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with Andrew Lyle.
7.03 Purcell Why do the heathen? (Z65)
7.16 Durufle Scherzo, Op 2
7.23 Brahms Double
Concerto in A minor
8.00 The Great Thanksgiving Paul Guinery visits a Ghanaian Pentecostal church in London with the Rev Alan Walker for the third of seven programmes surveying 20th-century worship at the Eucharist.
8.30 Vaughan Williams Phantasy Quintet
8.45 Purcell 0 Lord rebuke me not (Z40)
Producer Piers Burton-Page

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Lyle.
Unknown:
Paul Guinery
Unknown:
Alan Walker
Producer:
Piers Burton-Page

9.00 Artist of the Week:
Colin Davis (conductor)
Berlioz Overture: Le corsaire
9.12 Anon Instrumental piece, cl270
9.18 Haydn
Concert aria: Solo e pensoso (H XXIVb 20)
9.26 Lehar
Waltz: Luxembourg
9.36 Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G
9.47 Tallis Spem in alium
9.57 Beethoven Variations on "Ich denke dein"
10.03 Composers of the Week - The Golden Age of Hollywood:
Max Steiner The
Adventures of Don Juan
10.14 Gesualdo Moro lasso; Luci serene e chiare
10.22 Michael Torke
Purple (Colour Music)
10.30
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
10.58 Chabrier Trois valses romantiques
11.20 Flnzi Romance for string orchestra
11.28 Bach
Prelude and Fugue in G minor ("48", Bk
11.35 Rachmaninov
Symphony No 3 in A minor Producer Edward Blakeman
Discs

Contributors

Conductor:
Colin Davis
Unknown:
Tallis Spem
Unknown:
Max Steiner
Unknown:
Don Juan
Unknown:
Gesualdo Moro
Unknown:
Michael Torke
Music:
Rodrigo Concierto
Unknown:
Chabrier Trois
Producer:
Edward Blakeman

Excess of Pleasure
Members of the Palladian
Ensemble and Andrew Pinnock
explore with Jonathan Swain the colourful British career of Nicola Matteis , the 17th-century violinist who came to London in about 1670.
Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Pinnock
Unknown:
Jonathan Swain
Unknown:
Nicola Matteis

A concert series celebrating the 150th anniversary of Faure's birth.
Raphael Oleg (violin) Kathryn Stott (piano) BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Chabrier Suite pastorale
Faure Ballade, Op 19 Saint-Saens Danse macabre in G minor, Op 40 Chausson Poème
Ravel Tzigane; Daphnis et Chloe: Suite No 2
Given last Friday in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Next programme tomorrow
7.30pm

Contributors

Violin:
Raphael Oleg
Piano:
Kathryn Stott
Conductor:
Yan Pascal Tortelier

Sir Philip Sidney - poet, scholar and soldier - wrote that music was "the most divine striker of the senses". Christopher Page and Claire Preston discuss the life and work of a man who captured the hearts of so many and inspired countless musical outpourings.
Producer Kate Bolton

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Philip Sidney
Unknown:
Claire Preston
Producer:
Kate Bolton

Ensemble Sonnerie perform Bach's work on period instruments. Presented by Malcolm Boyd.
Wilbert Hazelzet (flute) Paul Goodwin (oboes)
Francis Eustace (bassoon) Monica Huggett (violin)
Sarah Cunningham (viola da gamba)
Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin and viola)
Gary Cooper (harpsichord) A Floating Earth production

Contributors

Presented By:
Malcolm Boyd.
Flute:
Wilbert Hazelzet
Oboes:
Paul Goodwin
Bassoon:
Francis Eustace
Violin:
Monica Huggett
Viola:
Sarah Cunningham
Violin:
Pavlo Beznosiuk
Harpsichord:
Gary Cooper

by Sophie Treadwell , a prolific and controversial writer whose feminist themes and innovative dramatisation brought expressionist theatre back to life.
Machinal is loosely based on the sensational murder trial of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray and is a stinging indictment of a world which oppresses women.
Featuring most of the cast from the National Theatre production, including Fiona Shaw as the Young
Woman, John Woodvine as George H Jones and Ciaren Hinds as the Man.
Music by Stephen Warbeck Martin Allen (percussion) Tim Harries (bass) Sonia Slaney (violin) Jamie Talbot
(clarinet/saxophone)
A Catherine Bailey Limited production Rpt
FAIREST ISLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Sophie Treadwell
Unknown:
Ruth Snyder
Unknown:
Judd Gray
Unknown:
John Woodvine
Unknown:
George H Jones
Music By:
Stephen Warbeck
Music By:
Martin Allen
Bass:
Tim Harries
Violin:
Sonia Slaney
Clarinet:
Jamie Talbot
Unknown:
Catherine Bailey
Telephone girl:
Matilda Ziegler
Stenographer:
Lynn Farleigh
Adding clerk:
Bill Wallis
Filing clerk:
James Duke
Mother:
June Watson
Doctor:
Christopher Rozycki
Woman at bar:
Rachel Power
Defense lawyer:
Roger Sloman
Prosecution lawyer:
Colin Stinton

To mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Malcolm
Sargent, Brian Wright introduces some of Sargent's choral recordings from the BBC archives.
Including
Delius A Mass of Life
(1964 Prom)
Heather Harper (soprano)
Yvonne Minton (contralto)
Ronald Dowd (tenor)
John Cameron (baritone) BBC Chorus and Choral
Society
Alexandra Choir
Harrow Choral Society Royal Choral Society
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Malcolm Sargent Producer Gwen Hughes.

Contributors

Introduces:
Brian Wright
Soprano:
Heather Harper
Contralto:
Yvonne Minton
Tenor:
Ronald Dowd
Baritone:
John Cameron
Conductor:
Malcolm Sargent
Producer:
Gwen Hughes.

with Anthony Burton. Building a Library
Rodney Milnes concludes his two-part Gilbert and Sullivan survey. William Mival reviews John Eliot
Gardiner's period-instrument recording of Verdi's Requiem.
David Huckvale explores new releases of film music. Revised repeat from yesterday
9.00am

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Burton.
Unknown:
Rodney Milnes
Unknown:
William Mival
Unknown:
John Eliot
Unknown:
David Huckvale

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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