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With Penny Gore. News, weather and music including
Rossini, arr Respighi La Boutique Fantasque
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
7.05 Rosetti String Quartet, Op 6 No 1 Arioso Quartet
7.18 Mozart Rondo in A minor, K511
Till Fellner (piano)
7.32 Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor
Isabelle van Keulen ,
Ronald Brautigam (piano)
8.05 Bonporti Invenzione Terza in F Chiara Banchini (violin),
Jesper Christenson (harpsichord), Gaetano Nasillo (cello)
8.18 Falla Mazurka in C minor;
Serenata Andaluza
Miguel Baselga (piano)
8.43 Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915 Leontyne Price (soprano), New Philharmonia, conductor Thomas Schippers

Contributors

Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Unknown:
Mozart Rondo
Piano:
Till Fellner
Unknown:
Isabelle van Keulen
Piano:
Ronald Brautigam
Piano:
Bonporti Invenzione Terza
Violin:
Chiara Banchini
Harpsichord:
Jesper Christenson
Cello:
Gaetano Nasillo
Unknown:
Serenata Andaluza
Piano:
Miguel Baselga
Conductor:
Thomas Schippers

Bath International Music Festival
With Nicola Heywood
Thomas, from the Brunswick
Room at the Guildhall, Bath. There are contributions from Radio 3's
Artist of the Week, pianist
Imogen Cooper , playing Schubert's Moments Musicaux and Piano Sonata in A minor, D784. The Vellinger Quartet play chamber music by Haydn and Schumann, and tenor Ian Partridge , accompanied by Jennifer Partridge , performs music by Purcell, Brahms, Britten and John Jeffreys.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicola Heywood
Pianist:
Imogen Cooper
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Accompanied By:
Jennifer Partridge
Accompanied By:
John Jeffreys.

Songs, Cantatas and Dances
With Nicholas Anderson. Cruel love, cruel destiny and night thoughts of Phyllis.
Italian Cantata: Nel Dolce dell'Oblio, HWV134
Julianne Baird (soprano),
Philomel Baroque Ensemble
Die Ihraus Dunklen Gruften , HWV208; In den Angenehmen Buschen , HWV209
Christina Hogman (soprano), I Quattro Temperamenti
Trio Sonata in G, Op 5 No 4 London Baroque
Rammende Rose, Zierde der Erden, HWV210
Emma Kirkby (soprano), London Baroque
Italian Cantata: Crudel Tiranno Amor, HWV97
Collegium Musicum 90, director Simon Standage Repeated next Friday 11.30pm
MUSIC LIVE 97

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Anderson.
Unknown:
Nel Dolce
Soprano:
Julianne Baird
Unknown:
Ihraus Dunklen Gruften
Unknown:
Angenehmen Buschen
Soprano:
Christina Hogman
Soprano:
Emma Kirkby
Director:
Simon Standage

From Chetham's School of Music, introduced by Rodney Slatford.
Palladian Ensemble: Pamela Thorby (recorder), Rachel Podger (violin), Susan Heinrich (viola da gamba), William Carter (theorbo/guitar) Castello Sonata
Schmeizer Sonata No 7 (Duodena Selectarum Sonatarum)
Rebel Violin Sonata No 3 in A minor
Marais Pieces de Viol
Ortiz Prelude: Recercada Segunda Matteis Sett of Ayres

Contributors

Introduced By:
Rodney Slatford.
Unknown:
Pamela Thorby
Violin:
Rachel Podger
Viola:
Susan Heinrich
Unknown:
William Carter

Michael Berkeley meets conductor Paul Daniel , whose selection of music includes David Bowie , Rodgers and Hammerstein, Beethoven, Bach Schubert and Monteverdi.
Repeated from Saturday 12 noon

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Conductor:
Paul Daniel
Unknown:
David Bowie
Unknown:
Bach Schubert

