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With Penny Gore.

Verdi Dance of the Bohemians (Il Trovatore) - BBC Philharmonic, conductor Edward Downes

6.40 Tartini Violin Concerto in A, D 96 - I Solisti Veneti

7.15 Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op 34 - Melos Ensemble

7.35 Mozart Piano Sonata in C minor, K457 - Alfred Brendel

8.00 Joplin, arr Perlman Pineapple Rag - Itzhak Perlman (violin), Andre Previn (piano)

8.35 Kodaly Dances of Galanta - Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer

Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore

With Donald Macleod. Today's programme considers a less well known aspect of Sibelius's work. Alongside his symphonic poems, symphonies and other major works, Sibelius also wrote a great deal of music for the theatre.

Pelleas and Melisande, Op 46 (excerpt) Royal Philharmonic, conductor Yondani Butt

Belshazzar's Feast, Op 51; Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

The Tempest: Suite No 1, Op 109 No 2 Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Stephanie Hughes.

Bizet Overture: Patrie - French National Radio Orchestra, conductor Charles Munch

10.18 Faure La Chanson d'Eve, Op 95 - Janet Baker (mezzo), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

10.43 Bizet Suite: Jeux d'Enfants - French National Radio Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon

10.54 Schubert String Trio in B flat, D581 - Jascha Heifetz (violin), William Primrose (viola), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)

11.12 Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Op 53 - Janet Baker (mezzo), Members of the John Alldis Choir London Philharmonic, conductor Adrian Boult

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes

Piers Lane meets fellow pianists and introduces recordings made at the five-day festival of piano music Pianoworks 99.

Improvisation: Chopinata - Artur Pizarro and Stephen Coombs (pianos)

Francis Pott Farewell to Hirta - Kathryn Stott (piano)

Francis Pott Toccata - Frederic Chiu (piano)

Malcolm Arnold Concerto for Two Pianos (three hands) (Concerto for Phyllis and Cyril) - Stephen Coombs and Artur Pizarro (pianos), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth

Bartok Contrasts - Stephanie Gonley (violin), Emma Johnson (clarinet), Frederic Chiu (piano)

Malcolm Upkin Nocturnes: Nos 1 and 2 - Kathryn Stott (piano)

Milhaud Le Boeuf sur le Toit - Stephen Coombs and Artur Pizarro (piano duet)

Contributors

Presenter:
Piers Lane
Pianist:
Artur Pizarro
Pianist:
Stephen Coombs
Pianist:
Kathryn Stott
Pianist:
Frederic Chiu
Musicians:
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor:
Barry Wordsworth
Violinist:
Stephanie Gonley
Clarinettist:
Emma Johnson

Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole - Conductor Ion Marin

Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622 - Director Antony Pay (clarinet)

Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A - Conductor Grant Llewellyn

Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1919) - Conductor Tadaaki Otaka

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor:
Ion Marin
Clarinettist:
Antony Pay
Conductor:
Grant Llewellyn
Conductor:
Tadaaki Otaka

In the third of four programmes cellist Ralph Kirshbaum considers some of the solo cello music of the 19th-century Romantic period, featuring recordings by Emanuel Feuermann, Gregor Piatigorsky, Heinrich Schiff and Guilhermina Suggia.

Contributors

Presenter:
Ralph Kirshbaum
Producer:
Chris Wines

With Sean Rafferty.

Music includes at 5.00 Enescu's Symphonic Suite No 1 (Poeme Roumain) performed by the George Enescu Bucharest Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra under Cristian Mandeal; at 5.50 Schubert's Ave Maria (arr Wilhelmj, ed Heifetz) played by Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) and Itamar Golan (piano); and at 6.00 Saint-Saens's Le Rouet d'Omphale (arr Earl Wild) performed by Earl Wild (piano).

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given in Leeds Town Hall last December.

Susan Bullock (soprano), Louise Winter (mezzo), Barry Banks (tenor), Michael George (bass), Leeds Festival Chorus, BBC Philharmonic, conductor Simon Wright

Respighi Trittico Botticelliano

Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle

Contributors

Presenter:
Petroc Trelawny
Soprano:
Susan Bullock
Mezzo:
Louise Winter
Tenor:
Barry Banks
Bass:
Michael George
Singers:
Leeds Festival Chorus
Musicians:
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Simon Wright

Laura Cummings discusses new work by the artist Mona Hatoum, as her first major solo show opens at the Tate. Best known for her extraordinary visual journeys through the human body, Hatoum's new work draws on the forms of ordinary domestic objects to create large scale sculpture. And Bill Buford of The New Yorker sends his regular letter on cultural life across the Atlantic.

Contributors

Presenter:
Laura Cummings
Speaker:
Bill Buford

Verity Sharp introduces more sounds from around the world, including the elegant sound of the sato from Uzbekistan played byTurgun Alimatov. And Fadia el Hage from Beirut sings an antiphon from the 14th-century Christian/Arab tradition against a modern surreal landscape of sound.

Contributors

Presenter:
Verity Sharp

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am Brahms Academic Festival Overture

12.20 Blow The Graces' Dance; Gavott; Sarabande for the Graces (Venus and Adonis)

12.35 Respighi Poema Autunnale

12.50 Godfrey Ridout Fall Fair

1.00 Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World)

Ives Three Places in New England

Tokuhide Niimi Fujin-Raijin for large Japanese drum, organ and orchestra

2.25 Ravel, arr Richard McIntyre Suite: Ma Mere l'Oye

2.40 Arensky Suite No 2, Op 23

3.00-5.00 BBC Schools
3.00 Music Workshop
3.20 Let's Move!
3.40 Words Alive
3.55 First Steps in Drama
4.10 Listen and Write
4.30 Counting Time
4.40 Check It Out

5.00 Gluck Ballet Music: Paris e Helena

5.10 Tchaikovsky Six Pieces for piano, Op 19

5.40 Strauss Dance of the Seven Veils (Salome)

5.50 Trad Early Hungarian 18th-Century Dances

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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