Petroc Trelawny with music and arts news, including a report from Paris on the centenary celebrations of the Opera Comique. Music includes at
6.00 Faure's Barcarolle No 4 in A flat, Op 44, played by Kathryn Stott (piano); at 7.10 Brahms's Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108, played by Kyung-Wha Chung with pianist Peter Frankl ; and after the 8.00 news Musorgsky's Song of the Flea sung by Nikolai Nizienko (bass).
With Peter Hobday , featuring vintage performances by Vaclav Talich.
Dvorak Slavonic Dance in C, Op 46 No 1 Czech PO, conductor Vaclav Talich
9.04 Bach Preludes and Fugues Nos 1-3 ("48", Book 2) Glenn Gould (piano)
9.17 Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 20 No 4 Mosaiques Quartet
9.43 Reicha Fugue in A, Op 36 No 1 Tiny Wirtz (piano)
9.47 Smetana From Bohemia's
Woods and Fields (Ma Vlast)
Czech PO, conductor Vaclav Talich
10.00 Bach Preludes and Fugues Nos 4-5 ("48", Book 2)
Keith Jarrett (harpsichord)
10.15 Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela
Rnnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Producer Nick Morgan
John Eliot Gardiner
Joan Bakewell 's guest this week is John Eliot Gardiner , a conductor whose influence has been nothing short of phenomenal. From his early work founding groups such as the Monteverdi Choir, his interpretations of composers from Gluck to Grainger have consistently challenged orthodoxy through his scholarship, insight and musicianship. In today's programme he talks to Joan Bakewell about the beginnings of his ground-breaking career...
Musical Playwrights With Peggy Reynolds.
1: Moliere. At the court of Louis XIV, the exquisites ruled: heels were high and manners were elaborate. But when a group of travelling actors performed a slapstick farce ridiculing such behaviour, the 20-year-old king laughed. Moliere and his troupe were established in the Royal theatre and, though his satire could be biting,
Moliere never lost the king's favour. Strauss Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (excerpt) Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
Wolf-Ferrari L'Amore Medico (excerpt) RPO, conductor Jose Serebrier
Lully Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Arcadia Baroque Ensemble, conductor Kevin Mallon
Charpentier Le Malade Imaginaire
(excerpts) Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Marc Minkowski
Producer Tony Sellors
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SOUNDING THE CENTURY
(born 11 December 1908)
In the week of Carter's 90th birthday, Misha Donat explores half a century of music by this American pioneer. With spoken contributions from the composer.
Voyage Rosalind Rees (soprano), Adirondack Chamber Orchestra, conductor Gregg Smith
Piano Sonata Paul Jacobs
A Symphony of Three Orchestras New York Philharmonic, conductor Pierre Boulez
Producer David Stevens
Repeated next Monday 12 midnight
Wigmore Hall Chamber Series
From the Wigmore Hall, London. Donald McLeod introduces a performance by members of the Nash Ensemble of Messiaen's searing masterpiece composed in a prisoner-of-war camp. Antony Pay (clarinet), Leo Phillips (violin), Paul Watkins (cello), Ian Brown (piano)
Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time Repeated Saturday lpm
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductors En Shao and Osmo Vanska ,
Nicola Loud (violin)
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
Sibelius The Wood Nymph
Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral)
Ruth Mackenzie looks at family relationships in opera, with music by Verdi and Britten.
Producer Gautam Rangarajan
In Conversation with ... This week, Tommy Pearson talks to four celebrity guests about an album that has played an important role in their listening experiences. Today, he discusses Frank Zappa 's We're Only in It for the Money with actor and comedian John Sessions.
Producer Christina Pritchard
Sean Rafferty introduces Janacek's
String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters) at 5.35 and Beethoven's Violin Sonata in F, Op 24 (Spring) before 7.00.
A performance given in August in the Usher Hall as part of this year's
Edinburgh Festival, featuring the NDR Symphony Orchestra as they return to Edinburgh for the second year running. NDR Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gunter Wand
Bruckner Symphony No 5 in B flat
The Kitsch Show!
Four illustrated reflections on kitsch.
1: Dubravka Ugresic , a Croatian writer and thinker, describes the ability of kitsch to survive Communism, to thrive on war and to reinforce nationalism.
Producer Frances Byrnes
Grieg String Quartet in G minor, Op 27
The Body Shop. Noses, ears, hands, feet, hair.... lain Burnside gathers together and presents a collection of songs on body parts. Producer Adam Gatehouse
Repeated tomorrow 4pm
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall came across improv group the Necks during Mixing It's trip to Australia earlier this year after word reached them that the group's concerts were regarded-almost as religious events. In session tonight, Chris Abrahams
(piano), Tony Buck (drums) and Lloyd Swanton (acoustic bass) pride themselves on never playing the same thing twice.
Producer Ekene Akalawu
Ronnie Scott died in December
1996. With pianist John Critchinson and the Ronnie Scott Sextet in concert from 1993, Alyn Shipton recalls the Scott legacy. Producer Terry Carter
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1: Violin/Viola
Movement in F, K33b
Ton Koopman (harpsichord) March in D, K249
Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Nikolaus Hamoncourt
Serenade in D, K250 (Haffner) lona Brown (violin),
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
Prelude and Fugue in G minor,
K404a No 2 (after Bach) Grumiaux Trio Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K364 Itzhak Perlman (violin), Pinchas Zukerman (viola), Israel Philharmonic, conductor Zubin Mehta
Repeated from last Monday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Hlndemlth Das Marienleben
Soile Isokoski (soprano), Marita Viitasalo (piano)
2.15 Rameau Suite in A minor
(Pieces de Clavecin)
Annamari Polho (harpsichord)
2.40 Wagner Brunnhilde's Immolation (Gotterdammerung) Anita Valkki
(soprano), Finnish RSO/Ulf Soderblom
3.00 Mendelssohn Overture: Calm
Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kazuhiro Koizumi
3.25 Berlioz Overture: King Lear Vancouver SO/Kazuyoshi Akiyama
3.40 Prokofiev Symphony No 7 Metropolitan Orchestra, conductor Agnes Grossmann
4.15 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C, Op 53 (Waldstein) Young-Lau Han
4.40 lbert Flute Concerto Petri Alanko, Finnish RSO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
5.00 Poulenc Sept Chansons
Jutland Chamber Choir/Mogens Dahl
5.15 Hindemith Trauermusik Rivka
Golani (viola), Toronto SO/Andrew Davis
5.25 Mendelssohn Organ Sonata in D minor, Op 65 No 6 Martti Miettinen
5.40 Mozart Symphony No 23 in D, K181 Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Marko Munih