Hector Berlioz
To celebrate the auspicious union of the individualist - not to say maverick - composer with two equally flamboyant conductors in historic s,
Piers Burton-Page introduces a programme on Berlioz, the wild card of the French pack.
Grande Messe des Morts
Royal Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Thomas Beecham Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Hamilton Harty Producer Tim Thorne

Contributors

Unknown:
Hector Berlioz
Introduces:
Piers Burton-Page
Conductor:
Thomas Beecham
Conductor:
Symphonie Funebre
Conductor:
Hamilton Harty
Producer:
Tim Thorne

Presenter Andrew Green is joined after 7.00 by soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom.
5.40 Rossini Overture: The Silken
Ladder
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Antal Dorati
6.20 Vaughan Williams Silent Noon John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Viola Tunnard (viola)
6.40 Saint-Saens Cello Concerto
No 1 in A minor
Sophie Rolland (cello), BBC
Philharmonic, conductor Gilbert Varga Producer Andrew Mussett

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew Green
Soprano:
Elisabeth Soderstrom.
Conductor:
Antal Dorati
Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk
Viola:
Viola Tunnard
Cello:
Sophie Rolland
Conductor:
Gilbert Varga
Producer:
Andrew Mussett

5: The View from Abroad. In the last part of the series Noah Richler meets Commonwealth Prize-winning novelist Shashi Tharoor in New York
(where he is also the special assistant to the director general of the United Nations). They talk about his fiction, The Great Indian Novel and Show
Business, and his upcoming history of India since independence.

Contributors

Unknown:
Noah Richler
Unknown:
Shashi Tharoor

Stephen Pratt presents a special edition from
Chetham School of Music in Manchester celebrating the 50th birthday of composer and double-bass virtuoso Barry Guy. Also joining the party are the Apollo Saxophone Quartet and the Goldberg Ensemble, who play some of his elaborate musical creations.
Michael Torke July
Barry Guy Mobile Herbareum (first broadcast)
Django Bates Travel Cartoons for the Blind
Apollo Saxophone Quartet
Barry Guy The Bird of Infinity The Composer (double bass)
Piers Hellawell Sound Carvings from the Water's Edge (first broadcast) Goldberg Ensemble , director Malcolm Layfield Barry Guy Flagwalk
The Composer (double bass), Goldberg Ensemble , director Malcolm Layfield Producer Paul Hindmarsh

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Pratt
Unknown:
Barry Guy.
Unknown:
Michael Torke July
Unknown:
Barry Guy
Unknown:
Django Bates
Unknown:
Barry Guy
Unknown:
Goldberg Ensemble
Director:
Malcolm Layfield
Director:
Barry Guy Flagwalk
Bass:
Goldberg Ensemble
Producer:
Paul Hindmarsh

Rodney Milnes explores the life and music of the leading composer of 20th-century Viennese operetta. 5: The Composer Offstage. Lehar and the orchestra, featuring the Gold and Silver Waltz and some lesser-known pieces, including two for violin (Lehar's own instrument) and orchestra, the polka Vergissmeinnicht, the symphonic poem, Eine Vision , and his specially concocted Merry Widow Overture.
Repeated from last Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Rodney Milnes
Unknown:
Eine Vision

Peggy Lee has made a great contribution to popular music, not only as a singer, but also as a lyricist and composer. In this four-part series looking at her life and work, Mel Hill begins in the twenties in North Dakota, where she was brought up by a kindly but weak father and an abusive stepmother. While still at school, she sang on local radio and with semi-professional bands, before graduating to nightclubs and then to the Ambassador Hotel in Chicago. Repeated from Monday 3.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Lee
Unknown:
Mel Hill

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Bach Cantatas Nos 201, 211 and 198 Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra/Ton Koopman
2.50 Mozart Piano Sonata in A,
K331 Malcolm Bilson (fortepiano)
3.20 Dominique Merlet (organ) plays works by Vincent Lubeck, Pachelbel, Buxtehude and Bach
4.40 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt,
Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
Brahms Tragic Overture Schumann Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra Brahms Symphony No 2 in D
6.00 Sequence

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.

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