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Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Handel Concerto grosso in F, Op 3 No 4a Brandenburg Consort , director Roy Goodman
7.19 Bax Legend Paul Coletti (viola)
Leslie Howard (piano)
7.42 Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Michel Beroff (piano) London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
8.05 Francesco Cavalli
Lauda Jerusalem
Gabrieli Consort and Players, conductor Paul McCreesh
8.20 Purcell Portfolio:
Purcell A selection of songs
8.30 Stravinsky Petrushka (1911)
Suisse Romande
Orchestra, conductor
Neeme Jarvi
Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Unknown:
Brandenburg Consort
Director:
Roy Goodman
Viola:
Paul Coletti
Piano:
Leslie Howard
Piano:
Michel Beroff
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Conductor:
Paul McCreesh
Songs:
Stravinsky Petrushka

Exile and Return (1849-1869)
Barry Millington follows Wagner into exile and discovers the other music he produced whilst he was composing The Ring, Tristan and The
Mastersingers.
Huldingungsmarsch London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor
Marek Janowski
Polka in G
Stephen Moller (piano)
Eine Sonate fur das Album von Frau M W
Gerhard Oppitz (piano)
Ankunft bei den schwarzen
Schwanen
Gerhard Oppitz (piano) Albumblatt in C (In das Album der Fijrstin
Metternich)
Daniel Levy (piano) Wesendonck Lieder
Cheryl Studer (soprano)
Dresden State Orchestra/ Giuseppe Sinopoli Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Millington
Conductor:
Marek Janowski
Piano:
Stephen Moller
Piano:
Eine Sonate
Piano:
Gerhard Oppitz
Piano:
Gerhard Oppitz
Piano:
Daniel Levy
Piano:
Wesendonck Lieder
Soprano:
Cheryl Studer
Unknown:
Giuseppe Sinopoli

from Manchester with Mairi
Nicholson, including
Russian songs sung by Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Gabrieli Sonata XX a 22 (Canzoni e Sonate 1615)
Wallace Collection, conductor Simon Wright
10.07 Artist of the Week:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (bar) Borodin No sleep, no rest (Prince Igor)
Kirov Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev
10.15 Mozart Piano
Concerto No 12 in A (K414) Mari Kodama (piano) BBC Philharmonic, conductor Adrian Leaper
10.44 Grainger Scotch Strathspey and Reel Ambrosian Singers
ECO/Benjamin Britten
11.05 Beethoven
Bagatelles, Op 126 (excerpts)
Eric le Sage (piano)
11.13 Bax Symphony No 3 Halle Orchestra, conductor
John Barbirolli

Contributors

Sung By:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Sung By:
Gabrieli Sonata
Conductor:
Simon Wright
Unknown:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Conductor:
Valery Gergiev
Piano:
Mari Kodama
Conductor:
Adrian Leaper
Conductor:
John Barbirolli

Margaret Juntwait and Steven Ledbetter present the second of four programmes of music from late 19th-century Boston. George Chadwick (1854 1931)
Symphony No 3 (slow mvt) Detroit Symphony
Orchestra, conductor
Neeme Jarvi
String Quartet No 5 (Finale) Portland Quartet
Horatio Parker (1863-1919)
Organ Concerto in E flat minor
Stephen Krahn (organ) Nebraska Chamber
Orchestra, conductor
John Levick
Charles Ives (1874-1954) /ch grolle nicht
Thomas Hampson (bar)
Armen Guzelimian (piano) The Circus Band
Jan DeGaetani (mezzo) Gilbert Kalish (piano)
A Hester Furman production

Contributors

Unknown:
Steven Ledbetter
Unknown:
Horatio Parker
Unknown:
Stephen Krahn
Conductor:
John Levick
Conductor:
Charles Ives
Unknown:
Thomas Hampson
Piano:
Armen Guzelimian
Unknown:
Jan Degaetani
Piano:
Gilbert Kalish

BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Gunther Herbig Michael Davis (violin) Paul Watkins (cello)
Richard Simpson (oboe) Rachel Gough (bassoon)
Webern Passacaglia, Op 1 Haydn Sinfonia Concertante in B flat
Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G

Contributors

Conductor:
Gunther Herbig
Violin:
Michael Davis
Cello:
Paul Watkins
Oboe:
Richard Simpson
Bassoon:
Rachel Gough

Sean Rafferty from Belfast, on the eve of St Patrick's
Day.
5.25 Mozart Concert aria:
Ch'io mi scordi di te (K505)
6.00 Brahms Ballade in B, Op 10 No 4
Producer David Byers

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Rafferty
Unknown:
Brahms Ballade
Producer:
David Byers

From Stationers' Hall, London.

Thomas Arne's opera, based on his own translation of Metastasio, was the first full-scale opera seria in English, and it held the stage for over 70 years. Tonight, it receives its first modern performance, in a new reconstruction by Peter Holman.
The Parley of Instruments, director Roy Goodman

Acts 1 and 2

8.50 Interval
The original performing material for Artaxerxes was destroyed in a fire in 1808. Peter Holman looks at the problems of reconstructing the opera and at its place in Arne's output.

9.10 Act 3

Contributors

Composer:
Thomas Arne
Opera reconstruction/Speaker (Interval):
Peter Holman
Musicians:
The Parley of Instruments
Musical Director:
Roy Goodman
Artaxerxes:
Christopher Robson (alto)
Artabanes:
Ian Partridge (tenor)
Arbaces:
Patricia Spence (mezzo)
Rimenes:
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Mandane:
Catherine Bott (sop)
Semira:
Philippa Hyde (soprano)

As a new film of Little
Women opens starring
Winona Ryder, Christopher Cook asks why so many girls but so few boys read Louisa May Alcott. Plus outrageous, outspoken and outstanding choreographer Mark Morris talking about his new dance.
Producer Sarah Barnett

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Mark Morris
Producer:
Sarah Barnett

Presented by Iain Burnside . The young German baritone Matthias Gorne and the pianist Wolfram Rieger perform songs by Schubert. Beethoven and Schumann in a recital recorded earlier this month at the Wigmore Hall.
Repeated tomorrow at 12 noon

Contributors

Presented By:
Iain Burnside
Baritone:
Matthias Gorne
Pianist:
Wolfram Rieger
Songs By:
Schubert. Beethoven

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