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With Stephanie Hughes , including Mozart Sonata in D, K448
Radu Lupu and Murray Perahia (pianos)
6.44 Kodaly Dances of Galanta Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
7.04 Grieg Ave Maris Stella
Polyphony, director Stephen Layton
7.43 Telemann Paris Quartet No 1 in D Amsterdam Quartet
8.05 Elgar Introduction and Allegro Allegri Quartet, London Sinfonia, conductor John Barbirolli
8.45 Tchaikovsky Suite No 4 in G (Mozartiana)
USSR Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes
Unknown:
Mozart Sonata
Unknown:
Radu Lupu
Pianos:
Murray Perahia
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Unknown:
Maris Stella
Director:
Stephen Layton
Conductor:
John Barbirolli
Conductor:
Yevgeni Svetlanov

With Peter Hobday.

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F - ECO, conductor Benjamin Britten

9.13 Schumann Violin Sonata No 1 in A minor, Op 105 - Lydia Mordkovitch, Gerhard Oppitz (piano)

9.31 Schubert Gesange des Harfners, D478-80 - Matthias Gome (baritone), Andreas Haefliger (piano)

9.45 Liszt Prometheus - Berlin PO, conductor Claudio Abbado

(Discs)

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Hobday

With Mark Rowlinson.
Strauss Vienna Festival Fanfare
Locke Brass Consort, conductor James Stobart
10.06 Schubert Overture in the Italian Style
Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch
10.14 Artist of the Week:
Jascha Heifetz (violin)
Glazunov Violin Concerto in A minor
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, conductor Walter Hendl
10.34 John Ward My Breast 111 Set upon a Silver Stream
Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley
10.42 Finzi Dies Natalis
Wilfred Brown (tenor),
English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Christopher Finzi
11.06 Schumann Papillons, Op 2 Stephen Osborne (piano)
11.23 Masterprize:
Victoria Borlsova-Ollas Wings of the Wind BBC Philharmonic, conductor Philip Ellis
11.39 Grieg Violin Sonata in C minor, Op 45 (Romanza)
Jascha Heifetz, Isidor Achron (piano)
11.45 Beethoven Wellington's Victory BBCPO, conductor Harry Christophers

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Rowlinson.
Conductor:
James Stobart
Conductor:
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Violin:
Jascha Heifetz
Conductor:
Walter Hendl
Conductor:
John Ward

With Piers Burton-Page . 3: The Poet's Voice
In Real Time, Op 50 Peter Serkin (piano) Lament (Arianna)
Ruby Philogene (soprano), Arianna Ensemble , director William Lacey Arianna Abbandonata (first broadcast) Philip Sheffield (tenor), Daniel Thomas (guitar)
A Musical Offering (JSB 1985) London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Piers Burton-Page
Piano:
Peter Serkin
Soprano:
Arianna Ensemble
Director:
William Lacey
Director:
Arianna Abbandonata
Tenor:
Philip Sheffield
Guitar:
Daniel Thomas
Conductor:
Oliver Knussen

From Ely Cathedral.
Introit: A Golden String (Trepte)
Responses (Trepte)
Psalms 53, 54 and 55 (Flintoft, Atkins, Barnby, Macfarren)
First Lesson: Isaiah 8, vl6-9, v7
Office Hymn: Creator of the Stars of Night (Conditor Alme Siderum) Canticles: Verse Service (Wills)
Second Lesson: Matthew 16, wl-12
Anthem: The Light Invisible (Wills) Hymn: Hills of the North Rejoice (Little Cornard)
Organ Voluntary: Wachet Auf (Karg-Elert) Director of music Paul Trepte.
Assistant organist Sean Farrell. Repeated tomorrow lam

Contributors

Music:
Paul Trepte.
Organist:
Sean Farrell.

As a new production of Monteverdi's last opera, The Coronation of Poppea, opens in Cardiff, Sean Rafferty explores the prices of fortune, virtue and love with Sally Burgess and director David Alden. Lord Sainsbury reveals the CD he would like to unwrap at Christmas.
And music tonight includes Barber's Adagio for Strings and Liszt's Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Rafferty
Unknown:
Sally Burgess
Director:
David Alden.

