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Thanks to his lifelong friend Rachmaninov, Medtner was persuaded to travel to the USA to give concert tours and continue his search for an audience for his music. Today Donald Macleod introduces a piano sonata written at a time of great financial hardship, and the highly emotional" Epica" violin sonata which became a monument to
Medtner's brother Emil, his artistic mentor and guiding spirit.
Fairy Tale in F minor, Op 26 No 3 Jurg Hanselmann (piano)
Two Canzonas and Dances, Op 43 Mateja Marinkovic (violin), Linn Hendry (piano)
Sonata Romantica , Op 53 No I Geoffrey Tozer (piano)
The Angel, Op la Ludmilla Andrew (soprano), Geoffrey Tozer (piano)
Violin Sonata No 3, Op 5 7 (Epica) (3rd movement) Manoug Parikian, Hamish Milne (piano)

Contributors

Introduces:
Donald MacLeod
Violin:
Mateja Marinkovic
Piano:
Linn Hendry
Piano:
Geoffrey Tozer
Soprano:
Ludmilla Andrew
Soprano:
Geoffrey Tozer
Piano:
Hamish Milne

With Rob Cowan.
Handel Coronation Anthem No 1 (Zadok the Priest) Geraint Jones Singers and Orchestra, conductor Geraint Jones
10.12 Smetana Sarka (Ma Vlast) Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Karel Ancerl
10.23 Strauss Sie Atmet Leicht ... Es
Gibt ein Reich' (Ariadne aufNaxos, Act 1) Lotte Lehmann (soprano), Orchestra, conductor FriederWeissmann
10.31 Hummel Piano Trio in E flat, Op 12 Beaux Arts Trio
10.51 Locatelll Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 3 No 8 Roberto Michelucci , I Musici
11.12 Smetana From Bohemian Woods and Fields (Ma Vlast) USSR TV and Radio Large Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Singers:
Geraint Jones
Conductor:
Geraint Jones
Conductor:
Karel Ancerl
Soprano:
Lotte Lehmann
Unknown:
Roberto Michelucci
Conductor:
Vladimir Fedoseyev

Artist In Focus: Thomas Allen
Humphrey Burton plays BBC archive recordings of baritone Thomas Allen. 3: An Actor with the Voice
Rameau Thetis With the King's Music Brahms A German Requiem (excerpt)
With the BBC National Scottish Orchestra, conductor Raymond Leppard
Wolf Spottliedaus Wilhelm Meister;
Erschaffen und Beleben; Koniglich Gebet ; Der Rattanfanger (Goethe Lieder) With Paul Hamburger (piano)
Wolf Der Musikant (Eischendorf Lieder) With Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Walton Belshazzar 's Feast (excerpt) With BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins
Musorgsky Songs and Dances of Death With RogerVignoles (piano) Ravel Histoires Naturelles
With Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Allen
Unknown:
Humphrey Burton
Baritone:
Thomas Allen.
Conductor:
Raymond Leppard
Unknown:
Koniglich Gebet
Piano:
Paul Hamburger
Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons
Piano:
Walton Belshazzar
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins
Piano:
Malcolm Martineau

Facets of Brahms
Martin Handley introduces the first of five concerts from the Djanogly Recital Hall in Nottingham, which explore the many facets of the chamber music of Brahms. Hausmusik
Bach Ricercar 6 6 (Musical Offering)
Brahms String Sextet No 1 in B flat, Op 18

Contributors

Introduces:
Martin Handley
Unknown:
Brahms. Hausmusik
Unknown:
Bach Ricercar

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Presented by Paul Guinery.
Elizabeth Layton leads and directs the BBCSSO in Haydn's "La Passione" symphony. The programme also features Tippett's magnificent tribute to Arcangelo Corelli. Haydn Symphony No 49 in F minor (La Passione)
Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht Conductor Elizabeth Layton
Tlppett Fantasia Concertante on a Theme ofCorelli Conductor Martyn Brabbins Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor
(Unfinished) Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk

Contributors

Presented By:
Paul Guinery.
Presented By:
Elizabeth Layton
Unknown:
Arcangelo Corelli.
Conductor:
Elizabeth Layton
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins
Conductor:
Jerzy Maksymiuk

Blue Peter's Liz Barker and Matt Baker play more music for younger listeners.
Today including music performed by brass band and school band. You can create your own band on the Making Tracks website: www.bbc.co.uk/makingtracks

Contributors

Unknown:
Liz Barker
Unknown:
Matt Baker

Direct from Carlisle Cathedral. Introit:
Great Lord of Lords (Wood). Responses
(Clucas). Psalm 77 (Barnby, Battishill). First lesson: Zephaniah 1, w 1-9. Canticles: Carlisle Service (Richard Lloyd ). Second lesson: Revelation 3, w 14-22. Anthem: A Song of Peace (Stanford). Hymn: Hills of the North (Little Cornard). Organ voluntary: Piece Heroique (Franck). Master of the music Jeremy Suter. Assistant organist David Gibbs.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Lloyd
Music:
Jeremy Suter.
Organist:
David Gibbs.

Direct from Glasgow City Hall. The
BBCSSO's chief conductor Osmo Vanska brings Finnish composer Rautavaara's
1976 violin concerto to Scotland along with two symphonies by Finland's best-known musical son -Jean Sibelius.
Presented by Sandy Burnett. Jaakko Kuusisto (violin),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vanska
Sibelius Symphony No 3
8.00 Twenty Minutes: The Victor
By Irmelin Sandman Lilius. A short story read by Saskia Reeves.
8.20 Rautavaara Violin Concerto Sibelius Symphony No 7

Contributors

Conductor:
Osmo Vanska
Unknown:
Jean Sibelius.
Presented By:
Sandy Burnett.
Unknown:
Irmelin Sandman Lilius.
Read By:
Saskia Reeves.

With Jonathan Swain.
Stravinsky Rag-time 12.10 Bartok Violin Concerto No 212.50 Ibert Féerique
1.00 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat m/norBrahms Symphony No 1 in C minor2.25 Bach Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV147

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Bach Herz

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