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With Penny Gore, including 6.00 Machaut
Rose, Liz, Printemps, Verdure Gothic
Voices, director Christopher Page 6.10 Haydn Symphony No 14in A Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher
Hogwood 7.00 Strauss Wiegenlied , Op 41 No 1 Christine Schafer (soprano), Berlin PO, conductor Claudio Abbado 7.10
Debussy String QuartetBorodin Quartet
8.00 Beethoven Symphony No 8 in F
Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi 8.30 Rachmaninov Prelude in D, Op 23 No 4 John Lill (piano) 8.35 Matteis Bizzarie all'ImorScozzeze
Palladian Ensemble Producer Helen Garrison

Contributors

Unknown:
Strauss Wiegenlied
Soprano:
Christine Schafer
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Piano:
John Lill
Piano:
Matteis Bizzarie
Producer:
Helen Garrison

(1678-1741) With Donald Macleod 1: The Violinist and the Pieta. The composer's professional association with the Ospedale della Pieta, where orphan girls learnt the complete range of string and wind instruments, lasted for most of his life. Trio Sonata in D minor, RV63 (La Folia) MusicaAntiquaKoln
Bassoon Concerto in B flat, RV501 (La
Notte)Claude Wassmer , Academie Sainte Cecile, director Philippe Couvert
Flute Concerto in D, RV428 (II Gardellino) Lisa Beznosiuk , English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
Concerto Funebre in B flat, RV579;
Concerto in D, RV562 King's Consort, director Robert King Producer Andrew Lyle

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Claude Wassmer
Unknown:
Academie Sainte
Flute:
Philippe Couvert
Unknown:
Lisa Beznosiuk
Director:
Trevor Pinnock
Producer:
Andrew Lyle

Ronan Bennett. In five programmes this week writer Ronan Bennett is at work on a new novel set in Halifax, west Yorkshire, in the 17th century: a time of religious zeal and middle-class concern with the attitudes and behaviourof the poor.
Producer Hannah Andrassy

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronan Bennett.
Unknown:
Ronan Bennett
Producer:
Hannah Andrassy

With Peter Hobday , featuring Prokofiev piano music and recordings conducted by Igor Stravinsky. Haydn Symphony No 6 in D (Le Matin) English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
10.27 Stravinsky Chorale Variations on "Vom Himmel Hoch Festival Singers of Toronto, CBC SO/the Composer 10.38 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 6, Op 82 Evgeni Kissin 11.06 Stravinsky Violin
Concerto Isaac Stern , Columbia SO/the Composer Producer Tony Cheevers

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Conducted By:
Igor Stravinsky.
Unknown:
Vom Himmel Hoch
Unknown:
Evgeni Kissin
Unknown:
Isaac Stern
Producer:
Tony Cheevers

Impressions from a Country lain Burnside's look at Bohemian composers and how they sought to portray their homeland in music.
Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast) Czech PO, conductor Charles Mackerras
Suk String Quartet No 2 Suk Quartet Dvorak Symphony No 6 in D BBCSO, conductor Jiri Belohlavek

Contributors

Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Conductor:
Jiri Belohlavek

BBC Philharmonic
Beethoven Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, conductor Charles Mackerras Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 in C, Op 15 Martin Roscoe , conductor Yan Pascal Tortel ier Novak Toman and the Wood Nymph Conductor Libor Pesek Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica) Conductor Gunter Herbig

Contributors

Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Conductor:
Martin Roscoe
Conductor:
Yan Pascal Tortel
Unknown:
Novak Toman
Conductor:
Gunter Herbig

Graeme Kay continues his examination of the representation of nationality in opera. Music includes excerpts from Puccini's Madam Butterfly, Britten's Paul Bunyan , Bernstein's West Side Story and Franchetti's Cristoforo Colombo.
Producer Kerry Chapman

Contributors

Unknown:
Graeme Kay
Unknown:
Paul Bunyan
Producer:
Kerry Chapman

Sean Rafferty talks about Aria director Don Boyd 's new film Lucia, a reworking of Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoorin a contemporary setting. Music in the programme includes Haydn's String
Quartet in F. Op 50 No 5 (Dream), played by the Kodaly Quartet, and before 7.00
Wagner's Overture: Rienzi. Plus Telemann's Overture-Suite (Alster) performed by the AkademiefurAlte Musik , Berlin, from CD
Review's Disc Of the Week. Producer Alison Prain

Contributors

Talks:
Sean Rafferty
Director:
Don Boyd
Unknown:
Lucia Di Lammermoorin
Unknown:
Akademiefuralte Musik
Producer:
Alison Prain

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

As the race to finish the Millennium Dome continues, Richard Coles looks back at its 19th-century ancestor, the Great Exhibition of 1851. Was this the happy symbol of peace and prosperity that history records suggest, orwas it rather a battlefield in the struggle to shape national identity? Plus the first of this week's discussions on the cultural legacy of Marxism. Tonight's focus is on the impact of Marxism in the world of music.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Coles

New technology and ancient melody with Verity Sharp , including classics by Steve Reich and Johannes Ockeghem , as well as music from Madagascar.
Producer Antony Pitts

Contributors

Unknown:
Verity Sharp
Unknown:
Steve Reich
Unknown:
Johannes Ockeghem
Producer:
Antony Pitts

Year of the Rabbit
Alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges was a leader of some of the most hard-swinging small groups in jazz history. To introduce US saxophonist Bobby Watson 's tribute
Year of the Rabbit, Alyn Shipton reappraises Hodges'S life and work. Producer Terry Carter

Contributors

Unknown:
Johnny Hodges
Unknown:
Bobby Watson
Unknown:
Alyn Shipton
Producer:
Terry Carter

With Jonathan Swain.

12.05am Handel Venti Turbini (Rinaldo)

12.10 Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1

12.20 Tartini Violin Concerto in D minor

12.40 Melartin Karelian Scenes

12.50 Donizetti Edgardo's Aria (Lucia di Lammermoor )

1.00 Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 76 No 1
Grieg String Quartet in G minor, Op 27
Shostakovich Piano Quintet

2.25 Handel Incidental music: The Alchymist

3.00-5.00 Schools
3.00 Music Box
3.15 Something to Think About
3.30 The Song Tree
3.45 Stories and Rhymes
4.00 Find Out
4.15 Maths Challenge 2
4.30 Hopscotch
4.45 Scottish Resources 7-9

5.00 Heinrich Bach Ich Danke Dir, Gott

5.10 Butterworth Romanza

5.20 Beethoven Wind Quintet in E flat, Op 16

5.45 Lassus In Religione Homo Vivit; Musica, Dei Donum

5.50 Lehar Niemand Liebt Dich So Wie Ich (Paganini)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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