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With Martin Handley.
6.05 Monteverdi Dixit Dominus
Taverner Players, director Andrew Parrott
6.30 Parry English Suite English String Orchestra, conductor William Boughton
7.05 Another chance to hear an excerpt from the performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks recommended in CD Review's Building a Library.
7.20 Britten Simple Symphony (string quartet version) Maggini Quartet
7.35 Mendelssohn Overture for Wind
Instruments in C, Op 24 London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
8.00 Humperdinck Overture: Hansel and Grete/Vienna PO. conductor Georg Solti
8.40 Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2
New York Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Handley.
Unknown:
Monteverdi Dixit Dominus
Director:
Andrew Parrott
Conductor:
William Boughton
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Conductor:
Georg Solti
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein

With Donald Macleod and Graham Fawcett. Todays's programme explores the importance to Berio of Eduardo Sanguinetti and Luigi Dallapiccola, his continuing fascination with titles and his relationship with America.
Duetti for Two Violins, Vol 1 (excerpts) Members of Accademia Bizantia
Due PezziCarlo Chiarappa (violin), Roman Valentini (piano)
Corale for violin, two horns and strings Members of Accademia Bizantia , director Carlo Chiarappa (violin) Continuo for orchestra
Chicago SO, conductor Daniel Barenboim

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Graham Fawcett.
Unknown:
Eduardo Sanguinetti
Unknown:
Accademia Bizantia
Violin:
Carlo Chiarappa
Conductor:
Daniel Barenboim

With Peter Hobday.
Musorgsky Gopak (Sorochinsky Fair) London Symphony Orchestra/Coates
10.09 Field Variations in B flat on "Kamarinskaya" MicealO'Rourke (piano)
10.13 Tchaikovsky / Bless You, 0 Forests, Op 4 No 5 Mark Reizen (bass), Albert Coates (piano)
Musorgsky Mephistopheles 's Song of the Flea Mark Reizen (bass), Vladimir Khvostin (piano)
10.24 Chopin Polonaise Brillante , Op 3 Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)
10.33 Shostakovich Symphony No 10 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Herbert von Karajan

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hobday.
Unknown:
Musorgsky Gopak
Bass:
Mark Reizen
Piano:
Albert Coates
Piano:
Musorgsky Mephistopheles
Bass:
Mark Reizen
Piano:
Vladimir Khvostin
Piano:
Chopin Polonaise Brillante
Cello:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Piano:
Martha Argerich
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan

Music in Time of War
Christopher Cook presents the last of this week's five programmes featuring music inspired by or written during a time of war. Prokofiev Flute Sonata, Op 94
Emily Beynon , Andrew West (piano) Debussy Cello Sonata Natalie Clein , Francois-Frederic Guy (piano)
Butterworth A Shropshire Lad Christopher Maltman (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 6 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vanska

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Emily Beynon
Piano:
Andrew West
Unknown:
Natalie Clein
Piano:
Malcolm Martineau

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
A concert recorded at the Cheltenham
Festival in July 1999. Mark O'Keefe and John Wallace (trumpets), Freddy Kempf (piano), conductor Martyn Brabbins
Mark-Anthony Tumage Dispelling the Fears Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor
Eigar, reconstr Anthony Payne Symphony No 3 in C minor

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark O'Keefe
Unknown:
John Wallace
Piano:
Freddy Kempf
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins
Unknown:
Anthony Payne

Francisco Guerrero , one of the greatest composers of the Spanish Renaissance. died 400 years ago this week. Lucie
Skeaping introduces a concert given by Chapelle du Roi under their director Alistair Dixon , in which sacred music by Guerrero - including movements from his Requiem - is interspersed with readings by Paul Vaughan from the composer's account of his trip to the Holy Land in 1588. Producer Lindsay Kemp

Contributors

Unknown:
Francisco Guerrero
Unknown:
Chapelle du Roi
Director:
Alistair Dixon
Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
Lindsay Kemp

Sean Rafferty is joined by director Martha Fiennes to discuss her new version of Pushkin's classic tragedy "Eugene Onegin", starring her brother, Ralph Fiennes.

