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With Andrew McGregor.

Bach Organ Concerto No 1 in D minor, BWV146 - Peter Hurford, Northern Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox

6.26 Schumann Symphony No 4 in D minor - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Takuo Yuasa

7.05 Locatelli Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 1 No 3 - Raglan Baroque Players, director Nicholas Kraemer

7.39 Liszt Tasso - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur

8.05 Howells Magnificat (St Paul's Service) - Choir of York Minster, John Scott Whiteley (organ), director Philip Moore

8.37 Strauss Morgen; Befreit; Wegenlied; Waldseligkeit; Die Heiligen Drei Konige aus Morgenland - Charlotte Margiono (soprano), Berlin SO, conductor Hans-Peter Frank

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew McGregor

With Peter Hobday.
Respighi Fountains of Rome
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
9.16 Telemann Trio in C (Der Getreue Music-Meister) Instrumental ensemble, director Josef Ulsamer
9.28 Chopin Nocturne in E minor, Op 72 No
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
9.33 Bartok Piano Concerto No 3
Annie Fischer , LSO, conductor Igor Markevitch Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hobday.
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Director:
Josef Ulsamer
Piano:
Daniel Barenboim
Unknown:
Annie Fischer
Conductor:
Igor Markevitch Discs

With Mary Miller.
Chopin Prelude in A flat, Op 24 No 17 Alfred Cortot (piano)
10.05 Artists of the Week:
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Bach Orchestral Suite No 4 in D,
BWV1069 director Ton Koopman
10.25 Lutoslawski Venetian Games
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk
10.39 Respighi Concerto all'Antica (1st mvt)
Ingolf Turban (violin),
ECO, conductor Marcello Viotti
10.52 Beethoven Trio ; March (Rdelio, Act 1)
Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz and Deborah Voigt (sopranos),
Matthias Holle (bass), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
11.02 Sor Variations on a Scottish
Theme, Op 40
Lex Eisenhardt (guitar)
11.14 Mozart Andante in C, K315 Wilbert Hazelzet (flute),
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, director Ton Koopman
11.20 Schubert Du Bist die Ruh
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Bruno Walter (piano)
11.30 Brahms Serenade No 2 in A
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Bernard Haitink
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Miller.
Piano:
Alfred Cortot
Director:
Ton Koopman
Conductor:
Jerzy Maksymiuk
Conductor:
Marcello Viotti
Conductor:
Beethoven Trio
Unknown:
Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz
Sopranos:
Deborah Voigt
Bass:
Matthias Holle
Conductor:
Colin Davis
Guitar:
Mozart Andante
Flute:
Wilbert Hazelzet
Director:
Ton Koopman
Contralto:
Kathleen Ferrier
Piano:
Bruno Walter
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink

4: You Can Hear It in Distant
Footsteps, Yet There Is Nothing to Be Seen
Leo Black introduces two contrasted concertos from the troubled twenties and thirties.
Wandl' Ich in dem Morgentau Erna Berger (soprano),
Michael Raucheisen (piano) Violin Concerto, Op 34 Saschko Gawriloff ,
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Werner Andreas Albert
Herbstgefuhl Gerhard Husch (baritone), the composer (piano)
Cello Concerto No 1, Op 42 David Geringas ,
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Werner Andreas Albert
Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm

Contributors

Introduces:
Leo Black
Soprano:
Erna Berger
Piano:
Michael Raucheisen
Unknown:
Saschko Gawriloff
Conductor:
Werner Andreas Albert
Baritone:
Herbstgefuhl Gerhard Husch
Unknown:
David Geringas
Conductor:
Werner Andreas Albert

The first of five programmes in which singers talk to Rodney Milnes about their own interpretations of operatic roles. Today, Ileana Cotrubas talks about singing Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata, using the recording she made with the Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Carlos Kleiber.
Producer Peter Tanner

Contributors

Unknown:
Rodney Milnes
Talks:
Ileana Cotrubas
Conductor:
Carlos Kleiber.
Producer:
Peter Tanner

Michael Dervan introduces music written in Ireland in the late thirties by two composers whose experience of European music-making broadened their musical styles beyond the conventional insularity of approach.
Vanbrugh Quartet. Hugh Tinney (piano) Aloys Fleischmann Piano Quintet Frederick May String Quartet

