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With Andrew McGregor.
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
6.28 Beethoven Piano Trio in D, Op 70 No 1 (Ghost)
Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Jacqueline du Pre (cello), Daniel Barenboim (piano)
7.05 Chopin Ballade No 2 in F, Op 38 Murray Perahia (piano)
7.40 Bach Organ Concerto in D minor, BWV1052
Peter Hurford , Northern Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
8.05 Gliere Concert Waltz, Op 90 BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vasili Sinaisky
8.35 Milhaud Suite: The Bells
Russian State Symphony Cappella, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor.
Violin:
Pinchas Zukerman
Violin:
Jacqueline du Pre
Piano:
Daniel Barenboim
Unknown:
Peter Hurford
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Vasili Sinaisky
Conductor:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

With Peter Hobday .
Berlioz Overture: King Lear
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
9.18 Handel Lascia la Spina (II
Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno) Jennifer Smith (soprano), Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Marc Minkowski
9.23 Gershwin An American in Paris
Victor Symphony Orchestra, conductor Nat Shilkret
9.39 Mozart Symphony No 31 in D, K297 Vienna Philharmonic, conductor James Levine Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Conductor:
Colin Davis
Soprano:
Jennifer Smith
Conductor:
Marc Minkowski
Conductor:
Nat Shilkret
Conductor:
James Levine

With Chris de Souza , including the first broadcast of George Lloyd's A Litany.
Sibelius Karelia Suite
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Schonwandt
10.18 Artists of the Week:
Nash Ensemble
Milhaud Catalogue des Fleurs Stephen Roberts (baritone)
10.24 Lloyd Litany (Part 1) Janice Watson (soprano),
Jeremy White (baritone), Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia, conducted by the Composer
10.36 Dvorak Bagatelles Nash Ensemble
10.56 Lloyd A Litany (part 2) Performers as 10.24
11.09 Ponchielll Quartet in B flat Nash Ensemble
11.24 Kodaly Dances from Galanta Rotterdam Philharmonic, conductor Gilbert Varga
11.42 Maw Roman Canticle
Sarah Walker (mezzo), Nash Ensemble, conductor John Carewe

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris de Souza
Conductor:
Michael Schonwandt
Baritone:
Stephen Roberts
Soprano:
Janice Watson
Baritone:
Jeremy White
Conductor:
Gilbert Varga
Unknown:
Sarah Walker
Conductor:
John Carewe

With Catherine Bott.
2: Barcelona
Anon Stella Splendens New London Consort
El Cant de la Sibilla (excerpt)
Gisela Bellsola (soprano), Obsidienne Los Set Goyts; Cuncti Simus; Mariam
Matrem Virginem; Los Set Goyts Alia Francesca
Barcelona Mass (Gloria; Sanctus; Agnus Dei) Obsidienne
Ad Mortem Festinamus
New London Consort
Repeated next Tuesday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Catherine Bott.
Soprano:
Gisela Bellsola

From the Church of St Giles,
Cripplegate, London.
Penny Gore introduces the last in a series of concerts of French music gfven by the City of London Sinfonia.
Thelma Owen (harp), City of London Sinfonia, director Richard Hickox
Debussy Dance Sacree et Danse Profane
Dutilleux Mystere de I'lnstant Honegger Symphony No 2

Contributors

Introduces:
Penny Gore
Harp:
Thelma Owen
Director:
Richard Hickox

Michelene Wandor and Richard Luckett discuss the unconventional and pioneering 20th-century harpsichordist Violet Gordon Woodhouse. With contributions from her biographer Jessica Douglas-Home and harpsichordist
Maggie Cole , and reminiscences from Lady Rosemary Chaplin.
Repeated from Sunday 3.15pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michelene Wandor
Unknown:
Richard Luckett
Unknown:
Jessica Douglas-Home
Harpsichordist:
Maggie Cole
Unknown:
Rosemary Chaplin.

