Petroc Trelawny previews this year's Cardiff Singer of the World contest as the successful candidates for the competition are announced today. Music includes Vivaldi's Flute
Concerto in D, Op 10 No 3 (Goldfinch).
With Peter Hobday.
Brahms Tragic Overture
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre Monteux
9.13 Godowsky Pastorale in G (after Corelli); Minuet in G minor (after
Rameau) Konstantin Scherbakov (piano)
9.24 Tippett Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli
Yehudi Menuhin and Robert Masters
(violins), Derek Simpson (cello), Bath Festival Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
10.43 Mendelssohn Variations
Concertantes, Op 17 Richard Lester (cello), Susan Tomes (piano)
10.53 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring Paris Orchestra, conductor Pierre Monteux
Kyung-Wha Chung
Korean violinist Kyung-Wha Chung made her debut as a concerto soloist at the age of nine. More than 40 years later, she talks to
Joan Bakewell about a life spent on the concert platforms of the world working with the great orchestras and conductors - among them
Previn, Solti, Kondrashin and Kempe.
Indian Summers
With Donald Macleod.
Giuseppe Verdi was famously persuaded out of virtual retirement by his younger collaborator, Arrigo Boito. After the hugely successful premiere of Aida in 1871, Verdi withdrew to his country estate, and it was to be 15 years before the unveiling of his final pair of operatic masterpieces. Music includes:
String Quartet in E minor (3rd mvt) Juilliard Quartet
Otello (Love duet)
National Philharmonic, conductor James Levine
Stabat Mater (Four Sacred Pieces) Hungarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Pier Giorgio Morandi Falstaff (opening scene)
Soloists, Hungarian State Opera
Orchestra, conductor Will Humburg
Violin Sonata No 2 Tasmin Little, Piers Lane (piano)
Suite: Irmelin BBC Scottish SO, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk
Cynara John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor Charles Groves
A Song before Sunrise RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham
Repeated next Wednesday 12 midnight See also 7.30pm
A concert given at last year's
Aldeburgh Festival by Ilya Itin (piano). Scriabin Etudes, Op 8 Nos 2 and 4; Piano Sonata No 2 (Sonata-Fantasia); Two Poems, Op 32
Rachmaninov Melody in E, Op 3 No 3; Moment Musical in E flat minor,
Op 16 No 2; Daisies, Op 38 No 3; Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Op 36 (revised version) Repeat
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor David Atherton , Gyorgy Pauk (violin)
Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast) Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite No 1 Bartok Violin Concerto No 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2 in C minor (Little Russian) (revised version)
From Norwich Cathedral.
Introit: In Manus Tuas (Cann)
Responses (Mitchell)
Psalms 53, 54, 55 (Goss, Wesley, Cooper, Bairstow)
First Lesson: Jeremiah 24
Office Hymn: Now Is the Healing Time (Jena)
Canticles: Howells in B minor
Second Lesson: John 9, w 24-end
Anthem: When David Heard (Tomkins) Hymn: Lord Jesus, Think on Me (Southwell)
Organ Voluntary: Psalm Prelude, Set 1 No 1 (Howells)
Organist and master of the music David Dunnett. Assistant organist Katherine Dienes.
Sean Rafferty celebrates the 250th anniversary of librettist
Lorenzo da Ponte. Music includes Glinka's Viola
Sonata in D minor performed by Yuri Bashmet and Mikhail Muntian
(piano), and Haydn's Symphony
No 96 in D (Miracle) played by the Orchestra of the 18th Century, director Frans Bruggen.
The Magic Fountain
Scottish Opera gives the British stage premiere of Delius's colourful interpretation of themes freely drawn from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
Love, death, transfiguration, poison, fateful voyages, wise men and impetuous lovers all play a part in this mythic tale of a quest for the fountain of youth set in the Florida
Everglades. This performance, given last Saturday in the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, is introduced by Linda Ormiston.
Scottish Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Armstrong
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Penny Gore introduces a recital by Tasmin Little (violin) and Piers Lane (piano), including a famous
Beethoven sonata, Kreisler's virtuosic Praeludium and Allegro written in the style of Pugnani, and a sequence of lollipops.
Krelsler Praeludium and Allegro
Beethoven Violin Sonata in F, Op 24 (Spring)
Elgar Salut damour
Falla Spanish Dance (La Vida Breve) Ponce, arr Heifetz Estrellita Producer Nigel Wilkinson Repeated tomorrow 4pm
Though most of the crew and cast had never made a film, the Brazilian film Central Station, which centres on the story of a cynical middle-aged writer and an orphaned boy, has been picking up around the world. Laura Cumming discusses this powerful portrait of modern Brazil as it opens in Britain.
Producer Lawrence Pollard
Alyn Shipton presents more from the Allan Ganley Big Band.
Gerard McBurney explores music either inspired by or written for the theatre. He also features some of the composer's songs and chamber and instrumental miniatures.
The Tempest BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vassily Sinaisky
Children's Album, Op 39: Nos 1-6 Olli Mustonen (piano)
Oh, If Only You Could for One Moment, Op 38 No 4
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone), Mikhail Arkadiev (piano)
Mazeppa (Act 2, scene 2) Sergei Leiferkus (baritone),
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Repeated from last Wednesday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano), Henryk Szeryng (violin), Polish
National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jan Krenz Mozart Piano
Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466
Berg Violin Concerto
1.55 Brahms Der Tod , Das 1st die Kuhle Nacht, Op 96 No 1 Kevin McMillan (baritone), Michael McMahon (piano)
2.00 Brahms Chorale Preludes, Op 122 Olli Porthan (organ)
2.30 Rued Langgaard Symphony No 4 (Fall of the Leaf) Danish
National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Schonwandt
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 Schmelzer Lamento sopra la Morte Ferdinandi Ill Les Elements
5.05 Szymanowski Piano Sonata No 3, Op 36 Jerzy Godziszewski
5.30 Haydn Symphony No 8 in G (Le Soir) Romanian RCO/Ludovic Bacs
5.50 Biber Sonata No 12 in C (Sonatae Tam Aris quam Aulis Servientes) Members of Collegium Aureum
