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With Paul Guinery.
Haydn Today Shalt Thou Be with Me in Paradise (The Seven Last Words) Rafael Taibo (speaker),
Arnold Schoenberg Choir,
Vienna Concentus Musicus, director Nikolaus Harnoncourt
7.12 Ockeghem Requiem (Introit; Kyrie) Ensemble Organum, director Marcel Peres
7.22 Ian Wilson Piano Trio No 2 (The Seven Last Words) Kammerspiel
7.50 Buxtehude Cantata: Membra
Jesu Nostri (Ad Pectus) Michael
Chance (alto), Christoph PrSgardien (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass), Hanover Boys' Choir, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, director Ton Koopman
8.00 Ockeghem Requiem (Gradual; Tract) Ensemble Organum, director Marcel Peres
8.17 Bach, orch Schoenberg Prelude and Fugue in E flat, BWV552
Sydney SO, conductor Edo de Waart
8.35 Ockeghem Requiem (Offertory) Ensemble Organum, director Marcel Peres
8.44 Karg-Elert Benedictus, Op 82 No
BBC Singers, conductor Jane Glover Producer Antony Pitts

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Guinery.
Unknown:
Rafael Taibo
Director:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Director:
Marcel Peres
Piano:
Ian Wilson
Unknown:
Jesu Nostri
Tenor:
Christoph Prsgardien
Tenor:
Peter Kooy
Director:
Ton Koopman
Director:
Marcel Peres
Conductor:
Edo de Waart
Director:
Marcel Peres
Conductor:
Jane Glover
Producer:
Antony Pitts

Johann Strauss (son) Waltz: The Blue Danube - Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ferenc Fricsay

9.13 Arne Thou Soft-Flowing Avon - Emma Kirkby (soprano), Parley of Instruments, director Roy Goodman

9.18 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks - The King's Consort, director Robert King

9.39 Medtner Knight Errant, Op 58 No 2 - Dmitri Alexeev and Nikolai Demidenko (pianos)

9.51 Haydn "Nelson" Mass in D minor (Gloria) - Soloists, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, LSO, conductor David Willcocks

10.03 Walton 'Spitfire' Prelude and Fugue - ASMF, conductor Neville Marriner

10.17 Faure Dolly Suite - Claire and Antoinette Cann (piano duet)

10.33 Glinka Valse-Fantaisie - BBCSO, conductor Martyn Brabbins

10.43 Bach Singet dem Herrn, BWV225 - BBC Singers, conductor Brian Kay

10.51 Wolf Italian Serenade - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

11.05 Composer of the Week: Liszt
Aux Cypres de la Villa d'Este (Annees de Pelerinage) - Stephen Hough (piano)

11.13 Mathias Celtic Dances - BBC NOW, conductor Richard Hickox

11.28 Schubert Erlkonig; Death and the Maiden - Bryn Terfel (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

11.37 Schubert, orch Mahler String Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden) (Scherzo; Finale) - ECO, conductor Jeffrey Tate

11.57 H.W. Zimmermann Psalmkonzert - Barry McDaniel (baritone), Karlsruhe Christ Church Choir, SWD CO, conductor Klaus Martin Ziegler

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Kay
Producer:
Piers Burton-Page

Ivan Hewett with the latest news and views from the musical world.
This week, what makes a good musical biography, a new version of Weber's Oberon, and Tchaikovsky tackled by Roger Norrington.
Producer Tony Sellors. Repeated tomorrow 4pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivan Hewett
Unknown:
Roger Norrington.
Producer:
Tony Sellors.

Mozart String Quintets
The first of three programmes in which the Endellion Quartet perform all of Mozart's string quintets. Endellion Quartet,
Bruno Giuranna (viola)
Mozart String Quintet in B flat, K174 Beethoven String Quintet in C, Op 29 Mozart String Quintet in G minor, K516

Contributors

Viola:
Bruno Giuranna

Michelene Wandor talks to Peter Holman
and Brian Robins about the world of amateur music-making in the towns and cities of 18th-century England. With music by John Marsh , Charles Avlson and Capel Bond. Producer Lindsay Kemp

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Holman
Unknown:
Brian Robins
Music By:
John Marsh
Music By:
Charles Avlson
Music By:
Capel Bond.
Producer:
Lindsay Kemp

One hundred great 20th-century works of art. Henri Matisse 's The
Red Studio of 1911 is often used to demonstrate how painters can describe the world through colour. Nearly 90 years after its creation, Patrick Heron , AS Byatt and Jack Flam discuss its creation and its enduring significance. Producer Hannah Andrassy

Contributors

Unknown:
Henri Matisse
Unknown:
Patrick Heron
Unknown:
Jack Flam
Producer:
Hannah Andrassy

Natalie Wheen introduces works premiered in 1901, when nationalist fervour and expansive romanticism were rife.
Sibelius Finlandia
Ravel Jeux d'Eau
Victor Herbert Hero and Leander
(Love scene)
Elgar Overture: Cockaigne Producer Philip Tagney

Contributors

Introduces:
Natalie Wheen
Unknown:
Victor Herbert Hero
Producer:
Philip Tagney

Paris in the 1950s was a magnet for the creative energies of a generation, from France and from abroad. A decade that began with Sartre holding court at the Cafe de Rore and ended on the crest of the cinematic New Wave saw the city open its arms to British and American writers, musicians and artists drawn to its postwar promise of physical, intellectual and sexual liberation. Peter Lennon charts an extraordinary decade and its legacy. Producer Sara Davies

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Lennon
Producer:
Sara Davies

By Ramon del Valle-Inclan , translated and adapted by David Johnston. One of the greatest plays by Spain's most innovative 20th-century dramatist,
Divine Words is set in the Celtic comer of north-west Spain and presents a grotesque picture of rural life - a primitive society where avarice, adultery and cowardice flourish. with Frances Tomelty , Patrick O'Kane , James Ellis , Paula Hamilton ,
Marcella Riordan , Iwan Thomas , Valerie Lilley and Gerard McDermott. Percussionist
Michael Gregory. Director Kate Rowland

Contributors

Unknown:
Ramon Del Valle-Inclan
Adapted By:
David Johnston.
Unknown:
Frances Tomelty
Unknown:
Patrick O'Kane
Unknown:
James Ellis
Unknown:
Paula Hamilton
Unknown:
Marcella Riordan
Unknown:
Iwan Thomas
Unknown:
Valerie Lilley
Unknown:
Gerard McDermott.
Unknown:
Michael Gregory.
Director:
Kate Rowland
Bastian:
Tp McKenna
Mari Gaila:
Dervla Kirwan
Pedro Gailo:
Denys Hawthorne
Seventh Miau:
Gerard McSorley
Rosa la Tatula:
Sorcha Cusack

Jeremy Summerly introduces a concert of French polychoral works. Charpentier Mass for Four Choirs; Salve Regina for Three Choirs;
Winter, Spring (The Four Seasons of the Year); Le Reniement de St Pierre Carolyn Sampson and Natalie Clifton -Griffiths (sopranos), Ex Cathedra
Chamber Choir and Baroque Players, conductor Jeffrey Skidmore Producer Kate Bolton

Contributors

Introduces:
Jeremy Summerly
Unknown:
Salve Regina
Unknown:
Carolyn Sampson
Unknown:
Natalie Clifton
Conductor:
Jeffrey Skidmore
Producer:
Kate Bolton

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