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7.00 Haydn Symphony
No 48 in C (Maria Theresa ) Vienna State Opera
Orchestra/Max Gobermann
7.35 Bridge Enter Spring Cologne RSO/John Carewe
8.05 Brahms
Tragic Overture
National PO/Stokowski
8.35 Strauss Suite: Der
Rosenkavalier
Scottish National
Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi Discs
Schubert
Sonata in Bflat (D61 7) Peter Noke and Helen Krizos (piano duet)
An den Mond in einer
Herbstnacht (D614)
Sarah Walker (mezzo)
Graham Johnson (piano) Overture in E minor
(D648)
London Philharmonic/ Raymond Leppard
Piano Sonata in A (D664) Martin Roscoe (piano)
Alonso Lobo Quain pulchri sunt gressus tui Tallis Scholars/ Peter Phillips
10.04 Cabezon Diferencias on the Milanese GatUard
Fretwork
10.08 Tallis If You Love Me Tallis Scholars/ Peter Phillips
10.11 Holbome The
Countess of Pembroke's Funeral and Paradise
Christopher Wilson (lute)
10.21
Byrd Rejoice unto the Lord
10.28 Diego Ortiz Two Recercadas
10.32 Fuenllana
Morenica Dama
Michael Chance (countertenor) Fretwork
10.36
Dowland Lachrimae Antiquae Jakob Lindberg (lute) Dowland Consort
10.41 Padilla Lamentations for Maundy Thursday Tallis Scholars/ Peter Phillips
10.55 Dowland Lachrymae Antiquae Novae
Jakob Lindberg (lute) Dowland Consort
11.00 Milan Two Fantasias
11.06 Esteban Daza
Quien te hizo Juan pastor
Fantasia Christopher Wilson (vihuela)
11.10 Victoria
Requiem (1605) Tallis Scholars/ Peter Phillips
Respighi's opera in three acts to a libretto by Claudio Guastalla after
Wiers Jenssen 's play Anne Pedersdottor. The action takes place in Ravenna at the end of the eighth century. Sung in Italian.
The Bishop
...HENK VAN HEIJSNBERGEN (bass) Netherlands Radio Choir
Roder Boys' Choir
Netherlands Radio PO conductor Edo de Waart
Concerto for two harpsichords and orchestra in F (Wq 46)
Andreas Staier and Robert Hill (harpsichords) Musica Antiqua
Cologne/Reinhard Goebel Disc
In the first of three programmes,
Elgar Howarth introduces some of his music for brass bands, in conversation with David Hoult.
Ascendit in coeli
Britannia Building Society Band/Howard Snell Trombone Concerto
Christian Lindberg (trombone)
University College Salford Brass Band/David King The Bandsman's Tale
In memoriam RK
Britannia Building Society Band/Howard Snell
with Peter Paul Nash. Producer Alan Hall
Live from the Royal
Festival Hall, London. Conductor
Alexander Lazarev
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
Tavener The Protecting Veil
8.15 Dejection
Gabriel Josipovici explores how writers and poets have interpreted the familiar state of despondency.
8.35 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique)
In the last of four readings from the journal of the fourth-century nun Egeria, Judi Dench presents an account of the Resurrection services in about the year 370.
Series producer Graham Dixon
Nelly Ben-Or (piano)
Etude in F minor, Op 25 No Nocturne in A flat, Op 32 No 2, Etude in A flat, Op 25 No 1; Mazurka in A flat, Op 59 No 2,
Mazurka in F minor, Op 63 No 2 Grande Valse
Brillante in A flat. Op 34 No 1; Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 45; Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op 44
Ten programmes in which Francis Wilford-Smith traces the development of the blues in the thirties and forties as reflected by the Bluebird record label.
5: 1936, The Bass Beat Stirs The gentle music of the Chatman brothers and the like gives way to the harsher sounds of Jazz Gillum 's harmonica, the driving guitar of Big Bill Broonzy and the insistent beat of Washboard Sam , backed up by a heavily accented string bass.
Oliver Taplin on the art of Georgia O' Keefe and the gloominess of the Swedes. Producer Matt Thompson
Anon Stabat Mater
Liszt Via Crucis
Rachel Platt and Penny Vickers (sopranos) Joyce Jarvis (mezzo) Jeremy White (baritone) Patrick Ardagh-Walter (bass)
Wayne Marshall (organ)
Taverner Choir/Andrew Parrott.
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