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With Tommy Pearson.

Larsson Little Serenade, Op 12 - Stockholm Sinfonietta, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

6.45 Francaix Variations on a Theme by Haydn - Mainz Wind Ensemb!e

7.00 Rossini String Sonata No. 1 in G - Bologna Municipal Theatre Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly

7.40 Debussy, orch Caplet Suite: Children's Corner - Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit

8.00 Handel Coronation Anthem; The King Shall Rejoice, HHV260 - Choir of Westminster Abbey, English Concert, director Simon Preston

8.45 Liszt Prelude and Variations on "Welnen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen" - Leslie Howard (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson

With Donald Macleod.
For the last two decades of his life Albeniz received substantial financial support from the English aristocrat, poet and librettist Francis Burdett Money-Coutts, who provided the texts for Albeniz's operas.

Pepita Jimenez (excerpts)
Pepita...Teresa Berganza (soprano)
Coro de Voces Biancas Solistas, Coro Cantiones de Madrid, Orquestra Sinfonica, conductor Pabio Sorozabal
Concert Suite: Pepita Jimenez (excerpts)
Pepita...Susan Chilcott (soprano)
Luis...Francesc Garrigiosa (tenor)
Orquestra de Cambra Teatra Lliure, conductor Josep Pons
La Vega...Alicia de Larrocha (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Stephanie Hughes.

Handel Suite in D, HtW349: Suite in G, HtW.350 (Water Music) - Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, director August Wenzinger

10.27 Scarlatti Sonata in A, Kk322 - Clara Haskil (piano)

10.30 Stravinsky Concerto in D (Basle Concerto) - Halle Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli

10.43 Handel Broches-Passion, HtW4S -
Soul of a Believer...Edda Moser (soprano)
Daughter of Zion...Maria Stader (soprano)
Evangelist...Ernst Haefliger (tenor)
Jesus...Theo Adam (bass)
Regensburg Cathedral Choir, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, director August Wenzinger

10.57 Mozart Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466 - Clara Haskil, RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, conductor Ferenc Fricsay

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes

With David Bintley.

Three of the greatest Russian composers of the 20th century made substantial contributions to the ballet repertoire: Prokofiev, Shostakovich and most famously of all, Igor Stravinsky.

Today's programme features three scores written within just a few years of each other, but each rejecting a very different aesthetic.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins

Prokofiev The Prodigal Son

Shostakovich Suite; The Golden Age

Stravinsky Jeu de Cartes

Contributors

Presenter:
David Bintley
Musicians:
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins

Britten Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge - Conductor Andrew Davis

Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1 - Sarah Chang, conductor Andrew Davis

Bedford/Goehr/Holloway/Knussen/Matthews/Saxton/Weir Aldeburgh Variations (Sumer Is Icumen In) - Conductor Jacques van Steen

Vaughan Williams Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No 3) - Joan Rodgers (soprano), conductor Richard Hickox

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Violinist:
Sarah Chang
Conductor:
Jacques van Steen
Soprano:
Joan Rodgers
Conductor:
Richard Hickox

From Norwich Cathedral, introit: O Quam Gloriosum (Victoria). Responses (Moore). Psalms 19,149 (Woodward, Hopkins, Stanford). First Lesson: Job 23, vv 1-12. Office Hymn: Let the World Round (Deus Tuorum Militum).
Canticles: Mark Blatchly Third Service. Second Lesson: John 1, vv 43-end.
Anthem: Rise Heart (Vaughan Williams). Hymn: Disposer Supreme (Old 104th).
Organ Voluntary: Repons pour le Temps de Paques (Jeanne Demessieux).

Contributors

Organist/Master of the Music:
David Dunnett
Assistant Organist:
Katherine Dienes

With Sean Rafferty, who talks to Nicholas Kenyon about the highlights of the coming BBC Proms season.

Music includes at 5.40 Bernstein's Divertimento performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Parvo Jarvi; at 6.05 Debussy's Deux Arabesques played by pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano); and at 6.50 Webern's Langsamer Satz played by the Brodsky Quartet.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty
Guest:
Nicholas Kenyon

A concert given in March at St David's Hall, Cardiff, in which the young Finnish conductor Toumas Ollila made his debut with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the company of Swedish trombone virtuoso Christian Lindberg, who appears as both composer and soloist.

Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkainen Suite)

Lindberg Arabenne

Sandstrom Cantos de la Mancha (Don Quixote)

Rimsky Korsakov Scheherazade

Contributors

Musicians:
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor:
Toumas Ollila
Trombonist:
Christian Lindberg

Philip Dodd talks to poet, undertaker and essayist Thomas Lynch about his new collection of essays Bodies in Rest and Motion. Pius an investigation of the claim that video games are the most rapidly evolving art form of the new century.

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewee:
Thomas Lynch

With Jonathan Swain.

Handel Suite in G, HWV350 (Water Music)

12.15 Purcell Overture; The Masque (Timon of Athens)

12.35 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 10 No 1

1.00 D'Indy Le Camp de Wallenstein

Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin

Marius Constant Chaconna and Military March; Prelude for Orchestra

Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor

2.15 Scriabin 15 Preludes

2.30 Ravel String Quartet

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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