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With Penny Gore.
Mozart Divertimento in B flat, K137 I Musicide Montreal, conductor Yuli Turovsky
6.45 Vivaldi Credo in Unum Deum, RV591 The King's Consort Choristers and Choir, The King's Consort, conductor Robert King
7.00 Mllhaud Scaramouche
Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)
7.40 Schumann Introduction and Allegro Appassionato in G, Op 92
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, director Christian Zacharias (piano)
8.00 Bill Evans , arrTom Darter Waltz for DebbyEddie Gomez (bass), Kronos Quartet
8.40 Sibelius : Lemminkainken and the Maidens of Saari (Lemminkainen Suite) Philadelphia Orchestra. conductor Eugene Ormandy

Contributors

Conductor:
Yuli Turovsky
Conductor:
Robert King
Conductor:
Mllhaud Scaramouche
Conductor:
Allegro Appassionato
Piano:
Christian Zacharias
Piano:
Bill Evans
Bass:
Debbyeddie Gomez
Conductor:
Eugene Ormandy

Despite his resolution not to become a concert pianist, Nicolas Medtner spent his life giving concerts throughout Europe and America. He was forced i nto it as the only way of getting his own works played. Today Donald Macleod discusses works which drew the praise of Rachmaninov but the hostility of the critics.
Fairy Tale for piano, Op 51 No 1 Performed by the Composer
Before Work; At the Anvil (Hymns in Praise of Toil, Nos 1 and 2) Geoffrey Tozer (piano)
Winter Evening, Op 13 No 1; Spanish
Romance (Pushkin Poems, Op 36 No 4) Zara Dolukhanova (mezzo), Nina Svetlanova (piano)
Piano Concerto No 1 Dmitri Alexeev , BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Alexander Titov

Contributors

Pianist:
Nicolas Medtner
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Piano:
Geoffrey Tozer
Unknown:
Zara Dolukhanova
Piano:
Nina Svetlanova
Unknown:
Dmitri Alexeev
Conductor:
Alexander Titov

With Rob Cowan.
Stephen Foster , arr Robert Russell
Bennett A Commemoration Symphony Pittsburgh Mendelssohn Choir, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conductor William Steinberg
10.26 Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat, Op 70 No 2 Beaux Arts Trio
10.57 Copland Lincoln Portrait Carl Sandburg (narrator),
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Andre Kostelanetz
11.11 Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Ferenc Fricsay

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Unknown:
Stephen Foster
Unknown:
Robert Russell
Conductor:
William Steinberg
Unknown:
Copland Lincoln
Narrator:
Carl Sandburg
Conductor:
Andre Kostelanetz
Conductor:
Ferenc Fricsay

Artist in Focus: Thomas Allen
Humphrey Burton talks to baritone
Thomas Allen about his career and plays some of his many BBC archive recordings. 2: Poet and Lover Wolf WerSich derEinsamkeit Ergibt
(HarfenspielerLieder Nol); An die Wren (HarfenspielerLiederNo 2); WerNie Sein Brot (HarfenspielerLieder No 3 > (Goethe Lieder) With Paul Hamburger (piano)
Poulenc Le Bal Masque With the Nash Ensemble , director Lionel Friend
Britten Billy Budd (Act 2) (excerpt) With English National Opera, conductor David Atherton
Schumann Dichterliebe
With Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Allen
Talks:
Humphrey Burton
Baritone:
Thomas Allen
Baritone:
Lover Wolf Wersich
Piano:
Paul Hamburger
Unknown:
Nash Ensemble
Director:
Lionel Friend
Director:
Britten Billy Budd
Conductor:
David Atherton
Conductor:
Schumann Dichterliebe
Piano:
Malcolm Martineau

BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Vassily Sinaisky.
Presented by Paul Guinery. An exploration of the enchanted world of Anatol Liadov.
Uadov Polonaise in D, Op 55 (Unveiling of Statue of AS Rubenstein)
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin (excerpts) Elena Prokina (soprano), Vassily Gerelo (baritone) Uadov Kikimora , Op 63;
Mazurka: A Village Scene by the Inn, Op 19 Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 1
Mikhail Rudy
Scriabin Poem of Ecstasy
Uadov Scherzo in 0, Op 16; Polonaise in C, Op 49 (In Memory of AS Pushkin) See Friday 2pm

Contributors

Conductor:
Vassily Sinaisky.
Presented By:
Paul Guinery.
Unknown:
Anatol Liadov.
Unknown:
Uadov Polonaise
Unknown:
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin
Soprano:
Elena Prokina
Baritone:
Vassily Gerelo
Baritone:
Uadov Kikimora
Unknown:
Mikhail Rudy

Anatomy of Melancholy, lain Burnside explores songs that toy with sadness - those that plunge into the darkest depths of depression as well as those that explore the exquisite pain of happiness recalled in grief-from the resigned melancholy of John Dowland to the bitter-sweet consolation of late Schubert and the world-weary gloom of Hugo Wolf 's
Michelangelo songs. While Nina Simone tries to comfort Little Girl Blue, Richard Rodgers is Glad to be Unhappy. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Dowland
Unknown:
Hugo Wolf
Unknown:
Nina Simone
Unknown:
Richard Rodgers

Louise Fryer introduces the annual Musicians Benevolent Fund Royal Concert, live at the Royal Festival Hall, London.
Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Philharmonia, conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi

Beethoven Grosse Fuge in B flat, Op 133
Lutoslawski Concerto for orchestra

8.20 Twenty Minutes: In Front of the Children
In Euripides's plays, children are treated as pawns in the broken relationships of their parents. An investigation led by Edward Kemp with classicist Edith Hall.

8.40 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor)

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Fryer
Pianist:
Mikhail Pletnev
Musicians:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor:
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Edward Kemp
Speaker (Twenty Minutes):
Edith Hall

Richard Coles discusses Francis Ford
Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux, the 1979 classic exploring the American war in Vietnam, which is being re-released with an extra 54 minutes of footage now restored to the film by the director.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Coles
Unknown:
Francis Ford

With Jonathan Swain.
Holbome Muy Linda 12.10 Poulenc Piano Concerto 12.35 D Scarlatti Stabat Mater in C minorl.00 Handel Concerto Grosso in D, Op 6 No 5 Bach Harpsichord
Concerto No 1 in D minor, BWV1052; Orchestral Suite No 1 in C, BWV1066
2.00 Copland In the Beginning
2.20 Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.

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