Stephanie Hughes with music and arts news, including a review of Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical Whistle down the Wind, Music includes Rodrigo's Concierto de Estio played by violinist Augustin Leo Ara with the LSO, conductor Enrique Batiz, at 6.05; Handel's setting of the psalm Nisi Dominus sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey, conductor Simon Preston, after the arts news at 7.30; and Rlmsky-Korsakov's Overture: The Tsar's Bride played by the Philharmonia after the news at 8.00.
With Peter Hobday.
Lalo Overture: Le Roi d'Ys
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conductor Paul Paray
9.12 Debussy Two Arabesques Marguerite Long (piano)
9.19 Haydn String Quartet in D. Op 20 No 4 The Lindsays
9.43 Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
Margaret Price's childhood dream was to become predominantly a singer of lieder. She talks to Joan Bakewell about her love for singing with piano in different languages and how she finds lieder more suited to her voice at present. Including songs by Brahms, Schubert, Wolf, Liszt and Strauss.
Five Novelists
With Peggy Reynolds.
4: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The greatest of German dramatists - whose Faust is a "sound story" in itself - was not a prolific novelist.
But two of his novels took Europe by storm and provided inspiration for countless composers. Including excerpts from:
Massenet Werther Soloists, LPO, conductor Michel Plasson
Pugnanl Werther Luca Occelli
(narrator), Academia Montis Regalis , conductor Luigi Mangiocavallo Ambrolse Thomas Mignon Lawrence Dale (tenor),
Orchestra of the Opera Comique, conductor Jean-Claude Hartmann
Plus settings of Mignon's songs from Wilhelm Meister by Schubert and Wolf.
INVENTING AMERICA
With Humphrey Burton.
4: Life at Capricorn. In 1943, Barber and his friend Gian Carlo Menotti bought a secluded home, Capricorn, near Mount Kisco, about 50 miles from New York City.
"I think I'm a country person ... Like Messiaen, I like birds. And I need the absolute silence of the country." (Barber, 1981)
Capricorn Concerto San Diego CO, conductor
Donald Barra Knoxville : Summer of 1915 Leontyne Price (soprano), New Philharmonia, conductor Thomas Schippers
Souvenirs, Op 28 (excerpts) Margarita and Olga Malinova (piano duet) A Hand of Bridge
Patricia Neway (soprano), Eunice Alberts (contralto), William Lewis (tenor), Philip Maero (baritone), Symphony of the Air, conductor Vladimir Golschmann
Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight
Mozart In the City
The third of eight programmes featuring Mozart quartets recorded in a variety of historic London venues as part of this year's City of London
Festival. Introduced by Lucie Skeaping. Martinu Quartet, Endellion Quartet
String Quartets: in D minor, K421; in E flat, K428
Ulster Orchestra
Conductors Roy Goodman and Lionel Friend , Bernadette Greevy (contralto) Schubert Symphony No 4 in C minor (Tragic)
Wagner, arr Mottl Wesendonk Lieder Schubert, orch Mottl Fantasia in F minor, D940
Sibelius Symphony No 4
Repeated from yesterday 10pm
Technology
Verity Sharp visits Mad about Music 98 at Docklands Arena to try out the latest in music technology.
Sean Rafferty talks to Sir Peter Hall about his new production of Simon Boccanegra at Glyndebourne.
Including ballet music from Dellbes's Le Roi S 'Amuse before 6.00, and Ravel's Bolero before 7.00 and the arts news and latest releases.
Lloyds Bank Young Conductors Competition
Stephanie Hughes introduces the culmination of a strenuous week for budding maestros. This final concert was given last February in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. Leon McCawley (piano),
BBC Philharmonic, conductors Rumon Gamba, Timothy Redmond and Stuart Stratford
Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor
Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol
Debussy La Mer
With Ian Peacock.
With this catchphrase, the fearsome Dr Laura Schlesinger introduces her no-nonsense family values phone-in from Sherman Oaks, California. The ultimate schoolmarm, she shuns surf psychology and psychobabble in favour of stern, absolutist morality and plain old-fashioned nagging. Why is she now America's most listened-to female presenter? And what does this say about her listeners?
Liberty songs by William Billings and Abraham Wood performed by the Continental Harmony Singers.
Chris de Souza introduces highlights of a concert of 18th-century French chamber music by Couperln,
Forqueray and others, given at last month's Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music by the Bottom Line. Paolo Pandolfo and Guido
Balestracci (violas da gamba), Rolf Lislevand (theorbo)
Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord) Producer Lindsay Kemp Repeated tomorrow 4pm
Though Marc Chagall is considered to be one of the most important artists of the century, some of his greatest work was hidden to the west before glasnost. Now the Royal Academy's exhibition Chagall: Love and Stage brings his great murals for the State Yiddish Theatre in Moscow to Britain for the first time. Paul Allen discusses the exhibition and Chagall's years in Moscow, where he lived through the outbreak of the First World War and the October
Revolution. Allen also talks to the acclaimed Latin American novelist
Mario Vargas Llosa to mark the publication of his new book, The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto. Producer Julian May
With Digby Fairweather. Humphrey Lyttelton and Alan Skidmore pay tribute to the great British saxophonist Jimmy Skidmore , who died in April.
Sonata in D minor, Wq57 No 4;
Rondo in E, Wq57 No 1; Concerto in E flat; Fantasia in F sharp minor, Wq67 Repeated from last Thursday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Dvorak The Noonday Witch;
Ten Biblical Songs; Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World) Sergei Alexashkin (bass), Radio France Chorus and Philharmonic, conductor Marek Janowski
2.40 Rosenmuller Magnificat Cantus Koln, director Konrad Junghanel
2.55 Haydn Symphony No 97 in C Bratislava RSO/Ludovit Rajter
3.25 Mozart Piano Sonata in A, K331 Young-Lan Han
3.55 Szymanowski String Quartet No 2 Silesian Quartet
4.15 Bach Concerto in F minor, BWV1056 Angela Hewitt (piano),
CBC Vancouver SO/Mario Bernardi
4.25 Hans Krasa Chamber Music
John Snijders (harpsichord), Nieuw Ensemble, director Ed Spanjaard
4.45 Hendrik Andrlessen Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Kuhnau Netherlands RCO/David Porcelign
5.20 Mozart Serenade in D, K239
(Serenata Nottuma)
German Chamber Virtuosos, director Margaret Adorf
5.40 Suk A Tale of a Winter's Evening Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Rudolf Vasata
