Stephanie Hughes presents music and arts news, including a review of the RSC's new production of The Winter's Tale at Stratford. Music includes Messiaen's Louange a I'lmmortalite de Jesus from the Quartet for the End of Time performed by violinist
Leila Josefowicz accompanied by John Novak (piano); at 7.30 Haydn's
Piano Sonata in G, H XVI 40 played by Andras Schiff ; and after the 8.00 news Charpentier's Depuis le Jour from Louise sung by soprano Amanda Roocroft.
With Peter Hobday.
Nielsen Helios Overture
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon
English Suite No 1 in A,
BWV806 Murray Perahia (piano)
Danse Sacree et
Danse Profane Marie-Claire Jamet
(harp), French Radio Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon
Romeo Alone; Love
Scene; Queen Mab Scherzo (Romeo and Juliet)
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et
Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau 's career has spanned more than four decades, and during that time he has always been a champion of new music. He talks to Joan Bakewell about that facet of his musical life.
Rve Painters
With Donald Macleod.
4: Edouard Manet. Manet (1832-83) was the archetypal impressionist, recording on canvas the full flavour of the Belle Epoque. A friend of Baudelaire, Zola and Mallarme,
Manet also knew all the composers of his day and frequented both the opera and the Parisian cafe-concerts. Music includes:
Duparc L'lnvitation au Voyage Gerard Souzay (baritone), Dalton Baldwin (piano)
Chabrier Pieces
Pittoresques Robert and Gaby Casadesus (piano) Beranger Les Deux Notaires Yvette Guilbert (singer)
Thomas Etre ou Ne Pas Etre? (Hamlet) Soloists, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Philharmonic, conductor Antonio de Almeida
Bizet Suite: Carmen
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
With Roger Nichols.
"Here, in spite of the gloomy weather, I have found again the calm of those beautiful summers in Anost. Music keeps flowing out of me and is a constant joy. Very often my winter irritability comes from not composing anything."
(Poulenc to Pierre Bernac, 1948)
Les Mamelles de Tiresias (excerpt) - Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Tokyo Opera Singers, Saito Kainen Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa
Quatre Petites Pheres de Saint Francois d'Assise - The Sixteen, director Harry Christophers
Piano Concerto - Francois-Rene Duchable, Rotterdam Philharmonic, conductor James Conlon
Quatre Motets pour Noel - Westminster Cathedral Choir, director James O'Donnell
Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight
Chamber Music from Manchester
A new season from Manchester begins with a programme of Czech quartets recorded last October in the Bridgewater Hall. Prazak Quartet
Martinu String Quartet No 7 (Concerto da Camera)
Dvorak String Quartet No 10 in E flat. Op 51
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductors Alun Francis ,
Alexander Titov , Martyn Brabbins and Jean Yves Ossonce , Lars Vogt (piano) Ireland A London Overture
Haydn Symphony No 92 in G (Oxford) Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor
Alberic Magnard Symphony No 3
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) Repeated from yesterday 10pm
Music in the Home
In the 18th century, the only way to hear music in the home was by performing it. Tommy Pearson talks to Hansgeorg Schmeiser and Dominic Fyfe to discover how you can fit a Mozart opera into your living room.
Sean Rafferty celebrates Poulenc's centenary with a look at Parisian cafe society and its impact on the artistic life of this century. Plus music by Bach and Gershwin, with Beethoven's Choral Fantasia after 6.30.
A performance given at the 1997 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music conducted by Joshua Rifkin, a distinguished Bach scholar and performer.
Susanne Ryden (soprano), Steven Rickards (countertenor), Ian Partridge (tenor), Michael Schopper (bass), Bach Ensemble, conductor Joshua Rifkin
Bach Cantata No 30: Freue Dich, Erloste Schar; Mass in G, BWV236
Flctuality
Five specially commissioned dramatic monologues that combine fiction and a news story.
4: Abide with Me. By John Fletcher. Repeat
Conductor Colin Davis
Sibelius En Saga
Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A
Lucie Skeaping and Chris de Souza introduce the first of two programmes of previously unheard treasures from Music Restored's
1998 recordings. This week's selection includes Spanish polyphony from Chapelle du Roi; solos by fortepianist
Ronald Brautigam , harpsichordist
Mitzi Meyerson and theorbo player Rolf Lislevand ; and a Bach aria sung by countertenor Robin Blaze. Producer Lindsay Kemp
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Repeated tomorrow 4pm
As Alfred Hitchcock 's classic Psycho is remade shot by shot by Gus Van
Sant, Paul Allen examines the legacy of Norman Bates and the value of imitation. Plus the eagerly awaited European opening of a major retrospective of another master of atmosphere, the American abstract artist Mark Rothko.
Producer Anthony Denselow
Alyn Shipton is joined by Dave Gelly for a review of Jonny King's book
What Jazz Is. And Richard Cook talks about the fourth edition of The
Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD.
"During the 20 years I played the organ at the Madeleine, I improvised constantly, giving my fancy the widest range. That was one of the joys of life. But there was a tradition that I was a severe, austere musician ..." (Saint-Saens)
With David Byers.
Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ)
Gillian Weir (organ), Ulster Orchestra, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Oboe Sonata in D, Op 166
Nicholas Daniel , Julius Drake (piano)
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Polish National Radio
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Moche Atzmon , Idil Biret (piano)
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor; Symphony No 2 in D
3.10 Mozart Serenade in C minor, K388 Bratislava Chamber Harmony, conductor Justus Pavlik
4.00 Roman Drottingholm Music (excerpts) Concerto Koln
4.35 Nielsen Little Suite CBC
Vancouver Orchestra/Mario Bernardi
5.20 CPE Bach Concerto in E flat
Jos van Immerseel (fortepiano), Collegium Aureum, director Gustav Leonhardt
(harpsichord)
