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With Penny Gore.

Copland Nocturne - Gil Shaham (violin), Andre Previn (piano)

6.40 Blavet Concerto in A minor - Musica Antiqua Koln, director Reinhard Goebel

7.00 Mozart Symphony No 35 in D, K385 (Haffner) - Berlin Philharmonic/Claudio Abbado

7.45 Saint-Saens, arr Earl Wild Omphale's Spinning Wheel - Earl Wild (piano)

8.00 Mendelssohn, arr Korngold Music to Max Reinhardt's film "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, conductor Gerd Albrecht

8.45 Bach Sinfonia in F, BWV1046a - Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood

Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore

Donald Macleod and Stephen Banfield explore the final year of Finzi's life and his place in posterity.

For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly, (Op 19b) - Stephen Roberts (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)

Earth and Air and Rain, Op 15 - John Carol Case (baritone), Howard Ferguson (piano)

In Terra Pax, Op 39 - Jane Manning (soprano), John Noble (baritone), John Alldis Choir, New Philharmonia Orchestra/Vernon Handley

Since We Loved (op, 13) - Ian Partridge (tenor), Clifford Benson (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod
Guest:
Stephen Banfield

With Stephanie Hughes.

Beethoven Overture: The Ruins of Athens, Op 113 - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Thomas Beecham

10.11 Mendelssohn Quartet in E flat, Op 12 - Sine Nomine Quartet

10.35 Schubert Philoktet, D540; Memnon, D541 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)

10.42 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet: Suites 1 and 2 (excerpts) - New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos

11.23 Tavener Hymn to the Mother of God - The Sixteen, director Harry Christophers

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes

A five-part survey of the past and present of one of America's greatest orchestras in performance with some of its regular conductors. Presented by Geoffrey Smith.

Strauss Don Juan - Conductor Daniel Barenboim

Mozart Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat, K482 - Director Daniel Barenboim (piano)

Tannenbaum First Bassman - Joseph Guastafeste (double bass), Conductor Daniel Barenboim

Contributors

Presenter:
Geoffrey Smith
Musicians:
Chicago Symphony Orchestran
Conductor:
Daniel Barenboim
Pianist:
Daniel Barenboim
Double bassist:
Joseph Gustafeste

Liadov Baba-Yaga - Conductor Alexander Lazarev

Glazunov Symphony No 5 - Conductor Alexander Lazarev

Liadov The Enchanted Lake - Conductor Alexander Lazarev

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 2 - Mikhail Rudy (piano)/Yevgeni Svetlanov

Musorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition - Conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Alexander Lazarev
Pianist:
Mikhail Rudy
Conductor:
Yevgeni Svetlanov

Lucie Skeaping introduces a celebration of the music of Renaissance and Baroque London, from anthems for royal coronations to the hits of the stage - from the splendours of court to the music of the taverns.

Contributors

Presenter:
Lucie Skeaping
Producer:
Lindsay Kemp

With Humphrey Carpenter.

Music includes at 5.40 Liszt's Hungarian Fantasy performed by pianist Barry Douglas with the LSO conducted by Jun'ichi Hirokami; at 6.00 Boyce's Overture in D (St James's Park Ode) played by Cantilena directed by Adrian Shepherd; and at 6.40 Walton's Coronation Te Deum performed by the Choir of Winchester Cathedral, the Waynflete Singers, organist Timothy Byram Wigfield and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Hill.

Contributors

Presenter:
Humphrey Carpenter

Chris de Souza introduces a concert given last night in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, the last of three which mark the end of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's Towards the Millennium series. These final concerts combine works composed in the last ten years with new works commissioned to mark the millennium.
Lisa Milne (soprano), Tasmin Little (violin), CBSO, conductor Simon Rattle

Henze The Tempest (first performance)
Ligeti Violin Concerto
Holt Sunrise' Yellow Noise (first performance)
Tippett The Rose Lake

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Soprano:
Lisa Milne
Violinist:
Tasmin Little
Musicians:
City of Birmiingham Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Simon Rattle

Paul Allen investigates the different aims and different views of video art and its controversial place in the modern art world. Plus a reassessment of the impact of Islam on western culture as the new Oxford History of Islam is published.

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Allen

Sarah Walker presents performances of music by up-and-coming British-based composers.

Hirohisa Tsuji (tenor), Lontano, conductor Odaline de la Martinez

Ross Lorraine Melos

Dorothy Ker The Structure of Memory

Akane Nakanishi Three Winter Songs

Jane Gardner Trapeze for 2 Atoms

Keith Gifford Eclipse

Also tonight, from the South Bank Centre's celebrations for Pierre Boulez at 75, pianist Rolf Hind performs new works dedicated to Boulez by some of the world's leading composers.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sarah Walker
Tenor:
Hirohisa Tsuji
Musicians:
null Lontano
Conductor:
Odaline de la Martinez
Pianist:
Rolf Hind

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am Otto Deutsch Overture: The Croatian Girl

12.20 Bliss Cello Concerto

12.50 Prokofiev Visions Fugitives, Op 22 Nos 8-13

1.00 Shostakovich Symphony No 1; Symphony No 2 (To October); Symphony No 3 (The First of May) - Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ladislav Slovak

2.25 Chopin Nocturne in B, Op 32 No 1; Scherzo in 6 flat, Op 31; Scherzo in C sharp minor, Op 39

2.45 Suppe Requiem

3.55 Schubert Symphony No 6 in C

4.25 Telemann Sonata in F minor (Der Getreue Music-Meister)

4.35 Mozart Serenade in G, K525 (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)

5.00 Jorgen Bentzon Sinfonia Buffo, Op 35

5.05 Saint-Saens Oboe Sonata in D, Op 166

5.15 Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56a

5.35 Haydn Symphony No 73 in D (La Chasse)

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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