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With Tommy Pearson.

Grainger Bridal Lullaby - Penelope Thwaites (piano)

6.35 Mendelssohn Cello Sonata in B flat, Op 45 - Richard Lester, Susan Tomes (piano)

7.00 Vivaldi Sinfonia in G, RV149 - English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock

7.40 Mozart Serenade in G, K525 (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) - Orpheus CO

8.00 Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival - LSO, conductor Colin Davis

8.50 Arnold Four Scottish Dances, Op 59 - Philharmonia, conductor Bryden Thomson

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson

With Donald Macleod.

In his early career Albeniz often left the orchestration of his works to others, but his later works, written after he had lived in Paris for a while, combine Spanish colour with Wagnerian richness.

Catalonia - Mexico City Philharmonic, conductor Enrique Batiz

Merlin (excerpts) - Coro Nacional de Espana, Coro de la Communidad de Madrid, National Orchestra of Spain, conductor Jose de Eusebio

Iberia (Book 4); Azujelos (completed Granados) - Alicia de Larrocha (piano)

Contributors

With Stephanie Hughes.

Chabrier Prelude Pastorale - Vienna PO, conductor John Eliot Gardiner

10.12 Telemann Quartet in G (Tafelmusik Production I) - Members of Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, August Wenzinger (cello)

10.29 Bartok Two Romanian Dances - Annie Fischer (piano)

10.34 Schein Suite 5 in D (Banchetto Musicale, 1617) - Hesperion XX/Jordi Savall

10.43 Mozart Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat, K482 - Annie Fischer, Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch

11.18 Marais Alcyone (Act 5, excerpts) - Chorus and Orchestra of the Baroque Performance Institute, Oberlin, Ohio, conductor August Wenzinger

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes

With David Bintley.

For many people classical ballet reached its peak in the Russian tradition that evolved in St Petersburg at the end of the last century, immortalised in the great scores of Tchaikovsky. Today's programme concludes with the scintillating third act from his ballet Sleeping Beauty, and also features a less well-known score by his contemporary Glazunov.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gianandrea Noseda

Glazunov Raymonda , Act 3

Tchaikovsky The Sleeping Beauty, Act 3

Contributors

Presenter:
David Bintley.
Musicians:
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Gianandrea Noseda

Chris de Souza presents the second of two concerts from the Haydn festival at the Royal Pump Room in Leamington Spa.

Soprano Catherine Bott and fortepianist David McGuinness perform some of Haydn's music inspired by Britain, including English canzonets and his cantata The Battle of the Nile, plus songs by Thomas Linley and Stephen Storace.

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Soprano:
Catherine Bott
Fortepianist:
David McGuinness

Grace Williams Sea Sketches - Conductor David Atherton

Nielsen Violin Concerto - Janice Graham, conductor Grant Llewellyn

Sibelius Pohjola's Daughter, Op 49 = Conductor Grant Llewellyn

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5 - Conductor Barry Wordsworth

(See also Performance on 3 at 7.30pm)

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor:
David Atherton
Violinist:
Janice Graham
Conductor:
Grant Llewellyn
Conductor:
Barry Wordsworth

Julian Joseph profiles major jazz artists with performances from the BBC jazz archives - this week Canadian piano virtuoso Oscar Peterson. Featuring highlights from a concert given at London's Barbican Centre in 1984, when Peterson was joined by bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen and drummer Martin Drew.

(Three Jazz Legends CDs are available now featuring Oscar Peterson, Art Blakey and Dizzy Gillespie)

Contributors

Presenter:
Julian Joseph
Producer:
Felix Carey

With Sean Rafferty.

Music includes at 5.40 Dvorak's Sonatina in G, Op 100, played by violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Samuel Sanders; at 6.00 Nielsen's Symphonic Rhapsody performed by the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra under Gennadi Rozhdestvensky: and at 6.45 Michel Blavet's Concerto in A minor played by Musica Antiqua Koln directed by Reinhard Goebel.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

Kirsteen McCue introduces a concert from Aberdeen's Music Hall.
Paul Watkins (cello), Virginia Kerr (soprano), Ladies' voices of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Chamber Choir, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins

Prokofiev Suite: Lieutenant Kije

Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor

8.30 Twenty Minutes: The Building of Bankside: 2: Bridging the Gap
A series of programmes marking the opening of the new Tate Modern museum.
Architect Norman Foster and sculptor Anthony Caro discuss their work on the new footbridge crossing the Thames at Bankside.

8.50 Vaughan Williams Symphony No 7 (Sinfonia Antarctica)

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsteen McCue
Cellist:
Paul Watkins
Soprano:
Virginia Kerr
Singers:
Ladies' voices of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Chamber Choir
Musicians:
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins
Guest (Twenty Minutes):
Norman Foster
Guest (Twenty Minutes):
Anthony Caro

Paul Allen profiles the Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, whose new books Migrations and The Children document the displacement of peoples at the end of the 20th century in photographs taken over seven years in 35 countries.

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Allen

A concert given by Ensemble Expose last month at the Warehouse in London, introduced by Verity Sharp in conversation with Expose's director, Roger Redgate.
Roger Redgate Pierrot on the Stage of Desire
Jason Eckardt After Serra
Xenakis Plekto
Tristan Murail La Barque Mystique
James Clapperton Landet Som Icke Ar
Ferneyhough Flurries
Plus birthday tributes to Pierre Boulez by Wolfgang Rihm, Magnus Lindberg, Luciano Berio and others, played by pianist Rolf Hind.

Contributors

Presenter:
Verity Sharp
Producer:
Philip Tagney
Interviewee:
Roger Redgate
Musicians:
Ensemble Expose
Speaker:
Wolfgang Rihm
Speaker:
Magnus Lindberg
Speaker:
Luciano Berio
Pianist:
Rolf Hind

With Jonathan Swain.

Rachmaninov Romance and Waltz

12.10 Bach, orch Schoenberg Prelude and Fugue in E flat, BWV552 (St Anne)

12.25 Leonardo Leo Cello Concerto in D minor

12.45 Schubert Violin Sonata (Sonatina) No 1 in D, D384

1.00 Shostakovich Symphony No 9; Symphony No 10 - Slovak Radio SO/Ladislav Slovak

2.20 Nino Rota Eight and a Half (Otto e Mezzo)

2.30 Beethoven Six Bagatelles, Op 126

2.55 Mozart Symphony No 38 in D (Prague)

3.20 Dvorak Romance in F minor, Op 11

3.45 Barkauskas Concerto for Orchestra No 2

4.00 Ligeti Six Bagatelles

4.20 Eduard Tubin Ave Maria

4.25 Purcell Pavane in G minor; Chaconne in G minor

4.35 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G, BWV1048

4.50 Pylkkanen Suite, Op 32

5.00 Beethoven Overture: King Stephen

5.05 Mozart String Quartet in D, K155

5.15 Chopin Etudes, Op 25 (excerpts)

5.25 Scriabin Three Etudes, Op 65

5.35 Hildegard of Bingen O Virgo ac Diadema Purpurae Regis

5.45 Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV1041

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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