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With Andrew McGregor.
Beethoven Piano Sonata in F minor, Op 2 No 1
Murray Perahia (piano)
6.22 Strauss Violin Concerto
Boris Belkin (violin)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
7.05 Handel Coronation
Anthem: The King shall rejoice
Choir of Winchester
Cathedral
Brandenburg Consort, director David Hill
7.32 Elgar Introduction and Allegro
English String Orchestra, conductor William Boughton
8.05 Wagner Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Gotterdammerung) Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Klaus Tennstedt
8.40 Weber Symphony No 2 in C
London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor.
Violin:
Boris Belkin
Conductor:
Riccardo Chailly
Director:
David Hill
Conductor:
William Boughton
Conductor:
Wagner Dawn
Conductor:
Klaus Tennstedt
Conductor:
Roger Norrington

With Mairi Nicolson.
Geminiani Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op 2 No 3
10.08 Brahms Spring Song (Die Mainacht)
10.13 Grainger Hill Song No
10.27 Mozart Piano
Quartet in E flat, K493
11.00 Artist of the Week:
Raphael Oleg (violin)
Prokofiev Violin Concerto
No 1 in D
11.30 Copland Suite: Appalachian Spring

Contributors

Unknown:
Mairi Nicolson.
Unknown:
Grainger Hill
Violin:
Raphael Oleg

With David Fanning.
Jens the Road Mender, Op 21 No 1c
Aksel Shlotz (tenor) Unnamed pianist
Saga-drom
Odense Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tamas Veto
Violin Concerto
Chio-Liang Lin (violin)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

(Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
David Fanning
Tenor:
Aksel Shlotz
Musicians:
Odense Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Tamas Veto
Violinist:
Chio-Liang Lin
Musicians:
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Esa-Pekka Salonen

With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Bel Canto Voices
The second of four programmes in which
Patrick O'Connor talks to different protagonists of the art of bet canto about great exponents of the singing style past and present, dipping into nearly 100 years of recordings. His guest today is Marilyn Horne , whose choice includes Conchita Supervia , Giulietta Simionato , Teresa Berganza and Luciano Pavarotti.
2.00 Schools
2.00 Radio Showcase 2.05
In the News 2.25
Something to Think About
2.40 Music Workshop
3.00 The BBC
Orchestras
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Matthias Bamert
Dohnanyi Symphonic
Minutes; Symphony No 2 in 4.10 A Spanish Jaunt lain Burnside and Susan
Sharpe enter the exotic worlds of Domenico
Scarlatti and Adrian Jack , with sonatas by the Italian-born master and excerpts from Adrian Jack 's piano album: Attaboy; Little Russian Rhumba; A
Spanish Jaunt; Job's Comfort; Spider; On
Hearing The First Cuckoo; Sugar-drop; Chinese
Bossanova; Rest in Peace

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Talks:
Patrick O'Connor
Unknown:
Marilyn Horne
Unknown:
Conchita Supervia
Unknown:
Giulietta Simionato
Unknown:
Teresa Berganza
Unknown:
Luciano Pavarotti.
Conductor:
Matthias Bamert
Conductor:
Adrian Jack
Unknown:
Adrian Jack

Natalie Wheen celebrates some of the prize-winning performers and personalities from this year's Royal Philharmonic Society Awards. The programme includes excerpts from the winners' performances.
Producer Andrew Lyle

Contributors

Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Producer:
Andrew Lyle

Director Kenneth Sillito
(violin)
Allison Eldredge (cello)
Mozart Cassation in G, K63
(Fmal-Musik)
Bartok Divertimento
Haydn Cello Concerto in D Mozart Symphony No 29 in A, K201
A concert given last year at the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, in association with Energis

Contributors

Violin:
Kenneth Sillito
Cello:
Allison Eldredge
Unknown:
Queen Elizabeth Hall

With Gordon Stewart.
Tenore robusto and Heldentenor
They tough it out at the top: who loses in the translation? From Radames and Otello to Tristan and Siegfried with Melchoir,
Martinelli, Del Monaco and Domingo.

Contributors

Tenore:
Gordon Stewart.

Sandra Porter (soprano) and Graeme McNaught (piano) perform Clara, a song-cycle by writer Janice Galloway and composer Sally Beamish which reflects the life of composer Clara Schumann. Clara Schumann is next week's midday Composer of the Week and the subject of the next Sunday Feature, at 5.45pm

Contributors

Soprano:
Sandra Porter
Soprano:
Graeme McNaught
Unknown:
Janice Galloway
Unknown:
Sally Beamish
Unknown:
Clara Schumann.
Unknown:
Clara Schumann

The second of two programmes exploring the music of Francois Couperin , one of the finest composers of the golden age of French music. Sophie Danemann (soprano), Paul Agnew and Rodrigo del Pozo (high tenors) and Peter Harvey
(bass), accompanied by the Purcell Quartet, perform the Motet de Ste Suzanne , Dialogus inter deum et hominem and extracts from
Les Nations.
Producer Kate Bolton

Contributors

Unknown:
Francois Couperin
Soprano:
Sophie Danemann
Soprano:
Paul Agnew
Soprano:
Peter Harvey
Unknown:
Ste Suzanne
Producer:
Kate Bolton

Hermione Lee talks to
A S Byatt about The Babel Tower, the third of a planned quartet of novels, and Seamus Heaney 's new collection Spirit Level. Plus, a report on The Misfits, a new play by Alex Finlayson , inspired by John Huston 's classic film.
Producer Edwina Wolstencroft

Contributors

Talks:
Hermione Lee
Unknown:
Seamus Heaney
Play By:
Alex Finlayson
Unknown:
John Huston
Producer:
Edwina Wolstencroft

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