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With Andrew McGregor.

Bach Cello Suite No 4 in E flat, BWV1010 - Jiri Barta

6.25 Sibelius Violin Concerto - Cho-Liang Lin, Philharmonia, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

7.05 Faure Cantique de Jean Racine - Choir of Westminster Cathedral, lain Simcock (organ), conductor James O'Donnell

7.43 Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite No 1 - Norwegian Radio Orchestra, conductor Ari Rasilainen

8.05 Vivaldi Concerto in G for Two Mandolins, RV532 - Paul O'Dette and Robin Jeffrey, Parley of Instruments, conductor Peter Holman

8.27 Nielsen Symphony No 2 (The Four Temperaments) - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conductor Herbert Blomstedt

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew McGregor
Cellist:
Jiri Barta
Violinist:
Cho-Liang Lin
Musicians:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor:
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Singers:
Choir of Westminster Cathedral
Organist:
Iain Simcock
Conductor:
James O'Donnell
Musicians:
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Conductor:
Ari Rasilainen
Mandolin player:
Paul O'Dette
Mandolin player:
Robin Jeffrey
Musicians:
Parley of Instruments
Conductor:
Peter Holman
Musicians:
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Herbert Blomstedt

With Peter Hobday.
Mozart Fantasia in D minor, K397
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
9.08 Schubert Intermezzo;
Romance; Ballet (Rosamunde) Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado
9.27 Mozart Rondo in D, K485
Andras Schiff (fortepiano)
9.34 Kodaly Psalmus Hungaricus Lajos Kozma (tenor), Wandsworth
School Boys' Choir, Brighton Festival Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Istvan Kertesz Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hobday.
Unknown:
Mozart Fantasia
Piano:
Mitsuko Uchida
Unknown:
Anne Sofie von Otter
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Conductor:
Mozart Rondo
Unknown:
Andras Schiff
Unknown:
Kodaly Psalmus Hungaricus
Tenor:
Lajos Kozma
Conductor:
Istvan Kertesz Discs

With Andrew Lyle , including more recordings from winners of the Cardiff Singer of the World.
Vivaldi Concerto in G minor, RV577 (Per /'Orchestra di Dresda)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado
10.10 Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms New London Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp
10.30 Artists of the Week:
Cardiff Singers of the World
Mozart Misera! Dove Son.... Ah!
Non 10, K369
Inger Dam-Jensen (soprano),
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Guido Ajmone-Marsan
10.37 Elgar Enigma Variations Royal Albert Hall Orchestra , conducted by the Composer
11.05 Schumann Erste Begegnung ; Intermezzo; Liebesgram; In der
Nacht; Es 1st Verraten; Ich Bin Geliebt (Spanisches Liederspiel , Op 74) The Lost Maples
11.17 Stradella Sinfonia in D minor
Corelliana
11.25 Artists of the Week:
Cardiff Singers of the World
Mahler Der Tambourg'sell (Des Knaben Wunderhom)
Paul Whelan (baritone),
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Guido Ajmone-Marsan
11.30 Sounding the Century
Hlndemith Concerto for Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Lyle
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Soprano:
Inger Dam-Jensen
Conductor:
Guido Ajmone-Marsan
Unknown:
Albert Hall Orchestra
Unknown:
Schumann Erste Begegnung
Unknown:
Ich Bin Geliebt
Unknown:
Spanisches Liederspiel
Unknown:
Stradella Sinfonia
Baritone:
Paul Whelan
Conductor:
Guido Ajmone-Marsan

4: Sea Fever. The composer explores another of his creative obsessions.
Hornpipe (Comedy for Winds) Vega Wind Quintet
Blowing Blue (Diversions) The Fairer Sax Recitative; Gloria (Mass of the Sea)
Christopher Keyte (bass), Brighton
Festival Chorus, Royal Philharmonic, conductor Geoffrey Simon The Tides ofMananan
Philip Dukes (viola)
Overture: Songs of the West BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm

Contributors

Bass:
Christopher Keyte
Conductor:
Geoffrey Simon
Viola:
Philip Dukes
Conductor:
Barry Wordsworth

