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With Tommy Pearson, including:

6.05 Schubert String Quartet in E flat, D87 - Hagen Quartet

6.45 Marcello Oboe Concerto in D minor - Malcolm Messiter, Guildhall String Ensemble, director Robert Salter

7.00 Stanford Beati Quorum Via - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, director Richard Marlow

7.40 Mozart Symphony No31 in D (Paris) - Orchestra of the 18th Century, conductor Frans Bruggen

8.00 Debussy Clair de Lune (Suite Bergamasque) - Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

8.50 Bernstein Prelude, Fugue and Riffs - Michael Collins (clarinet), Peter Donohoe (piano), London Sinfonietta, conductor Simon Rattle

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson

With Donald Macleod.

During the last months of Schubert's life, in spite of his suffering, he continued to compose and wrote some of his most profound masterpieces just two months before his death in 1828.

Das Fischermadchen (Schwanengesang) - Hermann Prey (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)

String Quintet in C, D956 (Adagio) - Borodin Quartet, Mischa Milman (cello)

Piano Sonata in A, D959 - Murray Perahia

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Stephanie Hughes.

Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor - Pablo Casals, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult

10.34 Sibelius Five Pieces, Op 85 - Marita Viitasalo (piano)

10.46 Dvorak Symphony No 5 in F - Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Rafael Kubelik

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes

Huw Tregelles Williams introduces the last of five programmes this week featuring performances given at music festivals in Wales last summer. Today Gillian Weir features both as organist and conductor, and the Chilingirian Quartet perform an unfinished quartet by Haydn before rounding off the week's programmes with Mozart's Clarinet Quintet.

Haydn String Quartet in D minor, Op 103 - Chilingirian Quartet

Pachelbel Ciacona in D minor - Gillian Weir (organ)

Bach Harpsichord Concerto in E, BWV1053 - Guildhall Strings, director Gillian Weir (harpsichord)

Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K581 - Michael Collins, Chilingirian Quartet

Contributors

Presenter:
Huw Tregelles Williams
Organist/Conductor:
Gillian Weir
Musicians:
Chilingirian Quartet
Musicians:
Guildhall Strings
Harpsichordist:
Gillian Weir
Clarinettist:
Michael Collins

Chris de Souza introduces another recital in the series featuring the music of the Scandinavian and Baltic regions, given at St George's, Bristol, last November.
Today's concert features an all-Swedish programme.
Mats Lindstrom (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)

Rangstrom Rite of Spring

Ahlberg Cello Sonata

Hagg Cello Sonata in E minor

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Cellist:
Mats Lindstrom
Pianist:
Bengt Forsberg

Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet - Conductor Alexander Titov

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor - Olivier Charlier, conductor Alexander Titov

Strauss Four Last Songs - Solveig Kringelborn (soprano), conductor Osmo Vanska

Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor - Conductor Alexander Titov

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Alexander Titov
Violinist:
Olivier Charlier
Soprano:
Solveig Kringelborn
Conductor:
Osmo Vanska

With Sean Rafferty.
Music includes at 5.00 Jean-Joseph Mouret's Second Suite performed by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields directed by Iona Brown; at 5.45 Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in D minor for orchestra played by the RCA Victor Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski; and at 6.00 Mozart's Sonata in C, K545, in an arrangement for two pianos by Grieg performed by Elisabeth Leonskaja and Sviatoslav Richter.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

A concert given last night at the Royal Festival Hall, London. The Philharmonia Orchestra under their principal conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi perform two works with opposite extremes of orchestration, as well as Beethoven's ground breaking third symphony.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi

Kurtag Stele

Janacek Capriccio for piano and wind

Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)

Contributors

Musicians:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor:
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Pianist:
Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Paul Allen profiles British-born poet Thorn Gunn, who is 70 this year and who moved to America in the 1950s. His new collection Boss Cupid is in some respects a sequel to his prize-winning volume The Man with Night Sweats. And Christopher Frayling makes the case for Italian film-maker Sergio Leone as one of the world's most popular and influential directors.

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Allen
Speaker:
Christopher Frayling

From the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow. Verity Sharp presents a composer portrait of Harrison Birtwistle.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins

Bach Measures

The Cry of Anubis - Chris McShane (tuba)

Antiphonies - Nicolas Hodges (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Verity Sharp
Subject:
Harrison Birtwistle
Musicians:
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins
Tuba player:
Chris McShane
Pianist:
Nicolas Hodges

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am Donizetti Bella Siccome un Angelo (Don Pasquale)

12.20 Bach Harpsichord Concerto in A minor, BWVI 055

12.30 Chedeville Sonata for two flutes, Op8 (L'Allemande)

12.50 Mozart Divertimento in B flat, K137

1.00 As a tribute to the great Italian tenor Alfredo Kraus, who died last year, a complete performance of Donizetti's four-act opera La Favorita.

3.15 Haydn Violin Concerto in G, H VIIa 4

3.45 Bach, arr Busoni Chaconne (Partita in D minor, BWV1004)

4.05 Brahms Piano Quintet in F, Op 34

4.45 Mozart Fantasy in C minor, K396

5.00 Auber Overture: Fra Diavolo

5.20 Corelli Sonate da Chiesa in F, Op1 No 1

5.30 Rontgen Serenade, Op 14

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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