Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including Beethoven's Violin
Sonata in A, Op 12 No 2, played by ; Itzhak Perlman at 6.10; and Gluck's : Overture: Iphigenie en Aulide i performed by the Philharmonia,
! conductor Otto Klemperer , at 7.15. ' Producer Paul Frankl
With Peter Hobday , featuring
Monteverdi madrigals and vintage performances by Otto Klemperer.
. Wagner Overture: Tannhauser
: Philharmonia, conductor Otto Klemperer : 9.15 Mondonville Pièce de Clavecin en Sonate in G minor, Op 3 No 1
! Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Marc Minkowski
: 9.25 Monteverdi Five madrigals from
Book 1 Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
9.38 Strauss Incidental music: Der
Burger als Edelmann
ASMF, conductor Neville Marriner
10.14 Brahms Alto Rhapsody
Christa Ludwig (mezzo),
Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Otto Klemperer Producer Tony Cheevers
Thomas Allen
English baritone Thomas Allen is one of Britain's most successful opera singers. Today, he talks to Joan Bakewell about growing up in a mining family in County Durham. Producer Kerry Chapman
Classical Heroines
With Peggy Reynolds. Medea the enchantress ran away with Jason and j cut her little brother into pieces to escape. In the end, she also murdered her own children to avenge Jason's unfaithfulness. Despite all this, Medea has been portrayed in a sympathetic light - as a wronged woman and desperate mother. Music includes: Cherubini Medea (excerpts) Soloists, Budapest SO, conductor Lamberto Gardelli
Barber Suite: Medea (excerpts) New Zealand SO, conductor Andrew Schenck Erik Gustaf Geijer Medea Catharina Olsson (mezzo), Thomas Schuback (piano)
Antonio Caldara Medea in Corinto
(excerpt) Gerard Lesne (countertenor), II Seminario Musicale
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
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1: Benvenuto Cellini (Act 1)
"As for the chorus, their sloppiness and apathy would drive a saint to despair. I've given up trying to breathe life into this troupe of corpses..." Berlioz was not entirely happy with the first production of his opera Benvenuto Cellini. Roger Nichols begins his survey of Berlioz's music with the onstage drama and offstage melodrama of his first opera. Producer Kerry Chapman
Repeated next Monday 12 midnight
Proms Chamber Music 98
From the Victoria and Albert Museum , London, continuing the Proms series of lunchtime concerts. Music of "wood magic" and "captured sunshine" radiating across the centuries, from Elgar's last and greatest chamber work back to the sweet nostalgia of Purcell's consort pieces.
Vellinger Quartet, Piers Lane (piano)
Purcell Chacony in G minor; Fantasia No 7 in C minor
Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor, Op 84
Another chance to hear last
Thursday's Prom.
Piers Lane (piano), Joyful Company of Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth Walton Suite:
Henry V Robert Simpson Piano Concerto Foulds Three Mantras
Elgar Enigma Variations
Patrick O'Connor takes operatic requests
Producer Peter Tanner
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A Musical Offering
In 1747, Bach visited the court of Frederick the Great in Potsdam, where the king presented the composer with a royal theme to improvise on. To find out how difficult Bach's task was, Tommy Pearson teams up with pianist Wayne Marshall. Repeat
Sean Rafferty 's guest today is
Leonard Slatkin and music includes
Vaughan Williams 's Oboe Concerto, played by Neil Black with the English Chamber Orchestra, before the 6.00 news, and Bach's Brandenburg
Concerto No 4 before the 7.00 news.
Producer Elizabeth Funning
Magical powers are contrasted tonight at the Royal Albert Hall in Dukas's mischievous The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Strauss's stern evocation of Zarathustra. Magic of another kind features in the exotic, rarefied sounds of Szymanowski's infatuated muezzin and Gubaidulina's vision of the Last Judgement, in which a solo cello leads the way through the orchestral maelstrom towards the moment of release.
Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor), David Geringas (cello),
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Sofia Gubaidulina And: the Feasting at Its Height ... (first UK performance)
7.40 Music and the Other
In conversation with Christopher Cook , Homi K Bhabha surveys the magical landscape of the Orient and its hold on European composers, artists and writers.
Infatuated Muezzin
Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra
Novel Concerns
Valentine Cunningham presents a five-part personal guide to contemporary English fiction.
1: Who Speaks for the Present? A look at the problem of voice. Repeat
Flower songs by Rachmaninov sung by soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom with pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.
"Seen through a glass, unreachable or overlaid with reflections" is the atmospheric mood conjured up by Colin Matthews 's new work - the centrepiece of a concert at the Royal Albert Hall celebrating the unrivalled brilliance of the current generation of British composers.
Ulrich Heinen (cello), Thomas Ades (piano). Birmingham Contemporary
Music Group, conductor Simon Rattle Oliver Knussen
Coursing Thomas Ades Concerto Conciso Simon Holt
Lilith Colin Matthews .. .through the Glass (first London performance) Mark-Anthony Turnage Kai
Alyn Shipton is joined by Dave Gelly and Tony Russell to review Born under the Sign of Jazz by Randi Hultin , and Kenny Harris 's Geraldo's Navy. Producer Terry Carter
Elgar and His Muses Imperial March
LPO, conductor Adrian Boult
Contrasts, Op 10 No 3: Rosemary Northern Sinfonia/Richard Hickox Serenade for Strings Sinfonia of London, conductor John Barbirolli
Salut d'Amour, Op 12 Nigel Kennedy (violin), Peter Pettinger (piano)
Sea Pictures Janet Baker (mezzo), LSO, conductor John Barbirolli Repeated from last Monday
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Shostakovich Viola Sonata, Op 147 (arr Kniazev); Five Satires,
Op 109: Cello Sonata, Op 40 Natalia I Dzagorinskaya (mezzo), Alexander I Kniazev (cello), Alexei Goribol (piano)
2.20 Mendelssohn Overture: The
Hebrides Laval SO/Jean-Francois Rivest
2.30 Mozart Serenade in C minor, K388 Bratislava Chamber Harmony, conductor Justus Pavlik
2.55 Bruckner Symphony No 2 in C minor Saarbrucken RSO/Wakasugi
4.05 Bach Violin Sonata No 2 in A minor, BWV1003 Sigiswald Kuijken
4.25 Spohr Six Lieder, Op 103 Julia Paszthy (soprano), Laszlo Horvath (clarinet), Laszlo Baranyay (piano)
5.00 Zbinden Concerto for Orchestra
Lausanne CO/Armin Jordan
5.20 Delibes Bell Song (Lakme)
Calgary PO/Mario Bernardi I
5.25 Spohr Fantasy and Variations on a Theme of Danzi, Op 81 New Budapest Quartet. Laszlo Horvath (clarinet)
5.35 Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor Lucille Chung, Laval SO. conductor Jean-Francois Rivest
