07:00
22 May 2005
Presented by Martin Handley.
From 7.00am
Berwald: Piano Trio No 4 in C
Gaudier Ensemble
Bach: Keyboard Concerto in F, BWV1057
Murray Perahia (piano and conductor)
Michael Cox and Leonore Smith (flute)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
From 8.00am
Rossini arr. Sedlak: Overture, L' Italiana in Algeri
Consortium Classicum
Poulenc: Organ Concerto in Gm
Maurice Durufle (organ)
French Radio National Orchestra
Georges Pretre (conductor)
09:00
22 May 2005
Rob Cowan introduces some surprises and treasures from his record collection. Regular features include The Innocent Ear and Rob's recommendation for a Bargain Hunter CD. There's also a chance to hear some of the Rachmaninov Preludes recommended on yesterday's CD Review. The programme includes:
Hiller: Overture Die Jagd
Leipzig: Gewandhaus Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
Grieg: Land-sighting, Op 31
H?kan Hagerg?rd
Gothenberg Symphony Male Chorus
Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
Corelli: Sonata a Quatro in D, WoO4, for trumpet, two violns and bass
William Wroth (baroque trumpet)
Music Amphion
Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Schumann: Overture, Manfred
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Carl Schuricht (conductor)
Byrd: In Fields Abroad
Emily Van Evera and Christopher Morrongiello
WF Bach: Concerto in Fm for harpsichord, strings and continuo
Ottavio Dantone (harpsichord)
Il Giardino Armonico
Delius: To Daffodils
Moeran: The Merry Month of May
Sir Peter Pears (tenor)
Viola Tunnard (piano)
Debussy: Berceuse heroique
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Jarvi (conductor)
Kosaku Yamada: Nabora
Emanuel Feuermann (cello)
Fritz Kitzinger (piano)
Mozart: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, K384
Margaret Price (soprano)
English Chamber Orchestra
James Lockhart (conductor)
Bizet-Waxman: Carmen Fantasy
Jascha Heifetz
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
Donald Voorhees (conductor)
Schubert: Symphony No 5 in B flat, D485
SWF Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg
Hans Zender (conductor)
Mendelssohn: Ich wollt; meine Liebe ergosse sich
Richard Tauber
Orchestra
Frieder Weissmann Hanssler (conductor)
12:00
22 May 2005
Michael Berkeley talks to the Swedish jazz pianist Esbjorn Svensson, who formed his own trio with drummer Magnus Ostrom and bassist Dan Berglund. The trio tours widely and has released several award-winning albums, including Strange Place for Snow, Seven Days of Falling, and most recently, Viaticum.
Svensson's musical tastes are eclectic, ranging from a Bach cello suite and Bartok's Second Piano Concerto to Arvo Parts, Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten and the Charlie Haden Quartet's Wayfaring Stranger.
13:00
22 May 2005
The Early Music Show concludes its journey through the musical alphabet with letters N-Z. Any ideas for X?
14:00
22 May 2005
Stephanie Hughes introduces a recital given at the Wigmore Hall by the Austrian mezzo Angelika Kirchschlager with pianist Helmut Deutsch. The programme includes songs in English by Haydn, Grieg's settings of German poetry, and Poulenc's settings of the surrealist French poet Apollinaire.
Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano)
Helmut Deutsch (piano)
15:30
Part 2
In the second of two programmes, Stephen Johnson continues his account of the wartime manoeuvres of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Evacuated first from London to Bristol, heavy bombing meant the Orchestra then was moved to Bedford. After a shaky start, as the considerable challenges of installing the Orchestra in its new home were overcome, there were many significant artistic achievements.
16:00
22 May 2005
Today's array of listener requests includes performances of Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No 4, the Italian - and Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks; both of these pieces were inspired by memories of the Second World War.
There's also a chance to hear Contrasts by Bela Bartok, who died in the same year that the war ended - 1945.
17:45
22 May 2005
Does Art Gain from War?
Norman Lebrecht chairs an interactive cultural forum. Call in on 08700 100444 [national rates]
The Second World War, which ended 60 years ago, produced a veritable explosion in cultural demand and a surge of important new works.
In times of fear and bitter loss, people turned inward spiritually and sought the consolations of art. The same happened in the First World War, and in many other conflicts.
But has this changed since then? Vietnam yielded a protest movement but no lasting works of art. Does war not move artists the way it did? Have we become immune to mass feeling when violence is a factor of daily life?
18:30
BBC Symphony Orchestra From Sweden
Complete performance
The Swedish cellist Mats Lidstrom, who lives in London, thinks we Brits don't hear enough Swedish music. And so he conceived the idea of a From Sweden festival.
Tonight he premieres a new cello concerto by Rolf Martinsson. And Mario Venzago, Principal Conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, introduces a Wagner-inspired overture by Stenhammar, and a symphony by the most influential 20th century composer, Hilding Rosenberg.
Recorded in the BBC's Maida Vale Studios and presented by Andrew McGregor.
