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With Fiona Talkington.
Brahms Violin Sonata No 2 in A, Op 100
6.20 Monteverdi Beatus Vir
7.00 Ariel Ramirez Missa Criolla
7.45 Casella Minuet (Scarlattiana)
8.00 Rossini Grand Overture: Obbligata and Contrabasso in D
8.25 Schubert Violin Sonata in D, D384

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington.

Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 5 in C RPO, conductor Norman Del Mar
9.05 Scheldt 0 Nachbar Roland
The King's Noyse
9.20 Bach, transcr Rachmaninov Prelude, Gavotte and Gigue from Violin Partita in E Howard Shelley (piano)
9.25 Grieg Lyric Suite ECORaymond Leppard
9.45 Bach Motet: DerGeist Hilft Unser
SchwachheitAuf, BWV226 Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
10.05 Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No 9
New World Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas
10.20 German Nell Gwyn Dances
Halle Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli
10.30 Bach Cantata No 170: Vergnugte Ruh , Beliebte Seelenlust Janet Baker (mezzo), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
10.55 Rawsthome, arr Lane Film Music from "Uncle Silas "BBCPO/Rumon Gamba
11.10 Schumann Sommerlied , Op 146 No 4; An die Steme, Op 141 No 1 London
Schubert Chorale, conductor Stephen Layton
11.20 Vanhal Symphony in D London
Mozart Players, conductor Matthias Bamert
11.55 Walton, arr Mathieson Prelude: Richard III Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Charles Groves
12.05 Knut Nystedt Immortal Bach
Hoist Singers, conductor Stephen Layton Producer Fiona Shelmerdine

Contributors

Conductor:
Norman Del Mar
Unknown:
Dergeist Hilft Unser
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Unknown:
Tilson Thomas
Conductor:
John Barbirolli
Unknown:
Vergnugte Ruh
Unknown:
St Martin
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Schumann Sommerlied
Conductor:
Stephen Layton
Conductor:
Matthias Bamert
Conductor:
Charles Groves
Conductor:
Stephen Layton
Producer:
Fiona Shelmerdine

Cheltenham Festival 2000
Chris de Souza introduces the last broadcast from this year's Cheltenham
Festival, a concert given earlier this month, which includes the premiere of a new work by the festival's composer-in-residence, Judith Weir.
Schubert Ensemble: Simon Blendis
(violin), Douglas Paterson (viola), Jane Salmon (cello), William Howard (piano) Mahler Piano Quartet Movement Mozart Piano Trio in C, K548
Weir Piano Quartet (first performance)
Faure Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 15

Contributors

Unknown:
Judith Weir.
Violin:
Simon Blendis
Violin:
Douglas Paterson
Viola:
Jane Salmon
Cello:
William Howard

The BBC Symphony Orchestra under
Malcolm Sargent. Drawing exclusively on s, Anthony Burton focuses on the BBC Symphony Orchestra underthe flamboyant and popular Malcolm Sargent. Mozart Overture: Die Entfuhrungaus dem Sera/7(1965)
Vaughan Williams Toward the Unknown Region
With the BBC Symphony Chorus (1962) Walton Cello Concerto With
Gregor Piatigorski (first UK performance, 1957) Brahms, orch Sargent Four Serious Songs, Op 121 With Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) (1949) Producer Nick Morgan.
Malcolm Sargent is featured in the BBC Legends series. CDs are available now from music outlets.

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Sargent.
Unknown:
Anthony Burton
Unknown:
Malcolm Sargent.
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Gregor Piatigorski
Contralto:
Kathleen Ferrier
Producer:
Nick Morgan.
Producer:
Malcolm Sargent

Weimar. Joshua Rifkin continues his tour of places where Bach lived and worked, and reaches Weimar, where John Butt performs Bach's music on the 18th-century organ at the court chapel of Altenburg, where Bach himself Once played. Producer Roger Short

Contributors

Unknown:
Joshua Rifkin
Unknown:
John Butt
Producer:
Roger Short

Whose Shostakovich? Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. Gerard McBurney, British composer and Russian music specialist, gives the fifth annual lecture, which marks the 25th anniversary of Shostakovich's death. He argues that contradictory views on Shostakovich's life and work should not obscure his achievement as the composer of some of the most distinctive music of the past 100 years.

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Pierre Boulez returns to the Proms with one of the world's finest youth orchestras.

Petra Lang (mezzo), Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, conductor Pierre Boulez

Mahler Adagio (Symphony No 10)

Schoenberg Song of the Wood Dove (Gurrelieder)

8.15 Twenty Minutes: Category 5
The first of a series of commissioned short stories on the theme of wine and food.
By Liz Jensen.

8.35 Ravel Sheherazade

Bartok The Miraculous Mandarin

(Repeated Thursday 2pm)

Contributors

Mezzo:
Petra Lang
Musicians:
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez
Author (Category 5):
Liz Jensen

By Noël Coward. A production of the play which catapulted Coward to fame in 1924. Director John Tydeman. (R)

Contributors

Director:
John Tydeman.
Florence Lancaster:
Harriet Walter
Nicky:
Paul Rhys
Helen:
Frances Jeater
Pawnie:
John Rye
Clara Hibbert:
Jenny Funnell
Tom Veryan:
Robert Portal
David Lancaster:
Peter Blythe
Bunty Mainwaring:
Federay Holmes
Bruce Fairlight:
Keith Drlnkel
Preston:
Pamela Grace
Pianist:
Mike Sykes

Isabel Hilton browses through the books that people are reading elsewhere in the world. This evening Gaia Servado introduces a biography of a physicist who defected from Moscow; Potowari - the language of the northern Punjab-takes its first literary steps; and Eve Hoffman, Abdullah Hussein and John Sutherland discuss bicultural identity.

Contributors

Unknown:
Isabel Hilton
Introduces:
Gaia Servado
Unknown:
Abdullah Hussein
Unknown:
John Sutherland

Another chance to hear last Monday's late night concert. Benjamin Bayl (organ), Choirof King 's College, Cambridge, conductor Stephen Cleobury Schiitz Singet dem Herrn Allegri Miserere
Gibbons 0 Clap Your Hands Tye Omnes Gentes
Howells Psalm Prelude, Set 1 No Jonathan Harvey / Love the Lord James MacMillan A New Song
Leighton Fantasy No 6 (Toccata on Hanover) Purcell Jehovah , Quam Multi Sunt Hostes Mei Giovanni Gabriell Timoret Tremor
Bach Motet: Lobet den Herm , BWV230 (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Benjamin Bayl
Unknown:
Choirof King
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury
Conductor:
Schiitz Singet
Unknown:
Jonathan Harvey
Unknown:
James MacMillan
Unknown:
Purcell Jehovah
Unknown:
Giovanni Gabriell
Unknown:
Lobet Den Herm

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