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With Tommy Pearson.
6.05 Haydn Piano Sonata in G, H XVI 40
6.35 Gounod Little Symphony for Wind Instruments
7.00 Liszt Grand Galop Chromatique
7.20 Delius Violin Sonata No 2 (1923)
8.00 Arnold Fantasy for brass band, Op 114
8.45 Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Pearson.

With Donald Macleod in conversation with musicologist and Schubert biographer Elizabeth Norman McKay.
String Quartet in E, D353 (excerpts) Coull Quartet
Die Mutter Sucht Ihr Leibes Kind; Welche Nacht Hab Ich Erlebt (Die Burgschaft,
D435) EllyAmeling(soprano), members of the Helmond Concert Choir, Rotterdam Philharmonic, conductor Edo de Waart
Ganymede, D544 Bryn Terfel (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, D583 Thomas Hampson (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano) An die Musik, D54 7 Edith Wiens
(soprano), Rudolph Jansen (piano) An die Nachtigall, D497 Lucia Popp (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
Seligkeit, D433 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) Violin Sonata in A, D5 74
Alexander Schneider , Peter Serkin (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Elizabeth Norman McKay.
Piano:
Malcolm Martineau
Baritone:
Thomas Hampson
Baritone:
Graham Johnson
Soprano:
Edith Wiens
Soprano:
Rudolph Jansen
Soprano:
Lucia Popp
Soprano:
Graham Johnson
Baritone:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Baritone:
Gerald Moore
Unknown:
Alexander Schneider
Piano:
Peter Serkin

With Jonathan Swain.
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F, BWV1046 Taverner Players, conductor Andrew Parrott
10.25 Granados The Maiden and the Nightingale (Goyescas) Myra Hess (piano)
10.33 Dvorak The Wild Dove
Czech PO, conductor Jiri Belohlavek
10.53 Handel Coronation Anthem: My
Heart is Inditing Choir of Westminster Abbey, English Concert, conductor Simon Preston
11.07 Beethoven Piano Sonata in E, Op 109 Myra Hess

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Conductor:
Andrew Parrott
Piano:
Myra Hess
Conductor:
Jiri Belohlavek
Conductor:
Simon Preston
Unknown:
Myra Hess

The York and Beverley Early Music Festivals 2000
Lucie Skeaping continues her selection of music from this year's festival, today including biblical narratives from Restoration England.
Bach Harpsichord Concerto in A , BWV1055 Lars-Ulrik Mortensen, Ensemble 415, director Chiara Banchini
Purcell Begin the Song
Stephen Varcoe (bass), David Miller (theorbo), Peter Seymour (organ)
Blow A Dialogue between Dives and Abraham (Help, Father Abraham) Philip Daggett (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass),
David Miller (theorbo), Peter Seymour (organ) Purcell The Duke of Gloucester's Sonata
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), the King's Consort, director Robert King
Purcell Saul and the Witch of Endor (In Guilty Night) Yvonne Seymour (soprano), Philip Daggett (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass), David Miller (theorbo), Peter Seymour (organ)
Bach Partita No 1 in B minor, BWV1002 Rachel Podger (violin)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lucie Skeaping
Unknown:
Lars-Ulrik Mortensen
Director:
Chiara Banchini
Bass:
Stephen Varcoe
Bass:
David Miller
Unknown:
Peter Seymour
Tenor:
Philip Daggett
Tenor:
Stephen Varcoe
Bass:
David Miller
Unknown:
Peter Seymour
Director:
Robert King
Director:
Purcell Saul
Soprano:
Yvonne Seymour
Tenor:
Philip Daggett
Tenor:
Stephen Varcoe
Bass:
David Miller
Unknown:
Peter Seymour
Violin:
Rachel Podger

Brian Kay introduces singer Vivien Ellis and the Dufay Collective i n performances of music from 13th-century Spain. The Galician troubadour, Martin Codax 's seven remarkable poems concerning the emotions of a young woman as she awaits her distant lover's return are framed by instrumental dances based on the melodies of the Cantigas de Santa Maria.

