Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including excerpts from Sibelius's Suite: Pelleas and Melisande played by the Berlin PO, conductor Herbert von Karajan , at
6.05; and Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 81a (Les Adieux), played by Claudio Arrau at 7.10.
With Peter Hobday.
Vivaldi Concerto in C, RV444 Camerata Koln
9.11 Monteverdi Six madrigals from Book 1 Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
9.26 Mondonville Pièce de Clavecin en Sonate in F, Op 3 No 2 Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Marc Minkowski
9.34 Liszt RW - Venezia
Alfred Brendel (piano)
9.37 Holst Suite: The Planets
Philharmonia, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Thomas Allen
Baritone Thomas Allen 's operatic career spans 30 years and many roles. But he has made one character his own - Mozart's Don
Giovanni. He talks to Joan Bakewell about his relationship with Giovanni, which has developed over 20 years and more than 200 performances.
Classical Heroines
With Peggy Reynolds. The lyric poet Sappho lived on Lesbos at the beginning of the sixth century BC.
Hardly any of her poetry survives, but the legends of her love for Phaon and her suicide have inspired many writers and poets since. Including:
Brahms Sapphische Ode, Op 94 No 4 Jessye Norman (soprano), Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Giovanni Pacini Saffo (excerpts) Wexford Festival Choir, Irish NSO , conductor Maurizio Benini
Massenet Sapho (excerpts)
Soloists, Garde Républicaine SO, conductor Roger Boutry
Gounod Sapho (excerpts) Soloists, Saint Etienne Lyric Choir and New
Orchestra, conductor Patrick Fournillier
3: Les Troyens (The Fall of Troy)
"What will become of this monster?
God knows!"
Berlioz musing on his opera Les Troyens. And he was right to wonder, for he never saw the first two acts of The Trojans in the theatre. Roger Nichols investigates the neglected first part of this epic work.
Repeated next Wednesday 12 midnight
Coull Quartet
Mendelssohn Capriccio in E minor, Op 81 No 3
Schubert String Quartet in C minor, D703 (Quartettsatz)
Beethoven String Quartet in E flat, Op 74 (Harp)
Another chance to hear last
Saturday's Prom.
National Youth Orchestra of Great
Britain, conductor Mstislav Rostropovich
Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Michael Berkeley The Garden of Earthly Delights (BBC commission; first performance)
Shostakovich Symphony No 10
Recorded in St George's Cathedral, Cape Town, South Africa.
Introit: Bawo Thixo Somandla
Responses (Barry Smith ) Psalm 15 (Claude Brown ) First Lesson: Isaiah 12
Canticles: Peter Klatzow (first broadcast) Second Lesson: Mark 12, w28-34
Anthem: Prayers and Dances of Praise from Africa (Klatzow) (first broadcast)
Hymn: How Shall I Sing the Majesty? (Gatcombe) Yizela
Organ Voluntary: Toccata from Suite, Op 5 (Durufle)
St George's Cathedral Choir, St George's Singers, Cape Town University Choir, Solid Brass Organist and master of the choristers Barry Smith.
Assistant organist Mark Mitchell. Organ scholar Grant Brasler.
Sean Rafferty 's guest tonight is pianist Richard Goode. Music includes ballet music from Hoist's
The Perfect Fool before the 6.00 news, and Sibelius's En Saga before the 7.00 news.
New to the Proms, one of Haydn's endlessly inventive symphonies, and arias by Gluck from his political operas on Greek myths. The political theme continues at the Royal Albert Hall in Beethoven's powerfully heroic symphony.
Thomas Allen (baritone), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Heinrich Schiff
Haydn Symphony No 70 in D; Dice Benissimo (La Scuola di'Gelosi; Un Cor Si Tenero (Il Disertore)
Gluck Overture: Alceste; Dieu Qui Me Poursuive (Iphigenie en Tauride); Tu Decides Son Sort (Iphigenie en Aulide)
8.20 The Politics of the Romantic Hero
The heroes and heroines of romantic art have traditionally been represented as exiles from politics and society, visionaries who enter a glorious other world of the pure imagination.
But now the cult of the romantic hero is viewed differently. Nicholas Roe of St Andrews University explores the politics of the romantic hero in the golden age of romanticism - from the French Revolution in 1789 to the exile of Napoleon in 1815.
8.40 Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)
Novel Concerns
With Valentine Cunningham.
3: Sin City. The grim reality of the post-imperial city, zone of crime and moral puzzles. Is this the proper stuff Of fiction? Repeat
Robert Hardy reads a second selection of excerpts from the autobiography of Elizabethan composer Thomas Whythorne , and Red Byrd perform his music. After the personal setbacks of his early years, Whythorne begins to enjoy better fortune in his professional life.
Kyril Bonfiglioli is best known as the writer of the Mortdecai books, a trilogy about a corrupt and flamboyant art dealer and his brutish valet, Jock. A self-styled count. Balliol scholar, sabre champion, science fiction expert and art dealer, Bonfiglioli died in 1985. Kevin Jackson explores his improbable life. Repeat
Alyn Shipton introduces the second of two excerpts from a concert given by the Dutch Swing College Band as part of the 1998 Wigan Jazz Festival.
Elgar and His Muses
With Michael Kennedy. Next to
Elgar's wife Alice, the most important woman in the composer's life was Alice Stuart Wortley. She was the inspiration behind the second symphony and the violin concerto. Angelus Worcester Cathedral Choir, conductor Donald Hunt
Violin Concerto in B minor (1st mvt) Yehudi Menuhin , LSO, conducted by the Composer Caractacus (Scene 3)
Judith Howarth (soprano), Arthur Davies (tenor),
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox
Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town) Philharmonia, conductor John Barbirolli
Repeated from last Wednesday
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Khachaturian Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus): Violin Concerto: Four Dances
(Gayaneh) Aldo Ferraresi (violin), Italian RSO/the Composer
2.05 Shostakovich Suite: New Babylon Tallin CO/Olari Elts
2.55 Brahms Symphony No 3 in F Danish NRSO/Michael Schonwandt
3.35 Schumann Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 63 Takacs Trio
4.05 Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV542 (Great) Ligita Sneibe (organ)
4.20 Mozart Symphony No 34 in C Polish Grand SO, conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
4.45 Henri Albicastro Sonata , Op 9 No 12 (La Follia) Members of Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini
5.05 Leopold Hoffman , attrib Haydn Flute Concerto in D Emmanuel
Pahud, Bienne Society Orchestra, conductor Marc Tardue
5.30 Weber Grand Duo Concertant
Joaquin Valdepenas (clarinet), Patricia Parr (piano)
5.50 Offenbach The Doll's Song (Tales of Hoffmann) Calgary PO, conductor Mario Bernardi
