Petroc Trelawny with music and arts news, including a review of Charles Mackerras conducting Janacek and Mahler at last night's Prom. Music includes Vivaldi's motet Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera sung by Emma Kirkby with the Academy of Ancient Music after 7.00; and Schubert's Rondo in A performed by violinist Nigel Kennedy and the English Chamber Orchestra after 8.00.
With Penny Gore.
Glazunov Concert Waltz No 2 in F
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
9.11 Schubert Duo in A, D574 Arthur Grumiaux (violin),
Robert Veyron-Lacroix (piano)
9.31 Handel Chandos Anthem No 2:
In the Lord / Put My Trust Philip Langridge (tenor),
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor David Willcocks
9.55 Muffat Sonata No 3 in A
(Armonico Tributo)
Parley of Instruments, directors Roy Goodman and Peter Holman
10.06 Glazunov Chopiniana
German Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
With Joan Bakewell. Over the last 17 years, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet has appeared as a soloist with nearly all of the world's leading orchestras. Today, he talks to Joan Bakewell about how he approaches his work, with music by Messiaen, d'lndy and Francaix.
Siren Voices
Richard Baker talks about five women who either inspired men to make music or were musicians themselves.
2: Augusta Holmes was born in Paris in 1847 to an Irish veteran of the Battle of Waterloo and his half-Scots wife. She showed great tenacity in pursuing her own career as a composer even while inspiring other composers - Cesar Franck in particular. Including excerpts from: Augusta Holmes La Nuit et IAmour (Ludus pro Patria)
Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic, conductor Samuel Friedmann
Debussy Arabesque No 1 Kathryn Stott (piano)
Saint-Saens Allegro Appassionato in B minor Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Franck Piano Quintet in F minor (2nd mvt) Borodin Quartet, Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Producer Janine Dexter
2: Russia. Jan Smaczny looks at the role of Russian culture and the way it provided the inspiration for some of Janacek's most dramatic music.
Pohadka Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), Yolande Wrigley (piano)
From the House of the Dead
(excerpt) Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic , conductor Charles Mackerras
String Quartet No 1 (Kreutzer Sonata) Prazak Quartet
Katya Kabanova (excerpt)
Prague National Theatre Chorus, Czech Philharmonic, conductor Charles Mackerras
Repeated next Tuesday 12 midnight
Double Take
Another chance to hear the concert series in which Chris de Souza introduces familiar works in less familiar guises. Medici Quartet
Vaughan Williams String Quartet No 2 Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op 14 No 1 Repeat
Last Wednesday's Prom. Alfred Brendel (piano),
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Manfred Honeck
Webern Im Sommerwind
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G
Prokofiev Symphony No 5
Paul Guinery presents the last of eight programmes in which the BBC Singers explore the glories of four hundred years of choral music. 8: The Orthodox Line. The rich solemnity of the music of the Russian Orthodox church is one of the most distinctive and glorious sounds in the choral repertoire. This programme finds some splendid examples and follows the path of those who have written for it - from
Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov to Stravinsky and Tavener. BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Layton
Tchaikovsky Cherubic Hymn (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom)
Rachmaninov Eucharistic Prayer (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom) Stravinsky Blessed
Virgin Tavener Hymn to the Mother of God Plus music by Gretchaninov, Titov and Kalinnikov.
In at the Deep End - the Big Mix
Verity Sharp finds out what a record producer does and tries her hand at producing a CD featuring the Sloane Square Syncopators. Repeat
Music, news and views with Sean Rafferty , including Sibelius's En Saga at 5.40 and Brahms's Violin Sonata
No 2 performed by David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Richter (piano) at 6.40.
Szymanowski's radiantly beautiful concerto, coloured with the folk music of his homeland but reaching far beyond, is the centrepiece of the Czech
Philharmonic's second Prom. More gorgeous warmth of sound is heard in Dvorak's heartfelt overture and Brahms's magnificent symphony - hewn out of granite like some monumental musical sculpture. Raphael Oleg (violin), Czech
Philharmonic, conductor Libor Pesek
Dvorak Overture: My Home
Szymanowski Violin Concerto No 1
7.40 The Reluctant Symphonist
John Deathridge looks at the musical and cultural influences that shaped Brahms's first symphony, tracing a long journey from private doubt to public faith in the German symphonic tradition.
8.00 Brahms Symphony No 1 in C minor
Living Ideas
A five-part series in which leading philosophers offer their appreciation of great thinkers.
2: Machiavelli. Quentin Skinner , one of today's leading historians of political thought, argues that
Machiavelli still has a great deal to teach us about the importance of civic participation in guaranteeing our individual freedom. Repeat
Flute Sonata in E minor, BWV1034 William Bennett , George Malcolm
(harpsichord), Michael Evans (cello)
From the Royal Albert Hall, London. The earliest surviving morality play - a drama of virtues, morals and devils - marks the 900th anniversary of Hildegard of Bingen, mystic writer, abbess and wildly original composer. Sequentia
Hildegard of Bingen Ordo Virtutum
Alyn Shipton talks to American clarinettist and saxophonist
Ken Peplowski at the Brecon Jazz Festival.
Eisler Song of the Unemployed: Song of the Miners; German Symphony (excerpts)
Weill Ballad of Caesar's Death (Der Silbersee) ; Schickelgruber (Propaganda Songs); Symphony No 2 (1st mvt) Eisler Nonet No 1
Weill Lost in the Stars (excerpts) Repeated from last Tuesday
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Danish National Radio Choir/ Stefan Parkman , Susse Lillesoe
(soprano), Per Salo (piano) Dvorak In Nature's Realm Janacek The Wolf's
Trail Ligeti Lux Aeterna
2.05 Bartok Violin Concerto No 2
Guy Braunstein , Saarbriicken RSO , conductor Marcello Viotti
2.55 Couperin Concert No 13 in G Violes Esgales
3.20 Guy Fouquet Suite: Solitude Duo Fouquet
3.45 Schubert Symphony No 6 in C Finnish RSO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
4.15 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 13 (Pathetique) Mi-Joo Lee
4.35 Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite No 2
Danish NRSO/Michael Schonwandt
5.15 Albrechtsberger Trombone Concerto Heikki Kalaus , Estonian State SO, conductor Peeter Lilje
5.35 Schumann Gesange der Fruhe Sylvaine Deferne (piano)
