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with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 Carlo Farina
Capriccio stravagante
7.22 Sibelius
Spring Song, Op 16
7.44 Glazunov
The Sea, Op 28
8.05 Stravinsky Circus Polka
8.08 Handel Fronda leggiera e mobile
8.32 Quartet Collection: Haydn String Quartet in E flat, Op 71 No 3 Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor.
Unknown:
Carlo Farina
Unknown:
Handel Fronda

To end the week,
Curt Carlsson presents music by Otto Ohlsson (1879-1964), in his time the master of Swedish church music.
Agnus Dei (Requiem)
Ingrid Stalne (soprano) Gosta Winbergh (tenor)
Choirs from the Stockholm diocese/Charles Farncombe Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor
Ralph Davier (organ)
Ave maris Stella (Six Latin Hymns, Op 40)
Arne Lundmark (baritone) Eric Ericson 's Chamber
Choir/Eric Ericson Te Deum
Mark Falsjo (organ)
Adolf Frederiks Madrigal Choir Nicolai Chamber Choir
Stockholm Strings, conductor Ralph Davier

Contributors

Unknown:
Curt Carlsson
Music By:
Otto Ohlsson
Soprano:
Ingrid Stalne
Tenor:
Gosta Winbergh
Unknown:
Ralph Davier
Baritone:
Arne Lundmark
Baritone:
Eric Ericson

with Piers Burton-Page .
Handel Concerto grosso in D, Op 3 No 6
10.15 Artist of the Week:
Steven Isserlis (cello) Rimsky-Korsakov Serenade , Op 37
10.20 Rautavaara
Cantus Arcticus
10.40 Bach Cello Suite No
3 in C (BWV 1009)
11.00 Schumann Arabeske in C, Op 18
11.07 Lionel Sainsbury Violin Concerto
11.50 Brahms Gesang der Parzen, Op 89

Contributors

Unknown:
Piers Burton-Page
Cello:
Steven Isserlis
Cello:
Rimsky-Korsakov Serenade

Time Regained
The fifth of six programmes celebrating the careers of great musicians. As solo violinist, chamber musician, conductor and teacher,
Sandor Vegh has inspired generations of musicians - and not only string players - for more than 60 years. The Hungarian Quartet, which he founded in 1934, played Ravel to Ravel and premiered Bartok's fifth quartet. His interpretations of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven are equally legendary. Peter Cropper and Andras Schiff pay tribute to his achievements and influence in conversation with Stephen Plaistow.
Bach Chaconne in D minor
(Partita, BWV 1004)
Bartok String Quartet No 3 Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor
Beethoven Cavatina (String Quartet in B flat, Op 130) Mozart Serenade in D
(K250) (Haffner) (excerpts) A Cavendish production
THE FORTIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandor Vegh
Unknown:
Peter Cropper
Unknown:
Andras Schiff
Unknown:
Beethoven Cavatina
Unknown:
Mozart Serenade

When Judy Garland sang of a magical land Somewhere over the Rainbow, few realised the lasting power the song would have, particularly during the dark years of the 40s.
Ernie Harburg , son of the lyricist E Y "Yip" Harburg, recalls the song's creation. Producer Mark Burman

Contributors

Unknown:
Judy Garland
Unknown:
Ernie Harburg
Producer:
Mark Burman

Sara Nuttall explores traditional music of the ancient trade route. Today, from Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan:
Turgun Alimatov 's re-creation of the sato and the Uigur songs of Abdelaziz Hashimov. Then to a music party in Khojend in northern Tajikistan, and John Bailey introduces religious songs and dances from Afghanistan.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sara Nuttall
Unknown:
Turgun Alimatov
Unknown:
Abdelaziz Hashimov.
Introduces:
John Bailey

with Jeremy Nicholas. Weber Overture: Der
Freischutz
6.30 Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme
7.03 Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56a Producer Ray Abbott
THE FORTIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Nicholas.
Producer:
Ray Abbott

from Studio 1,
Birmingham.
Lindsay Quartet
Shostakovich String Quartet No 4
Britten String Quartet No 2
8.30 Catching the Eye
Deyan Sudjic continues his survey of design in the 40s with a look at how commercial art and graphics became the tools of the advertising industry after the War.
8.50 Tippett
String Quartet No 3
THE FORTIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Deyan Sudjic

John Woolrich introduces a final concert mixing old and new music. Early music ensemble the Orlando
Consort and jazz group
Perfect House Plants perform a sequence of improvisations and specially composed pieces based on medieval chant and polyphony.
A co-production with Malcolm Bruno
THE FORTIES

Contributors

Introduces:
John Woolrich
Unknown:
Malcolm Bruno

In the 20 years he spent at the BBC, Northern Ireland poet, playwright and critic Louis MacNeice produced some of his finest and most challenging work. This new profile focuses on MacNeice in the 1940s and combines interviews with those who knew and worked with him, contemporary archive material and excerpts from his poems and plays. Producer Michael Quinn

Contributors

Unknown:
Louis MacNeice
Producer:
Michael Quinn

Tonight's aural sensations come courtesy of Stephen Scott's novel piano technique and his piece The Tears of Niobe for bowed piano, and Gyorgy Ligeti's reinvention of composition for the organ, Volumina, performed by Karl-Erik Welin. Introduced by Sarah Walker.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sarah Walker
Producer:
Alan Hall

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