Petroc Trelawny presents arts news and music, including at 6.10
Handel's Organ Concerto in F, Op 4 No 4, played by Simon Preston with the English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock ; at 7.10 Britten's Simple
Symphony played by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Kenneth Sillito ; and after the 8.00 news Beethoven's Egmont Overture played last October by the London
Philharmonic, conductor Zubin Mehta , as a tribute to the late Georg Solti.
With Peter Hobday.
Brade Allmand ; Witches' Dance
Hesperion XX, director Jordi Savall (treble viol)
9.04 Haydn Piano Trio in E, H XV 28 Vera Beths (violin), Anner Bylsma (cello), Robert Levin (fortepiano)
9.21 Mahler Symphony No 5 (4th mvt) Concertgebouw Orchestra , conductor Willem Mengelberg
9.23 Brahms Begrabnisgesang San Francisco Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Herbert Blomstedt
9.37 Michael Haydn String Quintet in C, Op 88 L'Archibudelli
9.57 Falla El Amor Brujo Gloria Lane (mezzo),
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leopold Stokowski
Emanuel Ax
When he was a student at the Juilliard School in New York,
Emanuel Ax went to hear the debut recital of a 15-year-old cellist called Yo-Yo Ma. "Everything about his playing was so shattering, I just sat with my mouth open." Thirty years later, they have a successful partnership with three Grammy awards behind them. Emanuel Ax talks to Joan Bakewell about his work with Yo-Yo Ma , with music by Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Beethoven.
Feuds Comer
With Richard Baker. Both Johannes
Brahms and Richard Wagner sought to escape from the dominating shadow of Beethoven. One took the symphonic route, the other the operatic. Though they met only once, each attracted vehement support. Music includes:
Brahms Herr , Lehre Doch Mich (German Requiem) Otto Wiener (baritone), Choir of St Hedwig's Cathedral, Berlin, Berlin PO, conductor Fritz Lehmann
Wagner 0 Ihr, der Eide Miter (Gotterdammerung)
Anne Evans (soprano), Philharmonia, conductor Francesco d'Avalos
Bruckner Symphony No 3 in D minor (original version, 1st mvt) London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington
Rimsky at the Opera
Piers Burton-Page's survey of Rimsky's operas moves into the 20th century.
Serviliya's Aria (Serviliya) Zoe Khristich (soprano),
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, conductor Mark Ermler
Kashchey the Immortal (3rd tableau)
Moscow Yurlov Academy Choir, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, conductor Andrei Tchistiakov
Suite: Pan Voyevoda Slovak Philharmonic, conductor Bystrak Rezucha
Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight
Chamber Music from Manchester
At the Royal Northern College of Music last weekend, all of Haydn's
69 string quartets were performed in Haydnfest 99. Paul Allen introduces the first of three recitals from the marathon series of concerts and seminars.
Brodsky Quartet
String Quartets: in C, Op 54 No 2; in B flat. Op 76 No 4 (Sunrise)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductors Jerzy Maksymiuk and Osmo Vanska ,
Elisabeth Batiashvili (violin) Stravinsky Symphony in C
Haydn Violin Concerto No 1 in C
Bruckner Symphony No 3 in D minor (1876 version)
Penny Gore introduces a Russian edition laced with irony and double meaning.
Stravinsky Five Easy Pieces
Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow (piano duet)
Shostakovich String Quartet No 8, Op 110 Sorrel Quartet
Prokofiev Five Sarcasms, Op 17 Ekaterina Apekisheva (piano) Producer Nigel Wilkinson
National Anthems
Music Machine has asked composer Carl Davis to write the music to Terry Pratchett 's Discworld National
Anthem. Tommy Pearson asks him how to create a memorable melody.
On the publication of a new biography, Sean Rafferty discusses the music of Strauss. Music includes
Kodaly's Dances from Galanta, with a selection of new releases after 7.00.
I From the Colston Hall , Bristol, introduced by Chris Wines.
Alexei Lubimov (piano), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Herbert Blomstedt
Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides
(Fingal's Cave)
Schubert Symphony No 2 in B flat
8.15 Book of the Month
In The Dragon in the Land of Snows, Tibetan historian Tsering Shakya draws on a mass of oral and archival sources to uncover the story of Tibet's struggle to maintain independence.
In the first such history from a Tibetan writer, he looks at the subsequent story of Chinese attempts at unification and at the background to current and future developments in the area.
8.35 Brahms Piano Concerto No I in D minor
The Red Flag and the Red Mask 4: The Red Mask. In the west, the biggest Communist movement of the thirties and forties was in France.
The commitment of some prominent writers and artists to the cause involved radical shifts in creative agendas that were tenaciously resisted by others. Then, from 1956 onwards, revelations about the Stalinist regime rocked writers' and artists' faith in Communism throughout the world.
Lucie Skeaping and Chris de Souza introduce a final programme of unheard treasures from Music
Restored in 1998. This week,
Dowland partsongs from Red Byrd, a Biber violin sonata performed by the Russian ensemble Musica
Petropolitana, a Handel suite played by harpsichordist Laurence Cummings , and a cantata by Weckmann played by the Purcell Quartet and friends.
Producer Lindsay Kemp. Rptd tomorrow 4pm
Paul Allen explores the increasingly complex ways we think about the human body in art and science and talks to speakers at this year's
Darwin Lectures in Cambridge, who take the body as their theme. Producer Lawrence Pollard
Alyn Shipton reviews some new CDs with Campbell Burnap.
4: 1944-52
Les Mamelles de Tiresias (excerpt) Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor),
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Tokyo Opera Singers, Saito Kainen
Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa Quatre Petites Prières de Saint Francois d'AssiseThe Sixteen, director Harry Christophers
Piano Concerto Francois-Rene
Duchable, Rotterdam Philharmonic, conductor James Conlon
Quatre Motets pour Noël Westminster Cathedral Choir/James O'Donnell Repeated from last Thursday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Prague RSO/Leos Svarovsky,
Martin Kasik (piano) Mozart Overture: The Marriage of Figaro Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor
Shostakovich Symphony No 15
2.20 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 111 Richard Raymond
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Workshop 3.20 Let's Move 3.40 Words Alive! 3.55 First
Steps in Drama 4.10 Listen and Write
4.30 Alphabet Time 4.40 Check It Out
5.00 Kajanus Rhapsody No 1 Finnish RSO, conductor Leif Segerstam
5.35 Abel Sonata No 5 in FKarl Kaiser
(flute), Susanne Kaiser (harpsichord)
