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7.05 Handel Handbook:
Handel Violin Sonata in A,
Op 1 No 14
7.32 Ireland Prelude: The
Forgotten Rite
7.45 Janacek Otce nas
(The Lord's Prayer)
8.05 Saint-Saens Marche militaire française (Suite algerienne)
8.21 Stravinsky
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
8.41 Tippett
Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli
Discs
FAIREST ISLE

Introduced by Kate Bolton. 2: Musicke and Mirth
Drinking songs by the Lawes brothers and their friend John Wilson and an account of their evening at a tavern, songs to beautiful women and dance music from William Lawes ' Royall Consort.

with Piers Burton-Page .
CPE Bach Sonata in G minor (Wq88)
Leipzig Rameau Trio
10.05 Artist of the Week: Clara Haskil (piano) Ravel Sonatine
10.15 Larsson Pastoral Suite, Op 19
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
10.30 Brahms Three Motets, Op 110
BBC Singers, conductor James O'Donnell
10.30 Weill Kleine Dreigroschenmusik
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jan Latham-Koenig
11.00 Schumann Adagio and Allegro, Op 70
Colin Carr (cello) Francis Grier (piano)
11.10 Verdi Stabat Mater (Four Sacred Pieces)
South German Madrigal Choir
Ludwigsberg Festival Orchestra, conductor Ludwig Gonnenwein
11.25 Mozart Piano Concerto No 7 in E flat (K271)
Clara Haskil (piano) Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Paul Sacher

Repeated from yesterday 11.30pm

with Susan Sharpe.
FAIREST ISLE
1.00 BBC Festival of Brass 1995
Paul Hindmarsh presents the fifth of eight concerts of British brass band music.
Grimethorpe Colliery Band, conductor Frank Renton
Arthur Bliss
Greetings to a City
Wilfred Heaton Sinfonia
Concertante
Martin Winter (comet) Robin Holloway Men Marching Percy Fletcher
Labour and Love
2.00 Schools
Playtime 2.15 Time to Move 2.35 Ghostwriter
2.45 Le Club
3.00 Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Claudio Abbado
Maxim Vengerov (violin) Musorgsky Prelude: Khovanshchina
Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No 1
Tchalkovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor
FAIREST ISLE
4.25 An Outside View
Leading performers and composers from around the world voice their opinions on British music. Today, pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. Producer Susan Kenyon
4.30 Peter Philips The second of two programmes about the Elizabethan Catholic composer who left England to seek religious freedom in Rome and the Low
Countries. Harry Christophers directs the Sixteen in motets written in honour of St Peter and to celebrate the marriage of Archduke Albert , the composer's employer in Brussels.

World Music in London
Dirk Campbell meets three Iranian classical musicians, weathering the effects of the British climate on their instruments and music.

with Mairi Nicolson.
5.45 Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances (1st mvt)
6.02 Chopin Waltz in A flat, Op 64 No 3
6.45 Ravel La valse Producer Paul Hindmarsh

The 1995 festival reached its climax with this concert, given on Sunday, including a specially commissioned fanfare by Jonathan Harvey , this year's featured composer, and a performance of Beethoven's Triple Concerto by the three distinguished soloists who have been resident in Bath throughout the festival. Joshua Bell (violin)
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Jon Kimura Parker (piano) Academy of St Martin , conductor Neville Marriner
Harvey Fanfare for Utopia (first performance)
Mozart Symphony No 35 in D (Haffner)
Beethoven Triple Concerto in C, Op 56
Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)
A Classic Arts production

Spalding Gray Talks to Himself
In the first of four programmes this week, the performer and monologist interviews himself in a studio in New York and explains why he prefers to be described as a "talking man". He recounts the story of the time he walked into a chemist shop, pretending to have slashed his wrists.
Producer Jane Berthoud
Next programme tomorrow 10.10pm

Mozart
String Quartet in 0 minor (K421)
Mendelssohn String
Quartet in A minor, Op 13 Rpt

Roy Porter examines a new history of black cultures beyond Africa, The Black Diaspora. Plus the British premiere of Jozi Jozi , a contemporary look at
Johannesburg from South Africa's acclaimed Market
Theatre.
Producer Erika Wright

Chris de Souza introduces an Early Music Invitation Concert from St Paul 's
Church, Knightsbridge.
Andrew Manze and Rachel
Podger (violins)
Mark Levy (bass viol) John Toll (organ)
The Fantasia-Suites by John Coprario together with organ solos by Orlando Gibbons.
Repeated tomorrow 12 noon

German: Die Schnuffier