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With Penny Gore.

Gaspar Sanz Canarios - Narcisco Yepes (guitar)

6.05 Vieuxtemps Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor - Heinrich Schiff, Stuttgart RSO, conductor Neville Marriner

7.00 Bruch Swedish Dances, Op 63 Nos 1-7 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur

7.45 Ravel Sonatine - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

8.00 Telemann Mit Dir Mich zu Ergetzen (Orpheus) - Ruth Ziesak (soprano), Berlin Academy of Early Music, director Rene Jacobs

8.45 Michael Torke Green - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Zinman

Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore

Central to Sibelius's work was his reliance on the folklore of his homeland. Today Donald Macleod examines some of the ways in which Sibelius utilised Finnish folk influences in his work.

'Neath the Fir Trees, Op 13 No 1 - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (piano)

Kullervo (excerpt) - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste

The Swan of Tuonela (The Lemminkainen Suite) - Helsinki RSO, conductor Okko Kamu

Three Lyric Pieces, Op 41 (Kyllikki) - Glenn Gould (piano)

Luonnotar, Op 70 - Solveig Kringelborn (soprano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Tadaaki Otaka

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Stephanie Hughes.

Bizet Carmen: Suite No 1 - Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conductor Paul Paray

10.16 Mozart Oboe Quartet in F, K370 - Academy of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble

10.34 Mahler Kindertotenlieder - Janet Baker (mezzo), Halle Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli

11.05 Bizet Carmen: Suite No 2 - Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes

Piers Lane introduces more performances from the annual piano music festival.

Saint-Saens Variations on a Theme of Beethoven, Op 35 - Stephen Coombs and Jonathan Plowright (pianos)

Arthur Benjamin Jamaicalypso; From San Domingo; Jamaican Rumba - Piers Lane and Jonathan Plowright (pianos)

Chopin, arr Malcolm Singer Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor - Artur Pizarro, Vellinger Quartet, Duncan McTier (double bass)

Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin - Frederic Chiu (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Piers Lane
Pianist:
Stephen Coombs
Pianist:
Jonathan Plowright
Pianist:
Piers Lane
Pianist:
Artur Pizarro
Musicians:
Vellinger Quartet
Pianist:
Frederic Chiu

Chris de Souza introduces the last in the series of lunchtime concerts from Symphony Hall, Birmingham, given in February.

Paul Lewis (piano), Leopold String Trio

Mozart Piano Quartet in E flat, K493

Brahms Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 60

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Pianist:
Paul Lewis
Musicians:
Leopold String Trio

Conductor Mark Wigglesworth, Janice Graham (violin), Steven Burnard (viola)

Webern Passacaglia, Op 1

Haydn Symphony No 1 in D

Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K364

Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor

Prokofiev Montagues and Capulets; Dance; Romeo and Juliet; Death of Tybalt (Romeo and Juliet: Suites Nos 1 and 2)

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor:
Mark Wigglesworth
Violinist:
Janice Graham
Violaist:
Steven Burnard

Iain Burnside presents an exploration of the poetry of Thomas Hardy in speech and song. With readings by Jonathan Cullen.

Christine Rice (mezzo), Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)

Britten At Day-Close in November; At the Railway Station; Upway

Finzi The Sigh; Epeisodia; Childhood among the Ferns; The Comet at Yelham; The Phantom; The Dance Continued

Bax On the Bridge; The Market Girl

Ireland Great Things; Her Song; The Tragedy of That Moment

Contributors

Presenter:
Iain Burnside
Reader:
Jonathan Cullen
Mezzo:
Christine Rice
Tenor:
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts
Baritone:
Roderick Williams
Pianist:
Iain Burnside
Producer:
Clive Portbury

With Sean Rafferty.

Music includes at 5.35 Ravel's Introduction and Allegro performed by the Melos Ensemble; at 6.00 J. Strauss (son)'s Emperor Waltz played by the Berlin Philharmonic under Nikolaus Harnoncourt; and at 6.30 Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez played by Julian Bream (guitar) with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

Huw Tregelles Williams introduces the final concert in the BBC National Orchestra of Wales's millennium series, given on Saturday in St David's Hall, Cardiff. The orchestra plays two works from Russia - Rachmaninov's romantic second piano concerto, composed at the turn of the century, and Shostakovich's agonising eighth symphony, written at the height of Stalin's regime.

Lars Vogt (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Mark Wigglesworth

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor

Shostakovich Symphony No 8

Contributors

Presenter:
Huw Tregelles Williams
Musicians:
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Pianist:
Lars Vogt
Conductor:
Mark Wigglesworth

Richard Coles examines the nature of lying and self-deception and asks if our lives are dependent on daily lies to others and to ourselves. Plus the second of this week's reflectons on the notion that the 21st century will prove to be the African century.

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Coles

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am Stravinsky Concerto in E flat (Dumbarton Oaks) (arr for two pianos)

12.20 Bartok Six Romanian Dances

12.25 Mendelssohn Incidental Music: A Midsummer Nights Dream

12.50 Erkel Swan Song (Hunyadi Laszlo)

1.00 Vivaldi Concerto in D, RV208 (Grosso Mogul); The Four Seasons; Concerto in A, RV335 (The Cuckoo)

2.00 Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D66 (Trout)

2.40 Melartin, arr Jussi Jalas Marionettes Suite

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 Tuagh Umha, Pairt 5

5.00 Dvorak Serenade in D minor, Op 44

5.30Â Sibelius On a Balcony by the Sea, Op 38 No 2

5.40 Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Hamlet

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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