Petroc Trelawny with music and arts news, including a review of Noël Coward's Present Laughter at the West Yorkshire Playhouse starring Ian McKellen. Music includes at
6.10 Part's Summa played by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor Richard Studt ; at 7.10 Haydn's
Piano Trio in C, H XV 21 played by the Fontenay Trio; and after the arts news at 8.20 Korngold's
Sterben Wollt ' Ich Oft from the opera Violanta sung by Siegfried Jerusalem.
With Peter Hobday.
Handel Concerto a Due Cori No 2 in F
ECO, conductor Raymond Leppard
9.18 Schumann Symphonic Studies Geza Anda (piano)
9.42 Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn
(Nos 8-15) Lucia Popp (soprano), Andreas Schmidt (baritone),
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Leonard Bernstein
10.11 Satie Parade New London
Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp
David Willcocks
David Willcocks was musical director of the Bach Choir for 38 years, only relinquishing his post earlier this year to become their conductor laureate. He was also conductor of the Cambridge University Musical
Society for nearly 20 years. He talks to Joan Bakewell about the challenges of conducting large choral forces. With music by Bach and Gabriell.
Castles and Palaces
With Donald Macleod.
3: The Alhambra. "In 1492
Columbus sailed the ocean blue" - but on the mainland, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella at last succeeded in expelling the Moors from Spain. Granada was the final stronghold to surrender, and the Spaniards were astonished at the beauty of the Moorish king's castle. Including excerpts from:
Rodrigo Junto al Generalife Pepe Romero (guitar)
Albeniz Albaicin (Iberia)
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
Lorca Romance de Don Boyso Françoise Atlan (soprano)
Debussy La Puerta del Vino (Preludes, Book 2)
Werner Haas (piano)
Guerrero Missa Sancta et Immaculata
Westminster Cathedral Choir, director James O'Donnell
Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain Martha Argerich (piano), Paris Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
The Young Bach
With Kirsteen McCue. For all the monumental wealth of Bach's church music, the only piece to appear in print in his lifetime was a cantata written to commemorate the swearing-in of a town council.
Suite in E minor, BWV996 (Bourree; Gigue) Kim Heindel (lautenwerck)
Cantata No 71: Gott 1st Mein Konig Soloists, Japan Bach Collegium, conductor Masaaki Suzuki
Pastorale in F, BWV590
Ton Koopman (organ)
Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat, BWV1051 Musica Antiqua Koln , director Reinhard Goebel
Repeated next Wednesday 12 midnight
Nelson Goerner (piano)
Mozart Fantasy in D minor, K397
Brahms Seven Fantasies, Op 116
Liszt Harmonies du Soir; Chasse-Neige; Mazeppa (Transcendental Studies)
(Repeat)
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Van Pascal Tortelier , Peter Donohoe (piano)
Berlioz Overture: Les Francs-Juges Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor
Sibelius Symphony No 1
From Chelmsford Cathedral.
Introit: If Ye Love Me (Wilby)
Responses (Clucas)
Office Hymn: Hark What a Sound (Highwood)
Psalm 49 (Walmisley)
First Lesson: Zechariah 3, vv l-10
Canticles: The Fourth Service (Batten)
Second Lesson: Mark 1, vv l-8
Anthem: Rejoice in the Lamb (Britten)
Organ Voluntary: Toccata Eclatante (Christopher Boodle )
Master of the music: Graham Elliott
Assistant master of the music: Neil Weston
Sean Rafferty talks to trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins about the development of the instrument as it graduated from barrack square to concert hall. Music includes
Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from
Prince Igor at about 5.30, and, at
6.35, Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez.
Chris Wines introduces a concert from St George's,
Brandon Hill , Bristol, given by its resident orchestra.
Elizabeth Wallfisch and Catherine Mackintosh (violins), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, director Christophe Coin (cello)
Alessandro Scariatti Concerto No 3 in F in Seven Parts
Pergolesi Violin Concerto in B flat Vivaldi Cello Concerto in B minor
8.15 Book of the Month
Christopher Cook reviews Lisa Chaney 's new biography of Elizabeth David.
8.35 Leonardo Leo Cello Concerto in F minor
Vivaldi Concerto in D minor for Two
Violins and Cello, Op 3 No 11
Durante Concerto No 8 in A (La Pazzia)
Reading Around
3: The Poems of Friedrich Holderlin
In September 1806,
Friedrich Holderlin was forcibly removed to a clinic for the insane. Discharged after eight months, he was given only three years to live, though he survived a further 36 living in a tower being cared for by a carpenter.
Before his mental breakdown, he wrote a series of elegies and hymns that make him one of the finest poets of the romantic age. Kevin Jackson explores this highly distinctive vision and the way this iconic figure inspired samizdat writers in East Germany.
Penny Gore introduces a recital by the Fibonacci Sequence, including works by three French composers. Francaix L'Heure du
Berger Roussel Trio for Bute, Viola and Cello, Op 40
Poulenc Sextet for Piano and Wind
Instruments
Producer Nigel Wilkinson Repeated tomorrow 4pm
Modern society. it is regularly claimed, is largely ignorant of history. But from family photo albums to days out at historic sites, people connect with the past in a multitude of ways beyond formal education. In The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life, historians Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelan have explored this personal history-making. Laura Cumming discusses their work and its insight into our relationship with the past.
And in a series of end-of-year letters from around the world, writers reflect on another turbulent 12 months in the history of Jerusalem. Producer Anthony Denselow
Alyn Shipton talks to The Times critic Clive Davies and Latin American jazz expert Pablo Aguirre about Cuban jazz. With music by Irekere Gonsalves. and Ruben Gonsalves.
A Celebration of Some 100 x 150
Notes; Eight Etudes and a Fantasy; Double Concerto
Repeated from last Wednesday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Bohemian Organs
Marcel Verheggen , Kees van Houten, Peter van Dijk and Paul Cerny play music by Cemohorsky, Muffat, Pachelbel, Schumann, Brahms and Dvorak
1.55 JE Bach Meine Seele Erhebt den Herm Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert , director Hermann Max
2.10 Shostakovich Symphony No 5 Quebec Music Conservatoire Orchestra/Raffi Armenian
3.00 Clara Schumann Piano Trio in G minor, Op 17 Eva Zurbrugg (violin), Angela Schwart (cello),
Erika Radermacher (piano)
3.25 Robert Schumann Cello
Concerto in A minor Heinrich Schiff ,
Slovenian RSO/Samo Hubad
4.30 Rudolf Escher Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano Herman de Boer
(clarinet), Zoltan Benyacs (viola), Frank van de Laar (piano)
5.05 Stamitz Clarinet Concerto No
10 in B flat Slavko Goricar , Slovenian PO/Simon Robinson
5.45 Prokofiev Sarcasms , Op 17 Roger Woodward (piano)
