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With Paul Guinery. Debussy La Mer
BBC Philharmonic/Yan Pascal Tortelier
7.29 Trad American Spiritual:
Something New (The Revivalist, New York, 1868)
Boston Camerata, director Joel Cohen
7.34 Bach Church Cantatas:
Bach Cantata No 21: Ich hatte viel
Bekummernis (Part 1)
Barbara Schlick (soprano),
Klaus Mertens (bass), Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra/Ton Koopman
7.58 Roderick Swanston on private vision and public duty.
8.00 Bach Cantata No 21: Ich hatte viel Bekummernis (Part 2)
8.20 Messiaen Un sourire
BBC NO of Wales/David Atherton
8.32 Grace Williams Sea Sketches
BBC NO of Wales/David Atherton Producer Antony Pitts

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Guinery.
Director:
Joel Cohen
Soprano:
Barbara Schlick
Soprano:
Klaus Mertens

Dyson Overture: At the Tabard Inn - RPO, conductor David Willcocks

9.16 Anon Fa fa mi fa; Dum pater familias (The Pilgrimage to Santiago) - New London Consort/Philip Pickett

9.22 Mozart Divertimento in D, K136 - Stuttgart CO/Karl Monchinger

9.36 Ives Crossing the Bar - BBC Singers, Christopher Hughes (organ), conductor Stephen Cleobury

9.41 Bazzini La Ronde des lutins - Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Marcel Gazelle (piano)

9.46 Holst Ballet music: The Perfect Foot - English CO, conductor Yehudi Menuhin

9.57 Tallis Spem in alium - Tallis Scholars, director Peter Phillips

10.07 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C sharp minor - Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)

10.19 Prokofiev Death of Tybalt; Montagues and Capulets (Romeo and Juliet) - Oslo Philharmonic/Mariss Jansons

10.29 Bellini Eccomi in lieta vesta; Oh! quante volte (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) - Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Turin Theatre Orchestra/John Mauceri

10.39 Bernstein West Side Story (excerpts) - David Nettle and Richard Markham (pianos)

10.54 Brahms, arr Berio Op 120 No 1 for clarinet and orchestra - James Campbell (clarinet), LSO, conductor Geoffrey Simon

11.31 Weill The Threepenny Opera (excerpts) - London Festival Recording Ensemble, conductor Bernard Herrmann

11.47 Artist of the Week: William Bennett (flute)

Schubert 15 Original tanze, D365 - Simon Wynberg (guitar)

12.04 Composer of the Week: Benjamin Frankel

Overture: May Day - Queensland SO/Werner Andreas AlbertÂ

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Kay
Producer:
Piers Burton-Page

The last Lord Sherborne was garden designer Ralph Dutton , and the landscape he created at Hinton Ampner , Hampshire, during the thirties, forties and again in the sixties - after his house was destroyed by fire and rebuilt - now belongs to the National Trust. Head gardener Nick Brooks shows Hugh Walters the restoration work which has been carried out over the last few years. See also Monday 9.35pm

Contributors

Designer:
Ralph Dutton
Unknown:
Hinton Ampner
Unknown:
Nick Brooks
Unknown:
Hugh Walters

BBC Symphony Orchestra
The Malcolm Sargent Centenary concert given last year at the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Conductor Andrew Davis , Kyung-Wha Chung (violin), Nina Rautio (soprano), Markella Hatziano (alto), Bonaventura Bottone (tenor), Willard White (bass), BBC Symphony Chorus, Malcolm
Sargent Festival Choir, Royal Choral Society
Walton Coronation Te Deum
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor
Verdi Requiem

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Sargent
Unknown:
Albert Hall
Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Violin:
Kyung-Wha Chung
Violin:
Nina Rautio
Soprano:
Markella Hatziano
Tenor:
Bonaventura Bottone
Tenor:
Willard White

