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7.00 Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso
Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Libor Pesek
7.35 Mozart, arr Brooke Concerto in G (K216)
Gwydion Brooke (bassoon) Serenata of London, conductor Emmanuel
Hurwitz
8.00 Walter Leigh Concertino for harpsichord and strings Trevor Pinnock
(harpsichord)
London Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Braithwaite
8.35 Haydn Symphony No 88 in G (Letter V) Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor Bruno Walter
Discs

2: " ... it can do other things than just be a nineteenth-century romantic voice ..." Jonathan Harvey introduces some of his music involving his own instrument, the cello, and a colourful poem for vast orchestra. He also talks to
Ian Dearden about his new opera, Inquest of Love, and how it has influenced his other music.
Cello Concerto
Frances Marie Uitti (cello) BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Lothar Zagrosek Lauds for chorus and cello
Felix Schmidt (cello)
Winchester Cathedral Choir, conductor Martin Neary Philia's Dream
Frances Marie Uitti (cello)
The Composer (electronics) Persephone Dream
Halle Orchestra, conductor
Charles Groves

Music by the French organist who died in 1939, much of it only recently revived.
Toumemire, transcr Durufle Improvisation on Victimae Paschali
Jane Watts (organ)
10.20
Toumemire Sonata-Poeme , Op 65 Devy Erlih (violin)
Henriette Puig-Roget (piano)
10.40 Symphony No 3 (Moscow)
Liege Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Pierre Bartholomew
11.25 Musique orante ORTF Quartet

conductor Gunther Herbig Jutta Czapski (piano)
Wagner Overture: Der Meistersinger
Lutoslawski Variations on a theme ofPaganini
Francaix Concertino in G for piano and orchestra Beethoven
Symphony No 8 in F

Paul Hindmarsh presents the seventh of eight concerts of brass band music.
Manger Musikklag, conductors David King and Kim Lofthouse
Torstein Aaggaard-Nilsen Introduction
Stephen Bulla Firestorm Aagaard-Nilsen Abstractions
John Golland Concerto for
Band
George Lloyd Diversions on a Bass Theme

(piano)
Ravel Prélude in A minor Alborada delgracioso (Miroirs)
Debussy Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)
La cathédrale engloutie (Preludes, Bk I)
La soiree dans Grenade (Estampes)
Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales

Alyn Shipton presents the last of six programmes in tribute to the American trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie , who died in January. With contributions from bass players Milt Hinton and Bob Cunningham , trumpeter
Benny Bailey and drummers Art Blakey and Max Roach. Roach played with Dizzy in a concert of free improvisation in Paris in 1989. Series producer Derek Drescher

with Stephen Johnson. Producer Andrew Mussett

Jonathan Harvey 's new opera, commissioned by English National Opera and broadcast from the London
Coliseum in the production by David Pountney.
Ann and John's marriage ceremony is torn apart by violent death. Only by coming to terms with the past can they hope to discover a lasting peace.
English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder
Act 1
8.30 Aspects of Harvey Jonathan Harvey , librettist David Rudkin and director
David Pountney discuss tonight's production with Piers Burton-Page .
8.50 Act 2
(In association with KPMG Management Consulting)

Concerto in the Italian
Style (BWV971)
Overture in the French Style (BWV831)
Andras Schiff (piano)

Jonathan Swain presents seven programmes tracing the parallel development of symphony and symphonic poem.
2: Russia c.
Balaklrev Symphonic poem: Tamara
USSR Academic Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yevgeny Svetianov
Borodin Symphony No 2 in B minor
Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor
Kirill Kondrashin. Discs

Except in Scotland. As broadcast
9.00-10.25am on R5