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7.05 Walton, arr Palmer Two Pieces for violin
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) London Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Jan Latham-Koenig
7.13 Mozart Concerto in D (K107 No 1)
Ton Koopman (piano) Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
7.32
Shostakovich Waltz and Gavotte
(The Human Comedy) Scottish National
Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi
8.05 Corelli Trio Sonata in G, Op 1 No Purcell Quartet
8.11 Strauss
Four Last Songs Various artists
8.44
Schnittke Suite in the Olden Style
Moscow Virtuosi, conductor
Vladimir Spivakov. Discs
5: ... to the Stars
Messiaen's masterpiece of hope Etexspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, in a performance at
Westminster Cathedral, leads beyond this mortal life to the consummation of all things in his final Visions de I'Amen.
The fourth programme in which David Melling describes Holy Week at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Constantinople.
An icon of the dead Christ is placed in the bier, surrounded with flowers, as the church re-enacts his deposition from the cross.
with Chris Wines from
Birmingham.
10.45 Purcell
Trio Sonata No 7 in C
Purcell Quartet
11.20 Artist of the Week: Simon Rattle (conductor) Janacek Glagolitic Mass
Soloists, with Jane Parker-Smith (organ) City of Birmingham
Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Duparc and Chausson fain Burnside presents orchestral songs by two
French composers, written under the influence of Wagner. Duparc
Phidyle; limitation au Voyage; La vie antérieure; Le manoir de Rosemonde; Au pays où se fait la guerre Chanson Triste
Chausson Poeme de
I'amour et de la mer
Moray Welsh (cello)
Catherine Edwards (piano) Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 5 No 2 Prokofiev
Cello Sonata in C, Op 119
2.00 Listen and Read 2.10
Music Box: Shapes and Colours 2.25 Playtime 2.40 Music Workshop: Music
Course 3 Down at the End of the Pier
Mstiskv Rostropovich
In the last of the present series, Edward Greenfield introduces broadcast performances given by the great Russian cellist during his early visits to Britain in 1959 and 1961. Shostakovich Piano Trio
No 2 in E minor
Leonid Kogan (violin) Emil Gilels (piano)
Bach Cello Suite No 3 in C (BWV 1009)
Musorgsky Songs and Dances of Death
Prokofiev Five
A khmatova Poems, Op 27 Galina Vishnevskaya (sop)
Mstislav Rostropovich (piano) Series producer Patrick Lambert
Second of two programmes of traditional music from Iraq, presented by Ruth Davis , including songs and dances from the desert Bedouin tribes, the Marsh Arabs , the kawliyya gypsy musicians and others.
"I hear voices but there's no one there!" - pianist
Kathryn Stott explains what musicians mean by "inner voices".
with Richard Baker.
5.15 Malcolm Arnold: A Sussex Overture
6.03 Britten: Soirees musicales
6.30 Lennox Berkeley: Sonatina for flute and piano
7.03 Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture: May Night
from the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea.
Conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Lars Vogt (piano)
Weber Overture: Euryanthe Beethoven Piano
Concerto No 4 in G
8.15 Thursday Night, Friday Morning
A soundscape of Athens - from dusk on Holy Thursday to dawn on Good Friday.
8.35 Mendelssohn
Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish)
It's nearly half a century since the world premiere of Britten's Peter Grimes. Aled Jones introduces the opera, reflects on its enduring appeal and talks to artists who know the work well.
Producer Daniel Snowman
(Peter Grimes tomorrow night from Brussels)
David Melling describes Holy Week at the Greek Orthodox
Patriarchate, Constantinople. On the evening of Good
Friday, the icon of the dead Christ is carried in procession in what is known as the Service of Laments.
John Theocharis takes a train, a taxi and a thesaurus through the city of Athens in search of what makes modern Greek poets tick. Readers John Rowe , Janet Suzman Producer Piers Plowright
Sarah Walker presents a recent recording of the Hilliard Ensemble in concert at the Wigmore Hall, in a repertoire from the 13th century to works by Morton Feldman , Michael Finnissy , Brian Elias , John Casken , and Stephen Montague 's Boombox Virelai. Producer Alan Hall
1.00 As broadcast 2.00-3.00pm
2.00 Ghostwriter 2.10
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