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7.00 Berlioz
Overture: King Lear London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
7.30 J C Bach
Symphony, Op 18 No 4
Academy of Ancient Music, director Simon Standage
7.40 Mllhaud
Cello Concerto, Op 136 Nol
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Kent Nagano
8.35 J S Bach
Violin Concerto in D minor (BWV 1052)
Simon Stand age (violin) Collegium Musicum 90 Discs
Anthony Burton talks to
Michael Tippett about his life and music.
A huge compassionate power to lieal, to love ...
Song No (Songs for Dov) Nigel Robson (tenor) Scottish Chamber
Orchestra, conducted by The Composer
The Ice Break (Act 2, conclusion)
Heather Harper (soprano) Cynthia Clarey (mezzo) Bonaventura Bottone
(tenor)
David Wilson-Johnson and Donald Maxwell (baritones) London Sinfonietta and Chorus/ David Atherton
Symphony No 3 (Part 2) Heather Harper (soprano) London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor
Colin Davis
A concert given in the Town Hall, Cheltenham.
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet
Britten Four Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes )
Debussy Nocturnes
Stravinsky Petrushka (1947 version)
Maurizio Pollini (piano) Chopin Etudes, Op 10 Nos 1-3,11-12. Discs
The second of three programmes including the Brahms Violin Sonatas and the Schubert Sonatinas, together with piano duets by the same composers.
Krzysztof Smietana (violin) John Blakely (piano)
Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow (piano duet)
Brahms Hungarian Dance No 11
Schubert Sonatina No 3 in G minor (D408)
Deutscher mit zuiei Trios in G (D618); Rondo in D (D608)
Brahms Violin Sonata No 2 in A, Op 100
Opera buffa in three acts by Mozart, with a libretto attributed to
Giuseppe Petrosellini. Sung in Italian.
Vienna Concentus Musicus, conductor Nikolaus
Harnoncourt
Discs
Honegger Pastorale d'été; Prelude: The Tempest Toulouse Capitole
Orchestra, conductor
Michel Plasson Discs
The new Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, cellist Lynn Harrell , talks to Richard Baker. Producer Tim Thorne
from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano) Julian Bream (guitar)
Debussy Iberia
Ravel Piano Concerto in G
Until recently, Spain's Muslim past was concealed by the Christian writers of history. Eduardo Manzano takes Nick Rankin on a tour of Cordoba which reveals forgotten treasures.
8.40 Albeniz, arr Brouwer Evocacidn; El Puerto; El Albaicin (Iberia)
Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra
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Christopher Hope introduces a sries of conversations with contemporary writers in his native country. 7: Orania
In an arid semi-desert in the Western Cape, a community of Afrikaaners are intent on preserving their language and culture away from the political unrest and change happening in the rest of the country.
5: 1937
The year in which many
American musicians went to Europe, where there was less racism and a greater appreciation of jazz.
A view of the artist Cecil Collins (1908-1989).
Cecil Collins 's images of the Fool, representing compassion and innocence, and the Angel, serving as guardian and messenger, were some of the most distinctive of our time.
Sir Stephen Spender , Alex Comfort and John Taverner contribute to a documentary appreciation by Bryan Robertson of an artist with a very contemporary vision. With the late artist, his wife Elisabeth, his biographer William Anderson ,
Canon Keith Walker , Sir Michael Culme-Seymour ,
Robin Baring , Judith Collins , John Lane , Professor Robin Orr and Patrick Reyntiens.
Settings by Mahler of texts from the great collection of German folk poetry. Lucia Popp (soprano)
Andreas Schmidt (baritone) Concertgebouw Orchestra/ Leonard Bernstein
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