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8.06 Schumann
In der Nacht, Op 12 No 5 (Fantasiestucke)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
8.11 Brahms String Sextet No 2 in G, Op 36 Raphael Ensemble
8.51 Debussy
Gigues (Images)
City of Birmingham SO/Simon Rattle Records

Contributors

Piano:
Alfred Brendel

A selection of music from the concert hall, opera house and recital room, including works by Chabrier, Strauss, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mendelssohn and Corelli, with Listeners'
Requests: this week music by Johann Strauss (son) and Ireland. Featuring:
9.45 Composer of the Week preview: Donizetti
10.18 Symphony of the Week:
Borodin Symphony No 3 in A minor
USSR SO/
Yevgeny Svetlanov
10.38 Artist of the Week:
Rohan de Saram (cello) plays
Vivaldi Sonata in C minor, Op 2 No 7 with Salvatore Accardo
(violin)
Bruno Canino (harpsichord)
11.26 Respighi Roman Festivals
Philadelphia Orchestra/ Eugene Ormandy
Producer Sarah Devonald
0 REQUESTS to: Brian Kay 's Sunday Morning. BBC
Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA

Contributors

Music By:
Johann Strauss
Artist:
Yevgeny Svetlanov
Violin:
Salvatore Accardo
Harpsichord:
Bruno Canino
Unknown:
Eugene Ormandy
Producer:
Sarah Devonald
Unknown:
Brian Kay

In the second of six programmes exploring the authorship of music attributed to JS Bach,
Joshua Rifkin introduces performances of the motets Der Gerechte kotnnlt um and Jauchzet dem Herrn aUe Welt (BWV
Anh 160).
Jane Bryden and Elizabeth Priday (sopranos) John Elwes (tenor) Michael Chance
(counter-tenor)
Stephen Varcoe (bass) Bach Consort
Bach Ensemble / Joshua Rifkin

Contributors

Introduces:
Joshua Rifkin
Unknown:
Jane Bryden
Tenor:
John Elwes
Bass:
Stephen Varcoe
Bass:
Bach Consort
Bass:
Bach Ensemble
Bass:
Joshua Rifkin

Johann Adam
Reincken Bach admired Reincken sufficiently to travel to
Hamburg to hear him play. Reincken Fantasia on "Was kann uns komtnen an fur Not"
Bach Chorale Prelude: An Wasserflussen Babylon (BWV 653b)
Reincken Fantasia on "An Wasserflussen Babylon "
John Scott plays the organ of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich.

Contributors

Unknown:
Johann Adam
Unknown:
Reincken Bach
Unknown:
Reincken Fantasia
Unknown:
John Scott

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Michael Chance (counter-tenor) Nigel Robson (tenor)
New London Children's Choir; Monteverdi Choir and Instrumentalists
English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner

Handel Israel in Egypt (Part 1: Exodus)

8.10 Defying Death
Paul Driver looks at the literary and musical background to Alexander Goehr's new work, The Death of Moses, with contributions from the composer and the poet John Hollander, who developed the text of the work. Reader John Church.

8.30 Alexander Goehr The Death of Moses (first UK performance)

(Music and Arts: page 6)

Contributors

Counter-tenor:
Michael Chance
Tenor:
Nigel Robson
Singers:
New London Children's Choir
Musicians:
Monteverdi Choir and Instrumentalists
Musicians:
English Baroque Soloists
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Presenter (Defying Death):
Paul Driver
Guest (Defying Death):
Alexander Goehr
Guest (Defying Death):
John Hollander
Reader (Defying Death):
John Church

The Surprise Symphony Guy Meredith 's satire on the world of classical music follows a European orchestral tour which catapults towards disaster as, one by one, the members of the orchestra die of very unnatural causes....
With Alexander Balanescu
(violin)
Dov Goldberg (clarinet)
Roger Montgomery (horn) Bruce Nockles (trumpet) Director Cherry Cookson

Contributors

Unknown:
Guy Meredith
Violin:
Alexander Balanescu
Clarinet:
Dov Goldberg
Horn:
Roger Montgomery
Horn:
Bruce Nockles
Director:
Cherry Cookson
George:
Norman Rodway
Lydia:
Imelda Staunton
Alexisia:
David Bannerman
all other parts:
David Bannerman

Gerard McBurney introduces a programme of Russian piano music played by Sarah Rothenberg.
Alexandr Mosolov
Sonata No 4, Op 11
Nikolai Roslavets Three
Compositions; Sonata No 5 Elena Firsova Sonata, Op 35
Mosolov Sonata No 5, Op 12

Contributors

Introduces:
Gerard McBurney
Played By:
Sarah Rothenberg.
Unknown:
Nikolai Roslavets

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