This week Penny Gore illuminates certain pieces of music with some of the more entertaining examples of musical criticism contained within Nicolas Slonimsky 's Lexicon of Musical Invective.
7.00-8.30: Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV1043 Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), ECO, director Salvatore Accardo (violin) Copland El Salon Mexico
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Leonard Bernstein Wagner Overture: Tannhauser
Berlin PO, conductor Claudio Abbado
8.30-10.00: Bartok Rhapsody No 1
Janos Starker (cello), Gyorgy Sebok (paino) Brahms Symphony No 1 in C minor Scottish
Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras Schumann Allegro in B minor, Op 8 Maurizio Pollini (piano)

With Jonathan Swain. Featuring Bax symphonies and recordings by Leonard Bernstein. Copland Fanfare for the Common Man
New York PO, conductor Leonard Bernstein
10.05 Bax Symphony No 1
LPO, conductor Myer Fredman
10.40 Haydn String Quartet in D minor, Op 103 Amadeus Quartet
10.50 Bach In Deepest Grief, Here Sit We Weeping (St Matthew Passion, BWV244)
Collegiate Chorale, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Leonard Bernstein
11.00 Schubert Andantino Varie , D823
Sviatoslav Richter and Benjamin Britten (piano duet)
11.10 Copland Symphony No 3
New York PO, conductor Leonard Bernstein Humphrey Burton on Bernstein: page 121

With Humphrey Burton.
1/5. "That is what I feel I write best, what I ought to do and what I most enjoy"
(Bernstein, 1953). This week Leonard Bernstein 's biographer Humphrey Burton introduces highlights of the composer's music for
Broadway. With excerpts from the Jerome Robbins ballet Fancy Free (1944), the musical On the Town (1944) and the 1950 production of JM Barrie's play Peter Pan , for which Bernstein wrote the songs. With contributions from, among others, Betty Comden and Adolph Green , Bernstein's collaborators and lifelong friends.
Repeated from yesterday at 12 midnight
Humphrey Burton on Bernstein: page 121

Live from London's Wigmore Hall, presented by Sean Rafferty. Paul Lewis (piano)
Beethoven Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 31 No 3; Piano Sonata in F minor, Op 57 (Appassionata)
See also Barenboim on Beethoven tonight at 7.05pm on BBC4, and Beethoven on Friday at 9pm on BBC2
John Suchet on his love of Beethoven: page 32

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
This week featuring performances of Bernstein's music and of key works that he premiered or championed. Presented by Tommy Pearson. Wagner Prelude: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Conductor Martyn Brabbins
Strauss Don Quixote Scott Dickinson (viola), Bruno Weinmeister (cello), conductor Heinrich Schiff
Mahler Symphony No 4 LynneDawson (soprano), conductor Osmo Vanska

Tommy Pearson and Edward Seckerson discuss Bernstein's "On the Town", "Candide", "Trouble in Tahiti" and "West Side Story" as stage works, and in their adaptations for TV and cinema. Plus Bernstein's one-and-only film score, "On the Waterfront".

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(Humphrey Burton on Bernstein: page 121)

An update of news from the arts world, with studio guests and a selection of music, with Sean Rafferty.

Bernstein Season
The first in a week of concerts celebrating the life and music of Leonard Bernstein. Recorded in March at St David's Hall,
Cardiff. Presented by Tommy Pearson and Humphrey Burton.
Sarah Nicolls (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Eric Stern Bernstein Divertimento
John Adams The Chairman Dances Rosza Theme, Variations and Finale Bernstein Overture: Candide;
Symphony No 2 (The Age of Anxiety)
Humphrey Burton on Bernstein: page 121

True Life Stories Ian Brown (piano)

Africa Lives on the BBC
Is the current focus on Africa in the arts and media succeeding in slipping the shackles of traditional European ways of thinking about the continent, or is our viewpoint still influenced by the ideas that grew alongside 19th-century colonialism? Philip Dodd chairs a discussion. Producer Ariane Koek

Tracks from Michael Nyman 's new album The Piano Sings, plus Interludes for prepared piano by John Cage , and a piece for piano and traditional Thai ensemble played by Fong Naam. Introduced by Shaheera Asante.

2/5. Humphrey Burton presents more music from Bernstein's Broadway years, including excerpts from the one-act opera Trouble in Tahiti (1952), a study in domestic discord composed on his honeymoon, and Wonderful Town (1953), a nostalgic evocation of New York's Greenwich Village in the swing era, starring
Rosalind Russell. Guests include Seymour Lipkin , who conducted the premiere of Tahiti, and producer Harold Prince who worked as a stage manager on Wonderful Town. Repeated tomorrow at 12 noon

With Jonathan Swain.
Schubert Wind Octet in F, D803 1.55 Mahler Symphony No 6 3.15 Martinu Four Madrigals 3.25
Zeljenka Capriccio for piano 3.30 Nielsen Wind Quintet, Op 43
4.00 Oskar Lindberq Morgonen ; Man Borde Inte Sova
4.05 Suppe Overture: Light Cavalry
4.15 Mozart Piano Sonata in C, K545 4.35 Abel Symphony in E, Op 10 No 14.45 Hummel Rondo
5.00 Sauguet La Nuit 5.10 Faure Nocturne in B minor, Op 97 5.15 O'Neill La Belle Dame sans Merci
5.40 Szymanowski Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor
5.45 Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage 6.00 A Thomas 0 Vin , Dissipe Ma Tristesse (Hamlet) 6.05 Ernst Fabritius Violin Concerto
6.35 Chopin Rondo a la Mazur in F, Op 5
6.40 Maurice Suite: Tableaux de Provence