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7.00 Haydn
Symphony No 83 in G minor (The Hen)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Sigiswald Kuijken
7.30 Medtner
Sonata-Idylle
Earl Wild (piano)
8.00 Rachmaninov
Vocalise
Suzanne Murphy (soprano) Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
8.30 Biber Sonata Violino Solo Representiva
Reinhard Goebel (violin) Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Soprano:
Suzanne Murphy
Violin:
Reinhard Goebel

presented by Paul Guinery. 4: 1932-1935
Cuban Overture
Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel
Second Rhapsody
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor
Michael Tilson Thomas
(piano)
Union Square (Let 'Em Eat Cake)
David Garrison (vocals) New York Chorus Artists
Orchestra of St Luke's, conductor Michael Tilson
Thomas
My Man's 's Gone Now;
Headin' for the Promis'
Lan' (Porgy and Bess) Florence Quivar (mezzo) Leona Mitchell (soprano) Cleveland Chorus and Orchestra, conductor
Lorin Maazel
Somebody from
Somewhere (Delicious) Ella Fitzgerald (vocals) Nelson Riddle and His
Orchestra. Discs

Contributors

Presented By:
Paul Guinery.
Piano:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Unknown:
David Garrison
Conductor:
Michael Tilson
Soprano:
Leona Mitchell
Conductor:
Lorin Maazel
Unknown:
Ella Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Nelson Riddle

Artist of the Week:
Trevor Pinnock , with the English Concert. Purcell
Chaconne; Overture; Air (King Arthur)
10.09 Handel
Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened
Choir of Westminster
Abbey, conductor Simon Preston
10.19 Corelli
Trio Sonata in G, Op 2 No 12
10.23 C P E Bach
Symphony in E (Wq 182 No 6)
10.33 Bach
Partita No 6 in E minor
Trevor Pinnock
(harpsichord)
11.01 Handel
Ode for St Cecilia's Day Felicity Lott (soprano) Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor)

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Pinnock
Conductor:
Simon Preston
Harpsichord:
Trevor Pinnock
Tenor:
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson

Rameau's opera in a prologue and five acts to a libretto by Pierre-Joseph Bernard , performed in the first version of 1737. Sung in French.
Castor............HOWARD CROOK (tenor) Les Arts Florissants, conductor William Christie Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Pierre-Joseph Bernard
Conductor:
William Christie
Minerva:
Claire Brua(sop)
Amor/High Priest of Jupiter:
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Mars/Jupiter:
Rene Schirrer(bass)
Venus/A shade/A Planet:
Sandrine Piau(sop)
Phoebe:
Veronique Gens(sop)
Telaira:
Agnes Mellon(sop)
Pollux:
Jerome Correas(bar)
Two Athletes:
Adrian Brand(tenor)
Two Athletes:
Jean-Claude Saragosse(bass)
An attendant of Hebe/A Pleasure:
Sophie Daneman (sop)

The third in a series of concerts from the festival given last July in Birmingham and London. Monks from Wutai Shan perform vocal and instrumental music for Buddhist rites.

8.20 Jack May reads the Sundanese tale Sang Kuriang.

8.30 The ensemble Puspa Nugraha from Sunda, Java, performs a selection of Tembang Sunda songs.

(A BBC/South Bank Centre/Sounds Like Birmingham co-promotion in association with BT)

Contributors

Unknown:
Wutai Shan
Unknown:
Puspa Nugraha

Alyn Shipton presents a six-part tribute to the American trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie , who died in January. 4: Concert Soloist
In the early 1950s, Gillespie worked occasionally with Charlie Parker , but for the most part he led his own groups. Then he became a leading light of Jazz at the Philharmonic. Illinois
Jacquet describes the formation of this band.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dizzy Gillespie
Unknown:
Charlie Parker

Michele Roberts talks to
Edmund White about his new biography of Jean Genet , and chairs a discussion about Art and Existentialism, an exhibition of postwar art from Paris at the Tate Gallery, London. Producer Noah Richler

Contributors

Talks:
Michele Roberts
Unknown:
Edmund White
Unknown:
Jean Genet
Producer:
Noah Richler

Rossini La gita in gondola Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Faure Cinq melodies de Venise Elly Ameling (soprano) Dalton Baldwin (piano) Schumann
Venezianische Lieder , Op 25 Nos 17 and 18 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone), Christoph Eschenbach (piano) Schubert
Gondelfahrer (DB08) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone)
Gerald Moore (piano) Mendelssohn
Venezianisches
Gondellied, Op 57No Nathalie Stutzmann
(contralto)
Dalton Baldwin (piano)
HahnSong cycle: Venezia Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Felicity Lott
(soprano), Richard Jackson (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano) Rossini
La regata veneziana Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Charles Spencer (piano) Discs

Contributors

Baritone:
Thomas Hampson
Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons
Piano:
Faure Cinq
Soprano:
Venise Elly Ameling
Piano:
Dalton Baldwin
Unknown:
Venezianische Lieder
Baritone:
Christoph Eschenbach
Piano:
Gerald Moore
Contralto:
Nathalie Stutzmann
Piano:
Dalton Baldwin
Tenor:
Felicity Lott
Soprano:
Richard Jackson
Baritone:
Graham Johnson
Unknown:
Cecilia Bartoli
Piano:
Charles Spencer

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