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Paul Guinery introduces a mainly choral programme, with music from Jerusalem and Arvo Part's Miserere, with its visions of judgement and mercy. Anon Maranatha (Revelation, 19) Community of the Beatitudes, Emmaus-Nicopolis
7.07 Hildegard of Bingen 0 Euchari Oxford Camerata, conductor Jeremy Summerly
7.17 Byrd A sequence of motets for
All Saints: Gaudeamus Omnes; Timete
Dominum; Justorum Animae ; Beati
Mundo Corde
BBC Singers, conductor David Hill
7.37 John Jenkins Suite No 4
Fretwork, Paul Nicholson (organ)
7.47 Salamon Rossi Ebreo Eftah Shir
Bisfatai
Kuhn Chamber Soloists, Symposium Musicum , conductor Pavel Kuhn
7.53 Anon Psalm 103 (AV 104) Community of the Beatitudes, Emmaus-Nicopolis
8.02 The Church Cantatas of JS Bach:
Bach Cantata No 89: Was Soil Ich aus
Dir Machen , Ephraim?
Sheila Armstrong (soprano),
Helen Watts (alto), Max von Egmond (bass), Junge Kantorei , Concerto Amsterdam, director Joachim Martini
8.16 Part Miserere
Hilliard Ensemble, director Paul Hilliard Producer Antony Pitts

Contributors

Introduces:
Paul Guinery
Conductor:
Jeremy Summerly
Unknown:
Justorum Animae
Unknown:
John Jenkins
Unknown:
Paul Nicholson
Soloists:
Symposium Musicum
Conductor:
Pavel Kuhn
Unknown:
Dir MacHen
Soprano:
Sheila Armstrong
Soprano:
Helen Watts
Bass:
Junge Kantorei
Director:
Joachim Martini
Director:
Paul Hilliard
Producer:
Antony Pitts

Handel Overture: Judas Maccabaeus
The King's Consort, director Robert King
9.10 Composer of the Week: Grainger Handel in the Strand
Penelope Thwaites (piano), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
9.15 Butterworth Two English Idylls ECO, conductor Jeffrey Tate
9.31 Mozart Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat,
K495 Dennis Brain , Philharmonia, conductor Herbert von Karajan
9.47 Dario Castello Sonata
Duodecima
His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts
9.55 Musorgsky Dance of the Persian Women (Khovanshchina)
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov
10.04 Ravel Ouverture Féerique:
Sheherazade. Stephen Coombs and Christopher Scott (piano duet)
10.17 Mendelssohn String Symphony No 6 in E flat. Concerto Koln
10.32 Vaughan Williams Incidental Music: The Wasps
LPO, conductor Adrian Bouit
10.49 J C Bach Quintet in C, Op 11 No
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute), Pierre Pierlot (oboe), French String Trio
11.00 Veljo Tormis Votic Wedding Songs
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conductor Tonu Kaljuste
11.18 Artist of the Week:
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) Berlioz Rakoczy March
Ippolitov-lvanov Procession of the Sardar
St Louis SO, conductor Leonard Slatkin Haydn Piano Sonata in E flat, H XVI 49 Emanuel Ax
11.51 Charpentier Te Deum
St James 's Singers and Baroque Players, conductor Ivor Bolton Producer Piers Burton-Page E-MAIL: bksm@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Director:
Robert King
Unknown:
Grainger Handel
Piano:
Penelope Thwaites
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Jeffrey Tate
Unknown:
K495 Dennis Brain
Unknown:
Dario Castello Sonata
Conductor:
Yevgeni Svetlanov
Unknown:
Stephen Coombs
Piano:
Christopher Scott
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Conductor:
Adrian Bouit
Flute:
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Flute:
Pierre Pierlot
Unknown:
Veljo Tormis Votic
Conductor:
Tonu Kaljuste
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin
Unknown:
Charpentier Te Deum
Unknown:
St James
Conductor:
Ivor Bolton
Producer:
Piers Burton-Page

Weekly magazine exploring recent developments in the world of music.
Ivan Hewett explores new ideas about Bruch's Violin Concerto and delves into the hidden world of private patronage in new music.
Repeated from yesterday 6.00pm

Contributors

Music:
Ivan Hewett

The seventh of eight programmes sampling French culture through regional cuisine.
7: Confit and Cassoulet
Leslie Forbes travels to Castelnaudary in Languedoc, where she is allowed privileged access to the mysterious Brotherhood of Cassoulet to find out why a dish which is basically white beans, sausage and duck preserved in a coating of its own fat can provoke almost religious passion.

