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Overture: La Cenerentola
The Authentic Orchestra conductor Derek Solomons
8.00 Biber
Battalia a 10 in D
Musica Antiqua Koln conductor
Reinhard Goebel
8.35 Copland
Suite: Appalachian Spring Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Records

Hugh Wood
String Quartet No 3, Op 20 Kreutzer Quartet Symphony, Op 21
BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Andrew Davis

Dohnanyi
Suite: The Veil of Pierrette BBC Concert Orchestra conductor
Barry Wordsworth
10.31 Haydn
Divertimento in Eflat (HII14) Consortium Classicum 10.45 Liszt
Liebestraume Daniel Barenboim (piano)
11.07 Haydn
Divertimento in Eflat (HII13)
Consortium Classicum
11.27 Franz Schmidt
Variations on a Hussar's
Song
BBC Concert Orchestra conductor
Barry Wordsworth

Stephen Plaistow introduces the last of four programmes of music played by some of the great Chopin pianists past and present.
Krystian Zimerman
Grande Valse brillante in Eflat, Op 18; Waltz in A flat, Op 64 No 3; Waltz in F, Op 34 No 3; Ballade No 2 in F, Op 38; Mazurkas, Op 24: Nos 1, 2 and 4; Fantasy in F minor, Op 49; Andante spianato and Grande polonaise brillante, Op 22

Handel's three-act opera, to words by Nicola Haym after a libretto by Antonio Salvi , is widely regarded as one of the composer's supreme masterpieces. It tells of the passionate love of Rodelinda and Bertarido, who are deprived of each other and their throne by the tyrant Grimoaldo.
Sung in Italian.
La Stagione of Frankfurt conductor
Michael Schneider
Records

Davidsbundlertdnze, Op 6 Paul Berkowitz (piano)

A special edition for the BBC Children in Need appeal presented by Richard Baker , with listeners' requests, competitions and surprise guests.
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine

conductor
Alexander Lazarev
Korndorff
Sempre Tutti
Shostakovich
Symphony No 15

The Battle of New
Orleans
If only the British had listened to the Duke of Wellington, it wouldn't have been such a shambles.
The peace treaty had been already signed, anyway. but nobody told the generals. George Schmidt gets busy with his paintbrush.

(piano)
Haydn Andante con variazioni in F minor (H XVII 6)
(Un piccolo divertimento)
Beethoven Sonata in D, Op 28 (Pastoral) Granados
Los Requiebros; Coloquio en la reja; El Fandango de Candil; Quejas, o la maja el ruisenor, Elpelele (Goyescas)

The Hammond organ, first marketed in 1935, is a most misunderstood instrument, more likely to be associated with skating rinks than jazz.
In the first of four programmes, Ben Watson compares it to the pipe organ as played by Fats Waller , and shows what it is capable of in the hands of exponents such as Wild Bill Davis and Milt Buckner.

Presented by Hermione Lee.
Including a first-night review from Manchester of The Odd Women, a new play adapted from George Gissing 's novel, which explores the impact of feminist ideas on women of the 1890s.
Producer Abigail Appleton

Margaret Price (soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano)
Schubert
An die untergehende
Sonne Der Mondabend
Die Mainacht
Im Freien
Der Morgenkuss Die junge Nonne Schumann
Liederkreis, Op 39

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