What Is Post-Modernity?

presented by Paul Guinery.
7.03 Tye Mass. Euge bone Clerkes of Oxenford, conductor David Wulstan
7.30 Bach Fantasia on "Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV718) Peter Hurford (organ)
7.35 Bridge String
Quartet No 2 in G minor Brindisi Quartet
8.00 Peter Philips
Dolorosa Pavan and Galliard
Parley of Instruments, director Peter Holman
8.05 Bach
Organ Concerto in C (BWV595)
Peter Hurford (organ)
8.10 Moeran Sinfonietta
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Lionel Friend
8.35 Bernard Stevens
Mass for Double Choir
Finzi Singers, conductor Paul Spicer
Producer Piers Burton-Page

The third of four holiday programmes.

Lully Les musiciens du roi

9.13 Schumann Dichterliebe (excerpts)

9.21 Composer of the Week: Boccherini Cello Concerto No 7 in G (G480)

9.39 Prom Artist of the Week: Emanuel Ax (piano)
Chopin Mazurka in F sharp minor, Op 59 No 3

9.43 Weber Bassoon Concerto in F, Op 75

10.01 Mendelssohn Elijah (excerpt)

10.25 Haydn, arr Kesztler Wind Quintet

10.43 Britten Passacaglia (Peter Grimes)

10.54 Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge (excerpts)

11.06 Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela

11.16 Sondheim Sunday in the Park with George (excerpts)

11.25 Shostakovich Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings

11.48 Monteverdi Lamento della Ninfa

11.55 Satie Les trois valses distinguees de precieux degoute; Le Picadilly

12.05 Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins (BWV 1043)

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This week's quiz comes from the 1994 Cheltenham
Festival. Guy Woolfenden and team captains David Owen Norris and Daryl Runswick are joined in the genteel atmosphere of the Drawing Room in Cheltenham Town Hall by the author Susan Hill and Norris's fellow Gresham
Professor Heather Couper. A Classic Arts production

Tony Robinson tells of the disasters that befell the cocky apprentice who thought he knew better than his teacher, a powerful magician called Derek. With the music of Paul Dukas.
A Ladbroke Radio production

Bruno Turner introduces the service of solemn Vespers performed by a large ensemble of voices and instruments according to
Spanish Baroque practice - the sound of imperial Spain at prayer.
Music by Guerrero, Patino, Navarro, Heredia, Vivanco and Victoria performed by the Gabrieli Consort and Players/ Paul McCreesh.

from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Peter Donohoe and Martin
Roscoe (pianos)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Atherton
Britten Soirees musicales
Faure Pavane
Poulenc
Concerto in D minor for two pianos
3.20 Opus Number Zoo Tommy Pearson investigates the depiction of animals in music with the composer
Edward Gregson and Peter Howell of the BBC Radiophonic
Workshop.
3.40 Malcolm Arnold
Concerto for two pianos (three hands)
Saint-Saens The Carnival of the Animals
Chabrier Espana

Emerson Quartet
Ives String Quartet No 1 Shostakovich String Quartet No 14
5.30 Point Counter Point
Daniel Snowman reads an extract from Aldous
Huxley's novel.
5.40 Beethoven
String Quartet in A minor, Op 132

Michael Hall compares performances of Mozart's
Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra (K364), from the earliest recordings to recent versions on period instruments.

from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Cleveland Orchestra , conductor
Christoph Dohnanyi von Bach, orch Webem Ricercar a 6 (The Musical Offering)
Stravinsky
Violin Concerto
8.35 Wir Lachen Doch!
What makes the Germans laugh? Andrew Sachs finds out more from political satirist Henning Venske.
8.55 Mahler
Symphony No 1 in D

"If there's one truly extraordinary feature about this insignificant little valley, it's this garage."
Chekov's Cherry Orchard is transported to Somerset and turned upside-down in John Fletcher 's visionary tragi-comedy.
Director Nigel Bryant

Brian Wright introduces Puccini's youthful Mass.
He was 22 when he wrote it and had just heard
Verdi's Aida, an experience that left its mark on this work.
Puccini Messa di Gloria
William Johns (tenor)
Philippe Huttenlocher
(bass)
Gulbenkian Foundation
Chorus and SO, Lisbon, conductor Michel Corboz
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