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with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 J C Bach
Overture No 4 in D
7.23 Liszt Transcendental
Study No 6 (Visions) Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)
7.32 Elgar
Nursery Suite, Nos 1-6
8.05 Telemann
Canonic duo No 1 in G
8.20 Sibelius
Luonnotar, Op 70
8.38 Shostakovich Concerto in C minor for piano, trumpet and strings Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor.

5: "I would rather have written Le Roi malgré lui than The Ring." (Maurice Ravel)
Presented by Roger Nichols Vilanelle des petits canards Jacques Jansen (bass)
Jacqueline Robin-Bonneau (piano)
L lie heureuse
Reynaldo Hahn (piano) Scherzo-Valse
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra/ Edouard Lindenburg Le deserteur
Elisabeth Priday (soprano) Roger Nichols (piano)
Trois valses romantiques Robert and Gaby Casadesus (pianos)
Le Roi malgré lui (excerpts) Roger Nichols compares the recording conducted by Elie Cohen with that of the French National Radio
Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit Discs

Contributors

Presented By:
Roger Nichols
Bass:
Jacques Jansen
Piano:
Jacqueline Robin-Bonneau
Piano:
Reynaldo Hahn
Unknown:
Edouard Lindenburg
Piano:
Roger Nichols
Pianos:
Gaby Casadesus
Unknown:
Roger Nichols
Conducted By:
Elie Cohen
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit

with Piers Burton-Page . Original Variations IV
10.00 Hoist
Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda (Fourth Group)
Men's Voices of the RCM
Chamber Choir
RPO/David Willcocks
10.05 Kodaly
Dances of Marosszek
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor David Angus
10.30 Holmboe
String Quartet No 4, Op 63 Kontra Quartet
10.55 Artists of the Week:
BBC Singers
Tim Souster Caliban
11.00 Dvorak Theme and Variations, Op 36 Ian Lake (piano)
11.15 Vaughan Williams Come away, death
BBC Singers/Simon Joly
1125 Hgar Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma), Op 36 BBC Scottish SO/ Jerzy Maksymiuk

Contributors

Unknown:
Piers Burton-Page
Piano:
Ian Lake
Piano:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Jerzy Maksymiuk

Sibelius Academy
Symphony Orchestra
David Gallagher introduces the orchestra, who are joined by four horn players from the Royal Academy of Music, and by the young Finnish orchestra Vivo.
Sibelius Pohjola 's Daughter Schumann Konzertstuck for
4 horns and orchestra
Richard Berry , Martin Owen , Richard Wainwright , Martin Sutton (horns)
Sibelius Academy Symphony Orchestra/Tuomas Ollila Heikki Suolahti
Sinfonia Piccola
Vivo Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kari Tikka
Sibelius Symphony No 7; Finlandia
Sibelius Academy Symphony Orchestra/Tuomas Ollila Series producer Gautam Rangarajan

Contributors

Introduces:
David Gallagher
Unknown:
Sibelius Pohjola
Unknown:
Schumann Konzertstuck
Unknown:
Richard Berry
Unknown:
Martin Owen
Unknown:
Richard Wainwright
Horns:
Martin Sutton
Unknown:
Ollila Heikki Suolahti
Unknown:
Sinfonia Piccola
Conductor:
Kari Tikka
Producer:
Gautam Rangarajan

With Lucy Duran. Tonight's programme features Baaba Maal, Senegal's most famous musical export. A guitarist and singer, his music is rooted in traditional Fulani forms and has wide cultural and political influence.
A Heavy Entertainment production

Contributors

Presenter:
Lucy Duran
Musician:
Baaba Maal
Producer:
Nick St George

Natalie Wheen with arts news and music, including R Strauss Gavotte (Suite in B flat for 13 wind instruments) Op4
6.04 Chopin Scherzo in C sharp minor, Op 39
6.30 Debussy Jeux
7.03 Hans Werner Henze
Ragtimes and Habaneras (Excerpt)
Producer Gwen Hughes

Contributors

Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Unknown:
Strauss Gavotte
Unknown:
Hans Werner Henze
Producer:
Gwen Hughes

The BBC employed a professional chorus for the first time in September 1924. Tonight the BBC Singers, conducted by Simon Joly , celebrate their 70th anniversary. Presented by Michael Berkeley.
BBC Singers 70th
Anniversary Concert from St John 's Smith Square, conductor Simon Joly
Britten Hymn to St Cecilia (first performance in 1942 by the BBC Singers)
Messiaen Cinq Rechants
Xenakis Sea Nymphs (BBC commission, world premiere)
8.20 Hope without Memory A look at the history behind the first performance of Poulenc's Figure Humaine, and at the work's significance as a symbol of the French resistance.
8.40 Ligeti Drei Phantasien Poulenc Figure Humaine
(first performance given by the BBC Singers in 1945)
9.25 Voices of the Air
Anthony Burton presents a profile of the group from its earliest days as a choir for broadcast worship, to its present position as a professional ensemble with an international reputation. With contributions from members, conductors and composers, past and present.
10.10 From the Archives
A sequence of early BBC Singers recordings. including Warlock's Corpus Christi with soloists Peter
Pears and Ann Wood.
10.30 Birthday Greetings from Pierre Boulez who conducts the BBC Singers in Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden and Harrison
Birtwistie's Narration: A description of the passing of a year. With contributions from Luciano Berio and Hans Werner Henze and conductors' choices from
John Poole and Bo Holten.
11.15 License to Sing
Michael Berkeley with Jane Glover , Robert Saxton and Meirion Bowen , review the British choral scene.
11.50 The Epilogue
For many years, the late-night "Epilogue" was an immovable feature of the BBC Singers' week. Tonight the custom is revived - and updated - with a choral finale to the evening in a lighter vein. A Night for Holy Joe is a recent BBC commission for the Singers from the young composer Julian Bond , here receiving its first performance. Producer Michael Emery

Contributors

Conducted By:
Simon Joly
Presented By:
Michael Berkeley.
Unknown:
St John
Conductor:
Simon Joly
Conductor:
Britten Hymn
Singers:
Messiaen Cinq Rechants
Unknown:
Ligeti Drei Phantasien
Unknown:
Anthony Burton
Unknown:
Ann Wood.
Unknown:
Pierre Boulez
Unknown:
Luciano Berio
Unknown:
Hans Werner Henze
Unknown:
John Poole
Unknown:
Bo Holten.
Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Jane Glover
Unknown:
Robert Saxton
Unknown:
Meirion Bowen
Unknown:
Julian Bond
Producer:
Michael Emery

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