Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music performed by the London Philharmonic and vocal soloists, conductor Adrian Boult , at
6.30; Handel's Harp Concerto in B flat, Op 4 No 6, played by Marisa Robles with the ASMF, conductor lona
Brown, at 7.15; and Tchaikovsky's Valse-Scherzo performed by Igor Oistrakh (violin) and Natalia Zertsalova (piano) after the 8.00 news.
With
Penny Gore. Weber, orch Berlioz Invitation to the Dance Russian National Orchestra. conductor Mikhail Pletnev
9.12 Muffat Sonata No 4 in E minor
(Armonico Tributo)
Parley of Instruments, directors Roy Goodman and Peter Holman
9.20 Handel Chandos Anthem No 4:
0 Sing unto the Lord a New Song Lynne Dawson (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor), the Sixteen Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Harry Christophers
9.36 Beethoven Serenade in D, Op 8 Grumiaux Trio
10.04 Strauss Symphonic Fantasy: Die Frau ohne Schatten
Dresden State Orchestra, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Jean-Yves Thibaudet talks to Joan Bakewell
about his recent recording projects and about the influence of America on his life. Featuring the Warsaw Concerto by Richard Addinsell and selections from Thibaudet's recent disc Conversations with Bill Evans.
Siren Voices
With Richard Baker.
4: Barbara Strozzi was a successful female musician in the male-dominated world of 17th-century Venice. Adopted into a cultivated household, she became not only a fine singer but the composer of many adventurous songs both sacred and secular. Including: La Fanciuletta Semplice; La, Sol, Fa, Mi, Re, Do
Catherine Bott (soprano), ensemble / Baci; Liberta Musica Secreta
0 Maria Quam Pulchra Es
Maria-Christina Kiehr (soprano). Concerto Soave
Le Tre Grazie; Canto di Bella Bocca;
La Vittoria Consort of Musicke. director Anthony Rooley
4: Place. Jan Smaczny investigates the way in which Janacek derived inspiration from his surroundings. Piano Sonata 1 X 1905 (From the Street) Roland Pontinen
Songs of Hradcany Castle (excerpts) Amanda Pitt (soprano).
Will Sleath (flute), Hugh Webb (harp). New London Chamber Choir, conductor James Wood
Sinfonietta Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Charles Mackerras
Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight
Voices at the Wigmore Hall Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Strauss Standchen , Op 17 No 2; Air Mein Gedanken, Op 21 No 1: Das Rosenabend , Op 36 No 1;
Hochzeitlich Lied, Op 37 No 6;
Traum durch die Dammerung, Op 29 No 1; Befreit, Op 39 No 4; Waldseligkeit, Op 49 No 1
Wolf Auf einer Wanderung; Auf eine Christblume 11; Um Mittemacht; In der Fruhe; Der Jager; Lied vom
Winde; Lied eines Verliebten Repeat
Another chance to hear Saturday's Prom.
Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano),
European Union Youth Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
Andrew March Marine a travers les
Arbres
Berg Seven Early Songs
Strauss An Alpine Symphony
Madrigals by Thomas Campion and ayres by John Jenkins.
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
To conclude the series, Piers Lane looks at encores.
Balakirev Islamey Piers Lane
Schubert Rosamunde Myra Hess Rachmaninov Polka de WR
The Composer
Paderewski Nocturne in B flat
Stephen Hough
Strauss, arr Cziffra Tritsch-Tratsch Polka Gyorgy Cziffra
Rachmaninov, transcr Fiorentino Vocalise Sergio Fiorentino Grainger In Dahomey Marc-Andre
Hamelin Gluck , arr Sgambati Melodie Yonty Solomon
Horowitz Carmen Variations
Arcadi Volodos
In at the Deep End - the Big Mix Verity Sharp attempts to create a perfect studio balance. Repeat
Sean Rafferty talks to conductor Daniel Harding as he prepares for the Welsh National Opera production of Janacek's Jenufa. Music includes works by Tavemer and Tchaikovsky, with the Borodin Trio playing Ravel's Piano Trio in A minor at about 6.30.
West meets East with magic and mystery tonight at the Royal Albert Hall , from the orchestral brilliance of Stravinsky and the dazzlingly sensual coloratura of Szymanowski to the exoticism of Debussy's innovative ballet score and Hoist's other-worldly inspiration drawn from the cosmic forces which circle the vast expanses of space. Valdine Anderson (soprano),
BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, conductor Mark Elder
Stravinsky Scherzo Fantastique
Szymanowski Songs of a Fairy-tale Princess
Debussy Jeux
Last year, poet Simon Armitage invested in a powerful Russian telescope and, scanning the night skies above his native Huddersfield, produced a sequence of almost 90 poems about the constellations and their modem imaginative reasonances. He introduces and reads his favourite poems from the sequence.
8.40 Hoist Suite: The Planets
Living Ideas
4: Otto Neurath. Professor Nancy Cartwright talks about the little-known positivist Otto Neurath. She argues that Neurath combines a modernist commitment to science and progress with a postmodernist acceptance that there is no such thing as absolute and objective truth. even in the empirical sciences. Repeat
(oboe), Julius Drake (piano)
Relzenstein Oboe Sonatina, Op 11 Elgar Soliloquy
York Bowen Oboe Sonata
Templeton Scherzo-Caprice Repeat
Author Isabel Allende talks to Peter Conrad
about the events that have shaped her life and her writing. Her early life in Chile was affected by the military coup. which was responsible for the murder of her uncle, Chilean premier Salvador Allende. But her recent book Aphrodite returns to an optimistic celebration of food and sensuality, mirrored by some of the writing of her compatriot, poet Pablo Neruda. Repeat
Alyn Shipton and Campbell Burnap review new CD releases.
Weill IceCream Sextet (Street Scene); Lady in the Dark (Finale)
Eisler Five Elegies (Hollywood Song Book); Septet No 2 (The Circus) Repeated from last Thursday
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Suisse Romande Orchestra/
Edmond Colomer , Alicia de Larrocha
(piano) Turina Symphonic Rhapsody Ravel Piano Concerto in G Falla The
Three-cornered Hat: Suftes Nos 1 and 2 2.10 Szymanowski Metopes, Op 29 Jerzy Godziszewski (piano)
2.35 CPE Bach Concerto in E flat for
Harpsichord and Fortepiano Gustav Leonhardt. Jos van Immerseel , Collegium Aureum
2.55 Tibor Saral Symphony No 2 Katalin Szokefagy-Nagy (soprano).
Hungarian Radio Orchestra/Gyorgy Lehel
3.40 Bach Partita No 2 in D minor,
BWV1004 Sigiswald Kuijken (violin)
4.25 Handel Water Music: Suite No 1 in FCBC Vancouver Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi
5.05 Bartok Rhapsody No 1 Miklos Perenyi (cello), Lorant Szucs (piano)
5.20 Victor Ewald Brass Quintet No 3 HoViHoLoHoff Brass Ensemble
5.35 Torroba La Chulapona (excerpts) Jorge Otero (piano), Madrid Ensemble
