Petroc Trelawny introduces a review of a trilogy of plays by Synge and Yeats which opened last night at the Barbican in a production by the RSC. Music includes at 6.20 Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations played by Yo-Yo Ma (cello) and the Leningrad PO, conductor Yuri Temirkanov ; at 7.10 Haydn's Nottumo No 1 in C, H It 25 played by Mozzafiato and L'Archibudelli; and at 7.55
Messiaen's 0 Sacrum Convivium.
With Peter Hobday.
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 3 in C minor LPO, conductor Adrian Boult
9.06 Bach Preludes and Fugues Nos 16-17 ("48", Book 2)
Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
9.19 Webem Passacaglia, Op 1
Vienna PO, conductor Claudio Abbado
9.29 Zelenka Laudate Pueri Peter
Schreier (tenor), Virtuosi Saxoniae , director Ludwig Guttier (trumpet)
9.38 Suk Serenade for Strings
Czech PO, conductor Vaclav Talich
10.06 Bach Preludes and Fugues Nos 18-21 Glenn Gould (piano)
John Eliot Gardiner
With his recordings of Schumann, Brahms and Mahler, John Eliot
Gardiner has challenged prevailing notions of which music is worthy of reappraisal by specialists in authentic performance. Joan Bakewell talks to Gardiner about his enthusiasm for the German Romantics and about what he has set out to achieve in this area of the repertoire.
Musical Playwrights With Peggy Reynolds.
4: Victor Hugo. Hugo wrote his play Le Roi S'Amuse in a fever. When he finished, he insisted on reading it aloud to friends who had come to dinner. This and other plays by Hugo were to give the world some of its most famous operas. Verdi Prelude: Ernani
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, conductor Pier Giorgio Morandi
Schmidt Notre Dame (Intermezzo)
Gothenburg SO, conductor Neeme Jarvi Liszt Paraphrase on Verdi's
"Rigoletto" Claudio Arrau (piano) Mendelssohn Overture: Ruy Bias Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Claus Peter Flor
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Presented by Misha Donat in conversation with the composer. Musicians Wrestle Everywhere
John Oliver Chorale , director John Oliver Warble for Lilac Time
Rosalind Rees (soprano), Adirondack CO, conductor Gregg Smith
Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi Rolf Schulte (violin)
Enchanted Preludes Michael Faust
(flute), Georg Faust (cello) Variations for Orchestra
Chicago SO, conductor James Levine Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight
Music for Advent and Christmas
With Susan Sharpe.
L'Angelique. The Palladian Ensemble perform chamber music from 17thand 18th-century France.
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductors Andras Ligeti and Andrew Davis , Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), Joan Rodgers (soprano), Sarah Walker (mezzo), Thomas Randle
(tenor), Stephen Richardson (bass), Prague Philharmonic Chorus Liszt Les Préludes
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat; Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral)
Repeated from yesterday 10pm
In Conversation with ... Tommy Pearson talks to pianist Django Bates about Keith Jarrett 's My Song.
Sean Rafferty looks at the ondes martenot, an instrument which features in the work of Messiaen, and introduces Vaughan Williams's Oboe Concerto.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
French composer Olivier Messiaen would have been 90 today. To mark this anniversary, Radio 3 presents an evening of programmes devoted to him, setting Messiaen in the context of his time with music by composers he admired, influenced and taught.
With Chris de Souza and Roger Nichols. + See Brian Kay : page 50
6.00 Peter Donohoe
From the Adrian Boult Hall , Birmingham Conservatoire.
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Messiaen Neumes Rhythmiques (Etudes de Rhythme)
Murail Cloches d'Adieu et un Sourire
Takemitsu Rain Tree Sketch II (In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen)
Debussy Reflets dans I'Eau (Images) Albeniz Fête-Dieu a Seville
Stockhausen Piano Piece No 3
Dukas La Plainte, au Loin, du Faune Scriabin Two Preludes, Op 67 Messiaen Canteyodjaya
7.05 Olivier Messiaen : the Man behind the Music
The magic of Olivier Messiaen is in the music. But to what extent is the music representative of the man? As a composer, performer and teacher, Messiaen was dedicated, determined and curious. And yet those who knew Messiaen have also described him as abnormally sensitive, secretive and obsessive. Friends and pupils of the composer paint a portrait of the man behind the music, with recollections from Henri Dutilleux , Manuel Rosenthal , Betsy Jolas , Madeleine Milhaud , Peter Hill and George Benjamin.
From the CBSO Centre.
Conductor George Benjamin ,
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Xenakis Jalons
Boulez Memoriale
Benjamin At First Light
8.15 The Making of Messiaen Messiaen 's uniquely distinctive musical style is difficult to place in the development of western music. With the help of those who knew the composer, Roger Nichols traces the diverse and exotic influences that helped to mould the music.
8.35 Messiaen La Rousserolle
Effarvatte (Catalogue d'Oiseaux)
9.05 Messiaen's Mark
Roger Nichols investigates how Messiaen's influence manifests itself, with contributions from his pupils and others who have been influenced by his music.
9.25 Two pieces dedicated to the memory of Messiaen.
Goehr In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen
(BBC commission)
Miiller-Siemens Light Blue, Almost White (BBC commission; first performance)
Messiaen Oiseaux Exotiques
Michael Berkeley , George Benjamin , Peter Hill and Bayan Northcott discuss the importance of Messiaen and his music.
From the Birmingham Oratory. Gillian Weir (organ)
Dupre Le Monde dans I'Attente du
Sauveur (Passion Symphony, Op 23) Messiaen Le Banquet Céleste Alain Intermezzo
Toumemire Variations on "Victimae
Paschali"
Messiaen Les Eaux de la Grace; Joie et Clarté des Corps Glorieux; Combat de la Mort et de la Vie (Les Corps Glorieux); Les Anges; Dieu parmi Nous (La Nativité du Seigneur)
Producers Jeremy Hayes. Steve Portnoi and Verity Sharp
4: The Keyboard Virtuoso
Rondo in D, K382: Sonata in C, K19d; Violin Sonata in B flat, K454; Variations on Paisiello's "Salve Tu, Domine" Repeated from last Thursday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Beethoven Symphony Series
Symphony No 2 in D; Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica) Warsaw Sinfonia, conductor Grzegorz Nowak
2.25 Boccherini Guitar Quintet No 2 in E, G446 Martin y Soler Quartet, Maria Esther Guzman (guitar)
2.40 Haydn Sonata in E minor,
H XVI 34 Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
3.00 Franck Symphony in D minor Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kazuyoshi Akiyama
3.40 CPE Bach Quartet in G, Wq95 Les Adieux
4.15 Weiss Suite in D minor
Konrad Junghanel (Baroque lute)
4.35 Muthel Concerto in D minor
Rhoda Patrick and David Mings (bassoons), Gregor Hollmann
(harpsichord), Musica Alta Ripa
5.00 Beethoven Piano Sonata in G, Op 14 No 2 Geoffrey Lancaster
5.20 Schumann Symphony No 1 in B flat (Spring) Calgary Philharmonic, conductor Mario Bernardi