The French fascination with exotic climes, sounds and cultures is reflected in a programme of songs and chamber music dating from the first years of the 20th century. Presented by Linda Ormiston.
Sandra Porter (soprano).
Graeme McNaught (piano), Chamber Group of Scotland
Chausson Chanson perpétuelle for voice and piano quintet
Debussy La Cathédrale engloutie (Preludes, Bk 1)
Messiaen Rondeau pour piano
Falla Psyche for voice, flute, harp and string trio
Ravel Chansons madecasses for voice, flute, cello and piano
Messiaen La Merle noir for flute and piano
Delage Quatre poemes hindous for voice and instrumental ensemble
Ravel Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet

Contributors

Presented By:
Linda Ormiston.
Soprano:
Sandra Porter
Soprano:
Graeme McNaught
Unknown:
Messiaen Rondeau
Piano:
Messiaen La Merle

120 years ago on 25 June 1876: in the valley of the Little Bighorn river, several thousand Cheyenne and Sioux warriors start an extraordinary and enduring industry by killing
Lt Col George Armstrong Custer. Devised by Fraser Harrison and featuring Custer impersonator Steve Alexander. Producer Tim Dee

Contributors

Unknown:
Lt Col George Armstrong Custer.
Unknown:
Fraser Harrison
Unknown:
Steve Alexander.
Producer:
Tim Dee

David Edgar 's play - winner of the 1995 Evening Standard Award for
Best Play - comes to radio in a new adaptation by the playwright. The work is an urgent and powerful response to the turbulent past and uneasy present of Eastern Europe: an intellectual thriller and complex political parable.
Director Hilary Norrish

Contributors

Unknown:
David Edgar
Director:
Hilary Norrish
Oliver Davenport:
Oliver Ford Davies
Gabriella Pecs:
Sian Thomas
Leo Katz:
Michael Feast
Yasmin:
Suzan Sylvester
Amira:
Kate Fenwick
Mikhail Czaba:
Glenn Hugill
Fr Karolyi:
Stephen Critchlow
Fr Bojovic:
Kevork Malikyan
Toni:
Matilda Ziegler
Anna Jedlikova:
Janice McKenzie
Abdul:
Raad Rawi
Nico:
Stephen Elliott
Grigori:
Jason Watkins
Antonio:
Burt Caesar
Cleopatra:
Kate Steavenson-Payne

Brian Wright introduces a selection of psalm settings from over 200 years - from Handel's extraordinary Dixit dominus through to Stravinsky's visionary Symphony of Psalms.
Handel Dixit dominus (Psalm 110) Lynne Dawson and Lynda Russell
(sopranos), Charles Brett (alto), Ian Partridge (tenor), Michael George (baritone), The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra/Harry Christophers
Parry Lord, let me know mine end (Psalm 39)
Choir of St George's Chapel,
Windsor/Christopher Robinson
Elgar Give unto the Lord (Psalm 29) Choir of Winchester Cathedral,
Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/David Hill Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms (Psalms 39, 40 and 150) Festival Singers of Toronto, CBC SO, conducted by the composer Rpt

Contributors

Introduces:
Brian Wright
Unknown:
Handel Dixit
Unknown:
Lynne Dawson
Sopranos:
Lynda Russell
Sopranos:
Charles Brett
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Tenor:
Michael George

Building a Library
Anthony Burton compares recordings of Mozart's unfinished Mass in C minor, K427 (Great). Robert Philip reviews new recordings of orchestral music, including Mitsuko Uchida 's reading of the Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 3 and 4, Brahms'
Symphonies Nos 3 and 4 by Roger Norrington and the London Classical Players, and Schumann's four symphonies performed by the CO of Europe with Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Revised rpt from yesterday 9.00am

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Burton
Unknown:
Robert Philip
Unknown:
Mitsuko Uchida
Unknown:
Roger Norrington
Unknown:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Peter Schreier (tenor), Andras Schiff (piano) Brahms 15 Romanzen aus "Die schone Magelone", Op 33
2.15 Consortium Classicum play arrangements by Triebensee: Mozart Don Giovanni (excerpts) Schubert Die Zauberharfe, D644; Incidental music:
Rosamunde, D797
3.30 Bruckner Symphony No 5 in B flat Berlin Philharmonic/Gunter Wand
5.00 Sequence

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Tenor:
Peter Schreier
Tenor:
Andras Schiff
Unknown:
Mozart Don Giovanni

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