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7.05 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G (BWV1049) - Marcel and Louis Moyse (flute), Adolf Busch (violin), Adolf Busch Chamber Players
7.19 Giovanni Gabrieli Angelus ad pastores - Monteverdi Choir, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
7.32 Liszt Transcendental Study No 6 in A minor (Theme and Variations) - Valery Kuleshov (piano)
8.05 Vivaldi Bassoon Concerto in B flat (RV504) - Klaus Thunemann (bassoon), I Musici
8.23 Strauss Die heiligen drei Konige aus Morgenland - Felicity Lott (soprano), Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
8.32 Dvorak Prague Waltzes - Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Antal Dorati.
(Discs)
Introduced by Hugh Keyte. St George 's School Choir, conductor Ian Hillier
Trad Wassail ! Wassail!; Here we come a- wassailing
Curt Carlsson introduces music by Francesco Antonio Uttini and Johann Gottlieb Naumann - two foreigners invited to
Stockholm to help the king realise his dream of opera in Swedish. The programme includes excerpts from
Uttini's opera Thetis och Peteeand Naumann 's
Gustaf Wasa.
From Birmingham with Chris Wines.
Respighi Brazilian Impressions
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Geoffrey Simon
10.30 Jaco do Bandollm
Choro; Gostosinho (Tasty)
Os Ingenuos
10.33
Beethoven Serenade in D, Op 25 Australia Ensemble
10.57 Artist of the Week: Christa Ludwig (mezzo) sings songs by Brahms Leonard Bernstein (piano)
11.13 Schubert Piano
Sonata in A minor
(D845)
Paul Berkowitz (piano)
11.51 another group of Chdros from Brazil, played by Os Ingenuos.
BBC Philharmonic conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Timothy Hugh (cello)
Ravel La valse
Blake Watkins Cello
Concerto (first performance)
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
(Given at last year's Lichfield Festival in association with Severn Trent pic)
The second cycle of songs by the German composer Wilhelm Killmayer to late poems by Friedrich Holderlin. Performed by Christoph Pregardien (tenor)
Siegfried Mauser (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor Mark Wigglesworth Susannah Waters (soprano) Sarah Walker (mezzo) Robert Tear (tenor)
Alastair Miles (bass) BBC Welsh Chorus
Bath Festival Chorus
Bartok Suite: The
Miraculous Mandarin
Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral)
(Given in association with Intercity at this year's Cardiff Festival)
Music, arts news and interviews from Manchester with Rodney Slatford , including at approximately
5.15 Schoenberg Weinachtsmusik
6.03 Granados El amor y lamuerte
6.32 Bach, arr Stokowski Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
7.10 Chopin Ballade No 2 in F, Op 38
Producer Paul Hindmarsh
conductor Colin Davis
Karita Mattila (soprano) The second of five all-
Sibelius concerts given as part of last year's
Scandinavian Festival,
Tender Is the North, at the Barbican Centre, London. Symphony No 3 in C Höstkväll, Op 38 No 1 Luonnotar, Op 70 Symphony No 1 in E minor
(Given in association with Union Bank of Finland)
2: Mrs Packktide 's Tiger In which Louise Mebbin proves that even a paid companion will turn.
Read by Peter Howell.
Trio di Vienna:
Priya Mitchell (violin)
Martin Homstein (cello) Claus-Christian Schuster
(piano) with Michael Kugel (viola)
Paul Juon Piano Trio in A minor, Op 17 Lill Boulanger
Deux pièces en trio
Strauss Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 13
Kevin Crossley-Holland's six-part series restores King Arthur to where he has always belonged - the world of the storyteller. The series stars Richard Griffiths as Sir Thomas Malory who recalls moments in his life when he was told the magnificent stories which were later to make up his Morte D'Arthur.
Christmas Eve, 1429. With the snow waist-deep in the Derbyshire peaks, as a 13-year-old squire, Thomas Malory hears the story of Gawain and the Green Knight.
(Part 2 tomorrow 10.35pm)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor Guido Ajmone -Marsan
Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Dvorak Symphony No 4 in D minor