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With Tommy Pearson, including:

6.20 Mozart Symphony No 17 in G - English Concert, conductor Trevor Pinnock

6.50 Poulenc Capriccio (Le Bal Masquer) - Pascal Roge and Jean-Philippe Collard (pianos)

7.00 Stanford Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G, Op 81 - Alastair Hussain (treble), Francis Brett (bass), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, director Stephen Cleobury

7.30 Handel Sonata in A minor, Op 1 No 4 - Rachel Beckett (recorder), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord)

8.00 Prokofiev Overture on Jewish Themes, Op 34b - Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado

8.40 Grainger Lincolnshire Posy - CBSO, conductor Simon Rattle

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson

Franz Schubert's short life was full of intense periods of composition. In 1815 and 1816, while still a teenager, he wrote more than a third of all his works, including 250 songs. Donald Macleod explores Schubert's early years.

Der Jungling am Bache, D30 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)

Gretchen am Spinnrade - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Edwin Fischer (piano)

Erlkonig - Hermann Prey (baritone), Karl Engel (piano)

Symphony No 5 in B flat - Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod
Producer:
Kerry Chapman

With Stephanie Hughes.

This week featuring vintage performances by cellist Pablo Casals and beginning a cycle of Dvorak symphonies.

Mozart Symphony No 4 in D - Academy of Ancient Music, director Jaap Schroder (violin)

10.15 Bach Cello Suite in C minor, BWV1011 - Pablo Casals

10.39 Dvorak Symphony No 1 in C minor (The Bells of Zlonice) - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes
Producer:
Tony Cheevers

Huw Tregelles Williams presents a week of programmes featuring performances given at music festivals in Wales last summer.

Warlock Capriol Suite - Guildhall Strings, conductor Gillian Weir

Mathias Harpsichord Concerto, Op 56 - Guildhall Strings, director Gillian Weir (harpsichord)

Brahms Clarinet Sonata in E flat, Op 120 No 2 David Campbell, Gretel Dowdeswell (piano)

Tavener String Quartet No 3 (Diodia) - Chilingirian Quartet

Contributors

Presenter:
Huw Tregelles Williams
Musicians:
Guildhall Strings
Conductor:
Gillian Weir
Harpsichordist:
Gillian Weir
Clarinettist:
David Campbell
Pianist:
Gretel Dowdeswell
Musicians:
Chilingirian Quartet

Stephanie Hughes introduces this week's recital from the Wigmore Hall, London.

Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

Cage In a Landscape

Debussy Nocturne in D flat

Chopin Nocturne in D flat, Op 27 No 2

Debussy Images Oubliees; Images (excerpts)

Wagner, arr Kocsis Prelude (Tristan und Isolde)

Wagner, arr Liszt Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)

(Repeated Saturday 1pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes
Pianist:
Zoltan Kocsis

With Sean Rafferty.

Music includes at 5.05 Butterworth's orchestral rhapsody A Shropshire Lad played by the English String Orchestra under William Boughton; and at 5.45 Handel's Concerto in D minor for trumpet and organ performed by Maurice Andre with the English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Charles Mackerras.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

From the Royal Festival Hall.
The last concert in the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Composer Portrait series is a tribute to the creator of some of the most provocative and original music of the 20th century.
Karlheinz Stockhausen's unconventional approach to musical space is demonstrated in Gruppen, presented by the composer himself. This seminal work from the 1950s is interspersed with a selection of his Klavierstucke.
Andrew McGregor introduces the music and presents interviews with the composer.Â

BBC SO, conductors Martyn Brabbins, Pascal Rophe and David Robertson

Klavierstucke: I-V, VII, VIII, XIV, XI Ellen Corver (piano) Gruppen

8.00 Twenty Minutes
Mark Russell presents a survey of Stockhausen's long and varied career, with contributions from composers and performers associated with his music.

8.20 Klavierstuck IX
Nicholas Hodges (piano)
Karlheinz Stockhausen talks about Gruppen, with musical excerpts from the orchestra, and introduces a second performance of the work.

Contributors

Presenters:
Andrew McGregor
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins
Conductor:
Pascal Rophe
Conductor:
David Robertson
Pianist:
Ellen Corver
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Mark Russell
Pianist:
Nicholas Hodges
Speaker:
Karlheinz Stockhausen

Isabel Hilton examines the myth and reality of Joan of Arc. Plus a look at Luc Besson's new film Joan of Arc, which looks set to stir up the debates once again, and an interview with novelist Douglas Coupland.

(See also Radio 4 on Wednesday at 7.15pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Isabel Hilton
Interviewee:
Douglas Coupland

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am Schubert Ave Maria

12.15 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor

1.00 Schubert Klavierstucke, D946 Nos 1 and 2 Schubert, transcr Liszt Auf dem Wasser zu Singen; Standchen; Der Muller und der Bach; Erlkonig Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor

2.15 Elgar Serenade for Strings

2.25 Chambonnieres Pavane: L 'Entretien des Dieux

2.35 Durante Concerto No 1 in F minor

2.50 Jennefelt Claviante Briioso

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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