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7.05 Tchaikovsky, arr Stravinsky Pas de deux: Bluebird (Sleeping Beauty) - Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

7.24 Michael Haydn Romance in A flat - Hermann Baumann (horn) Gewandhaus Quartet

7.45 Bach Sonata No 1 in G minor (BWV 1001) - Arthur Grumiaux (violin)

8.05 Dowland Come away, come sweet love - Rufus Muller (tenor), Christopher Wilson (lute)

8.22 Malcolm Arnold The Sound Barrier, Op 38 - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Kenneth Alwyn

8.43 Messiaen Le traquet stapazin (Catalogue d'oiseaux) - Robert Sherlaw Johnson (piano)

(Discs)

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew McGregor

4: Champagne and Chips chez Proust Richard Langham Smith reveals fragments of Franck's only opera and Proust's passion for the composer's string quartet - a story illustrated by Alan Bennett in his screenplay 102 Boulevard Haussman.
Hulda (extracts)
Daniel Blumenthal and Jacob Bogart (pianos) String Quartet in D Fitzwilliam Quartet

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Langham Smith
Illustrated By:
Alan Bennett
Unknown:
Daniel Blumenthal
Pianos:
Jacob Bogart

with Mairi Nicolson from
Manchester.
Artists of the Week:
Grimethorpe Colliery Band. German March: The
President conductor Frank Renton
10.15 Debussy Danse sacree et danse profane Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra/Bernard Haitink
10.36
Hlndemrth Sonata for E flat horn
Gerard McChrystal (saxophone)
Kathryn Page (piano)
10.45 George Benjamin Altitude
10.55 Gary Carpenter Chi Grimethorpe Colliery Band, conductor Frank Renton
11.10 Beethoven Piano
Concerto No 4 in G
Jon Kimura Parker (piano) BBC Philharmonic/ Yan Pascal Tortelier
11.45 Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol BBC Philharmonic/ Yan Pascal Tortelier

Contributors

Unknown:
Mairi Nicolson
Conductor:
Frank Renton
Unknown:
Hlndemrth Sonata
Horn:
Gerard McChrystal
Piano:
George Benjamin
Unknown:
Gary Carpenter
Conductor:
Frank Renton
Piano:
Jon Kimura Parker
Unknown:
Yan Pascal

Songs by the troubadour Martin Codax , the Seville Cathedral musician Pedro de Escobar and the Madrid-based composer
Manuel Machado , with anonymous pieces including a lament on the defeat of the Portuguese army by the Moroccans in 1578. Gerard Lesne (countertenor) Circa 1500:
Nancy Hadden (flute) Erin Headley
(viola da gamba)
Paula Chateauneuf
(guitar/vihuela)
Andrew Lawrence-King (harp)

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Codax
Unknown:
Manuel MacHado
Unknown:
Gerard Lesne
Flute:
Nancy Hadden
Viola:
Erin Headley
Guitar:
Paula Chateauneuf

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor
Jerzy Maksymiuk
Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Haydn
Symphony No 85 in B flat (La Reine) Stravinsky
Violin Concerto in D
Lutoslawskl Livre pour orchestre

Contributors

Conductor:
Jerzy Maksymiuk
Violin:
Leonidas Kavakos
Unknown:
Lutoslawskl Livre

Music and arts events from
Cardiff with Nicola Heywood Thomas, including Vivaldi Recorder
Concerto in A minor
(RV440)
6.28 Mozart Piano
Concerto No 20 in D minor (K466)
7.03
Rimsky-Korsakov Notturno for four horns
Producer Gwawr Owen

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicola Heywood
Unknown:
Rimsky-Korsakov Notturno
Producer:
Gwawr Owen

Prokofiev's highly charged five-act opera exposing obsession, passion, black magic and murder in 16th-century Cologne.
Tonight's performance comes from La Scala,
Milan, and is presented by Piers Burton-Page . Sung in Russian.
Chorus and Orchestra of La
Scala, Milan, conductor Riccardo Chailly

Contributors

Presented By:
Piers Burton-Page
Conductor:
Riccardo Chailly
Renata:
Gauna Gorchakova (soprano)
Ruprecht:
Sergei Leiferkus (baritone)
Inquisitor:
Paata Burchuladze (bass)
Mephistopheles/Agrippa:
Konstantin Pluzhnikov (tenor)
Faust:
Georg-Emil Crasnaru (bass)
Hostess:
Jeannette Nikolai (mezzo)
Abbess:
Ludmila ShemcHuk (mezzo)
Mathias:
Ernesto Panariello (bass)
Jacob Glock:
Sergio Bertocchi (tenor)
Doclor:
Mario Bolognesi (bass)
Innkeeper:
Silvestro Sammaritano (bass)

Michele Roberts talks to the black American writer
Ishmael Reed about his new book Japanese by Spring and reviews the first authorised biography of the late James Baldwin. Producer Enka Wright

Contributors

Talks:
Michele Roberts
Unknown:
Ishmael Reed
Unknown:
James Baldwin.
Producer:
Enka Wright

Family Values
Mums and dads, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, sons and daughters ... lain Burnside takes a look at how our nearest and dearest have been immortalised in song. Producer Adam Gatehouse

Contributors

Producer:
Adam Gatehouse

BBC Radio 3

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