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With Penny Gore.
6.10 Mendelssohn String Quartet No 1 in E flat, Op 12 Eroica Quartet
6.40 Zelenka Sonata No 6 in C minor
Heinz Holliger and Maurice Bourgue (oboes),
Klaus Thunemann (bassoon),
Christiane Jacottet (harpsichord)
7.15 Brahms Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor, Op 38 Heinrich Schiff ,
Gerhard Oppitz (piano)
7.55 Byrd Ave Verum Corpus
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, director David Willcocks
8.00 Poulenc Concerto for two pianos Pascal Roge and Sylviane Deferne , Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
8.45 Musorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado

Contributors

Unknown:
Heinz Holliger
Oboes:
Maurice Bourgue
Bassoon:
Klaus Thunemann
Harpsichord:
Christiane Jacottet
Unknown:
Heinrich Schiff
Piano:
Gerhard Oppitz
Director:
David Willcocks
Pianos:
Pascal Roge
Pianos:
Sylviane Deferne
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado

With Donald Macleod.
Uranus, the Magician (The Planets) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley Suite: The Perfect Fool
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Rumon Gamba
Partsongs: If You Love Songs; The Fields of Sorrow; Truth of All Truth (Three Canons) BBC Singers, conductor James Morgan
Invocation Paul Watkins (cello), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Nunc Dimittis BBC Singers, conductor James Morgan
Scherzo BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Partsong: 0 Spiritual Pilgrim BBC Singers, conductor James Morgan Neptune, the Mystic (The Planets) London Symphony Orchestra and Women's Chorus, conducted by the Composer

Contributors

Conductor:
Vernon Handley
Conductor:
Rumon Gamba
Conductor:
James Morgan
Cello:
Invocation Paul Watkins
Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Conductor:
James Morgan

With Peter Hobday.

Dvorak Slavonic Dance in C minor, Op 46 No 7
Czech Philharmonic, conductor Karel Sejna
10.09 Poulenc Le Bestiare
Francois le Roux (baritone), Soloists of the French National Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
10.14 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 5, Op 38
Yefim Bronfman
10.31 Novak Slovak Suite, Op 32
Brno State Philharmonic, conductor Karel Sejna
11.00 Prokofiev Music for Children, Op 65
Igor Zhukhov (piano)
11.21 Dvorak Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op 46 No 8 Czech Philharmonic, conductor Karel Sejna

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Hobday
Musicians:
Czech Philharmonic
Conductor:
Karel Sejna
Baritone:
Francois Le Roux
Musicians:
Soloists of the French National Orchestra
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Pianist:
Yefim Bronfman
Musicians:
Brno State Philharmonic
Pianist:
Igor Zhukhov

New Generation Artists
As a climax to this week's programmes, Verity Sharp introduces three of Radio 3's New Generation
Artists playing concertos with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Barry Wordsworth. Emily Beynon (flute), Paul Lewis (piano),
Elisabeth Batiashvili (violin)
Malcolm Arnold Flute Concerto No 1
Mozart Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466
Sibelius Violin Concerto

Contributors

Introduces:
Verity Sharp
Conducted By:
Barry Wordsworth.
Piano:
Paul Lewis
Violin:
Elisabeth Batiashvili
Flute:
Malcolm Arnold

BBC Symphony Orchestra
The theme of Mozart piano concertos continues with No 25 played by a great exponent.
Conductor Andrew Davis
Beethoven Overture: Leonore No 3, Op 72b
Mozart Piano Concerto No 25 in C,
K503 Imogen Cooper (piano)
Schumann Konzertstuck in F for Four
Horns, Op 86
Timothy Brown , Michael Murray , Andrew Antcliff and Christopher Larkin (horns)
Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral)

Contributors

Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Piano:
Imogen Cooper
Piano:
Schumann Konzertstuck
Unknown:
Timothy Brown
Unknown:
Michael Murray
Unknown:
Andrew Antcliff
Horns:
Christopher Larkin

