Petroc Trelawny celebrates the 150th anniversary of Otto Nicolai 's Shakespearean opera The Merry Wives of Windsor. Music includes before 7.00 Schubert's String Quartet in G minor, Dl 73, performed by the Sorrel Quartet, and Brahms's Theme and Variations (from the Sextet, Op 18) played by Emanuel Ax (piano).
With Peter Hobday.
Telemann Sonate Corellisante No 2 in A Collegium Musicum 90, director Simon Standage (violin)
9.09 Debussy Nocturnes
Women of the Berkshire Festival
Chorus,
Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre Monteux
9.32 Brahms Souvenir de la Russie
Silke-Thora Matthies and Christian Kohn (piano duet)
9.53 Stravinsky Petrushka (1911) Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Leopold Stokowski
In 1968, Korean violinist Kyung-Wha Chung had her first big break, sharing first prize in the prestigious Leventritt Competition with Pinchas Zukerman. The next two years were full of engagements, all over the United States. Still completely unknown in Europe, she made her debut at the Royal Festival Hall in 1970. She proved to be a sensation, and within three days she had been booked for a further thirty concerts. Kyung-Wha Chung talks to Joan Bakewell about the defining moments of her early career and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of sudden success.
Indian Summers
With Donald Macleod. Jean-Philippe Rameau was 50 before achieving his first operatic success. Before that, Rameau, a Burgundian, had struggled to break into Parisian musical circles as an organist and theoretician. He died in 1764 aged 81 and may have met Mozart the previous year, when the infant prodigy was touring Europe. Music includes: Rameau Coulez , Ondes (Nais)
English Bach Festival Chorus and Baroque Orchestra, conductor Nicholas McGegan Rameau Anacreon (Scene 3)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Marc Minkowski
Gilles Requiem (Agnus Dei) Peter Kooy (bass), Choir and Orchestra of La Chapelle Royale, conductor Philippe Herreweghe Debussy Hommage a Rameau (Images) Aldo Ciccolini (piano)
This second programme includes a previously unperformed work dating from the composer's maturity. The piece has been specially recorded for the programme, and Paul Guinery compares it with the shorter, more familiar version.
Violin Sonata No 1 Tasmin Little,
Piers Lane (piano)
Poem of Life and Love (first performance) BBC Concert
Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley A Song of Summer Halle Orchestra , conductor Vernon Handley
Repeated next Tuesday 12 midnight
John Toal introduces a concert given earlier this week in Belfast's
Waterfront Hall.
Maggini Quartet
Britten Three Divertimenti
Mozart String Quartet in E flat, K428 Moeran String Quartet in E flat
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductors Jerzy Maksymiuk and Osmo Vanska ,
Anthony Marwood (violin)
Sibelius Spring Song; Wood Nymph Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor Glinka Kamarinskaya
Sibelius Symphony No 7
Schubert Voices
The songs of Schubert are a great challenge to any lieder singer. In the first of two programmes, lain
Burnside trawls through 75 years of recordings by singers as varied as Schumann, Schwarzkopf, Pears and Schreier in search of the ultimate
Schubert performance.
Repeated from yesterday 10pm
Mechanical Music
Verity Sharp talks to Rex Lawson about the Duo-Art system of player piano and the music that can be played on it. Repeat
Sean Rafferty is joined by tenor
Bonaventura Bottone. Music includes
Janacek's String Quartet No 1 (Kreutzer Sonata) played by the Talich Quartet, and Debussy's Iberia played by the Montreal Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit.
Borodin Quartet
The first of four concerts by the Borodin Quartet, given in January in St George 's, Brandon Hill , Bristol. Tchaikovsky String Quartet Movement in B flat;
String Quartet No 1 in D, Op 11 Brahms String Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 51 No 1
Radio Poems
2: Michael Hofmann : Tea for My
Father. A sequence of poems on the death of the poet's father, the novelist Gert Hofmann.
Fiona Taikington introduces a concert given on Sunday in the Queen
Elizabeth Hall , London, as part of the Towards the Millennium festival.
Conductor James Wood ,
London Sinfonietta Voices
Sound Intermedia
Reich Tehillim
Harvey Bhakti
As a major retrospective of the work of Jackson Pollock arrives in Britain,
Richard Coles and guests review the work and influence of one of the defining figures of 20th-century art.
And 30 years after the publication of her seminal work The Female
Eunuch, Germaine Greer talks about her return to the feminist theme in The Whole Woman.
Producer Tanya Hudson
Alyn Shipton presents the second part of a concert by the Allan Ganley Big Band.
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Isabelle Poulenard (soprano) and the Ricercar Consort , director
Henri Ledroit , perform cantatas from 17th-century France. Works by Marais, Huygens, Lully, Monteclair, Couperin and Clerambault
2.10 Beethoven Leonore Overture
No 3 Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Anton Nanut
2.25 Chabrier Espana
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
2.40 Ibert Flute Concerto
Petri Alanko ,
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
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 Glazunov Chant du Menestrel
Shauna Rolston (cello),
Calgary Philharmonic/Bernardi
5.10 Mozart Violin Concerto No 1 in B flat, K207 Benjamin Schmid ,
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Adam Fischer
5.30 Giovanni de Macque Bacciami Vita Mia Maita Arruabarrena
(soprano), Mira Valenta (contralto), Josep Benet and Marius van Altena (tenors), Anneke Pols and Richte van der Meer (viols)/Konrad Junghanel (lute)
5.50 Gregorio Huet Fantasia Toyohiko Satoh (lute)
