Chopin Etudes, Op 25 Nos 1-4 maurizio pollini (piano)
Debussy Etudes, Nos 1-5
GEORGES PLUDERMACHER (piano) Records

(oboe)
The second of five programmes Bach Concerto for oboe d'amore and orchestra (Mono)
PHILHARMONIAIWALTER SUSSKIND Elgar, ed Jacob Soliloquy BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA'
NORMAN DEL MAR
Templeton Scherzo caprice (Mono) with GERALD MOORE (piano)
Vaughan Williams Concerto in A minor (Mono)
PHILH ARMONIA/W ALTER SUSSKIND Records (R)

Albinoni Concerto in B flat, Op5 No1: Imusici
Bliss Pastoral: Lie Strewn the White Flocks
SHIRLEY MINTY (mezzo-soprano) JUDITH PEARCE (flute)
HOLST SINGERS AND ORCHESTRA; HILARY DA VAN WETTON
Schubert Fantasy in F minor ALFRED BRENDEL and EVELYNE CROCHET (piano duet)
Bruch Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor: ITZHAK PERLMAN
NEW PHILHARMONIA/JESUS LOPEZ-COBOS
Donizetti Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore) (Mono: 1918) ENRICO CARUSO (tenor)
Hoist Oriental suite: Beni Mora , Op 29 NO 1: LPO ADRIAN BOULT Records

Presented by Michael Oliver A Teutonic Succession:
Bernard Keeffe reflects on the careers and achievements of Hans Richter , Jascha Horenstein and Herbert von Karajan.
Yuppie Jazz?: some musings on jazz and the social scene of the 1950s from Miles Kington.
A portrait of Hans Gal in his own words and music. Producer ANDREW LYLE

led by BEN BUURMAN conducted by JERZY MAKSYMIUK Thomas Wilson Introit (Towards the Light)
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances. BBC Scotland

with Nicholas Penny

(cello and piano)
Schumann Adagio and Allegro, Op 70
Shostakovich Sonata, Op 40
Martinu Variations on a theme of Rossini
(A re-broadcast of last Monday's 's BBC Lunchtime Concert)

Paul Bailey talks to Alan Bennett

Bach Sinfonia in G (Cantata
No 174) (re-scored from the first movement of Brandenburg Concerto No 3)
Bach, arr Penzel Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F (BWV 1047a) LUDWIG GÜTTLER (como da caccia) NEW BACH COLLEGIUM MUSICUM. LEIPZIG/MAX POMMER. Record

led by BRADLEY CRESWICK conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER DMITRI SITKOVETSKY (violin)
Verdi Overture: The Sicilian Vespers
Brahms Violin Concerto in D
3.00* Two key positions in the Philharmonia's system of management have changed recently: Rodney Stewart is the orchestra's new Chairman and David Whelton its Managing Director. Nicholas Kenyon talks to both men about their present concerns and their hopes for the future.
3.15* Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G (Given on 6 February at the Royal
Festival Hall, London, in association with the Financial Times)

as it may have been celebrated in Venice in 1620 under the direction of Monteverdi, maestro at St Mark's Basilica. Each Easter Sunday afternoon, the Doge with his attendants went in solemn procession to the convent of San Zaccaria in Venice. There, Vespers of the Feast was celebrated with music from the choir and instrumentalists of the ducal Basilica.
Francesco Usper Sonata a 8 (1619) Giovanni Gabrieli Kyrie a 12 Monteverdi Dixit Dominus; Confitebor tibi: Beatus vir Giovanni Battista Grillo Canzona2(1608)
Monteverdi Magnificat Usper Sinfonia 2 (1619) Alessandro Grandi
Decantabant populus
Morales Magnificat octavi toni Grillo Canzon in echo (1608) G. Gabrieli Regina caeli; In ecclesiis with chant from the liturgical books of St Mark 's
EMILY VAN EVERA (SOpranO) JOSEPH CORNWELL (tenor) JEREMY WHITE (baSS)
TAVERNER CONSORT; TAVERNER CHOIR
TAVERNER PLAYERS directed by ANDREW PARROTT

Sir Peter Pears , who died two years ago today, was an artist who divided audiences by the individual timbre of his voice. As the life-long companion of Benjamin Britten , as a festival director, as a teacher and enthusiastic commissioner of new music, he had a unique influence on post-war musical life in this country.
Michael Berkeley presents a profile with contributions and assessments by NANCY EVANS. ERIC CROZIER. SUSAN PEARS-PHIPPS .
BASIL DOUGLAS. BEATA
SAUERLANDER. EARL OF HAREWOOD. SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT. JULIAN BREAM. MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH and MURRAY PERAHIA , and the voice of PETER PEARS
Producer JOHN EVANS
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ARDITTI STRING QUARTET with YVAR MIKHASHOFF (piano) Charles Ives Largo risoluto No 1; The Innate (first UK broadcast): In re con moto et al (first UK broadcast); Largo risoluto No 2; Hallowe'en
Ruth Crawford Seeger Suite No 2, for string quartet and piano (first UK broadcast)

Symphony No 2 in c minor (Resurrection) live from the Royal Festival Hall, London EIDDWEN HARRHY (soprano) LINDA FINNIE (contralto)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR directed by RICHARD COOKE BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS directed by GARETH MORRELL BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by RODNEY FRIEND conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD

A second chance to hear this major series covering all branches of Liszt's contribution to the 19th-century repertoire. The Virtuoso Style
Etudes d'execution transcendante played byjANiNA FIALKOWSKA Nos 1-7
9.30* Interval Reading
9.35* Nos 8-12
Series producer MISHA DONAT

Borodin's account of his meeting with Liszt in July 1877 Compiled by CAROLE ROSEN Read by Patrick Stewart
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT (R)

recorded in York Minster Responses (Smith)
Office hymn (NEH 124): Ye choirs of new Jerusalem
Psalms: 113,114,118
(Walmisley, Bairstow, Turle) Readings (rsv): Exodus 14, vv 5-30; John 20, vv 11-23 Canticles: Murill in E
Anthem: Haec dies (Byrd) Te Deum (Howells)
Organ voluntary: Fantasie sur Ie 'Te Deum' et 'Guirlandes alleluiatiques'
(Tournemire, Suite 51)
Organist and Master of the Music PHILIP MOORE Assistant organist JOHN SCOTT WHITELEY BBC Manchester

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