Mairi Nicolson introduces a special edition from the York
Early Music Festival. She is joined in the Tempest Anderson Hall in Museum Gardens by some of the artists appearing at this year's event, including Robert King at 5.45. At 6.15 Helen Neeves and Judith Cunnold
sing Handel Italian Duets, and at 6.30 Colette Henshaw reveals how important gesture was in the performance of Renaissance and Baroque opera.
Producer Paul Hindmarsh

Contributors

Introduces:
Mairi Nicolson
Unknown:
Helen Neeves
Unknown:
Judith Cunnold
Unknown:
Colette Henshaw
Producer:
Paul Hindmarsh

The sixth of seven celebrity piano recitals from Studio
One, Birmingham, is given by Boris Berezovsky.
Medtner Fairy Tales: in C sharp minor, Op 35 No 4; in C minor, Op 42 No 2; in F minor, Op 14 No 1
8.15 The Russian Piano School
The Russian Piano School is often thought to centre on Rachmaninov, but Scriabin and Medtner were also key to its development. The three composer-pianists ultimately found very different languages for the piano. Stephen Johnson and Gerard McBurney discuss where this new virtuosity stemmed from and why it came to an end.
8.35 Scriabin Twelve Studies, Op 8 FREE TICKETS: (0121) [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Boris Berezovsky.
Piano:
Stephen Johnson
Piano:
Gerard McBurney

The Orpheus That Sailed with the Argonauts
Five programmes marking the 200th anniversary of the death of Edmund Burke. 2: A Great Empire and Little Minds Go III Together Gordon S Wood , professor of history at Brown University, asks if Burke's support for the rebellious
American colonists was as clearcut as they thought.

Contributors

Unknown:
Edmund Burke.
Unknown:
Gordon S Wood

Richard Coles reviews The White
House Cantata by Leonard Bernstein , premiered at the Barbican in London tonight. And as the Kirov Ballet begin a five-week season of classics at the London Coliseum with Don Quixote , he asks if Russian companies have been devalued.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Coles
Unknown:
Leonard Bernstein
Unknown:
Don Quixote

With Roger Nichols. d'lndy Suite in the Olden Style Harry Glantz (trumpet),
Julian Baker and Claude Monteux
(flutes), Guilet Quartet
Roussel Sarabande , Op 20 No 2 Claire Croiza (mezzo), The Composer (piano)
Roussel Petit Canon Perpétuel; Prelude and Fugue, Op 46 (Hommage a Bach) Jean Boguet (piano)
Satie En Habit de Cheval
Jean-Joel Barbier and Jean Wiener
(pianos)
Guilmant Fuga "alia Handel" (L 'Organiste Pratique, Book 5) Charles Callahan (organ)
Roussel Bourree ; Ronde (Suite in F sharp minor, Op 14) Jean Boguet (piano)
Repeated from last Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Nichols.
Unknown:
Harry Glantz
Unknown:
Julian Baker
Flutes:
Claude Monteux
Unknown:
Roussel Sarabande
Unknown:
Claire Croiza
Piano:
Jean Boguet
Unknown:
Jean-Joel Barbier
Pianos:
Jean Wiener
Pianos:
Guilmant Fuga
Unknown:
Charles Callahan
Unknown:
Roussel Bourree
Piano:
Jean Boguet

Digby Fairweather introduces a studio session from the Tina May Quartet and the Locrian String Quartet.
Tina May (vocals), Nikki lies (piano), Mark Hodgson (bass), Clark Tracey (drums), Perry Montague-Mason and David Alberman (violins),
Levine Andrade (viola), Justin Pearson (cello)

Contributors

Introduces:
Digby Fairweather
Bass:
Mark Hodgson
Bass:
Clark Tracey
Unknown:
Perry Montague-Mason
Violins:
David Alberman
Violins:
Levine Andrade
Viola:
Justin Pearson

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Haydn String Quartet in B flat, Op 76 No 4 (Sunrise) Cherubini
Quartet String Quartet in E flat, Op 76 No 6 Takacs Quartet
1.50 The Prague Madrigalists, director Damiano Binetti (tenor), perform Monteverdi's Madrigals on Love and War (Book 8), Capricomus's Opus Musicum, traditional Czech hymns, and works by Giorgio Arnold
3.20 Encounters CO/Gary Kulesha, Lawrence Cherney (cor anglais),
Rivka Golani (viola), Arthur Ozolins (piano), Russel Hartenberger (percussion) Vasks Fantasia
(Landscapes of Scorched Earth);
Elegy (Cor Anglais Concerto) Kenins Piano Concerto; Sonata for Viola and Piano Vasks Stimmen
5.00 Sequence

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Tenor:
Damiano Binetti

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