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David Fanning introduces the best-known of Nielsen's songs, music inspired by Nordic myth and the concerto for Nielsen's own instrument - the violin.
Jens the Roadmender (Strophic Songs) Aksel Schiotz (tenor),
Hermann D Koppel (piano)
Yes, Take Us; The Sea around
Denmark (Willemoes) Jan Lund (tenor),
Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tamas Veto
Saga Dream
Odense Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tamas Veto
Violin Concerto Cho-Liang Lin ,
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

Contributors

Tenor:
Aksel Schiotz
Piano:
Hermann D Koppel
Tenor:
Jan Lund
Conductor:
Tamas Veto
Unknown:
Cho-Liang Lin
Conductor:
Esa-Pekka Salonen

With Stephanie Hughes.
Kabalevsky Overture: Colas Breugnon Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner
10.10 Mozart Catalogue Aria (Don Giovanni ) Fyodor Chaliapin (bass), other performers unknown
10.16 Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, Op 87 Nos 17-20 Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
10.42 Glinka Susanin 's Aria (A Life for the Tsar, Act 4)
Fyodor Chaliapin (bass), with piano accompaniment
10.47 Glazunov Concert Waltz No 2 in F, Op 51 Bamberg Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes.
Conductor:
Fritz Reiner
Unknown:
Don Giovanni
Bass:
Fyodor Chaliapin
Unknown:
Shostakovich Preludes
Piano:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Piano:
Glinka Susanin
Bass:
Fyodor Chaliapin

EdinburghInternational
Festival 1999
Linda Ormiston introduces the first of three recitals from the festival featuring two musicians celebrated for their performances of Beethoven. Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Christian Zacharias (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in D, Op 12 No 1; Sonata in A, Op 12 No 2
11.45 Festival Insights
Continuing the series of conversations with figures at this year's festival.
12.05 Beethoven Sonata in E flat,
Op 12 No 3; Sonata in A minor, Op 23

Contributors

Introduces:
Linda Ormiston
Violin:
Frank Peter Zimmermann
Piano:
Christian Zacharias
Piano:
Beethoven Sonata
Unknown:
Beethoven Sonata

Another chance to hear last
Thursday's Prom, featuring music from Wagner's last opera, Mozart's final concerto and Bruckner's last symphony, which was left unfinished at the time of his death.
Charles Neidich (clarinet),
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Daniele Gatti
Wagner Good Friday Music (Parsifal) Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622 Bruckner Symphony No 9 in D minor

Contributors

Clarinet:
Charles Neidich
Conductor:
Daniele Gatti

Mozart
The sixth of eight programmes in which prominent pianists discuss the interpretation of a composer's solo piano music with reference to recordings by great interpreters of the past. Today Andrew Green talks to French pianist Pascal Roge about playing Mozart. The programme includes recordings by Roge himself, as well as performances by Friedrich Guida , Julius Katchen ,
Daniel Barenboim and Glenn Gould.
Producer Chris Wines

Contributors

Talks:
Andrew Green
Pianist:
Pascal Roge
Unknown:
Friedrich Guida
Unknown:
Julius Katchen
Unknown:
Daniel Barenboim
Unknown:
Glenn Gould.

Sean Rafferty delves into the exotic history of the great Ottoman palaces as a new book is published about the lives of the sultans. Music includes Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV1041, and Poulenc's
Concert Champetre for harpsichord and orchestra.
E-MAIL: in.tune@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Rafferty

This evening's concert from the Royal Albert Hall, London, features a powerful late 16th-century mass by the French composer Antoine Brumel and music by the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, who makes his Proms debut with a fiercely original vision of the end of time.

Brumel Missa: Et Ecce Terra Motus - BBC Singers, His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts, conductor Bo Holten

8.10 Last Judgements
Louis Andriessen talks to Ivan Hewett about death, religion, politics and life after 60.

8.30 Louis Andriessen Trilogy of the Last Day (first UK performance) - Gwilym Bowen (treble), Tomoko Mukaiyama (piano/voice/koto), London Sinfonietta Voices,
New London Children's Choir, London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen

Contributors

Singers:
BBC Singers
Musicians:
His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts
Conductor:
Bo Holten
Treble:
Gwilym Bowen
Pianist/Voice/Koto player:
Tomoko Mukaiyama
Singers:
London Sinfonietta Voices
Singers:
New London Children's Choir
Musicians:
London Sinfonietta
Conductor:
Oliver Knussen
Presenter (Last Judgements):
Ivan Hewett
Guest (Last Judgements):
Louis Andriessen

Fragments of a Great Confession The fourth of five programmes this week celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Germany's greatest writer and poet, Goethe. 4: Elective Affinities
Elective Affinities - a scientific term describing the attraction of opposites - is Goethe's darkest and most enigmatic novel, a story of marital infidelity and betrayal suffused with the imagery of death. Author AS
Byatt and biographer Jenny Uglow discuss the novel and its influence on later 19th-century writing, including the novels of George Eliot.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenny Uglow
Unknown:
George Eliot.