Music includes at 5.40 Tchaikovsky's Waltz from "Eugene Onegin" played by the Berlin Philharmonic under Semyon Bychkov; at 5.05 Buxtehude's Sonata, BuxWV255 played by Trio Sonnerie; and at 5.45 Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Hugh Wolff.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty
Interviewee:
Martha Fiennes
Musicians:
Berlin Philharmonic
Conductor:
Semyon Bychkov
Musicians:
Trio Sonnerie
Pianist:
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Hugh Wolff

Live from City Hall, Glasgow, the BBC
Scottish SO continue their series focusing on the music of Rachmaninov. Tonight's concert features two works about knights: Elgar's portrait of Falstaff and Rachmaninov's Miserly Knight.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. conductor Martyn Brabbins
Eigar Symphonic Study: Falstaff
8.30 Twenty Minutes: Poetry Revised
Christopher Ricks ponders the poet's need to revise and questions what is lost and gained as a poem develops.
8.50 Rachmaninov The Miserly Knight

Contributors

Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins
Unknown:
Christopher Ricks
The Baron Paul:
Whelan (baritone)
Albert:
Martial Defontaine (tenor)
The Duke:
Dmitri Kharitonov (baritone)
Money Lender:
Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor)
The Servant Nicholas:
Folwell (baritone)

As part of the Night Waves contribution to National Architecture Week, Paul Allen chairs a discussion on the architectural future of London. Plus the last of this week's series of nominations for Best
British Building of the Century- tonight
Nicholas Grimshaw on the Lloyds Building.

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Nicholas Grimshaw

Verity Sharp presents the first of two programmes featuring the theatrical, absurdist music of Mauricio Kagel.
Angela Tunstall (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo). Alan Belk (tenor), Lieuwe Visser (bass), Sound Intermedia, London
Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen Mauricio Kagel Match ; Furstlgor, Stravinsky; Kantrimusik

Contributors

Unknown:
Verity Sharp
Unknown:
Mauricio Kagel.
Soprano:
Angela Tunstall
Soprano:
Susan Bickley
Tenor:
Alan Belk
Tenor:
Lieuwe Visser
Conductor:
Oliver Knussen
Conductor:
Mauricio Kagel Match

With Susan Sharpe.
12.05am A Scarlatti Toccata in G for keyboard 12.10 Liszt Fantasy on "Szozat"
12.20 Paganini Moses Fantasy
12.30 Milhaud Violin Concerto No 2
1.00 Bartok Dance Suite Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)
2.10 Dallapiccola Due Cori di
Michaelangelo Buonarroto il Giovane
2.20 Geminiani Concerto Grosso in E minor, Op 3 No 6
2.30 Kuhlau Sonata in A minor (Grande Sonate Concertante)
3.00 J Strauss (son) Spanischer Marsch
3.10 Merkel Wer Nur den Ueben Gott Lasst Walten (Choral-Studien, Op 116)
3.20 Machaut La Messe de Nostre Dame
3.55 Morawetz Memorial to Martin Luther
King4.20 Verdi Alzira (excerpts)
4.30 Handel Ballet Music (Alcina)
5.00 CPE Bach Sinfonia No 2 in B flat
5.10 Francis Pilkington Rest , Sweet Nymphs Judith Bingham Lace Making
5.25 Mozart Cassation in B flat, K99
5.50 Arnas Jarnefelt Kanteletar

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
Paganini Moses
Unknown:
Spanischer Marsch
Unknown:
Lasst Walten
Unknown:
Martin Luther
Unknown:
Verdi Alzira
Unknown:
Francis Pilkington Rest
Unknown:
Judith Bingham
Unknown:
Arnas Jarnefelt Kanteletar

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