Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including after 7.00 Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B flat from book 1 of The Well-Tempered Clavier; and after 8.00 Kodaly's suite Hary Janos.
With Peter Hobday.
Holst first Suite in E flat
RAF Central Band, conductor Wing Commander Eric Banks
9.11 Telemann Overture-Suite in A minor
Frans Bruggen (recorder),
Vienna Concentus Musicus, director Nikolaus Harnoncourt
9.41 Beethoven Piano Sonata in E flat. Op 31 No 3 Clara Haskil
10.03 Wilbye Draw On, Sweet Night Vautor Mother , / Will Have a Husband
Oxford Camerata, director Jeremy Summerly
10.11 Corelli Concerto Grosso in F,
Op 6 No 6
Accademia Bizantina, director Carlo Chiarappa (violin)
Gwyneth Jones
Thirty-seven years into her career, Gwyneth Jones explains to Joan Bakewell how she still wishes to keep on singing and enter new territories. She reveals her plans for renovating a castle in South Wales owned by Adelina Patti and converting it into a music centre.
With Donald Macleod.
Including excerpts from:
Rodgers...Mississippi River Blues - Jimmie Rogers (vocal)
Coleridge-Taylor...Hiawatha - Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, conductor Kenneth Alwyn
Handy...St Louis Blues - Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
Thomson...Suite: The River - Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, conductor Neville Marriner
Gottschalk...Le Bananier - Philip Martin (piano)
Kern...Ol' Man River (Showboat) - Soloists, London Sinfonietta, conductor John McGlinn
David Byers continues his week exploring the music of Charles Villiers Stanford.
5: Stanford and the War
"The war of 1914 has brought about a convulsion in the world of music.
The results which will ensue are ... hard to forecast.... None of the arts has escaped, but music has suffered the most heavily of all." (Stanford) For Lo, I Raise Up; Magnificat BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury Irish Rhapsody No 5
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley
A concert from last year's Bath
Festival. Introduced by Chris de Souza. Vertavo Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 33 No 6 Dvorak Cypresses
Nielsen String Quartet No 1, Op 13 Repeat
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Mark Wigglesworth , Steven Isserlis (cello)
Musorgsky, compl Shostakovich Khovanshchina (Prelude to Act 1) Britten Sinfonia da Requiem
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique)
With the Academy of Ancient Music celebrating its 25th-anniversary season this week,
Robert Hollingworth is joined in the studio by Christopher Hogwood - founder of the Academy of Ancient Music, one of Britain's first period instrument orchestras - to introduce influential recordings from the orchestra's first decade. Including works by Handel, Mozart and Vivaldi, and, from the BBC archives, Telemann's rarely heard short oratorio Der Messias.
Producer Lindsay Kemp
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Sean Rafferty presents music and interviews for the early evening. Music tonight includes Bach's
Harpsichord Concerto in F minor, BWV1065, played by Christophe Rousset and the Academy of Ancient Music, director
Christopher Hogwood : and the Suite from
Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen.
A concert given earlier this week in City Hall, Newcastle. Introduced by Humphrey Carpenter and including the first performance in the united
Kingdom of Robin Holloway 's Double Bass Concerto.
Duncan McTier (double bass), Northern Sinfonia, director lona Brown (violin)
Britten Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Robin Holloway Double Bass
Concerto (first UK performance) Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish)
Producer Mark Rowlinson
Private View
Nicholas Ward Jackson concludes his exploration of the contemporary art world. Tonight, he talks to sculptor Richard Wentworth about the exhibition Thinking Aloud.
Devised by Wentworth, the show brings together a bizarre collection of art objects and artefacts, including paintings by Churchill, a wooden mole trap, a tally stick from the Bank of England, as well as works by Gilbert and George and Rachel Whiteread. Repeat
English Suite No 1 in A, BWV806 Murray Perahia (piano)
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Verity Sharp presents highlights from the State of the Nation weekend on London's South Bank, including new works by the young British composers Joe Duddell ,
Morgan Hayes , Paul Newland and Rebecca Saunders played by the London
Sinfonietta - as well as discussions and workshops on various aspects ol new music in the UK today. Producer Philip Tagney
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Russell Davies presents a history of jazz, from its earliest stirrings to the end of the millennium.
16: Rhythm Is Our Business. Russell Davies reaches the early thirties, a time when the big bands were just starting to gravitate towards swing. It was in 1932 that Duke Ellington recorded It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing, but it was
Fletcher Henderson 's Honeysuckle Rose, recorded in the same year, that definitively displayed the pantherish, forward-leaning quality of the new guitar and string bass rhythm section on which swing was built. Other key figures who helped the idea of swing to take off were Jimmy Lunceford and Benny Moten , in whose Kansas City Orchestra featured a young pianist called Count Basie. Repeated from Saturday 6pm
Donald Macleod presents the overnight music miscellany, including a rarely performed Handel opera.
12.05am Clerambault Cantata: Pirame et Tisbe
12.20 Mozart Oboe Concerto in C, K314
12.45 Chopin Andante and Grand Valse Brilliante
1.00 Handel Flavio, Re de Longobardi
Tragic, comic and satirical by turns, Handel's opera is based on a libretto taken from Corneille's tragedy Le Cid combined with an episode drawn from Dark Age Lombardy.
Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini
3.40 Beethoven Piano Sonata in A flat, Op 26
4.00 Bartok Symphony in E flat
4.35 Guirait de Bomelh No Pose Sofrir c'a la Dolor; Reis Glorios, Verais Luas e Clartatz
4.50 Auber, transcr Liszt La Muette de Portici
5.05 Strauss An dem Baum Daphne
5.20 Mozart Symphony No 36 in C, K425 (Linz) - Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, conductor Adam Fischer
5.50 Bach Fantasia in A minor, BWV922
