CBC Radio: Mozart 250 - On-Air-Schedule

From Friday January 27 - 29, 2006, there are many special programs on CBC Radio Two that celebrate and explore Mozart's influence and continuing popularity. For a more details on these shows, click on the dates.

And beginning Tuesday January 24th, Ideas on CBC Radio One is broadcasting
Mozart: The Golden Touch, a dramatized musical invention by Lister Sinclair, featuring Tony award-winner Brent Carver as Mozart.

	Friday January 27	Saturday January 28	Sunday January 29
6:00 am	Mozart & Company
7:00
8:00		Mozart Melodies	Choral Mozart
9:00	Mozart Melodies	Young Mozart
10:00	Here's to Mozart	Mozart Countdown Finale	Mozart for Keyboards
11:00
12:00 pm	Young Mozart		Mozart Chamber Music
1:00 1:30	Mozart on Studio Sparks	Saturday Afternoon at the Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte
2:00			Mozart Inspired Music
3:00	DiscDrive: The Mozart Edition
4:00			Mozart on Period Instruments
5:00	Mozart Movies
6:00 6:30	Mozart the Man		Mozart Symphonic Music
7:00
8:00	A New World of Mozart
9:00
10:00	Mozart After Hours

FRIDAY JANUARY 27

6 AM	MOZART AND COMPANY With host Tom Allen A Mozart Timeline: Canada from 1756 to 1791 Canada's leading Mozart tenor Michael Schade reads from his letters and Tom has highlights in Canadian history.
9 AM	MOZART MELODIES: What makes them great?
10 AM	HERE’S TO MOZART With host Shelley Solmes Mozart by Request: with the CBC Radio Orchestra; Mario Bernardi David Jalbert, piano Joni Henson, soprano Magic Flute Overture "Dove Sono" Piano Concerto #23 in A, K.488 Symphony #40 in G minor
12 PM	YOUNG MOZART Renowned Mozart tenor Michael Schade reads from Leopold Mozart's letters during the prodigy tour years. You’ll also hear from two Canadian prodigies - violinist/pianist/mathematician Corey Cerovsek and blues sensation Jimmy Bowskill. You’ll also hear the finalists in the Mozart Variations contest - all submissions by people 19 years old or younger
1 PM	MOZART on STUDIO SPARKS With host Eric Friesen “Angela’s Mozart” is a look at Angela Hewitt’s relationship with Mozart’s music. In the first hour she’s seated at the Fazioli piano in her London apartment, reflecting on the joys and challenges of performing and understanding Mozart. Then she’s in recital at the Gold Room of Canada House on Trafalgar Square for Mozart’s Variations on Ah! vous dirais-je maman and the Sonata in F, K.332. Renowned baritone Gerald Finlay joins her for a song and an aria.
3 PM	DISC DRIVE – THE MOZART EDITION Live from Studio One in Vancouver, Jurgen Gothe welcomes musical guests who will play traditional, jazz and world Mozart interspersed with his own inimitable reflections on the composer's life, work, cats and possibly tastes in wine... And if you are in the Vancouver area on Friday January 27th, you can join in the festivities at the CBC Radio One Studios for Mozart Noon and Night, a unique 12-hour celebration of the composer.
5 PM	MOZART AT THE MOVIES: a century of Mozart on film
6:30 PM	MOZART THE MAN
8 PM	A NEW WORLD OF MOZART With host Garvia Bailey featuring four Toronto ensembles performing at Glenn Gould Studio: Beyond the Pale (klezmer jazz), The Dunhuang Chamber Ensemble (traditional Chinese), The Creaking Tree String Quartet (modern bluegrass), and Suba Sankaran and Ed Hanley of Autorickshaw (South Asian jazz fusion) with special guests. Recording Date: Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. at the Glenn Gould Studio Admission: $25 For tickets call the Glenn Gould Studio Box Office at 416-205-5555, or book online at http://glenngouldstudio.cbc.ca. Plenty of seats still available.
10 PM	MOZART AFTER HOURS With host Andy Sheppard Jazz inspired Mozart on CD and ‘live’ in concert

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SATURDAY JANUARY 28

8 AM	MOZART MELODIES: What makes them great?
9 AM	YOUNG MOZART Renowned Mozart tenor Michael Schade reads from Leopold Mozart's letters during the prodigy tour years. You’ll also hear from two Canadian prodigies - violinist/pianist/mathematician Corey Cerovsek and blues sensation Jimmy Bowskill. You’ll also hear the finalists in the Mozart Variations contest - all submissions by people 19 years old or younger
10 AM	MOZART COUNTDOWN With host Shelagh Rogers Counting down to Canada’s favourite Mozart melody.
1:30 PM	SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA With host Howard Dyck Cosi Fan Tutte, Live from the Met

