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With Tommy Pearson.
Robert Parsons Ave Maria
Cambridge Singers, director John Rutter
6.30 Haydn Cello Concerto No 1 in C,
H Vllb 1 Academy of St Martin in the Fields, director Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
7.00 Otto Klemperer Merry Waltz (Das Ziel) Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
7.50 Francaix Petit Quatuor pour saxophones Adelphi Saxophone Quartet
8.00 Handel Coronation Anthem: Zadok the Priest, HWV258 Westminster Abbey Choir, ECO, London Brass, director Martin Neary
8.35 Copland Four Dance Episodes
(Rodeo) LSO, conducted by the Composer

Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Pearson.
Director:
John Rutter
Cello:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Cello:
Otto Klemperer
Unknown:
Francaix Petit Quatuor
Director:
Martin Neary

This week Donald Macleod explores the life and works of Erik Satie.
L'Omnibus Automobile Regine Crespin (soprano), Philippe Entremont (piano) Six Pièces de la Période
Michel Legrand (piano)
En Habit de Cheval Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson Le Piège de Meduse Solistes de
I'Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, conductor
AldoCiccolini Croquis etAgaceries d'un Gros Bonhomme en Bois Anne Quef felec (piano)
Menus Propos Enfantines; Enfantillages Pittoresques ; Peccadilles Importunes AldoCiccolini (piano)
Choses Vues a Droite et a Gauche
Gidon Kremer (violin), Elena Bashkirova (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Erik Satie.
Soprano:
Regine Crespin
Soprano:
Philippe Entremont
Piano:
Michel Legrand
Conductor:
Michel Plasson
Conductor:
Aldociccolini Croquis
Unknown:
Gros Bonhomme
Unknown:
Bois Anne Quef
Unknown:
Enfantillages Pittoresques
Unknown:
Peccadilles Importunes
Violin:
Gidon Kremer
Violin:
Elena Bashkirova

With Jonathan Swain.
WaltonOverture: Scapino
Chicago SO, conductor Frederick Stock
10.15 Couperin Les Folies Francoises, ou Les Dominos(Pieces de Clavecin) Anton Heiller (harpsichord)
10.16 L Couperin Passacaille Anton Heiller (harpsichord)
10.29 Haydn String Quartet in C, Op 76 No 3 (Emperor) Carmina Quartet
10.53 Walton Spitfire Prelude and Fugue RLPO, conductor Charles Groves
11.01 Purcell My Heart Is Inditing
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford,
English Concert, conductor Simon Preston
11.18 Walton Coronation March: Orb and Sceptre LSO, conductor Malcolm Sargent

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Conductor:
Frederick Stock
Harpsichord:
Anton Heiller
Unknown:
Couperin Passacaille
Harpsichord:
Anton Heiller
Conductor:
Charles Groves
Conductor:
Simon Preston
Conductor:
Malcolm Sargent

Linda Ormiston introduces the third of five programmes featuring performances given last week at the St Magnus Festival. Music includes Maxwell Davies 's Hymn to St Magnus performed in the cathedral by mezzo Tamsin Dives, chamber group
Psappha and the Festival Chamber Choir conducted by Etienne Siebens , Maxwell Davies 's arrangements of Bach preludes and fugues performed by Psappha, three preludes and fugues for piano by Shostakovich played by John Lill , and Britten's Les Illuminations performed by the BBC Philharmonic under Martyn Brabbins.

Contributors

Unknown:
Maxwell Davies
Conducted By:
Etienne Siebens
Conducted By:
Maxwell Davies
Played By:
John Lill
Unknown:
Martyn Brabbins.

Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music
Beyond Bach II. Lucie Skeaping introduces another of the chamber concerts given at this year's festival in St John's, Smith
Square. Today Richard Lester (cello) and Susan Tomes (piano) perform music by Bach and some of his admirers.
Bach, arr Schumann Cello Suite No 3 in C,
BWV1009 Bach , arr Busonl Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor,
BWV903 Bach , arr Gounod Méditation surle Premier Prélude de Piano de JS Bach (Ave Maria)
Bach Viola da Gamba Sonata in G, BWV1027

Contributors

Cello:
Richard Lester
Piano:
Susan Tomes
Unknown:
Bwv1009 Bach
Unknown:
Bwv903 Bach

From Westminster Abbey. Introit: Tu Es
Petrus (Palestrina). Responses (Tomkins). Psalm 66 (Atkins). First Lesson: Ezekiel 3, w4-ll. Canticles: Westminster Service
(Howells). Second Lesson: Galatians
1, v13-2, v8. Anthem: Cantico del Sole
(Walton). Hymn: Thou Art the Christ (Croft's 136th). Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in G, BWV541 (Bach). Organist and master of the choristers James 0'Donnell.
Acting sub-organist Robert Quinney.

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Quinney.

With Humphrey Carpenter. Music includes at 5.45 Arnold's Scottish Dances, Op 59, played by the LPO conducted by the Composer; at 6.00 Clara Schumann 's
Scherzo in D minor, Op 10, performed by Cristina Ortiz (piano); and at 6.40 Dvorak's Miniatures for two violins and viola, Op 75a, played by the Chilingirian Quartet.

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter.
Unknown:
Clara Schumann
Piano:
Cristina Ortiz

Sir John Eliot Gardiner's year-long millennium Bach Cantata pilgrimage comes to London. The aim of this musical odyssey is to perform the works on the liturgically appropriate days for which Bach composed them and these three dramatic cantatas about judgement and redemption are for the First Sunday after Trinity. Gillian Keith (soprano), Wilkete Brummelstroete (alto), Paul Agnew (tenor), Dietrich Henschel (bass), Monteverdi Choir, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Bach Cantatas: No 75: Die Elenden Sollen Essen; No 20: O Ewigkeit, Du Donnerwort; No 39: Brich dem Hungrigen Dein Brot

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Unknown:
Bach Cantata
Soprano:
Gillian Keith
Soprano:
Wilkete Brummelstroete
Tenor:
Paul Agnew
Bass:
Dietrich Henschel
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Unknown:
Du Donnerwort

In a world of instant international communicationand ever easier travel, what do we understand by the notion of home? Sarah Dunant discusses "home" with writer Pico Iyer , author of The Global Soul.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Dunant
Unknown:
Pico Iyer

With Jonathan Swain.

Sibelius Finlandia Hymn
12.15 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K364
12.50 CPE Bach Cantata: Heilig "Herr, Werth das Schaaren Wq217,
1.00 A concert of recordings on piano rolls. Delibes, transcr Nikisch Valse Lente (Coppelia) Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies: No 5 in F sharp minor; No 6 in D flat; Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 13 in A minor; Beethoven Piano Sonata in F sharp, Op 78; Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 15 in A minor (Rakoczy March); Wagner Good Friday Music (Parsifal) Strauss Love Scene (Ein Heldenleben); Love Scene (Feuersnot) Wagner Prelude: Parsifal Felix Mottl
2.05 Mozart, arr Danzi Duos (The Magic Flute)
2.20 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2 in C minor (Little Russian)
2.50 Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (excerpt)
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 Debussy L'lsle Joyeuse
4.50 Mozart Symphony No 5 in B flat, K22
5.00 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in F minor
5.20 Durante Concerto per Quartetto for Strings, No 6 in A

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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