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With Edward Seckerson.

Vasks Cantabile - Riga Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Kriss Rusmanis

6.30 Chopin Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Op 35 (Funeral March) - Mitsuko Uchida

7.10 Purcell I Look'ed, and Saw Within (The Indian Emperor) - Emma Kirkby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood

7.35 Respighi Pines of Rome - Bournemouth SO/Constantin Silvestri

8.00 Ives The Housatonic at Stockbridge (Three Places in New England) - Saint Louis SO, conductor Leonard Slatkin

8.30 Poulenc Gloria - Catherine Dubosc (soprano), Westminster Singers, City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox

Contributors

Presenter:
Edward Seckerson

Lehar Waltz: Gold and Silver - Halle Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli

9.10 Traditional The Three Ravens; Sweet Nightingale - Alfred Deller (countertenor), Desmond Dupre (guitar)

9.25 JCF Bach Sinfonia No 4 in E - Cologne Chamber Orchestra, conductor Helmut Muller-Bruhl

9.35 Schubert Ballet Music No 2 (Rosamunde) - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur

9.55 Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor - Stephen Kovacevic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis

10.35 Bach Cantata No 82: Ich Habe Genug - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Munich Bach Orchestra, conductor Karl Richter

11.05 Revueltas Toccata - RPO, conductor Enrique Batiz

11.15 Gershwin Cuban Overture - Chicago SO, conductor James Levine

11.45 Rebel Ballet: Les Elemens - Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Marc Minkowski

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Kay
Producer:
Sarah Devonald

Ivan Hewett visits the Laban Centre in south London to see how a recent lottery award will change this leading conservatoire for professional contemporary dance training. And with Mark-Anthony Turnage's new opera The Silver Tassie due to open at the Coliseum this month, a debate about what it takes for a contemporary opera to secure its place in the repertoire.

Contributors

Presenter:
Ivan Hewett
Producer:
Jessica Isaacs

Geoffrey Baskerville introduces a recital of chamber music by Rachmaninov given last October.

Elizabeth Layton (violin), Josephine Knight (cello), Artur Pizarro (piano)

Trio Elegiaque No 1 in G minor; Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op 42;
Trio Elegiaque No 2 in D minor

Contributors

Presenter:
Geoffrey Baskerville
Violinist:
Elizabeth Layton
Cellist:
Josephine Knight
Pianist:
Artur Pizarro

Hermione Lee surveys archive recordings made around the time of the Second World War, including war film music by Vaughan Williams, played by the BBC Northern Orchestra, and the first London performance of Bartok's Concerto for
Orchestra, played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult.

Contributors

Presenter:
Hermione Lee
Producer:
Edwina Wolstencroft

Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo and accompanied violin are among his most sublime and lyrical works, yet they remain a curiously neglected area of his output.

Christopher Cook and violinist Ruth Waterman introduce a selection of highlights, including a complete performance of the Violin Sonata in F minor, BWV1018.

Contributors

Presenter:
Christopher Cook
Violinist:
Ruth Waterman
Producer:
Kate Bolton

Bernard Shaw's famous play - in a studio recording of the Almeida Theatre's highly acclaimed, fast and funny production from 1998 - is revealed as a love story of great passion and a psychological thriller. But it is also an intensely dramatic expression of the kind of problems facing the medical profession as awkwardly and acutely now as when the play was written in 1906.
(R)

Contributors

Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Music:
Julian Philips
Associate Director:
Pete Atkin
Director:
Michael Grandage
Redpenny/Newspaper Man:
Laurence Mitchell
Emmy:
Patsy Byrne
Sir Colenso Ridgeon:
Ian McDiarmid
Leo Schutzmacher:
Toby Salaman
Sir Patrick Cullen:
Bernard Horsfall
Cutler Walpole:
Martin Jarvis
Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington:
Tony Britton
Doctor Blenkinsop:
Robert Demeger
Jennifer Dubedat:
Victoria Hamilton
Louis Dubedat:
James Callis
Minnie Tinwell:
Harriet Cater
Waiter/Mr Danby:
Simon Scott

Paul Guinery introduces a performance of Beethoven's choral masterpiece given last year in St David's Hall, Cardiff.

Joan Rodgers (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo), Paul Nilon (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass), Brighton Festival Chorus, BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, conductor Mark Elder

Beethoven Mass in D, Op 123 (Missa Solemnis)

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Guinery
Soprano:
Joan Rodgers
Mezzo:
Susan Bickley
Tenor:
Paul Nilon
Bass:
Alastair Miles
Singers:
Brighton Festival Chorus
Singers:
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Musicians:
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor:
Mark Elder

Bombay, now called Mumbai after the goddess Mumba Devi, becomes a city of music during January and February when India's finest classical musicians gather for a series of festivals. Jameela Siddiqi presents the first of four programmes about Mumbai's musical life, starting with highlights from the open-air JanFest.

Programme of the Week: page 113

Contributors

Presenter:
Jameela Siddiqi
Producer:
Roger Short

Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Heinrich Schiff (cello)

Schubert String Trio in B flat, D4 71

Schoenberg Trio, Op 45

Mozart Divertimento in E flat, K563 (R)

Contributors

Violinist:
Thomas Zehetmair
Violaist:
Tabea Zimmermann
Cellist:
Heinrich Schiff

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00 A concert of choral music by Bortnyanski, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Bruckner and Rachmaninov.

2.05 Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor

2.45 Hellendaal Cello Sonata, Op 5 No 5

3.00 Handel Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne: Eternal Source of Light Divine

3.25 Fesch Concerto in D, Op 5 No 1

3.35 Mozart Concerto in E flat for two pianos, K365

3.55 Mendelssohn Organ Sonata No 6 in D minor, Op 65 No 6

4.10 Beethoven Violin Sonata in F, Op 24 (Spring)

4.35 Corelli Trumpet Sonata in E minor

4.45 Joonas Kokkonen Lintujen Tuonela

5.00 Tchaikovsky Jurisprudence March

5.05 Tanayev The Evening Glow Is Fading; Behold What Darkness

5.15 Mozart Violin Sonata in C

5.25 Geminiani Concerto No 6 in A

5.35 Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1

5.45 Strauss Waltz Sequence No 1 (Der Rosenkavalier)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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