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With Andrew McGregor
Including a chance to win tickets for a Mahler Prom, and at approximately:

7.05 Haydn Symphony No 26 in D minor (Lamentatione) - L'Estro Armonico, conductor Derek Solomons

7.21 Debussy Premiere rapsodie - Emma Johnson (clarinet), English Chamber Orchestra/Yan Pascal Tortelier

7.46 Liszt Rapsodie espagnole - Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)

8.05 Warlock Capriol Suite - Academy of St Martin, director Neville Marriner

8.22 Chesnokov Thou art blessed, O Lord (Requiem Op 39) - Cantus Sacred Music Ensemble, director Ludmila Arshavskaya

8.46 Martinu La revue de cuisine - St Paul Chamber Orchestra/Christopher Hogwood

(Discs)

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew McGregor

From Cardiff, with Nicola Heywood Thomas.
Dvorak Overture: Carnival
10.10 Prom Artist of the Week:
Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
Handel Go Frown Barbarian in Jehova's Awful Sight (Deborah)
10.15 Ravel Tzigane
10.25 Gay, arr Britten The Beggar's Opera (excerpt)
10.35 Goreck Kleines
Requiem
11.05
Schubert Fruhlingslaube
11.15 Donizetti Madrei !
Deh placati; Ah! Di contento (Emilia di Liverpool)
11.20 Hoist Ballet music:
The Perfect Fool
11.30 Grieg Solveig 's Song (Peer Gynt)
11.35 Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite No 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicola Heywood Thomas.
Soprano:
Yvonne Kenny
Unknown:
Schubert Fruhlingslaube
Unknown:
Donizetti Madrei
Unknown:
Grieg Solveig

The second of three programmes featuring central works of the clarinet repertoire.
Michael Collins (clarinet) Mary Scully (double bass) Vogler Quartet
Schubert String Quartet Movement in C minor
(0703)
Baermann Adagio (Clarinet Quintet No 3)
Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op 34
3.05 Michael Collins talks to Andrew Lyle about his aims in organising this clarinet festival.
3.10 Brahms Clarinet
Quintet in B minor, Op 115

Contributors

Clarinet:
Michael Collins
Clarinet:
Mary Scully
Bass:
Vogler Quartet
Talks:
Michael Collins
Unknown:
Andrew Lyle

The second of two concerts recorded in the BBC Maida
Vale Studios, directed by Stephanie Gonley (violin). William Bennett (flute)
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Howard Hanson Serenade
Kent Kennan Night Soliloquy
Arvo Part Fratres
Haydn Symphony No 87 in A

Contributors

Violin:
Stephanie Gonley
Flute:
William Bennett
Flute:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Howard Hanson Serenade
Unknown:
Kent Kennan

Music and arts news from
Manchester presented by Lynne Walker.
Satie La belle excentrique
5.45 Schubert The
Shepherd on the Rock
6.03 Telemann Horn Concerto in D
6.30 Dvorak American Suite
Producer Paul Hindmarsh

Contributors

Presented By:
Lynne Walker.
Producer:
Paul Hindmarsh

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Gidon Kremer (violin)
Judith Howarth (soprano) Randi Stene (mezzo) Jason Howard (baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

Nielsen Overture: Helios
Kaija Saariaho Graal Theatre (BBC commission, first performance)

8.10 Twentieth-Century Masterworks
Composer Steve Martland explores the apocalyptic world of Scriabin and his
Poem of Ecstasy, with the help of tonight's conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.

8.30 Szymanowski Stabat mater
Scriabin The Poem of Ecstasy

(Simultaneous Broadcast with BBC2)

Contributors

Violinist:
Gidon Kremer
Soprano:
Judith Howarth
Mezzo-soprano:
Randi Stene
Baritone:
Jason Howard
Singers:
BBC Symphony Chorus
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor/Interviewee (Twentieth-Century Masterworks):
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Presenter (Twentieth-Century Masterworks):
Steve Martland

2: Literature
Following in the footsteps of W H Auden and Louis MacNeice
, Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell try out new poems at a reading in Reykjavik and search for the Sagas with Matthias Johannessen , writer and editor of Morgunnbladid. Rpt
For details see yesterday Next programme tomorrow
9.40pm

Contributors

Unknown:
H Auden
Unknown:
Louis MacNeice
Unknown:
Simon Armitage
Unknown:
Glyn Maxwell
Unknown:
Matthias Johannessen

Was Robert Louis
Stevenson just the brilliant adventure storyteller and children's author remembered by British readers, or was he also the pioneer of the psychoanalytical novel venerated in Europe? Julian Evans examines the reputation of a writer whose brilliance may have been shipwrecked on the success of Treasure Island.
Producers Noah Richler and Tom Alban Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Evans
Unknown:
Treasure Island.
Producers:
Noah Richler
Producers:
Tom Alban Rpt

The third of seven concerts from this year's York Early Music Festival, introduced by George Pratt.
David Thomas (bass)
Lucy Russell and Jonathan Sparey (violins)
Rachel Gray (cello)
Anthony Rooley (lute)
Peter Seymour (organ and harpsichord)
The Reverend Mr Gostling and Mr Leveridge , two legendary singers of Purcell's London.
Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
Concert sponsored by Townend Wines

Contributors

Introduced By:
George Pratt.
Bass:
David Thomas
Bass:
Lucy Russell
Bass:
Jonathan Sparey
Cello:
Rachel Gray
Cello:
Anthony Rooley
Unknown:
Peter Seymour
Unknown:
Mr Gostling
Unknown:
Mr Leveridge

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