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Four programmes looking at how composers have been inspired by nature, the elements and their mythologies.
2: Zephyr Breezes Debussy Nuages
(Nocturnes): Philhanmonia/ Michael Tilson Thomas
Monteverdi Zefiro torna (ciaconna): Hugues
Cuenod, Paul Derenne (tenors), director Nadia Boulanger (continuo) (1937 recording)
Debussy Le Vent dans la plaine; Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest
Cecile Ousset (piano)
Jean-Fery Rebel Ballet: Les Elemens
Academy of Ancient Music/ Christopher Hogwood Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Unknown:
Monteverdi Zefiro
Tenors:
Paul Derenne
Director:
Nadia Boulanger

Mozart Missa solemnis
(K 337)
Margaret Marshall (sop) Ann Murray (contralto)
Rogers Covey-Crump (ten) David Wilson-Johnson (bass) Choir of King's College, Cambridge
ECO/Stephen Cleobury
8.59 Mendelssohn
Variations concertantes
Richard Lester (cello) Susan Tomes (piano)
9.08 Chopin Sonata No 3 in B minor (Mono) Dinu Lipatti (piano)
9.33 Weber Clarinet
Concerto No 1 in F minor
Karl Leister (clarinet)
Berlin PO/Rafael Kubelik
9.54 Schubert Three
Songs: Robert White (ten) Graham Johnson (piano)
10.01
Boccherini Symphony in D
(Della casa del diavolo) Cantilena/
Adrian Shepherd. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Mozart Missa
Unknown:
Margaret Marshall
Contralto:
Ann Murray
Bass:
David Wilson-Johnson
Cello:
Richard Lester
Piano:
Dinu Lipatti
Clarinet:
Karl Leister
Songs:
Robert White
Piano:
Graham Johnson
Piano:
Boccherini Symphony
Unknown:
Adrian Shepherd.

Composing, performing, listening: with these elements established as the national criteria for music GCSE,
Michael Oliver asks: What are we achieving in music education today?
Producer Edward Blakeman

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Oliver
Producer:
Edward Blakeman

Nigel Rogers (tenor)
Paul O'Dette (theorbo) Peter Holman
(chamber organ)
Monteverdi's 0 quam pulchra and Laudate Dominum , with vocal and instrumental music by Giovanni Legrenzi ,
Giuseppe Pitoni and Giovanni Capello. (R)

Contributors

Tenor:
Nigel Rogers
Tenor:
Paul O'Dette
Unknown:
Peter Holman
Unknown:
Laudate Dominum
Music By:
Giovanni Legrenzi
Music By:
Giuseppe Pitoni
Music By:
Giovanni Capello.

The last programme in this celebratory series. With Gerard McBurney , Tatyana Gridenko and Gidon Kremer (violins); Yuri Bashmet (viola); Moscow Soloists.
Shostakovich Prelude and Scherzo, Op 11
Schnittke Concerto grosso No 1 (1977) Monologue for viola and strings
Schubert, arr Mahler Death and the Maiden
(D 810), for string orchestra

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerard McBurney
Unknown:
Tatyana Gridenko
Violins:
Gidon Kremer
Viola:
Yuri Bashmet

Sir Yehudi Menuhin has waited 45 years for the chance to bring together pupils from his own music school and the Moscow
Central School of Music.
Last month his dream materialised as five talented Soviet teenagers arrived to perform in England, allowing some of the mystery surrounding
Soviet specialist training to be dispelled.
Producer Sarah Devonald

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Yehudi Menuhin
Producer:
Sarah Devonald

A recording of the world premiere of John Tavener 's setting of the Passion, composed in response to a commission celebrating Glasgow, European City of Culture. The work is in seven sections, each one representing a day of Holy Week. (soprano) (counter-tenor)(bass)
Cappella Nova
SCO/Alan Tavener
(In association with Wylie Shanks)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tavener
Mother of God:
Lorna Anderson
Judas:
Simon Gay
Christ:
Stephen Richardson

'Let us seek the refuge of the Guru who blesseth us with all the bounties.
Yea, seeing his vision one is in bliss, and one's pain is dispelled, singing the Lord's praise.'
Texts from the Guru
Granth Sahib , the Sikh scriptures, sung in the Patiala tradition by the brothers
Sardar Dilbag Singh and Sardar Gulbag Singh.

Contributors

Unknown:
Granth Sahib
Unknown:
Sardar Dilbag Singh
Unknown:
Sardar Gulbag Singh.

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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