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With Tommy Pearson, including:

Vivaldi Oi Due Rai Languir Costante - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Il Giardino Armonico, conductor Giovanni Antonini

6.20 Weber Clarinet Concerto No 2 in E flat, Op 74 - Emma Johnson, ECO, conductor Gerard Schwarz

7.00 Bartok Six Romanian Folk Dances - Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

7.20 Dvorak Romantic Pieces, Op 75 - Gidon Kremer (violin), Oleg Maisenberg (piano)

8.00 Arriaga Los Esclavos Felices - Le Concert des Nations, director Jordi Savall

8.45 Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson

Donald Macleod uncovers some of the important friendships in Schubert's life - friends who were regulars at the famous Schubertiads and who influenced Schubert's ideas and compositions.

Memnon - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)

Marche Militaire in D, D733 No 1 - Yaara Tal and Andreas Groethuysen (pianos)

Piano Quintet in A, D667 (Trout) (5th mvt) - Alfred Brendel, Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Richard Duven (cello), Peter Riegelbauer (double bass)

Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished) - Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

Huw Tregelles Williams introduces performances given at music festivals in Wales last summer.

Elgar Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op 20 - Guildhall Strings, conductor Gillian Weir

Britten Simple Symphony - Guildhall Strings, conductor Gillian Weir

Part Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten - Riga Kammermusiki, conductor Normunds Sne

Hoddinott Symphony No 10 - BBC NOW, conductor Grant Llewellyn

Contributors

Presenter:
Huw Tregelles Williams
Musicians:
Guildhall Strings
Conductor:
Gillian Weir
Musicians:
Riga Kammermusiki
Conductor:
Normunds Sne
Musicians:
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor:
Grant Llewellyn

Chris de Souza introduces a concert from Symphony Hall, Birmingham, to mark the official 50th anniversary of Rossini's birthday (29 February 1792).

Soprano Susan Roberts, mezzo Imelda Drumm and pianist Iain Burnside perform a selection of songs and piano music from the collections which Rossini called his "sins of old age". These include Le Depart des Promis, Le Dodo des Enfants, Une Caresse a Ma Femme, Mon Prelude Hygienique du Main and La Pesca. Plus the first broadcast performance of Rossini's cantata Egle ed Irene.

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Soprano:
Susan Roberts
Mezzo:
Imelda Drumm
Pianist:
Iain Burnside

Olivier Charlier (violin), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Bonaventura Bottone (tenor), Jason Howard (bass)

Lili Boulanger D'un Matin de Printemps; Cantata: Faust et Helene; D'un Soir Triste - Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor - Conductor Peter Maxwell Davies

Brahms Symphony No 2 in D - Conductor Vassily Sinaisky

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Violinist:
Olivier Charlier
Soprano:
Lynne Dawson
Tenor:
Bonaventura Bottone
Bass:
Jason Howard
Conductor:
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Conductor:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Conductor:
Vassily Sinaisky

With Sean Rafferty.

Music includes at 5.05 Beethoven's 12 Variations on "Ein Madchen oder Weibchen" from Mozart's "Die Zauberflote", Op 66, played by Anthony Pleeth (cello) and Melvyn Tan (piano); at 5.45 Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne, Set 1 performed by Dawn Upshaw (soprano) with the Lyon National Opera Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano; and at 6.35 Shostakovich's Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings, Op 35 played by Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) and Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet) with the CBSO under Paavo Jarvi.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

Classical meets jazz in a collaboration between Django Bates and his ensemble Human Chain, and the Britten Sinfonia with their conductor Nicholas Cleobury and pianist Joanna MacGregor.

Bates Three English Scenes

Ligeti Piano Concerto

Ives Ragtime Dance No 4; Country Band March; Hymn (Largo Cantabile)

Ellington, arr Bates Rocking in Rhythm

Kander and Ebb, arr Bates New York, New York

8.30 Twenty Minutes: Speaking of Universities
The first of two talks by Stefan Collini, reader at Cambridge University, on academic life today. Universities are often compared to businesses. Should they function like commercial concerns?

8.50 Bates 2000 Years beyond Undo (first performance)

Bach Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV1056

Bates Tentle Morments

Contributors

Musician:
Django Bates
Musicians:
Human Chain
Musicians:
Britten Sinfonia
Conductor:
Nicholas Cleobury
Pianist:
Joanna MacGregor
Speaker (Twenty Minutes):
Stefan Collini

Richard Coles looks at the life and work of Italian Renaissance engineer/artist Filippo Brunelleschi, as a new novel tells the story behind the construction of the cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore. Plus first-night news from a new version by Frank McGuinness of Strindberg's class-war drama Miss Julie.

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Coles

Alyn Shipton introduces music from the Harry Beckett Band: Harry Beckett (trumpet), Chris Biscoe (reeds), Tony Marsh (drums), Alastair Gavin (piano) and Fred Thelonious Baker (bass).

Contributors

Presenter:
Alyn Shipton
Trumpeter (Harry Beckett Band):
Harry Beckett
Reeds player (Harry Beckett Band):
Chris Biscoe
Drummer (Harry Beckett Band):
Tony Marsh
Pianist (Harry Beckett Band):
Alastair Gavin
Bassist (Harry Beckett Band):
Fred Thelonious Baker

With Susan Sharpe.
12.05am Cesti Sinfonia avanti il Prologo (Orontea)
12.10 Vivaldi Cantata: All'Ombra di Sospetto, RV678
12.20 Liszt Ballade in D flat
12.30 Arriaga Symphony in D
1.00 CPE Bach Cantata: Heilig, Heilig, Wq21 7; Bach Cello Suite in G, BWV1007; Cantata No 147: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben; Cello Suite in E flat, BWV1010
2.20 Handel Sonata in G minor for two violins, Op 2 No 5
2.35 Tchaikovsky Ballet Suite: Swan Lake
3.00-5.00 Schools
3.00 Music for Dance
3.15 Time to Move
3.35 Let's Make a Story
3.50 Drama Workshop
4.10 Maths Challenge 1
4.30 Hop, Skip and Jump
4.45 Scottish Gaelic: Am Fear Og's an Tuach Umha, Pairt 2
5.00 Bach, orch Webern Ricercar (Musical Offering, BWV1079)
5.15 Sweelinck Mein Junges Leben Hat ein End
5.30 Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Op 53
5.40 Hans Gai Serenade for Strings, Op 46

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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