Guyot - principal clarinet with the Paris Opera Orchestra - and Philippe Cassard , winner of the Dublin GPA International Piano Competition. Martinu Clarinet Sonata
Schubert, arr Guyot Arpeggione Sonata, D821
Schumann Phantasiestucke , Op 73 Poulenc Clarinet Sonata
Bolet Plays Liszt. Cuban-born American pianist Jorge Bolet
(1914-1991) was considered to be one of the last representatives of the grand tradition of romantic piano-playing, renowned for both his transcendent virtuosity and for his artistry. Paul Guinery introduces a selection of Bolet's Liszt performances, culminating in a complete performance of the Transcendental Studies.
Producer Peter Tanner
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 Repeated from yesterday 10pm
Tommy Pearson talks to composer Graham Fitkin and members of the Apollo Saxophone Quartet about Hurl, which Fitkin wrote especially for the group.
Humphrey Carpenter blows the dust off some neglected classic musicals. Leading up to 7.00, Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
From St David 's Hall, Cardiff, a gala concert in the presence of the Prince of Wales, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Henry Wood conducted the orchestra's first concert - in April
1928 - which was broadcast on the BBC's 5GB Daventry Experimental. Seventy years on, music director Mark Wigglesworth , conductor laureate Tadaaki Otaka and former associate conductor Grant Llewellyn conduct a programme of party pieces.
8.30 BBC NOW at 70
In its 70-year history, the BBC
National Orchestra of Wales has been formed and re-formed three times. Henry Wood - who conducted the orchestra for its first ever public performance - predicted a great future, but it was not to be plain sailing. Geraint Lewis tells the story of the development of one of Britain's finest symphony orchestras.
8.50 Concert, part 2
Five programmes this week in which Nicholas Ward-Jackson explores the contemporary art world. To conclude the week, he talks to Georgina Starr as she puts the finishing touches to Tuberama, a special commission for Birmingham's Ikon Gallery. The work features a scaled-down Underground train and a musical commentary that follows the progress of the carriage's fictional characters. Nicholas Ward-Jackson attends the private viewing, a night of equal importance to Starr and to gallery director Elizabeth A MacGregor.
Verity Sharp reports on events and installations at the ISCM New Music
98 event in Manchester and introduces a concert giving by a local ensemble,
Psappha. Karen Tanaka Echo Canyon Gyorgy Ligeti Horn Trio
Sue-Ya Wang Profils d'Outremer Arturo Gervasoni Canto de
Ascension y Recuerdo Producer Philip Tagney
In the second of three programmes about the American Indian influence in jazz. Ian Carr looks at the work of Oscar Pettiford.
Repeated from Saturday 5.30pm
With Misha Donat.
Der Freischutz (Overture; Act 2)
Mary Shelley wrote, "The music is wild but often beautiful. When the magic bullets are cast they fill the stage with all sort of horrors - owls flapping their wings, toads jumping about, ghostly hunters in the clouds - while every now and again comes a crashing discord."
Leipzig Radio Chorus,
Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Carlos Kleiber
Repeated from last Friday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Rameau Zais Mieke van der Sluis ,
Jane Marsh and Marjanne Kweksilber (sopranos), John Elwes (tenor), Max van Egmond and David Thomas
(basses), Gand Collegium Vocale , director Philippe Herreweghe , La Petite Bande. director Sigiswald Kuijken
3.50 Debussy, arr anon Beau Soir Heini Karkkainen (piano)
4.05 Brahms Concerto in A minor for Violin and Cello Georgi Badev , Ventislav Nikolov ,
Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra, conductor Konstantin Iliev
5.00 Zygmont Noskowski The Steppes Warsaw Sinfonia, conductor Grzegorz Nowak
5.20 Mogens Pederson Mass for
Five Voices Copenhagen Boys' Choir, conductor Ebbe Mukk
5.30 Julius Rontgen Theme and Variations Wyneke Jordans and Leo van Doeselaar (pianos)
5.40 Johann Strauss (son) Express Polka Austrian RSO/Peter Guth
