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With Penny Gore. Music includes:
Bizet Jeux d 'Enfants (Petite Suite) French National Radio Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon
6.35 Haydn Cello Concerto No 2 in D
Steven Isserlis , Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Roger Norrington
7.00 Walton Capriccio Burlesco
Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra
7.35 Beethoven Piano Sonata in G, Op 31 No 1 Stephen Kovacevich
8.00 Janacek Sinfonietta Philharmonia
Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle

Contributors

Conductor:
Jean Martinon
Unknown:
Steven Isserlis
Conductor:
Roger Norrington
Conductor:
Walton Capriccio Burlesco
Conductor:
Andre Kostelanetz
Unknown:
Stephen Kovacevich
Conductor:
Simon Rattle

With Donald Macleod.
5: Visionary. The last of this week's five programmes surveys the extraordinary range of Grainger's interests -folk song, wind bands, experimental music, early music and the Orient.
Molly on the Shore; Mock Morris
Ulster Orchestra/Kenneth Montgomery Marching Song of Democracy
Royal Northern College of Music Wind Ensemble, conductor Timothy Reynish
Train Music City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle Arrival Platform Humlet (Suite: In a Nutshell) London Viola Sound, conductor Geoffrey Simon
My Robin Is to the Greenwood Gone ECO, conductor Benjamin Britten
Dowland, arr Grainger Now, Oh Now, / Needs Must Part Penelope Thwaites (piano) Grainger Eastern Intermezzo (Youthful
Suite) BBCPO, conductor Richard Hickox Debussy, arr Grainger Pagodes Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Geoffrey Simon
Grainger Lonely Desert Man Sees the Tents of the Happy Tribes Mark Padmore (tenor), Joyful Company of Singers, City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Conductor:
Geoffrey Simon
Conductor:
Benjamin Britten
Piano:
Penelope Thwaites
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Geoffrey Simon
Tenor:
Mark Padmore
Conductor:
Richard Hickox

With Stephanie Hughes.
Delibes, arr Dohnanyl Waltzes (Nai'la) Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
10.13 Wagner Forest Murmurs (Siegfried) Vienna PO, conductor Georg Solti
10.22 Britten Suite: The Sword in the Stone Nash Ensemble , conductor Lionel Friend
10.32 Rameau Suite: Nais (excerpts) Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, conductor Nicholas McGegan
10.52 Schumann Waldszenen , Op 82 Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
11.14 Chausson Viviane
Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes.
Piano:
Wilhelm Backhaus
Conductor:
Georg Solti
Conductor:
Stone Nash Ensemble
Conductor:
Lionel Friend
Conductor:
Nicholas McGegan
Conductor:
Schumann Waldszenen
Piano:
Wilhelm Backhaus
Conductor:
Michel Plasson

Helen Wallace introduces the last of this week's five programmes of concerts given last July at the Verbier Festival and Academy in the Swiss Alps. Prokofiev Symphony No 1 (Classical)
Orchestra of the Curtis Institute,
Philadelphia, conductor Hans Vonk
Brahms Violin Sonata No 1 in G, Op 78 Ilia Gringoits , RogerVignoles (piano)
Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Evgeny Kissin , Orchestra of the Curtis Institute, conductor James Levine

Contributors

Introduces:
Helen Wallace
Conductor:
Hans Vonk
Unknown:
Ilia Gringoits
Unknown:
Evgeny Kissin
Conductor:
James Levine

The first of five concerts given earlier this month in the Djanogly Hall, Nottingham. Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
Clementi Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 25 No 5
Dussek Piano Sonata in B flat, Op 23 Beethoven 24 Variations on the Aria
"VenniAmore by Vincenzo Righini , Wo065

Contributors

Unknown:
Clementi Sonata
Unknown:
Vincenzo Righini

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Mozart Overture: The Magic Flute Conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Sibelius Symphony No 7
Conductor Mark Wigglesworth
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622
Martin Frost (clarinet)/Mark Wigglesworth Lutoslawski Symphony No 4
Conductor Mark Wigglesworth
Mozart Symphony No 41 in C (Jupiter) Conductor Mark Wigglesworth

Contributors

Conductor:
Tadaaki Otaka
Conductor:
Mark Wigglesworth
Clarinet:
Mark Wigglesworth
Conductor:
Mark Wigglesworth
Conductor:
Mark Wigglesworth

Humphrey Carpenter 's guest is Cuban-born conductor Odaline de la Martinez , who is celebrating her 50th birthday. Music includes at 5.35 Rimsky-Korsakov's
Suite: The Golden Cockerel played by the Russian National Orchestra under
Mikhail Pletnev ; at 6.05 Ives's Central Park in the Dark performed by the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein ; and at 6.35 Bruckner's Overture in G minor played by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly.

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter
Conductor:
Odaline de la Martinez
Unknown:
Mikhail Pletnev
Unknown:
Leonard Bernstein
Unknown:
Riccardo Chailly.

Sean Rafferty introduces the first of two svenings from the Wexford Festival Opera with a new production of Die Konigin von Saba (The Queen ofSheba), the most famous opera by Karl Goldmark. First performed in 1875, the score is sensual, full of oriental colour and influenced by Jewish religious music. Assad is torn between his love forthe tempestuous Queen of Sheba and his betrothed,
Sulamith, daughter of the High Priest.
Wexford Festival Opera Chorus,
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, conductor Claude Schnitzler
Act
8.50 Twenty Minutes: The Arrival of the QueenofSheba
Ian McElhinney reads from Goldmark's recollections on the origins and early performances of his most successful opera.
9.10 Act 2
10.00 Twenty Minutes: Wexford
The playwright Billy Roche and the novelist Colm Toibin talk about the town of Wexford and its surrounding area and discuss the influence the town has had on theirwriting.
10.20 Acts 3 and 4 Moniuszko's The Haunted Manoris tomorrow

Contributors

Introduces:
Sean Rafferty
Unknown:
Karl Goldmark.
Conductor:
Claude Schnitzler
Unknown:
Ian McElhinney
Unknown:
Billy Roche
Unknown:
Colm Toibin
King Solomon:
Max Wlttges(baritone)
High Priest:
Plotr Nowacki(bass)
Sulamith:
Inka Rinn(soprano)
Assad:
Mauro Nicoletti(tenor)
Baal-Hanan:
Vladimir Glushchak(baritone)
QueenofSheba:
Cornelia Helfricht(mezzo)
Astaroth:
Tereza Matlova(soprano)

Sarah Walker introduces a studio session by Australian guitarist Geoffrey Morris. Gabriele Manca In Ragrante David Young
Jasmine Walter Zimmerman 15 Zweifache Brian Ferneyhough Kurze Schatten II

Contributors

Introduces:
Sarah Walker
Guitarist:
Geoffrey Morris.
Unknown:
Jasmine Walter Zimmerman

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am Dvorak Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op 46 No 2

12.10 Mozart Flute Quartet in G, K285a

12.20 Tchaikovsky Suite No 4 in G (Mozartiana)

12.45 Debussy Violin Sonata

1.00 Dvorak Rusalka

3.20 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 13 (Pathetique)

3.35 A Scarlatti Concerto Grosso No 1 in Fminor

3.55 Milton Bames Divertimento for harp and strings

4.10 Alma Mahler Funf Lieder

4.25 Schumann PianoTrio No 2 in F, Op 80

4.50 Barber Adagio for Strings

5.00 Rossini Wind Quartet

5.10 Beethoven Piano Sonata in F sharp, Op 78 (A Therese)

5.20 Grieg Holberg Suite

5.50 Dukas Villanelle

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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