Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including Beethoven's Piano Sonata in G, Op 14 No 2, played by Alfred Brendel at 6.30; Lennox Berkeley's Serenade for Strings performed by the LPO, conducted by the Composer, at 7.15; music by Bach played by Nigel Kennedy after the 8.00 news; and a Quantz concerto for two flutes played by Musica Antiqua Koln , director Reinhard Goebel , at 8.23.
With Penny Gore.
Boyce Symphony in B flat, Op 2 No 1 Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
9.08 Faure Nocturnes, Op 33 Nos 1-3 Pascal Roge (piano)
9.28 Mozart Violin Concerto No 1 in B flat, K207 David Oistrakh ,
Lamoureux Concerts Society Orchestra, conductor Bernard Haitink
9.51 Catalani Contemplazione
La Scala PO, conductor Riccardo Muti
10.03 Kodaly Peacock Variations Chicago SO, conductor Antal Dorati
Yevgenl Klssln
Joan Bakewell talks to Yevgeni Kissin about the Russian piano school, the nature of virtuosity and his feelings towards his Russian homeland.
Music includes Liszt's Rhapsodie
Espagnole and Prokoflev's Overture on Hebrew Themes performed by Kissin with the Moscow Virtuosi, conductor
Vladimir Spivakov. Kissin plays a Prokofiev concerto in tonight's Prom, at 7.30pm.
The second of five concerts this week, broadcast from the Queen's Hall. In a stirring juxtaposition of old and new, the Keller Quartet bring together Bach's The Art of Fugue with four of Kurtag's wonderfully intense miniatures. Introduced by Linda Ormiston. Keller Quartet
Kurtag Aus der Feme III
Bach Contrapunctus 1, 2 (The Art of Fugue)
Kurtag String Quartet No 1, Op 1 Bach Contrapunctus 4, 6, 12, 9
11.50 Colin Bell Invites
Performers and Places. Colin Bell asks whether the venue really matters. Is the Royal Lyceum any better than the village hall?
12.10pm Bach Contrapunctus 10 Kurtag Microludes
Bach Contrapunctus 11, 12a, 12b Kurtag Officium Breve
Bach Contrapunctus 18
With David Byers.
Finlandia Oslo Philharmonic, conductor Mariss Jansons
Serenade Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jorma Panula
Introduction (Kullervo) Los Angeles PO, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Karelia Suite Ulster Orchestra, conductor Adrian Leaper
The Origin of Fire Sauli Tiilikainen (baritone), Laulun Ystavat Male Choir, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
(Repeated next Tuesday 12 midnight)
Another chance to hear Saturday's Prom.
Robert Levin (piano),
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Magnus Lindberg Arena
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor)
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Paul Guinery presents eight programmes in which the BBC Singers explore the glories of 400 years of choral music.
6: Sing We and Dance It - Traditional Songs and Melodies. Traditional tunes in a variety of guises, including classics like Percy Grainger 's arrangement of Londonderry Air and Joseph Canteloube's ravishing choral version of his Ballero.
BBC Singers, conductor Ronald Corp Holst/Love My Love, Op 36b No 4
Vaughan Williams English Folk Songs Grainger Song of Vermland; Londonderry Air
Plus settings by Tippett, Flnnlssy and others.
How Do Composers Make Money? Once a composer has written the music and it has been performed or recorded, he can just sit back and let the money roll in from royalties. Or is it really that simple? Verity Sharp investigates the intricacies of publishing, record deals, the PRS and the MCPS. Repeat
Sean Rafferty celebrates the music of Stephen Sondheim as a new biography is published. Music includes Mendelssohn's Overture: Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage before
6.00, and Borodin's unfinished Symphony No 3 in A minor (orch
Glazunov), which precedes arts news and new releases at 7.00.
Russian music of glitter and glamour is heard at the Royal Albert Hall tonight in the second concert of the visiting St
Petersburg Philharmonic, with pianist Yevgeni Kissin playing Prokofiev's demanding Piano Concerto No 2. Two ever-popular showpieces complete the programme, with Ravel adding extra colour to the mix with his brilliant orchestration.
Yevgeni Kissin (piano),
St Petersburg Philharmonic, conductor Yuri Temirkanov
Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: The Golden Cockerel
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 2
8.40 Poets on Painting
An anthology of poems about painting read by Andrew Hilton and Sally Cookson.
9.00 Musorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
Repeated Thursday 2pm
The Poems and Songs of Bertolt Brecht
Five programmes this week in which Adrian Mitchell looks at the poems and songs of the German playwright. 2: Germany: a Bad Time for Poetry
Brecht's poetry under the Nazis. Repeat See also 10.45pm
Six pieces from Schumann's Album for the Young orchestrated by Theodor Adorno. Frankfurt Opera Orchestra , conductor Gary Bertini
Bertolt Brecht, author of The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and Galileo, was born 100 years ago this year.
He changed the face of 20th-century drama with his revolutionary ideas, but the ending of the Cold War and the economic boom of the eighties have seen his influence decline. Yet there have been many critically acclaimed productions of his plays in recent years. Michael Billington investigates Brecht's legacy and his importance in theatre today, with David Hare , Janet Suzman ,
Eric Bentley and Simon McBurney. Repeat See also tomorrow 9.10pm
Alyn Shipton talks to Kenny Baker and pays tribute to the late Beryl Bryden.
Scherzo in D minor: Piano Concerto
No 1 in F sharp minor; Symphony in D minor (Youth)
Repeated from last Tuesday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Song Recital. Szymanowski Three Songs, Op 32; Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin Tatiana Woropaj (mezzo), Anna Tomaszewicz -
Korzeniewska (piano) Word Songs, Op 46b Zofia Kilanowicz (soprano), Katarzyna Jankowska-Borzykowska
(piano) Prokofiev Five Songs, Op 27 Tatiana Woropaj (mezzo),
Anna Tomaszewicz-Korzeniewska (piano) Szymanowski 12 Songs, Op 58
Zofia Kilanowicz (soprano), Katarzyna Jankowska-Borzykowska (piano)
2.15 Buxtehude Canzona in G,
BuxWVUO Bernard Legace (organ)
2.30 Mozart Requiem in D minor, K626 Soloists and Choir of the Mikhail
Glinka Academy, Slovenian RSO, conductor Vladislav Cernusenko
3.25 Laszlo Lajtha Four Homages
Lorant Kovacs (flute), Janos Kemeny (oboe), Laszlo Horvath (clarinet), Laszlo Hara (bassoon)
3.50 Sibelius Six Impromptus, Op 5 Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)
4.10 Schumann Konzertstuck in F
Kurt Kellan , John Ramsey ,
William Robson and Lauri Metiation (horns), Calgary PO/Mario Bernardi
4.25 Beethoven Grosse Fuge Slovenian RSO/Marko Munih
5.00 Rachmaninov Vocalise Desmond
Hoebig (cello), Andrew Tunis (piano)
5.25 Schumann Kinderszenen
Eun-Soo Son (piano)
5.45 Brahms Meine Liebe 1st Grun, Op 63 No 5 Urszula Kirygen (mezzo), Katarzyne Krygen (piano)
