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With Penny Gore.

Dvorak Cypresses Hagen Quartet

6.30 Weber Bassoon Concerto in F - Valeri Popov, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, conductor Valeri Polyansky

7.05 CPE Bach Keyboard Sonata in A - Francois Chaplin

7.35 Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings - Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Michael Thompson (horn), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson

8.15 Liszt Orpheus - Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli

8.40 Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol - LPO, conductor Mariss Jansons

Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore

Today Donald Macleod explores Palestrina's relationship with the Popes, his work with the Papal Choir and the composition of his most famous masterpiece, the Missa Papae Marcelti.

Victimae Paschali - Choir of New College, Oxford, conductor Edward Higginbottom

Vexilla Regis Prodeunt - Lugano Chamber Society, conductor Edwin Loehrer
Missa Papae Marcelli Oxford Camerata, conductor Jeremy Summerly

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Stephanie Hughes.

Bizet Overture in A - Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson

10.19 Puccini Viene la Sera (Madama Butterfly) - Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Sieglinde Wagner (mezzo), Berlin Symphony Orchestra, conductor Berislav Klobucar

10.35 Moeran Fantasy Quartet - Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Members of the Vanbrugh Quartet.

10.50 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor - Mitsuko Uchida, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Kurt Sanderling

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes

Pianist Imogen Cooper talks to Humphrey Burton about her interest in 20th-century music and about avoiding being labelled.

Schoenberg Kleine Klavierstucke, Op 19

Mozart Quintet in E flat for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, K452 - With the Haffner Wind Ensemble

Janacek Piano Sonata 1.X.1905

Schubert Schwanengesang (excerpt) - With Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)

Schubert Piano Sonata in G, D894

Contributors

Presenter:
Humphrey Burton
Pianist/Guest:
Imogen Cooper
Musicians:
Haffner Wind Ensemble
Baritone:
Wolfgang Holzmair

A recital given by one of the world's foremost lutenists in Glasgow's Royal Scottish Academy last October in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the deaths of Bach and Weiss.

Nigel North (Baroque lute)

Johann Gottfried Conradi Suite in C

Jan Antoin Losy (Graf von Usenthal) Pieces in F

SL Weiss Tombeau sur la Mort de M Comte de Logy

Bach, transcr North Suite in A minor (arr from Cello Suite, BWV1008)

Contributors

Lutenist:
Nigel North

From St Paul's Cathedral.

Introit: Never Weather-Beaten Said (Campion).
Responses (Spicer).
Psalms 87, 88 (Battishill, Flintoft).
First Lesson: Ezekiel 28 vv 1-10.
Canticles - Wood in F (Collegium Regale).
Second Lesson: Matthew 26, vv 14-29.
Anthem: O Sing unto the Lord a New Song (Julian Anderson) (first broadcast performance).
Hymn: We Sing of God (Magdalen College).
Organ Voluntary: Theme and Variations (Andriessen).

Contributors

Director of Music:
John Scott
Sub-organist:
Huw Williams

Sean Rafferty's guests include conductor Harry Christophers, who is about to lead the Sixteen on a choral pilgrimage around the country. Music includes at 5.00 Caccini's Ave Maria performed by Inessa Galante (soprano) and London Musici; at 5.35 Strauss's Duett-Concertino played by Robert Plane (clarinet), Stephen Reay (bassoon) and the Northern Sinfonia under Richard Hickox; and at 6.40 Haydn's Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, HXVI36, played by Leif Ove Andsnes.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty
Guest:
Harry Christophers

Chris de Souza introduces a concert direct from Symphony Hall, Birmingham.

Anu Komsi (soprano), City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Sakari Oramo

Stravinsky Divertimento (The Fairy's Kiss)

Debussy, orch Oramo Chansons de Jeunesse

8.20 Twenty Minutes: George Orwell
George Orwell died 50 years ago this week, but his reputation as a writer continues undiminished. In the first of three programmes Bernard Crick, professor of politics and biographer of Orwell, selects readings from his work.

8.40 Lutoslawski Chantefleurs et Chantefables

Debussy Nocturnes

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Soprano:
Anu Komsi
Singers:
City of Birmingham Chorus
Musicians:
City of Birmingham Orchestra
Conductor:
Sakari Oramo
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Bernard Crick

It is traditionally said that the British have little time for intellectuals and use the term as an insult, while continental cultures treasure them. But how far does that opinion remain true? Sarah Dunant explores contemporary attitudes to the public role of writers and academics.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sarah Dunant

Master percussionist Ed Thigpen is the son of legendary big band drummer Ben Thigpen. He talks to Alyn Shipton about his distinguished career in jazz, including his many years in the Oscar Peterson Trio, and about his work as a teacher and composer since settling in Denmark in the 1970s.

Contributors

Presenter:
Alyn Shipton
Guest:
Ed Thigpen

With Jonathan Swain.

12.05am Kodaly Viennese Clock; Entrance of the Emperor and His Courtiers (Hary Janos)

12.10 Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin Concerto in E minor

12.20 Jarnefelt Korsholma

12.45 Liszt St Francis of Assisi Preaching to the Birds (Legend No 1)

1.00 Verdi Requiem

2.20 C.P.E. Bach Flute Sonata in G, Wql33

2.30 Hindemith Symphony: Mathis der Maler

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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