Petroc Trelawny with music and arts news, including a review of a new adaptation of Cinderella at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, London.
Music includes at 6.30 Rachmaninov's
Danse Hongroise, Op 6 No 2, played by violinist Akiko Suwanai ; at 7.10 Bach's motet Singet dem Herrn ein Neues Lied performed by the Sixteen; and after the news at 8.00 Kabalevsky's Overture: Colas
Breugnon played by the Russian NO, conductor Mikhail Pletnev.
With Peter Hobday.
Haydn Symphony No 70 in D Hanover Band, director Roy Goodman
9.19 Beethoven Variations in C minor, WoO 80
Sergei Rachmaninov (piano)
9.28 Handel Salve Regina
Emily van Evera (soprano), Taverner Players, director Andrew Parrott
9.41 Weber Piano Concerto No 2 in E flat Nikolai Demidenko , Scottish
CO, conductor Charles Mackerras
10.04 Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra Bournemouth SO, conductor Rudolf Barshai
Peter Katin
Peter Katin talks to Joan Bakewell about his ambitions and the future.
Musical Parisians
With Richard Baker.
5: Proust. A little phrase in a violin sonata by fictional composer Vinteuil runs like a leitmotif through Proust's great novel Remembrance of Things Past. No one knows the real origin of the phrase, though various suggestions have been put forward. Faure Violin Sonata No 1 in A, Op 13 (2nd mvt) Krysia Osostowicz, Susan Tomes (piano)
Saint-Saens Violin Sonata No 1 in D minor, Op 75 (2nd mvt)
Lydia Mordkovitch , Marina Gusak-Grin (piano) Debussy La Mer (1st mvt) New York PO, conductor Leonard Bernstein
Beethoven String Quartet in F,
Op 135 (4th mvt) Alban Berg Quartet
5: Mozart in the Theatre. Chris Wines introduces music written by Mozart for the stage.
Popoli di Tessaglia , K316 Edita Gruberova (soprano),
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, conductor Leopold Hager
Gavotte (Ballet music: Idomeneo, K367) Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, conductor David Zinman
Martem Aller Arten (Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail) Arleen Auger
(soprano), Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Karl Bohm
Symphony No 35 in D, K385 (Haffner) English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Ein Madchen Oder Weibchen (Die Zauberfldte) Gilles Cachemaille
(baritone), Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra, conductor Arnold Ostman Repeated next Friday 12 midnight
Raphael Wallfisch (cello), John York (piano)
Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C, Op 119 Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductors Grant Llewellyn and Mark Wigglesworth ,
Martin Roscoe (piano),
Nancy Argenta (soprano), Neal Davies (bass),
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor Faure Pavane ; Requiem
Chris de Souza introduces the first of two Radio 3 Invitation Concerts of Spanish music recorded at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In this concert, given last October, Charivari Agreable perform colourful chamber music from the court of Philip II, including some of Diego Ortiz 's catchy recercadas, organ pieces by Antonio de Cabezon , music for vihuela by Luis de Milan, and arrangements of popular tunes by Hemando de Cabezon.
Repeated from yesterday 10pm
The Inner Ear
Tommy Pearson joins
Steve MacAdams at IRCAM in Paris to find out how the ear distinguishes the many different types of sound.
To paint or play the violin? That was the big decision for a young Frenchman who turned out to be one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. On the publication of a new biography of Henri Matisse, Sean Rafferty talks to the author Hilary Spurling about Matisse's life-long love of music and how it informed his paintings.
With music by Mozart and Liszt, and Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 2 played by Leonard Bernstein.
From St David's Hall, Cardiff.
Conductor Tadaaki Otaka ,
Howard Shelley (piano),
BBC National Chorus of Wales
William Mathias Ave Rex
Puccini Manon Lescaut (Intermezzo) Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
8.15 The House of Fear
The third of four interval programmes of readings from the surrealist works of Leonora Carrington. Royal Summons
Reader Kate Beckinsale.
The Seventh Horse
Reader Eleanor Bron.
8.35 Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker (Act 2)
Happy Talk
Five monologues about women. 5: Granny Grimshaw. Played by Angela Curran. Granny Grimshaw is no longer the strong woman she used to be and has had to move in with her middle-aged daughter - and her "friend".
Fantasy in F minor, Op 49 Harold Bauer (piano rolls)
Huddersfield 98
More from the annual festival of new music in Huddersfield. Tonight, a concert given by the Belgian ensemble Champs d'Action as they make their UK debut at the festival, bringing with them works by the late Karel Goeyvaerts - an enigmatic figure who helped to pioneer the development of postwar serial composition. Verity Sharp introduces his Piano Quartet and Litanie IV as well as music by one of this year's featured composers, George Crumb. His Quest for guitar and ensemble is his most recent score. Plus late-night improvisations for double bass and synthesisers from Terry Riley and Stefano Scodanibbio.
Producer Andrew Kurowski
A Portrait of Jaco Pastorius
The series in which Charles Shaar
Murray tells the remarkable story of bass player Jaco Pastorius.
3: A Remark You Made. Pastorius makes it to the big time. Hired by Weather Report, his unique sound and stage presence result in a series of gold albums and sell-out world tours. But then his rapid rise to fame starts to take its toll on his personal life and his sanity. With contributions from Joe Zawinul , Pat Metheny , Wayne Shorter , Mike Stern and members of the Pastorius family. Repeated from Saturday 6pm
Jeremy Summerly introduces music from Josquin's last years in France, including a performance of the Missa Pange Lingua in a new recording by the North Sea Project, director Matthew Vine.
Repeated from last Friday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Rameau Zoroastre
Ghent Collegium Vocale, La Petite Bande, director Sigiswald Kuijken
4.20 Sibelius String Quartet, Op 56 (Voces Intimae)
New Helsinki Quartet
5.00 Mozart Overture: The Magic Flute Calgary Philharmonic, conductor Mario Bernardi
5.10 Bruhns De Profundis Clamavi
Max von Egmond (bass), Ricercar Consort
5.25 Sibelius En Saga
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
5.45 Gallot Pieces de Lute in F minor
Konrad Junghanel (lute)
