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7.05 Locke Suite No 2 in D
(Consort of four parts) Hesperion XX
7.32 Sheppard Ave Maris Stella
The Sixteen, director Harry Christophers
7.43 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Louis Lortie (piano) Netherlands Wind Ensemble, conductor
Richard Dufallo
8.05 Dvorak Slavonic
Dances: No 1 in C; No 8 in G minor
Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
8.22 Vivaldi Concerto in C for two trumpets (RV537) English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
Discs

Continuing the composer's autobiography of 1740, read by Simon Callow.
At the age of 30, Telemann accepts a major musical appointment in Frankfurt, but his prestige is such that he also manages to secure well-paid visiting contracts elsewhere, including one as a tax-collector.
The music features the Viola Concerto in G, the Quartet in D minor from
Tafelmusik and an excerpt from the Brockes Passion.

with Piers Burton-Page , including
10.03 Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos 11-16
Yaara Tal and Andreas
Groethuysen (piano duet)
10.15 Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat (K378)
Carl Flesch (violin) Felix Dyck (piano)
10.35 Mateo Flecha
Ensalada: La Negrina
Huelgas Ensemble, director Paul van Nevel
11.05 Artist of the Week:
James Blades (percussion) Britten
The Burning Fiery Furnace (excerpt)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Bryan Drake (baritone) English Opera Group
Orchestra, conducted by The Composer
11.20 Hummel
Two Pieces, Op 107 lain Burnside (piano)
11.30 Brahms, orch
Rubbra Variations on a theme of Handel
Cleveland Orchestra, conductor
Vladimir Ashkenazy

Repeated from yesterday
11.30pm

Der Ring des Nibelungen Die Walkure
The second part of Wagner's epic cycle from this year's Bayreuth
Festival, presented by Clive Bennett Sung in German
Bayreuth Festival
Orchestra, conductor
James Levine
Act
2.15 Interval
Anthony Peattie considers the Bayreuth Festival in the light of two recent books: Wolfgang Wagner 's autobiography Acts and Frederic Spotts 's Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival.
2.25 Acts 2 and 3

Dark Voices
Why is it that tenors and sopranos are always the beautiful young things in opera, while baritones and mezzos wind up villainous or maternal? Brian Beattie talks to Linda Ormiston ,
Donald Maxwell and Roderick Swanston.

from Glasgow with Geoffrey Baskerville.
Bartok Three Studies
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
6.30 Bach Singet dem Herm ein neues Lied
Choir of Christ Church
Cathedral, Oxford, conductor Francis Grier
7.00 Tchaikovsky
Panorama (Sleeping Beauty) Kirov Theatre Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev Producer Svend Brown

from the Royal Festival Hall, London.
Conductor Bernard Haitink
Berlioz Overture: Benvenuto Cellini
Ravel Ma mere I'oye
8.10 The Christian Agnostic
Stephen Johnson traces conflicting ideas of religious faith and doubt as expressed in Vaughan Williams's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies.
8.30 Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5 in D
See also next Saturday 3.00pm

4: Isadora, Leandra, Chloe,
Trude ... faraway places, or stops on the Central Line? We travel by tube, bus and taxi through the streets of Italo Calvino 's
Invisible Cities.
Final programme tomorrow
9.20pm

(1914-82)
Pieces for cello and piano, played by Julian Lloyd Webber and John Lill , framing the composer's swansong, the Missa Sanctae Mariae
Magdalenae sung by the Richard Hickox Singers with the organist Ian Watson , conductor Richard Hickox.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Mike Maran celebrates the centenary of Robert Louis
Stevenson's death with five journeys through his life and work, including specially written songs performed by Rod Paterson. 4: In the South Seas Final programme tomorrow
4.20pm

Repeated from Monday 4.30pm

Kurt Weill 's Threepenny Opera receives a major revival in the intimate setting of the Donmar Warehouse, London.
Humphrey Carpenter reports from the opening night.
Producer Paul Quinn

lain Burnside introduces and accompanies the American soprano Christine Brewer in a recital recorded last month.

Marx Selige Nacht; Hat dich die Liebe beruhrt; Und gestern hat mir Rosen gebracht; Traumgekront Strauss Zueignung; Ich liebe dich; Befreit; Wiegenlied
Dougherty Waly, Waly; Shenendoah; Everyone Sang; The Review
Britten Tell me the truth about Love: Johnnie; Calypso