Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including after 6.00 Britten's Night Mail featuring Nigel Hawthorne with the Nash Ensemble ; after 7.00 Beethoven's Piano Sonata no 21 in C
(Waldstein); and after 8.00
Monteverdi's motet Beatus Vir.
Beethoven Abroad
Presented by Misha Donat.
5: France. Beethoven's last violin sonata was written for the French player Pierre Rode , and his last quartet was commissioned by the Parisian publisher Moritz Schlesinger. Violin Sonata in G, Op 96 Arthur Grumiaux , Clara Haskil (piano) String Quartet in F, Op 135 Juilliard Quartet
Lloyd Newson
Director Lloyd Newson continues his preparations for DV8 Physical Theatre's new production The Happiest Days of My Life.
With Peter Hobday.
Faure Mirages, Op 113 - Gerard Souzay (baritone), Dalton Baldwin (piano)
10.19 Bach Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV547 - Simon Preston (organ)
10.29 Shostakovich Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings - Eileen Joyce (piano),
Arthur Lockwood (trumpet), Halle Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult
10.50 Faure L 'Horizon Chimerique - Francois Le Roux (baritone), Jeff Cohen (piano)
11.00 Haydn Symphony No 76 in E flat - Hanover Band, conductor Roy Goodman
Mozart 1784
In the last of this week's programmes Geoff Baskerville presents music written by Mozart during 1784, featuring performances given last week at the Edinburgh International Festival and new recordings by a young Norwegian quartet. When Mozart entered his quintet for piano and wind into his catalogue, he added the short but telling note, "the best work I have composed."
Andras Schiff (piano/director), Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Chamber Orchestra of Europe soloists: Douglas Boyd (oboe),
Richard Hosford (clarinet), Matthew Wilkie (bassoon), Jonathan Williams (horn), Vertavo Quartet
Quintet in E flat for piano and wind, K452; String Quartet in G, K387; Piano Concerto No 19 in F, K459
Todd Crowe (piano)
Haydn Sonata in F, H XVI 23 Bartok Four Dirges
Haydn Sonata in E flat, H XVI 49 Repeat
Another chance to hear last Friday's Prom, which featured three last symphonies of tantalisingly different styles, moods and content.
Tchaikovsky ends his in despair with conscious finality, while Sibelius achieves a glorious serenity, and Lutoslawski takes a journey of such optimistic exploration it belies any feeling that he was near the end of his creative life.
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Mark Wigglesworth
Sibelius Symphony No 7
Lutoslawski Symphony No 4
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique)
Early Movers
In the last of his conversations with leading figures from the world of early music, Christopher Cook talks to the soprano Emma Kirkby. Producer Lindsay Kemp
Sean Rafferty examines the life of Van Dyck as a major exhibition celebrating the 400th anniversary of the painter's birth opens at London's Royal Academy of Art. Music includes Schubert's The Shepherd on the Rock, D965, and Vaughan Williams 's Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus.
Tonight's Prom features music from the last year of Mozart's life, with the "yearning for spring" of his final piano concerto, and the overture to La Clemenza di
Tito. Meanwhile, as we look forward to a new millennium, Beethoven triumphantly affirms an optimistic vision of the unity of mankind in his great last symphony.
Alfred Brendel (piano), Janice Watson (soprano), Petra Lang (mezzo),
Robert Dean Smith (tenor), Marcus Jupither (bass), London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
Mozart Overture: La Clemenza di Tito; Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat, K 595
8.10 Performing Art
In the last of eight postcards from the Victoria and Albert Museum exploring the shared worlds of art and music, Christopher Cook talks to Sorrel Hershberg about Koloman Moser 's Lady's Writing Desk and Armchair.
8.30 Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral)
Repeated Friday 17 September 2pm
BECKETT FESTIVAL
The Other Beckett
In the last of four programmes celebrating the fiction and poetry of Samuel Beckett , Christopher Ricks introduces and reads from the poetry and late fiction of Samuel Beckett , including a complete reading of the prose-poem Still.
BECKETT FESTIVAL
As part of the Radio 3 Beckett season, Verity Sharp introduces a concert performance of an opera based on Beckett's play Krapp's
Last Tape. composed in collaboration with the author.
Marcel Mihalovici Krapp , or The Last Tape
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Diego Mason
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Russell Davies presents a continuing history of jazz.
35: The Blue Note Sound. Although the history of recorded jazz is not the same thing as the history of jazz itself, we depend on records for evidence of musical life beyond the recording studio. Jazz was a puzzling accident for most recording executives, but the founders of the Blue Note label and their successors were committed to the music, and developed a design idiom to match. Repeated from Saturday 6pm
With Susan Sharpe.
Wagner Sachs monologue: (The Mastersingers of Nuremburg)
Tomislav Neralic (bass), Zagreb Philharmonic, Miro Belamaric
12.10am Liszt Ballade No 2 in B minor Erik Suler (piano)
12.25 Nielsen Symphonic Poem:
Pan and Syrinx Danish National RSO, conductor Michael Schonwandt
12.35 Schubert Das Grab , D377; Die Einsiedelei, D337; Der
Entfernten, D331; Das Dofchen , D598 Lothar Odinius and Christian Eisner
(tenors), Oliver Widmer (baritone), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
12.50 Chopin Scherzo No 2 in B flat, Op 31 Ronald Brautigam (piano)
1.00 Wagner Act 2: Siegfried
RAI National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eliahu inbal
2.20 Goldberg, attrib Bach Sonata in C for two violins and basso continuo Musica Petropolitana
2.30 Mozart String Quartet in C.
K465 (Dissonance) Bartok Quartet
3.00 Jan Raas Four Improvisations The Composer (organ)
3.05 Paul Kletzki Symphony No 2 in G minor Rene Koch (baritone),
Berne SO, conductor Dimitri Kitajenko.
3.45 Julius Rontgen Motet: Wieder den Frieden, Klage-, Anklage, und
Trost Gesang Netherlands Chamber Choir, conductor Uwe Gronostay
3.55 Gideon Klein Piano Sonata
Ed Spanjaard
4.10 Harry Somers Suite for harp and chamber orchestra
Jennifer Swartz , National Arts Centre
Orchestra, conductor Victor Feldbrill
4.35 Tchaikovsky Trois Souvenirs d'un Lieu Cher, Op 42 Theo Muller (violin), David Percy (piano)
4.50 Henry Balfour Gardiner Evening Hymn Vancouver Bach Choir,
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, conductor Bruce Pullan
5.00 Bree Allegro for four string quartets Viotta Ensemble, conductor Viktor Liberman
5.10 Kodaly Nausikaa (Four songs for voice and piano) Ilona Tokody (soprano), Imre Rohman (piano)
5.15 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 Jeno Jando (piano)
5.25 CPE Bach Flute Concerto In A, Wql68 Robert Aitken
5.50 Sweelinck Ballo del Granduca
Leo van Doesclaar (organ)
