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With Penny Gore.

Barber Agnus Dei Arietha Lockhart (soprano), Robert Shaw Festival Singers, director Robert Shaw

6.25 Britten Simple Symphony Academy of St Martin in the Fields. director Kenneth Sillito

7.10 Debussy, transcr Ravei Nuages, Fetes (Nocturnes.) Katia and Mariette Labeque (piano duet)

7.45 Weber Clarinet Concertino in F flat, Op 26 Sabine Meyer. Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Herbert Blomstedt

8.10 Bizet L Arlesienne: Suite No 1 London Symphony Orchestra. conductor C!audio Abbado

8.45 Heinichen Concerto in G Musica Antiqua Koln , director Reinhard Goebel

Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore Soprano: Arietha Lockhart
Soprano:
Robert Shaw
Director:
Kenneth Siiiito
Unknown:
Ravei Nuages
Conductor:
Herbert Biomstedt
Unknown:
G Musicaantiquakoin
Director:
Reinhard Goebei

With Donald Macleod.

Elgar's music was influenced as much by the city and his travels as by his beloved Worcestershire countryside.

Chanson de Matin, Op Jl5 No 2 (orchestral version) BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis

Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town) Chicago Symphony Orchestra. conductor Georg Solti

In Smyrna - Peter Pettinger (piano)

Three Bavarian Dances ('From the Bavarian Highlands'); Introduction and Allegro, Op 47 - LPO, conductor Adrian Boult

Contributors

Unknown:
Donaid Macleod
Conductor:
Andrew Davis

With Stephanie Hughes.
William Schuman American Festival Overture
Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein
10.16 Poulenc Three intermezzos
Paul Crossley(piano)
10.29 Mozart Mass in C, K220 (Sparrow)
Ann Monoyios (soprano), Elisabeth Graf (contralto), Oly Pfaff (tenor), Franz-Josef Selig (bass), Cologne Chamber Choir, Collegium Cartusianum, conductor Peter Neumann
10.46 Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor
Maurice Gendron,
London Philharmonic, conductor Bernard Haitink

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes
Musicians:
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Pianist:
Paul Crossley
Soprano:
Ann Monoyios
Contralto:
Elisabeth Graf
Tenor:
Oly Pfaff
Bass:
Franz-Josef Selig
Singers:
Cologne Chamber Choir
Musicians:
Collegium Cartusianum
Conductor:
Peter Neumann
Cellist:
Maurice Gendron
Musicians:
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink

Petroc Trelawny talks to clarinettist Michael Collins about his work as a chamber musician and plays recordings from the BBC archives.

Beethoven Tub in B flat. Op :H
With Christopher van Kampen (cello), Ian Brown (piano)

Ligeti Bagatelles
With the London Winds

Bartok Contrasts
With Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Kathryn Stott (piano)

Berg Adagio (Chamber Concerto)
With Dmitri Sitkovetsky (violin), Christopher van Kampen (cello), Michel Dalberto (piano)

Janacek Suite Ma Vlaste
With the London Winds

Contributors

Presenter:
Petroc Trelawny
Guest:
Michael Collins

Today's lunchtime concert features Welsh baritone Neal Davies in a recital he gave at the Machyniieth Festival in north Wales last August. Accompanied by Julian Mirford (piano), he sings settings of Pushkin by Medtner, Rubinstein and Shostakovich. (R)

Contributors

Baritone:
Neal Davies
Accompanied By:
Julian Mirford

Another chance to hear fast Thursday's Prom.

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone). Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yakov Kreizberg

Bernstein Suite: On the Waterfront

Mahler Kindertotenlieder

Shostakovich Symphony No 5

(R)

Contributors

Conductor:
Yakov Kreizberg

With Sean Rafferty.
Music includes at 5.40 Sibelius's Scenes Historiques: Suite No.t, Op 25, played by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Jukka-Pekka Saraste; at 6.00 Vivaldi's t//o;/n Concerto in /<, Op3 No 6, performed by Europa
Galante directed by Fabio Biondi; and at 6.45 Shostakovich's Piano Trio No t Op 8, played by the Moscow Trio.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty
Unknown:
Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Directed By:
Fabio Biondi

Live from the Royal Albert Hall. London. Shostakovich's first concerto is one of the greatest challenges to any violin virtuoso, and the young Russian Vadim Repin is a leading exponent of the work. The piece is complemented by two pieces by Prokofiev - the neo-classical first symphony and the popular Romeo and Juliet ballet music.
Vadim Repin (violin), Royal Philharmonic, conductor Daniele Gatti
Prokofiev Symphony No 1 (Classical)
Shostakovich Violin Concerto No: 1
8.25 Twenty Minutes
Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Paul Bailey is the second writer to take up the interval theme of refreshment. He talks about the memoirs of the 18th-century writer Sergei Aksakov, who recorded rural life in feudal Russia, including the merrymaking and kvass-drinking celebrations at harvest time.
8.45 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)

(Repeated Friday 2pm)

Contributors

Violinist:
Vadim Repin
Musicians:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Daniele Gatti
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Paul Bailey

Just over two years on from the Good Friday Agreement, the poet Paul Muldoon investigates whether the peace process in Northern Ireland has been influenced by the regard of writers and artists for the complexity and difficulty of the situation. On a journey through both parts of the country, he speaks to heading figures, including Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, Patrick McCabe and Glenn Patterson. How far have writers on both sides of the border helped to create the terms of engagement in the search for peace? (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Muldoon
Unknown:
Seamus Heaney
Unknown:
Tom Paulin
Unknown:
Patrick McCabe
Unknown:
Glenn Patterson
Producer:
Rob Kettendge

With Jill Anderson.
Haydn Symphony No 8 in G (Le Soir)
12.25 Sweelinck Psalm 42
12.40 Tartini Trumpet Concerto in D
12.50 Bach Air (Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068)
1.00 Joseph Kainz Keyboard Concerto in C
Dittersdorf Keyboard Concerto in A
Mozart Piano Concerto No 6 in B flat, K238
1.50 JC Bach Quintet in F, Op 11 No 3
2.00 Pergolesi Violin Sonata in G
2.10 Stravinsky Suite, Pulcinella
2.30 Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E
3.40 Brahms Prelude and Fugue in G minor
4.00 Boccherini Harpsichord Concerto in E flat
4.15 Purcell King Arthur (excerpts)
4.35 Goldmark Overture: in Italy
4.50 Rudolf Matz Ballade
5.00 Schreker Symphonie interlude (Der Schatzgraber)
5.15 Byrd Praeludium; Pavan and Galliard; Praeludium
5.40 Vaughan Williams Variations for brass band
5.50 John Tavener The Greek Funeral Sentences (Funeral Ikos)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jill Anderson

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