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7.05 Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending - David Nolan (violin), London Philharmonic, conductor Vernon Handley
7.20 Donizetti, arr Liszt Valse a capriccio sur deux motifs de Lucia et
Parisina - Leslie Howard (piano)
7.39 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D (BWV 1050) - English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
8.05 Bernstein Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story" - Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)
8.25 Dowland I Saw My Lady Weep - Emma Kirkby (soprano) Anthony Rooley (lute)
8.32 Mozart Piano Concerto No 19 in F (K459) - Artur Schnabel (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Malcolm Sargent
(Discs)
Presented by Adrian Thomas. Zelenskl Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 61
Polish Piano Quartet
9.38 Kariowlcz
Lithuanian Rhapsody, Opll
Silesian Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Jerzy Salwarowski
Presented by Piers Burton -Page, including an English string quartet, a Mozart divertimento and two concertos.
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor
Dong-Suk Kang (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Tadaaki Otaka
11.30 Artist of the Week.
Krystian Zimerman (piano) Lutoslawski Piano
Concerto
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor The Composer
The Hilliard Ensemble perform sacred works from the Polish Renaissance, based around the Mass and Vespers music of Nicholas of Radom, and including motets by Petrus of Grudencz, Felsztyna and Nicholas of Krakow. Jacob
Heringman intersperses the programme with lute music by lacobus Rels and Diomedes Cato.
Kleine
Dreigroschenmusik Symphony No 2
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Robert Ziegier
In the second of two programmes
Stephen Plaistow and James Gibb examine recordings of some of the great Chopin interpreters of the past and discuss some of the different performing traditions.
The music includes Piano
Concerto No 1, Ballade No 4 and some of the mazurkas, and the pianists are Horszowski, Perlemuter, Rosenthal,
Friedman and Michalowski. Producer Adam Gatehouse
The fifth programme in Robert Tear's six-part survey of English song features music from the 19th and early 20th centuries in performances by Felicity Lott ,
Joan Sutherland , Ian Partridge , Benjamin Luxon and other distinguished singers, discs Producer Nick Freeth
A Rewind production
Ein Heldenleben
Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Carlos Kleiber
A St Andrew's Day edition from Glasgow, presented by Linda Ormiston , including
5.03 Kelly Symphony in Bflat
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Christopher Bell
6.03 Rossini Theme and Variations
Richard Stolzman (clarinet) Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, conductor Alexander Schneider
6.30 Schubert Symphony No 6 in C
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Matthias Bamert
7.00 Hamish McCunn
Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor
Alexander Gibson
from Studio 1, with Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin) Boris Berezovsky (piano)
Beethoven Violin Sonata in D, Op 12 No 1
Schnittke Sonata No 1
8.20 POLSKA!
The Survival of Poeby The Agony in the Garden
In the second of four nightly programmes, Donald Pirie tells how poets such as Adam Mickiewicz , Cyprian Norwid ,
Stanislaw Wyspianski ,
Boleslaw Lesmian , Jozef Czechowicz and Czeslaw Milosz captured the national imagination, from the noble defeats of the Romantic period to the horrors of the Second World War.
8.40 Brahms Violin
Sonata in G, Op 78
2: Mr Charles and Dodo
Read by Simon McBurney.
leader ChristopherTombling conductor Scott Stroman
The string ensemble which specialises in 20th-century repertoire perform in an invitation concert that includes a piece they premiered by Gorecki. The concert is introduced by Scott Stroman in conversation with Piers
Burton-Page.
Lutoslawski Grave
Louise Hopkins (cello)
Gorecki Songs of Joy and Rhythm (first broadcast) Andrew Ball and Christopher Kyte (pianos) Panufnlk Arbor Cosmica
Michele Roberts and guests consider the art of portraiture.
Producer Trevor Showier
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Gorecki Old Polish Music for brass and strings
Grieg Peer Gynt: Suites Nos 1 and
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