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With Fiona Talkington.

6.00 Giovanni Gabrieli Dulcis Jesu

6.30 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 2

7.00 Kodaly Missa Brevis

7.45 Sibelius The Oceanides

8.00 Rachmaninov Vocalise

8.40 Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

Contributors

Presenter:
Fiona Talkington

Verdi Dell'Invito Trascorsa.... Libiamo ne 'Lieti (La Traviata) - Ileana Cotrubas (soprano), Placido Domingo (tenor), Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Carlos Kleiber

9.15 Bach Trio Sonata in C minor, BWV526 - Simon Preston (organ)

9.25 Haydn Vollendet ist das Grosse Werk (The Creation) - Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner

9.35 Rossini String Sonata No 1 in G - ASMF, conductor Neville Marriner

9.45 Alkan Le Festin d'Esope (Etudes, Op 39) - Bernard Ringeissen (piano)

10.00 Weill Kleine Dreigroschenmusik - Philharmonia Orchestra/Otto Klemperer

10.30 Bach Cantata No 14: War Gott Nicht mit Uns Diese Zeit - Krisztina Laki (soprano), Aldo Baldin (tenor), Philippe Huttenlocher (baritone), Gaschinger Kantorei, Stuttgart Bach Collegium, conductor Helmuth Rilling

10.50 Warlock Serenade - Bournemouth Sinfonia, conductor Norman Del Mar

11.05 Mozart Serenade in D, K239 (Serenata Notturna) - Orpheus CO

11.25 Berwald Grand Septet in B flat - Melos Ensemble

11.55 Dyson In Honour of the City - Royal College of Music Chamber Choir, RPO, conductor David Willcocks

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Kay
Producer:
Sarah Devonald

Ivan Hewett talks to one of the towering figures of contemporary music, Pierre Boulez, whose 75th year is marked by the Boulez 2000 festival. Plus a look at the first steps to change the Royal Festival Hall's acoustics, which musicians and audiences have complained about for years.

Contributors

Interviewer:
Ivan Hewett
Interviewee:
Pierre Boulez
Producer:
Jessica Isaacs

Chris de Souza introduces a recital given last November in St George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol.
Joanna MacGregor (piano)

Byrd Hugh Aston's Ground
Ades Traced Overhead
Dowland Forlorn Hope Fancye
Birtwistle Harrison's Clocks
Bach Contrapunctus 2 (The Art of Fugue)
Nancarrow Three Studies for player piano
Matthew Fairclough Altered Ends, Revealed Beginnings
Somel Satoh Incantation II
Cage Water Music
Joanna MacGregor Dance It
Jonathan Harvey Tombeau de Messiaen
Bach Allemande (Partita in D, BWV828)

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Pianist:
Joanna MacGregor

Writer Jenny Unglow explores musical manifestations of the fusion of love with fantasy, fairytale, magic and myth, including music by Dvorak and Handel and an interview with a singer who worked with Debussy on his opera Pelleas et Melisande - Dame Maggie Teyte.

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenny Unglow
Producer:
Edwina Wolstencroft

Although Bach never wrote an opera, his cantatas and Passions contain music of intense drama and operatic virtuosity. Ivan Hewett explores this music, with contributions from directors Jonathan Miller and Peter Sellars.

Contributors

Presenter:
Ivan Hewett
Interviewee:
Jonathan Miller
Interviewee:
Peter Sellars
Producer:
Kate Bolton

Wherever he has lived - Cambridge, London, Belfast and Glasgow - the poet/critic Philip Hobsbaum has identified writers of talent and genius and welcomed them into his home. Roisin McAuley invites Seamus Heaney, James Kelman, Liz Lochhead and others - including Hobsbaum himself - to assess his method of critical analysis and to recreate the electric atmosphere of "the group".

Contributors

Presenter:
Roisin McAuley
Subject:
Philip Hobsbaum
Guest:
Seamus Heaney
Guest:
James Kelman
Guest:
Liz Lochhead
Producer:
Nigel Acheson

Edward Bond's play is set in a remote Sussex village in 1907. The drowning of Mrs Rafi's nephew is the catalyst for the unleashing of a storm which will change the life of this small community for ever.

Contributors

Writer:
Edward Bond
Director:
Sue Wilson
Mrs Rafi:
Rosemary Leach
Evens:
Ronald Pickup
Hatch:
Anton Lesser
Jessica Tilehouse:
Josephine Tewson
Willy Carson:
David Tennant
Hollarcut:
Richard Derrington
Rose Jones:
Cathy Sara
Vicar:
Stephen Boswell
Mafanwy Price:
Sunny Ormonde
Thompson:
Christopher Scott
Carter:
Terry Molloy
Jilly:
Tracy Wiles
Rachel:
Tina Gray
Davis:
Joyce Gibbs

A recent recording of Herbert Howell's choral masterpiece Hymnus Paradis; composed in 1938 as a requiem for his son Michael - is the centrepiece of tonight's programme, in which Paul Guinery is joined by conductor Paul Spicer.

Howell's Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song - Joan Rodgers (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conductor Richard Hickox

Requiem (excerpts) - Finzi Singers, director Paul Spicer

Hymnus Paradisi - Joan Rodgers (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor),
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox

Motet: Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing - Finzi Singers, conductor Paul Spicer

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Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Guinery
Soprano:
Joan Rodgers
Tenor:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Singers:
Finzi Singers
Musical Director:
Paul Spicer
Singers:
BBC Symphony Chorus

The Saharawi people are traditionally nomads, but when Morocco occupied the Western Sahara in 1975 nearly 100,000 of them went to live in exile in refugee camps in Algeria, and here in isolation their music has flourished. In the last of four programmes Lucy Duran discovers a rich tradition little known beyond the Sahara.

Contributors

Presenter:
Lucy Duran
Producer:
Roger Short

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00 Bach St John Passion

2.50 Kuhnau Biblical Sonata No 2 in G minor

3.05 Chan Ka Nin Suite; Four Seasons

3.20 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2 in C minor (Little Russian)

4.00 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 6, Op 82

4.15 Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV 1068

4.40 Raltio Symphonic Ballade

5.10 Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV1043

5.35 Castelnuevo-Tedesco Capriccio Diabolico

5.45 Einar Englund The White Reindeer

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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