Lucie Skeaping introduces the first of two programmes of highlights from the week-long Utrecht Festival of Early Music, which this year includes among its themes French music and the great Dutch Renaissance composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. Producer Lindsay Kemp

Contributors

Introduces:
Lucie Skeaping
Unknown:
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.
Producer:
Lindsay Kemp

With Sean Rafferty. Music today includes JC Bach's Piano Concerto in D, Op 13 No 2, performed by the Hanover Band, directed by Anthony Halstead (piano), and Dvorak's Cypresses for String Quartet, performed by the Hagen Quartet.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Rafferty.
Directed By:
Anthony Halstead

1999 Edinburgh International Festival The last of three concerts given at the Edinburgh International Festival by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and their conductor laureate Charles Mackerras
in which they presented a re-evaluation of the orchestral works of Robert Schumann. In tonight's performance Schumann's Cello Concerto is contrasted with his popular Rhenish symphony. Clemens Hagen (cello),
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
Schumann Symphony No 3 in E flat (Rhenish); Cello Concerto in A minor
8.30 Twenty Minutes: Spirits of Another Place
Gerard McBurney talks to artists about the other worlds - foreign places, historical periods - that they romanticise in their work.
8.50 Schumann Symphony No 4 in D minor (revised version, 1851)

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles MacKerras
Unknown:
Robert Schumann.
Cello:
Clemens Hagen
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Talks:
Gerard McBurney

Paul Allen and guests discuss the latest big screen Shakespeare - Michael Hoffman 's A Midsummer
Night's Dream - in which
Michelle Pfeiffer plays Titania and Kevin Klein wears ass's ears. In Hoffman's film the action of the play has been transposed to 19th-century Tuscany. Producer Jane Graham

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Michael Hoffman
Unknown:
Michelle Pfeiffer
Unknown:
Kevin Klein
Producer:
Jane Graham

With Jonathan Swain.

Kodaly Sonatina - Laszlo Mezo (cello), Lorant Szucs (piano)

12.15am Juan Crisostomo Arriaga Symphony in D - Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, conductor Hannu Koivula

12.45 Clara Schumann Four Pieces Fugitives, Op 15 - Angela Cheng (piano)

1.00 A concert given by the Spanish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Rahbari, Sylvia Greenberg and Krisztina Laki (sopranos), Spanish Radio Symphony Chorus, Bernard d'Ascoli (piano)

Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 11

Mendelssohn Symphony No 2 in B flat, Op 52 (Hymn of Praise)

3.00 Sibelius Dix Pensees Lyriques, Op 40 - Eero Heinonen (piano)

3.15 Mozart Serenade in E flat, K375 - Peter Pongracz and Lajos Toth (oboes), Bela Kovacs and Istvan Vecsey (clarinets), Tibor Fulemule and Andras Nagy (bassoons), Ferenc Tarjani and Istvan Szekely (horns)

3.50 Corelli Concerto Grosso in F, Op 6 No 12 - Bratislava Chamber Soloists, conductor Aladar Mozi

4.00 Verdi Overture: The Sicilian Vespers - Quebec Conservatoire Orchestra, conductor Raffi Armenian

4.10 Bruhns Cantata: Jauchzet dem Herren Alle Welt - Guy de Mey (tenor), Ricercar Consort

4.35 Ippolitov-Ivanov Suite: Caucasian Sketches, Op 10 - Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, conductor Uri Mayer

5.00 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 13 in A minor - Rian de Waal (piano)

5.05 Weber Clarinet Concertino in E flat, Op 26 - Hannes Altrov, Estonian State Symphony Orchestra, conductor Paul Magi

5.15 Morales Motet: Andreas Christi Famulus - Montreal Studio of Ancient Music, director Christopher Jackson

5.25 Willem de Fesch Concerto in G minor for two flutes, Op 5 No 2 - Musica ad Rhenum

5.35 Haydn Symphony No 11 in E flat - Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Stefan Robl

5.50 Domenico Scarlatti Sonatas Nos 104 and 263 - Natalya Pasichnyk (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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