Petroc Trelawny with music to start the day and news from the arts world. Music includes Strauss's Horn
Concerto No 1 played by Marie-Luise Neunecker and the Bamberg
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ingo Metzmacher at 6.05, Porgi Amor from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro sung by Barbara Hendricks at 7.00, and Chopin's Berceuse in D flat played by Maurizio Pollini at 8.45.
With Peter Hobday.
Bach Concerto Movement in D,
BWV1045 Pavio Besnosiuk (violin), Brandenburg Consort , director Roy Goodman
9.07 Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546 Brodsky Quartet
9.16 Chopin Two Nocturnes, Op 62 Claudio Arrau (piano)
9.32 Stenhammar Florenz and Blanziflor Ingvar Wixell (baritone),
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Stig Westerberg
9.41 Rossini String Sonata No 4 in B flat Elizabeth Wallfisch and Marshall Marcus (violins), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello),
Chi-Chi Nwanoku (double bass)
9.56 Sibelius Symphony No 4 London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Anthony Collins
Samuel Ramey
Today Joan Bakewell talks to the American bass Samuel Ramey about his metropolitan opera debut in Handel's Rinaldo and his operatic career to date. Music includes works by Handel, Verdi, Puccini and Rossini, the composer to whom he owes his great successes.
Conductors' Comer
Donald Macleod presents a week celebrating the contrasting careers of five 20th-century conductors.
Georg Solti. The death last year of Georg Solti was universally mourned. His energy and dynamism were transferred to players and audiences alike. Solti's life story is almost an opera in itself, from his early days as a pianist in Budapest, to his postwar leadership of the opera houses in Munich and at Covent Garden.
Including excerpts from Solti's recordings of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, Bizet's Carmen, Wagner's
Gotterdammerung and Verdi's Falstaff.
Chris de Souza takes up the story of Strauss's life after the death of his first wife Jetti and introduces excerpts from his last great operetta, The Gypsy Baron.
Chorus and Orchestra of the German Opera, conductor Robert Stolz
Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight
Penny Gore introduces the fifth of six concerts of French music given by the City of London Sinfonia last year in the Church of St Giles,
Cripplegate, London.
Conductor Graeme Jenkins
Debussy Sarabande
Ravel Pavane pour une Infante Defunte
Francaix Pavane pour un Genie Jolivet La Fleche du Temps
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin Repeat
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductors Grant Llewellyn and Mark Wigglesworth
Mozart Symphony No 41 in C. K551 (Jupiter)
Mahler, compi Cooke Symphony No 10
A weekly series in which pianist Piers Lane gives an introduction to the world of the piano and its players, presenting classic recordings by eminent artists and recordings specially made for the programme. Andsnes. The young Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is at an interesting point in his career. He has just won a major piano prize, and soon he will take a short break from the concert platform to consider the direction he wants his career to take. Piers Lane joins Andsnes at one of his recitals.
Haydn Piano Sonata in E flat. H XVI 49
Liszt Apres une Lecture du Dante (Annees de Pelerinage)
Repeated from yesterday 10pm
Eurovision
This week Tommy Pearson looks at the Eurovision Song Contest.
Today he talks to the judges about what they look for in a Eurovision song and he finds out how the British entries are selected.
Sean Rafferty travels to
Northamptonshire to discover the magic of Music in Quiet Places, a festival of art and music held in village churches throughout the county. The programme also includes music by Bach and Vaughan Williams and at 6.40, Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb.
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
I From the Philharmonic Hall,
Liverpool.
Conductor Peter Altrichter ,
Andreas Haefliger (piano)
Haydn Symphony No 101 in D (Clock) Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 in C,
K467
8.35 Amnesia in Utteris
By Patrick Suskind. All those magnificent books we have read, all those stories and characters. But we rarely remember them, do we? The trouble is, details get forgotten. The classics are consigned to vague notions of the man who killed his wife, that tale set in Madrid, and those memorable storms in the tropics. If people can't remember the details, why bother reading at all? Mark Straker reads this musing on the world of books by Patrick Suskind , the acclaimed author of the best-selling novel Perfume.
8.55 Sibelius Symphony No 5
Projections
Five programmes in which film historian Ian Christie talks to leading figures in contemporary film-making. 4: Peter Greenaway , the British director of such international successes as The Draughtsman's Contract. Repeat
The Early Music Young Artists'
Showcase 98 is introduced by Chris de Souza. In the first concert from this year's event, the chamber ensemble La Serenissima perform sonatas by Vivaldi, including his variations on La Follia.
Producer Lindsay Kemp
Paul Allen talks live with leading Mexican novelist and playwright
Carlos Fuentes whose new novel.
The Crystal Frontier, explores the complex and contradictory relationship between Mexico and America. Plus Bad Weather in Stratford - first-night news on a new play by Robert Holman. Producer Julian May
With Digby Fairweather. New CDs reviewed with Campbell Burnap.
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 from last Thursday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 German Symphony Orchestra, conductor Marek Janowski ,
Barry Douglas (piano)
Reger Piano Concerto in F minor
Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat
2.10 Mozart String Quartet in D, K5 75 Tartini Quartet
2.35 Weber Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor Kari Krikku ,
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sakari Oramo
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 Biber Scordatura Sonata
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists
Johann Strauss (son) Overture: Tik-Tak Polka; Czardas (Die
Fledermaus) Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, conductor Raffi Armenian
5.15 Lutoslawski Dance Preludes
Tad Calcara (clarinet),
Kuang Hao Huang (piano)
5.35 Weber Andante and Rondo
Ungarese in C minor
Juhanni Tapaninen (bassoon),
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
