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Murray Perahia and Bernard Haitink have a musical rapport that has enhanced countless celebrated performances. Tonight they are reunited as Perahia returns to the Proms for the first time in 20 years for one of Mozart's greatest piano concertos, No. 24 in C minor.
It is followed by Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. While writing it, Shostakovich was denounced in a 1936 Pravda editorial entitled "Muddle Instead Of Music". He continued composing in private, though this work had to wait 25 years – after the death of Stalin – before it was first heard in 1961.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Kevin Bee
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
The Lebrecht Interview – Sir Neville Marriner
Tuesday 9 September
9.45-10.30pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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Sir Neville Marriner is mainly known as the conductor behind the celebrated chamber orchestra The Academy Of St Martin-in-the-Fields, which celebrates its 50th birthday next year. With a repertoire from the Baroque to the 20th century, it is the most extensively recorded chamber orchestra in the world.
Marriner began his musical career as a violinist working in chamber music and performing with most of the London orchestras and played under Karajan, Furtwangler and Toscanini among others.
He founded the Academy in 1959 and at first led the orchestra as its concertmaster as it didn't have a conductor. This changed when Marriner assumed this role and, under the guidance of his mentor Pierre Monteux, this aspect of his work increased. Marriner later held music director positions with orchestras in Los Angeles, Minnesota and Stuttgart. But he continued to work with the Academy, which always attracted major names among soloists including Brendel and Perahia. Now in his 85th year, Sir Neville talks to Norman Lebrecht about his career at his home in Dorset.
Presenter/Norman Lebrecht, Producer/Tony Cheevers
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
The Essay-
It's Big And It's Beautiful:
The Rise Of Retro Tech
Ep 2/4
Monday 8 to Thursday 11 September
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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In this second Essay, archaeologist Christine Finn goes to the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in Shropshire where she proposes that being a "Luddite" is no bad thing. Far from closing their eyes to progress, she argues that this group of workers grouped together in opposition because they had prescient ideas about the consequences of the mechanical age. She examines whether the "Luddites" of today – those who refuse to embrace ever newer, ever smaller technologies – are similarly prescient.
Presenter/Christine Finn, Producer/Marya Burgess
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 9 September 2008 |
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London's Fashion Spectacular Ep 1/2
Tuesday 9 September
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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For years London fashion was perceived as the "inventive but poor relation" of Paris and Milan. But that is no longer the case. In London Fashion Week, journalist and broadcaster Bronwyn Cosgrave finds out why London is now considered by many to be the flaming core of the fashion world and asks whether that success can be sustained.
A new generation of designers producing commercially triumphant collections at ateliers from up-market Mayfair to hip Notting Hill and the gritty East End, has made London the centre of international style. Bronwyn talks to top talent Erdem, Christopher Kane, Henry Holland and Fashion Fringe winners Aminaka Wilmont.
She also explores the spectacular re-writing of many British brands, notably Burberry, Aquascutum, Daks Simpson, and Jaeger, into world-class players which has invigorated the London fashion scene. Sir Phillip Green accounts for the phenomenal success of Topshop's May launch of an affordable signature High Street collection by Kate Moss, which has brought edgy London fashion to the global masses.
Bronwyn also looks at the unparalleled support of the British "super-editors" and staff who control the world's most influential fashion magazines and London's excellent design training. She discovers Fashion Fringe, an annual design contest, identifying young British talent. The award is £100,000, plus a mentoring programme, a rent-free London studio and publicist for a year.
Finally, Bronwyn and contributors look at what holds back British fashion – the lack of a manufacturing base and the impact of the credit crunch.
Presenter/Bronwyn Cosgrave, Producer/Susan Marling
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
The Life And Times Of The Tambourine
Tuesday 9 September
1.30-2.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Huw Williams's avowed intent is to rehabilitate the tambourine in the instrumental food chain. In The Life And Times Of The Tambourine, he reveals how a much-maligned instrument is the music industry's best-kept secret.
