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7.05 Dvorak
Slavonic Dance in C minor, Op 46 No 7 Czech Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Karel Sejna
7.09 Giovanni Gabrieli
0 magnum mysterium Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
7.47 Respighi
Trittico Botticelliano City of London Sinfonia, conductor
Richard Hickox
8.05 Scarlatti
Sonata in G (Kkl3) Ivo Pogorelich (piano) 8.24 Wolf
Fussreise;
Aufeiner Wanderung (Morike Lieder)
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
(piano)
8.40 Elgar
Three Bavarian Dances, Op 27
London Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by The Composer Discs
Fiona Talkington continues her survey of Mozart's minor-key music with works in F minor and B minor.
The programme includes arias from Le nozze di
Figaro and La betulia liberata, the Fantasia in F minor (K608) for mechanical organ, Dos Lied der Trennung (K519), sung by Peter Schreier and the Adagio in B minor (K540), played by Vladimir Horowitz. Discs
with Piers Burton-Page . Messiaen
Le Traquet Rieur
(Catalogue d'oiseaux) Peter Hill (piano)
10.05 Berlioz
The Damnation of Faust
(excerpts)
Rotterdam PO, conductor Valery Gergiev
10.20 Mozart
Piano Sonata in C (K309) David Owen Norris (piano)
10.40 Handel
Coronation Anthem No 1:
Zadok the Priest
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Academy of St Martin, conductor David Willcocks
10.45 William Kraft
Timpani Concerto Randy Max (timpani)
Rotterdam PO, conductor Hugh Wolff
11.10 Artists of the Week: Busch Quartet Beethoven
String Quartet in F,
Op 59 No 1 (Razumovsky)
Royal College Concerts
Introduced by Chris de Souza.
Andreas Staier
(harpsichord) Bach
Partita No 4 in D
(BWV828)
Scarlatti Sonatas: in E minor (Kk263); in E (Kk264); in D minor (Kk213); inD(Kk214); in C (Kk460 and 461)
Paul Hindmarsh introduces the fifth of eight concerts.
British Nuclear Fuels
Band, conductor
Richard Evans
Russell Gray (cornet) George Allen
March: The Wizard
Vaughan Williams Variations
Thomas Wilson Cartoon
Darrol Barry
Threnody (Sinfonietta) Walton
The First Shoot
Arnold, arr Farr
Four Cornish Dances
2.00 First Steps in Drama
2.15 Letterbox 2.25 Time to Move 2.45 Le Club
conductor
Riccardo Chailly Rossini
Overture: The Barber of Seville
Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)
(piano)
Schubert Six Moments
Musicaux (D780)
Beethoven Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2 (Tempest)
Schubert 12Landler
(D790)
Beethoven Sonata in A flat, Op 110
Richard Wagner 's musical vision of his "loveliest of dreams": love, death and transfiguration.
Yannis Kokkos 's production by Scottish
Opera, from the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, is presented by Clive Bennett. Sung in German.
Scottish Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Armstrong Actl
6.30 During the interval,
Jeremy J Beadle considers the symbolism of night and day in Tristan und Isolde.
6.55 Act 2
8.25 Wagneriana "After lunch, in the children's presence,
Richard plays part of the second act of Tristan.
I literally shudder at the power of genius."
(Cosima Wagner )
Recollections, experiences, myths and miscellaneous encounters with the music and the man who made it.
9.15 Act 3
Harriett Gilbert leads a discussion on Irish writers, focusing on a book of essays by Brendan Kenelley and an edition of the letters of W B Yeats.
Producer Clare McGinn
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor Grant Llewellyn Svendsen
Symphony No 2 in B flat Grieg
Suite: Sigurd Jorsalfar
1.00 As broadcast 2.00-3.00pm
2.00 Word Games 2.10
Something to Think About: Infant Assemblies
