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featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Chabrier Fete polonaise (Le roi malgré lui)
7.09 Michael Hurd
Concerto da camera
7.21 Prokofiev Symphony No 1 in D (Classical)
7.35 Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
8.00 Busser Petite Suite
8.10 Tchaikovsky
Ballet: The Nutcracker (Act 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Hurd

Handel Zadok the Priest
9.12 Walton
Death of Falstaff, Touch her soft lips (Henry V)
9.18 Tchaikovsky
Festival Coronation March
9.24 Artist of the Week:
William Primrose (viola)
Paganini, arr Primrose La Campanella
9.29 Humperdinck
Spielmans Letzter Gesang (Konigskinder)
9.42 Composer of the Week preview: Howells Sing Lullaby, A Spotless Rose
9.56 Charles Griff es
The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan
10.06 Lord Bemers
Suite: The Triumph of Neptune
Producer Sarah Devonald

Contributors

Unknown:
Handel Zadok
Viola:
William Primrose
Unknown:
Charles Griff
Unknown:
Kubla Khan
Producer:
Sarah Devonald

A day of live EBU concerts from 13 cities, broadcast in Europe and America, to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus's landing in the New World.
Presenters Piers Burton -
Page, Susan Sharpe , Paul Guinery , Penny Gore.
10.30 A preview of the day and the first of four readings by Nicky Henson from the journal of Columbus.
10.40 Felipe Fernandez -Armesto and Anthony Pagdon discuss with Piers Burton-Page the meaning of Columbus's discovery, then and now.
10.55pm Segovia
Live from the monastery of El Parral, A Mass of Thanksgiving with polyphonic settings by Alonso de Alba and Juan de Anchieta and plainchant from Spanish manuscripts of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Introduced by Denis Nowlan. Grupo Melesis de la Capilla Penaflorida/Ivan Moody Labyrinto
Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse
Grupo de Musica Alfonso X el Sabio/Luis Lozano
Celebrant Fr Francisco de
Andres.
12.30pm Rome live from the Oratorio del
Gonfalone.
Excerpts from Pasquini's opera B Colombo, overo l'India scoperta
Alessandra Rossi, Marinella Pennicchi, Elisabetta
Gutierrez, Patrizia Pupillo,
Rosaria di Palma (sopranos) Sandro Naglia (tenor) II Concerto Italiano/ Rinaldo Alessandrini
1.00pm Prague live from the Smetana Hall.
Prague SO/
Martin Tumovsky
Barber Adagio for Strings Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World)
2.00pm News
2.05pm London live from BBC Studio One, Maida Vale.
Lontano/Odaline de la Martinez
Villa-Lobos Sexteto Mistico
Amadeo Roldan
Ritmica No 1
Revueltas Ocho por Radio Chavez
Toccata for percussion
Villa-Lobos Chôros No
2.55 Columbus's journal
3.00pm Buenos Aires live from the Teatro Colon. Buenos Aires PO/
Pedro Ignacio Calderon Juan Jose Castro
El llanto de las sierras
Ginastera Pampeana No 3 Piazzolla Tangazzo
(Variations on a Buenos Aires theme)
Luis Gianneo El tarco en flor
4.00pm Antwerp live from the Rubens House. La Colombina perform villancicos and madrigals by Pedro Ruimonte, with instrumental music by Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz, Francisco Correa de
Arauxo and Bartolome de Selma y Saleverde
5.00pm Boston live from the Jordan Hall. Copland Two Pieces for String Quartet
Borromeo Quartet
John Heiss
Pieces for solo flute
The Composer (flute)
John Cage Concerto for Prepared Piano
Stephen Drury (piano) New England
Conservatory Orchestra John Zorn Cobra Members of the New
England Conservatory Jazz Ensemble/Stephen Drury
6.00pm Paris live from Maison de Radio.
Philippe Corre and Edouard Exerjean (pianos) Milhaud Kentuckiana
Carnaval a la Nouvelle
Orleans; Scaramouche
Gershwin Three Preludes
Rhapsody in Blue
7.00 Columbus's journal
7.05pm Mexico City live from the Universidad
Autonoma de Mexico.
Trio Mexico
Manuel Suarez (violin) Ignacio Mariscal (cello) Jorge Suarez (piano)
Ponce Trio romdntico
Daniel Catan Trio
Simon Tapia Colman Trio prehispdnico
Armando Lavalle
Trio No 2
8.00pm Detroit live from Orchestra Hall.
Detroit SO/Neeme Jarvi Ives Symphony No 1
Barber Symphony No 1
9.00pm Usbon live from the Church of Sao Roque.
Soloists; Gulbenkian Foundation Chorus/ Fernando Eldoro
Carlos Seixas Mass in G Joao Rodrigues Esteves Mass for Double Chorus
10.00pm Copenhagen live from the Danish Radio Concert Hall.
Music in the Wake of Columbus
Danish Radio Big Band/ Ole Kock Hansen
Winnie Kjaersgaard (vocals) Hermeto Pascoal and his
Brazilian musicians
Including new works by Hermeto Pascoal, and an arrangement of Thelonius Monk's Round Midnight.
11.00pm New York live from Symphony Space. Jazz classics from the New World to the Old, featuring Freddie Hubbard (trumpet) Lew Tabackin (saxophone) James Williams (piano) George Mraz (bass) Roy Haynes (drums)
12.00 Columbus's journal
12.05am Sounds from
Another World
A sequence of records of traditional music from
North and South America. Records
Producers for Columbus Day
John Thomley, Clive Portbury and Michael Emery

Contributors

Presenters:
Piers Burton
Unknown:
Susan Sharpe
Unknown:
Paul Guinery
Unknown:
Nicky Henson
Unknown:
Felipe Fernandez
Unknown:
Anthony Pagdon
Unknown:
Piers Burton-Page
Unknown:
Alonso de Alba
Unknown:
Juan de Anchieta
Introduced By:
Denis Nowlan.
Introduced By:
Grupo Melesis
Unknown:
Musica Alfonso
Music By:
Lucas Ruiz

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