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Puccini's tragic opera Tosca is broadcast live from the New York Metropolitan Opera this Saturday and is one of our top picks from this week's radio and TV

Radio

  Tuesday 24- Friday 27 January, 1pm
 
This week on Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert you can hear concerts from the 2011 Bath Mozartfest, starting with pianist Grace Francis performing Mozart’s Fantasia in D minor on Tuesday. On Wednesday, tenor Mark Padmore performs Schubert’s Auf dem Strom with horn player Richard Watkins and pianist Julius Drake, and on Wednesday, cellist Steven Isserlis performs Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata accompanied by pianist Dénes Várjon, The series comes to a close on Friday as pianist Grace Francis performs Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz.
 
Tuesday 24 January, 7.30pm
 
BBC Music Magazine’s February issue celebrates the 150th anniversary of Debussy’s birth, and this Tuesday, Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a selection of the French composer’s Préludes (orchestrated by Colin Matthews) and the Fantasy for piano and orchestra, performed by pianist Nelson Freire. The concert closes with Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique.
  
Saturday 28 January, 6pm

Soprano Patricia Racette reprises her role as the fated heroine Tosca opposite tenor Marcelo Alvarez (Cavaradossi) and bass James Morris (Scarpia) in this performance of Puccini’s Tosca live from New York’s Metropolitan Opera this Saturday. Mikko Franck conducts.
 
TV
 
 Friday 27 January, 7.30pm 
 
Radio 3 explores the music and life of Benjamin Britten in Composer of the Week this week, and on BBC Four this Friday evening, John Bridcut explores how Benjamin Britten’s friendships with young boys inspired his music. Britten’s Children features exclusive interviews with Wulff Scherchen and the late British actor David Hemmings, as they discuss their friendships with the British composer.
 
Sunday 29 January, 11.05pm
 
This Sunday BBC Four tells the true story of sisters Toni and Rosi Grunschlag who were piano prodigies in 1920s Vienna before having to flee for England, during the Nazi invasion of Austria in the Second World War. Later settling in New York, the film looks at how the two sisters lived and worked in the United States, with music as their only love.

 

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