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With Humphrey Carpenter , including Bach In Dir 1st Freude, BWV615 Christopher Herrick (organ)
6.30 Ravel Pavane pour une Infante Défunte Montreal Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
7.00 Beethoven Piano Sonata in E,
Op 109 Stephen Kovacevich
7.40 Vaughan Williams In the Fen Country London Philharmonic, conductor Bryden Thomson
8.15 Tavemer Gloria
Tibi Trinitas (Sanctus; Benedictus)
Tallis Scholars , director Peter Phillips
8.40 Gibbons In Nomine a 5 Rose Consort of Viols

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter
Unknown:
Christopher Herrick
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Unknown:
Stephen Kovacevich
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Conductor:
Bryden Thomson
Conductor:
Tavemer Gloria
Conductor:
Tibi Trinitas
Unknown:
Tallis Scholars
Director:
Peter Phillips

Beethoven Overture: Leonore No 1
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur
9.13 Marc-Andre Hamelin Etude No 9 after Rossini; Etude No 10 after Chopin The Composer (piano)
9.22 Stravinsky Concerto in E flat (Dumbarton Oaks) Montreal
Sinfonietta, conductor Charles Dutoit
9.37 Praetorius, arr Williams Terpsichore (excerpts) Craig Ogden (guitar)
9.45 Composer of the Week:
Rimsky-Korsakov Ivan the Terrible (Symphonic Intermezzo) National Philharmonic, conductor Leopold Stokowski
9.50 Gorecki Totus Tuus
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conductor Stephen Cleobury
10.00 Ten o'Clock Feature -
Light Music Miniatures:
Binge Elizabethan Serenade
Light Music Society Orchestra, conductor Vivian Dunn
10.04 Coates Springtime in Angus;
Youth of Britain (The Three Elizabeths) CBSO, conductor Reginald Kilbey
10.18 Paisiello Nel Cor Piu Non Mi
Sento; II Mio ben Quando Verra Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Gyorgy Fischer (piano)
10.29 Haydn The Storm
Ruth Holton (soprano),
Vanessa Williamson (mezzo), James Griffett
(tenor), Lawrence Albert (bass), Haydn Society Chorus, Orchestra of the Golden Age, conductor Denis McCaldin
10.38 Grieg Norwegian March; March of the Trolls (Lyric Pieces, Op 54) Anne Kaasa (piano)
10.45 Wagner Good Friday Music (Parsifal) Dresden State Orchestra, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
E-MAIL: [address removed]

Contributors

Conductor:
Kurt Masur
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Guitar:
Craig Ogden
Unknown:
Rimsky-Korsakov Ivan
Conductor:
Leopold Stokowski
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury
Conductor:
Vivian Dunn
Conductor:
Reginald Kilbey
Unknown:
Quando Verra
Unknown:
Cecilia Bartoli
Piano:
Gyorgy Fischer
Soprano:
Ruth Holton
Soprano:
Vanessa Williamson
Tenor:
James Griffett
Tenor:
Lawrence Albert
Conductor:
Denis McCaldin
Piano:
Anne Kaasa
Conductor:
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Producer:
Fiona Shelmerdine

Ivan Hewett explores the ways in which orchestras are developing new audiences. He also visits the Richard Attenborough
Arts Centre in Leicester, designed with disabled people in mind. Producer Jessica Isaacs

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivan Hewett
Unknown:
Richard Attenborough
Producer:
Jessica Isaacs

Thomas Allen at the Wigmore Hall. A recital given last year at the Wigmore Hall, London, in which Thomas Allen is joined by long-standing partner Malcolm Martineau in songs by Duparc and Ravel, and Schumann's cycle to poems by Heine on the theme of love.
Thomas Allen (baritone),
Malcolm Martineau (piano) Schumann Dichterliebe
Duparc L'invitation au Voyage; Soupir; Lamento; Le Manoir de Rosemonde
Ravel Histoires Naturelles

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Allen
Unknown:
Thomas Allen
Unknown:
Malcolm Martineau
Baritone:
Thomas Allen
Piano:
Malcolm Martineau
Piano:
Schumann Dichterliebe

Robert Hollingworth visits the scene of William Byrd 's early career -
Lincoln Cathedral - in the company of Andrew Carwood. He also explores the ways in which warfare was depicted in the music of the Renaissance and the Baroque. Plus a look at the clavichord, that most unassuming of keyboard instruments. Producer Lindsay Kemp. FACTSHEET WEB PAGE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/factsheets E-MAIL: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Hollingworth
Unknown:
William Byrd
Unknown:
Andrew Carwood.
Producer:
Lindsay Kemp.

