Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including at 6.20
Beethoven's Piano Sonata in A flat, Op 110, played by Alfred Brendel ; after the 7.00 news Rameau's
Overture: Nais played by Les Talens Lyriques, conductor
Christophe Rousset ; and later in the programme Bridge's Sir Roger de Coverley played by the ASMF, conductor Neville Marriner.
With Peter Hobday.
Beethoven Overture: The Creatures of Prometheus London Classical
Players, conductor Roger Norrington
9.05 Bach Preludes and Fugues Nos 22-24 ("48", Book 2) Samuel Feinberg (piano)
9.21 Ryba String Quartet in D minor Martinu Quartet
9.33 Mozart Prelude and Fugue No 3, K404a Grumiaux Trio
9.40 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique) Czech Philharmonic, conductor Vaclav Talich
John Eliot Gardiner
Joan Bakewell talks to John Eliot
Gardiner about some of the highlights of his career, his plans for the future and some of his new recordings, including Verdi's Falstaff and his new disc of Christmas music.
Musical Playwrights With Peggy Reynolds.
5: Bertolt Brecht. As a young man
Bertolt Brecht started to keep a diary because he knew he was going to be important. He was a liar and treated women badly, but he was a playwright of genius, whose ideas about the theatre led to some of the most innovative and influential work of the 20th century.
Weill The Threepenny Opera (excerpt) Lotte Lenya (soprano), orchestra, conductor Samuel Matlowsky
Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana
(excerpt) Suzanne Mentzer (mezzo), Philharmonia, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli Weill The Seven Deadly Sins
Lotte Lenya (soprano), orchestra, conductor Wilhelm Bruckner-Ruggeberg Eisler The Song of the Moldau Unspecified performers
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Presented by Misha Donat in conversation with the composer.
Woodwind Quintet Contrasts Ensemble A Mirror on Which to Dwell Christine
Schadeberg (soprano), Speculum Musicae , conductor Donald Palma Concerto for Orchestra London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen
Repeated Friday 12 midnight. See also 7.30pm
Chilingirian Quartet,
Sahan Arzruni (piano)
Haydn String Quartet in B flat. Op 50 No
Dvorak Piano Quintet in A, Op 81
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductors Martyn Brabbins, Guido Ajmone-Marsan and George Hurst , Olivier Charlier (violin)
Beethoven Egmont Overture; Violin Concerto in D
Schubert Symphony No 9 in C (Great)
Utrecht 98. Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights of this year's Utrecht Festival of Early Music in Holland, including the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in orchestral music by Pisendel, a haunting song by 17th-century Spaniard Jose Marin sung by Montserrat Figueras , sixth-century chant performed by Sister Marie Keyrouz , and a motet by Guerrero sung by Capella Currende. Producer Lindsay Kemp
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 David Bowie 's
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars with DJ Mark Radcliffe.
Sean Rafferty is joined by tenor Nigel Robson , who is celebrating his 50th birthday and appearing in a new production of Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel. Music includes
Prokofiev's Winter Bonfire and Jessye Norman singing Dido's lament from Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
On the day of Elliott Carter 's birthday, Ensemble InterContemporain perform his Clarinet Concerto and a new piece composed by Philippe Manoury , plus a world premiere of a work by Pierre Boulez which includes three pianos, three harps and three percussion instruments. Introduced by Brian Morton.
Alain Damiens (clarinet),
Ensemble InterContemporain, conductor David Robertson
Carter Clarinet Concerto
Manoury Fragments pour un Portrait Boulez Sur Incises (first performance)
The Kitsch Show!
Four illustrated reflections on kitsch.
4: In his book The Scent of Dried
Roses, Tim Lott traces his working-class background in Southall, London, after the suicide of his mother. He describes the kitsch his generation has lived with.
Piano Sonata in F, Op 54
Alfred Brendel
Huddersfield 98
More from the annual festival of new music in Huddersfield. Tonight, one of Arvo Part's most sustained and fervent choral works: the Canon of Repentance, performed by the voices for whom it was written - the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber
Choir, conductor Tonu Kaljuste. "Its hold on me did not abate until I had finished the score," writes Part. "It took over two years to compose, and the time we spent together was so enriching. This music means so much to me." Presented by Verity Sharp.
Producer Andrew Kurowski
A Portrait of Jaco Pastorius
Concluding the series in which Charles Shaar Murray tells the remarkable story of bass player Jaco Pastorius.
4: Crisis.After five turbulent years as a superstar with Weather Report, Pastorius goes it alone. But his musical triumphs are quickly followed by mental breakdown and personal tragedy. With contributions from Joe Zawinul , Wayne Shorter , Don Alias and the Pastorius family. Repeated from Saturday 6pm
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 Zauberflote) Gilles Cachemaille
(baritone), Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra, conductor Arnold Ostman Repeated from last Friday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Music by Berlioz
Luxembourg Philharmonic, conductor Steven Mercurio
Lelio; Symphonie Fantastique Lelio cast:
2.55 Franck Violin Sonata in A
Hyun-Mi Kim , Dae-Jin Kim (piano)
3.25 Pal Esterhazy Cantata:
Harmonia Caelestis Maria Zadori and Martha Fers (sopranos),
Katalin Karolyi (contralto), Capella Savaria, conductor Pal Nemeth
3.50 Geminiani Concerto Grosso No 12 in D minor (La Folia)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, conductor Jeanne Lamon
4.05 Rachmaninov Elegiac Trio No 2 in D minor, Op 9 Moscow Rachmaninov Trio
4.45 Durante Concerto No 2 in G minor Concerto Koln
5.15 Rachmaninov Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op 42 Viktor Yampolsky (piano)
5.30 Buxtehude Toccata in F,
BuxWV156 Ludger Lohmann (organ)
5.40 Pieter Hellendaal Sonata No 1, Op 5 Jaap ter Linden (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Ageet Zweistra (cello)
5.50 Graham Ashton Fantasy on Catherine's Song Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble
