Petroc Trelawny presents music and arts news, including a review of a tribute concert for Chilean singer and songwriter Victor Jara on the 25th anniversary of his death. Music includes Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat performed by Mark Bennett and the English Concert at 7.00, and Villa-Lobos's Bachiana Brasiliera No 9 played by the French National Radio Orchestra after 8.00.
With Penny Gore, featuring
Handel Chandos anthems and performances by violinist Arthur Grumiaux.
Boyce Symphony in F, Op 2 No 6 English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
9.07 Handel Chandos Anthem No 1:
0 Be Joyful in the Lord Lynne Dawson (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor),
Michael George (bass), the Sixteen
Choir and Orchestra/Harry Christophers
9.28 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K364 Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Arrigo Pelliccia (viola), LSO/Colin Davis
10.00 Debussy Petite Suite
Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky (piano duet)
10.13 Ravel La Valse
LSO, conductor Claudio Abbado Producer Tony Cheevers
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
With Joan Bakewell. Praised as "one of the most exciting talents before the public today", pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is renowned for his eloquent phrasing, lustrous colours and brilliant technique. Today, he talks to Joan Bakewell about the beginnings of his spectacular career, with music by Ravel and Liszt. Producer Lyndon Jones
Siren Voices
Richard Baker talks about five women who either inspired men to make music or were musicians themselves.
1: Olympe Pelissier was a Parisian courtesan who lived with Rossini, eventually becoming his second wife, nursing him back to health and inspiring a revival of his creative muse. Music by Rossini includes: Cantata: Giovanna d'Arco
Cecilia Bartoli (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)
Soirees Musicales (arr Liszt) Leslie Howard (piano) Stabat Mater
Jose Garcia (baritone), I
Solisti Veneti , conductor Claudio Scimone Peches de Vieillesse (excerpts)
John Aler (tenor), Steven Kimbrough (baritone), Dalton Baldwin (piano) Producer Piers Burton-Page
(1854-1928)
1: Moravia. Jan Smaczny looks at the roots of Janacek's inspiration.
Rakos Rakoczy (excerpts)
Zuzana Lapcikova (soprano), Petr Julicek (tenor), Brno PO, conductor Leos Svarovsky Two Folk Songs and Dances
Brno PO, conductor Leos Svarovsky
Jenufa (excerpt) Peter Dvorsky (tenor), Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna PO, conductor Charles Mackerras
Moravian Folk Poetry in Song (excerpts) Zdena Kloubova (soprano), Leo Marian Vodicka (tenor), Radoslav Kvapil (piano) Lachian Dances LPO, conductor Francois Huybrechts
Producer Jeremy Hayes
Repeated next Monday 12 midnight
Proms Chamber Music 98
From the Victoria and Albert
Museum, London. Mozart's rational world of the Enlightenment also found a place for the mysterious and the magical, In this concert, members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment explore these elements using wind instruments of the period.
Wind Soloists of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Mozart, arr Heidenreich The Magic Flute (excerpts)
Salieri Armonia per un Tempio della Notte
Mozart Serenade in E flat, K375 Repeated Saturday lpm
Blue Peter, BBC TV's ever popular children's programme, comes to the Proms and the Royal Albert Hall to celebrate its 40th birthday with music, fun and games from presenter Katy Hill and Yan "Clouseau" Tortelier.
Islington Music Centre Children's Choir, Adrian Spillett (percussion), BBC Philharmonic, conductors Yan Pascal Tortelier and Rumon Gamba
Including:
Copland Fanfare for the Common Man
Ravel Bolero
Errolyn Wallen Percussion Concerto (Finale)
And music by Bach, Strauss, Bartok, Prokofiev, Bizet and Debussy.
2.45 The Pied Piper of Hamelin
In 1842, Robert Browning wrote a poem to cheer up the ill ten-year-old son of a friend. The poem has enchanted children and adults ever since. Peggy Reynolds introduces a reading of "The Pied Piper" by Andrew Sachs.
3.05 The fun continues.
(Wallace and Gromit's TV and wireless guide: page 32)
Patrick O'Connor takes a final selection of operatic requests. Producer Peter Tanner
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In at the Deep End - the Big Mix This week, Tommy Pearson and Verity Sharp record and produce a CD. Today, Tommy joins the Sloane
Square Syncopators to learn the art of performing in a studio. Repeat
As a new translation of Racine's play Phedre opens in London,
Sean Rafferty talks to its star, Diana Rigg. Music includes Berlioz's Overture: Le
Corsaire at 5.00 and Kodaly's Suite: Hary Janos at 6.35.
A visiting orchestra comes to the Proms with a strongly distinctive national sound - warm, reedy and alive with the folk rhythms of the Czech Republic. The earthy style of their compatriot Janacek is linked to a similar Viennese tradition which Mahler tapped into and brilliantly transformed.
Czech Philharmonic, conductor Charles Mackerras
Janacek Suite: The Cunning Little Vixen; Taras Bulba
9.00 Britons and Bohemians
Why have the British misunderstood the Czech lands?
9.20 Mahler Symphony No 1
(Repeated Friday 2pm)
See Brian Kay: page 38
Living Ideas
Five programmes in which leading philosophers offer their appreciation of great thinkers.
1: Aristotle. Martha Nussbaum, professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago, champions the thinking of the ancient Stoics about our obligations to one another as citizens of the world. Repeat
A BBC invitation concert recreating the sounds of a clandestine Catholic mass service as it might have been heard in the early years of the 17th century. William Byrd 's five-part
Mass is interwoven with motets from his 1605 Gradualia and organ works by his contemporaries Orlando Gibbons , John Bull and Thomas Tomkins.
Choir of Westminster Cathedral,
Andrew Reid (organ), conductor James O'Donnell
Alyn Shipton is joined by Dave Gelly for jazz news and a book review. Producer Terry Carter
E-MAIL: jazz.notes@bbc.co.uk
Weill Speak Low (One Touch of Venus) Eisler Die Mutter (excerpts)
Weill The Threepenny Opera (excerpts) Eisler Chamber Symphony Repeated from last Monday
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115; String Sextet No 2 in G, Op 36 Vienna Sextet, Sabine Meyer (clarinet)
2.25 Ludwig Schuncke Grand Sonata in G minor, Op 3 Sylviane Deferne (piano)
3.00 Lutoslawski Symphony No 4 Saarbrucken RSO/Roman Kofman
3.40 Beethoven Variations in G,
Op 121a Moscow Trio
4.10 Glazunov Scenes de Ballet in A
Bratislava RSO/Oliver Dohnanyi
4.45 Abel Trio in G Karl Kaiser and Michael Schneider (flutes), Rainer Zippeling (cello)
5.10 Bach, arr Fred Mills Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 HoViHoLoHoff Brass Ensemble
5.20 Haydn Piano Trio in F, H XV Moscow Trio
5.40 Liszt Totentanz Martyn van den Hoek (piano), Amsterdam Philharmonic, conductor Kees Bakel
