Programme Index

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With Andrew McGregor , including a chance to win tickets for a Mahler Prom, and at approximately
7.05 Hoist Invocation, Op 19 No 2
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) Academy of St Martin , conductor Neville Marriner
7.15 Telemann Concerto in B flat for three oboes, three violins and continuo
Musica Antiqua Koln , director Reinhard Goebel
7.45 Respighi Pastorale (after Tartini)
Ingolf Turban (violin)
English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Marcello Viotti
8.05 Purcell Portfolio:
Purcell A selection of songs
8.24 Handel Handbook:
Handel Arias for wind quintet (HWV 410 and 411) Academy of Ancient Music, director
Christopher Hogwood
8.35 Bliss Suite: Checkmate
English Northern
Philharmonia, conductor
David Lloyd-Jones Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Conductor:
St Martin
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Musica Antiqua Koln
Director:
Reinhard Goebel
Conductor:
Marcello Viotti
Director:
Christopher Hogwood
Conductor:
David Lloyd-Jones

"I put my whole self into it. I did not want to make a god of my Oedipus, but a being of flesh and blood, like you and me." Prelude: Oedipe
Monte Carlo Philharmonic
Orchestra/Lawrence Foster Piano Sonata No 3
Antonio Rosado (piano) Oedipe (excerpts)
Oedipe JOSE VAN DAM (bass-bar)
Soloists, Chorus and Monte Carlo Philharmonic
Orchestra/Lawrence Foster

Contributors

Piano:
Antonio Rosado
Bass-Bar:
Jose van Dam
Unknown:
Lawrence Foster

Presented by Mairi Nicolson , including at approximately
10.01 Gemlniani Concerto grosso in D, Op 2 No 3
10.09 Artists of the Week:
Katia and Marielle Labeque (piano duet)
Adolfo Berio Waltz : Maria
Isabella
10.15 A selection of songs
10.22 Rachmaninov Trio
élégiaque in G minor
10.50 Mozart Concerto in E flat for two pianos (K365)
11.20 Goossens
Concertino
11.40 Gliere The Bronze
Horseman (excerpts)

Contributors

Presented By:
Mairi Nicolson
Unknown:
Adolfo Berio Waltz

With Susan Sharpe.
FAIREST ISLE
1.00 New series
British Opera Matinee Humphrey Carpenter introduces the first in a series of afternoon opera broadcasts featuring Britten and other 20th-century British composers.
John Gay , arr Britten The Beggar's Opera
The lowlife of 18th-century London, with its colourful characters, dodgy dealings and tangled love lives, comes vividly to life in Britten's inventive arrangements of Gay's original melodies.
Aldeburgh Festival Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Steuart Bedford
Discs
3.00 London Baroque Schmeizer Lamento sopra di Ferdinando III; Sonate a 4 (Lamento)
Vivaldi Sonatas: in B minor
(RV169); in E flat (RV130) (Al Santo Sepolchro) Baldassare Galuppi Concerto a 4 in G
Bach Quartet No 1 in D Discs
3.50 The BBC
Orchestras
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Horia Andreescu
Inger Dam Jensen (soprano)
Beethoven Overture: The
Consecration of the House
Mozart Exsultate Jubilate
Mozart Misera, dove son!
Haydn Symphony No 102 in B flat major

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
John Gay
Unknown:
Baldassare Galuppi
Conductor:
Horia Andreescu
Soprano:
Inger Dam Jensen
Macheath:
Philip Langridge (tenor)
Mrs Peachum:
Anne Collins (contralto)
Peachum:
Robert Lloyd (bass)
Polly Peachum:
Ann Murray (mezzo)
Lockit:
John Rawnsley (bar)
Lucy Lockit:
Yvonne Kenny (sop)
Beggar:
Declan Mulholland (speaker)

Music, news and interviews from Birmingham presented by Humphrey Carpenter , including at approximately
5.40 Vaughan Williams Scherzo (A London Symphony)
6.03 Chopin Scherzo No 1 in B minor, Op 31
Producer Jeremy Hayes

Contributors

Presented By:
Humphrey Carpenter
Producer:
Jeremy Hayes

From the Royal
Albert Hall , London. Grigory Sokolov (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, conductors
Yan Pascal Tortelier and Peter Maxwell Davies
Elgar Overture: Cockaigne Maxwell Davies
The Beltane Fire (BBC commission, European premiere)
7.55 Lynne Walker continues her celebration of 60 years of music-making by the BBC Philharmonic.
8.15 Rachmaninov Piano
Concerto No 3 in 0 minor

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Hall
Unknown:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Unknown:
Maxwell Davies
Unknown:
Lynne Walker

4: London, the Humanist City London has been Richard Rogers's
home for over 40 years, and for him the city is a source of constant inspiration and frustration. In this fourth lecture, he advocates a variety of ways to make London a better place to live. Among his ideas are the use of derelict sites for new building, the liberation of major public spaces from traffic and a rejuvenation of the Thames as the symbolic heart of capital. First broadcast on Radio 4
Final programme tomorrow
10.00pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Rogers'S

David Johnston ,
Michael George and Owen Brannigan sing settings of Hilaire Belloc by Ivor Gurney. Peter Warlock , Liza Lehmann and Benjamin Britten.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Johnston
Unknown:
Michael George
Unknown:
Owen Brannigan
Unknown:
Hilaire Belloc
Unknown:
Ivor Gurney.
Unknown:
Peter Warlock
Unknown:
Liza Lehmann
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten.

From the Royal
Albert Hall , London.
A classic late-night programme of early music, with Nancy Argenta (soprano) Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo)
Michael Chance
(countertenor)
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Collegium Musicum 90 Choir and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox
Bach Sinfonia (Cantata
No 42); Motet: Singet dem Herrn (BWV 225); Violin Concerto in A minor
(BWV 1041); Magnificat in D

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Hall
Soprano:
Nancy Argenta
Soprano:
Pamela Helen Stephen
Tenor:
Ian Bostridge
Baritone:
Stephen Varcoe
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Bach Sinfonia

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