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With Andrew McGregor.
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 in C
Jos van Immerseel (fortepiano), Tafelmusik. director Bruno Weil
6.48 Schumann Three Fantasy Pieces, Op 73
Jacqueline du Pre (cello), Gerald Moore (piano)
7.05 Strauss Winterweihe
Felicity Lott (soprano),
Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Strauss Die Heilige Drei Konige Karita Mattila (soprano),
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
7.36 Tausch Concerto No 2 in B flat for Two Clarinets
Thea King and Nicholas Bucknall , English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Leopold Hager
8.05 Widor Organ Symphony No 6 in C minor (Allegro) Thomas Trotter
8.43 lbert Divertissement
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor.
Director:
Bruno Weil
Cello:
Jacqueline du Pre
Piano:
Gerald Moore
Piano:
Strauss Winterweihe
Soprano:
Felicity Lott
Conductor:
Neeme Jarvi
Soprano:
Karita Mattila
Conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Conductor:
Nicholas Bucknall
Conductor:
Leopold Hager
Unknown:
Thomas Trotter
Conductor:
Yan Pascal Tortelier

With Peter Hobday .Balakirev Islamey
Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
9.08 Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto Roger Winfield , Northern Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
9.28 Mozart Dans un Bois Solitaire,
K308
Anne Sofie von Otter (soprano), Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)
9.32 Haydn Symphony No 99 in E flat Orchestra of the 18th Century, conductor Frans BrCiggen Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Piano:
Andrei Gavrilov
Unknown:
Roger Winfield
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Mozart Dans
Soprano:
Anne Sofie von Otter
Soprano:
Melvyn Tan
Conductor:
Frans Brciggen

With Mairi Nicolson.
Rossini Overture: The Silken Ladder
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
10.07 Artist of the Week:
Patrick Gallois (flute)
Quantz Flute Concerto in G
CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra, conductor Peter Schreier
10.25 Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3
Dmitri Alexeev , BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vassili Sinaisky
10.55 Rodrigo Concierto Pastorale Patrick Gallois (flute), Philharmonia, conductor Ion Martin
11.20 Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Regine Crespin (soprano), BBC Philharmonic, conductor John Wustman
11.30 Falla The Three-Cornered Hat:
Suites Nos 1 and 2 BBC Philharmonic, conductor Martyn Brabbins

Contributors

Unknown:
Mairi Nicolson.
Flute:
Patrick Gallois
Conductor:
Peter Schreier
Unknown:
Dmitri Alexeev
Conductor:
Vassili Sinaisky
Conductor:
Rodrigo Concierto Pastorale
Flute:
Patrick Gallois
Conductor:
Ion Martin
Soprano:
Regine Crespin
Conductor:
John Wustman
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins

Penny Gore introduces the second of two programmes of music by Debussy and Szymanowski played by Vanya Milanova (violin) and Caroline Palmer (piano).
Debussy Images (Book 2)
Szymanowski Three Mazurkas,
Op 50 Nos 14-16; Myths, Op 30 Repeated from yesterday 10.00pm

Contributors

Introduces:
Penny Gore
Played By:
Vanya Milanova
Played By:
Caroline Palmer

Tonight's edition reflects this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Lynne Walker talks to the Chinese-American composer Tan Dun about tonight's world premiere of his Orchestral Theatre, which uses newsreel, animated graphics and video art, and she finds out what Stockhausen can do with four helicopters and a string quartet. Festival director Richard Steinitz reveals how he juggles all the strands of one of the biggest and best new music festivals in Europe. Milhaud Le Boeuf sur le Toit
Fernand laciu (violin),
Lille National Orchestra, conductor Jean-Claude Casadesus
5.45 Morton Feldman Vertical
Thoughts IV
Marianne Schroeder (piano)
6.03 Bach Prelude and Fugue in B flat ("Well-tempered Clavier", Bk 2) Maggie Cole (harpsichord)
6.15 Howard Skempton Shiftwork Ensemble Bash
6.45 Tan Dun Death and Fire -
Dialogue with Paul Klee
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer Producer Julian Gregory See also Fnday 10.00pm

Contributors

Talks:
Lynne Walker
Unknown:
Tan Dun
Director:
Richard Steinitz
Conductor:
Jean-Claude Casadesus
Piano:
Marianne Schroeder
Harpsichord:
Maggie Cole
Unknown:
Paul Klee
Producer:
Julian Gregory

I The second of six concerts
I features Hausmusik London, from Manchester High School for Girls.
Pavlo Beznosiuk and Catherine
Weiss (violins), Jeremy Williams
(viola), Richard Lester (cello), Chi-Chi Nwanoku (double bass), Anthony Pay (clarinet), Anthony Halstead (horn), Jeremy Ward (bassoon)
Beethoven Septet in E flat, Op 20
8.10 Other Histories
Michael Schmidt introduces recent poems by two notable northern poet/translators, Jeffrey Wainwright and David Constantine.
8.30 Schubert Octet in F. D803

Contributors

Unknown:
Pavlo Beznosiuk
Violins:
Jeremy Williams
Viola:
Richard Lester
Cello:
Chi-Chi Nwanoku
Bassoon:
Jeremy Ward
Introduces:
Michael Schmidt
Unknown:
Jeffrey Wainwright
Unknown:
David Constantine.

The second of this week's five interviews with Alfred Kazin , veteran
New York writer, critic and man of letters. Alfred Kazin 's love of his native New York shines through his memoirs, which are almost as well known as his critical works. Russell Davies
joins him as he remembers his radical youth in the New York of the thirties.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alfred Kazin
Unknown:
Alfred Kazin
Unknown:
Russell Davies

Beyond Two Cultures?
Does science now have more to say on the meaning of life than art? This week, Night Waves invites leading scientists to reflect on the current state of the two disciplines. Plus news and views on today's announcement of the controversial
Turner Prize, and a first-night review from Stratford, where Paul Jesson and Jane Lapotaire play the king and queen in Shakespeare's rarely performed Henry VIII. Producer Nicki Paxman

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Jesson
Unknown:
Jane Lapotaire
Unknown:
Henry Viii.
Producer:
Nicki Paxman

With Paul Hindmarsh.
"Kodaly's music is much more gentle and human than mine." (Bartok) After the turmoil of the post-1918 political upheavals, Bartok and Kodaly are established as the two giants of Hungarian music.
Kodaly The Viennese Musical Clock (Hary Janos )
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Antal Dorati
Bartok Violin Sonata No 2 (2nd mvt) Gidon Kremer (violin),
Yuri Smirnov (piano)
Kodaly Psalmus Hungaricus Peter Svensson (tenor),
Copenhagen Boys' Choir,
Danish National Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
Bartok Dance Suite
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez
Repeated from last Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Hindmarsh.
Unknown:
Hary Janos
Conductor:
Antal Dorati
Violin:
Gidon Kremer
Piano:
Yuri Smirnov
Piano:
Kodaly Psalmus Hungaricus
Tenor:
Peter Svensson
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez

With Digby Fairweather. The first of two programmes drawn from a concert featuring Harry "Sweets"
Edison and Red Holloway, given last month at the UCS Jazz Club,
Hampstead, London.
Part 2 tomorrow at 12.30am

Contributors

Unknown:
Digby Fairweather.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Alexander Toradze (piano). French National Orchestra, conductor Zdenek Macal Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor
Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G
3.00 Schools
3.00 Playtime 3.15 Time to Move
3.35 Let's Make a Story 3.50 Listen and Write! 4.10 In the News 4.30
Hop, Skip and Jump 4.45 Anns a' Bhad
5.00 Sequence

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Piano:
Alexander Toradze

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