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7.31 Ravel
Gaspard de la nuit
Robert Casadesus (piano)
8.31
Kodaly Peacock Variations
Philharmonia Hungarica / Antal Dorati

The Court of Philip 11 of Spain introduced by Paul Guinery. Antonio de Cabezon
Sacris solenmis; Quem terra Ensemble Alfonso X El
Sabio/Luis Virumbrales Fuenllana Fantasia de redobles; De Antequera sale el moro
Christopher Wilson (vihuela) Hemando de Cabezon
Susana un jour. Glossada de "Dulce Memoria "
Paul Nicholson (harpsichord) Fretwork
Pierre de Manchicourt
Missa Reges terrae Tallis Scholars/ Peter Phillips

Schubert Nacht und
Traume (1)827)
Kathleen Battle (soprano) James Levine (piano)
9.59 Mozart
Serenade in D (K239) (Serenata Notturna) Orpheus CO
10.13
Berlioz Les Nuits d'Ete
Victoria de los Angeles (sop) Boston SO Charles Munch
10.43 Tchaikovsky Nocturne in D minor, Op 19 No
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) LSO/Maxim Shostakovich
10.48 Berg
Four Lieder, Op 2
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo) John Wustman (piano)
10.56 Bartok
Music for strings, percussion and celesta BBC SO/
Mark Wigglesworth
11.28 Mahler
Kindertotenlieder
Linda Finnie (mezzo) BBC SO/
Mark Wigglesworth. Records

Otello
The last of four programmes marking
Rossini's bicentenary with operas he wrote for Naples between 1816 and 1820. Shakespeare with a touch of Dante, Otello shows Rossini as a man of his times. (tenor) (soprano) (tenor) (tenor)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus Philharmonia Orchestra/
Jesus Lopez Cobos. Records * MUSIC AND ARTS: page 5

Martinu Quartet No
Dvorak Quartet in F, Op 96 (American)

Sinfonye director Stevie Wishart
Anon Domna pos vos ay chausida
Anon
Estampie Royale No 3
Richard de Fournival
Onques n 'amai tant que joy fui amee. Records

Natalie Wheen presents an edition from Birmingham at the start of the Festival of BBC Orchestras and talks to conductors Yan
Pascal Tortelier and Tadaaki Otaka.
Producer Jeremy Hayes

Festival of BBC Orchestras live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
BBC Welsh SO, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Dmitri Alexeev (piano) John Wallace (trumpet)

The first in a series of concerts by the BBC orchestras.

Britten Four Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes)

Shostakovich Concerto in C minor for piano, trumpet and strings

8.45 Chris de Souza looks at Elgar's association with the City of Birmingham, from his early experiences to the commissions for the Triennial Festival, which included The Dream of Gerontius and The Kingdom, and the creation of the Peyton Professorship of Music for him at Birmingham University.

9.05 Elgar Symphony No 1 in A flat

In the second of three programmes,
Manuel Carlos de Britos traces the export of western musical cultures through voyages and missions.

As The Voyage by Philip Glass prepares to open at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Anthony Payne investigates the enduring appeal of minimalist music. Philip Brady reports from Germany on how writers tackle the issue of national identity. And there's a reassessment of Orson Welles 's film of Othello. Producer John Goudie

The second of three programmes including all 51 of the settings of Goethe texts composed by Hugo Wolf in 1888 and 89, presented by Gordon Stewart.
Felicity Lott (soprano) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Thomas Allen , Olaf Bar , Thomas Hampson and Andreas Schmidt
(baritones)
Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Der Rattenfänger, St Nepomuks Vorabend;
Phänomen; Erschaffen und Beleben; Gutmann und
Gutweib: Ob der Koran von Ewigkeit sei?: Trunken müssen wir alle sein!; So lang man nuchtem ist, Sie haben wegen der
Trunkenheit, Was in der Schenke waren heute; Der neue Amadis; Ritter Kurts Brautfahrt Nicht
Gelegenheit macht Diebe; Hoch begliickt in deiner Lie be; Als ich auf dem
Euphrat schiffte; Dies zu deuten, bin erbotigh Hatt' ich irgen wolil Bedenken; Komm, Liebchen, komm!: Wie sollt' ich heiter bleiben; Wenn ich dein gedenke, Locken, haltet mich gefangen; Nimmer will ich dich verlieren

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