Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including at 6.30 Beethoven's Cello Sonata in C, Op 102 No 1 played by Yo-Yo Ma; at 7.00 Lalo's Scherzo played by the Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Ernest Ansermet; and after the 8.00 news works by Liszt sung by Brigitte Fassbaender.
With Peter Hobday.
Anon Two Renaissance Dances - Hesperion XX, director Jordi Savall (treble viol)
9.05 Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending - Tasmin Little (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
9.20 Haydn Piano Trio in F sharp minor, H XV 26 - Erich Hobarth (violin), Christophe Coin (cello), Patrick Cohen (fortepiano)
9.38 Liszt Les Preludes - Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Willem Mengelberg
9.54 Michael Haydn Missa Sub Titulo Sancti - Leopoldi Instrumental ensemble, Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, conductor Richard Marlow
10.13 Ravel La Valse - Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
Pianist Emanuel Ax had his first big break when he won the Artur Rubinstein Piano Competition in 1974. He talks to Joan Bakewell about the nature of competitions in music and reveals a rather less serious hobby - performing as a soloist in the first half of an orchestral concert and sneaking back onto the platform in the second half to join the percussion section. Music includes works by Brahms, Liszt and Haydn.
Feuds Corner
With Richard Baker.
Amadeus, Peter Shaffer 's dramatic account of the rivalry between Mozart and Antonio Salieri , became one of the most popular plays and films of all time. Yet relations between the two composers were complex:
Mozart even arranged preferential seating for Salieri at the premiere of The Magic Flute in 1791, not long before he died. Music includes:
Salieri Prima fa Musica (Sinfonia) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Mozart Variations on Salieri's "Mio
Caro Adone", K180
Ingrid Haebler (piano)
Salieri Armonia per un Tempio delta Notte II Gruppo di Roma
Rlmsky at the Opera
With Piers Burton-Page.
Suite: Christmas Eve Moscow SO, conductor Igor Golovschin
Song of the Viking Merchant (Sadko) Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass), LSO, conductor Edward Downes
Song of the Hindu Merchant (Sadko) Bruce Ford (tenor), Philharmonia, conductor David Parry
Song of the Venetian Merchant (Sadko) Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone), Kirov Orchestra , conductor Valery Gergiev Two Monologues from "Mozart and Salieri" Sergei Aleksashkin (bass), Philharmonia/Rozhdestvensky Fyodor Chaliapin (bass), LSO, conductor Albert Coates
Repeated next Tuesday 12 midnight
Paul Watkins (cello), Ian Brown (piano) Janacek Pohodka
Poulenc Cello Sonata
Martinu Variations on a Slovak Theme
Repeat
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier, Shura Cherkassky (piano), Chester Festival Chorus
Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms Rubinstein Piano Concerto No 4
Musorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
Repeated from yesterday 10pm
National Anthems
Tommy Pearson talks to
Terry Pratchett who has written, specially for Music Machine, the words to a national anthem for his fictitious
Discworld city of Ankh-Morpork.
In a week that sees both Handel's
Rinaldo and Beethoven's Fidelio performed in concert at Birmingham's Symphony Hall, Sean Rafferty looks at the pros and cons of taking opera off the stage. Christophe Coin is the soloist at 6.35 in Schumann's Cello
Concerto in A minor, leading up to the arts news at 7.00.
Francis Poulenc was one of the century's most successful composers of vocal music, with a range very much from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Penny Gore introduces a celebration of his achievement, featuring leading interpreters of his music.
Rapsodie Negre - Francois Le Roux (baritone), Nash Ensemble
Three Novelettes - Steven Osborne (piano)
Trois Poemes de Louise Lalanne - Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano) Tel Jour, Telle Nuit - Ian Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Un Soir de Neige; Chansons Francaises - BBC Singers, conductor James Morgan
Le Bal Masque - Francois Le Roux (baritone), Nash Ensemble
(See also 12 midnight)
See Brian Kay: page 42
The Red Rag and the Red Mask Paul Neuberg continues his exploration of the Communist project which sought to use the arts to remould people's minds.
2: Engineering the Engineers. With the dawn of the socialist realist era, the re-engineering of human souls - and the reconstruction of writers and artists into engineers of the vast effort - took centre stage in the drama of Communism and the arts.
Introduced by Martyn Brabbins in conversation with Andrew Toovey. Conductor Martyn Brabbins Andrew Toovey Red Icon
Richard Coles profiles one of the most distinguished and challenging poets at work in Britain today. Religion and the horrors of the Holocaust have been recurring themes in the work of Geoffrey Hill , but in his new, book-length poem
The Triumph of Love, he explores his own "slow haul to forgive". Producer Doug Traill-Stevenson
Alyn Shipton presents the first of two programmes featuring Cleo Laine and the Alec and John Dankworth
Generation Band in concert at the Stables, Wavendon.
With Roger Nichols. 2: 1928-35
"I'm feeling very much on form at the moment. I don't know what the musicians or the public will think, but I don't give a damn, because I know that I am right. "
(Poulenc to Henri Sauguet , 1931) Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano Maurice Bourgue (oboe),
Amaury Wallez (bassoon), Pascal Roge (piano) La Belle Jeunesse (Chansons Gaillardes)
Pierre Bernac (baritone), the Composer (piano)
Aubade Francois-Rene Duchable (piano), Rotterdam Philharmonic , conductor James Conlon
Quatre Poemes de Guillaume
Apollinaire Gerard Souzay (baritone), Dalton Baldwin (piano) Suite Francaise
French National Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
Repeated from last Tuesday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Baroque music from across
Europe performed by Trio Sonnerie. Music by Baltzar, Lawes, Farinel,
Byrd, Buxtehude, Marais and Biber
2.35 Haydn, arr Salomon Symphony No 96 in D
Ensemble of the Classic Era
3.00 Schools
3.00 Playtime 3.15 Time to Move
3.35 Let's Make a Story 3.50 Drama Workshop 4.10 In the News Special Edition 4.30 Hop, Skip and Jump
4.45 Anns a' Bhad. 1: Fuaimneach agus samhach.
5.00 Groneman Rute Sonata in E minor
Jed Wentz , Marcelo Bussi
(harpsichord), Balazs Mate (cello)
5.35 Salnt-Saens Mon Coeur S'Ouvre
Helja Angervo (soprano),
Finnish RSO/Ulf Soderblom
