Stephanie Hughes presents arts news and music, including Debussy's early cantata La Damoiselle Elue performed by Maria Ewing (soprano) and the LSO, conductor Claudio Abbado , at
6.30; Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol performed by the LSO, conductor Ataulfo Argenta , at 7.15; and one of the Bach Cello Suites performed by Yo-Yo Ma after 8.00.
With Peter Hobday.
Holst Capriccio - English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Imogen Holst
9.07 Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor - Kyung-Wha Chung, LPO, conductor Klaus Tennstedt
9.33 Liszt Two Concert Studies, S145 - Jorge Bolet (piano)
9.41 Mozart String Quartet in B flat, K458 (Hunt) - Italian Quartet
10.10 Franck Symphonic Variations - Jorge Bolet (piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
Brigitte Fassbaender
Mezzo Brigitte Fassbaender began her operatic career with the Munich State Opera but went on to perform on all the great stages of the world. She talks to Joan Bakewell about some of her favourite operatic roles and how she has often been engaged to play trouser roles. Music includes arias from Der Rosenkavalier,
Die Fledermaus, Tristan und Isolde and Carmen.
Eccentrics
With Peggy Reynolds.
2: Stravinsky declared Lord Berners the most interesting British composer of the 20th century. But music was only one of his many pursuits. Another was entertaining fashionable guests in his Oxfordshire home, where his doves where painted all the colours of the rainbow and famous sculptures were put into the fishpond. Although very much the aristocratic dilletante, Berners was a fine composer whose works are only now coming back into fashion. Berners Fantaisie Espagnole Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor Barry Wordsworth
Chopin Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Walton Then Sing Aloud to God (Belshazzar's Feast)
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn Berners A Wedding Bouquet
(excerpt) RTE Chamber Choir, RTE
Sinfonietta, conductor Kenneth Alwyn
With Piers Burton-Page .
2: Diaghilev and International Success Romeo and Juliet (2nd tableau) BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth Eight Poems of Li-Po
Philip Langridge (tenor),
Nash Ensemble , conductor Lionel Friend
Elegiac Blues Anthony Goldstone (piano) The Rio Grande Sally Burgess (mezzo), Jack Gibbons (piano), Opera North
Chorus, English Northern Philharmonia, conductor David Lloyd-Jones
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. In this concert, Mikhail Kazakevich (piano) performs Liszt transcriptions of works by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Schubert and Wagner, and his own transcription of Mahler's Des Antonins von Padua
Fischpredigt. Repeat
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Vassily Sinaisky , Gerald Finley (bass)
Szymanowski Concert Overture
Mahler Kindertotenlieder; Symphony No 5
lain Burnside introduces a second selection of Schubert songs, performed by soprano
Christine Schafer and pianist Graham Johnson earlier this year in Feldkirch, Austria. Producer Peter Tanner
1998 Montreux Jazz Festival
This year's line-up for the Montreux Jazz Festival included Earth, Wind and Fire, the Corrs and Phil Collins - so why call it a jazz festival? Tommy Pearson gets some thoughts and definitions from George Benson ,
Cassandra Wilson , Billy Cobham and Radio 1 DJ Gilles Peterson.
Sean Rafferty visits the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. Music includes works by Saint-Saens and Shostakovich, and, at about 6.50, soprano Sylvia McNair singing Messiaen's Trois Mélodies.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Scriabin Plus
John Toal introduces the first of six recitals from Belfast exploring tne piano music or bcnaoin and his contemporaries. 1: Poems of Ecstasy Adilia Alieva (piano)
Scriabin Two Pieces, Op 57; Three
Pieces, Op 45; Etrangete, Op 63 No 2; En Revant, Op 71 No 2; Sonata No 5, Op 53
Balakirev Dumka (1900); Spanish Serenade; The Lark; Islamey
8.20 Russians Abroad
Rachmaninov in New York. In the first of six interval features tracing the Russian diaspora over the last 150 years, David Cannata charts Rachmaninov's exile in the United States. Leaving Russia for the last time at the outbreak of the Revolution in 1917, Rachmaninov settled in New York. But far from turning his back on the past, he set about re-creating the atmosphere of his former home.
8.40 Ravel Oiseaux Tristes; Une
Barque sur I 'Ocean (Miroirs)
Rachmaninov Daisies, Op 38 No 3; Etudes-Tableaux. Op 33
Reading Abroad
Tibor Fischer introduces five of the world's leading writers who are, as yet, little known to British audiences. 2: Chang Ta Chun: The Speaker of the Aside. Journalist and short-story writer Chang Ta Chun gently satirises contemporary Taiwanese society and explores the boundaries between fantasy and reality.
Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk , John Kenny (trombone)
Edward McGuire Trombone Concerto
(first UK performance)
Lutoslawski Symphony No 3
American biologist Edward 0 Wilson is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest living scientists, but in his latest book he makes the case for one of the oldest scientific ideas - the fundamental unity of knowledge. Richard Coles talks to Edward Wilson about the return of Enlightenment values at the cutting edge of science. Plus first-night news from The Blue Room: Nicole Kidman stars in David Hare 's adaptation of Schnitzler's ironic analysis of sexual mores - La Ronde.
Producer Mohit Bakaya
Alyn Shipton pays tribute to veteran trumpeter Mutt Carey , who died 50 years ago this month, with music from Kid Ory 's band and Carey's own New Yorkers.
Overture: The Hebrides; Three
Fantasies, Op 16; Scherzo (Octet.
Op 20); String Quartet in E flat, Op 12 Repeated from last Tuesday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Maria Jose Rinon (soprano),
Kennedy Moretti (piano) Faure Apres un Reve Duparc L'invitation au
Voyage Schubert Nacht und Traume; Lied der Mignon Granados La Maja Dolorosa; Elegia Eterna Toldra
Despues que Te Conoci Obradors Chiquitita la Novia
1.50 Borodin Polovtsian Dances (Pnnce Igor) Spanish Radio Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/Yuri Ahronovitch
2.05 Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor Finnish RSO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
2.45 David Diamond Rounds CBC
Vancouver Orchestra/Mario Bernardi
3.00 Playtime 3.15 Time to Move
3.35 Let's Make a Story 3.50 Drama Workshop 4.10 In the News Special Edition 4.30 Hop, Skip and Jump
4.45 Eadar Eisdeachd
5.05 Caidara Dunque, Giasone
Ingrato Gerard Lesne (countertenor), II Seminario Musicale
5.30 Alfven Swedish Rhapsody No 1 (Midsummer Vigil) Danish NRSO , conductor Michael Schonwandt
5.50 Chopin Nocturne in F minor, Op 55 No 1 Marjes Benoist (piano)
