Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including at 6.00 Mozart's song An Chloe performed by John Mark Ainsley (tenor) and Roger Vignoles (piano); at 7.30 Strauss's Horn Concerto No 1 played by Marie-Luise Neunecker and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ingo Metzmacher ; and at
8.00 Schumann's Toccata in C, Op 7, played by pianist Ivo Pogorelich.
With Penny Gore.
Suppe Overture: Poet and Peasant Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
9.11 Mozart Violin Sonata in G, K301 Szymon Goldberg , Radu Lupu (piano)
9.25 Handel Che Piu so Tarda ...
Stille Amare (Tolomeo)
Drew Minter (countertenor),
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, conductor Nicholas McGegan
9.32 Soler Sonatas: in F sharp minor: in FAIicia de Larrocha (piano)
9.42 Rachmaninov Symphony No 1 in D minor Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
Leonard Slatkin
Before American conductor
Leonard Slatkin joined the National Symphony Orchestra in 1996, he spent 27 fruitful years with the St Louis
Symphony Orchestra, helping them to establish a reputation as one of America's finest and most distinctive orchestras. He talks to Joan
Bakewell about his time at St Louis and about his achievements there, with music by Brahms and Mahler.
Five Femmes Fatates
With Peggy Reynolds.
2: Mata Hari was executed in Paris in 1917 on suspicion of being a German spy. But was she? The facts are still unclear. She was born
Margarethe Zelle in 1876, and the glamour that surrounded her led to friendships in every corner of Europe but also to her undoing. Her immortality was assured when she was played on screen by Greta Garbo. Massenet Ballet music: Le Roi de
Lahore
National Philharmonic, conductor Richard Bonynge
Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: Antar (excerpts)
Royal Philharmonic, conductor Barry Wordsworth
Marenco Ballet music: Excelsior
Bratislava Philharmonic, conductor Ladisiav Slovak
Couperin Les Folies Françaises Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)
With Simon Heighes.
2: Church Service. Georg Philipp Telemann served the five main churches in Hamburg for nearly half a century, producing a passion every year and well over a thousand cantatas. He brought to these works a new dramatic dimension based on his experience as a composer of opera. The music in this programme reflects the more serious side of his personality. There are excerpts from the joint Telemann-Bach motet
Jauchzet dem Herrn, the passion Der Tod Jesus, and the ravishingly beautiful cantata Du aber Daniel
Gehe Hin.
Repeated next Tuesday 12 midnight
From Broadcasting House,
Belfast. John Toal introduces a recital of music for two pianos celebrating this year's centenary of the birth of Francis Poulenc.
Stephen Coombs and Jonathan Plowright (pianos)
Poulenc Capriccio (Le Bal Masquer Britten Mazurka Elegiaca Joan Trimble Sonatina
Arthur Benjamin Jamaican Rumba Poulenc Sonata for Two Pianos
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductors Mark Elder and Pierre Boulez
, BBC Symphony Chorus Prokofiev Dreams
Shostakovich Symphony No 2 (To October)
Prokofiev Cantata for the 20th
Anniversary of the October Revolution
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Songs of Innocence and Experience lain Burnside unearths a clutch of songs to texts by William Blake , who has inspired a wide and surprising range of songwriters.
Repeated from yesterday 10pm
Jewish Music
The Sephardim is the branch of the Jewish diaspora that came from
Spain, and it has a particularly rich musical history. Verity Sharp talks to Lucie Skeaping about the wealth of music and songs from this tradition.
Sean Rafferty is joined by Philip Pickett and Edward de Souza to celebrate the Feast of Fools, a rumbustious medieval festival which was organised by the clergy. Music includes works by Debussy and Gershwin, with Bach's Violin
Concerto in A minor, BWV1041, after 6.30.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
I From the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London.
Academy of St Martin in the Reids, director Ion Brown (violin) Bartok Divertimento
Britten Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
8.40 Book of the Month
John Kinsella considers the Collected Poems of Peter Porter , who celebrates his 70th birthday next week. One of the country's most distinguished literary figures,
Peter Porter moved to Britain from
Australia in 1951, and his enormous output has influenced writers on both sides of the world. This anthology includes his Whitbread Award-winning collection The Automatic Oracle, as well as an entirely new collection, Both Ends of the Middle.
9.00 Tippett Little Music for Strings Strauss Metamorphosen
Magnum at the Millennium
Five programmes celebrating 50 years of photojournalism from the world's most famous photo agency.
2: The Man with a Gun. A look at half a century of war photography by members of the prestigious Magnum agency. Repeat
Barcarolle in F sharp, Op 60;
Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op 44 Maurizio Pollini (piano)
"Even errors can produce interesting side effects," claims Umberto Eco in a new book exploring the lunatic theories behind some of history's major movements. Richard Coles and guests discuss Eco's
Serendipities. Plus a review of La Vita e Bella, winner of last year's
Grand Jury Prize at Cannes. Roberto Benigni's film is a romantic story set against the Fascism of Italy in the thirties.
Producer Doug Traill-Stevenson
Alyn Shipton presents the second part of Keith Smith 's Hefty Jazz with Kate McNab , recorded in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Chris de Souza explores the astonishing range of Liszt's music.
12 Etudes: No 1
12 Grandes Etudes: No 1 in C; No 2 in A minor
Leslie Howard (piano)
Malediction Michel Beroff (piano), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur
Prelude and Fugue on Bach Thomas Trotter (organ)
Mephisto Waltz No 1 Claudio Arrau (piano)
Nuages Gris; Bagatelle sans Tonalite Andre Watts (piano)
(Repeated from last Tuesday)
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Muti , Andrea Rost and Luciano D'lntino
(sopranos), Paul Groves (tenor), Alastir Miles (bass),
Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus Beethoven Symphony No 1 in C Rossini Stabat Mater
2.25 Robert de Visee Suite in E minor
Yasunori Imamura (theorbo)
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: Topical Roundup 4.30 Hop, Skip and Jump
4.45 Anns a' Bhad
5.00 Beethoven Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 31 No 3 Annie Fischer
5.45 JCF Bach Sinfonia in D minor
Das Kleine Konzert , director Hermann Max