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With Tommy Pearson.

Britten, arr Bream Courtly Dances (Gloriana) - Julian Bream Consort

6.35 Beethoven Piano Sonata in E, Op 109 - Annie Fischer

7.00 Musorgsky, arr Rimsky-Korsakov Intermezzo in B minor (In Modo Classico) - Russian State Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov

7.45 Vivaldi Cello Concerto in C, RV398 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Orchestra of the Zurich Collegium Musicum, conductor Paul Sacher

8.00 Francaix Little Quartet for saxophones - Adelphi Saxophone Quartet

8.40 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 3 in E flat - Emil Gilels, New Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson

With Donald Macleod.

Hummel's piano technique divided contemporary critics, some of whom compared him unfavourably to Beethoven. Hummel left the Esterhazy court and re-established his reputation as a pianist during the Congress of Vienna.

Rondo Favori in E flat, Op 11 - Earl Wild (piano)

Septet Militaire in C, Op 114 - Nash Ensemble

Piano Concertino in G, Op 73 - London Mozart Players, director Howard Shelley (piano)

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Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

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Today Tommy Pearson introduces performances by a wind band and by two amateur choirs.

The Birmingham Conservatoire Wind Orchestra under Guy Woolfenden were captured earlier this month at the Royal Northern College of Music International Wind Festival in Manchester.

Plus choral music from last year's Rotterdam Choral Symposium. The Dresden Chamber Choir perform motets from Johann Schein's Israelsbrunslein, and the Ave Sol Chamber Choir from Riga perform Songs of the Sea by Latvian composer Pauls Daubis.

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson
Musicians:
Birmingham Conservatoire Wind Orchestra
Conductor:
Guy Woolfenden
Singers:
Dresden Chamber Choir
Singers:
Ave Sol Chamber Choir

Beethoven Overture: Leonore No 2 - Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk

Beethoven Symphony No 8 in F - Conductor Osmo Vanska

Ravel Piano Concerto in G - Steven Osborne, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk

Brahms Symphony No 2 in D - Conductor Martyn Brabbins

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Jerzy Maksymiuk
Conductor:
Osmo Vanska
Pianist:
Steven Osborne
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins

From the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.

Introit: Thou Wilt Keep Him in Perfect Peace (SS Wesley). Responses (Ayleward). Psalm 119, vv 145-end (Turle, Edwards). First Lesson: The Song of Solomon 2, vv 8-end. Canticles: SS Wesley in E. Second Lesson: Matthew 28, vv 16-end. Anthem: Blessed Be the God and Father (SS Wesley). Hymn: Christ is Our Cornerstone (Harewood). Organ Voluntary: Choral Song and Fugue (SS Wesley).

Contributors

Director of Music:
Stephen Cleobury
Organ Scholar:
Benjamin Bayl
Organ Scholar:
Thomas Williamson

As the Russian Orthodox Church prepares to celebrate Easter, Sean Rafferty explores its musical history and traditions and asks what it is about the music that touches so many people. Music includes at 5.50 Mendelssohn's Rondo Capriccioso in E, Op 14, played by Mikhail Pletnev (piano); at 6.00 Arriaga's Los Esclavos Felices performed by the Capella Reiai de Catalunya under Jordi Savall; and at 6.50 Strauss's Introduction, Theme and Variations in E flat played by Barry Tuckwell (horn) and Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano).

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

A concert given earlier this month in Symphony Hall, Birmingham. The concert opens with Elgar's uplifting overture Cockaigne - subtitled In London Town - which was first performed at a Philharmonic Concert in June 1901, when London was on the threshold of the period of social splendour which is now known as the Edwardian era.

The young soloist Priya Mitchell then joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Walton's sensuous Violin Concerto. And Dvorak's forceful seventh symphony closes the programme.

Priya Mitchell (violin), BBCSO, conductor Andrew Davis

Elgar Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town)

Walton Violin Concerto

Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor

Contributors

Violinist:
Priya Mitchell
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Andrew Davis

Sarah Dunant examines how, 25 years on from the fall of Saigon, the Vietnam War continues to haunt American politics and culture. Has the flood of films and writing on Vietnam helped to shape the cultural response to more recent wars?

Contributors

Presenter:
Sarah Dunant

With Jonathan Swain.

Dupre Variations on Adeste Fideles

12.10 Jan Blockx Flemish Dances

12.30 Glinka Mazurka in A minor

12.35 Tchaikovsky Suite No 4 in G (Mozartiana)

1.00 Buxtehude Toccata in F, BuxWV156

Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV582

Franck Grande Piece Symphonique

Tournemire Choral Improvisation sur le Victimae Paschali

Manz Hymn Improvisation on "We Who Were Once Dead"

2.00 Schoeck Sommernacht

2.10 Brahms Schaffe in Mir, Gott, ein Rein Herz, Op 29 No 2

2.20 Mahler Symphony No 4

3.25 Mozetich Fantasia sul un Linguaggio

3.40 Telemann Concerto in D for two horns

3.55 Avison Concerto Grosso No 2 in G

4.15 Alessandro Scarlatti Jam Sole Clarior

4.25 Strauss Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat

4.45 J Strauss (son) Wienerblut

5.05 Francaix Happy Paris

5.15 Mozart Violin Concerto No 1 in B flat, K20 7

5.35 JC Bach Flute Quartet in C (1st mvt)

5.50 Schoeck Two Piano Pieces, Op 29

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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