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With Penny Gore.
Haydn Piano Sonata in D, HXVI 3 7 LeifOveAndsnes
6.30 Smetana String Quartet No 1 in E minor (From My Life) Talich Quartet
7.00 Glazunov Carnival Overture, 0p45 Moscow Symphony Orchestra, conductor Igor Golovschin
7.35 JC Bach Sinfonia Concertante in C
Rachel Brown (flute), Frank de Bruine (oboe), David Watkin (cello), Academy of Ancient Music, director Simon Stand age (violin)
8.00 Bizet Suite: The Fair Maid of Perth Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
8.45 Rossini Overture: Semiramide
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner

Contributors

Conductor:
Igor Golovschin
Flute:
Rachel Brown
Flute:
Frank de Bruine
Cello:
David Watkin
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Conductor:
Neville Marriner

This week Donald Macleod explores works by Ralph Vaughan Williams that were inspired by literature. 3: William Blake
Vaughan Williams found that Blake's mystical visions translated surprisingly vividly into music.
A Poison Tree (Ten Blake Songs)
Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (oboe) Job, a Masque for Dancing
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley
The Divine Image; Eternity (Ten Blake Songs) Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (oboe)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
William Blake
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Tenor:
Janet Craxton
Conductor:
Vernon Handley
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Tenor:
Janet Craxton

Juliet Stevenson , currently appearing as Corinne in the Royal Court production of The Country by Martin Crimp , describes how a role develops from first reading and beyond the first night into the actual run.

Contributors

Unknown:
Juliet Stevenson
Unknown:
Martin Crimp

With Stephanie Hughes.
Weber Overture: Abu Hassan
Russian National Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Pletnev
10.10 Handel Italian Cantata: Apollo e Dafne, HWV122 Roberta Alexander
(soprano), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Vienna Concentus Musicus, director Nikolaus Harnoncourt
10.48 Granados Spanish Dances, Op 3 7: No 10 in G; No 5 in E minor Andres Segovia (guitar)

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes.
Conductor:
Mikhail Pletnev
Soprano:
Roberta Alexander
Soprano:
Thomas Hampson
Director:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Guitar:
Andres Segovia

Chris de Souza presents the third of five morning visits to this year's Aldeburgh Festival. Today's recital is given by pianist Stephen Hough.

Haydn Piano Sonata in C, HXVI 48
Copland Piano Variations
Liszt Ballade No 2 in B minor
11.40 Interval Samuel West reads from Nicholas Crane's book Two Degrees West, which charts his eventful walk along England's meridian.
3: The Leeds/Liverpool Canal to the J6 (R)
12.00 Del Tredici Wedding Song
Liszt Sonata in B minor

(See also this evening 7.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Pianist:
Stephen Hough
Reader (Interval):
Samuel West

A recital given last month in the Elmwood Hall, Belfast.

Nash Ensemble: Ian Brown (piano), Marianne Thorsen (violin), Richard Watkins (horn)

Lennox Berkeley Trio, Op 44

Brahms Trio in E flat, Op 40

Contributors

Pianist (Nash Ensemble):
Ian Brown
Violinist (Nash Ensemble):
Marianne Thorsen
Horn player (Nash Ensemble):
Richard Watkins

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Eigar Overture: In the South (Alassio) Conductor Paul Mann
Bridge Oration, Concerto Elegiaco Alban Gerhardt (cello), conductor Paul Mann
Elgar The Wand of Youth: Suite No 2 Conductor Osmo Vanska
Schumann Symphony No 2 in C Conductor Paul Mann

Contributors

Conductor:
Paul Mann
Cello:
Elegiaco Alban Gerhardt
Conductor:
Paul Mann
Conductor:
Paul Mann

From the chapel of New College, Oxford. Introit: Gratias Tibi (Tarik O'Regan ) (first broadcast). Responses (Leighton). Psalm 104 (Turle, Boyce). First Lesson: Exodus
33, w7-20. Office Hymn: Father Most Holy (Chartres). Canticles: Jackson in G minor. Second Lesson: 2 Corinthians 3, w4-18. Anthem: The Spirit of the Lord (
Matthew Martin ) (first broadcast). Hymn: Come Holy Ghost (mode viii). Organ Voluntary: Choral Varie sur le Theme du Veni Creator (Durufle). Director of music
Edward Higginbottom. Assistant organist Matthew Halls. Organ Scholar Ryan Wigglesworth.

