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With Penny Gore.
Mozart Piano Trio in B flat, K502 Vienna Piano Trio
6.30 Vivaldi Flute Concerto in G, Op 10 No 6 Patrick Gallois , Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
7.00 Boyce Overture No 4 in D
Cantilena, director Adrian Shepherd
7.25 Schubert Impromptu in C minor, D899Nol Murray Perahia (piano)
8.00 Dvorak Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op 72 No 2 Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi
8.50 Walton Fanfare (Memorial for Sir
John Wood ); Coronation March: Orb and Sceptre Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor David Willcocks

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Gallois
Director:
Adrian Shepherd
Piano:
Murray Perahia
Conductor:
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Unknown:
John Wood
Conductor:
David Willcocks

This week Donald Macleod explores works by Ralph Vaughan Williams that were inspired by literature.
2: AE Housman andRL
Stevenson Vaughan Williams responded to A
Shropshire Lad with some of the most poignant Housman settings ever written. On Wenlock Edge
Ian Partridge (tenor), Music Group of London Along the Field (excerpt)
Ruth Golden (soprano), Nancy Bean (violin) Songs of Travel Bryn Terfel (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Stevenson Vaughan Williams
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Soprano:
Ruth Golden
Piano:
Malcolm Martineau

With Stephanie Hughes.
Beethoven Romance in G, Op 40 David Oistrakh (violin), Moscow Philharmonic, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
10.14 Handel Italian Cantata: Alpestre Monte , HWV81 Emma Kirkby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
10.25 Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitar
Concerto No 1 in D Andres Segovia , New London Orchestra, conductor Alec Sherman
10.45 Handel Italian Cantata:
Nell'Africane Selve, HWV135a David Thomas (bass), Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes.
Violin:
David Oistrakh
Unknown:
Alpestre Monte
Soprano:
Emma Kirkby
Director:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Andres Segovia
Conductor:
Alec Sherman
Bass:
David Thomas
Director:
Christopher Hogwood

Chris de Souza presents the second of five morning visits to this year's Aldeburgh
Festival. Today's concert, which features the first performance of a new work by Robert Saxton , is given by cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Stephen Hough.
Bach Cello Suite No 2 in D minor, BWV1008 Britten Tema -
Sacher Saxton Sonata on a Theme by William Walton (first performance)
11.40 Interval Samuel West reads from
Nicholas Crane 's book Two Degrees West, which charts his eventful walk along England's meridian.
2: Boggle Hole to Bowes (R)
12.00 Faure Elegie , Op 24; Papillon, Op77; Romance in A, Op 69
Franck Cello Sonata in A
See also this evening 7.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Saxton
Unknown:
Steven Isserlis
Pianist:
Stephen Hough.
Unknown:
Britten Tema
Unknown:
Sacher Saxton Sonata
Unknown:
William Walton
Unknown:
Samuel West
Unknown:
Nicholas Crane
Unknown:
Faure Elegie

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Schumann Overture: Genoveva
Conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Wolfgang Rihm Spiegel und Fluss Conductor Kazushi Ono
Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op 52Conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2
Paul Lewis (piano), conductor Kazushi Ono Scriabin Symphony No 2 Conductor Kazushi Ono

Contributors

Conductor:
Tadaaki Otaka
Conductor:
Wolfgang Rihm Spiegel
Conductor:
Tadaaki Otaka
Piano:
Paul Lewis

Through the Looking Glass lain Burnside presents a selection of songs all written from a child's point of view - not only carefree days in the nursery but also the darker side of childhood - including songs by Musorgsky, Mahler and Britten as well as music from the world of Disney and Broadway. Producer Clive Portbury

Contributors

Producer:
Clive Portbury

With Sean Rafferty. Music includes at
5.00 Musorgsky's Intermezzo "in Modo
Classico "inB minor(orch Rimsky-Korsakov) played by the Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Yevgeni Svetlanov ; at
6.00 Ravel's Jeux d 'Eau performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano); and at 6.35
Haydn's Symphony No 85 in B flat (La Reine) played by the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century conducted by Frans Bruggen.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Rafferty.
Unknown:
Yevgeni Svetlanov
Piano:
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Conducted By:
Frans Bruggen.

Chris de Souza introduces a concert live from the Snape Maltings Concert Hall, in which the festival's artistic director Thomas Ades conducts the British premiere of his most recent piece.
Anthony Marwood (violin), Janice Watson (soprano), Garry Magee (baritone), Tallis Chamber Choir, Britten-Pears Chamber Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Lawrence Foster
Ades America (A Prophecy) Britten Violin Concerto
8.20 Twenty Minutes: To Feed the Night In the first of two programmes
Andrew Wincott reads Phillip Hensher 's tale set in the dangerous world of house-moving-dangerous, that is, when Mr Bell is in charge.
8.40 Faure Requiem , Op 48 See also tomorrow 11am

Contributors

Director:
Thomas Ades
Violin:
Anthony Marwood
Violin:
Janice Watson
Soprano:
Garry Magee
Unknown:
Andrew Wincott
Unknown:
Phillip Hensher
Unknown:
Mr Bell
Unknown:
Faure Requiem

Patrick Wright visits Encounters, an exhibition featuring new work created in response to old master paintings from the National Gallery in London, and considers the continuing impact of the great tradition of European art. The new work by 24 big-name artists from Europe and North
America, including Hockney, Bourgeois,
Freud and Kitaj, will be hung alongside the old in a major new exhibition, which explores the way in which artists engage with the past.

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Wright

Verity Sharp 's selections for late-night listening include Mozambique as imagined by accordionist Richard Galliano and clarinettist Michel Portal , echoes of Morton Feldman in the new work of Chicago-based group Town and Country and traditional Turkish music reinvented by guitarist Hasan CihatOrter.

Contributors

Unknown:
Verity Sharp
Accordionist:
Richard Galliano
Clarinettist:
Michel Portal
Unknown:
Morton Feldman
Guitarist:
Hasan Cihatorter.

With Jonathan Swain.
Anon, 16th Century Yo en de Estando
12.15 Montsalvatge Concierto Breve
12.35 Beethoven Violin Sonata in A, Op 12 No 2
1.00 Aconcert of Sephardic music of the Spanish Jews around the Mediterranean Ocean and in the Ottoman Empire.
2.10 Luys de Narvaez Los Seys Libros del Delphin 2.25 Tchaikovsky Serenade for string orchestra, Op 48

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Tchaikovsky Serenade

3.00 Playtime 3.15 Time to Move
3.35 Let's Make a Story
3.50 Drama Workshop: Victorian Dramas
4.10 The Song Tree
4.30 Telemann Concerto in B flat for three oboes
4.40 Beethoven Romance in G, Op 40
4.50 Goldmark Scherzo in E minor, Op 19
5.05 Bizet, arr Sankey Carmen Fantasy
5.20 Falla Three Spanish Songs
5.30 Benjamin North American Square Dance
5.40 Rudolf Tobias Prelude andFuguein Dminor
5.50 Bach, arrSchoenberg Chorale Prelude, (BWV654)

Contributors

Unknown:
Goldmark Scherzo
Unknown:
Sankey Carmen
Unknown:
Rudolf Tobias

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