TALKS:
BBC Radio 3:
(i) ‘Method in His Madness’, an analysis of Tchaikovsky’s use of structure, ‘Music Weekly’ programme, 20 Mar. 1988.
(ii) ’The Unknown Tchaikovsky’, a survey of compositions not in the standard repertory, ‘Music Weekly’ programme, 29 Jan. 1989.
(iii) Concert interval talk on Rakhmaninov’s Symphony no. 3 in A minor, 9 Mar. 1989.
(iv) ’Tchaikovsky and the Twentieth Century’, a survey of critical attitudes towards Tchaikovsky’s work, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his birth, ‘Music Weekly’ programme, 29 Apr. 1990.
(v) ’Nothing is True Except What is Unsaid’, a psychoanalytic explanation of paradoxes in Tchaikovsky’s character, ‘Music Weekly’ programme, 24 Mar. 1991. I further developed the material of this talk in an address I gave, 22 years later, at the Music and Psychoanalysis Study Day at the University of Liverpool (see talk entitled ’Tchaikovsky as Embodiment of Paradox’ listed in section (d)).
DISCUSSIONS:
BBC Radio 3:
‘Rebuilding a Monument’, a discussion between the Pushkin scholar Professor A.D.P. Briggs and myself on Tchaikovsky’s adaptation of Pushkin’s ’novel-in-verse’, Eugene Onegin, as opera libretto; interval-broadcast during BBC Promenade Concert of the opera, 18 Aug. 1994.
INTERVIEWS:
1. BBC Radio 3:
(i) I was interviewed by Michael Hall in regard to forthcoming Promenade Concerts of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major and Fourth Symphony in F minor; ‘Promtalk’ programme, 20 Aug. 1989.
(ii) I was interviewed by Peter Paul Nash in regard to Brahms’s orchestration, ‘Music Weekly’ programme, 9 Jun. 1991.
(iii) Professors Richard Taruskin and Simon Karlinsky (University of California at Berkeley) and myself, were interviewed by Stephen Johnson in regard to Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony; interval-broadcast, preceding a performance of that work by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, 4 Sept. 1998.
2. LBC Crown FM Radio (London):
I was interviewed by Lesley Judd in regard to the 150th anniversary of Tchaikovsky’s birth, ‘Artbeat’ programme, 12 May 1990.