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With Tommy Pearson, including:

Binge Elizabethan Serenade - New London Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp

6.45 Stravinsky Scherzo Fantastique, Op 3 - Montreal SO, conductor Charles Dutoit

7.05 Mozart Fantasia in F minor, K608 - Christoph Eschenbach and Justus Frantz (pianos)

7.40 Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56b - Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado

8.00 Handel Coronation Anthem: Zadok the Priest, HWV258 - English Concert, director Simon Preston

8.30 Poulenc Sinfonietta - BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Paul Murphy

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson

With Donald Macleod.

At the end of 1822 Schubert was diagnosed as having syphilis. It was a discovery which prompted him to write some of the deepest and most profound of all his works.

Piano Sonata in A minor, D 784 (2nd mvt) - Vladimir Ashkenazy

Die Neugierige (Die Schone Mullerin) - Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Hubert Giesen (piano)

String Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden) - Melos Quartet

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Stephanie Hughes.

Haydn Piano Trio in G, H XV 25 (Gypsy Rondo) - Alfred Cortot, Jacques Thibaud (violin), Pablo Casals (cello)

10.20 Sibelius Incidental Music: Belshazzar's Feast - LSO, conductor Robert Kajanus

10.36 Bruch Kol Nidrei - Pablo Casals (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Landon Ronald

10.49 Ives Du Bist Wie eine Blume; Ballade von Rosamunde - Thomas Hampson (baritone), Armen Guzelimian (piano)

10.53 Dvorak Symphony No 3 in E flat - London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Istvan Kertesz

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes

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

Gorecki Three Pieces in Olden Style - Riga Kammermusiki, conductor Normunds Sne

John Metcalf Paradise Haunts - BBC NOW, conductor Grant Llewellyn

Arturs Maskats Concerto Grosso - Riga Kammermusiki, conductor Normunds Sne

Graham Fitkin Agnostic - David Campbell (clarinet), Riga Kammermusiki, conductor Normunds Sne

Contributors

Presenter:
Huw Tregelles Williams
Musicians:
Riga Kammermusiki
Conductor:
Normunds Sne
Musicians:
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor:
Grant Llewellyn
Clarinettist:
David Campbell

From St Davids Cathedral.
Introit: Holy, Holy, Holy (Tomkins). Responses (Rose).
Psalms 6,7,8 (Dupuis, Barnby, Garrett, Corfe from Lawes).
First Lesson: Ecclesiasticus 44, vv 1-15. Canticles: St Davids Service -
Canticula Decima (Francis Jackson ) (first broadcast performance).
Second Lesson: Ephesians 4, vv 1-8; 11-16. Anthem: Evening Hymn (Balfour Gardiner). Benedicite (Sumsion in B flat.)
Hymn: Like the Sound of Many Waters (Blaenwern).
Organ Voluntary: Hymne d'Actions de Graces (Te Deum) (Langlais). Organist and master of the choristers Geraint Bowen. Assistant organist Simon Pearce.

Contributors

Organist and master of choristers:
Geraint Bowen
Organist:
Simon Pearce

Sean Rafferty celebrates the centenary of the birth of Kurt Weill and meets composer H.K. Gruber. Music includes at 5.15 Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in D, RV549 performed by Europa Galante directed by Fabio Biondi (violin); at 6.00 Sibelius's Spring Song, Op 16, played by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under Neeme Jarvi; and at 6.50 Chabrier's Overture: Gwendoline performed by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

Wagner's powerful opera Lohengrin in a production from last year's Bayreuth Festival. A maiden in distress is rescued by a knight in gleaming armour who arrives on a swan. He makes the condition that she should never ask his name.

Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Antonio Pappano

Contributors

Singers:
Bayreuth Festival Chorus
Musicians:
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
Conductor:
Antonio Pappano
King Henry:
John Tomlinson (bass)
Lohengrin:
Roland Wagenfuhrer (tenor)
Elsa:
Melanie Diener (soprano)
Telramund:
Jean-Philippe Lafont (baritone)
Ortrud:
Gabriele Schnaut (mezzo)
Herald:
Roman Trekel (baritone)
1st Noble:
Michael Howard (tenor)
2nd Noble:
Arnold Bezuyen (tenor)
3rd Noble:
Attila Jun (baritone)
4th Noble:
Jyrki Korhonen (baritone)

Alyn Shipton introduces the first of two sets given by Sax Appeal at the Bull's Head in Barnes last month. The band includes Derek Nash, Scott Garland, Mornington Lockett, Gary Plumley and Bob McKay (saxophones), Steve Hamilton (keyboards), Phil Mulford (bass) and Mike Bradley (drums).

Contributors

Presenter:
Alyn Shipton
Saxophonist (Sax Appeal):
Derek Nash
Saxophonist (Sax Appeal):
Scott Garland
Saxophonist (Sax Appeal):
Mornington Lockett
Saxophonist (Sax Appeal):
Gary Plumley
Saxophonist (Sax Appeal):
Bob McKay
Keyboard player (Sax Appeal):
Steve Hamilton
Bassist (Sax Appeal):
Phil Mulford
Drummer (Sax Appeal):
Mike Bradley

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am J. Strauss (son) Souvenir de Nizza, Op 200

12.15 Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat, K378

12.35 Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor

1.00 Bach Toccata and Fugue in F, BWV540; Liszt Evocation a la Chapelle Sixtine; Franck Piece Heroique in B minor

1.55 Meder Wie Murren denn die Leut

2.05 Huzella Rhapsody

2.15 Bartok The Miraculous Mandarin (arr for two pianos)

2.45 Stravinsky Eight Instrumental Miniatures (arr from "Les Cinqs Doigts")

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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