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With Andrew McGregor. Schubert, transcr
Rachmaninov Wohin ? (Die Schone Mullerin)
6.06 Schubert String
Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden)
7.05 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in F minor, Op 8 No 4
(Winter, The Four Seasons)
7.32 Stenhammar
Overture: Excelsior!
8.05 Delius Dance
Rhapsody No 1
8.32 Bach Cantata
No 190: Singet dem Herrn Editor Andrew Lyle

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor.
Unknown:
Rachmaninov Wohin
Editor:
Andrew Lyle

With Mairi Nicolson.
Torelli Concerto Grosso in E, Op 8 No 3
10.08 Quitter It was a lover and his lass, Op 23 No 3
10.13 Britten Suite:
Johnson over Jordan
10.30 Artist of the Week:
Raphael Oleg (violin)
Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor
10.44 Hoist A Moorside
Suite
11.00 Beethoven "Eroica"
Variations
11.25 Schumann Symphony No in B flat (Spring) Producer Paul Hindmarsh

Contributors

Unknown:
Mairi Nicolson.
Violin:
Raphael Oleg
Producer:
Paul Hindmarsh

(1865-1931)
This week's programmes feature the music Nielsen composed during his rise to fame as Denmark's national composer by the age of 45, from the charming Suite for strings to the invigorating third symphony. With David Fanning.
Little Suite for strings Beethoven Academy, conductor Jan Caeyers
Symphony No 1 in G minor San Francisco SO/ Herbert Blomstedt
Producer Andrew Mussett
Repeated next Monday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Herbert Blomstedt
Producer:
Andrew Mussett

With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 The BBC
Orchestras
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor
Mark Wigglesworth
Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht Mozart Violin Concerto
No 4 in D, K218
Haydn Symphony No 99 in E flat
A concert given last September in Theatr Hafren, Newtown, in association with S4C
2.30 Franz Krommer
String Quartets: in E flat,
Op 5 No 1; in D, Op 85 No 3 Salomon Quartet
Presented by Simon Standage.
An Arthur Johnson production
3.25 The BBC
Orchestras
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Gunther Herbig Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished)
Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor
4.30 Hoagy's Jazz
The third of a four-part series focusing on jazz pianist and songwriter Hoagy Carmichael , who reported that he "found" his melodies whilst improvising at the piano.
Mel Hill introduces Hoagy's own description of his creative process and a range of interpretations on disc from Louis Armstrong to Frank Sinatra.

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Conductor:
Mark Wigglesworth
Violin:
Thomas Zehetmair
Unknown:
Franz Krommer
Presented By:
Simon Standage.
Unknown:
Arthur Johnson
Conductor:
Gunther Herbig
Piano:
Noriko Ogawa
Songwriter:
Hoagy Carmichael
Introduces:
Mel Hill
Unknown:
Louis Armstrong
Unknown:
Frank Sinatra.

Young Musicians 96
From the South
Bank, London,
Tommy Pearson begins a week focusing on Young Musicians 96 with a roundup of today's May Day Holiday extravaganza. The event celebrates a wide range of youth music-making, from chamber music to steel bands. Producer Christina Pritchard

Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Pearson
Producer:
Christina Pritchard

With Andrew Green , including
Gounod Faust (Act 4, excerpt)
5.45 Mendelssohn Allegro brillant in A, Op 92
6.03 Haydn Piano Trio in E flat, H XV 30
6.35 Debussy Fetes Producer Andrew Mussett

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Green
Unknown:
Mendelssohn Allegro
Producer:
Andrew Mussett

Gordon Stewart deciphers five classic voice types and their characteristics.
Spinto
Sopranos who push their way to the top, from Donna Anna to Princesses Isolde and Turandot - with Lilli Lehmann
, Birgit Nilsson and Eva Turner.
Producer David Gallagher

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Stewart
Unknown:
Donna Anna
Unknown:
Lilli Lehmann
Unknown:
Birgit Nilsson
Unknown:
Eva Turner.
Producer:
David Gallagher

Penny Gore introduces a recital by the Schubert Ensemble oftondon.
David Matthews A Song and Dance Sketchbook
(first broadcast)
Mendelssohn Piano Quartet in F minor, Op 2
Producer Nigel Wilkinson

Contributors

Introduces:
Penny Gore
Unknown:
David Matthews
Producer:
Nigel Wilkinson

(1809-1847)
David Huckvale explores five facets of Mendelssohn's genius.
1: Mendelssohn at home
"If you feel like singing his praise, please do so moderato - so far I have managed to keep him from being too conceited and bigheaded: those damnable enemies of all artistic progress."
Karl Zeiter , Mendelssohn's teacher.
Song without Words in C, Op 67 No 4 (The Bee's Wedding); Song without
Words in A flat, Op 38 No 6 (Duetto); String Symphony No 3 in E minor, Children's 's Pieces, Op 72; String Octet in E flat, Op 20
Repeated from last Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
David Huckvale
Unknown:
Karl Zeiter

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Euro-Concert
Schumann Piano Concerto;
Strauss Also sprach
Zarathustra; Bruckner
Symphony No 7
3.10 Early Music German songs and madrigals
4.10 Chamber Music
Piano music by Schubert and Schumann
5.00 Sequence Including Smetana Sarka (Ma vlast)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.

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