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7.03 Mozart
Overture: Le Nozze di Figaro BBC Symphony
Orchestra/Colin Davis
8.03 Schumann
Overture, Scherzo and Finale Berlin Philharmonic/ Herbert von Karajan
8.45 Schubert Rondo in A (I) 951)
Maria-Joao Pires and Huseyet Sennet (piano duet)
Britten in America
The Ash Grove
Peter Pears (tenor)
The Composer (piano)
Diversions for piano lefthand and orchestra
Julius Katchen (piano) London Symphony
Orchestra/The Composer String Quartet No 1 Endellion Quartet Records
Schumann Kreisleriana
Olli Mustonen (piano)
10.35 Franck
Piano Quintet in F minor Clifford Curzon (piano) Vienna Philharmonic
Quartet
11.10 Saint-Saens
Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor
Alexander Michejew (cello) London Symphony Orchestra/
William Boughton
11.30
Dvorak Rondo in G minor. Op 94 Evzen Rattay (cello)
Stanislav Bogunia (piano)
11.38
Schubert Impromptu in A Hat (I) 935 No 2)
Clifford Curzon (piano)
11.46 Beethoven
Variations on a Russian
Dance in A (Wo071) (Das Waldmadchen)
Olli Mustonen (piano)
La donna del lago The second of four programmes for Rossini's bicentenary featuring operas he wrote for Naples between 1816 and 1820. La donna del lago, based on The Lady of the Lake, started a Romantic trend of setting works by Sir Walter Scott. (sop) (mezzo) (tenor) (tenor) (bass) (mezzo) (mezzo) (tenor)
Prague Philharmonic Chorus
Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Maurizio Pollini
Second of two programmes including quartets by Milhaud. Brindisi Quartet Brodsky Quartet
Milhaud String Quartet No 15
Octet for strings
(piano)
Albeniz ElAlbaicin ; Triana (Iberia)
Scriabin Three Studies, Op 65
Stravinsky Three Movements from Petrushka
Richard Baker presents this afternoon's edition from The Classical Music
Show at London's
Barbican Centre.
Producer Hugh Warwick
The Halle and their new music director perform one of the great symphonies from the turn of the century, live from the Free Trade Hall, Manchester. Mahler Symphony No 9
(Given in association with Brother International (Europe) Ltd)
In the third archive programme marking the centenary of Tennyson's death, Sir John Gielgud reads the final part of his epic poem In Memoriam, Producer Fiona McLean
Visions de l'amen
Martha Argerich and Alexandre Rabinovitch
(piano)
In this last of eight programmes, composer and pianist Mike Westbrook talks to Geoffrey Smith about his arrangements of songs by the Beatles, and a saxophone concerto for John Harle.
Roy Porter discusses the state of the British press with William Shawcross , author of a new biography of Rupert Murdoch , and Michael Leapman , who has written about the press post-Fleet Street.
The first-night review is of the London Symphony Orchestra's premiere performance of a work by Colin Matthews called
Hidden Variables. Producer Tim Dee
The second of four programmes of colourful orchestral music from
South America, introduced by Odaline de la Martinez , who also conducts the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra.
Galindo Dimas
Sones de Mariachi
Villa-Lobos
Cancan ties Aguas Claras Anne Dawson (soprano) Orbon
Tres Versiones sinfonicas
Except in Scotland. As broadcast this morning on R5
English study texts: Lamb (3)