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Forbes

In 1946, Paul Steinitz founded the London Bach Society to promote
Bach's choral music, much of which was then still rarely heard. With the help of archive material and studio guests Nicholas Anderson and Margaret Steinitz , current director of the London Bach Festival, George Pratt takes a look at the Steinitz legacy.
Producer Lindsay Kemp
See also Thursday 10.00pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Steinitz
Unknown:
Nicholas Anderson
Unknown:
Margaret Steinitz
Unknown:
George Pratt
Producer:
Lindsay Kemp

The second concert in a complete cycle of the Beethoven piano sonatas played by Alfred Brendel , who also introduces the programme in conversation with Misha Donat.
Sonatas: in A flat, Op 26; in E flat, Op 27 No 1; in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2 (Moonlight); in F, Op 54; in C, Op 53 (Waldstein) Repeat
ARABIC SEASON

Contributors

Played By:
Alfred Brendel
Unknown:
Misha Donat.

Cairo is the publishing centre of the Arab world and the home of its greatest living novelist,
Naguib Mahfouz , winner of the 1988 Nobel
Prize for Literature. Earlier this year, John Theocharis went there to talk to
Mahfouz and to the two generations of novelists who have followed him. They discussed the freedoms and constraints, the dangers and delights and the sheer excitement of writing fiction in Egypt at the end of a remarkable century. Producer Piers Plowright

Contributors

Unknown:
Naguib Mahfouz
Unknown:
John Theocharis
Producer:
Piers Plowright

The veteran conductor Helmuth Rilling said of Arvo Part's most recent large-scale choral work that he had "never seen a premiere received with such enthusiasm". Jeremy Summerly introduces the recent recording of Litany and another disc containing a vast music drama by Hildegard of Bingen. Hildegard of Bingen Ordo Virtutum
Sequentia Part Litany
Hilliard Ensemble,
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir,
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, conductor Tonu Kaljuste
Producer Antony Pitts. See tomorrow 11.30pm

Contributors

Conductor:
Helmuth Rilling
Introduces:
Jeremy Summerly
Conductor:
Tonu Kaljuste
Producer:
Antony Pitts.
Hildegard of Bingen:
Carmen-Renate Koper
Diabolus:
William Mockridge
Felix anima:
Barbara Thornton
infelix anima:
Barbara Thornton
Humilitas:
Guillemette Laurens
Scientia Dei:
Jill Feldman
Fides:
Jill Feldman
Misericordia:
Jill Feldman
Castitas:
Lauri Monahan
Discretio:
Lauri Monahan
Timor Dei:
Theresa Lister
Contemptus Mundi:
Theresa Lister
Caritas:
Caroline Trevor
Disciplina:
Caroline Trevor
lnnocentia:
Caroline Trevor
Obedientia:
Sally Sanford
Verecundia:
Sally Sanford
Victoria:
Sally Sanford
Spes:
Candace Smith
Amor caelestis:
Candace Smith
Patientia:
Candace Smith

By Tony Ramsay. A dog eats a heretic's tongue and discovers the world of man's speech. While modelling for an altar piece (Virgin with Dog), he also discovers the dichotomy between man's godlike aspirations to high art and the beastlike reality of his carnal lusts.
Music by Elizabeth Parker and the Vasari Choir. Director Janet Whitaker

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Ramsay.
Music By:
Elizabeth Parker
Director:
Janet Whitaker
The Dog:
Steve Hodson
Don Alonso:
Michael Williams
Dona Isabella:
Frances Barber
Escalera:
Robin Bailey
Don Venerio:
Peter Woodthorpe
Piedad:
Abigail Docherty
The Cardinal:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Madame:
Ann Beach
Hebe:
Jane Whittenshaw
Amparo:
Colleen Prendergast

In the first of two programmes,
Janet Topp Fargion explores the field recordings of Jean Jenkins (1922-90), folk singer, broadcaster, museum curator, traveller, and ethnomusicologist, with traditional music recorded in Ethiopia and Mongolia. Producer John Thornley

Contributors

Unknown:
Janet Topp Fargion
Unknown:
Jean Jenkins
Producer:
John Thornley

With Donald Macleod.
1.15 Nicolo Jommelli Armida
Abbandonata
Les Talens Lyriques, conductor Christophe Rousset
4.25 Till Fellner (piano) Mozart Rondo in A, K511; Piano Sonata in B flat,
K333
5.00 Sequence

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Nicolo Jommelli Armida
Conductor:
Christophe Rousset
Piano:
Till Fellner
Armida:
Ewa Malas-Godlewska (soprano)
Rinaldo:
Claire Brua (mezzo)
Tancredi:
Gilles Ragon (tenor)
Erminia:
Veronique Gens (soprano)
Rambaldo:
Laura Polverelu (mezzo)
Ubaldo:
Patricia Petibon (soprano)
Dano:
Cicile Perrin (soprano)

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