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With Penny Gore.

Dvorak Slavonic Dances, in F minor, Op 72 No 2: in F Op 72 No 3 Czech PO/Karel Sejna

6.40 Ravel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales Chicago SO, conductor Fritz Reiner

7.00 Zavateri Concerto in G (Tempesta di Mare) Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, director Gottfried von der Goltz (violin)

7.40 Brahms Rhapsodies, Op 79 Martha Argerich (piano)

8.00 Chabrier Fete Polonaise (Le Roi maigre Lui) Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Ernest Ansermet

8.50 John Adams Two Fanfares San Francisco Symphony/Edo de Waart

Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore

With Donald Macleod.

The move of the Esterhazy household to the summer palace at Esterhaza revived Haydn's interest in the string quartet and marked the beginning of a new style in his music - Sturm und Drang.

String Quartet in C, Op 20 No 2 (Sun) (2nd mvt) - Salomon Quartet

Piano Sonata in C minor, H XVI 20 - Mikhail Pletnev

Symphony No 44 in E minor (Trauersinfonie) - Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Stephanie Hughes.

Berlioz Overture: Rob Roy - Scottish National Orchestra/Alexander Gibson

10.19 Berlioz Nuits d'Ete - Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Josephine Veasey (mezzo), Frank Patterson (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), LSO, conductor Colin Davis

10.53 Berlioz, transcr Liszt L'Idee Fixe - Leslie Howard (piano)

11.00 Honegger Symphony No 4 (Deliciae Basiliensis) - French NRO/Charles Munch

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes

Geoff Baskerville introduces music inspired by the traditional music of Scotland.

Trad Over the Hills and Far Away (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1719);

Kathren Oggie (Panmure Manuscript, 1680) - Baltimore Consort

Sally Beamish Piobaireachd - Hebrides Ensemble

Trad Corne Yards; Gypstes Lilt (Rowallan Manuscript, 1620) - Ronn McFarlane (lute)

Judith Weir Distance and Enchantment - Hebrides Ensemble

Trad The Scots Marche (Elizabeth Rogers Virginal Manuscript, 1656); Prince Edward's Paven (Wode Partbooks, 1562-92); Geordie (Scots Musical Museum IV, 1792); An t-Aiseadh dh'Eireann (Crossing to Ireland) (Cape Breton) - Baltimore Consort

Haflidi Hallgrimmsson Icelandic Folk Tunes - Hebrides Ensemble

Alexander Mackenzie Scottish Rhapsody No 2 (Burns) - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins

Contributors

Presenter:
Geoff Baskerville
Musicians:
Baltimore Consort
Musicians:
Hebrides Ensemble
Lutenist:
Ronn McFarlane
Musicians:
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins

Kirsteen McCue introduces the last in the series of early music concerts from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.

Rachel Elliott (soprano), Sonnerie: Monica Huggett and Emilia Benjamin (violins), Alison McGillivray (cello), Gary Cooper (harpsichord)

Handel Trio Sonata in B flat, Op 2 No 3

Vivaldi Cantata; Lungi dal Vago Volto, RV680; Trio Sonata in G minor, RV72

Handel Cantata; Tu Fedel? Tu Costante?, HWV171

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsteen McCue
Soprano:
Rachel Elliott
Violinist:
Monica Huggett
Violinist:
Emilia Benjamin
Cellist:
Alison McGillivray
Harpsichordist:
Gary Cooper

From the Chapel of Clare College, Cambridge.

Introit: Lumen ad Revelationem (Plainsong), Responses (Smith), Psalms 12, 13, 14 (Flintoft, Woodward, Stanford). First Lesson: Malachi 3, vv 1-5. Office Hymn: Sing How the Age-Long Promise (Iste Confessor), Canticles: Magdalen Service (Leighton), Second Lesson: Luke 2. vv 22-40. Anthem: Hodie, Beata Virgo Maria (Sweelinck), Hymn: Hail to the Lord Who Comes (Old 120th), Organ Voluntary: Paean (Leighton).

Contributors

Director of Music:
Timothy Brown
Organ scholar:
John Reid

Sean Rafferty's guests include cellist Lynn Harrell. Music includes at 5.35 Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata, D821 (arr Christopher Gunning), played by John Williams (guitar) with the Australian Chamber Orchestra: at 6.05 Jordi Savall playing Marin Marais; and at 6.40 Prokofiev's Suite; Love for Three Oranges played by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Jukka-Pekka Saraste.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty
Guest:
Lynn Harrell

From the Barbican Hall, London.

Pierre Boulez's 75th-birthday celebrations with the London Symphony Orchestra continue with an exciting and varied programme. Two 20th-century classics - the original version of Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka and Schoenberg's Piano Concerto - are juxtaposed with one of Boulez's own works (dedicated to Stravinsky) and the world premiere of a new work by British composer George Benjamin.

LSO, conductor Pierre Boulez
Boulez Originel (.... explosante-fixe....) With Paul Edmund-Davies (flute)

George Benjamin Palympsest

Schoenberg Piano Concerto With Daniel Barenboim (piano)

8.20 Twenty Minutes: Keepers: 3
Tim Marlow talks to keepers, curators and museum directors on site.
Christopher Zeuner, museum director at Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, talks about the historic buildings in his care.

8.40 Stravinsky Ballet; Petrushka (1911 version)

Contributors

Musicians:
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez
Flautist:
Paul Edmund-Davies
Pianist:
Daniel Barenboim
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Tim Marlow
Guest (Twenty Minutes):
Christopher Zeuner

Philip Dodd discusses the British premiere of Neil LaBute's play Bash, in which three personal stories explore the evil in daily life. Plus a look at the art of sculpting in sound, as a growing number of artists and galleries expect their audience to listen as well as look.

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Dodd

Vibraphone player Stephen Harris has only just released his second album, but he is already being recognised as a brilliant new talent and has guested on Cassandra Wilson's acclaimed album Travelling Miles. He describes his work to Alyn Shipton.

Contributors

Presenter:
Alyn Shipton
Guest:
Stephen Harris

With Jonathan Swain.

12.05am Saint-Saens Danse Macabre

12.25 Faure Five Nocturnes

1.00 Bach Fantasia in G, BWV572

Mendelssohn Prelude and Fugue in G minor, Op 38 No 1

Durufle Prelude in E flat minor

Messiaen Le Verbe (La Nativite du Seigneur)

Alain Litanies

Durufle Prelude and Fugue on the Name "Alain"

2.00 Mozart Requiem in D minor, K626

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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