Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 1 played by Yevgeni Kissin with the Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado , at 6.10; Vaughan Wllllams 's Fantasy on a Theme of Thomas Tallis performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at
6.30; and Beethoven's Egmont Overture played by the London
Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington , at 7.50.
With Penny Gore .
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G British Symphony Orchestra, conductor Henry Wood
9.09 Monteverdi Ecco Mormorar
I'Onde (Madrigals, Book 2) Deller Consort , director Alfred Deller (countertenor)
9.14 Rachmaninov, orch Respighi Etude-Tableau No 2 (La Foire) London Philharmonic, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
9.16 Mozart Piano Trio in G, K496 Parnassus Trio
9.40 Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks ECO, conductor Colin Davis
9.54 Monteverdi Second Book of Madrigals, Nos 13 and 14 Consort Ars Musica, director Rafaello Monterosso
10.00 Suk Praga Czech
Philharmonic, conductor Libor Pesek
Emma Kirkby
Soprano Emma Kirkby talks about her relationship with the Consort of Musicke, with whom she has sung for over 20 years. Including music by Monteverdi and Dowland.
The second of five concerts this week, from the Queen's
Hall. Tenor Ian Bostridge is joined by Malcolm Martineau for a morning of romantic drama and reflection.
Introduced by Linda Ormiston. Ian Bostridge (tenor),
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Schumann Liederkreis , Op 39
11.30 Hugo Wolf
Brian Morton examines the life and music of the Austrian composer.
11.50 Wolf Eichendorff Lieder
(1873-1943)
The Early Years
With Andrew McGregor. 1: 1888-92
"For him I predict a great future." (Tchaikovsky)
Scherzo in D minor
St Petersburg Philharmonic, conductor Mariss Jansons
Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor Mikhail Pletnev ,
Philharmonia, conductor Libor Pesek Symphony in D minor (Youth) Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy Producer Peter Tanner
Repeated next Tuesday 12 midnight
Another chance to hear last
Thursday's Prom.
Richard Goode (piano),
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Ravel Suite: Mother Goose
Mozart Piano Concerto No 17 in G,
K453
Elgar, compl Payne Symphony No 3 in C minor
Paul Guinery presents eight programmes in which the BBC Singers explore the glories of 400 years of choral music.
5: Empire, Hearth and Home - the Musical Circle of Queen Victoria Queen Victoria was a keen amateur musician, and this programme presents pieces written in her honour by well-known British composers of the time, as well as partsongs by Mendelssohn, whom she met on several occasions and much admired.
BBC Singers, conductor James Morgan
Elgar To Her beneath Whose Steadfast Star
Sullivan The Long Day Closes
Stanford Out in the Windy West
Mendelssohn Im Freien zu Singen Prince Albert Hark , the Herald
Angels Sing
Plus music by Stainer, Parratt and Parry.
Gypsy Music
George Weigand shows how Haydn, Liszt and Brahms drew inspiration from the Gypsy style. Repeat
This year, the Edinburgh Festival devotes 12 concerts to the complete songs of the prolific lieder composer Hugo Wolf. Pianist
Malcolm Martineau accompanies various singers in the concerts, and today he talks to Sean Rafferty about the series. Music on disc includes
Schumann's Fantasiestucke, Op 73, played by Jacqueline du Pré , with arts news and new releases at 7.00.
"Noises, sounds and sweet airs" beguile the ear tonight at the Royal Albert Hall in George Benjamin's new work based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. This brief flight of magic is the centrepiece of a stimulating programme ranging from the religious fervour of Messiaen's holy vision to the sensual pleasures of Robin Holloway 's choral fresco and Scriabin's orchestral poem. David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Oliver Knussen Messiaen L'Ascension
Benjamin Sometime Voices (first London performance)
8.10 Rain, Steam and Speed
Professor Steve Jones explores the creative relationship between scientists like Faraday and Davy and artists like Turner and Keats.
8.30 Robin Holloway Hymn to the Senses
Conductor Stephen Cleobury Scrlabln Poem of Ecstasy Repeated Thursday 2pm
Poets' Fan Mall
Five poets read a verse letter to a poet from the past they admire.
2: Kathleen Jamie writes to Robert Burns
about growing up in modern
Scotland and about devolution. Repeat
The second of two programmes. Victoria Missa pro Defunctis a 6
TS Eliot described his poem The Waste Land as "just a piece of rhythmical grumbling", but it has become one of the most discussed and imitated works of the century. It has made a profound impression on countless readers, and it pops up in the work of writers as diverse as Evelyn Waugh and Raymond Chandler. Valentine Cunningham investigates its influence with the help of writers Blake Morrison, Peter Porter, Iain Sinclair, Malcolm Bradbury and Emanuel Litvinoff, actress Fiona Shaw and composer George Benjamin.
(Repeat)
(See also Four Quartets tomorrow 10.30pm)
Alyn Shipton presents the second of two programmes about Ken Colyer. Sonny Morris recalls the Omega Brass Band, and Colin Bowden remembers Ken Colyer 's Jazzmen from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Roger Nichols unearths further problems for Berlioz in the staging of his opera Benvenuto Cellini.
(Repeated from last Tuesday)
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Boccherinl String Quintet in E flat, G266; Guitar Quintets: in E flat, G466: in B flat, G447; String Quintet in C. G378 Cuarteto Martin i Soler,
Joaquin Ruiz Asumendi (cello), Esther Guzman (guitar)
2.10 Sarasate Carmen Fantasy
Zheng-Rong Whang (violin), Bienne Society Orchestra/Fabrizio Ventura
2.20 Tchaikovsky Serenade in C Bratislava RSO/Ludovic Rajter
2.55 Jean Coulthard Suite:
Excursion Nova Scotia SO, conductor Georg Tintner
3.10 Morawetz Clarinet Sonata Joaquin Valdepenas , Patricia Parr (piano)
3.20 Somers Symphony No 1 Canadian National Arts Centre Orchestra/Victor Feldbrill
4.00 CPE Bach String Quartet in G, Wq95 Les Adieux
4.20 Rachmaninov Caprice Bohémien Vancouver SO/Sergiu Comissiona
4.40 Bergamo Elevazione in F Andrea Marcon (organ)
4.45 Melartin Easy Pieces, Op 121 Arto Noras (cello), Tapani Valsta (piano)
5.00 Lassus Gratia Sola Dei
Currende/Erik van Nevel
5.05 Piazzolla Histoire du Tango Jadwiga Kotnowska (flute), Leszek Potasinki (guitar),
Grzegorz Frankowski (double bass)
. 5.35 Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216 Netherlands CO, director Rudolf Werthen (violin)
