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With Penny Gore.

Vivaldi Concerto in G for two mandolins, strings and continuo, RV532 - Paul O'Dette and Robin Jeffrey (mandolins), the Parley of Instruments, director Roy Goodman

6.30 Dvorak Serenade in D minor for wind instruments, Op 44 - Chamber Orchestra of Europe

7.00 Mozart Piano Sonata in C, K309 - Mitsuko Uchida

7.45 Schubert Quarttetsatz in C minor, D 703 - Hagen Quartet

8.00 Saint-Saens Wedding Cake, Op 76 - David Owen Norris (piano), I Musici de Montreal, conductor Yuli Turovsky

8.40 Strauss Horn Concerto No 1 in E flat - Dennis Brain, Philharmonia, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch

Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore

In this week's programmes Donald Macleod explores Rameau's music for the stage through five examples of his work, each written in a different style.

Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie (excerpts) - Soloists of the Versailles Opera, Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius, Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Mark Minkowski

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod
Producer:
Piers Burton-Page
Aricie:
Veronique Gens (soprano)
Hippolyte:
Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor)
Phedre:
Bernarda Fink (contralto)
Diane:
Therese Feighan (soprano)
L'Amour:
Annick Massis (soprano)
Pluto/Neptune/Jupiter:
Laurent Naouri (bass)
Thesee:
Russell Smythe (baritone)

With Stephanie Hughes. This week featuring Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos 23-27 and recordings by soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom.

Uccellini Sonata over Toccata Op 4 (1645) (Detta la Laura Rilucente); Sonata II, Op 4 (Detta la Luciminia Contenta) - Romanesca

10.18 Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488 - Christian Zacharias, Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor David Zinman

10.43 Debussy Pelleas et Melisande, Act 3, Scene 1 - Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conductor Pierre Boulez

10.56 Kraus Sinfonia Buffa - Swedish CO, conductor Petter Sundkvist

11.13 Prokofiev The Ugly Duckling, Op 18 - Elisabeth Soderstom (soprano), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes
Producer:
Tony Cheevers
Pelleas:
George Shirley (tenor)
Melisande:
Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano)
Golaud:
Donald McIntyre ( Bass-Baritone)

This week Humphrey Burton talks to Amelia Freedman, artistic director of the Nash Ensemble, and introduces some of their recordings from the archives.

Mozart Trio in E flat for clarinet, viola and piano, K498 (Kegelstatt)

David Matthews Clarinet Quartet

Pizzetti Three Canzoni for voice and string quartet With Jill Gomez (soprano)

Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 49

(See concert below. Brian Kay on the Nash Ensemble: page 43)

Contributors

Presenter:
Humphrey Burton
Interviewee:
Amelia Freedman
Musicians:
Nash Ensemble
Soprano:
Jill Gomez
Producer:
Anthony Sellors

Stephanie Hughes introduces this week's recital from the Wigmore Hall, London.

Nash Ensemble

Glinka Sextet in E flat for piano and strings

Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence, Op 70

(Repeated Saturday 1pm)
Brian Kay on the Nash Ensemble: page 43

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes
Musicians:
Nash Ensemble

This week featuring music by Bartok.

Webern Passacaglia, Op 1 - Conductor Emilio Pomarico

Haydn Symphony No 44 in E minor (Trauer) - Conductor Alexander Polianichko

Kodaly Dances of Galanta - Conductor Niklas Willen

Bartok Piano Concerto No 2 - Boris Berezovsky, conductor Osmo Vanska

Shostakovich Symphony No 1 - Conductor Alexander Polianichko

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Emilio Pomarico
Conductor:
Alexander Polianichko
Conductor:
Niklas Willen
Pianist:
Boris Berezovsky
Conductor:
Osmo Vanska

With Sean Rafferty. Music includes at 5.40 Boyce's Symphony No 4 in F played by the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood; at 6.05 Nielsen's Dance of the Cockerels (Maskarade) performed by the Gothenburg SO under
Neeme Jarvi; and at 6.40 Scriabin's Etude, Op 8 No 5, played by Sviatoslav Richter (piano).

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

Lynn Walker introduces a concert given on Saturday at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Anne Queffelec (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Libor Pesek

Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave); Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor

Respighi Suite: The Birds

Mozart Symphony No 41 in C (Jupiter)

Contributors

Presenter:
Lynn Walker
Pianist:
Anne Queffelec
Musicians:
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Libor Pesek

Piazzolla, arr Sviatoslav Lips Escualo; Buenos Aires Hora Cero (arr performers)

Jerzy Peterburshsky El Sol Sueno (Hommage a Piazzolla) Gidon Kremer (violin), Friedrich Lips (bajan), Sviatoslav Lips (piano), Vladimir Tonkha (cello), Mark Pekarsky (percussion), Elisabeth Chojnacka (harpsichord), Per Arne Glorivigen (bandoneon), Vadim Sakharov (piano), Alois Posch (double bass)

Contributors

Violinist:
Gidon Kremer
Bajan player:
Friedrich Lips
Pianist:
Sviatoslav Lips
Cellist:
Vladimir Tonkha
Percussionist:
Mark Pekarsky
Harpsichordist:
Elisabeth Chojnacka
Bandoneon player:
Per Arne Glorivigen
Pianist:
Vadim Sakharov
Double bassist:
Alois Posch

Isabel Hilton's guests include poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje, whose new novel Anvil's Ghost is his first since winning the Booker Prize with The English Patient. In his new book Ondaatje returns to themes of identity and buried history, through which he explores the complex political and cultural currents beneath the recent turbulent history of Sri Lanka.

Contributors

Presenter:
Isabel Hilton
Guest:
Michael Ondaatje
Producer:
Rebecca Stratford

With Jonathan Swain.

Dvorak Polonaise in E flat

12.10 Beethoven Piano Sonata in A flat, Op 110

12.35 CPE Bach Flute Concerto in D minor, Wq22

1.00 Bach Violin Partita in B minor, BWV1002

Brahms Violin Sonata No 1 in G, Op 78

1.50 Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish)

2.30 Scriabin Two Poems, Op 32; Etudes: Op 2 No 1; Op 8 No 11; Op 42 No 4

2.50 Machaut Nes qu'On Porroit (Le Voir Dit)

3.00-4.30 BBC Schools
3.00 Music Box
3.15 Something to Think About
3.30 Le Club
3.45 Stories and Rhymes
4.00 EAL Let's Make a Story
4.15 Together Stories

4.30 Albeniz Spanish Suite, Op 47

4.50 Grainger Colonial Song

5.00 Musorgsky, orch Rimsky-Korsakov A Night on the Bare Mountain

5.15 Mozart Divertimento No 1 in B flat, K229

5.40 Verdi Alzira (excerpts)

5.50 Verdi Overture: La Forza del Destino

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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