Stephanie Hughes with music and arts news, including a review of the new film Little Voice. Music includes at 6.05 Mozart's Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216 played by Christian Tetzlaff ; at 7.10 Monteverdi's
Magnificat from his Vespers of 1610 performed by the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner ; and, to end the programme, Milhaud's Scaramouche played by pianists
Stephen Coombs and Artur Pizarro.
With Peter Hobday.
Mozart Piano Sonata in C, K545
Maria-Joao Pires
Aragonese
Cecila Bartoli (mezzo), James Levine (piano)
Symphonie Espagnole
David Oistrakh (violin), Philharmonia, conductor Jean Martinon
Symphonie Funebre et
Triomphale
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
Dietrich Rscher-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau talks to
Joan Bakewell about his life on the concert platform as a conductor as well as a singer and shares his views on the authentic performance movement.
Five Painters
With Donald Macleod.
5: Gustav Klimt. Painter Gustav Klimt was born in Vienna in 1862 and lived there all his life. He fathered a new style of painting that is always associated with the Vienna Secession movement. Music meant a great deal to him and forms the theme of several of his paintings, including the famous Beethoven Frieze. Including: Chopin Prelude in D flat, Op 28 No 15 Joseph Pembauer (piano)
Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor, D537 (3rd mvt)
Robert Levin (fortepiano) Berg Lulu (excerpt)
Constance Hauman (soprano),
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ulf Schirmer
Alma Mahler Ekstase
Isabel Lippitz (soprano), Barbara Heller (piano)
Strauss, arr Krauss Suite: Die Liebe der Danae
Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Zubin Mehta
With Roger Nichols. 5: 1953-63
"I'm worn out: breakdown looming. Perhaps, for the benefit of those gentlemen in Paris, I shall include 15 Chinese gongs, eight vibraphones and ten xylophones. No! May God protect me from the angel of the bizarre." (Poulenc to Henri Hell, 1957)
Dialogues des Carmelites (excerpt)
Rachel Yakar and Martine Dupuy (sopranos).
Lyon Opera Orchestra, conductor Kent Nagano Flute Sonata
Jean-Pierre Rampal ,
Robert Veyron-Lacroix (piano)
Improvisations Nos 14 and 15 Gabriel Tacchino (piano)
Ba, Be, Bi, Bo, Bu; Les Anges Musiciens (La Courte Paille)
Elly Ameling (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)
Sept Repons des Tenebres
Alexandre Carpentier (treble),
Maitrise de la Sainte Chapelle, New French Radio Philharmonic, conductor Georges Pretre
Repeated next Friday 12 midnight
Organ and Friends
First in a new season of duet recitals which takes the organist out of the lonely church organ loft and onto the concert platform to play with other instruments. To begin,
Simon Preston celebrates his 60th birthday in St John 's, Smith Square, London, with Swedish trumpeter
Hakan Hardenberger. Sandy Bumett introduces a performance given last November. Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), Simon Preston (organ)
Bach Prelude and Fugue in E flat, BWV552 (St Anne)
Eben, after Chagall Okna
Takemitsu Paths (In Memoriam Witold Lutoslawski)
Hakim Trumpet Sonata
Ulster Orchestra
Conductors Jun'ichi Hirokami,
Takuo Yuasa and Adrian Leaper , Barry Douglas (piano) Wolf Italian Serenade
Haydn Symphony No 99 in E flat Mozart Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat, K482
Brahms Serenade No 1 in D
Lucie Skeaping and Chris de Souza introduce the first of two programmes of previously unheard treasures from Music Restored's
1998 recordings.
Repeated from yesterday 10pm
Music In the Home
For many of today's composers, the home is the place where they create most of their music. Tommy Pearson visits Michael Berkeley , who escapes to the quiet of rural Wales to write his music.
With Channel 4's series The Phil starting on Sunday, Sean Rafferty previews this latest "docusoap" and talks to the musicians involved about their six months in front of the camera. With music by Purcell and Prokofiev, plus Mahler's
Ruckert-Lieder before 7.00.
Ulster Orchestra
Conductor Robert Houlihan, Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
Part If Bach Had Been a Beekeeper Peteris Vasks Cantabile for Strings Maxwell Davies Cello Concerto
(Strathclyde Concerto No 2) Kevin O'Connell North (BBC commission; first broadcast)
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 2
Fictuality
Five specially commissioned dramatic monologues that combine fiction and a news story.
5: All at Sea. By Pippa Gladhill. Repeat
Rachel Brown (flute),
James Johnstone (harpsichord), Mark Caudle (cello) Repeat
The Brunei Ensemble make their
Radio 3 broadcast debut with a programme of recent pieces commissioned by them for their concert series. Verity Sharp talks to the composers about their work and to the ensemble's conductor, Christopher Austin , about the group's musical ambitions and activities.
Julian Warburton (percussion), Brunei Ensemble, conductor Christopher Austin
Morgan Hayes Viscid (first broadcast) Joby Talbot Incandescence (first broadcast)
Diana Burrell Bronze (first broadcast) And the BBC Singers and Stefan Parkman revisit Bayan Northcott 's Hymn to Cybele in a new recording made specially for the programme. Producer Philip Tagney
Russell Davies presents a 52-part history of jazz, from its earliest stirrings until the millennium.
1: A Century of Jazz. Despite its haunting swing and busy urban presence, jazz is difficult to define precisely. In this introductory programme, Russell Davies set the scene and features some notable jazz oddities.
Repeated from Saturday 6pm
A programme of music by Martinu recorded at the Maida Vale studios last year, prior to the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Barbican weekend.
Conductor Jiri Belohlavek
Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras; Symphony No 4
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Monte Carlo Philharmonic, conductor Evelino Pido , Uto Ughi (violin)
Verdi Overture: Sicilian Vespers Beethoven Violin Concerto in D
Borodin Symphony No 2 in B minor
2.55 Schubert String Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden) Tartini Quartet
4.05 Strauss Burleske in D minor
Arthur Ozolins (piano),
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi
5.25 Crusell Sinfonia Concertante in Bflat
Reijo Koskinen (clarinet),
Pekka Katajamki (bassoon), Esa Tukia (horn),
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste