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With Paul Guinery.
7.02 Wagner Overture: Die Meistersinger
BBC NOW/George Hurst
7.14 Ravel Kaddisch (Deux mélodies hebraiques) Coenraad Bloemendal
(cello)
Valerie Tryon (piano)
7.20 Mozart, arr Grieg
Fantasia in C minor (K475) Elisabeth Leonskaja and Sviatoslav Richter (pianos)
7.37 J M Bach Ich weiss, dass mein Erloser lebt;' Furchtet euch nicht; Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil
Bernard Robertson (organ) BBC Singers. conductor Stephen Jackson
8.00 Shalom Aleichem !
Sacred and Profane embarks on a survey of Jewish religious music. In seven programmes Alex Knapp will be visiting synagogues and talking to Paul Guinery about an enormous and varied repertoire drawn from festivals, Sabbath services and domestic celebrations, reflecting at least eight centuries of western and oriental Jewish culture and including many works recorded specially for this series by the BBC Singers, conducted by Malcolm Singer.
1: Rosh Hashana: Music for the New Year
8.25 Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor
Paul Watkins (cello)
BBC NOW/George Hurst Producer Antony Pitts

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Guinery.
Piano:
Valerie Tryon
Unknown:
Elisabeth Leonskaja
Pianos:
Sviatoslav Richter
Unknown:
Bernard Robertson
Conductor:
Stephen Jackson
Conductor:
Shalom Aleichem
Unknown:
Alex Knapp
Unknown:
Paul Guinery
Conducted By:
Malcolm Singer.
Cello:
Paul Watkins
Producer:
Antony Pitts

Copland An Outdoor Overture
9.13 Mozart March in D
(K335 No 2)
9.18 Poulenc Mouvements perpétuels
9.24 Composers of the Week: Scottish Romantics
MacCunn The Land of the Mountain and the Rood
9.34 Peri Qual cadavero spirante
9.45 Ravel Boléro
10.01 Morley Now is the month of maying; 0 mistress mine
10.07 Mompou Variations on a Theme of Chopin (excerpts)
10.21 Naudot Recorder
Concerto in G, Op 17 No 5
10.38 Milhaud Le Boeuf sur le toit
10.55 Richard Rodney Bennett Samba triste; Ragtime Waltz
11.03 Grainger Shallow Brown
11.10 Vaughan Williams
Job: a masque for dancing (excerpts)
11.20 Artist of the Week:
Christopher Herrick (organ) Sibelius, arr Fricker Fmlandia
11.35 Beethoven
Symphony No 7 in A
Producer Piers Burton-Page Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Peri Qual
Unknown:
Morley Now
Unknown:
Milhaud Le Boeuf
Unknown:
Richard Rodney
Unknown:
Bennett Samba
Unknown:
Grainger Shallow
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Christopher Herrick
Unknown:
Fricker Fmlandia

The lute was brought to
Europe during the Moorish occupation of Spain and remained one of the most popular and versatile instruments in Western music until the 18th century. George Pratt and Christopher Wilson trace its rise and fall, with music from the Middle Ages, the Golden Age in England and Spain, and the Italian Renaissance.
Producer Kate Bolton

Contributors

Unknown:
George Pratt
Unknown:
Christopher Wilson
Producer:
Kate Bolton

The penultimate concert in the series featuring songs by Britten and composers he admired, given last month in the Wigmore Hall, London.
Britten and Schumann
Janice Watson (soprano) Sally Burgess (mezzo) Lynton Atkinson (tenor) Peter Coleman-Wright (baritone)
Julius Drake and Malcolm
Martineau (piano)
Britten Friday Afternoons (Book I)
Three duets: Mother comfort; Underneath the abject willow; Sleep, beauty bright (A Cradle Song)
If it's ever spring again; The Childlen and Sir Nameless
Two Quartets: Lone Dog; Fancie
Friday Afternoons (Book II) Schumann Spanische Liebeslieder
Final concert tomorrow 9.25pm Britten and Poulenc feature in tomorrow's BBC Lunchtime
Concert, 1.00pm

Contributors

Soprano:
Janice Watson
Soprano:
Sally Burgess
Tenor:
Lynton Atkinson
Baritone:
Julius Drake

The Music of Carl Stalling Is the man who wrote the music that accompanied
Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck one of the key American composers of this century? Jazz and film composer
John Zom presents a profile of Carl Stalling , musical director for over 1,200
Wamer Brothers cartoons. Producer Nick Ware

Contributors

Unknown:
John Zom
Unknown:
Carl Stalling
Producer:
Nick Ware

By Maureen Hunter.
In 1760, astronomer Le
Gentil set out to chart the transit of Venus, leaving his much younger fiancee at home. Six years later, he returns to find that she's older, wiser and less willing to be kept waiting.
Director Alison Hindell

Contributors

Unknown:
Maureen Hunter.
Director:
Alison Hindell
Le Gentil:
Anton Lesser
Celeste:
Kelly Hunter
Margot:
Dinah Stabb
Mme Sytvie:
Doreen Mantle
Demarais:
Simon Ludders

Handel's Israel in Egypt gained huge popularity during the 19th century, but Handel's original 1739 version, restored recently for a recording by The
Sixteen, was very different. Brian Wright talks to conductor
Harry Christophers about repairing one of the cornerstones of the choral repertoire.
Handel Israel in Egypt
Sally Dunkley and Nicola Jenkin (sopranos)
Caroline Trevor (contralto) Neil Mackenzie (tenor)
Robert Evans and Simon
Birchall (basses)
Chorus and Orchestra of The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers Producer Antony Pitts

Contributors

Talks:
Brian Wright
Conductor:
Harry Christophers
Conductor:
Nicola Jenkin
Contralto:
Caroline Trevor
Tenor:
Neil MacKenzie
Tenor:
Robert Evans
Conductor:
Harry Christophers
Producer:
Antony Pitts

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