Petroc Trelawny with music and arts news, including a review of paintings by Pieter de Hooch at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Music includes
Mozart's Flute Concerto No 2 in D,
K314, performed by Emmanuel Pahud with the Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado , at 6.30;
Villa-Lobos's Bachiana Brasileira No 5 sung by Barbara Hendricks with the cellos of the Royal Philharmonic, conductor Enrique Batiz , at 7.10; and Chopin's Grande Valse Brillante in E flat, Op 18, played by Peter Jablonski (piano) at 8.04.
With Penny Gore.
Boyce Symphony in D, Op 2 No 5 Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
9.08 Mozart Quintet in E flat for Piano and Wind, K452 Neil Black
(oboe), Thea King (clarinet), Anthony Halstead (horn), Graham Sheen
(bassoon), Murray Perahia (piano)
9.35 Borodin Symphony No 2 in B minor Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Rafael Kubelik
10.03 Faure Preludes , Op 103 Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
Barbara Bonney
With Joan Bakewell. Barbara Bonney explains her affinity with the North, from her student days in Salzburg and her lifelong love of the German language to her adoption of Sweden. Including music by Schubert Mahler , , Grieg and Nielsen.
Librettists
With Donald Macleod.
4: Eugene Scribe was described by his contemporaries as a one-man play factory: he wrote nearly 400, and they made his fortune. He also found time to write the words for some of the most noted operas of his day. Including excerpts from: Meyerbeer Les Huguenots Joan Sutherland (soprano),
New Philharmonia/Richard Bonynge Meyerbeer Robert le Diable
Beverly Sills (soprano), Keith Erwen (tenor), Royal Philharmonic, conductor Charles Mackerras
Auber La Muette de Portici
Soloists, Jean Laforge Choral Ensemble, Monte Carlo Philharmonic , conductor Thomas Fulton
Verdi Sicillian Vespers
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala,
Milan, conductor Riccardo Muti
Stephen Johnson introduces works written in America, including excerpts from two of Weill's Broadway musicals, songs in which Eisler and Brecht paint a sad picture of life in Hollywood for the exiled European artist, and a septet Eisler based on music he planned for a Charlie Chaplin film.
Weill Ice-Cream Sextet (Street Scene) Anthony Mee (tenor),
Soloists and Chorus of Scottish
Opera, conductor John Mauceri
Weill Lady in the Dark (Finale)
Rise Stevens (mezzo), cast members, conductor Maurice Abravanel
Eisler Five Elegies (Hollywood Song Book) Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Peter Stamm (piano)
Eisler Septet No 2 (The Circus) Stanislas Ensemble
Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight
Voices at the Wigmore Hall
Another chance to hear the series first broadcast last year. Nathan Berg (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)
Schumann Lied eines Schmiedes;
Meine Rose ; Die Sennin; Requiem (Seven Songs, Op 90)
Schonck Eichendorff Lieder (selection) Schumann Dichterliebe , Op 48 Repeat
Monday's Prom.
Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Copland El Salon Mexico
Salonen LA Variations (first UK performance)
Stravinsky The Firebird (1910)
Vaughan Williams Five English Folk Songs Finzi Singers
1685 and All That! The year 1685 saw the birth of Bach, Scarlatti and Handel, three of the greatest composers of the early 18th century. Piers Lane looks at some of their keyboard music as played on the piano. Producer Chris Wines
In Conversation with ... Loyd Grossman. Tommy Pearson talks to TV presenter Loyd Grossman about Led Zeppelin IV. Repeat
With Sean Rafferty. From the Middle Ages to the Baroque, composers and performers believed that their earthly music reflected the harmony of the spheres. Philip Pickett. artistic director of Heavenly Harmony, a weekend of celestial music at the South Bank, talks about these beliefs and the music they inspired. Other music includes Schumann's song cycle Liederkreis, Op 24 and Telemann's Water Music Suite.
One of the world's great orchestras comes to the Proms with Mahler's titanic fifth symphony and a major new work by Birtwistle commissioned for Chicago. Based on the idea of discontinuous time, it takes the moment just before midnight as a point of departure into a new world.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
Birtwistle Exody (first European performance)
8.00 Tales Out of School
Author and broadcaster Patrick Wright recounts his first meeting with Harrison Birtwistle, when the composer was a school teacher. Arriving to inspire the playing of some of the least musically competent children in the country, Birtwistle curtails the vile din of schoolboy fiddle playing and encourages the players to improvise three-note concertos. And that is just the beginning.
8.20 Mahler Symphony No 5
Role Play
4: Donald Maxwell and Denis Quilley on Falstaff. Repeat
Scaramouche play Suite No 3 in C from the Broken Consort by Matthew Locke.
Feast Days at the Festival
The second of two concerts from
Greyfriars Kirk celebrating the composers of Notre Dame Cathedral, given by the Orlando Consort with members of the Dunedin Consort.
Tonight's theme is Easter.
Alyn Shipton presents the last programme in a week of music from the Cotton Club at this year's
Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival.
Kullervo and His Sister (Kullervo)
Marianne Rorholm (mezzo), Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Helsinki University Chorus, Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Rakastava; Scenes Historiques: Suite No 2 Ulster Orchestra, conductor Adrian Leaper
(Repeated from last Thursday)
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Pancho Viadigerov Hebrew Poem Conductor Alexander Vladigerov Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1
Stoika Milanova
Shchedrin Ballet Suite: Anna Karenina
Conductor Vassil Stefanov
Strauss Don Juan
Conductor Alexander Vladigerov
2.30 Schumann Dichterliebe
Kevin McMillan (baritone), Michael McMahon (piano)
3.10 Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D821 Andrej Petrac (cello), Alenka Seek-Lorenz (piano)
3.40 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor) Anton Kuerti , Toronto SO/Andrew Davis
4.20 Hellendaal Sonata No 7 in C
Jaap ter Linden (cello),
Ton Koopman (harpsichord),
Ageet Zweistra (cello continuo)
4.30 Decsenyi An Epitaph from
Aquincum Katalin Szokefagy-Nagy
(soprano), Istvan Ella (organ), Franz Liszt CO. conductor Peter Gazda
4.45 Weber Clarinet Concertino in E flat Hannes Altrov,
Estonian State Symphony Orchestra, conductor Paul Magi
5.15 Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante
Janina Fialkowska (piano),
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Raffi Armenian
5.35 Grieg Piano Sonata in E minor Ilkka Paananen
