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With Penny Gore.
Trad Japanese, arr Michae) Thomas Nanatsu-r )o-t<o
Brodsky Quartet
6.35 Schumann Fascntngsswanhaus tV/en,Op26
Sv!atos!av Richter (piano)
7.00 Dvorak Song to tne Moon (7?usa/t<a.) Lucia Popp (soprano), Munich Radio Orchestra, conductor Stefan Soitesz
7.45 Zavateri Concerto /n G (Tempesta d/ Mare) Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, director GottfriedvonderGoitz(vio!in) S.lOTurtna C/rcuto, Op 91 Beaux Arts Trio
8.35 Strauss Horn Concerto No 2 f'n F /?at
Dennis Brain (horn),
Phiiharmonia Orchestra. conductor Wolfgang Sawahisch

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Nanatsu-R
Unknown:
Schumann Fascntngsswanhaus
Soprano:
Lucia Popp
Conductor:
Stefan Soitesz
Conductor:
Wolfgang Sawahisch

4: T7me tne Tyrant
Donald Macleod and Stephen Banfieid exptore Finzi's artistic philosophy and how it was affected by the diagnosis of a terminal illness.
Only the Wanderer (Op 13) Ian Partridge (tenor).
Clifford Benson (piano)
To a Poet a Thousand tears Hence (Op 13a) Stephen Roberts (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano) Cello Concerto
Raphael Wallfisch (cello),
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handiey
Amabel; He <4o/ures Love ('Op 16) Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano) (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tyrant Dona
Unknown:
Stephen Banfieid
Piano:
Ctifford Benson
Baritone:
Stephen Roberts
Piano:
Clifford Benson
Unknown:
Raphael Wallfisch
Conductor:
Vernon Handiey
Baritone:
Stephen Varcoe
Piano:
Clifford Benson

With Jonathan Swain.

Mahler Ruckert-Lieder - Christa Ludwig (contralto), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Herbert von Karajan

10.26 Debussy Cello Sonata - Mstisiav Rostropovich (cello), Benjamin Britten (piano)

10.39 Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat - Maurice Andre, Munich Chamber Orchestra, conductor Hans Stadlmair

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

Cheltenham Festival
From the Pittville Pump Room, Chris de Souza introduces a recital by the pianist Artur Pizarro.
Ravel Gaspardde /a <Vu/t Dut)))eux Piano Sonata

11.50 Twenty Minutes: Harmony and invention
Another story from the lumber room of musical history. With Biba Lilie-West, plus Rachel Godsill (soprano). David Gordon (harpsichord), Olver Webber and Mieko Kanno (violins), Katherine McGillivray (viola), Joanna Levine (cello), Tom Winthorpe (ophicieide). 4: Blowing in a Vacuum

12.10 Schubert Piano Sonata in 6 flat, D960
(See also 7.30pm)

Contributors

Introduces:
Chris De Souza
Soprano:
Rachel Godsii
Soprano:
David Gordon
Violins:
Mieko Kanno
Violins:
Katherine McGiiiivray
Unknown:
Joanna Levine
Unknown:
Tom Winthorpe

A recital given last summer in Machyniteth at Y Tabernacl, the Museum of Modern Art for North Wales, introduced by Susan Sharpe.
Thomas Allen (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

Ireland There Were Dreams to Sell; Sea Fever

Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel (complete)

Traditional Four Four Songs: Show Me the Way to Warrington; My Bonnie Lad; On, Waly, Waly Come You Not from Newcastle

(R)

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe
Baritone:
Thomas Allen
Pianist:
Julius Drake

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Bax Tintagel
Conductor Rumon Gamba
Pricker Symphony No 1
Conductor Martyn Brabbins
Rawsthorne Piano Concerto No 2
Philip Fowke, conductor Martyn Brabbins
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 6
Conductor Osmo Vanska

Contributors

Conductor:
Rumon Gamba
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins

Lucie Skeaping and singer James Bowman look back over 70 years of recordings of performances of Bach's vocal music and reflect on how things have changed. The programme includes choruses and arias from the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor, conducted by Willem Mengelberg, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Nikolas Harnoncourt, and cantatas directed by Joshua Rifkin and Maasaki Suzuki.

Contributors

Presenter:
Lucie Skeaping
Guest:
James Bowman

Members of Musica Antiqua of London join Sean Rafferty to play live in the studio before heading north for this year's York Early Music Festival. Plus arts news and a took at the latest classical CDs.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty
Musicians:
Musica Antiqua

A concert recorded last Sunday in Cheltenham Town Hall, introduced by Chris de Souza.

Gordon Nikoiitch (violin)
Barbara Bonney (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Andre Previn

Walton
Violin Concerto in 6 minor
Mahler
Symphony No 4
See also tomorrow, 11am

Contributors

Introduced by:
Chris Desouza
Violin:
Gordon Nikoiitch
Soprano:
Barbara Bonney
Orchestra conductor:
Andre Previn

Patrick Wright talks to author Eoin McNamee, whose new book The Blue Tango blends fact and fiction to re-imagine a crime committed half a century ago and the extraordinary events that unfolded in its wake.The brutal murder in 1952 of Patricia Curren , daughter of a high court judge, shocked the Northern Irish community of White Abbey, in December 2000 the case made headlines again when lain Hay Gordon was finally acquitted of the murder 48 years after being convicted.

Contributors

Talks:
Patrick Wright
Unknown:
Eoin McNamee
Unknown:
Patricia Curren
Unknown:
Hay Gordon

Tonight's late-night listening includes Malian songs from Salif Keita and Rokia Traore and part of Steve Reich's 1996 re-recording of his 1976 masterpiece Music for 18 musicians. With Verity Sharp.

Contributors

Unknown:
Saiif Keita
Unknown:
Rokia Traore
Unknown:
Steve Reich
Presenter:
Verity Sharp

With Jonathan Swain.

Karlowicz: Four Songs

12.15 Sibelius: Rakastava, Op 14

12.30 Arriaga Symphony in D

1.00 A concert of Croatian orchestral music.
Ivan Zajc: Symphonic Picture in C minor, Op 394
Frano Parac: Sarabande
Dora Pejacevic: Symphony No.1 in F sharp minor

2.25 A complete performance of Purcell's semi-opera in five acts The Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian.

4.00 Hornemann: Overture: Aladdin

4.10 Schubert: 16 Landler, D366

4.25 Corelli: Concerto Grosso in F, Op.6 No.9

4.35 Dohnanyi: Symphonic Minutes

4.50 Palestrina: Stabat Mater

5.05 Mozart: Symphony No.26 in E flat, K184

5.20 Joseph Lauber: Trois Morceaux Caracteristiques, Op 47

5.30 Faure: Suite: Dolly

5.45 Mozetich: Postcards from the Sky

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

BBC Radio 3

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