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With Penny Gore.
Bizet Overture in A
Montreal SO, conductor Charles Dutoit
6.50 Eriebach Who Entrusts Himself to
Heaven Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Concerto di Viole, Basel Consort
7.00 Mahler Blumine City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle
7.45 Albinoni Oboe Concerto in G minor, Op 9 No 8 Heinz Holliger , I Musici
8.15 Mendelssohn Variations Sérieuses, Op 54 Murray Perahia (piano)
8.35 Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Julietlsrael Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Leonard Bernstein

Contributors

Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Unknown:
Heinz Holliger
Piano:
Murray Perahia
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein

This week Donald Macleod is joined by conductor Odaline de la Martinez, an authority on this week's subject - Ethel Smyth. The composer studied at Leipzig Conservatory in 1877 under Heinrich von Herzogenberg. After some early chamber works, her British orchestral debut was with the Serenade in D, followed by the Mass in D, which was first performed by the Royal Choral Society in 1893.Â

Serenade in D - BBC Philharmonic, conductor Odaline de la Martinez

String Quartet in E minor (1st mvt) - Archaeus Quartet

Mass in D (Sanctus) - Janis Hardy (alto), Plymouth Festival Orchestra, conductor Philip Brunelle

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod
Guest:
Odaline de la Martinez
Producer:
Johannah Smith

With Rob Cowan. This week featuring
Bach orchestrations and recordings by the Juilliard Quartet.
Bach, arr Joachim Chaconne (Partita in D minor, BWV1004) BBC Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Slatkin
10.19 Prokofiev Tales of an Old
Grandmother, Op 31 GyorgySandor(piano)
10.28 Franck String Quartet in D Juilliard Quartet n 13 Bach, arr Stravinsky Canonic
Variations on "Vom Himmel Hoch " Festival
Singers of Toronto, CBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Igor Stravinsky

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Unknown:
Joachim Chaconne
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin
Unknown:
Vom Himmel Hoch
Conductor:
Igor Stravinsky

York Early Music Festival
Lucie Skeaping presents a week of music from this year's York Early Music Festival, which this year celebrated the 500th anniversary of the birth of music printing. Today the New London Consort, directed by Philip Pickett , perform works from
Petrucci's first publication, Odhecaton, printed in 1501, and the Palladian
Ensemble play music from the age of Monteverdi. And every day this week, performances by finalists from the Early
Music Network Young Artists competition.

Contributors

Unknown:
Lucie Skeaping
Directed By:
Philip Pickett

Verity Sharp presents the first in an exciting new season of concerts live from the Wigmore Hall, London, featuring Radio 3's New Generation Artists.
Lawrence Power (viola), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)

Schumann Adagio and Allegro, Op 70

Britten Lachrimae (Reflections on a Song of Dowland)

Liszt Romance Oubliee

Brahms Viola Sonata No 1 in F minor, Op 120 No 1

(Repeated next Sunday at 1pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Verity Sharp
Viola player:
Lawrence Power
Pianist:
Simon Crawford-Phillips

Soprano Patricia Rozario, for whom John Tavener composed The World, joins the Ulster Orchestra for a concert given in 1999 at the Ulster Hall. Presented by Sarah Walker.
Sullivan Overture di Ballo conductor Vernon Handley
Finzi Dies Natalis Patricia Rozario (soprano), conductor Vernon Handley.
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending, Lesley Hatfield (violin), conductor Adrian Leaper
Tavener The World Patricia Rozario (soprano), conductor Vernon Handley Eigar Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma) conductor Vernon Handley

Contributors

Soprano:
Patricia Rozario
Unknown:
John Tavener
Presented By:
Sarah Walker.
Conductor:
Vernon Handley
Soprano:
Natalis Patricia Rozario
Conductor:
Vernon Handley.
Violin:
Lesley Hatfield
Conductor:
Adrian Leaper
Conductor:
Vernon Handley
Unknown:
Vernon Handley

Blue Peter's Simon Thomas and Matt Baker begin another week of music for younger listeners. Today they play music from film, television and the dance hall. Visit the Making Tracks website: www.bbc.co.uk/makingtracks

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Thomas
Unknown:
Matt Baker

Live from the Wigmore Hall, London.
English tenor Ian Bostridge , accompanied by pianist Julius Drake , performs French and English songs, including Finzi's cycle of texts by Thomas Hardy.
Faure La Bonne Chanson, Op 61 Finzi A Young Man's Exhortation, Op 14 Part
8.20 Twenty Minutes: Finzi and Hardy Hardy 's poems are notoriously difficult to set to music. Ian Bostridge talks about the song settings in tonight's recital.
8.40 Finzi A Young Man's Exhortation, Op 14 Part 2
Poulenc Tel Jour, Telle Nuit

Contributors

Tenor:
Ian Bostridge
Pianist:
Julius Drake
Unknown:
Thomas Hardy.
Unknown:
Hardy Hardy
Talks:
Ian Bostridge

As new editions of James Baldwin 's work are published, Isabel Hilton examines the career of the child preacher who became one of America's most important writers. Plus a new exhibition of Alberto Giacometti 's studies of the human figure, marking the artist's centenary.

Contributors

Unknown:
James Baldwin
Unknown:
Isabel Hilton
Unknown:
Alberto Giacometti

With Verity Sharp. A track from N'Java's album Source, music by Charpentier,
Bob Dylan 's Masters of War, and William Orbit 's take on Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana.

Contributors

Unknown:
Verity Sharp.
Unknown:
Bob Dylan
Unknown:
William Orbit
Unknown:
Cavalleria Rusticana.

With Jonathan Swain.
Strauss Befreit , Op 39 No 412.10 Mozart Symphony No 35 in D (Haffner)
12.45 Glazunov Saxophone Concerto in Eflat, Op 1091.00 Strauss ViolinSonata in E flat, Op 18 Brahms Trio in E flat for violin, viola and piano, Op 40
2.00 JM Kraus Symphony in C minor (Symphonie Funebre)
2.20 Chopin Preludes, Op 28: Nos 1-10
2.35 Bruckner Te Deum in C
3.00-5.00 BBC Schools
3.00 Alphabet Time 3.10 Counting Time
3.20 Music Box 3.35 Find Out
3.50 Hopscotch 4.05 Time for Drama
4.20 Talking Points 4.40 Playtime
4.55 Programme Preview
5.00 Lisinski Overture: Porin 5.10 Artemy
Vedel Oh God, My Hope Is Only in You
5.20 Vivaldi Sonata in C for oboe and violin, R^7795.35Madetoja Elegia
(Symphonic Suite, Op 4) 5.45 Karlowlcz Chant de I 'Eternelle Aspiration (Chants Eternels, Op 10)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Strauss Befreit
Unknown:
Strauss Violinsonata

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