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With Penny Gore.

6.10 Lotti Pur Dicesti, O Bocca Bella - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Gyorgy Fischer (piano)

6.40 Haydn Symphony No 39 in G minor - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Franz Bruggen

7.10 Nielsen Symphonic Rhapsody - Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

7.30 Smetana Three Poetic Polkas, Op 8 - Andras Schiff (piano)

8.00 Holst Overture: Walt Whitman - Munich Symphony Orchestra, conductor Douglas Bostock

8.35 Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in D minor - Isabelle van Keulen, Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, conductor Lev Markiz

Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore

Donald Macleod concludes his week of programmes on Palestrina with a look at the composer's family relationships and business interests, and how he cultivated important patrons.

Motet: Pueri Hebraeorum - Regensburg Cathedral Choir, conductor Theobald Schrems

Missa O Rex Gloriae - Westminster Cathedral Choir, conductor James O'Donnell

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Stephanie Hughes.

Tchaikovsky Polonaise (Eugene Onegin) - New York Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein

10.12 Handel L'Angue Offeso (Julius Caesar) - Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Munich Philharmonic, conductor Ferdinand Leitner

10.17 Moeran String Quartet No 1 - Vanbrugh Quartet

10.39 Mozart Konstanze, Dich Wieder zu Sehen (Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail) - Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Berlin Symphony Orchestra, conductor Berislav Klobucar

10.44 Mozart Dies Bildnis 1st Bezaubernd Sermon (The Magic Flute) - Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Berlin PO, conductor Karl Bohm

10.51 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor) - Australian Chamber Orchestra, director Stephen Kovacevich (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes

Artist in Focus: Imogen Cooper

Humphrey Burton's week of five programmes in conversation with Imogen Cooper concludes with a rousing performance of one of the pianist's favourite concertos.

Bach French Suite No 5 in G, BWV816

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

Mozart Trio in E flat for piano, clarinet and viola, K498 (Kegelstatt) - With Michael Collins (clarinet), Tabea Zimmermann (viola)

Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor - With the BBCSO, conductor Andrew Davis

Contributors

Presenter:
Humphrey Burton
Pianist/Interviewee:
Imogen Cooper
Baritone:
Wolfgang Holzmair
Clarinettist:
Michael Collins
Violist:
Tabea Zimmermann
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Andrew Davis

Haydn Symphony No 83 in G minor (The Hen) - Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor - Cecile Ousset (piano), conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

Bruckner Symphony No 4 in E flat (Romantic) (1886 version) - Conductor Edward Downes

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Pianist:
Cecile Ousset
Conductor:
Edward Downes

Robert Hollingworth explores the wide and varied repertoire of music for multiple choirs, from the glories of the cori spezzatti of Renaissance Venice to its offshoots in Germany, Spain and the New World.

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Hollingworth
Producer:
Anthony Sellors

Sean Rafferty presents arts news and music, including at 5.40 Haydn's Symphony No 19 in D played by the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood; at 6.05 Dvorak's Polonaise in E flat performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra under Jiri Belohlavek; and at 6.35 Frost's Oboe Concerto played by Simon Ernes with Ensemble 2000 under Tony Harrison.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

Live from St David's Hall, Cardiff. Huw Tregelles Williams presents the fourth concert in the BBC National Orchestra of Wales's millennium series featuring 20 masterpieces by composers of the 20th century.

Rolf Hind (piano), conductor Mark Wigglesworth

Bernstein Overture: Candide

Copland Quiet City

Bartok Piano Concerto No 3

8.15 Twenty Minutes: George Orwell
In the last of three programmes this week writer, historian and Eastern Europe specialist Timothy Garton Ash makes a selection of readings from Orwell's work.

8.35 Sibelius Symphony No 2

Roger Wright, controller Radio 3, and David Murray, director of BBC NOW will answer questions in a discussion, webcast live, following this concert on: [web address removed]. E-mail your questions to: [email address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Huw Tregelles Williams
Musicians:
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Pianist:
Rolf Hind
Conductor:
Mark Wigglesworth
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Timothy Garton Ash

For over 40 years the Swiss photographer Jean Mohr has travelled the world recording the lives of the marginalised and dispossessed. Paul Allen talks to Mohr and his longstanding collaborator John Berger about these images from The Edge of the World. And do the original bohemians still have an influence on the idea of what it is to be an artist?

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Allen
Interviewee:
Jean Mohr
Interviewee:
John Berger

Verity Sharp presents highlights from the Young Artist of 2000 New Year series by the Park Lane Group. Including performances of work by the featured composer Colin Matthews, as well as a wide range of new pieces from some of Britain's most promising composers of the next generation.

Contributors

Presenter:
Verity Sharp
Producer:
Peter Thresh

With Jonathan Swain.

12.05am Anon Queen Elisabeth and Her Master Mariners Raleigh, Drake and Gilbert

12.25 Sanz Spanish Suite

12.35 Turina Danzas Fantasticas

1.00 Purcell Dido and Aeneas - Jennifer Lane (mezzo), Russel Braun (baritone), Ann Monoyios, Shari Saunders and Meredith Hall (sopranos), Benjamin Butterfield (tenor)

2.00 Schumann Symphony No 2 in C

2.40 Grainger Hill Song No 1

2.55 CPE Bach Quartet in D, Wq94

3.20 Beethoven Concerto in C, Op 56

4.00 Vivaldi Sonata in C, RV779

4.10 Vignery Violin Sonata

4.50 Arnold Little Suite No 1

5.20 Telemann Flute Concerto in D

5.30 Mozart Nehmt Meinen Dank, Ihr Holden Gonner, K383

5.35 Madetoja Symphonic Suite

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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