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SUNDAY JANUARY 29

MOZART CONCERTS MADE IN CANADA
Tom Allen is the co-ordinating host for the day

8 AM	CHORAL MOZART: With host Howard Dyck Les Violons du Roy, La Chapelle de Quebec and soloists led by Bernard Labadie present Mozart’s Requiem
10 AM	MOZART FOR KEYBOARDS: With host Shelagh Rogers The CBC Radio Orchestra with pianists Jon Kimura Parker, Jamie Parker and Ian Parker present concertos for 1, 2 and 3 keyboards Piano Concerto #21 "Elvira Madigan" Concerto for 2 pianos in E flat, K.365 Concerto for 3 pianos in F, K.242 Concerto for flute and harp
12 PM	MOZART CHAMBER MUSIC: With host Eric Friesen The St Lawrence String Quartet and pianist Anton Kuerti present chamber music String Quartet "Dissonant" K.465 Piano Quartet in E flat, K.493 String Quintet in G minor, K.516
2 PM	MOZART INSPIRED MUSIC: With host Shelley Solmes Pianist Louis Lortie in recital from the Glenn Gould Studio CHOPIN: Variations on "La ci darem la mano" MOZART: Sonata in B flat, K.333 MOZART: Fantaisie in D minor, K.397 MOZART: Rondo in D, K.485 LISZT: Concert Paraphrase on themes from Don Giovanni
4 PM	MOZART ON PERIOD INSTRUMENTS: With host Kelly Rice Tom Beghin, fortepiano Les vents classiques du Quebec Overture to La Clemenza di Tito Piano Sonata #11 in A, "Alla Turca" K.331 Piano Quintet in E flat, K.452 Wind Serenade in E flat, K.375 See a photo of the chamber organ used in the performance that Haydn may have played on.
6 PM	MOZART SYMPHONIC MUSIC: With host Shelagh Rogers Vancouver Symphony Orchestra with soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian and conductor Bramwell Tovey Overture to The Magic FLute Piano Concerto #23 in A, K.488 "Exsultate Jubilate" Symphony #41

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IDEAS - MOZART: THE GOLDEN TOUCH
A richly elegant series on the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by the helplessly elegant Lister Sinclair, broadcaster, playwright and Host Emeritus of IDEAS.

First broadcast on IDEAS in 1991, this five-part dramatized musical invention includes music by Mozart, words by Lister Sinclair and performances by such stars as
Brent Carver (as Mozart), Colin Fox (as Mozart’s father, Leopold), Nonnie Griffin (as
Mozart’s wife, Constanze) and Frances Hyland (as Mozart’s sister, “Nannerl”).

Series begins on Tuesday January 24, 2006 with The Golden Touch, Part One
and continues for the next four Tuesday night on IDEAS, CBC RADIO ONE
9:05 - 9:35 (NT) and on Sirius Radio across North America.

Purchase a copy of this series through CBC Shop.

Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006 - 9:05 PM, CBC Radio One

Part One: "Mozart: The Golden Touch"
A dramatized musical invention by Lister Sinclair, featuring Tony award-winner Brent Carver as Mozart. The composer’s life remembered by those closest to him: in this program, his father Leopold.

Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006 - 9:05 PM, CBC Radio One

Part Two: “On the Road to Prague”
The countess Eugenie tells the “Story of the Nine Oranges” – when Mozart and his wife Constanze stopped at her estate en route to her first performance of Don Giovanni.

Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006 - 9:05 PM, CBC Radio One

Part Three: “A Perpetual Radiance”
Lorenzo de Ponte describes himself as “a spark in history” in light of Mozart’s genius, when he wrote the libretti for The Marriage of Figaro, Cosi Fan Tutti and Don Giovanni.

Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006 - 9:05 PM, CBC Radio One

Part Four: “The Eternal Now”
Now an old lady teaching music in Salzburg, Baroness Anna Maria Mozart – “Nannerl” – recalls her days as a child concert pianist, sharing applause on Europe’s stages with her renowned brother.

Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006 - 9:05 PM, CBC Radio One
Part Five: ”Scrapbook of a Marriage”
Constanze Mozart long outlived her husband. She looks back on her years with Mozart – the golden intimate hours and timeless music they shared in their brief and memorable marriage.

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