Voices at the Wigmore Hall lain Burnside presents the third of eight vocal recitals from London's Wigmore Hall. Nancy Argenta (soprano), Eugene Asti (piano)
Haydn Three English Canzonets
Mendelssohn Pagenlied; Nachlass; Gruss, Op 19a No 5; Auf Flugeln des Gesanges, Op 34 No 2;
Fruhlingsglaube, Op 9 No 8;
Nachtlied, Op 71 No 6; Wanderlied, Op 37 No 6
Brahms Standchen , Op 106 No 1; Da unten im Tale; Das Madchen
Spricht, Op 107 No 3; Es Steht ein
Lind; Och Moder, Ich Well en Ding Han Wolf Mignons 1-3
Geoffrey Bush Three Elizabethan Songs

Contributors

Soprano:
Nancy Argenta
Piano:
Eugene Asti
Unknown:
Brahms Standchen
Unknown:
Das Madchen
Unknown:
Geoffrey Bush

Eight programmes of pre-war recordings by London dance bands. 3: Featuring Lew Stone and His Band, who guested at the Monseigneur Club, and Charlie Kunz and the Casani Club Orchestra, with vocalists Vera Lynn , Al Bowlly , Eve Beck, Harry Bentley and Dan Donovan. Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Lew Stone
Unknown:
Charlie Kunz
Unknown:
Vera Lynn
Unknown:
Al Bowlly
Unknown:
Harry Bentley
Unknown:
Dan Donovan.

A concert given last February at the Royal Festival Hall, London. BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Schonwandt
Sibelius Suite : Karelia
Diana Burrell Symphonies of Flocks, Herds and Shoals (BBC commission; first performance)
Nielsen Symphony No 4 (Inextinguishable)

Contributors

Conductor:
Michael Schonwandt
Conductor:
Sibelius Suite

Young Screenwriters - Hollywood in the Nineties
Christopher Cook talks to four of Hollywood's most successful young screenwriters, In the second programme, he meets Kevin Smith , the writer/director whose first film three years ago, Clerks, was a huge success. Now his latest film,
Chasing Amy, is on release.

Contributors

Talks:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Kevin Smith

Penny Gore presents the second of two recitals by Janet Hilton (clarinet) and Ronan O'Hora (piano) of music by Weber and Mendelssohn.
Mendelssohn Andante and Rondo
Capriccioso, Op 14
Weber Grand Duo Concertant, Op 48 Mendelssohn Songs without Words: in E, Op 19 No 1; in A flat, Op 38 No 6; in C, Op 67 No 4; in G, Op 62 No 1; in A minor, Op 62 No 5; in A, Op 62 No 6 Repeated tomorrow 4pm

Contributors

Clarinet:
Janet Hilton
Clarinet:
Ronan O'Hora

Benjamin Britten and WH Auden took the rise and decline of American culture as their theme in Paul Bunyan
Humphrey Carpenter discusses Francesca Zambello 's new production for the Royal Opera, broadcast on Radio 3 tomorrow.
Potter Bernard Leach is reassessed in an international exhibition, and Night Waves explores his continuing impact. Plus first-night news from Stratford, where Philip Voss calls for his pound of flesh in The Merchant of Venice.
Producer Fiona Bailey

Contributors

Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Paul Bunyan
Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter
Unknown:
Francesca Zambello
Unknown:
Potter Bernard Leach
Unknown:
Philip Voss
Producer:
Fiona Bailey

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Lausanne CO/Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Birgit Remmert (contralto), Hans-Peter Blochwitz (tenor)
Strauss Serenade in E flat, Op 7 Mahler, arr Schoenberg/Riehn Das Lied von der Erde
2.10 Music from Spain and Poland Jose Evangelista Airs d'Espagne Szymanski Five Pieces for String Quartet Quartation Evangelista
Cantus Sacri; Ecos; Veles e Vents;
Cada Vez Mas Ausente Elora Festival
Singers, John Tuttle (organ)/Noel Edison
3.50 Academy of Ancient Music, Berlin, Roel Dieltiens (cello)
Boccherini Symphony in E flat, Op
35 No 5 Haydn Cello Concerto No 2 in D; Symphony No 1 in D Boccherini Symphony in C minor, Op 41
5.00 Sequence

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Contralto:
Birgit Remmert
Tenor:
Hans-Peter Blochwitz
Tenor:
Strauss Serenade

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