Contributors

Unknown:
Gratias Tibi
Unknown:
Tarik O'Regan
Unknown:
Matthew Martin
Music:
Edward Higginbottom.
Organist:
Matthew Halls.
Unknown:
Ryan Wigglesworth.

With Sean Rafferty.
Music includes at 5.00 Tchaikovsky's Waltz-Scherzo in C, Op 34, played by Vadim Repin (violin) and Alexander Markovich (piano); at 5.45 Nielsen's Little Suite, Op 1 performed by the Danish National RSO under Ulf Schirmer; and at 6.40 Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E, Op 109 played by Annie Fischer.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

Chris de Souza introduces a concert given in the Snape Mattings Concert Hall on Saturday. Belcea Quartet, Corin Long (double bass), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Thomas Ades (piano) Britten String Quartet No 1, Op 25
Faure Piano Quintet No 2 in C minor, Op 115 Dutilleux Ainsi la Nuit
Faure La Bonne Chanson, Op 61 See also tomorrow 11am

Contributors

Unknown:
Corin Long
Tenor:
Ian Bostridge
Tenor:
Thomas Ades

Sarah Dunant reviews The Heiress at the National Theatre in London, a play set in fashionable 1850s New York and based on the Henry James novel
Washington Square. She also talks to Will Self about How the Dead Live, his latest novel about "death, anti-Semitism and the NHS".

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Dunant
Unknown:
Henry James
Unknown:
Washington Square.

With Jonathan Swain.
WH Squire Tarantella
12.10 Leonardo de Lorenzo Capriccio Brillante, Op 31
12.25 Coulthard Ballet Suite: Excursion
12.40 Liszt Mazeppa
12.50 Bellini Trumpet Concerto in E flat
1.00 A selection of opera transcriptions recorded on piano rolls.
Donizetti, transcr Liszt Valse Caprice on Themes from "Lucia di Lammermoor" Ferruccio Busoni
Eugen d'Albert Ballade in F minor; Scenes from "Tiefland" Eugen d'Albert
Bellini, transcr Thalberg Fantasia on "La Sonnambula" Anna Essipoff
Humperdinck Dream Scene from "Hansel und Gretel" The Composer
Bizet, transcr Horowitz Virtuoso Fantasy on Themes from "Carmen" Vladimir Horowitz
Liszt, transcr Lhevinne Reminiscences on Meyerbeer's "Robert le Diable" Josef Lhevinne
Mozart, transcr Liszt Reminiscences on "Don Giovanni" Emil von Sauer
2.10 Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op 52
2.25 Beethoven Trio in C minor, Op 9 No 3
3.00-4.30 BBC Schools
3.00 Dance Workshop
3.40 Together: an Assembly for Schools
4.00 Dance Workshop
4.20 Ghostwriter
4.30 Mozart Serenade in G, K525 (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)
4.50 Chopin Scherzo No 1 in B minor, Op 20
5.00 Grieg Morning: Anitra's Dance (Peer Gynt, Suite No 1)
5.05 Schumann Drei Fantaisiestucke, Op 73
5.20 Wagner Siegfried Idyll
5.45 Boehm Nel Cor Piu Non Mi Sento, Op 4

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

3.00 Dance Workshop 3.40 Together: an Assembly for Schools 4.00 Dance Workshop 4.20 Ghostwriter
4.30 Mozart Serenade in G, K525 (Eine Kleine
Nachtmusik)
4.50 Chopin Scherzo No 1 in B minor,
Op 20 5.00 Grieg Morning; Anitra 's Dance (Peer Gynt, Suite No 1)
5.05 Schumann Drei Fantaisiestucke , Op 73 5.20 Wagner Siegfried Idyll
5.45 Boehm Ne/ Cor Piu Non Mi Sento, Op 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Eine Kleine
Unknown:
Schumann Drei Fantaisiestucke
Unknown:
Wagner Siegfried

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