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With Penny Gore.
Clementi Piano Sonata in Fsharp minor, Op 25 No 5 Nikolai Demidenko
6.25 Mysllvecek Octet No 1 in E flat Sabine MeyerWind Ensemble
7.10 Dohnanyl Symphonic Minutes, Op 36 BBCPO, conductor Matthias Bamert
7.40 Haydn Piano Trio in G, HXV25 Patrick Cohen , Erich Hobarth (violin), Christophe Coin (cello)
8.15 Francalx String Trio (1933) Marwood Ensemble
8.40 Janacek Suite: The Cunning Little Vixen Prague SO, conductor Jiri Belohlavek

Contributors

Unknown:
Nikolai Demidenko
Conductor:
Matthias Bamert
Unknown:
Patrick Cohen
Violin:
Erich Hobarth
Cello:
Christophe Coin
Conductor:
Jiri Belohlavek

With Donald Macleod.
0 Vos Omnes
BBC Singers, conductor Bo Holten
Ahi, Disperata Vita ; Sospirava il Mio Core; 0 Malnati Messaggi : Non T'Amo, 0 Voce Ingrata (Madrigals, Book 3) Les Arts Florrisants, director William Christie Canzon Francese del Principe Sophie Yates (harpsichord)
Luzzasco Luzzaschl 0 Dolcezz' Amarissime d'Amore Emma Kirkby , Evelyn Tubb and Tessa Bonner (sopranos), the Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
0 Dolorosa Gioia; Itene, 0 Miei Sospiri;
Gioite Voi col Canto; Se Vi Duol il Mio Duolo (Madrigals, Book 5) The Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
0 Crus Benedicta; Laboravi in Gemitu Meo Oxford Camerata, director Jeremy Summerty Luci Serene e Chiare; Arde il Mio Cor
(Madrigals, Book 4) Les Arts Florissants, conductor William Christie

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Conductor:
Bo Holten
Unknown:
Disperata Vita
Unknown:
Malnati Messaggi
Director:
William Christie
Harpsichord:
Sophie Yates
Unknown:
Emma Kirkby
Unknown:
Evelyn Tubb
Sopranos:
Tessa Bonner
Director:
Anthony Rooley
Unknown:
Vi Duol
Unknown:
Mio Duolo
Director:
Anthony Rooley
Director:
Jeremy Summerty
Director:
Luci Serene
Conductor:
William Christie

With Jonathan Swain.
Sibelius Cassazione , Op 6
Gothenburg SO, conductor Neeme Jarvi
10.19 Beethoven Violin Sonata in C minor, Op 30 No 2 HenrykSzeryng, Ingrid Haebler (piano)
10.47 Wagner War Es So Schmahlich ... Loge, Hor! Lausche Hieher ! (Die Walkure, Act 3 Scene 3) Birgitt Nilsson (soprano), George London (bass-baritone), LSO, conductor Erich Leinsdorf

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Sibelius Cassazione
Piano:
Ingrid Haebler
Unknown:
Lausche Hieher
Soprano:
Birgitt Nilsson
Bass-Baritone:
George London
Conductor:
Erich Leinsdorf

2: Heaven and Hell
Humphrey Carpenter looks at Shaw's writings on settings of Goethe's Faust, and Ethel Smyth 's Mass.
Schumann Scenes from Faust (Part 2) (excerpt)
ECO, conductor Benjamin Britten Smyth Mass (excerpt)
BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Meredith Davies Mozart Don Giovanni (Act 2) (excerpt)
Vienna PO, conductor Valery Gergiev

Contributors

Unknown:
Ethel Smyth
Conductor:
Benjamin Britten
Conductor:
Meredith Davies
Conductor:
Mozart Don Giovanni
Conductor:
Valery Gergiev
Mephistopheles:
Peter Pears (tenor)
Faust:
Dietrich Rscher-Dleskau (baritone)
Don Giovanni:
Ferruclo Furtanetto (bass)
Leporello:
René Pape (bass)

BBC Philharmonic
Mozart Overture: The Impresario Conductor Vassily Sinaisky
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Christian Blackshaw , conductor Martyn Brabbins
Strauss Four Last Songs Susan Chilcott (soprano), conductor VassilySinaisky Schubert Symphony No 3 in D Conductor Vassily Sinaisky

Contributors

Conductor:
Vassily Sinaisky
Conductor:
Christian Blackshaw
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins
Soprano:
Susan Chilcott
Conductor:
Vassily Sinaisky

Blue Peter's Simon Thomas and Matt Baker present a music series for younger listeners. A mixture of music for Halloween, including Chet Baker 's Witchdoctor, James Homer 's Casper, the Friendly Ghost and Paul Dukas 's The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Thomas
Unknown:
Matt Baker
Unknown:
Chet Baker
Unknown:
James Homer
Unknown:
Paul Dukas

lain Burnside introduces a performance of Schumann's song-cycle Myrthen given by Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling and German baritone Christian Gerhaherwith pianist Julius Drake.

Contributors

Soprano:
Camilla Tilling
Baritone:
Christian Gerhaherwith
Pianist:
Julius Drake.

With Humphrey Carpenter. Music includes at 5.45 Dvorak's The Noon Witch, Op 108, played by the Czech Philharmonic under Jiri Belohlavek; at 6.05 John Williams's Devil's Dance from "The Witches of Eastwick" performed by Gil Shaham
(violin) and Jonathan Feldman (piano); and at 6.35 Musorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain (orch Rimsky-Korsakov) played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado.

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter.
Unknown:
Jiri Belohlavek
Unknown:
John Williams
Violin:
Gil Shaham
Violin:
Jonathan Feldman
Conducted By:
Claudio Abbado.

From the Barbican Hall, a concert of contrasts. Two dark works by Janacek: The Fiddler's Childtells of an old fiddler who dies onlyto return as a Pied Piperfigure , who steals away his own child; and the suite from his extrordinary opera set in a Siberian prison camp. And Liszt appears in three guises: in the fiendish waltz for solo piano, in a sparkling piano concerto and in an orchestration by John Adams.
Alfredo Perl (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jiri Belohlavek Janacek The Fiddler's Child
Liszt Piano Concerto No 1 in Eflat; Mephisto Waltz No 1
8.20 Twenty Minutes: Dances of Death David Huckvale looks at dances of death from the medieval era to the present.
8.40 Liszt, arr Adams The Black Gondola
Janacek, arr Jilek Suite: From the House of the Dead

Contributors

Unknown:
Pied Piperfigure
Unknown:
John Adams.
Piano:
Alfredo Perl
Conductor:
Jiri Belohlavek
Unknown:
David Huckvale

Richard Coles and guests debate the character of Hans Christian Andersen in the light of a controversial new biography by Jackie Wullschlager. And American poet Mark Doty on his own turbulent childhood explored through his memoir Firebird.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Coles
Unknown:
Hans Christian Andersen
Unknown:
Jackie Wullschlager.
Unknown:
Mark Doty

With Jonathan Swain.

Clementi, arr Casella Rondo (Trio in D)

12.10 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor

12.40 Brahms Meerfahrt, Op 96 No 4; Der Tod, Das Ist die Kuhle Nacht, Op 96 No 1

Liszt Vergiftet Sind Meiner Lieder; Du Bist Wie eine Blumen

1.00 Gluck Divertimento in G

Mozart, arr Rosinack Oboe Quintet in D minor, K421 141 7b

Dussek Serenade in E flat (For Mozart)

Mozart Octet in E flat (based on the Quintet in B flat, K452)

2.20 Schumann Piano Sonata No 1 in F sharp minor, Op 11

2.50 Dvorak Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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