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Presented by Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Tchaikovsky Pas de deux (The Nutcracker)
7.25 S S Wesley Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
7.32 Ives Country Band March
8.05 Elgar Chanson de matin; Chanson de nuit
8.19 Corelli Concerto
Grosso in F, Op 6 No 2
8.30 Lambert Concerto for piano and nine players Discs

Contributors

Presented By:
Andrew McGregor
Unknown:
Wesley Thou
Unknown:
Elgar Chanson

"For a quarter of a century or more a pro-Teuton, I owed too much to their music ..."
Lewis Foreman 's survey concludes with some of Parry's most characteristic scores from the time of the First World War.
From Death to Life
London Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Matthias Bamert
English Suite
London Symphony
Orchestra/Adrian Boult Songs of Farewell
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, conductor Richard Marlow

Contributors

Music:
Lewis Foreman
Conductor:
Richard Marlow

With Chris Wines in Birmingham.
Artist of the Week:
Frans Bruggen (conductor)
Bach Herr , unser Herrscher
(St John Passion)
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Orchestra of the 18th
Century
10.09 Brahms Four Pieces,
Op 119
Paul Berkowitz (piano)
10.26 Nadia Boulanger Lux aeterna
Doris Reinhardt (mezzo) Isabelle Sabrie (harp) Olivier Charlier (violin) Roland Pidoux (cello)
10.29 Copland Suite: Billy the Kid
English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Steuart Bedford
10.49 Veracinl Sonata in A minor
Frans Bruggen (recorder) Anner Bylsma (cello) Gustav Leonhardt
(harpsichord)
11.00 Rebecca Clarke
Viola Sonata
Garfield Jackson (viola) Martin Roscoe (piano)
11.25 Mozart Notturno in 0 (K286)
Orchestra of the 18th
Century/Frans Bruggen
11.41 Ravel Concerto for piano left hand
Leon Fleisher (piano) Boston Symphony
Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa

Contributors

Conductor:
Frans Bruggen
Conductor:
Bach Herr
Piano:
Paul Berkowitz
Piano:
Nadia Boulanger
Unknown:
Doris Reinhardt
Harp:
Isabelle Sabrie
Cello:
Roland Pidoux
Unknown:
Frans Bruggen
Cello:
Anner Bylsma
Harpsichord:
Gustav Leonhardt
Harpsichord:
Rebecca Clarke
Harpsichord:
Viola Sonata
Viola:
Garfield Jackson
Piano:
Martin Roscoe
Piano:
Mozart Notturno
Piano:
Leon Fleisher

In the second of three programmes celebrating three great soprano voices, Suzanne Danco talks to
Gordon Stewart in her
Florence home and introduces some of her recordings of Mozart,
Brahms and Berg and of the French repertoire in which she was supreme. A Cavendish production
FAIREST ISLE

Contributors

Talks:
Suzanne Danco
Unknown:
Gordon Stewart

In the Middle Ages, German
Jews migrated eastwards to tsarist Russia to escape persecution and settled in the ghettos - segregated areas of Christian cities - or in shtetls - towns and villages in the countryside. In the first of two programmes, Alex Knapp presents traditional songs and dances reflecting life in that now lost world of the Jewish communities of eastern Europe, including a medieval lament by impoverished Jewish troubador Suesklnt von
Trimberg and songs of childhood, love and marriage.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alex Knapp

BBC Philharmonic from the Free Trade
Hall, Manchester. the opening concert of the orchestra's new season.
Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Howard Shelley (piano) Enescu Suite No 3 in D
(Villageoise)
Beethoven Piano Concerto
No 1 in C
8.35 Italian Encounters
David Mendel continues his occasional series with a reminiscence of the novelist Edith Wharton and her adventurous journey to the monastery of San
Vivaldo in Tuscany, where an artistic discovery awaits.
8.55 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 5 in E minor

Contributors

Conductor:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Piano:
Howard Shelley
Unknown:
David Mendel
Unknown:
Edith Wharton

Philip Dodd concludes his exploration of art and music in the 20th century. 4: Cartoons
An extraordinary history of the surreal and intimate marriage of animation and music, featuring Chuck Jones , Jeremy Irons ,
Tim Rice - and a tribute to
Carl Stalling.

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Dodd
Unknown:
Chuck Jones
Unknown:
Jeremy Irons
Unknown:
Tim Rice
Unknown:
Carl Stalling.

Music Is for the People Michael McCarthy introduces music by some of the composers featured at this year's Vale of Glamorgan Festival.
Martin Butler ,
Michael Torke , Eric Stokes ,
Michael Nyman and Pwyll ap Sion are united in a desire to reach new audiences. Festival director
John Metcalf made it possible for the musicians to visit local venues whose communities are unable to attend regular concerts.

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael McCarthy
Unknown:
Martin Butler
Unknown:
Michael Torke
Unknown:
Eric Stokes
Unknown:
Michael Nyman
Director:
John Metcalf

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