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with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 Keyboard Compendium: Bach Two-part
Inventions Nos 8-11
(BWV 779-882)
Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
7.10 lbert Flute Concerto
Timothy Hutchins (flute)
Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit
7.32 Giovanni Gabriel!
Canton a 8 (Canzoni e sonate, 1615)
London Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble
8.05 Poulenc Salve
Regina
Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/George Guest
8.23 List L'Idée fixe....
Andante amoroso d'apres une mélodie de Berlioz
Leslie Howard (piano)
8.33 Copland
Appalachian Spring Boston Symphony
Orchestra/The Composer Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor.
Harpsichord:
Ton Koopman
Flute:
Timothy Hutchins

By the mid-1920s both composers were well established and their music was beginning to reach a wider audience.
Many pieces were given their first performances by the International
Composers' Guild. Ruggles Men
Buffalo PO, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
Vox clamans in deserto
Beverly Morgan (mezzo) Speculum Musicae/
Michael Tilson Thomas
Varese Octandre
French National Orchestra, conductor Kent Nagano Ruggles Men and Mountains
Buffalo PO, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
Varese Intégrales Ensemble
Intercontemporain, conductor Pierre Boulez
Ruggles Portals
Buffalo PO, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas

Contributors

Conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Musicae:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Musicae:
Varese Octandre
Conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez
Conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas

with Chris Wines in Birmingham. Including
10.00 Beethoven
Overture: Leonore No 2
10.14 Brahms Three
Piano Pieces, Op 117
10.31 Dowland, arr van Eyck Lachrimae
10.34 Johann Schop Pavane Lachrimae
10.37 Mozart Symphony No 14 in A (Kl 14)
10.55 Beethoven Piano
Sonata in C, Op 53 (Waldstein)
11.20 Martinu Violin
Sonata No 2
11.45 Artist of the Week: Heather Harper (soprano) Vaughan Williams Benedicite

Contributors

Unknown:
Eyck Lachrimae
Unknown:
Johann Schop
Unknown:
Pavane Lachrimae
Soprano:
Heather Harper

Get into the Groove: 2
George Michael 's dispute with his record company proves that care is needed before entering into a contract when releasing a CD. Indie band Miranda Sex Garden and the Brodsky Quartet look into legal small print.

Contributors

Unknown:
George Michael

from Cardiff with Nicola Heywood Thomas.
5.15 Francaix Marche triomphale
6.03 Delius Two songs to be sung of a summer night on the water
6.30 Haydn Symphony No 99 in E flat
Producer Gwawr Owen

Contributors

Unknown:
Heywood Thomas.
Producer:
Gwawr Owen

from the Royal Albert Hall London,
. Heather Harper (soprano) City of Birmingham SO, conductor Simon Rattle
Mahler Adagio
(Symphony No 10)
Berg Altenberg Lieder
7.40 The Case of the Disappearing Symphony
In May 1936, Shostakovich completed his Fourth
Symphony; in December of that year he withdrew it, and it was not heard until
1961. Stephen Johnson investigates with evidence from Gerard McBumey and Zinovy Zinik.
8.00 Shostakovich
Symphony No 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Soprano:
. Heather Harper
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Unknown:
Berg Altenberg Lieder
Unknown:
Stephen Johnson
Unknown:
Gerard McBumey
Unknown:
Zinovy Zinik.

A Giant Leap?
Twenty-five years ago today, three men were falling towards the moon. It was the technological triumph of the millennium, yet now the dream is dead. Did the moon landing really mean anything? David Gale talks to the second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin , classicist Mary Beard and writer J G Ballard.

Contributors

Talks:
David Gale
Unknown:
Buzz Aldrin
Unknown:
Mary Beard
Unknown:
J G Ballard.

The giant planet rubs shoulders with a wood-nymph and a musical philosopher, in three character pieces from
Antoine Forqueray 's Suite No 5 in C minor, transcribed by his son Jean-Baptiste.
Robert Woolley (h'chord)

Contributors

Unknown:
Antoine Forqueray
Unknown:
Robert Woolley

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
The first of this season's late-night Proms features music by two Renaissance masters who both died 400 years ago.
BBC Singers/Bo Holten

Lassus Madrigals (Lagrime di San Pietro)
Thea Musgrave Rorate coeli
Palestrina Mass: Confitebor tibi

Contributors

Singers:
BBC Singers
Conductor:
Bo Holten

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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