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7.05 Ame Overture No 8 in G minor
Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood
7.23 Songbook Series: Wolf Italienisches
Liederbuch Nos 21-24
Felicity Lott (soprano) Peter Schreier (tenor)
Graham Johnson (piano)
7.45 Debussy Images (Book I)
Arturo Benedetti
Michelangeli (piano)
8.05 Arnold Overture: The
Fair Field
LPO, conducted by The Composer
8.21 Lili Boulanger Soir sur la plaine
Amanda Pitt (soprano) Martyn Hill (tenor)
Peter Johnson (baritone) Andrew Ball (piano)
New London Chamber
Choir, conductor
James Wood
8.32 Quartet Collection: Haydn String Quartet in E flat, Op 64 No 6 New Italian Quartet Discs

Presented by Geraint Lewis. 2: Daniel Jones (1912-1993)
Orpheus and Bacchus
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Nicholas Cleobury
String Quartet (1975) Delme Quartet Symphony No 7
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Nicholas Cleobury

from Cardiff with Nicola
Heywood-Thomas, including Walton Overture:
Portsmouth Point
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor
David Atherton
10.10 Artist of the Week:
Delia Jones (mezzo) Chausson Poeme de
I'amour et de la mer
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
11.05 Arriaga Symphony in D
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor
Adrian Leaper
11.40 Faure Valse-Caprice No 4 in A flat, Op 62 Kathryn Stott (piano)
11.50 Tchaikovsky
Entr'acte; Waltz; Chorus (Eugene Onegin )
Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, conductor Charles
Mackerras

The Song of the Angels
In the fifth and final concert of vocal music from pre-Reformation England,
Christopher Page and Gothic Voices look back to the fusion in song of Anglo-
Saxon and Norman cultures.
Repeated from yesterday
11.30pm

In October 1939, Myra Hess began a series of daily chamber-music concerts at the National Gallery which continued throughout the War. In this five-part series, Robert Philip traces the history of the concerts, and plays recordings of those that took part.
Today's progarmme includes Myra Hess playing the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in F minor, Op 57 (Appassionata) and the Scherzo from Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34 with the Griller Quartet. With the voices of Howard Ferguson, Sir Kenneth Clark and Myra Hess herself.

Playtime 2.15 Time to Move 2.35 Listen!

Appalachian Spring and Music for the Movies rubbed shoulders with musicals like Rogers and Hammerstein's South Pacific.
The influence of the European avant-garde on a group of musical theorists armed with computers contrasted sharply with the home-grown modernism of Elliott Carter. Sue Knussen talks to Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt - two of the major players in the musical world of 1940s America - and introduces music from across the entire spectrum.

Jeremy Siepmann talks to Tommy Pearson about the tradition of performing Chopin's music.
Producer Chris Wines

Music and arts events from Cardiff with Nicola Heywood-Thomas, whose studio guest is the Artist of the Week, mezzo-soprano Delia Jones.

or The History of Dioclesian
A production which includes some of the best-known singers in the early music field.
Catherine Bott and Yvonne Seymour (sopranos) Rogers Covey-Crump and Joseph Cornwell (tenors) Stephen Varcoe, Peter Harvey and Martin Robson (baritones)
Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, director Peter Seymour (harpsichord)

Schindler's List star Ralph Rennes takes the title role in a new production of Hamlet - Roy Porter gets the first-night verdict on one of the hottest tickets of the year.
Plus critical response to Tom Stoppard 's new play, Indian Ink, which stars Felicity Kendal.
Producer John Goudie

Conductor Adrian Leaper
Alexander Baillie (cello)

Milhaud Suite francaise

Saint-Saens Allegro appassionato

Sibelius Incidental music: Pelleas et Melisande

Milhaud Cello Concerto

(Repeated tomorrow 12 noon)

Triple Bill - Treasure Island by R L Stevenson: Part 2
1.30 GNVQ: Making
Contacts 2.00 French 16+:
Nouveaux Horizons/Voix de France