Christopher Pregardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)
Schubert An Schwager Kronos , D369; Meeres Stille , D216; Erikonig, D328; Wandrers Nachtlied , D768;
Erster Verlust , D226; Der Musensohn, D764 Repeat

Contributors

Piano:
Michael Gees
Unknown:
Schwager Kronos
Unknown:
Meeres Stille
Unknown:
Wandrers Nachtlied
Unknown:
Erster Verlust

Valentine Cunningham explores the life and work of Vladimir Nabokov , author of Lolita and other works. Contributors include Nabokov's son Dimitri, biographer Brian Boyd , Martin Amis and Joyce Carol Oates. Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Valentine Cunningham
Unknown:
Vladimir Nabokov
Unknown:
Brian Boyd
Unknown:
Martin Amis
Unknown:
Joyce Carol Oates.

With Jonathan Swain.
12.05am Szymanowski Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin
Dorota Radomska (soprano), Polish National PO, conductor Jan Krenz
12.15 Chopin Etudes , Op 25 William Aide (piano)
12.50 Wieniawski Legend, Op 17 Jae-Kwang Song (violin), Een-Ah Eum (piano)
1.00 Nielsen Symphony No 4
(Inextinguishable) BBC Scottish SO, conductor Osmo Vanska
1.35 Dvorak In Nature's Realm, Op 63 Danish National Radio Choir, conductor Stefan Parkman
1.45 Dvorak Slavonic Dances , Op 46 Nos 1 and 5 James Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton (pianos)
1.55 Mozart Symphony No 38 in D (Prague) Finnish RSO/Saraste
2.20 Schumann Funf Gesange der
Frühe, Op 133 Sylviane Defeme (piano)
2.35 Paganini Cantabile, Op 17 Young-Jun Kim (violin), Joon-Cha Kim (piano)
2.40 Bames Papageno Variations Joel Quarrington (double bass), Eric Robertson (harpsichord), Toronto SO, conductor Timothy Vernon
2.50 Bach Aria Variata alia Maniera
Italiana, BWV989
Wolfgang Gluxam (harpsichord)
3.05 Corelli Sonata da Chiesa in B minor, Op 1 No 6 London Baroque
3.15 Esterhazy Cantata: Harmonia Caelestis Maria Zadori and Monika
Fers (sopranos), Katalin Karolyi
(contralto), Capella Savaria, Savaria Vocal Ensemble, conductor Pal Nemeth
3.40 Haydn Sonata in E minor, H XVI 34 Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
3.55 Kenlns Partita for Strings on Lutheran Chorales I Musici de
Montreal, director Yuli Turovsky
4.10 Ashton Fantasy on Catherine's Song Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble
4.20 Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV1041 La Petite Bande, director Sigiswald Kuijken (violin)
4.40 Mozart Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K191 Milan Turkovic,
Rotterdam PO, conductor John Mosterd
5.00 Bizet L'Arlesienne: Suite No 2
Slovenian RSO, conductor Marko Munih
5.15 Faure Nocturne No 1 in E flat minor, Op 33 No 1 Livia Rev (piano)
5.30 Muthel Concerto in D minor for two bassoons and harpsichord Rhoda Patrick and David Mings (bassoons), Gregor Hollmann (harpsichord)
5.55 Stobel, arr Bergmann Bist Du bei Mir Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Melbourne SO, conductor Vladimir Kamirski

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Soprano:
Dorota Radomska
Conductor:
Jan Krenz
Conductor:
Chopin Etudes
Conductor:
Stefan Parkman
Conductor:
Dvorak Slavonic Dances
Conductor:
James Anagnoson
Pianos:
Leslie Kinton
Violin:
Jun Kim
Violin:
Joon-Cha Kim
Unknown:
Joel Quarrington
Bass:
Eric Robertson
Conductor:
Timothy Vernon
Harpsichord:
Wolfgang Gluxam
Sopranos:
Katalin Karolyi
Conductor:
Pal Nemeth
Conductor:
Haydn Sonata
Unknown:
Andreas Staier
Director:
Yuli Turovsky
Conductor:
John Mosterd
Conductor:
Marko Munih
Harpsichord:
Rhoda Patrick
Harpsichord:
David Mings
Harpsichord:
Gregor Hollmann
Soprano:
Yvonne Kenny
Conductor:
Vladimir Kamirski

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