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With Edward Seckerson.
Salnt-Saens Morceau de Concert, Op 94
6.20 Faure Piano Quintet No 1 in D minor, Op 89
7.00 Glazunov Autumn (The Seasons)
7.30 Schubert Wandererfantasie , 0760
8.00 Cowell Hymn and Fuguing Tune No
108.40 Puccini Te Deum (Tosca)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Seckerson.
Unknown:
Schubert Wandererfantasie

Sullivan Overture di Ballo BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
9.15 Chamlnade Autumn
Moura Lympany (piano)
9.20 Handel Va Tacito e Nascosto (Julius Caesar ) Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Academy of Ancient Music. Berlin
9.30 Mendelssohn Jauchzet Dem Herrn
Alle Welt, Op 69 No 2 RIAS Chamber Choir, conductor Marcus Creed
9.35 Vivaldi Violin Concerto In A, RV335
(Cuckoo) Andrew Manze. Academy of Ancient Music,director Christopher Hogwood
9.50 Balakirev Russia Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov
10.10 Bach Cantata No 89: Was Soil Ich aus DirMachen, Ephraim Arleen Auger
(soprano), Philippe Huttenlocher (baritone), GachingerKantorei, Bach Collegium Stuttgart, conductor Helmuth Rilling
10.20 Anon Dances from the Arundel Part
Book Parley of Instruments Renaissance Violin Consort
10.30 Britten Hymn to St Cecilia
Finzi Singers, conductor Paul Spicer
10.40 Verdi, arr Mackerras Suite: The Lady and the Fool London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras Producer Susan Kenyon
THE NEW CHINA

Contributors

Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Piano:
Moura Lympany
Piano:
Handel Va Tacito
Unknown:
Julius Caesar
Unknown:
Andreas Scholl
Conductor:
Marcus Creed
Unknown:
Andrew Manze.
Director:
Christopher Hogwood
Conductor:
Yevgeni Svetlanov
Soprano:
Ephraim Arleen Auger
Soprano:
Philippe Huttenlocher
Conductor:
Helmuth Rilling
Conductor:
Paul Spicer
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Producer:
Susan Kenyon

Live from the Grand Theatre, Shanghai,
Sandy Burnett presents a concert given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on its first tourto the People's Republic of China. The concert forms part of this year's Shanghai International Festival of Performing Arts-China's recently founded celebration of worldwide culture.
Paul Watkins (cello), Giles Havergal (narrator), BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Alexander Titov Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor
12.05 Interval: Music Shanghaied
Christopher Cook explores musical life in the city that aspires to be China's cultural capital.
12.20 Copland A Lincoln Portrait
Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor See also Friday 7.30pm Music: page 60

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandy Burnett
Cello:
Paul Watkins
Cello:
Giles Havergal
Conductor:
Alexander Titov
Unknown:
Christopher Cook

Copland Conducts Copland.
Geoffrey Smith examines performances from the BBC archives in which Aaron Copland conducts his own compositions, including: Four Dance Episodes (Rodeo) With the London Symphony Orchestra (1968)
Clarinet Concerto With Gervase de Peyer and the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (1976)
Aaron Copland is featured in the new series of BBC Legends CDs available in shops now.

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Aaron Copland
Unknown:
Gervase de Peyer
Unknown:
Aaron Copland

Bach the Virtuoso. The sheer difficulty of playing Bach's organ music is still daunting for the most technically proficient organist today. Simon Preston looks at some of the most challenging music in the repertoire.

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Preston

Ajourney through the literatures of Europe. 6: Portugal. Julian Evans talks to
Portuguese writers, including the Nobel prize winner Jose Saramago , about the effect on Portuguese literature of the physical and emotional situation of having your back to Spain and yourface to the sea.

Contributors

Talks:
Julian Evans
Unknown:
Jose Saramago

By Bryony Lavery.
A moving portrayal of the last day of the young French composer Lili Boulanger. Cared for by a loving mother and sister - the famous conductor and teacher Nadia
Boulanger - Lili is suffused by memories of her music already created and that which will never be born.

Contributors

Writer:
Bryony Lavery
Director:
Janet Whitaker
Lili Boulanger:
Imogen Stubbs
Raisa, her mother:
Claire Bloom
Ernest, her father:
Richard Johnson
Nadia Boulanger:
Deborah Findlay

Lynne Dawson (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo), Bonaventura Bottone (tenor), Jason Howard (baritone), City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, BBC
Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier Lili Boulanger Psalm 24; Cantata: Faust et Helene; D'un Soir Triste; D'un Matin du Printemps; Psalm 130: Du Fond a l'Abime

Contributors

Soprano:
Lynne Dawson
Soprano:
Ann Murray
Tenor:
Bonaventura Bottone
Baritone:
Jason Howard
Conductor:
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Conductor:
Ull Boulanger

Vigilia, composed in 1971, is Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara 's complete setting of the Orthodox liturgy of matins and vespers. Paul Guinery introduces a performance specially recorded by the BBC Singers. Margaret Feaviour (soprano),
Lynette Alcantara (mezzo), Kim Porter (alto), Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor), Simon Birchall (bass), BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Layton
Rautavaara Vigilia, Op 57

Contributors

Unknown:
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Introduces:
Paul Guinery
Soprano:
Margaret Feaviour
Soprano:
Lynette Alcantara
Unknown:
Kim Porter
Tenor:
Andrew Murgatroyd
Tenor:
Simon Birchall
Conductor:
Stephen Layton
Conductor:
Rautavaara Vigilia

With Susan Sharpe.

Stanford: Three Latin Motets, Op 38; The Haven, Op 127 No 4; Eternal Father, Op 135 No 2

William H Harris: Anthem: Faire is the Heaven; Motet: Bring Us, O Lord God

Stanford: Magnificat in B flat, Op 164

1.40 Gaspard: Fritz Violin Sonata, Op 2 No 4

2.00 Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony

3.05 MacDowell: Piano Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 50

3.35 Beethoven: 15 Variations and a Fugue on a Theme from "Prometheus" in E flat, Op 35 (Eroica)

4.00 Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel

4.25 Biber: Scordatura Sonata

4.40 Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in A, BWV1055

5.00 Corelli: Trio Sonata in D minor, Op 1 Noll

5.10 Niels: Gade At Sunset, Op 46

5.20 Berners: Suite: The Triumph of Neptune

5.45 Sliri Slimer: Bells

5.55 Stanford: The Blue Bird, Op119 No3

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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