Contributors

Introduces:
Brian Kay
Singer:
Vivien Ellis
Unknown:
Martin Codax

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Haydn Symphony No 1 in D
Conductor Mark Wigglesworth Berg Seven Early Songs Anne Evans (soprano), conductor Mark Wigglesworth
Strauss Don Quixote Steven Isserlis (cello), conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Schubert Symphony No 9 in C (Great) Conductor Mark Wigglesworth

Contributors

Conductor:
Mark Wigglesworth
Soprano:
Anne Evans
Conductor:
Mark Wigglesworth
Conductor:
Tadaaki Otaka
Conductor:
Mark Wigglesworth

Welcome My Lord Sire Christesmas!
Lucie Skeaping introduces a concert given as part of this month's York Early Music
Christmas Festival in St Michael-le-Belfrey Church, York, featuring medieval and folk carols, traditional wassailing songs and merry dance tunes performed by the City Waites. Producer Christina Pritchard

Contributors

Introduces:
Lucie Skeaping
Producer:
Christina Pritchard

From the Barbican Centre, London.
American pianist and composer
Dave Brubeck celebrates his 80th birthday with a concert featuring four of his sons.
Matthew Brubeck (cello), Chris Brubeck (electric bass/bass trombone), Darius Brubeck (piano). Dan Brubeck (drums), Bobby Militello (alto saxophone/flute),
Alec Dankworth (bass), London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Russell Gloyd
Dave Brubeck Summer Music; Three to Get Ready; In Your Own Sweet Way; A
Salute to the Count; Blue Rondo a la Turk
8.20 Twenty Minutes
Dave Brubeck talks jazz piano with Julian Joseph.
8.40 Dave Brubeck Cassandra
Darius Brubeck Four Score in Seven (first performance)
Dave Brubeck Brandenburg Gate Revisited Paul Desmond Take Five

Contributors

Unknown:
Dave Brubeck
Cello:
Matthew Brubeck
Cello:
Chris Brubeck
Piano:
Darius Brubeck
Piano:
Dan Brubeck
Unknown:
Bobby Militello
Bass:
Alec Dankworth
Conductor:
Russell Gloyd
Conductor:
Dave Brubeck
Unknown:
Blue Rondo
Talks:
Dave Brubeck
Unknown:
Julian Joseph.
Unknown:
Dave Brubeck Cassandra
Unknown:
Darius Brubeck
Unknown:
Dave Brubeck Brandenburg
Unknown:
Paul Desmond

Laura Cumming talks to Hunter S
Thompson, whose new collection of letters covers the years of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Great Shark Hunt. Plus a review of Opera North's new production of Donizetti's ElixirofLove.

Contributors

Talks:
Laura Cumming

Fiona Talkington marks the winter solstice with Norwegian Christmas sounds from singer Asne Valland Nordli and saxophone and organ duet Tore Brunbord and Kjetil Bjerkestrand , plus the raucous celebrations of a bloodthirsty Finnish bear hunt.

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington
Singer:
Asne Valland Nordli
Singer:
Kjetil Bjerkestrand

With Jonathan Swain.

Brahms Minnelied; Und Gehst Du uberden Kirchhof, Op 44

Weber Overture: Peter Schmoll und Sein Nachbarn

12.15 Dinu Lipatti Fantasie, Op 8

12.45 Kodaly Adagio for violin and piano

1.00 Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat

Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G

2.25 Wagner Pilgrims Chorus (Tannhauser) (arr for organ)

2.30 Wolf String Quartet in D minor

3.25 Mozart Flute Concerto in D, K314

3.45 J. Strauss (son), arr Schoenberg Emperor Waltz

4.00 Bruhns Cantata: Wohl Dem, Der den Herren Furchtet

4.05 Weiss Prelude, Toccata and Allegro in G

4.15 Cesti Qual Profondo Letargo (Orontea)

4.30 Beethoven 10 Variations on "La Stessa, La Stessissima" from Salieri's "Falstaff", WoO 73

4.40 Rachmaninov, arr unknown Vocalise, Op 34 No 14

4.50 Viktor Vaszy Comedy Overture

5.00 Emil Sjogren Eroticon, Op 10: No 2 in D flat; No 3 in A flat

Wilhelm Stenhammar Fantasia in B minor, Op 11 No 3

5.05 CPE Bach Oboe Sonata in C minor, Wq 78 (1st mvt)

5.15 Albicastro Concerto a 4, Op 7 No 2

5.30 Britten Lachrymae

5.45 Hjalmar Borgstrom Music to "Johan Gabriel Borkman"

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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