Stephanie Hughes presents arts news and music, including at 6.45 Beethoven's Piano Sonata in G,
Op 14 No 2, played by Louis Lortie ; after the 7.00 news Shostakovich's
Festival Overture played by the Russian NO, conductor
Mikhail Pletnev ; before the 8.00 news three of Brahms's Hungarian Dances played by the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra; and after the news Wieniawski's Polonaise No 1 played by Maxim Vengerov (violin) and Itamar Golan (piano).
With Peter Hobday.
Handel Concerto Grosso in A,
Op 6 No 11 Orpheus CO
La Timide; L'lndiscrete
(Pieces de Clavecin)
Kenneth Gilbert (harpsichord)
Alborada del Gracioso
(Miroirs) Paris Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon
Te Deum Franco Tagliavini (tenor),
Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
The great German baritone talks to Joan Bakewell about his operatic career. Music includes favourite roles such as the Count in Mozart's The
Marriage of Figaro and Hans Sachs in Wagner's Die Meistersinger.
Five Painters
With Donald Macleod.
3: Turner. Joseph William Mallord
Turner was born in London in 1775 and became the most revolutionary of all British painters. Works such as The Fighting Temeraire and Rain Steam Speed introduced a dynamism and energy and even an element of abstraction that were the fruit of a restless spirit and an endlessly enquiring mind. Turner travelled widely and enjoyed powerful patronage even while jealously guarding his privacy. Including: Berlioz Royal Hunt; Storm (Les Troyens)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
Mayr Medea in Corinto Jane Eaglen (soprano),
Philharmonia, conductor David Parry Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides
(Fmgal's Cave) Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi
With Roger Nichols. 3: 1936-44
Litanies a la Vierge Noire Radio France Choir,
French National Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
Organ Concerto Simon Preston , LSO, conductor Andre Previn
Rgure Humaine The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers
Repeated next Wednesday 12 midnight
The first in a season of concerts from the Adrian Boult Hall , Birmingham Conservatoire. Introduced by Chris Wines . Brindisi Quartet
Schubert String Quartet in G, D887 ADMISSION: free, no ticket required Doors open at 12.30pm
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Van Pascal Tortelier ,
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello)
Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps Haydn Symphony No 83 in G minor Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor
From the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Introit: Epiphany Responsory (Marlow) Bidding prayers
Processional Hymn: Bethlehem of Noblest Cities (Stuttgart) Responsory: Isaiah 60
First Reading: Matthew 2, wl-12 What Child Is This? (Barratt)
Second Reading: It Was Given to Me by the Gods (Emily Dickinson ) The Child of Light (Saxton)
Third Reading: And Strike This Scene in Gold Too (Seamus Heaney )
Acclamation for the Offering of Gold In Winter Time (Berkeley)
Fourth Reading: Anthem (WH Auden) Acclamation for the Offering of Frankincense
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree (Poston) Hymn: 0 Worship the Lord (Was Lebet, descant Marlow)
Fifth Reading: An Ecstasy (Richard Crashaw )
Acclamation for the Offering of Myrrh Alleluia, pro Virgine Maria (Maxwell Davies)
Sixth Reading: Revelation 5 The Lamb (Tavener)
Hymn: As with Gladness (Dix, descant Willcocks)
Responsory Blessing (Marlow) There Is No Rose (Maconchy)
Organ Voluntary: Toccata, Op 16 (Jackson)
Director of music Richard Marlow.
Organ scholars Thomas Blunt and Mark Williams.
Sean Rafferty explores settings of The Jungle Book and other Kipling treasures as jazz pianist Julian Joseph performs music by Milhaud and his contemporaries. Plus Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C, K314.
A Baroque Double
Bill Purcell 's three-act opera Dido and Aeneas is one of the best known operas of the Baroque, yet it is only one of hundreds of short musical stage works from this time. Recorded at last year's Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, this concert pairs Purcell's masterpiece with Acteon, Charpentier's superb depiction of one of Ovid's most heart-rending metamorphoses.
St James 's Baroque Singers and Players, conductor Ivor Bolton
Flctuallty
Five specially commissioned dramatic monologues that combine fiction and a news story.
3: Thank You for My Baby. By Alison Joseph. Repeat
Jeu de Cartes Cleveland Orchestra
Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin were three of the leading musical lights of the mid-19th century. Born within a few months of each other, they all found success as composer-pianists, though in radically different ways. Penny Gore traces their distinct but overlapping careers and introduces some of their piano and chamber works, including: Schumann Piano Trio No 2 in F, Op 80 Vanya Milanova (violin), Paul Watkins (cello), Caroline Palmer (piano) Producer Nigel Wilkinson Repeated tomorrow 4pm
"Man is more sick, uncertain, changeable, indeterminate than any other animal, there is no doubt of that - he is the sick animal."
Nietzsche's observation of 1887 stands true today when there may be fewer diseases around but always new illnesses - from chronic fatigue syndrome to post-traumatic stress disorder. Patrick Wright considers the changing nature of illness in the modern age as observed in the latest book by award-winning
American writer David 6 Morris. And
Anthony Sher pulls off a tricky double for the RSC in their new production of A Winter's Tale.
Producer Lawrence Pollard
National Youth Jazz Orchestra
The concluding part of the concert.
Romance in F Michael Thompson (horn), Ulster Orchestra, conductor Kenneth Montgomery Danse Macabre Philharmonia , conductor Charles Dutoit
Romance in D flat Gary Arbuthnot (flute), Ulster Orchestra, conductor Kenneth Montgomery
Le Rouet d'Omphale Philharmonia, conductor Charles Dutoit
Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor
Jean-Philippe Collard , RPO, conductor Andre Previn
Repeated from last Wednesday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Netherlands Radio PO/Kurt Masur, Yvonne Minton (mezzo) Wagner Wesendonk-Lieder
Bruckner Symphony No 3 in D minor
2.15 Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op 34 Orford Quartet,
James Campbell (clarinet)
3.20 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue William Tritt (piano), Hamilton PO/Boris Brott
4.35 Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite No 2
Danish NRSO/Michael Schonwandt
5.10 Brahms Piano Quartet No 2 in A, Op 26 Paolo Zordanazzo (violin), Alessandro Savio (viola),
Andrea Bellato (cello), Andrea de Ros (piano)