In the first of three programmes,
Pierluigi Petrobelli , director of Italy's National Institute of Verdi Studies, plays a selection from the institute's uniquely rich collection of Verdi on disc and talks to Piers Burton-Page about the performances. Producer Peter Tanner

Contributors

Unknown:
Pierluigi Petrobelli
Unknown:
Piers Burton-Page
Producer:
Peter Tanner

Penny Gore introduces a recital by oboist Nicholas Daniel and pianist Julius Drake , continuing the centenary celebrations of the birth of Leon Goossens.
Reizenstein Sonatina
Elgar Soliloquy for Solo Oboe York Bowen Sonata

Contributors

Introduces:
Penny Gore
Unknown:
Nicholas Daniel
Pianist:
Julius Drake
Unknown:
Leon Goossens.

Gypsy Music
Elements of the flamenco style were absorbed by the gypsies as they travelled through Spain. Many settled in Andalusia and developed a new way of singing - cante flamenco. Tommy Pearson explores how this and other styles reflect the tragedy and futility of the gypsy's life in Spain.

Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Pearson

A special edition presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas from outside St David 's Hall in Cardiff, home of the Cardiff Singer of the World competition. There are interviews with Dame Joan
Sutherland, Marilyn Horne , Stuart Burrows and Matthew Epstein. lain
Burnside drops by to air his views on the competition so far, and there is live music from Regent Brass. Producer Gwawr Owen

Contributors

Presented By:
Nicola Heywood Thomas
Unknown:
St David
Unknown:
Dame Joan
Unknown:
Marilyn Horne
Unknown:
Stuart Burrows
Unknown:
Matthew Epstein.
Producer:
Gwawr Owen

A concert given last year at York University.
Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides
(Fmgal's Cave)
Conductor Edward Downes
David Blake Rise Dove
Conductor Lionel Friend ,
Donny Ray Albert (baritone)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 in F minor Conductor Edward Downes

Contributors

Conductor:
Edward Downes
Conductor:
David Blake
Conductor:
Lionel Friend
Baritone:
Donny Ray Albert
Conductor:
Edward Downes

Five programmes about writing in the former Yugoslavia.
4: Celia Hawkesworth introduces readings from the Croatian author Dubravka Ugresic , who has written several works of fiction and a volume of anti-political essays. Extracts from two recent works The Confiscation of Memory and Museum of Unconditional Surrender are read by Sonia Ritter.

Contributors

Introduces:
Celia Hawkesworth
Unknown:
Dubravka Ugresic
Read By:
Sonia Ritter.

Introduced by Anthony Rooley. The Flemish composer Pierre de la Rue is overshadowed by his contemporary Josquin, but in his time he was acknowledged as one of Europe's finest composers. The Orlando
Consort perform a selection of his sacred music, including sections from his Missa Ave Sanctissima and Missa Sancta Anna.
Producer Lindsay Kemp
Repeated Monday 4.15pm

Contributors

Introduced By:
Anthony Rooley.
Unknown:
Pierre de la Rue
Unknown:
Sancta Anna.
Producer:
Lindsay Kemp

Harlem in the twenties saw one of the century's great explosions of creativity as writers, musicians and artists celebrated and shaped a sense of African-American identity. As the exhibition Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance opens at the Hayward Gallery in London, Patrick Wright discusses the repercussions of this extraordinary convergence of talent, with music and readings from the time. Producer Mohit Bakaya
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Wright
Producer:
Mohit Bakaya

For the Love of Duke and Ronnie
Digby Fairweather introduces the last part of a three-part concert given last May in London's Purcell Room by the Michael Garrick Jazz Orchestra and Jacqui Dankworth.

Contributors

Introduces:
Digby Fairweather
Unknown:
Michael Garrick Jazz Orchestra
Unknown:
Jacqui Dankworth.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Cardiff Singer of the World Coverage of today's preliminary round of the competition, introduced by Humphrey Burton
3.00 Choral Evensong from Westminster Abbey
Repeated from yesterday 4pm
4.00 NHK Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin , Shigenori Kudo (flute) Glinka Kamarinskaya
Khachaturian Flute Concerto
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
5.30 Sequence

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Introduced By:
Humphrey Burton
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin

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