A weekly series exploring the recorded legacy of the great singers of our century. The distinguished mezzo Brigitte Fassbaender introduces recordings of lieder by Schubert made by the German tenor Peter Anders.

Contributors

Introduces:
Brigitte Fassbaender
Tenor:
Peter Anders.

52: Vassily Nijinsky : The Rite of Spring. Dance historian
Lynn Garafola , Diaghilev aficionado John Drummond and sports writer Simon Barnes discuss Nijinsky's contribution to 20th-century choreography - in myth and reality. Producer Frances Byrnes

Contributors

Unknown:
Vassily Nijinsky
Unknown:
Lynn Garafola
Unknown:
John Drummond
Unknown:
Simon Barnes
Producer:
Frances Byrnes

Anthony Burton introduces music first performed in 1915.

Debussy Berceuse Heroique - Belgian RSO, conductor Alexander Rahbari

Ravel Piano Trio in A minor - Trio Fontenay

Falla Scene of the Will-o-the-Wisp (El Amor Brujo) - Alicia Nafe (mezzo), Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, conductor Jesus Lopez-Cobos

Stravinsky Three Pieces for String Quartet - The Lindsays

Rachmaninov Vespers (All-Night Vigil Nos 1-6) - Olga Borodina (mezzo), Vladimir Mostowoy (tenor), St Petersburg Chamber Choir, conductor Nikolai Korniev

Contributors

Presenter:
Anthony Burton
Producer:
David Stevens

On the night when all the world is turned on its head and all authority usurped by civil misrule, girls become boys and women lust after women, in this most optimistic of Shakespeare's comedies.
Music by Neil Brand , performed by Neil Brand (piano), Max de Wardener (double bass), Stuart Hall (violin), George Hinchcliffe (ukelele) with Nicky Henson. Geraldine Fitzgerald ,
Philip Jackson , Dermot Crowley. Christopher Wright , Iwan Thomas and Brian Bovell. Director Eoin O'Callaghan Repeat

Contributors

Music By:
Neil Brand
Piano:
Neil Brand
Piano:
Max de Wardener
Bass:
Stuart Hall
Violin:
George Hinchcliffe
Unknown:
Nicky Henson.
Unknown:
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Philip Jackson
Unknown:
Dermot Crowley.
Unknown:
Christopher Wright
Unknown:
Iwan Thomas
Unknown:
Brian Bovell.
Director:
Eoin O'Callaghan
Orsino:
Michael Maloney
Viola:
Anne-Marie Duff
Captain:
John Rowe
Olivia:
Josette Simon
Malvolio:
Hugh Ross

Brian Kay explores the choral repertoire outside the church with a selection of secular songs. Stanford Songs of the Sea Benjamin Luxon (baritone),
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Norman Del Mar
Delius To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water Cambridge Singers, conductor John Rutter Elgar Scenes from the Bavarian
Highlands Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Norman Del Mar
Britten Five Flower Songs Monteverdi Choir , conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes
BBC Singers, conductor Brian Kay

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Kay
Conductor:
Norman Del Mar
Conductor:
John Rutter
Conductor:
Norman Del Mar
Conductor:
Monteverdi Choir
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Conductor:
Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes
Conductor:
Brian Kay

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Bruckner Mass in E minor
Feldkirch Hortus Musicus Chamber
Choir, Vienna SO Winds, conductor Gerhard Dallinger
2.30 Martinu Polkas and Etudes
Antonin Kubalek (piano)
3.25 Kraus Symphony in D Concerto Koln
4.15 Sibelius Symphony No 2 Estonian RSO/Peeter Lilje
5.15 Haydn, arr Salomon Symphony No 94 in G Ensemble of the Classic Era

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Conductor:
Gerhard Dallinger
Conductor:
Martinu Polkas
Piano:
Antonin Kubalek
Piano:
Kraus Symphony

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