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With Tommy Pearson.

Nicolai Overture: The Merry Wwes or Windsor

6.45 Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV1060

7.00 Vivaldi Dopo un'Orrida Procella (Ottone)

7.05 Ginastera Danzas Argentinas

8.00 Kabalevsky Overture: Colas Breugnon

8.25 Beethoven 12 Variations on Mozart's "Ein Madchen Weibchen" (Die Zauberflote)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Pearson.

With Donald Macleod.
On a visit to Gottingen in 1858, Brahms met and fell in love with Agathe von Siebold - but the path of love was not a smooth one.
Gesangaus Fingal, Op.17 No.4 Danish National Radio Choir, Calthona Yeats (harp), Per McClelland Jacobsen and Letf Und (horns), conductor Stefan Parkman Der Weg der Liebe. Op 20 Mo 2
Juliane Banse (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo). Cord Garben (piano) Vor dem Fensfer; F<n Sonett, Op.14 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Dan!e! Barenboim (piano) An eine Aeolsharfe, Op 19
Nathahe Stutzman (contralto), Inger Sodergren (piano) Begrabntsgesang, Op 13
Bavarian Radio Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Bernard Haitink
Mcnr Me Dr Zu Dfr Zu Genen ; Der Strom. de/'Meben Mir Verrauschte; tVebe, So M/;7<st Du Mien Wieder, Op 32
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Daniel Barenboim (piano)
String Sextet No 2 in G, Op 36 (1st mvt) Raphael Ensemble (R)

Contributors

Conductor:
Stefan Parkman
Soprano:
Juliane Banse
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink
Conductor:
McNrmedrzu Dfrzu Genen
Unknown:
Raphaet Ensemb

With Jonathan Swain.

Vivaldi Concerto in F for three violins, RV551 - Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Zubin Mehta

10.16 Berlioz Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans, Act 4) - Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Munch

10.28 Debussy Le Marfyre de Saint Sebastien - Phyllis Curtin (soprano), Florence Kopieff and Catherine Akos (contraltos), New England Conservatoire Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Munch (speaker)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

St Magnus Festival
Presented by Linda Ormiston.
Bach, arr Mowat Suite for Brass London Brass
Knussen Eccentric Melody Paul Watkins (cello)
Kodaly Psalmus Hungaricus
John Daszak (tenor), St Magnus Festival Chorus, Choirs of Firth and St Andrews Primary Schools and Kirkwall Grammar School, BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins Maxwell Davies Cinderellla (excerpt)
Children of Papdaie Primary Schools and Kirkwall Grammar School, conductor Glenys Hughes
Ravel, arr Mason Jones Le Tombeau de Coupenn Nash Ensemble Franck Sonata in A
Natalie Ciein (cello), Julius Drake (piano)

Contributors

Presented By:
Linda Ormiston.
Tenor:
John Daszak
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins
Conductor:
Gienys Hughes
Unknown:
Natalie Ciein
Piano:
Juiius Drake

From the Dartington tnternationa)
Summer School, Nicoia Heywood Thomas introduces the European debut of Ensambie Louis Bergerfrom Argentina, directed by Ricardo Massun. specialists in the music of the South American Baroque.

Contributors

Introduces:
Nicoia Heywood Thomas
Directed By:
Ricardo Massun.

Another chance to hear Saturday night's concert from the Royal Albert Hall.
Patricia Rozario (soprano), Deacon Meliton (singer), Bach Choir, Waynflete Singers, BBC Philharmonic, conductors David Hill and Yan Pascal Tortelier
John Tavener Song of the Cosmos
Holst Suite; The Planets (R)

Contributors

Soprano:
Patricia Rozario
Singer:
Deacon Meliton
Singers:
Bach Choir
Singers:
Waynflete Singers
Musicians:
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor:
David Hill
Conductor:
Yan Pascal Tortelier

The first of four programmes in which Philip Pickett looks at the great centres of instrument making in 16th-century Europe and how a common musical pitch and the advent of music publishing could indicate that there was more interaction between performers from different countries than was previously thought. The story starts in Venice.

Contributors

Speaker:
Philip Pickett

Sean Rafferty's guests include director Jan Schutte whose film The Farewell; BrecDf's Last Summer is released in the UK tomorrow. Plus music and news of what's happening in the arts world.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Rafferty
Director:
Jan Schutte

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
A chance to hear Grieg's music for Ibsen's play Peer Gynt in its dramatic context.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Grieg Peer Gynt (Incidental music) - Joar Skorpen (Hardanger fiddle). BBC Singers. Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Acts 1-3

8.25 Twenty Minutes: Performing Art
At the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Christopher Cook and Gillian Naylor turn the pages of an album of photos showing the luxuries displayed in a thirties New York department store.

8.45 Acts 4 and 5

Contributors

Presenter:
Fiona Talkington
Unknown:
Joar Skorpen
Unknown:
Gillian Naylor
Solveig:
Barbara Bonney (soprano)
Anitra:
Inge Kosmo (meao)
Peer Gynt:
Bo Skovhus (bantone)
Ase:
Wenche Poss (Spoken Role)
Great Boyg:
Sverre Anker Ousdal (Spoken Role)
Button moulder:
Sverre Anker Ousdal (Spoken Role)
English narration:
Paul Scofield
Thief:
Stuart MacIntyre
Receiver:
Simon Birchall
Herd girl:
Elizabeth Poole
Herd girl:
Eleanor Meynell
Herd girl:
Alison Smart

4 tourney through MMd/e Europe 3: 5/ow Trafn tDrougD Transylvania.
Another chance to hear Dennis Marks in the birthplace of Dracuia and Bartok. and the starting point of the Romanian revolution, witnessing the rich traditional past and troubled poiiticai present. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Marks

With Jonathan Swain.

Villem Kapp The North Coast

12.10 Martinu String Sextet

12.35 Beethoven Violin Sonata in G, Op 30 No 3

1.00 Part Symphony No 2

Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16

Franck Le Chasseur Maudit

Villem Kapp Symphony No 2

2.40 Sor Fantasia No 7 in E minor, Op 30

2.55 Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op 26

3.20 Kraus Symphony in C minor

3.40 Mozart Wind Serenade in C minor, K388

4.05 J.C. Bach Quintet in F, Op 11 No 3

4.25 Marais Les Folies d'Espagne

4.40 Glinka Overture: Ivan Susanin

4.50 Biber Sonata No.12 in C (Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes)

5.05 J.P.E. Hartmann Sechs Tonstucke in Liederform, Op37

5.30 Cesti Intorno all'Idol Mio (I Casti Amori d'Orontea)

5.45 Englund The White Reindeer

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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