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Last of six programmes of piano music by Debussy. Berceuse heroique
JEAN-FRANCOIS ANTONIOLI En blanc et noir
MARTHA ARGERICH ; STEPHEN
BISHOP-KOVACEVICH Etudes: Book 2
MONIQUE HAAS
D'un cahier d'esquisses THE COMPOSER
Records. Series producer EDWARD BLAKEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Martha Argerich
Unknown:
Monique Haas
Producer:
Edward Blakeman

Smetana From Bohemia's Woods and Fields (Ma Vlast)
CZECH PO/SMETACEK
Elgar, arr Tertis Cello Concerto
RTVKA GOLANI (viola) RPO/VERNON HANDLEY Delius In a Summer
Garden: RPO/BEECHAM Chopin Cello Sonata
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
MARTHA ARGERICH (piano) Dvorak Te Deum
GABRIELA BENACKOVA-CAPOVA (soprano)
JAROSLAV SOUCEK (bar) PRAGUE PHILHARMONIC
CHORUS; CZECH PO/NEUMANN Records

The week ahead with Michael Hall and studio guest Edward Downes , chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Plus
Krystian Zimerman on Lutoslawski's Piano Concerto and Yuri Bashmet on 'the best viola concerto ever written'.
Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and JANE WALKER

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Hall
Unknown:
Edward Downes
Unknown:
Krystian Zimerman
Unknown:
Yuri Bashmet
Unknown:
Jane Walker

and MAUD MARTIN TORTELIER (cellos)
GEOFFREY PRATLEY (piano) Couperin Concert No 13 in G, for two cellos
Bach Suite for cello solo
No 2 in D minor (BWV 1008) Handel, arr Tortelier/ Feuillard Trio Sonata in G minor (HWV 393)

Contributors

Piano:
Geoffrey Pratley

Pictures from an Exhibition
Ravel's vivid orchestration of Mussorgsky's score has been a popular concert showpiece from the moment it appeared in 1922. Geoffrey Norris assesses the 50 or so versions on disc, including the very first, made by Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony in 1930. Producer NIGEL WILKINSON
(Ashkenazy conducts his own orchestration of 'Pictures' in Monday evening's 's Prom)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Norris
Producer:
Nigel Wilkinson

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Opera in three acts, with libretto by C.S. Capeci and music by Handel.
(sung in Italian)
Academy of Ancient Music, led by Christopher Hirons, conducted by Christopher Hogwood

Act 1

8.00 Christopher Hogwood talks with George Pratt about Orlando and Handel's other 'magic' operas.

8.20 Acts 2 and 3

(See panel, left)

Contributors

Musicians:
Academy of Ancient Music
Orchestra Leader:
Christopher Hirons
Conductor/Interviewee (Interval):
Christopher Hogwood
Angelica:
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Dorinda:
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Medoro:
Catherine Robbin (mezzo)
Orlando:
James Bowman (counter-tenor)
Zoroastro:
David Thomas (bass)
Interviewer (Interval):
George Pratt
Producer (Interval):
Judith Roles

In the first of two conversations between Colin Tudge and Professor Ernst Mayr , founder of modern evolutionary biology, myths about the birth of Darwinism are laid to rest. Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Tudge
Unknown:
Professor Ernst Mayr
Producer:
Nicholas Morgan

The second of three programmes introduced by Edward Higginbottom. Eustache de Caurroy's Te Deum and Salve Regina , with an anonymous Pater noster.
CHOIR OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD/HIGGINBOTTOM
DAVID BURCHELL (organ)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Edward Higginbottom.
Introduced By:
Salve Regina

Faure Berceuse , Op 16 Y AN PASCAL TORTEUER (violin)
ORCHESTRE DU CAPITOLE
DE TOULOUSE/PLASSON
Doppler Berceuse, Op 15 PER OIEN (flute); GEIR
HENNING BRAATEN (piano) Godard Berceuse (Jocelyn)
STUTTGART RADIO
ORCHESTRA/ MARRINER Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Faure Berceuse
Piano:
Godard Berceuse

BBC Radio 3

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