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With Penny Gore.

Bach Prelude and Fugue in D, BWV850 - Artur Schnabel (piano)

6.40 Delibes Suite: Le Roi S'Amuse - RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham

7.00 Mozart Violin Sonata in E flat, K302 - Szymon Goldberg, Radu Lupu
(piano)

7.35 Dvorak Symphonic Variations, Op 78 - Bavarian RSO, conductor Rafael Kubelik

8.00 Lutoslawski Variations on a Theme of Paganini - Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire (pianos)

8.45 Nielsen Overture: Prelude, Act 2; Cockerel's Dance (Maskarade) - Gothenburg SO, conductor Neeme Jarvi

Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore

With Donald Macleod.

Music accompanied almost every activity at the court of Augustus the Strong in 18th-century Dresden, particularly at the marriage of his son to the daughter of the Austrian emperor.

Heinichen Serenata di Moritzburg - Musica Antiqua Koln, director Reinhard Goebel

Heinichen Sonata ed aria "Mille Belve dalle Selve" (Dianna sull'Elba) - Elly Ameling (soprano), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur

Quantz Concerto in G for two flutes - Jed Wentz and Marion Moonen, Musica Antiqua Koln, director Reinhard Goebel

Pisendel Concerto in E flat - Virtuosi Saxoniae, director Ludwig Guttler

Zelenka Capriccio V in G - Camerata Bern, director Alexander van Wijnkoop

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Jonathan Swain.

Walton Overture: Portsmouth Point - LPO, conducted by the composer

10.12 Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat - Wynton Marsalis, National Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Raymond Leppard

10.27 Bartok Contrasts - Benny Goodman (clarinet), Joseph Szigeti (violin), Bela Bartok (piano)

10.45 Wagner Siegfried Idyll - NBC SO, conductor Arturo Toscanini

11.02 Granados Goyescas, Book 2 - Thomas Rajna (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

Tommy Pearson introduces two of the student ensembles from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester: the RNCM String Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Layfield and former conducting fellow, Gary Walker; and the RNCM Wind Orchestra, conducted by Clark Rundell and Glenn Price. The Wind Orchestra has premiered many new works for the medium, and included this morning are David Bedford's Sun Paints Rainbows over the Vast Waves and Michael Daugherty's Niagara Falls. The String Orchestra includes two celebrated English works, Elgar's Serenade for Strings, Op20 and Tippett's Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli. There's also part of a composer masterclass, in which composer Roger Marsh prepares the String Orchestra for the premiere of Mark Hewitt's Reliquary for Christopher Tye.

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson
Musicians:
RNCM String Orchestra
Conductor:
Malcolm Layfield
Conductor:
Gary Walker
Musicians:
RNCM Wind Orchestra
Conductor:
Clark Rundell
Conductor:
Glenn Price
Composer:
Roger Marsh

Petroc Trelawny presents a recital given last year in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

Peter Jablonski (piano)

Szymanowski Don Juan's Serenade (Masques, Op 34)

Debussy La Cathedrale Engloutie; Ce Qu'A Vule Vent d'Ouest; Canope; Feux d'Artifice

Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 7

(R)

Contributors

Presenter:
Petroc Trelawny
Pianist:
Peter Jablonski

Berlioz Overture: Le Corsaire - Conductor David Atherton

Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin - Conductor John Carewe

Ravel Sheherazade - Ning Liang (soprano), conductor John Carewe

Debussy Prelude a l'Apres-Midi d'un Faune - Conductor Ingo Metzmacher

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique - Conductor John Carewe

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor:
David Atherton
Conductor:
John Carewe
Conductor:
Ingo Metzmacher
Soprano:
Ning Liang

Iain Burnside introduces a recital given last month at London's Wigmore Hall by French soprano Veronique Gens accompanied by Roger Vignoles.

Berlioz Villanelle; Le Spectre de la Rose

Faure Le Papillon et la Fleur; Mandoline; Green

Hahn Trois Jours de Vendange; Le Printemps

Debussy Fetes Galantes, Book 1; Chansons de Bilitis

Poulenc Les Chemins de 'Amour; Montparnasse; Hyde Park; Banalites

Contributors

Presenter:
Iain Burnside
Soprano:
Veronique Gens
Pianist:
Roger Vignoles
Producer:
Clive Portbury

Among Humphrey Carpenter's guests this evening is the Glasgow-born soprano Lorna Anderson. Music includes at 5.45 Ravel's La Valse played by the CBSO under Simon Rattle; at 6.00 Grainger's Handel in the Strand performed by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble; and at 6.35 Vivaldi's Flute Concerto in G, Op 10 No 4, played by Patrick Gallois and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

Contributors

Presenter:
Humphrey Carpenter
Guest:
Lorna Anderson

The first of two live concerts by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Tonight's comes from the Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg.

Adrian Thompson (tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis

Britten Nocturne

7.30 Twenty Minutes: Four Chekov Comedies: 1: Romance with Double Bass
In four programmes this week actor Alistair McGowan reads comic short stories by Anton Chekhov.

7.50 Bruckner Symphony No 7

(Tomorrow's Performance on 3 comes lives from the Philharmonie in Cologne at 7pm)

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Tenor:
Adrian Thompson
Author (Twenty Minutes):
Anton Chekhov
Reader (Twenty Minutes):
Alistair McGowan

Richard Coles explores the legacy of the "forgotten war", as the Imperial War Museum mounts an exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of the UN campaign to defend South Korea from invasion by the North. Plus, the return of the skyscraper will the notion the higher the better be embraced by a new generation of architects?

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Coles

With Jonathan Swain.

Mateo da Recha El Fuego

12.15 Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No 1

12.30 Farkas Danses (La Courdu Roi Mathias)

12.50 Gregorio Huet Fantasie

1.00 A recital of songs and lute solos by Mateo de Recha, Juan Anchieta, Claude le Jeune, Mortaye, Clemens non Papa, Janequin, Monteverdi and Banchieri.

2.05 Mozart Symphony No 41 in C (Jupiter)

2.45 Roger Matton L'Escaouette

3.00 Fasch Overture in B flat a due chori

3.25 Hummel Trio for two violins and cello

3.40 Danie Hesur Le Cantique des Colonnes

3.55 Dukas Villanelle

4.05 Khachaturian Piano Concerto

4.40 Bozza Jour d'Ete a la Montagne

4.50 Pingoud Prologue, Op 4

5.00 Haydn Symphony No 7 in C (Le Midi)

5.20 Nicola Matteis Pavana Armoniosa; Il Russignolo; Allemande Imitatione d'un Tartaglia; Giga; Al Genio Turchesco

5.25 Matti Rautio Ballet Suite: The Blue Heron

5.40 Hannikainen Rural Dances, Op 39a

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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