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7.05 Dame Ethel Smyth Overture: The Wreckers
Scottish National
Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi
7.35 Haydn Symphony No 49 in F minor (La Passione) Consort of London/
Robert Haydon Clark
8.05 Handel Flute Suite in G (Water Music) Academy of Ancient
Music/Christopher Hogwood
8.25 Komgold Piano Trio, Op 1
Gobel Trio of Berlin. Discs
Schubert Three Marches militaires (D733)
Paul Badura-Skoda and Jorg Demus (piano duet)
FrehviMges Versinken (D700) Thomas Hampson (baritone) Graham Johnson (piano)
Piano Quintet in D (D667) (Trout)
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) Members of the Alban Berg Quartet;
Georg Hortnagel (double bass). Discs
Bach, orch Webem Ricercare (The Musical Offering)
LSO/Pierre Boulez
10.08 Isaac Optime Pastor Tallis Scholars/ Peter Phillips
10.19 Panufnik
Sinfonia Concertante Aurele Nicolet (flute) Osian Ellis (harp) Menuhin Festival
Orchestra/Yehudi Menuhin
10.40 Gideon Klein
Fantasia and Fugue Hawthorne Quartet
10.50 Mendelssohn
Mein Gott warum hast du mich verlassen?
La Chapelle Royale de Paris Ghent Collegium Vocale/ Philippe Herreweghe
10.58 Bach, arr Liszt Fantasia and Fugue in G minor
Youra Guller (piano)
11.14 Cornelius Stabat Mater
Regional Choir of Cannes/Michel Piquemel
11.21 Lili Boulanger
Nocturne; Cortege; D'un matin de printemps
Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Clifford Curzon (piano)
11.32 Poulenc
Sept Répons des Ténèbres Alexandre Carpentier (treble) Maîtrise de la Sainte
Chapelle
Radio France New PO/ Georges Pretre
Duncan McTier (double bass) Kathron Sturrock (piano) Lennox Berkeley
Introduction and Allegro Mendelssohn , arr
McTier Lied ohne Worte, Op
Faure, arr McTier Elegy, Op 24
Barber Excursions for piano Bottesini Fantasy on 'La Sonnambula '
Seven programmes following the development of the chamber orchestra in the 20th century.
2: The 1940s and 50s presented by Dennis McCaldin with Quintin Ballardie.
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D
Stravinsky Suite: PulcmeHa Handel
Overture:
Ariodante Stravinsky Concerto (Dumbarton Oaks)
Mozart Piano Concerto
No 19 in F (K459) (3rd mvt) Elgar Introduction and Allegro Strauss Suite: Le bourgeois gentilhomme
Ich Habe Genug
A classic performance of Bach's solo cantata recorded in 1950 by the baritone Hans Hotter with the Philharmonia
Orchestra conducted by Anthony Bernard. Disc
Alex Knapp presents some of the sacred and secular musical traditions of the various Sephardic communities who settled in North Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, Italy, France, Holland and the Americas after their expulsion from Spain in 1492. Producer John Thornley
Music, news and a look forward to the weekend with Richard Baker.
Producer Hugh Warwick
by Bach, recorded last Sunday in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.
Hans Peter Blochwitz
(tenor) as the Evangelist Olaf Bar (baritone) as Christus Barbara Bonney and Nancy Argenta (sopranos) Jard van Nes and Elizabeth van Magnus (contraltos)
Guy de Mey (tenor)
Klaus Mertens and Anton Scharinger (basses)
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Boys of St Bavo, Harlem Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra/Ton Koopman Parti
8.40 The Passion Revived
An account of Mendelssohn's pioneering 1829 revival of the St
Matthew Passion through the eyes of Mendelssohn himself, his teacher Carl Zelter and the singer Edouard Devrient.
With Dominic Letts , John Baddeley and Michael Onslow.
8.45 Part 2
Ingrid Lewis presents the first of two programmes on black American women writers.
1: Our Mothers' Voices, Men and Boxes
Black American novelists Paule Marshall , Rosa Guy and Terry MacMillan , the "blues" singers of our time, talk about their work and the cultural censorship they have experienced.
With extracts performed by Beverley Andrews , Buffy Davies ,
Alibe Parsons , Clarke Peters , Ricco Ross and Richard D Sharp.
Sarah Walker introduces sounds of night, darkness and sorrow for voices and electronics in Wayne Siegel 's Eclipse, Michael Alcorn 's A Sad Song and Kaija Saariaho's Nuits, adieux, while
Steve Montague 's Tigida Pipa goes at breakneck speed through a series of sonic adventures. A studio session by Singcircle directed by Gregory Rose with Stephen Montague (sound projection).
