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Petroc Trelawny looks at Liverpool's Tate Gallery, newly reopened after its year-long programme of development and expansion. Music includes
Bach's Harpsichord Concerto in E, BWV1053, played by Christophe Rousset and the Academy of Ancient Music at 6.40; Dag Wiren 's
Serenade for Strings played by the Swedish CO, conductor Petri Sakari , at 7.15; and Handel's Tune Your Harps to Cheerful Strain from
Esther sung by Mark Padmore with the Orchestra of the Sixteen, director Harry Christophers , after the 8.00 news.
Producer Joanne Whitworth

Contributors

Played By:
Christophe Rousset
Unknown:
Dag Wiren
Conductor:
Petri Sakari
Sung By:
Mark Padmore
Director:
Harry Christophers
Producer:
Joanne Whitworth

With Peter Hobday , featuring
Beethoven piano trios and recordings by Alfred Cortot.
Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice Philharmonia, conductor Guido Cantelli
9.12 Beethoven Variations on "Ich
Bin der SchnXeider Kakadu", Op 121a Jacques Thibaud (violin),
Pablo Casals (cello), Alfred Cortot (piano)
9.32 Elgar Wand of Youth: Suite No 1 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor Vernon Handley
9.54 Purcell Jehova , Quam Multi
Sunt Hostes Mei Taverner Consort, conductor Andrew Parrott
10.02 Haydn Symphony No 76 in E flat
Hanover Band, conductor Roy Goodman Producer Arthur Johnson

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Alfred Cortot.
Conductor:
Guido Cantelli
Violin:
Jacques Thibaud
Violin:
Pablo Casals
Cello:
Alfred Cortot
Conductor:
Vernon Handley
Conductor:
Purcell Jehova
Conductor:
Quam Multi
Conductor:
Andrew Parrott
Conductor:
Roy Goodman
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

Gundula Janowitz
German soprano Gundula Janowitz talks to Joan Bakewell , starting today with the beginning of her career. It was hearing a performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger at the age of 12 that made her want to be a singer. Ten years later, she was singing for Karajan in Vienna and for Knappertsbusch at Bayreuth. She explains how this came about, with music by Wagner, Weber and Mozart. Producer David M Jackson

Contributors

Unknown:
Gundula Janowitz
Soprano:
Gundula Janowitz
Unknown:
Joan Bakewell
Producer:
David M Jackson

Musical Correspondents
With Donald Macleod.
Leopold Mozart was a competent musician but not a high-flyer. He recognised in his son the spark of genius that he himself lacked and was determined that Wolfgang Amadeus would reach his full artistic and earning potential. The correspondence between father and son reveals the tensions that dominated their relationship as Mozart came of age and began to break away from his father's influence, Including excerpts from:
Concerto in F for Three Pianos, K242 Andras Schiff , Daniel Barenboim and Georg Solti , ECO
Symphony No 31 in D, K297 (Paris) Vienna PO, conductor Riccardo Muti 11 Seraglio English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
String Quintet in G minor, K516
Amadeus Quartet, Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Producer Tony Sellors

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Leopold Mozart
Unknown:
Wolfgang Amadeus
Unknown:
Andras Schiff
Unknown:
Daniel Barenboim
Unknown:
Georg Solti
Conductor:
Riccardo Muti
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Producer:
Tony Sellors

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Brian Morton is joined this week by Scots-born composer Thea Musgrave for a celebration of her 70th birthday. Now based in Norfolk, Virginia,
Musgrave has won praise on both sides of the Atlantic. In this programme, she talks about her early works, written while she lived in Scotland.
Suite o'Bairnsangs
Patricia Racette (soprano), Gena Raps (piano)
Rorate Coeli Ionian Singers, conductor Timothy Salter
Excursions Thea Musgrave and Malcolm Williamson (pianos)
Mary, Queen of Scots (excerpt) Ashley Putnam (soprano),
Jon Garrison and Barry Buse (tenors), Virginia Opera Assocation Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Peter Mark Producer Elizabeth Clark
Repeated next Monday 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Morton
Unknown:
Thea Musgrave
Soprano:
Patricia Racette
Piano:
Gena Raps
Conductor:
Timothy Salter
Unknown:
Thea Musgrave
Pianos:
Malcolm Williamson
Soprano:
Ashley Putnam
Soprano:
Jon Garrison
Soprano:
Barry Buse
Conductor:
Peter Mark
Producer:
Elizabeth Clark