From Biblical times to Stravinsky to the Sugababes, the tambourine has added colour and rhythm to compositions and life to ceremonies.
In the programme, live music from the Yemen, South Africa and Afghanistan mingles with Motown. And, at the Birmingham Citadel of the Salvation Army, Huw is asked to join in as the timbrel group practise their newest routine.
Drummer Erik Stams demonstrates the tambourine's place in pop music; multi-instrumentalist Pete Zorn shows the wrong way to play; and the joy of the classical repertoire is described by percussionist Andrea Porter, explaining Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol and Stravinsky's instruction to players to drop their tambourines in Petrouchka.
Above all, Huw discovers how the tambourine can lift or ruin a song. As Craig Reid, one half of The Proclaimers, warns: "The tambourine is the most dangerous instrument in the world, because if you get it wrong everyone knows."
Presenter/Huw Williams, Producer/Steve Groves
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Afternoon Play – Blue Sky Thinking
Tuesday 9 September
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Ben Lewis's psychological drama about love and identity stars Nicola Stapleton and Samuel Roukin.
Karen is a feisty young Australian living in Brighton with her boyfriend. They're about to marry and emigrate. But, as they're counting down the days, a scrawny-looking stranger starts hanging around and their happy life begins to fall apart, taking Karen with it.
Ben Lewis writes and performs with the award-winning company Inspector Sands. Their last play, Hysteria, was short-listed for the Carol Tambor Award and won a Total Theatre Award.
The cast includes Freddy White, Catherine Shepherd, Sandra Voe and Ben Lewis.
Producer/Kirsty Williams
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
The Politics Of Chinese Meditation
Tuesday 9 September
8.00-8.30pm BBC RADIO 4 (Schedule addition 29 August) |
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Mukul Devichand takes a journey among the Chinese diaspora in the West to meet practitioners of Qigong – seemingly innocuous breathing exercises. Through their stories, the programme asks why the science, traditional medicine and belief in superhuman powers that captivated China in the Eighties somehow ended up convulsing modern Chinese society and politics.
The rise of Qigong breathing exercises in the Eighties was a turning point in modern Chinese culture – and yet it's an almost untold story here, despite intense focus on the country during the Beijing Olympics. After high-profile state confrontations with Qigong groups such as Falun Gong in the Nineties, the practice is now highly sensitive in China.
Mukul dabbles in Qigong in the Western world, where it is not regulated. He finds himself breathing and performing elaborate exercise routines under the tutelage of various Qigong "Masters", in an effort to cultivate and harness his inner "qi", or energy.
Although it has the trappings of an ancient martial art, modern Qigong came not from monasteries but from scientists in white coats. It shot to prominence only 30 years ago, carried on a wave of popular enthusiasm as China opened its doors after the trauma of the cultural revolution.
From children who could "read with their ears" to a forest fire quenched by the "qi" of one man, Qigong became central to modern Chinese identity when the country first entered the global economy. But the Nineties saw Qigong Masters somehow come into conflict with the authorities.
Mukul goes in search of the most controversial Qigong Masters who fled to the West. He traces how Qigong became political, and asks what lessons the episode holds for those struggling to understand and engage with China as it becomes the century's superpower.
Producer and Presenter/Mukul Devichand
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 9 September 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Tuesday 9 September
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents live from Zagreb ahead of tomorrow's World Cup qualifying matches, with news and reports from all the home nations' camps.
From 9pm, the programme concentrates on Croatia v England with journalists Sean Custis, Brian Woolnough and Ian McGarry.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Ben North
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Tuesday 9 September 2008 |
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Nemone
Tuesday 9 September
1.00-4.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Nemone has all the latest gossip in the build-up to tonight's Mercury Prize announcement, featuring live updates from the site – with Laura Marling, Neon Neon, Elbow and Radiohead among those battling it out.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe
Tuesday 9 September
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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As it's Mercury Award night Gideon Coe plays sessions and concert highlights from the nominees, including Radiohead recorded for the BBC earlier this year.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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