Petroc Trelawny with music to start the day and news from the arts world. Music includes Mozart's
Variations on "Ah! Vous Dirai-je , Maman" played by pianist Daniel Barenboim at 6.05; La Donna e
Mobile from Verdi's Rigoletto sung by Roberto Alagna at 7.00; and Ravel's La Valse played by the London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado , at 8.45.
Peter Hobday features Vivaldi church music and 20th-century composers playing their own works.
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat, BWV1051
English Chamber Orchestra. conductor Benjamin Britten
9.19 Stravinsky Duo Concertant Joseph Szigeti (violin), the Composer (piano)
9.35 Vivaldi Nisi Dominus, RV608
Michael Chance (countertenor), English Concert and Choir, director Trevor Pinnock
9.56 Debussy Prelude a L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune
Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
10.06 Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber
Cleveland Orchestra, conductor George Szell
John Lill
In his long career, John Lill has built up a concert repertoire that includes about 60 concertos, yet his recorded repertoire is very small. He tells Joan Bakewell about his ambivalence towards recording and about the music of Prokofiev, in his eyes a much misunderstood composer.
Operatic Heroines
Violetta. Alexandre Dumas was most famous as the son of a literary father when he published his best-selling novel La Dame aux Camellias, about a noted Parisian courtesan called
Marguerite Gautier. Verdi's opera La Traviata or The Fallen Woman was based on Dumas's novel and the popular play which was presented in 1848. The play and novel were based on the real-life love affair between Dumas and Marie
Duplessis, a famous courtesan whose life was a rags-to-riches story and who lived life to the full but paid for it by dying of consumption. In Verdi's opera La Traviata,
Violetta's story is no less tragic.
She finally discovers true love with a man who she then selflessly gives up - only to win him back as she lies on her deathbed.
With Stephen Johnson. Symphony No 1 in E flat Rotterdam Philharmonic. conductor Valery Gergiev
Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor) Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev
Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight
Penny Gore introduces the fourth of six concerts of French music given by the City of London Sinfonia last year in the Church of St Giles,
Cripplegate, London. Duke Dobing (flute), David Rix (clarinet),
City of London Sinfonia, conductor Graeme Jenkins
Faure Pavane
Francaix Concerto for Flute and Clarinet (first UK performance) Honegger Pastorale d'Ete lbert Divertissement Repeat
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Vassily Sinaisky , Colin Carr (cello)
Szymanowski Symphony No 2 Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor
Schubert Symphony No 9 in C (Great)
Repeated from yesterday 10pm
Music and Children
Verity Sharp looks at the art of writing musical stage works for children and talks to Peter Maxwell Davies.
Humphrey Carpenter looks forward to this year's Brighton Festival.
The programme also includes music by Mendelssohn and Saint-Saens , and - leading up to 7.00 - Bizet's L'Arlésienne suite.
Beethoven the Revolutionary
From Glasgow City Hall, the BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra and conductor Osmo
Vanska conclude their innovative
Beethoven symphony cycle combining this great music with 20th-century classics. Tonight.
Beethoven's ground-breaking last symphony is coupled with a bold 20th-century Russian symphony which celebrates 1 May 1929.
Presented by Geoffrey Baskerville in conversation with Osmo Vanska and Jonathan Del Mar.
Claire Rutter (soprano), Elizabeth McCormack (mezzo), Adrian
Thompson (tenor), Peter Sidhom (bass), Scottish Festival Singers,
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vanska
Shostakovich Symphony No 3 (The First of May)
8.35 A Sound Read
Ivan Hewett presents an interval series reviewing the latest books on music. In this programme, fertility studies specialist Robert Winston and composer Peter Paul Nash discuss books including Composer on the Aisle - a biography of composer Virgil Thompson - and a book by Wagner's great-grandson exposing the family's controversial associations.
8.55 Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral)
First and Last Words
Reshaping. New Poetries. Michael Schmidt introduces the work of poets who have taken the English language into their own cultures.
Featured poets include
Gertrude Stein , John Ashbery , Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Hugh MacDiarmid. Readers Melissa Sinden and Russell Dixon.
Pianist David Witten plays music by Ponce based on a fugue by Bach.
In May 1968. France seemed to be on the edge of a popular uprising: student graffiti claimed "Revolution is the ecstasy of history", and ten million workers joined a general strike. Thirty years on, how do some of those who took part look back on their fears and aspirations?
Paul Allen discusses the legacy of 1968 and its meaning in Britain and France today and looks at some of the books published to mark the anniversary. Plus a reassessment by American poet Dana Gioia of the modernist Marianne Moore , whose eclectic, ironic verse dealt with everything from science, philosophy and current affairs to exotic animals.
Producer Rob Kettendge
Digby Fairweather looks at the essentials of New Orleans jazz.
With Jonathan Swain.
Piano Sonata No 5
The Poem of Ecstasy
Prelude, Op 48 No 4;
Danse Languide , Op 51 No 4: Nuances, Op 56 No 3; Desir, Op 57 No 1; Caresse Dansee. Op 57 No 2; Poeme No 1. Op 69 Piano Sonata No 6
Repeated from last Thursday
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Polish National Radio Orchestra/ Antoni Wit. Benjamin Frith (piano) Ravel Suite: Mother Goose Saint-
Saens Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor Roussel Bacchus et Ariane
2.20 Purcell King Arthur (excerpts) Nancy Argenta (soprano), CBC
Vancouver Orchestra/Monica Huggett
2.30 Escher Le Tombeau de Ravel
Jacques Zoon (flute),
Bart Schneeman (oboe),
Ronald Hoogeveen (violin). Zoltan Benyacs (vioia). Dmitri Ferschtman (cello), Glen Wilson (harpsichord)
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 Chopin Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor. Op 39
Ronald Brautigam (piano) Polonaise F sharp minor. Op 44 Erik Suler (piano)
4.50 Sweelinck Psalm 110
Netherlands Chamber Choir
5.05 Musorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain Finnish RSO. conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
5.15 Schumann Poems of Queen Mary Stuart
Catherine Robbin (mezzo), Michael McMahon (piano)
5.35 Mozart Horn Concerto No 3 in E flat. K44 7 James Sommerville ,
CBC Vancouver Orchestra. conductor Mario Bernardi
