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With Tommy Pearson, including:

6.05 Mozart Piano Concerto No 11 in F, K413 - Mitsuko Uchida, English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Jeffrey Tate

6.45 Matteis Sonata in C (Ayres for the Violin, Book 4) - Arcadian Academy

7.15 Schubert The Shepherd on the Rock, D965 - Kathleen Battle (soprano), James Levine (piano), Karl Leister (clarinet)

7.40 Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E flat - Hakan Hardenberger, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner

8.00 Chopin Waltz in E flat, Op 18 (Grande Valse Brillante) - Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

8.40 Dohnanyi Suite: The Veil of Pierrette - BBCPO, conductor Matthias Bamert

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson

Donald Macleod concludes his week of programmes on Debussy with a survey of the composer's last years, which produced some of his richest compositions.

Jeux - Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez

Cello Sonata - Mstislav Rostropovich, Benjamin Britten (piano)

En Blanc et Noir - Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Jonathan Swain.

Wagner Overture: The Flying Dutchman - Berlin PO, conductor Richard Strauss

10.16 Beethoven Piano Trio in D, Op 70 No 1 (Ghost) - Karl Engel (piano), Sandor Vegh (violin), Pablo Casals (cello)

10.46 Dowland Lend Your Ears to My Sorrow: By a Fountain Where I Lay; O What Hath Overwrought; Farewell, Unkind - Consort of Musicke, conductor Antony Rooley (lute)

11.00 Bach Partita in E minor, BWV830 - Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)

11.21 Walton Capriccio Burlesco - Andre Kostelanetz Orchestra, conductor Andre Kostelanetz

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

Chris de Souza introduces the fifth in a series of eight recitals featuring the music of the Scandinavian and Baltic regions, given at St George's, Bristol, last November. Today's concert features composers from Estonia and Lithuania.

Polyphony, director Stephen Layton

Urmas Sisask Benedictio

VeljoTormis Childhood Memory

Mari Vihmand Laudate Dominum; Veni Sancte Spiritus

Veljo Tormis Autumn Landscapes

Einjohani Rautavaara Vigilia (excerpts)

Veljo Tormis St John's Song

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Musicians:
null Polyphony
Musical Director:
Stephen Layton

Conductor Osmo Vanska

Bernstein Three Dance Episodes (On the Town)

Schoenberg Accompaniment to a Silent Film Score

Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue - Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances

Barber Violin Concerto - Marco Rizzi, conductor Jean-Yves Ossonce

Roy Harris Symphony No 3 - Conductor Martyn Brabbins

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Osmo Vanska
Pianist:
Nikolai Demidenko
Violinist:
Marco Rizzi
Conductor:
Jean-Yves Ossonce
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins

Lucie Skeaping introduces a second programme of music inspired by the tragic queen of Carthage, including a violin sonata by Tartini played by Caroline Balding and cantatas by Marcello and Scarlatti performed by soprano Rachel Elliott and members of the New Chamber Opera under Gary Cooper.

Contributors

Presenter:
Lucie Skeaping
Violinist:
Caroline Balding
Soprano:
Rachel Elliott
Singers:
New Chamber Opera
Conductor:
Gary Cooper
Producer:
Lindsay Kemp

With Sean Rafferty.

Music includes at 5.05 Saint-Saens's Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso performed by Leila Josefowicz with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Neville Marriner; at 5.50 Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920 version) played by the winds of the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Pierre Boulez; and at 6.10 Walton's Suite: Henry V performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by the composer.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

Chris de Souza introduces a concert given last month at St George's, Bristol.
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Director Viktoria Mullova (violin)
Salieri Overture: La Scuola di Gelosi
Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216
8.05 Twenty Minutes: The New Yorker at 75 The last of this week's three programmes of readings from one of the best-known magazines of the 20th century - The New Yorker-which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.
8.25 Haydn Symphony No 49 in F minor (La Passione)
Mozart Violin Concerto No 4 in D, K218

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Musicians:
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Violinist/Music Director:
Viktoria Mullova

Paul Allen discusses the extraordinary story of Darwin's "savage", brought back on the Beagle and groomed as an Englishman over four years, whose life is told in a new book by Nick Hazelwood. Plus a profile of Cuban-born playwright Maria Irene Fornes, one of the founders of the radical off-off Broadway movement. And a new exhibition The Builders and the Dreamers marks 100 years of the Labour Party.

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Allen

Sarah Walker introduces a performance of Giles Swayne's Havoc - a study of the impact of man on the world. Premiered to huge acclaim at the Proms last summer, Havoc is the companion piece to Swayne's Cry of 20 years earlier. Both works were written specially for the BBC Singers - plus various instruments and electronics - and both reflect on the idea of creation.

Giles Swayne Havoc - Robert Tyson (countertenor), BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury

Contributors

Presenter:
Sarah Walker
Countertenor:
Robert Tyson
Singers:
BBC Singers
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury

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