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7.35 Marcello
Concerto in Gfor two Oboes
Heinz Holliger and Louise Pellerin (oboes) Camerata Bern
7.45 Beethoven
Sextet in E flat, Op 81 Members of the Berlin
Philharmonic Octet
8.05 Saint-Saens
Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor
Cecile Ousset (piano) City of Birmingham SO/Simon Rattle Records

Contributors

Oboes:
Heinz Holliger
Oboes:
Louise Pellerin
Oboes:
Camerata Bern

Stravinsky plays and conducts his own music:
Piano-Rag Music
Serenade in A for piano Duo Concertant for violin andpiano
Samuel Dushkin (violin) Symphonies of wind instruments (1947 version) North West German Radio
Symphony Orchestra (Mono records 1933-1951)

Contributors

Violin:
Samuel Dushkin

live from
Hereford Cathedral.
Introit: Exsurge Domine (Byrd); Responses: Ebdon Psalm 89 (Hopkins, Gray, Hopkins); Lessons (RSV): Joshua 3; Luke 8, v 40 to end; Office Hymn: Father most holy (NEH 144)
Canticles: Sumsion in G
Anthem: Benedictus
(Elgar); Organ voluntary Fantasia on "Komm,
Heiliger Geist" (BWV 651) (Bach).
Organist and Master of the Choristers Dr Roy Massey. Assistant Organist Geraint Bowen.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Roy Massey.
Organist:
Geraint Bowen.

Is It Really Science?
One in a thousand humans on planet Earth now own
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking , but have he and his kind claimed far too much?
Have metaphysical speculation and quasi-religious hogwash replaced proper physics? With Bryan Magee , Bill Newton-Smith and Paul Davies.
Producer Matt Thompson

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Hawking
Unknown:
Bryan Magee
Unknown:
Bill Newton-Smith
Unknown:
Paul Davies.
Producer:
Matt Thompson

Live from the City Hall, Sheffield. Lars Vogt
(piano), BBC Philharmonic conductor Heinz Wallberg Rossini Overture: William
Tell
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor
8.20 Beethoven in Heiligenstadt
In the company of Otto Biba, Chief Librarian of the Viennese Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Piers Burton-Page visits the house in Heiligenstadt near Vienna, where Beethoven spent the summer of 1802 in a vain attempt to cure his deafness, and where - still only in his early thirties - he penned his will.
8.40 Beethoven
Symphony No 5 in C minor

Contributors

Piano:
Sheffield. Lars Vogt
Conductor:
Heinz Wallberg

The World Is Out of Joint
After all the hype of Rio the scientific evidence of environmental threats needs to be soberly assessed. In this last programme, Peter Moore of King's College, London, reflects on how things look as we approach the millennium. Contributions from James Lovelock , Tom Wigley , Ghillean Prance and David Hall.
Producer David Perry

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Moore
Unknown:
James Lovelock
Unknown:
Tom Wigley
Unknown:
David Hall.
Producer:
David Perry

Peter Hill (piano) recorded at the Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield.
Bach Prelude and Fugue in D; D minor; Eflat minor; Bflat minor
(Well Tempered Clavier - Book 1)
Messiaen La Chouette
Hulotte ; L'Alouette Lulu (Catalogue D'Oiseaux - Book 3)
Canteyodjaya
Cloches d'angoisse et larmes d'adieu

Contributors

Piano:
Peter Hill
Unknown:
Messiaen La Chouette

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