With Tommy Pearson.
Schubert Impromptu in G flat, D899 No 3 Alfred Brendel (piano)
6.10 Borodin String Quartet No 2 in D Borodin Quartet
7.00Tartinl, arr Kreisler Variations on a Theme byCorelli Itzhak Perlman (violin), Samuel Sanders (piano)
7.45 Vivaldi Concerto in A a due cori, RV585 Amsterdam Loeki Stardust
Quartet, Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
8.00 Komgold, after Mendelssohn
Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conductor Gerd Albrecht
8.45 Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No 1 in Monte Carlo Philharmonic, conductor Lawrence Foster
With Donald Macleod.
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Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin )
Galina Gorchakova (soprano), Kirov Orchestra , conductor Valery Gergiev Scherzo; Mélodie (Souvenird'un Lieu Cher) Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Marina Gusak-Grin (piano)
Symphony No 4 in F minor (1st mvt)
Leningrad PO, conductor Yevgeni Mravinsky Violin Concerto in D (3rd mvt)
Maxim Vengerov , Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado (R)
Theatre and opera director David Leveaux talks about his latest projects.
With Jonathan Swain.
Kabalevsky The Comedians, Op 26
RCA Victor SO , conductor Kirill Kondrashin
10.22 Purcell My Heart Is Inditing
Choirof Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, English Concert, directors Simon Preston and Trevor Pinnock
10.38 Weber Piano Sonata No 1 in C
Claudio Arrau (piano)
10.59 Purcell 0 Sing unto the Lord
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, English Concert, directors Simon Preston and Trevor Pinnock
11.12 Ravel Bolero
Berlin PO, conductor Pierre Boulez
Oxford Chamber Music Festival
PetrocTrelawny introduces performances from this year's festival.
Beethoven Piano Trio in D, Op 70 No 1 (Ghost) Paul Lewis (piano), Katharine Gowers (violin), Adrian Brendel (cello) Sibelius Malinconia , Op 20
Jan-Erik Gustafson (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano) Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20 Priya
Mitchell, Isabelle Faust , Katharine Gowers and Heime Muller (violins),
Lawrence Power and Andreij Vijtovitch (violas), Jan-Erik Gustafson and Natalie Clein (cellos)
Susan Sharpe introduces another concert in the weekly early music series given at the Wigmore Hall in London. In a recital given earlierthis month, French group Ensemble Clement Janequin perform songs from Renaissance France, including pieces by Janequin, Loyset Compère, Claudin de Sermizy and others.
Ulster Orchestra
Berwald Overture: The Queen of Golconda Conductor Justin Brown
Berwald Symphony No linG minor (Sinfonie Serieuse) Conductor Jacek Kaspszyk Mozart Ballet music from "Idomeneo
Conductor Howard Shelley
Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor Paul Watkins , conductor Nicholas Braithwaite Beethoven Symphony No 2 in D Conductor Nicholas Braithwaite
From Westminster Abbey. Introit: Quern Vidistis Pastores (Poulenc). Responses (Rose). Psalm 97 (Dupuis). First Lesson: Isaiah 6, wl-8. Canticles: Wood in F. Second Lesson: 1 John 5, wl-12.
Anthem: Hodie Christus Natus Est (Schutz). Hymn: Word Supreme, before Creation (St Audrey). Organ Voluntary: Le Verbe (La
Nativite du Seigneur) (Messiaen). Organist and master of the choristers
James O'Donnell. Sub-organist Andrew Reid.
Oscar Peterson. Julian Joseph introduces recordings made by the Canadian piano virtuoso Oscar Peterson , including excerpts from a concert he gave at London's Barbican Centre in 1984. Peterson was joined by Danish bassist
Niels-HenningOrsted Pedersen and British drummer Martin Drew. (R)
A sequence of music for Christmas, with readings, carols and devotional music from across six centuries.
A series of programmes in which
Joan Bakewell talks to celebrities about what they believe and why, exploring the influences that have shaped them, what ideas they have about life's big questions and how what they believe affects both their personal and professional lives. 3: Anita Roddick , Business Woman
Only the text of the St Mark Passion survives from the first performance on Good Friday 1731. Ton Koopman has followed the musical clues it suggests and Bach's own ways of working to prepare a new performing edition.
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Peter Kooy (baritone), Johannette Zomer (soprano), Bernhard Landauer (alto), Jorg Durmuller (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass), Salisbury Cathedral Choir, Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra, conductor Ton Koopman
Bach, reconstr Koopman St Mark Passion
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An experiment in biography by Francoise Sagan. Adapted for radio by Pamela Grace.
The writer continues her conversation with the spirit of the dead actress.
Lesley Garrett (soprano), conductor Shuntaro Sato
Yoshimatsu Threnody for Toki
Canteloube Chants d'Auvergne (excerpts) Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral)
Martin Baker plays Louis Vierne's mighty Symphony No 3 in F sharp minor on the organ of Westminster Abbey.
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With Jonathan Swain.
Maurice Dela Violin Sonatine
12.15 Granados The Maiden and the Nightingale
12.25 Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain
12.50 Brahms Gestille Sehnsucht, Op 91 No 1
1.00 Schnittke, arr Shafran Suite in the Olden Style
Shostakovich Cello Sonata, Op 40 Franck Sonata in A
2.05 Poulenc Sinfonietta
2.35Ã Berio Folk Songs
3.00 Busoni Indianisches Tagebuch: Book 1
3.10 Bach Suite No 6 in D, BWV1012
3.40 JC Bach Quintet in G, Op 11 No 2
3.50 Marais Chaconne; Rondo
4.05 Naumann Harpsichord Concerto in B flat
4.20 Mozart Exsultate, Jubilate, K165
4.35 Liszt Reminiscences on Mozart's "Don Giovanni"
4.50 Glinka Kamarinskaya
5.00 Debussy Minuet (Petite Suite)
Larsson Pastoral Suite, Op 19
5.20 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in D flat
5.35 Danzi Wind Quintet in G minor, Op 56 No 2
5.50 CPE Bach Heilig, Heilig, Wq217
