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Mozart Overture: Der
Schauspieldirektor
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
9.07 Glazunov Spring BBC Philharmonic, conductor Richard Hickox
9.17 Schubert, transcr Liszt Standchen
Dmitri Bashkirov (piano)
9.23 Masek Serenade in D
Pragense Collegium Musicum
9.39 Komgold Military March BBC Philharmonic, conductor Matthias Bamert
9.48 Borodin Polovtsian Dances
(Prince Igor) Philharmonia, conductor Herbert von Karajan
10.02 Bach Oboe Concerto in A,
BWV1055
Stephen Hammer , Bach Ensemble , conductor Joshua Rifkin
10.24 Composer of the Week: Webern Langsamer Satz Carmina Quartet
10.34 Poulenc Suite Frangaise French National Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
10.47 Gibbons Cries of London
Red Byrd, Fretwork
10.55 Tchaikovsky Waltz (Eugene Onegin )
Royal Philharmonic, conductor Thomas Beecham
11.02 Artist of the Week:
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
Schumann Toccata in C, Op 7
11.09 John Gardner Saxophone
Quartet
The Fairer Sax
11.43 Schubert Symphony No 9 in C (Great)
Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Georg Solti Producer Piers Burton-Page

Contributors

Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Unknown:
Liszt Standchen
Piano:
Dmitri Bashkirov
Piano:
Masek Serenade
Conductor:
Matthias Bamert
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Unknown:
Stephen Hammer
Conductor:
Bach Ensemble
Conductor:
Joshua Rifkin
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Unknown:
Tchaikovsky Waltz
Unknown:
Eugene Onegin
Conductor:
Thomas Beecham
Piano:
Vladimir Horowitz
Unknown:
John Gardner
Conductor:
Georg Solti
Producer:
Piers Burton-Page

Ivan Hewett presents the magazine exploring current issues in the musical world. This week, music in ancient Rome, a new look at neglected composer Vincent d'lndy, and how to write a good national anthem. Repeated from yesterday 5.45pm
SCHUBERTIAD

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivan Hewett

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to one of the world's finest and most varied collections of musical instruments. George Pratt talks to curator Laurence Libin and introduces music played on restored Amati and Stradivarius violins, a Cristofori fortepiano, a 1666 Zenti harpsichord, and an early Italian spinettino.
Producer Kate Bolton
SCHUBERTIAD

Contributors

Talks:
George Pratt
Unknown:
Laurence Libin
Producer:
Kate Bolton

This year marks the centenary of the discovery of the electron, and the text books report that Crick and Watson discovered the structure of DNA in 1953. But is it really possible to attribute a single date and a name or two to findings such as these, which changed science? Peter Evans explores what discovery means for scientists now and in the past and asks if there are any parallels with creativity in the arts. Producer Deborah Cohen

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Evans
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

By David Pownall.
In the last years of his life, one of the largest literary figures of the 20th century, Ezra Pound , fell silent. The man who had been branded a traitor and judged insane by American authorities abandoned poetry and chose instead to communicate with that other prodigious talent, Claudio Monteverdi.
Director Eoin O'Callaghan

Contributors

Unknown:
David Pownall.
Unknown:
Ezra Pound
Unknown:
Claudio Monteverdi.
Director:
Eoin O'Callaghan
Ezra Pound:
Richard Johnson
Olga Rudge:
Clare Higgins
Mr Greenhill:
Ronald Pickup
Allen Ginsburg:
John Guerrasio
Caleb:
Alan Marriott
Father:
Garrick Hagon
Mother:
Liza Ross
Jane/Air hostess:
Alice Arnold
Geoffrey/Waiter/Priest/Andrea:
Chris Pavlo

The five domes of St Mark 's, Venice, inspired Stravinsky's late Canticum Sacrum, just as its four galleries had inspired the polychoral music of Schutz. Brian Wright introduces recent performances of both works, together with a Stockhausen work for four choruses, four orchestras and four conductors.
Stravinsky Canticum Sacrum Neil Mackenzie (tenor), Brindley Sherratt (bass),
BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Robertson
Schutz Magnificat Anima Mea; Da Pacem, Domine; Deutsches
Magnificat
Dresdener Kreuzchor (conductor Rudolf Mauersberger ), Oxford Camerata (conductor Jeremy Summerly )
Stockhausen Carre
BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra, conductors
David Robertson , Pascal Rophe , Richard Bernas and Robert Ziegler Producer Antony Pitts

Contributors

Unknown:
St Mark
Conductors:
Stravinsky Canticum Sacrum
Tenor:
Neil MacKenzie
Bass:
Brindley Sherratt
Conductor:
David Robertson
Conductor:
Rudolf Mauersberger
Conductor:
Jeremy Summerly
Conductor:
Stockhausen Carre
Conductors:
David Robertson
Conductors:
Pascal Rophe
Conductors:
Richard Bernas
Conductors:
Robert Ziegler
Producer:
Antony Pitts

The last of eight programmes in which Richard Widdess explores the wide range of traditional music of faith and festivity on the Indian subcontinent.
Space, Time and Music
Music for weddings and other festivals, for the beginning of the day, and for the end of the universe. Producer John Thornley

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Widdess
Producer:
John Thornley

Building a Library
John Steane compares the available recordings of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte. Hilary Finch reviews new releases of chamber music, including Schubert from the Takacs Quartet, Schumann from the Hagen Quartet, and Mendelssohn on period instruments plus Brahms from the Schubert Ensemble of London.
Revised repeat from yesterday 9.00am

Contributors

Unknown:
John Steane
Unknown:
Hilary Finch

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Stefano Landi La Morte d'Orfeo
Tragicomedia, Currende, conductor Stephen Stubbs
3.00 Chamber Music played by Korean musicians, including
Debussy La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin Dvorak Humoresque, Op 101 No 7
Chopin Nocturne in E flat, Op 9 No 2
3.55 Jadwiga Rappe (mezzo), Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Romand Chamber Choir, Pro Arte Chorus,
Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Armin Jordan Berg Suite: Lutu Brahms Alto Rhapsody; Song of Destiny
5.00 Sequence

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Conductor:
Stephen Stubbs
Unknown:
Jadwiga Rappe
Soprano:
Phyllis Bryn-Julson
Orfeo:
John Elwes (tenor)
Euridice:
Johanna Koslowsky(soprano)
Teti, queen of the sea:
David Cordier (countertenor)
Bacchus:
Michael Chance (countertenor)

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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