Petroc Trelawy presents music and arts news, including a review of Handel's Semele at English National Opera after a highly acclaimed run at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Music includes after 7.00 Beethoven's
Piano Trio in E flat, WoO 38, and after 8.00 Britten's Simple Symphony.
With Peter Hobday.
Haydn Nottumo No 1 in C, H II 25 Marten Root (flute),
Michael Nieseman (oboe), Mozzafiato, Archibudelli
9.11 Corelli Concerto Grosso in F, Op 6 No 2
Ensemble 415, director Chiara Banchini (violin)
9.24 Beethoven Violin Sonata in G,
Op 30 No 3
Arthur Grumiaux , Clara Haskil (piano)
9.42 Hindemrth Kammermusik ,
Op 24 No 1
Ronald Brautigam (piano),
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
9.58 Telemann Overture-Suite in F
(Alster-Echo)
Collegium Musicum 90, director Simon Standage (violin)
Gwyneth
Jones Joan Bakewell talks to
Gwyneth Jones about the success of her early career and how two lucky breaks at Covent Garden in Verdi's // Trovatore and Beethoven's Fidelio helped establish her as a soprano on the world operatic stage.
Five Great Rivers
With Donald Macleod.
2: The Thames. Music includes:
Verdi Falstaff (excerpt)
Giuseppe Taddei (baritone), Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan Hook, arr Barlow The Lass of Richmond Hill
John Potter (tenor), Broadside Band Purcell Dido and Aeneas (Prelude; Sailors' Chorus)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
Coates Westminster (A London Suite)
London Philharmonic, conducted by the Composer
Dyson Cantata: In Honour of the City (excerpt)
Royal College of Music Chamber Choir, Royal Philharmonic, conductor David Willcocks
Walton Wapping Old Stairs (A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table)
Jill Gomez (soprano), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
With David Byers.
2: Stanford the Professor
"But Mr Villiers Stanford cannot be dismissed as merely the Irish variety of the professorial species ... you find certain traces of a talent for composition, which is precisely what the ordinary professor, with all his grammatical and historical accomplishments, utterly lacks." (George Bernard Shaw ) The Martyrdom
London Philharmonic, conductor Adrian Boult
Symphony No 7 Ulster Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley
From the New World
Another in the series of recitals given last year at St George's, Brandon Hill , Bristol, featuring music with a strong American bias. Introduced by Chris de Souza.
Leslie Newman (flute), Mark van de Wiel (clarinet), John Lenehan (piano) Vllla-Lobos Choro No 2 for Flute and Clarinet
Krenek Suite for Clarinet and Piano,
Op 148
Griffes Poem for Flute and Piano
Bernstein Clarinet Sonata
Lowell Uebermann Flute Sonata
Calixa Lavallee The Butterfly Repeat
Liszt Les Preludes
Conductor Ion Marin
Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations (revised version)
Conductor Grant Llewellyn, Robert Cohen (cello)
Strauss Four Last Songs; Morgen
Conductor Ion Marin, Barbara Hendricks (soprano)
Brahms Symphony No 1 in C minor Conductor Ion Marin
Barbara Bonney (soprano). Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Schubert Kennst Du Das Land;
Heiss Mich Nicht Reden ; So
Lasst Mich Scheinen ; Nur Wer die
Sehnsucht Kennt
Mendelssohn Neue Liebe; Die
Liebende Schreibt ; Gondollied; Die Mainacht; Suleika; Ach, Um
Deine Feuchten Schwingen ; Suleika; Was Bedeutet die Bewegung Wolf Heiss Mich Nicht Reden: Nur
Wer die Sehnsucht Kennt ; So
Lasst Mich Scheinen ; Kennst Du Das Land Producer Tony Sellors
With Sean Rafferty. Music includes Uszt's Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat performed by Sviatoslav Richter.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Another concert in the month-long celebration of British postwar music, Endless Parade. Tonight, an invitation concert given on Sunday in Studio One, Maida Vale.
Alison Wells (soprano), Kim Porter (mezzo),
Music Projects London, conductor Richard Bernas
Cardew Treatise (excerpt)
Howard Skempton Chamber Concerto
James Dillon Come Live with Me
Alexander Goehr The Deluge Colin Matthews Suns Dance Producer Edward Blakeman
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Private View
Nicholas Ward Jackson explores the contemporary art world. Here he visits the artist Peter Joseph 's studio near Stroud and explores how the light and landscape of the Cotswolds continues to inform Joseph's work.
Repeat
A concert of early-Baroque music given last year at the Birmingham Oratory. Choral and instrumental music by composers who worked in Venice or were inspired by the city. The programme features works by Schutz and Hassler, and culminates in Giovanni Gabriell 's sumptuous 14-part setting of the Magnificat.
Ex Cathedra, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, David Ponsford
(organ), conductor Jeffrey Skidmore
Richard Coles talks to historian
Jonathan Spence , whose new book, The Chan's Great Continent, explores seven centuries of Western thought on China. Plus news from tonight's opening of Tales from Ovid. as the RSC put Ted Hughes 's acclaimed versions of Ovid's
Metamorphoses on stage. Producer Anthony Denselow
In the first of a two-part conversation with Alyn Shipton , Oscar Peterson looks back at his long career. He recalls his early days in a duo with bassist Ray Brown and then his famous trios, first with guitarist Herb Ellis and later with a succession of famous drummers. He also recalls his New York debut for Norman Granz.
With Donald Macleod.
12.05am Biber Scordatura Sonata
12.20 Forqueray La Morangis ou la Plissay
1230 Haydn Sonata in C minor, H XVI 20
12.45 Weber Clarinet Concertino in Eflat
1.00 Music of the Original Academy of Ancient Music
Handel Farewell Ye Limpid Springs and Floods (Jephta); Piangero la
Sorte Mia. Si Crudele (Giulio Cesare ) Geminiani Concerto in D, Op 7 No 1 Handel Perche Viva il Caro Sposo
(Rodrigo); Oft on a Plat of Rising Ground (L 'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato) Unico van Wassenaer Concerto
Armonico No 5 in B flat
Geminiani Concerto in A, Op 7 No 6 Handel As Cheers the Sun (Joshua): Gentle Morpheus, Son of Night (Alceste); Dica il Falso, Dica il Vero (Alessandro) Vivaldi Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera
2.25 Schubert 11 Landier, D366
2.35 Brahms Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108
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 Special Edition
4.30 Szymanowski String Quartet No 2. Op 56
4.45 Karl Doppler Souvenir de Prague, Op 24
5.05 Toivo Kulla Sinfonia (Jupiter)
5.15 Mozart Symphony No 41 in C, K551 (Jupiter)
5.50 Schubert 12 Ecossaises, D299
