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Mendelssohn Overture: The
Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)
9.14 Artist of the Week:
David Munrow (recorder) Nicola Matteis Ground after the Scotch Humour
9.17 Elgar, arr Young
Suite: The Spanish Lady
9.29 Vaughan Williams
Three Elizabethan Partsongs
9.35 Gounod Ballet Music
(Faust)
9.52 Handel Trio Sonata in F (HWV 405)
9.58 Chaminade Automne
10.05 J C F Bach
Symphony No 20 in B flat
10.36 Elgar Sospiri
10.50 Alexander
Mackenzie Benedictus
11.00 Two Minutes'
Silence
11.02 Vaughan Williams
Motet: Lord, thou hast been our refuge
11.10 Chopin Krakowiak
11.25 Avison Concerto
No 3 in D minor
11.36 Jazz Composers of the Week:
Uab, Schultze and Connor Lili Marlene
11.45 Shostakovich
Symphony No 9
Producer Piers Burton-Page Discs
JAZZ WEEK

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicola Matteis Ground
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Chopin Krakowiak
Unknown:
Lili Marlene

Listening to ... Watercress and Cowpat
These dismissive epithets do scant justice to the originality of the pastoral school of British composers, led by Vaughan Williams in the early years of this century. Anthony Payne examines the modal musical language they created. Producer David Gallagher
FAIREST ISLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Anthony Payne
Producer:
David Gallagher

Directed by Andrew Manze (violin)
Mark Bennett (trumpet) Anthony Robson (oboe)
Rachel Beckett (recorder)
Handel Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 6 No 7
Bach Violin Concerto in E
(BWV 1042); Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F
Avison Concerto Grosso in D minor
Daniel Purcell Sonata in D for trumpet and strings Geminiani, after Corelli
Concerto Grosso in D minor
(La folia)
Given on Thursday in St George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol

Contributors

Directed By:
Andrew Manze
Violin:
Mark Bennett
Oboe:
Anthony Robson
Oboe:
Rachel Beckett
Unknown:
Daniel Purcell Sonata

The Marian antiphon Salve regina can be traced back to the llth century, and its popularity in the Renaissance led to the foundation of religious societies and countless musical settings. Presented by Christopher Page.
Producer Kate Bolton

Contributors

Presented By:
Christopher Page.
Producer:
Kate Bolton

3: Self Portrait with Dog Carey Harrison plays the painter Sir Godfrey Kneller in the last of his fantastical biographies of eminent contemporaries of Henry Purcell.
Directed by David Bendictus

Contributors

Unknown:
Carey Harrison
Unknown:
Sir Godfrey Kneller
Unknown:
Henry Purcell.
Directed By:
David Bendictus

Adrian Jack concludes his tour of six English cathedrals with a visit to
Durham. Dramatically placed high above the River Wear, the cathedral is the greatest Norman sacred building in England. With music written for the choir by Francis Grier, John Casken and John Tavener and works by former organists of Durham Richard Lloyd and William Smith, whose Tudor setting of the responses lies at the heart of English cathedral music.
Durham Cathedral Choir
Keith Wright and Ian Shaw (organ)
Conductor James Lancelot

Contributors

Unknown:
Adrian Jack
Unknown:
Francis Grier
Unknown:
John Casken
Unknown:
John Tavener.
Unknown:
William Smith
Unknown:
Keith Wright
Unknown:
Ian Shaw
Conductor:
James Lancelot
Series Producer:
Tim Thorne

By Bernard Kops.
Starring Leo McKern and Michael Sheen.
A brilliant young poet is threatening to ruin his life through drug addiction. An older poet and academic comes to the rescue, or does he? Winner of the 1995 Writers' Guild Award for best original play.
Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Kops.
Unknown:
Leo McKern
Unknown:
Michael Sheen.
Mervyn:
Leo McKern
Jonathan:
Michael Sheen
Adriana:
Sheila Allen
Chloe:
Rachel Joyce
Annabel:
Elaine Claxton
Ben:
Neville Jason
Sally:
Eva Haddon
Sir Peter:
John Evitts
Voices:
David Jarvis

The last of three live, openended discussions on vital issues in British music tackles cultural politics. Is there a British national identity in music and musical life today? Should British music in the 90s be any different from American, French, German, Italian or Russian music? Chairman
Piers Burton-Page is joined by Rhian Samuel , Peter Jonas , Eleanor Alberga
Michel Oriano and Edward Pearce.
Producer David Gallagher

Contributors

Unknown:
Piers Burton-Page
Unknown:
Rhian Samuel
Unknown:
Peter Jonas
Unknown:
Eleanor Alberga
Unknown:
Michel Oriano
Unknown:
Edward Pearce.
Producer:
David Gallagher

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