With Humphrey Carpenter , including
6.50 Strauss Fruhling
Lisa della Casa (soprano). Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Karl Böhm
7.12 Rachmaninov Vocalise, Op 34 No 14 TrulsMork (cello),
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
8.15 Vaughan Williams Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"
LSO, conductor Richard Hickox
8.45 Smetana From Bohemia's
Woods and Fields (Ma Vlast) Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik
Producer Edwina Wolstencroft
With Richard Osborne.
9.00 Building a Library
William Mival compares the currently available recordings of Franck's
Violin Sonata. Stephen Plaistow and Chris de Souza discuss new releases of Mozart, Haydn and their contemporaries, including Robert Levin 's latest disc of Mozart piano concertos, Haydn symphonies from Leonard Slatkin , and operatic arias from Barbara Hendricks and Roberto Scaltriti.
Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm
10.15 Record Release
Mozart Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat, K482
Robert Levin (fortepiano),
Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
10.50 Martin Y Soler Una Cosa Rara
(excerpts)
Roberto Scaltriti (baritone), Les Talens Lyriques, director Christophe Rousset
10.57 Vanhal Symphony in C minor London Mozart Players, director Matthias Bamert
11.15 Mozart Vado , ma dove? K583; Voi Avete un Cor Fedele , K21 Barbara Hendricks (soprano), English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Ion Marin
11.29 Haydn Symphony No 101 in D (Clock) Philharmonia, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Producers Clive Portbury and Susan Kenyon E-MAIL: record.review@bbc.co.uk
DISC DETAILS: see BBC1 Ceefax page 651
Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is the award-winning Belfast-born writer Bernard MacLaverty , whose most recent novel - Grace Notes - tells the story of a woman composer who is struggling to maintain her artistic integrity in the face of depression and personal difficulties. MacLaverty's musical passions range from works by Purcell and early Spanish sacred music to pieces by Britten, Shostakovich and Messiaen.
Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm
Harpsichordist Andreas Staier plays music from 18th-century Iberia, including sonatas by Sebastian de Albero , Jose Galles and Jose Ferrer and a fandango by Antonio Soler. Repeated from Monday
The second of three programmes on Britten's church parables.
The Burning Rery Furnace tells the biblical story of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and three Israelites who are initially promoted by the king but come to reject the values of the state. They are persecuted but miraculously escape death.
Andrew Burden and Ivan Sharpe (tenors), Charles Johnston and Jeremy Huw Williams (baritones), Ashley Thorburn (bass-baritone), Quentin Hayes (bass), City of Birmingham Touring Opera Chorus,
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
The Takacs Quartet conduct a masterclass in the Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, with a student string quartet from the Guildhall School of Music. London, in the first movement of Schubert's String Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden). Producer John Thornley
The second of two programmes from this year's Manchester International Cello Festival. Lynne Walker finds out from Christophe Coin what it was like to play the cello in the 18th century, sits in on a masterclass given by the distinguished cellist Janos Starker , and talks to Siegfried Palm, a pioneering exponent of the contemporary cello repertoire. With music from the cello-playing brothers Thomas and Patrick Demenga , and encore pieces from Alexander Baillie.
With Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs
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Four programmes in which
Russell Davies looks at the history of jazz in France. 3: Dans les Rues d'Antibes
Emerging from the subterfuges of the Occupation, French jazz welcomes the world at the festivals of Paris and Nice. Sidney Bechet is adopted as an honorary Frenchman, and intellectual cafe society begins its curious flirtation with jazz music.
Meflstofele
The operatic version of the Faust legend by Arrigo Botto - now best remembered as the librettist of Verdi's final masterpieces Otello and Falstaff - in a concert performance given by the Royal Opera at the Barbican Hall in March. American bass Samuel Ramey at last performs in Britain a role he has made very much his own. Introduced by Piers Burton-Page . Sung in Italian.
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Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conductor Bernard Haitink
The second of six experiments in creative radio.
Please Believe Me. A voyage through the history of the BBC voice and its close cousin, received pronunciation; a quest for the sound of authority; a pilgrimage back to the days when announcers had to pass a stringent audition, including ten verses of the Bible and reading in Italian and German. Discover which Chancellor of the Exchequer declared that mispronouncing "Thetis" deserved a whipping, why fears that Cockney was the future of English surfaced in 1949, and how redbrick voices infiltrated the airwaves. Repeat
Conductor Tan Dun
Susan Botti (soprano), Sharon Isbin (guitar), Simon Haram (tenor saxophone)
Ives The Unanswered Question
Tan Dun Guitar Concerto (Yi2); Orchestral Theatre 3
With Jez Nelson. Tonight's concert comes from American pianist Geoff Keezer. A prodigious talent, Keezer released his first solo LP before his 18th birthday. After a stint at Berklee, the pianist joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and his sideman credits since include Gerry Mulligan, Roy Hargrove, George Coleman and Steve Turre. He currently lives in Yokohama, Japan. His wide-ranging interests, spanning classical, jazz and world music, shine through this concert recording, which also showcases his formidable talents as a composer with music from his recent Sony release Turn Up the Quiet.
And to mark the tenth anniversary of the death of Chet Baker, the programme pays tribute to this fragile trumpeter and vocalist.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Olivier Lallouette (baritone), Jean-Philippe Collard (piano) Faure La Bonne Chanson
Ravel Histoires Naturelles; Gaspard de la Nuit
2.20 Schubert String Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden) Tartini Quartet
3.05 Schubert Symphony No 6 in C Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ludovic Rajter
3.35 Vleme Cello Sonata, Op 27 Elizabeth Dolin ,
Carmen Picard (piano)
4.00 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring Claire Ouellet and Sandra Murray (pianos)
4.35 Tchaikovsky Suite: Swan Lake Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Marko Munih
5.00 Bach Orchestral Suite No 1 in C,
BWV1066 La Petite Bande, director Sigiswald Kuijken
5.30 Ippolitov-lvanov Caucasian Sketches
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, conductor Uri Mayer
