Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No I performed by Kyung-Wha Chung at 6.30; Sibelius's Finlandia in a rarely heard version for male chorus and orchestra at 7.15; and a Debussy piano study played by Mitsuko Uchida at 8.05.
With Penny Gore.
Boismortier Concerto in D for Five
Rutes, Op 15 No 3 Le Concert Spirituel
9.08 Rachmaninov, orch Wood
Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 3 No 2 Orchestra conducted by Henry Wood
9.12 Rachmaninov, orch Respighi Etude-Tableau No 5 (Marche) London Philharmonic, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
9.16 Bach Fantasy in G, BWV572 Ton Koopman (organ)
9.25 Sibelius Four Humoresques Dong-Suk Kang (violin),
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
9.40 Monteverdi Second Book of Madrigals, Nos 19-20 Concerto Italiano, director Rinaldo Alessandrini
9.47 Coates London Suite Queen's Hall Orchestra, conductor Henry Wood
10.00 Mozart Piano Trio in C, K548
Parnassus Trio
10.20 Anon Were You There?
Roland Hayes (tenor)
Emma Kirkby
Emma Kirkby talks to Joan Bakewell about one of her most popular recordings, a disc of vocal music by Hildegard of Bingen called A Feather on the Breath of God. Her favourite recordings - from a discography of over 150 records - include music by Buxtehude and Handel.
Emma Kirkby sings music by Blow at lam
The last of five concerts this week, from the Queen's Hall.
Pianist Andras Schiff gives the second of his concerts of Schumann piano music. Introduced by Linda Ormiston.
Schumann Papillons , Op 2;
Nachtstucke, Op 23; Gesange der Fruhe, Op 133
11.50 Sir Donald Tovey
Linda Ormiston presents a portrait of virtuoso pianist, musicologist and composer Donald Tovey.
12.10pm Schumann Kreisleriana ,
Op 16; Variations in E flat, Op posth
The Early Years
With Andrew McGregor. 4: 1899-1901
"After the symphony I wrote nothing for three years. I felt like a man who had suffered a stroke and for a long time had lost the use of his head and hands."
Tarantella (Suite No 2)
Dmitri Alexeev and Nikolai Demidenko
(pianos)
Were You Hiccuping, Natasha?; Fate, Op 21 No 1
Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), Howard Shelley (piano)
Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor
Van Cliburn , Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner Repeated next Friday 12 midnight
Another chance to hear last
Wednesday's Prom.
Stephen Kovacevich (piano), London Symphony Chorus,
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vanska
Beethoven Overture: Fidelio
Shostakovich Symphony No 3 (The First of May)
Kalevi Aho Rejoicing of the Deep Waters (first UK performance)
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor
Chris de Souza introduces more early music treasures, including sacred music by Palestrina, keyboard pieces by Froberger and an unusual concerto by Vivaldi.
Gypsy Music
Tommy Pearson meets members of the Bashava Band for a lesson in performance techniques. The violinist, singer and cimbalom player show him the skills that are needed to capture the essence of Gypsy Style. Repeat
Sean Rafferty talks to key figures in the arts world and introduces a selection of music, including works ranging from Byrd to Britten and Britten's teacher: at about 6.35, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic is conducted by Charles Groves in Bridge's sweeping symphonic suite The Sea.
Contrasts and paradoxes are explored tonight at the Royal
Albert Hall in music with a deep political message. Tchaikovsky was triumphalist about war, but Szymanowski celebrated the joys of peace in his Polish homeland.
Shostakovich's symphony - with texts by the poet Yevtushenko - was a thinly veiled attack on Stalinism and led to massive recriminations.
Sergei Aleksashkin (bass), Howard Shelley (piano), Leeds Festival
Chorus, Huddersfield Choral Society, BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vassily Sinaisky Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture
Szymanowski Symphony No 4 (Sinfonia Concertante)
8.20 Poet as Witness
In the early 1960s,
Yevgeni Yevtushenko wrote Babi Yar, a poem about the Soviet authorities' refusal to build a memorial at the site of a Second World War massacre. It established his controversial reputation. Professor Robin Milner -Gulland and composer
Gerard McBurney discuss the significance of the subsequent collaboration between Shostakovich and the young poet.
8.40 Shostakovich Symphony No 13 (Babi Yar)
Repeated Monday 2pm
Poets' Fan Mail
American poet Mark Doty reads his Letter to Walt Whitman. (Repeat)
To celebrate the 70th birthday tomorrow of the guru of the avantgarde, Mark Russell assesses the work and career of this most influential and provocative 20th-century composer. Including contributions from Pierre Boulez , Rolf Gehihaar , Jonathan Harvey , Suzanne Stephens and Stockhausen himself, as well as members of his family.
Music includes Kontakte (1959-60), an early masterpiece, performed by members of Psappha - Richard Casey (piano) and Tim Williams
(percussion) - with electronics by Sound Intermedia.
Humphrey Lyttelton tells the story of the British jazz revival. In the third of four programmes, Britain falls in love, first with skiffle, then with trad jazz. Repeated from Saturday 7.30pm
5: Beatrice and Benedict
Roger Nichols examines Berlioz's approach to his adaptation of Much Ado about Nothing.
Repeated from last Friday
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Blow Venus and Adonis
Members of the London Oratory
Junior School , Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
2.10 Paradies Sicilienne in E flat
Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Marc Neikrug (piano)
2.15 Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Aldo Ciccolini (piano)
2.45 Berlioz Harold in Italy
Milan Telecky (viola), Bratislava RSO , conductor Ondrej Lenard
3.30 Pekiel Missa senza le Cerimonie I
Camerata Silesia, Julian Gembalski
(organ), director Anna Szostak
3.45 Beethoven Cello Sonata in D, Op 102 No 2 Jong-Young Lee , Keum-Bong Kirn (piano)
4.05 Somers Suite Jennifer Swartz
(harp), National Arts Centre Orchestra, conductor Victor Feldbrill
4.25 Padovano Magnificat a 5 Tertii Toni Caldara Stabat Mater; Regina Caeli Pierre Pitzl (viola da gamba), Michael Kitzinger (organ),
Graz Capella Nova , director Otto Kargl
5.00 Chopin Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op 44 Aldo Ciccolini (piano)
5.15 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K279b Bart Schneemann
(oboe), Harmen de Boer (clarinet), Jacob Slagter (horn), Ronald Karten (bassoon), Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, conductor Lev Markiz
5.45 Buxtehude Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV149 Bernard Lagace (organ)
5.55 Mozart Misericordias Domini , K222 Ursula Weiss and Ulli Engel
(violins), Pierre Pitzl (viola da gamba), Michael Kitzinger (organ),
Graz Capella Nova , conductor Otto Kargl
