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Music, news, weather and arts news presented this week by Andrew Lyle , including:
7.00
Monteverdi Beatus Vir
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
David Thomas (bass) Taverner Consort and Players/Andrew Parrott
7.30 Haydn Symphony No 39 in G minor
Hungarian CO/ Vilmos Tatrai
8.05 MacCunn
The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Scottish National Orchestra/ Alexander Gibson
8.40 Mozart Exsultate
Jubilate (K165)
Arleen Auger (soprano) Bavarian RSO/
Leonard Bernstein. Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Lyle
Unknown:
Monteverdi Beatus Vir
Soprano:
Emma Kirkby
Bass:
David Thomas
Bass:
Taverner Consort

Kurt Weill in the 20s
Donald Macleod introduces music from the period of Weill's earliest concert works and his collaborations with Brecht.
The Ballad of Mack the Knife (The Threepenny Opera)
Bertolt Brecht (singer) and orchestra (Mono, 1928) Symphony No 1
Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra/Edo de Waart Violin Concerto
Nona Liddell (violin) London Sinfonietta/ David Atherton. Discs Producer Anthony Cheevers

Contributors

Unknown:
Kurt Weill
Introduces:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
David Atherton.
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

Shostakovich Hamlet: musical fragments, Op 32 Leningrad CO/ Eduard Serov
10.16 Saint-Saens La mort d'Ophelle
Berlioz La mort d'Ophélie Sarah Walker (mezzo)
Graham Johnson (piano)
10.28 Berlioz
Funeral March for the last scene of Hamlet LSO/Colin Davis
10.38 Thomas Ophelia's Mad Scene (Hamlet)
Maria Callas (soprano)
Orchestre de la Societe de Concerts du
Conservatoire/ Nicola Rescigno
10.49 Tchaikovsky
Fantasy Overture: Hamlet BBC Welsh SO/ Louis Fremaux
11.07 Strauss Three
Ophelia Songs, Op 67 Sarah Walker (mezzo)
Graham Johnson (piano)
11.15 Walton, arr Palmer Hamlet: A Shakespeare scenario
John Gielgud (narrator) Academy of St
Martin/Neville Marriner

Contributors

Unknown:
Eduard Serov
Unknown:
Sarah Walker
Piano:
Graham Johnson

John Amis presents a musical portrait of Imogen Holst - daughter of The Planets, amanuensis to Britten, conductor, composer, educator, and a most extraordinary person. Producer Patrick Lambert

Contributors

Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Imogen Holst
Producer:
Patrick Lambert

Live from St John 's, Smith Square, London.
BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Andrew Davis Schubert Overture: Die Freunde von Salamanka Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 2
Haydn Symphony No 91 in Eflat
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Contributors

Unknown:
St John
Conductor:
Andrew Davis

Wilma Jensen plays French music for Passiontide on the Casavant Organ of St
George's Episcopal Church, Nashville, Tennessee. Daniel-Lesur
Scene de la Passion
Paul de Maleingreau SymPhonie de la Passion
Toumemire Paraphrase et double choral (L'Orgue mystique). Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilma Jensen

(The Book with Seven Seals) Oratorio by Franz Schmidt
Eilene Hannan (soprano) Susan Kessler (mezzo) Wemer Hollweg and Ian Caley (tenors) Robert Holl and David Thomas (basses)
Leeds Philharmonic Choir Huddersfield Choral Society BBC Philharmonic/
Edward Downes

Contributors

Unknown:
Franz Schmidt
Soprano:
Eilene Hannan
Soprano:
Susan Kessler
Unknown:
Wemer Hollweg
Tenors:
Ian Caley
Tenors:
Robert Holl
Basses:
David Thomas
Unknown:
Edward Downes

The first of five nightly readings by Kenneth Branagh from the war poems and letters of Wilfred Owen, born 100 years ago this month and killed in action a week before the end of the First World War at the age of 25.
(Second programme tomorrow at 9.05pm)

Contributors

Reader:
Kenneth Branagh
Author:
Wilfred Owen
Compiled by:
Mick Imlah
Producer:
Stuart Owen

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