Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including at 6.30 Tippett's
Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis ; at 7.00 Puccini's Recondita Armonia from Tosca performed by tenor Jose Cura with the Philharmonia, conductor Placido Domingo ; and at
8.00 Piers Lane plays two of Saint-Saens's Studies for Piano Left
Hand, Op 135.
With Peter Hobday.
Myslivecek Wind Octet No 3 in B flat Albert Schweitzer Octet
9.09 Bach Preludes and Fugues Nos 6-8 ("48", Book 2) Tatiana Nikolaeva (piano)
9.27 Mozart Symphony No 38 in D, K504 (Prague)
Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan
9.52 Dvorak The Golden
Spinning-Wheel
Czech Philharmonic/Vaclav Talich
10.11 Bach Preludes and Fugues Nos 9-10 ("48", Book 2)
Blandine Verlet (harpsichord)
John Eliot Gardiner
John Eliot Gardiner 's opera recordings have won countless awards and accolades. Today, he talks to Joan Bakewell about his work as a conductor of opera and oratorio, with music by Mozart and Handel.
Musical Playwrights With Peggy Reynolds.
2: John Gay. John Gay 's friends liked him because he was funny, because he enjoyed a good dinner and because he would do anything to help someone in trouble. They often forgot that he was a successful poet and author of one of the most popular plays of the 18th century - The Beggar's Opera. Gay was not good with money and was himself almost a beggar when he wrote this work, but it made his fortune and has never gone out of the repertoire. Gay The Beggar's Opera (excerpts) Broadside Band, conductor Jeremy Barlow Handel Jephtha (excerpts) English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Handel Esther (excerpts)
Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood
Handel 'Twas When the Seas Were
Roaring
Patrizia Kwella (soprano),
Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Presented by Misha Donat in conversation with the composer. Holiday Overture
American Composers' Orchestra, conductor Paul Dunkel
String Quartet No 1 Composers' Quartet
Repeated next Tuesday 12 midnight
David Owen Norris (piano) Bax Piano Sonata No 2
Lambert Piano Sonata Repeat
Ulster Orchestra
Conductors Lionel Friend,
Jan Latham-Koenig and Niklas Willen , Chantal Juillet (violin)
Comellus, arr Mottl Overture: The Barber of Baghdad
Strauss Metamorphosen
Kurt Weill Concerto for Violin and Wind Ensemble
Berwald Overture: Estrella de Soria
Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A
The Body Shop. Noses, ears, hands, feet, hair... lain Burnside gathers together and presents a collection of songs on body parts.
Repeated from yesterday 10pm
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 Massive Attack's Blue
Lines with DJ Jo Whiley.
As a season of films about
Antarctica opens at the National Film Theatre in London, Sean Rafferty talks to composer Peter Maxwell
Davies, who recently travelled there for inspiration. Violinist Hilary Hahn plays live in the studio, and recorded music includes Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante in B flat and Grieg's Holberg Suite.
From the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, concluding a season of chamber recitals. Young French pianist Francois-Frederic Guy inspired rave reviews for his performances and recordings of the repertoire he plays in this concert. Introduced by Linda Ormiston.
Rachmaninov Etudes-Tableaux, Op 33: Nos 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8
Scriabin Piano Sonata No 9, Op 68
8.20 The House of Fear
The last of four interval programmes of readings from the surrealist works of Leonora Carrington.
1: White Rabbits. Reader Eleanor Bron.
2: The Seventh Horse. Reader Kate Beckinsale.
8.40 Beethoven Piano Sonata in B flat. Op 106 (Hammerklavier)
The Kitsch Show!
2: Roger Scruton , visiting professor of philosophy at Birkbeck, argues that kitsch is both corrupt and corrupting. He believes that it is the product of a society without soul and that it legitimises Philistinism and fake sentiment: it threatens art.
Using musical examples from Steve Reich to the score of the film
Titantic, he agrues that genuine human feeling, aspirations and belief need to be retrieved from sentimental pap.
Conductor Alexander Titov
Jon Oivind Ness Cascading Ordure
(BBC commission; first performance) Daniele Gasparini Through the Looking Glass
Shostakovich Symphony No 9
In his sinister new production of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, director Richard Jones draws out the story's darker themes: drunkenness, hunger and violence. Richard Coles reports on its opening at Welsh
National Opera in Cardiff and talks to explorer and anthropologist Michel Peissel , who has explored Tibet for over 40 years and who discovered the mysterious source of the Mekong river. Producer Belinda Sample
Alyn Shipton presents more from the concert given in 1993 by the Ronnie Scott Sextet.
Chris Wines introduces music which reflects aspects of Mozart the performer. 2: Court Organist
Epistle Sonata in C, K328 Ian Watson , Simon Standage and Micaela Comberti (violins), Jane Coe (cello), director Robert King (continuo organ) Epistle Sonata in C, K329
Ian Watson , Classical Orchestra of the King's Consort, director Robert King Missa Brevis in C, K259 Celestina Casapietra (soprano),
Annelies Burmeister (contralto), Peter Schreier (tenor), Hermann Christian Polster (bass), Leipzig Radio Choir and SO, conductor Herbert Kegel
Symphony No 34 in C, K338 Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra of the 18th Century, conductor Frans Bruggen Epistle Sonata in C, K336 Daniel Chorzempa (organ), German Bach Soloists, conductor Helmut Winschermann
Repeated next Tuesday 12 midnight
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 The Bach Family
JS Bach Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV1067 La Petite Bande. conductor Sigiswald Kuijken JC Bach Cantata: Meine Freundin , Du Bist Schb'n Maria Zedelius (soprano), David Cordier (alto), Paul Elliott
(tenor), Michael Schopper (bass),
Rheinische Kantorei , Musica Antiqua Koln, director Reinhard Goebel
CPE Bach Quartet in A minor Les Adieux JM Bach Liebster Jesu, Hor
Mein Flehen JS Bach Sonata in D minor, BWV964 Wolfgang Gluxam (cimbalom) JS Bach Violin Sonata in C, BWV1005 (Fugue) Sigiswald Kuijken
3.00 Brahms Symphony No 1 in C minor Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Samo Hubad
4.30 Schubert Symphony No 6 in C CBC Vancouver Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi
5.00 Mozart Overture: Don Giovanni
Edmonton Philharmonic , conductor Mario Bernardi
5.25 Nielsen Flute Concerto
Petri Alanko , Finnish RSO, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
