Petroc Trelawny presents arts news and music, including at 6.00 Chopin's Nocturne in E flat, Op 9 No 2, played by pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski ; at
7.05 Dvorak's symphonic poem The Water Goblin played by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik ; and after the news at
8.00 Franz Waxman 's Carmen Fantasy played by violinist Maxim Vengerov.
With Peter Hobday.
Gabrieli Canzon a 7 Hesperion XX, director Jordi Savall (treble viol)
9.04 Haydn Piano Trio in C, H XV 2 Dussek Trio
9.23 Faure Pelleas et Melisande
Paris Orchestra, conductor Serge Baudo
9.41 Granados Los Requiebros
(Goyescas) Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
9.50 Michael Haydn Horn Concerto in D Anthony Halstead , Hanover Band, director Roy Goodman
10.05 Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Willem Mengelberg
Emanuel Ax
Emanuel Ax talks to Joan Bakewell about his commitment to chamber music and describes his relationships with the other members of his piano quartet - Isaac Stern , Jaime Laredo and Yo-Yo Ma. Music includes works by Brahms, Shostakovich and Faure.
Feuds Comer
With Richard Baker.
"Towards the end of the first act of Cherubini's Ali Baba , I could not help exclaiming loudly, 'Twenty francs for an idea!' In the middle of the second act, I raised my bid. 'Forty francs for an idea!' The finale began. 'Eighty francs!' The finale reached its appointed end. 'I give up! I'm not rich enough!'" (Berlioz, Memoirs)
The hostility between Berlioz and his former teacher had its roots in the struggle between originality and rigid orthodoxy. Music includes:
Cherubini Overture: AH Baba
NBCSO, conductor Arturo Toscanini
Berlioz Villanelle ; Absence (Nuits d'Ete) Susan Graham (soprano). Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conductor John Nelson
Cherubini Coronation Mass for Louis
XVIII (Agnus Dei; Marche Religieuse) Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Muti
Berlioz Adieu, Fiere Cite (Les Troyens) Susan Graham (soprano),
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conductor John Nelson
Rimsky at the Opera
Presented by Piers Burton-Page . Boyarina Vera Sheloga (Overture; final scene)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Stoyan Angelov
Overture: The Tsar's Bride
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov
Sleep Has Overcome Her (The Tsar's Bride) Sergei Aleksashkin (bass), Philharmonia, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Suite: Tsar Saltan
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Edward Downes
Repeated next Wednesday 12 midnight
- From the Adrian Boult Hall ,
Birmingham Conservatoire.
Introduced by Chris Wines . Stephanie Gonley (violin), John Lenehan (piano)
Beethoven Violin Sonata in A minor, Op 23
Schoenberg Phantasy, Op 47
Brahms Violin Sonata No 2 in A, Op 100 ADMISSION: free, no ticket required Doors open at 12.30pm
Ulster Orchestra
Conductors Charles Hazlewood and Nicholas Braithwaite , Clio Gould (violin) Bach, orch Elgar Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV537
Stravinsky Violin Concerto
Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: Antar
Part Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Tavener Tears of the Angels Britten Sinfonia da Requiem
I From Manchester Cathedral.
Introit: Verleih Uns Frieden
(Mendelssohn)
Responses (Stewart)
Psalm 69, wl-22; 30-end First Lesson: Jonah 3 and 4 Office Hymn: 0 Trinity of Blessed Light (0 Lux Beata)
Canticles: SS Wesley in E
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 10, wl-13
Anthem: How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings (Brahms)
Hymn: Brightest and Best (Liebster Immanuel )
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in G, BWV541 (Bach)
Organist and master of the choristers Christopher Stokes.
Sub-organist Matthew Owens.
Sean Rafferty continues his series of interviews with record company executives by talking to Robert von Bahr of BIS, who started this award-winning label by selling CDs from a pram. Music includes Suk's symphonic poem Praga leading up to the arts news at 7.00, followed by the latest new releases.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra From the Eden Court
Theatre, Inverness, introduced by Geoffrey Baskerville. Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk , llya Itin (piano)
Alasdair Nicolson Breakdance
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor
8.55 News from North Britain
Five new stories from Scotland.
1: Virtual, by Ali Smith. An anorexic girl is given a computer pet to nurture while she is in hospital. If she does not keep pressing the buttons, it will die. Reader Vicki Liddelle.
9.15 Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor
The Red Flag and the Red Mask Paul Neuberg continues his exploration of the Communist project which sought to use the arts to remould people's minds.
3: The Embrace of Discipline
Germany was the western country most affected by the impact of the Bolshevik revolution. Writers and artists who had rejected the old order and its patriarchal rule and turned to Communism now found themselves facing a difficult choice between personal reconstruction, loyal resistance and rejection.
Symphonic Dance No 1
Percy Grainger and the Composer (pianos)
Charles Saatchi 's eye for the latest trend in modern art has become legendary. As Neurotic Realism opens at the Saatchi Gallery in London, Laura Cumming examines this new definition of the cutting edge and its concerns. Producer Abigail Appleton
Alyn Shipton presents the second of two programmes featuring Cleo Laine and the Alec and John Dankworth
Generation Band in concert at the Stables, Wavendon. He also talks to Alec Dankworth.
With Roger Nichols. 3: 1936-44
"I make a most charming soldier, all in khaki. After days of travelling in cattle trucks we have now taken root in a heavenly village in Lot, three kilometres from Cahors, where I sleep in a barn straight out of the fables of La Fontaine." (Poulenc to Pierre Bernac, 1940)
Litanies a la Vierge Noire Radio France Choir, French NO, conductor Charles Dutoit
Organ Concerto Simon Preston , LSO, conductor Andre Previn
Figure Humaine The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers Repeated from last Wednesday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Hungarian Radio Orchestra/
Charles Munch Faure Suite: Pelleas et Melisande Debussy Three Nocturnes Ravel La Valse
2.05 Ives The Unanswered Question CBC Vancouver Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi
2.40 Paganini Violin Sonata in A minor Moshe Hammer,
William Beauvais (guitar)
3.00 Schools
3.00 Time and Tune 3.20 Together
3.40 Dance Workshop 4.00 The
Song Tree 4.20 Scottish Resources 10-12 4.40 Talking Points
5.00 Sibelius Valse Triste CBC
Vancouver Orchestra/Mario Bernardi
5.30 Ponce Preludes
Heiki Matlik (guitar)