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Dervan
Piano:
Hugh Tinney
Piano:
Aloys Fleischmann

A series featuring concerts given by foreign orchestras at the 1996 BBC Proms in London's Royal Albert Hall.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim

Schoenberg Five Pieces for Orchestra

Bruckner Symphony No 8 in C minor

Contributors

Musicians:
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Daniel Barenboim

Music Therapy 4: De Profundis
Tommy Pearson investigates why music is such a powerful tool for communication and how it seems to express our deepest selves. With Paul Robertson , John Sloboda and Eric Clarke.
For details see Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Pearson
Unknown:
Paul Robertson
Unknown:
John Sloboda
Unknown:
Eric Clarke.

Sean Raffery talks to pianist Paul Crossley , conductor Takuo Yuasa and Jessica Brennan , administrator of BBC Young Musicians 1998. Including
5.35 Henry Cowell Hymn and Fuguing Tune No 9 Sarah Fiene (cello),
Josephine Gandolfi (piano)
6.15 Dag Wiren Serenade for Strings Ulster Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Braithwaite
6.45 Franck Symphonic Variations Paul Crossley (piano), Vienna Philharmonic , conductor Carlo Maria Giulini
Producer David Byers
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Contributors

Talks:
Sean Raffery
Pianist:
Paul Crossley
Conductor:
Takuo Yuasa
Conductor:
Jessica Brennan
Unknown:
Henry Cowell Hymn
Cello:
Sarah Fiene
Piano:
Josephine Gandolfi
Conductor:
Nicholas Braithwaite
Piano:
Paul Crossley
Conductor:
Vienna Philharmonic
Conductor:
Carlo Maria Giulini
Producer:
David Byers

From the Barbican Hall, London, the first of three concerts given by the London Symphony Orchestra.
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas , Andrew Marriner (clarinet),
John Harle (alto saxophone), Peter Mattei (baritone), Tallis Chamber Choir
Trois Nocturnes; Première Rapsodie for Clarinet and Orchestra; Rapsodie for Saxophone and Orchestra
8.20 Michael Tilson Thomas talks to
Jonathan Swain.
8.40 Berceuse Héroïque;
Trois Ballades de Francois Villon ; La Mer

Contributors

Conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Clarinet:
Andrew Marriner
Clarinet:
John Harle
Baritone:
Peter Mattei
Talks:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Trois Ballades de Francois Villon

With Russell Davies.
4: French Fries, Red Peppers
The flavours of New Orleans and Louisiana are as renowned as their music. Russell Davies mixes with highly trained Creole chefs and a fast-talking oyster shucker, and finds his eyes watering at the home of Louisiana's most famous hot sauce.
Final programme tomorrow 9.35pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Russell Davies.
Music:
Russell Davies

Andrew Manze introduces the ensemble Musica ad Rhenum.
Telemann Sonata in G for Two
Flutes, Op 2 No 2
Sybrandt van Noordt Harpsichord Sonata, Op 1 No 4
Matteo Zocarini Concertino No 3 in A for Cello and Continuo
Antoine Mahaut Trio Sonata in C
Producer Lindsay Kemp
Repeated tomorrow 2.15pm
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Contributors

Introduces:
Andrew Manze
Producer:
Lindsay Kemp

Patrick Wright explores some of the alternative routes through the last century in history, culture and politics. In a debate with an audience at London's Institute of Historical Research, he talks to leading historians about their own interpretations of the century and its competing stories of conflict and emancipation, empire and decline. Producer Abigail Appleton

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Wright
Stories Of:
Conflict And
Producer:
Abigail Appleton

With John Shea.
1.00 Choral Evensong from Truro Cathedral
(Repeated from yesterday 4.00pm)
2.00 Music by Fernando Sor and Mozart performed by Montserrat Figueras (soprano) and Jose Miguel Moreno (guitar)
3.15 Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Finnish RSO/Sakari Oramo
Vuorl Echoes of Mandelbrot (first performance)
Sibelius Violin Concerto; Symphony No 3
4.30 Alain Kremski (piano) plays Liszt transcriptions of Wagner operas
5.00 Sequence

Contributors

Presenter:
John Shea

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