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With Penny Gore.

Copland Quiet City Philip Smith (trumpet), Thomas Stacy (cor anglais), NYPO, conductor Leonard Bernstein

6.30 Dvorak From the Bohemian Forest, Op 68 Yaara Tal and Andreas Groethuysen (piano duet)

7.00 Weber, orch Berlioz Invitation to the Dance, Op 65 (Rondo Brilliant)
Berlin Philharmonic Herbert von Karajan

7.35 Paisiello Piano Concerto No 1 in C
Mariaclara Monetti, ECO, director Stephanie Gonley

8.00 Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music Soloists. LPO, conductor Adrian Boult

8.45 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in G minor, Op 8 No 2 (Summer) (The Four Seasons) Trondheim Soloists, director Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)

Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore

Donald Macleod explores the life and works of Leos Janacek.

Janacek married one of his piano pupils, Zdenka Schulzova, shortly before her sixteenth birthday. Later, in his sixties, he met Kamiia Stossiova, 38 years his junior, who became the inspiration for much of the music he wrote during his final creative upsurge.

The Diary of One Who Disappeared (excerpts) - Beno Blachut (tenor), Josef Palenicek (piano)

Theme and Variations (Zdenka Variations) - Rudolf Firkusny (piano)

String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters) - Britten Quartet

The Cunning Little Vixen (Act 3) (excerpt) - Vienna PC, conductor Charles Mackerras

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod
The Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen):
Dalibor Jedlicka(bass)
Frog (The Cunning Little Vixen):
Peter Saray(treble)

With Jonathan Swain.
J Strauss (son) Overture; D/ef7edermaus Phiiharmonia Orchestra. conductor Otto Kiemperer
10.15 Mah)er Five songs Lucia Popp (soprano). Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
10.30 Smetana Piano Tub t'r) G m/nor Guarneri Trio

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Conductor:
Otto Kiemperer
Soprano:
Lucia Popp
Soprano:
Geoffrey Parsons

Chris de Souza introduces today's concert from the Pittville Pump Room, a recital by BBC New Generation Artists Alban Gerhardt (cello) and Steven Osborne (piano).

Ligeti Sonata for solo cello

Brahms Cello Sonata No 2 in F, Op 99

11.40 Orient Express - a Literary Journey: 2: Angel in the Night
By Ilse Aichinger.
Today's story comes from Austria and is a haunting tale about a young girl who comes to terms with death through her relationship with the angels she imagines filling the night sky. Reader Julia Ford.

12.00 Mozart Piano Sonata in D, K576

Weir Unlocked for solo cello

Piazzotia Le Grand Tango

(See Performance on 3, 7.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Cellist:
Alban Gerhardt
Pianist:
Steven Osborne
Author (Orient Express - a Literary Journey:
Angel in the Night): Ilse Aichinger
Reader (Orient Express - a Literary Journey:
Angel in the Night): Julia Ford

The first of three concerts this week featuring performances given in public concerts at the University of Cambridge by the Endeiiion Quartet and guest vioiists.
Endeiiion Quartet, Bruno Guiranna (vioia) Mozart Str/ngQu/ntets: <n B f!at, K174; /n G m/nof. K5.t6 (R) See tomorrow 1pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruno Guiranna

Chnstopn Genz in Recital
Iain Burnside introduces German tenor Christoph Genz with pianist Roger Vignoies in a recital of Schubert lieder given last week at the Wigmore Hall, London. Producer Clive Portbury

Contributors

Unknown:
Chnstopn Genz
Pianist:
Roger Vignoies

With Sean Rafferty. Music includes at 5.40 Handel's Concerto Grosso in F, Op 6 No 9. played by the English Concert under Trevor Pinnock; at 6.00 Chabrier's Joyeuse Marche performed by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit; and at 6.45 Mozart's Symphony in F. K75, played by Vienna Concentus Musicus under Nikoiaus Harnoncourt.

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Pinnock
Unknown:
Charles Dutoit
Unknown:
Nikoiaus Harnoncourt.

A concert from Cheltenham Town Hall, featuring the world premiere of a new work by Ian Wilson written especially for tonight's soloist Rebecca Hirsch.
Rebecca Hirsch (violin), Mary Plazas (soprano), Ann Taylor (mezzo), Rhys Meirion (tenor), Robert Hayward (baritone), BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, conductor Paul Daniel

Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546 (version for string orchestra)
Ian Wilson: An Angel Serves a Small Breakfast (Violin Concerto No 2) (first performance)

8.00 Twenty Minutes: Personally Speaking: 2: Feathers, Bones and Chalk
Four programmes in which Kevin Jackson explores the art of the essay.
Essays on scientific themes, from Bacon and Huxley to Stephen Jay Gould.

8.20 Beethoven: Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral)

See Morning Performance tomorrow 11am

Contributors

Violin:
Rebecca Hirsch
Soprano:
Ann Taylor
Tenor:
Robert Hayward
Conductor:
Paul Daniel
Speaker (Twenty Minutes):
Kevin Jackson

Richard Cotes investigates the strange. satiric world of American short story writer George Saunders. whose work has been praised by some some of America's biggest literary names, including Thomas Pynchon and Tobias Woiff. And in the first of a series of commissions exploring the experience of summer across the arts. poet
Sarah Maguire reflects on summertime in the city.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Cotes
Unknown:
George Saunders.
Unknown:
Thomas Pynchon
Unknown:
Tobias Woiff.
Unknown:
Sarah Maguire

With Jonathan Swain.
Chabrier Espana
12.10 Milhaud Segoviana, Op 366
12.15 Franck Prelude, Fugue and Variation
12.25 Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op 34
1.00 A concert of Bohemian orchestral music from the Herne Early Music Festival 1991. Karl Kaiser (flute), La Stagione Frankfurt, Main, director Michael Schneider
Georg Anton Benda Sinfonia No 10 in G
Vanhal Sinfonie in D minor
Franz Benda Flute Concerto in E minor
Zelenka Sinfonia in A minor
2.15 Copland Quiet City
2.30 Messiaen Premiere Communion de la Vierge; Regard des Anges; Regard de l'Eglise d'Amour (Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus)
2.55 Langgard Symphony No 4 in E flat minor (The Fall of the Leaf)
3.25 Wolf Morike Lieder
3.45 Martinu Clarinet Sonatina
3.55 Suk Serenade for Strings in E flat, Op 6
4.25 Melartin Aino's Aria (Aino)
4.35 Brahms Motets: Es Ist das Heil Uns Kommen Her; Schaffe in Mir, Gott, ein Reines Herz, Op 29
4.55 Anon, arr Memelsdorff/Staier Three Tunes to John Playford's "Dancing Master"
5.05 Milton Barnes Papageno Variations
5.15 Cambini Trio, Op 45 No 1
5.25 Rosenmuller Confitebor Tibi Domine
5.45 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G, BWV1048

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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