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With Edward Seckerson.
Grieg Holberg Suite London Festival Orchestra, conductor Ross Popie
6.35 Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and bassoon Ronald Van Spaendonck
(clarinet), Laurent Lefevre (bassoon)
7.00 Monteverdi G<ona a 7 Les Arts Fiorissants, director William Christie
7.15 G Gabrieli Sonata No :tS a :t4 Gabrieli Consort and Players, conductor Paul McCreesh
7.30 Brahms Ho/a Sonata in Fr;at, Op .120 No2 Pinchas Zuckerman, Daniel Barenboim (piano)
8.10 Tchaikovsky, reconstr Bogatyryev Symphony No 7 in E flat (1st mvt) Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
8.35 Bruckner /Mag/o f'Outntef <n f) Alberni Quartet

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Seckerson.
Conductor:
Ross Popie
Clarinet:
Van Spaendonck
Clarinet:
Laurent Lefevre
Director:
William Christie
Conductor:
Paut McCreesh
Conductor:
Eugene Ormandy

Today's programme is broadcast live from the School Hall, Eton College. Windsor, as part of this year's Windsor Festival. With music performed by the King's Consort directed by Robert King, the Rodoifus Choir directed by Ralph Allwood, pianists Simon Crawford-Phillips and Philip Moore , and an Eton oboe quartet. Plus music on disc. Producer Fiona Shelmerdine

Contributors

Directed By:
Robert King
Directed By:
Ralph Aiiwood
Pianists:
Simon Crawford-Phiiiips
Pianists:
Philip Moore

ivan Hewett previews an Argentinian fiesta and asks if cultural tourism is a whoiiy healthy phenomenon. Pius a discussion of John Drummond 's analysis of what's wrong with musical Britain, as set out in his memoirs. Producer P!ersBurton.Page

Contributors

Unknown:
John Drummond

World of Brass at Symphony Hall
Petroc Trelawny presents the first of three programmes from last week's festival of brass in Birmingham, featuring leading bands from Britain, Europe, USA and New Zealand. Today's highlights include the winning performance of Michael Ball's "Ceremony", the set work in this year's Open Brass Band Championship. Recent
American brass music is performed by the Columbus Band from Ohio, USA, and there are items from the Gala Concert celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, played by the Grimethorpe Colliery and Yorkshire Building Society Bands conducted by Elgar Howarth. The Williams Fairey Band under its musical director James Gourlay performs a tribute to Malcolm Arnold as he approaches 80 - his Peterloo Overture - and BBC Young Musician finalist David Childs is the soloist in the Euphonium Concerto by Joseph Horowitz.

Contributors

Presenter:
Petroc Trelawny
Musicians:
Columbus Band
Musicians:
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Musicians:
Yorkshire Building Society Band
Conductor:
Elgar Howarth
Musicians:
Williams Fairey Band
Musical Director:
James Gourlay
Euphonium Player:
David Childs

Janet Baker. Simon Heighes focuses on Janet Baker's career in the late sixties and early seventies, including performances from the Aldeburgh Festival.
Handel Cantata; Lucrezia With Raymond Leppard (harpsichord) and Bernard Richards (cello)
Schumann Frauen /<ebeund-leben, Op 42 With Geoffrey Parsons (piano) (21st Aldeburgh Festival)
Haydn Cantata; Arianna auf Naxos With John Constable (piano) (23rd Aldeburgh Festival) Janet Baker is featured in the BBC Legends series. CDs are available now from music outlets.

Contributors

Unknown:
Janet Baker.
Unknown:
Simon Heighes
Unknown:
Janet Baker
Harpsichord:
Raymond Leppard
Harpsichord:
Bernard Richards
Unknown:
Schumann Frauen
Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons
Unknown:
Janet Baker

Bach and his Patrons. Bach never enjoyed that patronage as described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists, which allowed the artist time to spend or waste as he chose - but he was commissioned to compose a considerable number of works. Ivan
Hewett chooses from the music Bach wrote for individuals - kings, noblemen and commoners alike - and for institutions, including excerpts from secular cantatas, the Brandenburg
Concertos, the Goldberg Variations and the Musica< Ofrenng.

A journey through the literatures of Europe. 5:
Denmark Julian Evans continues his search forthe interconnections and national idiosyncrasies that inform today's nove) writers, in the land that produced Soren Kierkegaard and Hans Andersen , is it existential awareness orthe narrative power of the fairy tate that looms largest today?

Contributors

Unknown:
Denmark Julian Evans
Produced:
Soren Kierkegaard
Produced:
Hans Andersen

Shakespeare's early comedy combines a mixture of farce, disguise and mistaken identity with an extraordinary love story, and continues to arouse controversy 400 years later.
Produced and directed by Melanie Harris . Music composed by Patrick Dineen .

Contributors

Author:
William Shakespeare Producer/Director: Melanie Harris
Music composed by:
Patrick Dineen
Petruchio:
Gerard McSorley
Kathenna:
Ruth Mitchell
Bianca:
Jutta Ford
Baptista:
Dave Hill
Gremio:
Russell Dixon
Grumio:
Burn Gorman
Tranio:
James Quinn
Vincentio:
Christopher Collquhoun
Pedant:
Seamus O'Neill
Hortensio:
Deka Walmsley
Widow:
Maggie Tagney
Curtis:
Jeff Hordley

Mendelssohn's Elijah
Paul Guinery introduces a performance of Mendelssohn's popular choral work given last July in Chester Cathedral as the grand finale of the Chester Summer Music Festival. Lisa Milne (soprano), Susan Parry (mezzo), Mark Tucker (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Chester Festival Chorus, BBC Philharmonic, conductor Rumon Gamba
Mendelssohn - Elijah

Contributors

Introducer:
Paul Guinery
Venue:
Chester Cathedral
Soprano:
Lisa Milne
Mezzo:
Susan Parry
Tenor:
Mark Tucker
Bass:
Neal Davies
Conductor:
Rumon Gamba

With Susan Sharpe.
A concert on the theme of "Goethe and Music" given in Beethovenhalle Great Hall, Bonn, in October 1999.
Dorothe Kimmich (contralto), Florian Mock (tenor), Jochen Kupfer (baritone), Bonn Philharmonic Chorus. Beethovenhalle Orchestra, conductor Peter Gulke
Mendelssohn Die Erste Walpurgisnacht, Op 60
Henze Erlkonig Fantasy
Carl Eberwein Proserpina
Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice
2.25 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
2.55 Janacek Capriccio
3.15 Marcel Dupre Organ Concerto in E minor, Op 31
3.40 Part Magnificat
3.45 Giles Swayne Magnificat
3.55 Suppe Overture; Poet and Peasant
4.10 WF Bach Six Flute Duets
4.30 Chopin Mazurka in D, Op 33 No 2
4.50 Sweelinck Mein Junges Leben Hat ein End
5.00 Wassanaer Concerto No 5 in F minor (Sei Concerti Armonici)
5.10 Bach Chorale Preludes; Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV661; Allein Gott in der Hoh Sei Ehr, BWV662
5.25 Mozart String Quartet in D, K155
5.35 Miriam Hyde Village Fair
5.50 Klami Overture, The Cobblers on the Hearth

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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