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With Tommy Pearson, including:

6.15 Handel Keyboard Suite in E minor, HWV429 - Keith Jarrett (piano)

6.30 Bantock Celtic Symphony - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley

7.10 Mendelssohn Overture: Ruy Blas - BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Paul Hoskins

7.35 CPE Bach Flute Concerto No 3 in A, Wql68 - Eckart Haupt, CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra, conductor Harmut Haenchen

8.00 Prokofiev Symphony No 1 (Classical) - London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin

8.55 Vaughan Williams The Water Mill - Ian Partridge (tenor), Jennifer Partridge (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson

With Donald Macleod.

The penultimate year of Schubert's life, 1827, saw the death of that other musical giant of 19th-century Vienna - Beethoven. Schubert was a torch-bearer at his funeral.

Winterreise (excerpts) - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)

Piano Trio No 1 in B flat, D898 - Beaux Arts Trio

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Stephanie Hughes.

Beethoven Cello Sonata in D, Op 102 No 2 - Pablo Casals, Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano)

10.28 Vorisek Le Desk, Op 3 - Artur Pizzaro (piano)

10.39 Musorgsky Chorus of Priestesses (Salammbo); Chorus of People in the Temple (Oedipus in Athens) - Prague Philharmonic Choir, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado

10.48 Dvorak Symphony No 4 in D minor - Czech Philharmonic, conductor Vaclav Neumann

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes

Huw Tregelles Williams introduces performances given at music festivals in Wales last summer. Today's programme features 20th-century music for various string groups, drawn from the festivals at the Vale of Glamorgan, St Davids, Fishguard and Machynlleth.

Metcalf Dances from Forgotten Places - Riga Kammermusiki, conductor Normunds Sne

Shostakovich String Quartet No 3, Op 73 - Brodsky Quartet

John McCabe Six Minute Symphony - Guildhall Strings, conductor Gillian Weir

Janacek String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters) - Endellion Quartet

Contributors

Presenter:
Huw Tregelles Williams
Musicians:
Riga Kammermusiki
Conductor:
Normunds Sne
Musicians:
Brodsky Quartet
Musicians:
Guildhall Strings
Conductor:
Gillian Weir
Musicians:
Endellion Quartet

Lucie Skeaping introduces a recital of Haydn string quartets given by the Brodsky Quartet last June as part of the 1999 City of London Festival.

Haydn String Quartet in F sharp minor, Op 50 No 4; Introduction and Sonata No 3 (The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross); String Quartet in E flat, Op 71 No 3
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Contributors

Presenter:
Lucie Skeaping
Musicians:
The Brodsky Quartet

Andrew Manze introduces some unjustly neglected violin music, including a virtually unknown Romantic violin sonata performed by Ruth Waterman, a concerto written against what its composer called "the most terrible of all crimes - war" played by Thomas Zehetmair and music by a composer famous for his violin concerto, played by David Oistrakh.

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew Manze
Producer:
Jeremy Hayes

With Sean Rafferty.

Music includes at 5.00 Vivaldi's Overture: The Coronation of Dario played by I Solisti Veneti conducted by Claudio Scimone; at 5.45 Glazunov's Mazurka-Oberek performed by violinist Itzhak Perlman with the Abbey Road Ensemble conducted by Lawrence Foster; and at 6.00 Chabrier's Bouree Fantasque played by pianist Pierre Barbizet.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

Pierre Boulez's 75th birthday celebrations with the London Symphony Orchestra continue with a concert of works by Berio and Schoenberg, plus the first performance of a new piano concerto by Salvatore Sciarrino.

Maurizio Pollini (piano), LSO, conductor Pierre Boulez

Berio Notturno

Salvatore Sciarrino Recitativo Oscuro (first performance)

8.25 Twenty Minutes: Speaking of Universities
The second of two talks by Stefan Collini on academic life today.
Should an education in the humanities provide a raft of transferable skills for life in the real world, or should it be an adventure for the imagination beyond any relevance to everyday chores?

8.45 Schoenberg Pelleas and Melisande

Contributors

Musicians:
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez
Pianist:
Maurizio Pollini
Speaker (Twenty Minutes):
Stefan Collini

Patrick Wright and guests discuss The Holocaust and Collective Memory, American historian Peter Novick's challenging account of the Holocaust and its commemoration in contemporary culture. Novick asks if defining Jewishness in terms of victimhood gives Hitler a posthumous victory.

Contributors

Presenter:
Patrick Wright

Alyn Shipton introduces the second of two sets given by Sax Appeal at the Bull's Head in Barnes last month. The band is led by alto and soprano saxophonist Derek Nash.

Contributors

Presenter:
Alyn Shipton
Musicians:
Sax Appeal
Saxophonist:
Derek Nash

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am Berlioz Overture: Le Carnaval Romain

12.15 Pierre Fevrier Le Besoin daimer

12.25 Liszt Ballade No 2 in B minor

12.50 Szokolay Divertimento (Hommage a Bartok)

1.00 Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol

Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms;

Musorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

2.10 Bach Violin Sonata in C, BWV1005

2.35 Victoria Motet: Vidi Speciosam sicut Columbam

2.40 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in D minor

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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