Willhelm Stenhammar: Excelsior! symphonic overture, Op 13
Rolf Martinsson: Cello Concerto No 1
BBC co-commission, world premiere
Hilding Rosenberg: Symphony No 6, Sinfonia semplice
Mats Lidstrom (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Mario Venzago (conductor)
20:00
22 May 2005
A Taste of Honey
By Shelagh Delaney.
A new radio production of one of the great stage plays of the 20th Century. The powerful story of a pregnant teenage girl and her feckless mother trading insults and repartee in 1950s Salford.
Helen ...... Siobhan Finneran
Jo ..... Beth Squires
Peter ..... Charles Lawson
Boy ..... Richard Mylan
Geof ..... Andrew Sheridan
Adapted and directed for radio by Polly Thomas.
21:30
The Man with the Golden Brain
Philosopher, novelist and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most charismatic and influential public figures of his generation. His disregard for bourgeois society and morals, religion and sexual fidelity shook post-War society, yet his philosophy of freedom, his tireless support of oppressed people throughout the world and his strikingly original novels and plays have all left an enduring mark on French culture.
In the centenary year of Sartre's birth, Kevin Jackson celebrates his achievement together with Sartre's friends Olivier Todd and Michel Contat; his biographer Annie Cohen-Solal; writers Lisa Appignanesi and John Baxter; philosopher Simon Blackburn; and of course Mrs Premise and Mrs Conclusion from Monty Python.
22:15
22 May 2005
A return to the programme by renowned songsmith and wit Loudon Wainwright who sings songs from his new album Here Come the Choppers.
00:00
Bedrich Smetana (1824 - 1884)
Part One
1/5. Donald Macleod looks at the historical background of Smetana's childhood when Czech Nationalism was beginning to come of age. The rekindled interest in Czech culture and history is reflected in a lot of Smetana's work, most notably in his opera Libuse, part of which we hear in today's programme.
Polka in F sharp, Op 7, No 1
William Howard (piano)
Libuse Overture
The Cleveland Orchestra
Christoph Von Dohnanyi (conductor)
Libuse's Prophecy
Libuse, the Bohemian Princess ...... Gabriela Benackova Capova (soprano)
Prague National Theatre
Chorus and Orchestra
Zdenek Kosler (conductor)
Characteristic Pieces, Op 1, No 3 and 4
Ivan Klansky (piano)
Vyehrad from Ma Vlast
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
[Rpt of Mon 12.00pm]
01:00
22 May 2005
Part One
With Jonathan Swain.
1.00am
Recorded on 26th November 2004 in Oslo Cathedral.
Haydn: Die Schopfung (The Creation)
Isa Katharina Gericke (soprano)
Rickard Soderberg (tenor)
Jochen Kupfer (tenor)
Oslo Chaber Choir
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Christopher Bell (conductor)
2.40am
JC Bach: Quintet in D, Op 11, No 6
Musica Petropolitana
2.55am
Bernard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer: Piano Sonata No 2, Op 23
David Kuijken (piano)
3.15am
Berlioz: Overture, King Lear, Op 4
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Kazuyoshi Akiyama (conductor)
3.30am
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat major, K595
Clifford Curzon (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
4.05am
Ilmari Hannikainen: Rural Dances, Op 39a
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Petri Sakari (conductor)
4.20am
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger: Danslek ur Ran (Singing Games from Ran)
Swedish Radio Choir
Olov Olofsson (piano)
Eric Ericson (conductor)
4.20am
Purcell: Four Dances from Abdelazer
Tafelmusik
Jeanne Lamon (director)
4.25am
Telemann: Overture from Tafelmusik
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet)
Frank de Bruine (oboe)
The King's Consort
Robert King (director)
4.35am
Tauno Pylkkanen: Suite for oboe and strings, Op 32
Aale Lindgren (oboe)
Finnish Radio Orchestra
Petri Sakari (conductor)
4.40am
Rimsky-Korsakov: May Night Overture
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4.50am
Sibelius: Rakastava (The Lover), Op 14
Pirkko Tonquvist (soprano)
Jouni Kuorikoski (baritone)
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir
Eric-Olof Soderstrom (conductor)
05:00
22 May 2005
Part Two
Through the Night concludes with Jonathan Swain.
5.00am
Faure: Nocturne No 1 in E flat m, Op 33, No 1
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
5.10am
Schickhardt: Concerto in Gm
Musica Ad Rhenum
5.30am
Fritz Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Valerie Tryon (piano)
5.35am
Liszt: Gnomenreigen, S145
Lana Genc (piano)
5.40am
Milhaud: La creation du monde, Op 81
Canadian Chamber Ensemble
Raffi Armenian (conductor)
5.55am
Massenet: Werther's aria from Werther, Act 1
Denes Gulyas (tenor)
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
Andras Mihaly (conductor)
6.00am
Chausson: Poeme, Op 25
Igor Ozim (violin)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Samo Hubad (conductor)
6.15am
Debussy: Images, oubliees
Roger Woodward (piano)
6.30am
Anton Wilhelm Solnitz: Sinfonia Op 3, No 4 in A
Musica ad Rhenum
6.45am
Brahms: Tragic Overture
Sinfonia Varsovia
Tomasz Bugaj (conductor)
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