Petroc Trelawny presents a review of Michael Frayn 's new play Alarms and Excursions, which opens at the Gielgud Theatre in London with Felicity Kendal and Josie Lawrence. Music includes Humperdinck's Overture: Hansel and Gretel performed by the Bamberg SO , conductor Karl Anton Rickenbacher , at 6.00; Paganini's Caprice No 24 in A minor played by violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann at 7.30; and Walton's Suite: The Battle of Britain performed by the ASMF, conductor
Neville Marriner , after the 8.00 news.
With Penny Gore, featuring
Handel Chandos Anthems and performances by pianist Emil Gilels.
Tarrega Recuerdos de la Alhambra Julian Bream (guitar)
9.06 Handel Chandos Anthem No 8:
0 Come, Let Us Sing unto the Lord Patrizia Kwella (soprano),
James Bowman (countertenor), Ian Partridge (tenor), the Sixteen Choir and Orchestra, conductor Harry Christophers
9.38 Delius A Song of Summer Halle Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley
9.49 Prokofiev Four Visions Fugitives Emil Gilels (piano)
9.53 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Emil Gilels , Cleveland
Orchestra, conductor George Szell
Steven Isserlis
Joan Bakewell talks to cellist Steven
Isserlis about his attitude to authentic performance and his often-criticised use of gut strings. Music includes Boccherini's Cello
Sonata No 6 in C, a Mendelssohn
Song without Words and Haydn's Cello Concerto in C.
DANUBE WEEK
A Journey down the Danube With Donald Macleod.
2: Austria contains some of Europe's most beautiful river landscapes. Nearer Vienna, those landscapes change colour and character. Music includes:
Bruckner Locus Iste
Vienna Boys' Choir, Chorus
Viennensis, conductor Peter Marschik Schubert Suleika 1; Suleika 2
Elly Ameling (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)
Mozart Symphony No 36 in C, K425 (Linz) (4th mvt) Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein
Handel Agitato da Here Tempeste (Riccardo Primo ) Drew Minter
(countertenor), Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, conductor Nicholas McGegan
With Misha Donat.
2: Mendelssohn in Britain
Overture: The Hebrides
LSO, conductor Peter Maag Three Fantasies, Op 16 Lydia Artymiw (piano)
String Octet in E flat, Op 20 (3rd mvt) LSO, conductor Claudio Abbado
String Quartet No 1 in E flat, Op 12 Cherubini Quartet
Repeated next Tuesday 12 midnight
Double Take
Another chance to hear the concert series given last year at St George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol, in which Chris de Souza introduces familiar works in less familiar guises, with transcriptions, arrangements and alternative versions of original compositions. Sophie Yates
(harpsichord) plays music by Claudio Merulo , Farnaby, Purcell, Rameau, Royer, Forqueray and Vivaldi (transcr Bach). Repeat
BBC Philharmonic
Conductors Yan Pascal Tortelier and Charles Mackerras ,
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Weber Overture: Der Freischiitz
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat
Wagner Overture: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg; Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Gotterdammerung) (arr Humperdinck)
Mozart Symphony No 38 in D, K504 (Prague)
Return of the series of vocal music.
This week, lain Burnside presents a recital of Schubert songs given by German soprano Christine Schafer with pianist Graham Johnson during this summer's Schubertiade at
Feldkirch in Austria.
Der Abend, D221; Die Mondnacht;
Der Herbstabend; An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht; Die
Fruhen Graber ; Der Geistertanz, D15a; An die Sonne, D270; Sangers Morgenlied, D163; An die Untergehende Sonne; Auflosung
Producer Peter Tanner
Investing in the Future
Tommy Pearson finds out about the role played by young singers in the Choral Day at this year's Proms. He meets members of the City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus and talks to composer Judith Weir , who wrote her piece Storm especially for them.
Sean Rafferty 's guest is Tom Deacon , who is masterminding the largest CD project ever undertaken: a multi-label partnership called Great Pianists of the 20th Century - a celebration of the best piano playing of the last 100 years. Music on tonight's programme includes Grainger's Suite on Danish Folk Songs and Handel's psalm setting Nisi Dominus.
DANUBE WEEK
Stephanie Hughes visits the castle at Eisenstadt - the winter palace of the Esterhazy family, which for the past ten years has been the stage for an international Haydn festival called the Haydn Days. This concert, given last Friday, took place in the splendid 19th-century concert hall specially built for the performance of Haydn's symphonies and other large-scale works.
Eremitage St Petersburg, conductor Saulius Sondeckis
Haydn Overture: Orlando Paladino Prokofiev Symphony No 1 in D (Classical)
Haydn Symphony No 17 in F
8.15 The Esterhazy Castle in Austria Christopher Cook explores the winter palace at Eisenstadt.
8.35 Haydn Symphony No 73 in D (La Chasse)
DANUBE WEEK
From the Donau to the Duna
2: From Bratislava to Szentendre.
Piers Lane (piano)
Rosenthal Vienna Carnival
Schulz-Evler Arabesque on Johann Strauss 's "The Blue Danube"
Godowsky Paraphrase on Johann Strauss 's "Die Fledermaus" Repeat
Conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Skrowaczewski Passacaglia
Barber Medea 's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
Richard Coles examines the way artists have reflected our obsession with speed and acceleration. Bill Buford provides his regular report from New York. Plus a review of John Maybury
's new film Love Is the Devil, in which Derek Jacobi plays Francis Bacon , feted in France as Britain's greatest painter as his lover takes a cocktail of drugs.
Producer Anthony Denselow
Brecon 98
Alyn Shipton introduces a concert from the Dick Hyman Trio.
Pohadka; From the House of the Dead (excerpt); String Quartet No 1 (Kreutzer Sonata); Katya Kabanova (excerpt)
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 L'Archibudelli Mendelssohn
String Quintet No 2 in B flat, Op 87 Reger String Trio in A minor, Op 77b Mozart String Quintet in C, K515
2.35 Serafin Aischanksy Trombone Concerto Heikki Kalaus , Estonian State SO , conductor Paul Magi
2.50 Scariatti Toccata in D minor
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)
3.10 Strauss An Alpine Symphony Finnish RSO/Leif Segerstam
4.05 Bruhns Cantata: O Werter Heiliger GeistGreta de Reyghere (soprano), James Bowman (countertenor), Guy de Mey (tenor), Max van Egmond (bass), Ricercar Consort
4.20 MarceHucien Toumier Images Erica Goodman (harp), members of the Amadeus Ensemble
4.30 Wienlawski Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor Piotr Plawner , Warsaw Sinfonia, conductor Grzegorz Nowak
5.05 Reger Mein Odern ist Schwach, Op 110 No 1 Danish National Radio Choir, conductor Stefan Parkman
5.25 Schubert Symphony No 1 in D Saarbriicken RSO/Marcello Viotti