Bath International Music Festival
Chris de Souza introduces the first of five recitals this week from this year's festival.
Natalie Clein (cello), Julius Drake (piano) Schumann Fantasiestucke , Op 73 Bloch From Jewish Life
Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19

Contributors

Cello:
Natalie Clein
Cello:
Julius Drake
Piano:
Schumann Fantasiestucke

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductors Mark Wigglesworth and David Atherton , Raphael Oleg (violin) Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral); Violin Concerto in D Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Contributors

Conductors:
Mark Wigglesworth
Conductors:
David Atherton
Violin:
Raphael Oleg

Jeremy Sams presents a personal selection of operatic delights, familiar and unfamiliar, sublime and ridiculous. Each programme takes as its launching pad an idea from Saturday's Opera on 3. La Serenissima. This programme focuses on the romantic city of Venice, site of the first public opera house, scene of many major operatic first performances and setting for many other operas. Music includes works by Monteverdi, Verdi, Britten and Offenbach.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Sams

Dynamics
Music is rarely without dynamics, but who came up with the jargon? Early in the 15th century, Mazzocchi was the first to use piano and forte in his madrigals. Tommy Pearson talks to Christopher Page about the time when composers first started putting expression on paper. Producer Verity Sharp
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Contributors

Talks:
Tommy Pearson
Producer:
Verity Sharp

Sean Rafferty begins a week of programmes demystifying the digital revolution by tuning into digital audio broadcasting - CD-quality radio which is already being broadcast in the UK. Music includes works by Vivaldi and Beethoven, and, at about 6.40, Copland's Four Dance Episodes (from Rodeo)
Producer Tim Thome

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Rafferty
Producer:
Tim Thome

Die Agyptische Helena
From the Royal Festival Hall, a concert performance of Strauss's powerful opera written to a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. In this alternative version of the Helen of Troy story, involving magic potions, elves, an omniscient seashell and a chorus of eunuchs, Helen and her husband Menelaus are spirited away to Egypt. But her husband's rage is reawakened when she attracts the attention of a desert chieftain and his son.
Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Christian Thielemann
Act
8.30 Addicted or Allergic?
Christopher Cook , Michael Kennedy and Rodney Milnes discuss the love-hate attitude of the British public and critics to Strauss's operas.
8.55 Act 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Michael Kennedy
Unknown:
Rodney Milnes
Helena:
Deborah Voigt (soprano)
Aithra:
Lyuba Kazarnovskaya (soprano)
Seashell:
Nancy Maultsby (contralto)
First maidservant:
Helen Field (soprano)
Second maidservant:
Gillian Knight (mezzo)
Menelaus:
Reiner Goldberg (tenor)
Da-ud:
Wilhelm Hartmann (baritone)
Altair:
Alan Titus (baritone)

Sleeping on a Volcano
Personal European views on the legacy of 1848. A century and a half ago, countries across Europe were in turmoil as revolution raged. From the first stirrings of unrest that spring,
Europe realised that it was sleeping on a volcano. Jacques Darras contemplates the artistic legacy of the Parisian uprisings and the events taking place this year in France to mark the 150th anniversary of the 1848 revolution.
Producer Hannah Andrassy

Contributors

Unknown:
Jacques Darras
Producer:
Hannah Andrassy

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Quatuor ad Libitum Haydn
String Quartet in B flat, Op 76 No 4 (Sunrise) Ravel String Quartet
2.05 Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks
James Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton (pianos)
2.25 Schubert Symphony No 6 in C Finnish RSO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
3.00 Buxtehude Organ Music
Played by Bernard Lagace (organ)
4.30 Beethoven Quintet in E flat, Op 16 Bratislava Wind Quintet, Pavol Kovac (piano)
5.10 Britten Piano Concerto Robert
Leonardy, Saarbriicken RSO / Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
5.45 Purcell 0 Let me Weep (King Arthur) Irena Baar (soprano), Tomaz Lorenz (violin), Maks Strmcnik (organ)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks
Unknown:
James Anagnoson
Pianos:
Leslie Kinton
Played By:
Bernard Lagace
Piano:
Pavol Kovac
Unknown:
Saarbriicken Rso
Unknown:
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Soprano:
Tomaz Lorenz
Violin:
Maks StrmcNik

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