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With Tommy Pearson.

Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 33 No 5

6.45 Prokofiev Five Melodies, Op 35a

7.05 Quantz Concerto in G for two flutes

7.45 Szymanowski Concert Overture

8.05 Patterson Westerly Winds

8.45 Bizet Suite: The Fair Maid of Perth

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson

In Rome at the turn of the 18th century, among the Papal nepotism, extravagance and piratical publishers, Corelli's new, expressive music for strings emerged to coincide with the achievements of the instrument maker Antonio Stradivari.
Sonata in D for trumpet, two violins and continuo Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), I Musici
Trio Sonata in A, Op 3 No 12 Ensemble Aurora
Violin Sonata in F, Op 5 No 4 Trio Sonnerie Concerto Grosso in D, Op 6 No 1 Ensemble 415
Trio Sonata in B flat, Op 4 No 9 Purcell Quartet

Contributors

Unknown:
Antonio Stradivari.
Unknown:
Hakan Hardenberger

With Jonathan Swain.
Haydn Symphony No 47 in G Tafelmusik, conductor Bruno Weil
10.27 Prokofiev Cello Sonata, Op 119 Mstislav Rostropovich ,
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
10.50 Bach Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV544 Simon Preston (organ)
11.04 Hoist The Hymn of Jesus, Op 37 BBC Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Conductor:
Bruno Weil
Unknown:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Piano:
Sviatoslav Richter
Unknown:
Simon Preston
Conductor:
Adrian Boult

Today's programme features a great master, Janos Starker, and one of the festival's featured young artists, Matt Haimovitz. Introduced by Petroc Trelawny.

Schumann Five Pieces in Folk Style
Matt Haimowitz (cello), Gretel Dowdeswell (piano)
Barber Cello Sonata, Op 6
Laurence Lesser, Gilbert Kalish (piano)
Christoph Neidhofer Sol (o) (festival commission, first performance)
Thomas Demenga (cello)
Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19
Frans Helmerson, Ian Brown (piano)
Dohnanyi Konzertstuck in D, Op 12
Janos Starker (cello), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Janos Furst

Contributors

Presenter:
Petroc Trelawny
Cellist:
Matt Haimowitz
Pianist:
Gretel Dowdeswell
Cellist:
Laurence Lesser
Pianist:
Gilbert Kalish
Cellist:
Thomas Demenga
Cellist:
Frans Helmerson
Pianist:
Ian Brown
Cellist:
Janos Starker
Musicians:
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor:
Janos Furst

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Sibelius Symphony No 3 Conductor Osmo Vanska
Litolff Concerto Symphonique No 5 Peter Donohoe (piano), conductor Andrew Litton Sibelius Symphony No 6 Conductor Osmo Vanska

Contributors

Piano:
Peter Donohoe
Conductor:
Andrew Litton

Blue Peter's Simon Thomas and Matt Baker with music to listen to after school, including tracks from Madagascar, some music that creates a picture of dancing snow and a couple of tracks about windmills. Send in your pictures inspired by music to go on ourwebsite at www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/makingtracks.

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Thomas
Unknown:
Matt Baker

Live from the chapel of New College,
Oxford. Responses (Ebdon). Psalm 103
(R Cooke). First Lesson: Daniel 9, w3-10. Magnificat (Henri Dumont ). Second
Lesson: 2 Corinthians 3, w4-18. Nunc Dimittis(EtienneMoulinie). Anthem: 0
Sing unto the Lord (Purcell). Hymn: Light's Abode, Celestial Salem (Westminster Abbey). Voluntary: Organ Concerto in B flat, Op 2 No 6 (John Stanley ). Director of music Edward Higginbottom. Assistant organist Matthew Martin. Organ scholar Ryan Wigglesworth.

Contributors

Unknown:
Henri Dumont
Unknown:
John Stanley
Music:
Edward Higginbottom.
Organist:
Matthew Martin.
Unknown:
Ryan Wigglesworth.

Sean Rafferty introduces arts news and music, including a contribution from the group Badinage, and an arts news front will be listening for the announcement of the children's laureate. Music in the programme includes at 7.00 a work by another of this year's Masterprize semi-finalists, Finnur Torfi Stefansson's De Amore, played by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra conducted by Janos Kovacs.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

Live from the chapel of Merton College, Oxford, another concert exploring the ways in which composers of our own day have made creative use of the music of earlier times. Presented by Paul Guinery.

Endymion Ensemble, Bingham String Quartet. BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury
John Taverner Dum Transisset Sabbatum
Gabriel Jackson Cecilia Virgo
Sandstrom Hear My Prayer, O Lord
Britten String Quartet No 2

8.20 Twenty Minutes: Remaking the Past
From mock Tudor houses to Palladian supermarkets, architecture has been guilty of some of the dreariest recycling of styles. Jonathan Glancey examines the good, the bad and the ugly faces of the past as they appear in contemporary architecture.

8.40 Anthony Gilbert String Quartet No 3
Perotin Viderunt Omnes
Weir All the Ends of the Earth
David Sawer Songs of Love and War

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Guinery
Musicians:
Endymion Ensemble
Musicians:
Bingham String Quartet
Singers:
BBC Singers
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury

Miles Davis revisited by Bill Laswell and Cassandra Wilson , Persian classical music from Hossein 'Omoumi (ney) and Madjid Khaladj (tombak) and a new recording of Graham Fitkin 's HardFairy performed by Simon Haram (saxophone) with Graham Fitkin and Ruth Wall (pianos). Presented by Verity Sharp.

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Laswell
Unknown:
Cassandra Wilson
Unknown:
Madjid Khaladj
Unknown:
Graham Fitkin
Unknown:
Simon Haram
Unknown:
Graham Fitkin
Pianos:
Ruth Wall
Presented By:
Verity Sharp.

With Susan Sharpe.

Berlioz Harold in Italy

12.50 Palestrina Motet: Ascendo ad Patrem

12.55 Paiestrina Peccantem Me Quotidie

1.00 Paganini 24 Caprices, Op 1

2.10 Beethoven Wellingtons Sieg , Op 91

2.30 Dohnanyi Suite in F sharp minor, Op 19

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

Arabesque in C, Op 18
4.35 Josip Stolzer Four Folk Tunes
4.50 Godfrey Ridout Fall Fair
5.00 Johan Svendsen Carnival in Paris
5.10 Lassus Bonjour et Puis Quelles Nouvelles?
5.15Telemann Concerto in A minor for recorder and viola dagamba 5.30 Edward MacDowell Hexentanz, Op 17 No 2
5.40 Wagner, arr Mottl Wesendonk Lieder

Contributors

Unknown:
Josip Stolzer
Unknown:
Godfrey Ridout
Unknown:
Puis Quelles

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