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With Edward Seckerson.

6.20 Bach Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 - Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Frans Bruggen

7.02 Tavener Eternity's Sunrise - Patricia Rozario (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Paul Goodwin

7.40 Bridge Enter Spring - Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner

8.02 Ravel Sonatine - Martha Argerich (piano)

8.50 Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture: May Night - Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

Contributors

Presenter:
Edward Seckerson

Dvorak Carnival Overture - BBC Philharmonic. conductor Stephen Gunzenhauser

9.13 Handel Sinfonia; Fronde Tenere; Ombra Mai Fu (Serse) - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Berlin Academy for Old Music

9.18 Hummel Rondo Agreable - Isabel Beyer and Harvey Dagul (piano duet)

9.25 Composer of the Week: Weber Clarinet Concertino in E flat, Op 26 - Charles Neidich, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

9.34 Britten Choral Dances (Gloriana) - BBC Singers, conductor Bo Holten

9.45 Tchaikovsky Festival Coronation March - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur

9.51 Rameau, transcr Godowsky Rigaudon; Tambourin - Earl Wild (piano)

10.00 Sullivan The Rose of Persia (Act 1 Finale) - Soloists, Southwark Voices, Hanover Band, conductor Tom Higgins

10.18 Bach, arr Koopman Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren; Kommst Du Nun, Jesu - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, conductor Ton Koopman

10.23 Sibelius Valse Triste - Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

10.28 Mateo Flecha La Bomba - New London Consort. director Philip Pickett

10.40 Bax On a May Evening - Eric Parkin (piano)

10.47 Frankel Overture: May Day - Queensland Symphony Orchestra, conductor Werner Andreas Albert

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Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Kay
Producer:
Fiona Shelmerdine

A recital given last year at St George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol.

Michael Chance (countertenor), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Julius Drake (piano)

Bach Schame Dich, O Seele, Nicht (Cantata No 147); Oboe Sonata in E flat, BWV1031

Britten Tit for Tat

David Matthews A Congress of Passions

Bach Sinfonia (Cantata No 12); Oboe Sonata in G minor, BWV1020

Parry To His Music

Butterworth Bredon Hill

German Orpheus with His Lute

Michael Head Two Dances

Dickinson Who Is Sylvia? Hark, Hark, the Lark! (Schubert in Blue)

Contributors

Countertenor:
Michael Chance
Oboist:
Nicholas Daniel
Pianist:
Julius Drake

Natalie Wheen presents a ten-part series celebrating five of the major North American orchestras.
1: Philadelphian Stories. The first of two programmes on the Philadelphia Orchestra, including the important part played in its development by music directors Leopold Stokowski , Eugene Ormandy , Riccardo Muti and Wolfgang Sawallisch. Recordings from nine decades include music by Brahms, Btoch, Strauss, Rachmaninov, Schoenberg and Respighi. Producer Alan Hall

Contributors

Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Directors:
Leopold Stokowski
Directors:
Eugene Ormandy
Directors:
Riccardo Muti
Directors:
Wolfgang Sawallisch.
Producer:
Alan Hall

Anthony Burton introduces music first performed in 1976. Sondheim Pacific Overtures (Act 1 concl) English National Opera Xenakis N'Shima
Catherine Aks and April Lindevald (voices). ST-X Ensemble, conductor Charles Zachary Bornstein Lutoslawski Mi-Parti
Polish National Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by the Composer Britten String Quartet No 3 (excerpts) Amadeus Quartet
Philip Glass Einstein on the Beach (Act 4, Scene 3: Spaceship) Philip Glass Ensemble Producer Philip Tagney

Contributors

Introduces:
Anthony Burton

Of Sound Mind
This century has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of how the mind works, yet the power of music to touch the soul remains a mystery locked deep inside the incredibly complex machine that is the human brain. Neurologist Susan Greenfield and musician Paul Webste r explore the processes of inspiration and creation, rehearsal and performance, listening and appreciation - three stages of a journey from one consciousness to another, of communication beyond words. With Nicholas Cook , Robert Craft , Peter Kivy. Rex Lawson ,
Monica Mason , John Sloboda , Julia Usher and Stephen Walsh. Producer Antony Pitts

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Greenfield
Musician:
Paul Webste
Unknown:
Nicholas Cook
Unknown:
Robert Craft
Unknown:
Peter Kivy.
Unknown:
Rex Lawson
Unknown:
Monica Mason
Unknown:
John Sloboda
Unknown:
Julia Usher
Unknown:
Stephen Walsh.
Producer:
Antony Pitts

A special studio recording of the Almeida theatre's acclaimed, fast and funny 1998 production of George Bernard Shaw 's famous play - love story, psychological thriller, and a dramatic expression of the kind of dilemmas that still face the medical profession today.
Music by Julian Philips
Director Michael Grandage

Contributors

Unknown:
George Bernard Shaw
Music By:
Julian Philips
Director:
Michael Grandage
Redpenny:
Laurence Mitchell
Newspaperman:
Laurence Mitchell
Emmy:
Patsy Byrne
Sir Colenso Ridgeon:
Ian McDiarmid
Leo Schutzmacher:
Toby Salaman
Sir Patrick Cullen:
Bernard Horsfall
Cutler Walpole:
Martin Jarvis
Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington:
Tony Britton
Dr Blenkinsop:
Robert Demeger
Jennifer Dubedat:
Victoria Hamilton
Louis Dubedat:
James Callis
Minnie Tinwell:
Harriet Cater
Waiter:
Simon Scott
Mr Danby:
Simon Scott

Brian Kay introduces the first of an occasional Choir Works series featuring all six of the late masses Haydn composed to honour the name day of his employer's wife. Haydn Missa Sancti Bernardi von Offida
(Heiligmesse) Soloists. Leipzig Radio Chorus, Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Neville Marriner
Beethoven Mass in C, Op 86
Soloists, Monteverdi Choir. Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Producer Lindsay Kemp

Contributors

Introduces:
Brian Kay
Unknown:
Haydn Missa Sancti Bernardi von Offida
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Conductor:
Beethoven Mass
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Producer:
Lindsay Kemp

Composer Portrait
Bemd Alois Zimmermann Symphony in One Movement; Cello Concerto;
Musique pour les Soupers du Roi Ubi; Ich Wandte Mich
Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Steven Page (bass). Ulrich Popp and Wolf Kahler (speakers), conductor Jacques van Steen

Contributors

Cello:
Pieter Wispelwey
Cello:
Steven Page
Bass:
Ulrich Popp
Unknown:
Wolf Kahler
Conductor:
Jacques van Steen

With Donald Macleod, beginning with Mahler's Symphony No 8 (Symphony of a Thousand) - Netherlands RPO, conductor Edo de Waart.

2.25 Lute music by Ennemond Gaultier

2.40 Arensky Suite No 3 for two pianos

3.05 Carulli Guitar Concerto in A

3.35 Beethoven Adagio for Musical Clock, WoO 33

3.55 Prokofiev Visions Fugitives

4.20 Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor

4.50 Walton Three organ pieces

5.05 Beethoven Quintet in E flat, Op 16

5.35 Goossens Concertino

5.50 Grainger To a Nordic Princess

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald MacLeod
Conductor:
Edo de Waart

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