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With Andrew McGregor.

Liszt Fantasy on Two Motifs from "The Marriage of Figaro" - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

6.17 Brahms Piano Quartet No 2 in A, Op 26 - Viktor Tretyakov (violin), Yuri Bashmet (viola), Natalia Gutman (cello), Vasili Lobanov (piano)

7.05 Berlioz Overture: Les Francs-Juges - London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington

7.40 Mozart Wind Sextet in E flat, K183 - Mozzafiato, director Charles Neidich (clarinet)

8.05 Bliss Toccata - Kathron Sturrock (piano)

8.23 Stanford Symphony No 2 in D minor (Elegiac) - Ulster Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew McGregor

With Penny Gore.

Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien - Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Seiji Ozawa

9.16 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 8 in F sharp minor - Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)

9.22 Handel Dixit Dominus, HWV232 - Felicity Palmer and Margaret Marshall (sopranos), Charles Brett and John Angelo Messana (countertenors), Richard Morton and Alistair Thompson (tenors), David Wilson-Johnson (bass), Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, director John Eliot GardinerÂ

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Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore

With Mary Miller.
Dvorak The Golden Spinning Wheel BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk
10.21 Offenbach Christopher Columbus (Act 2, opening)
Queen Isabella ANNE DAWSON (soprano) Columbus
MAURICE ARTHUR (tenor)
London Mozart Players, conductor Alun Francis
10.31 Schulhoff Sextet
Raphael Ensemble
10.56 Scarlatti Sonata in D, Kk29
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
11.10 Mercadante Flute Concerto in E minor
Jean-Pierre Rampal , I Solisti Veneti , conductor Claudio Scimone
11.32 Artist of the Week:
Antony Pay (clarinet)
Beethoven Quintet in E flat for Piano and Wind, Op 16 Nash Ensemble
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Miller.
Conductor:
Jerzy Maksymiuk
Soprano:
Queen Isabella Anne Dawson
Tenor:
Maurice Arthur
Conductor:
Alun Francis
Conductor:
Schulhoff Sextet
Conductor:
Raphael Ensemble
Conductor:
Scarlatti Sonata
Piano:
Mikhail Pletnev
Unknown:
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Conductor:
Solisti Veneti
Conductor:
Claudio Scimone

Jeremy Hayes continues his exploration of Sibelius's theatre music and symphonic poems with the last part of his ambitious pantomime-drama Scaramouche, in which a beautiful woman is seduced by a hunchbacked viola player.
There is also an excerpt from the unpublished music for The Lizard, an early recording conducted by a famous
Sibelian, and a tone poem which tells the story of the creation of the world according to Finnish mythology. Suite: Belshazzar's Feast
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Robert Kajanus Scaramouche (final scene)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Incidental music: The Lizard (excerpt) Ostrobothian Chamber Orchestra. conductor Juha Kangas Luonnotar
Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano), Philharmonia, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy Repeated next Tuesday 11.30pm See also tomorrow 7.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Hayes
Conductor:
Robert Kajanus
Conductor:
Juha Kangas
Soprano:
Elisabeth Soderstrom
Conductor:
Vladimir Ashkenazy

lain Burnside presents the complete settings which Schubert made of texts from Sir Walter Scott 's The
Lady of the Lake.
Raste, Krieger: Jager; Ruhe von der Jagd; Bootsgesang; Coronach;
Normans Gesang; Ave Maria; Lied des Gefangenen Jagers
Repeated from yesterday 10.00pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Walter Scott

Mairi Nicolson talks to Brendan Carroll about Erich Wolfgang Korngold, whose centenary falls later this month.

Dvorak Overture: Carnival - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor Libor Pesek

6.05 Janacek In the Mists - Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

6.30 Wagner Traume (Wesendonck Lieder) - Cheryl Studer (soprano), Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli

Contributors

Presenter:
Mairi Nicolson
Guest:
Brendan Carroll
Producer:
Paul Hindmarsh

UPaul Guinery introduces the second in a series of five recitals from the Turner Sims Hall , Southampton.
Leon McCawley (piano), Emperor Quartet
Haydn Piano Sonata in C minor, H XVI 20
Britten String Quartet No 1
8.20 The Music
Five stories from the collection by James Hamilton-Paterson .
2: Anxieties of Desire. A composer flees to Algiers after his controversial work fails to receive a major prize. Then he discovers that another musician of the same name has received critical acclaim in Europe. Read by Kim Wall.
8.40 Dvorak Piano Quintet No 2 in A

Contributors

Unknown:
Turner Sims Hall
Piano:
Leon McCawley
Unknown:
James Hamilton-Paterson
Read By:
Kim Wall.

Patti Lupone takes on the challenge of playing the greatest prima donna of her age, Maria Callas.
Richard Coles reports on her portrayal of the soprano as the Broadway hit Master Class opens tonight in London.
From Berlin, there is a preview of one of the year's most ambitious exhibitions. The Age of Modernism - Art in the 20th Century examines the revolutionary changes that have occurred in art this century. Its planned tour to London and New York proved logistical unmanageable. Night Waves investigates the financial wrangling and loan-bartering behind such blockbuster art shows.
Producer Fiona Bailey

Contributors

Unknown:
Patti Lupone
Unknown:
Maria Callas.
Unknown:
Richard Coles
Producer:
Fiona Bailey

The Haydn Revival, 1932-96
String Quartet in D minor, Op 103 (3rd mvt)
Busch Quartet
Missa Cellensis in Honorem BVM
(Missa Sanctae Ceciliae) (excerpt) Soloists, Vienna Academy Chamber Choir, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, conductor Hans Gillesberger Symphony No 56 in C
Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conductor Anton Heiller
Piano Sonata in D. H XVI 51
Virginia Pleasants
Repeated from last Tuesday

Contributors

Conductor:
Hans Gillesberger
Conductor:
Anton Heiller

Buck Clayton first brought his
Kansas City jazz style to Britain in 1959. He met Humphrey Lyttelton , and the two became lifelong friends. In conversation with Steve Voce , the trumpeter recounts their musical and offstage partnerships.

Contributors

Unknown:
Buck Clayton
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Unknown:
Steve Voce

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Haydn String Quartets The Solomon Quartet perform an early quartet by Haydn and works by two of his contemporaries
Albrechtsberger String Quartet in G Holzbauer String Quartet in E flat
Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 1 No 3
1.40 Sinfonia Varsovia/Jerzy
Maksymiuk, Mariusz Pedzialek
(oboe), Anna Sikorzak-Olek (harp), Tatiana Pozarska (soprano),
Agnieszka Grabowska (mezzo), National Philharmonic Women's
Chorus Debussy Prelude a I'Apres-Midi d'un Faune Lutoslawski
Concerto for Oboe and Harp
Mendelssohn Incidental music: A
Midsummer Night's Dream
3.00 Schools
3.00 Playtime 3.15 Time to Move
3.35 Let's Make a Story 3.50
History (9-11) 4.10 In the News
4.30 CSYS English
5.00 Sequence

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Oboe:
Mariusz Pedzialek
Oboe:
Anna Sikorzak-Olek
Soprano:
Tatiana Pozarska
Soprano:
Agnieszka Grabowska

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