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With Fiona Talkington.
JC Bach Harp Concerto in G
Susanna Klincharova , Sofia Soloists, director Emil Tabakov
6.45 Martinu Sextet
Jan Panenka (piano), Prague Wind Quintet
7.00 Telemann Flute Concerto in E minor
Franz Vester , Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra, conductor Andre Rieu
7.35 Roussel Symphony No 4
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Marek Janowski
8.00 Falla Pièces Espagnoles Alicia de Laroccha (piano)
8.40 Respighl Ballade of the Gnomes
Philharmonia, conductor Geoffrey Simon

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington.
Unknown:
Susanna Klincharova
Director:
Emil Tabakov
Unknown:
Franz Vester
Conductor:
Andre Rieu
Conductor:
Marek Janowski
Piano:
Alicia de Laroccha
Conductor:
Geoffrey Simon

Stephanie Hughes presents some of the best music from festivals and concerts across Europe, including Schutz motets from the Flanders Festival and Garrick Ohlsson playing Chopin in Poland. Plus a review of the arts news from the Sunday papers with Cathy Packe. Music includes:

9.10 Haydn Piano Sonata in E flat, H XVI 49 Mihaela Ursuleasa

9.35 Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2, Op 63 Hilary Hahn (violin), Bavarian RSO, conductor Franz Welser-Most

10.15 Beethoven String Quartet in B flat, Op 18 No 6 Borodin Quartet

11.15 Brahms Cello Sonata in E minor, Op 35 Heinrich Schiff (cello), Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)

11.40 Sibelius Symphony No 7 Danish National RSO, conductor Michael Schonwandt
Producer Andrew Lyle

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Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes
Unknown:
Garrick Ohlsson
Unknown:
Cathy Packe
Piano:
Mihaela Ursuleasa
Violin:
Hilary Hahn
Conductor:
Franz Welser-Most
Cello:
Heinrich Schiff
Piano:
Elisabeth Leonskaja
Conductor:
Michael Schonwandt
Producer:
Andrew Lyle

Ivan Hewett sends Christopher Cook to investigate the extensive Peter Warlock archive housed at Eton College and profiles one of Britain's greatest ballerinas - Beryl Grey - as she approaches her 75th birthday.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivan Hewett
Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Peter Warlock
Unknown:
Beryl Grey

Another chance to hear last Monday's concert from the Wigmore Hall in London. Presented by Fiona Talkington.
Lisa Milne (soprano), Philippa Davies (flute), Ian Brown (piano),
Marianne Thorsen (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), Paul Watkins (cello)
Messiaen Le Merle Noir
Ravel Chansons Madécasses
Faure Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor, Opl5

Contributors

Presented By:
Fiona Talkington.
Soprano:
Lisa Milne
Soprano:
Philippa Davies
Flute:
Ian Brown
Piano:
Marianne Thorsen
Violin:
Lawrence Power
Cello:
Paul Watkins

David Munrow. Stephen Johnson presents the first of two programmes featuring BBC archive recordings made by the early music pioneer and broadcaster, David Munrow. Today he reflects on Munrow as virtuoso recorder player, with music by Handel and Telemann. There is also archive material of Munrow's Early
Music Consort with excerpts from a studio portrait of the group in its first year.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Munrow.
Unknown:
Stephen Johnson
Unknown:
David Munrow.

The American video artist Bill Viola works in a modern genre which has developed as the technology has advanced. But his work is about humanity and owes much to the Italian Renaissance art he admires and to world cultures and religions. On the occasion of his largest work to date opening in Berlin, he talks to John Tusa about his work and its place in the modern world.

Contributors

Artist:
Bill Viola
Unknown:
John Tusa

By Eduardo de Filippo, adapted for radio by Peter Tinniswood.

Twenty-five years after the end of the Second World War, Sergeant Major Ascanio is living inside a monument in Naples, where his mistress Sabina and the busker Paganini entertain a motley crowd of rogues and street vendors. Then something occurs that threatens the circus of their everyday life.
Music by Anthea Gomez, performed by the Composer, David Gregory and Nigel Woodhouse

Contributors

Author:
Eduardo de Filippo
Adapted by:
Peter Tinniswood.
Music/Music performed by:
Anthea Gomez
Music performed by:
David Gregory
Music performed by:
Nigel Woodhouse
Director:
Sue Wilson
Eduardo:
Michael Angelis
Ascanio:
Tom Georgeson
Sabina:
Anna Keaveney
Paganini:
Michael Mears
Arthur:
Chris Darwin
Rita:
Sharon Muircroft
Roberto:
Ian Brooker
Guaranschelli:
Gavin Muir
Teresa:
Sunny Ormonde
Salvatore:
Brian Miller
Agostino:
Stanley Townsend
Mario Rosario:
Eileen O'Brien
Inspector Delledonne:
Ben Roberts

Mendelssohn 's St Paul
Paul Guinery and Roger Nichols introduce a recording of Mendelssohn's first oratorio. Steeped in scripture from his boyhood, Mendelssohn tookthe events of the stoning of Stephen, Paul's conversion and his mission straight from the New
Testament. Throughout the work he was determined to be faithful to scripture and to adopt the high moral tone that his late father Abraham would have expected. Susan Gritton (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo), Barry Banks (tenor),
Peter Coleman-Wright (bass), BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, conductor Richard Hickox Mendelssohn St Paul

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Guinery
Unknown:
Roger Nichols
Soprano:
Susan Gritton
Soprano:
Jean Rigby
Tenor:
Barry Banks
Tenor:
Peter Coleman-Wright
Conductor:
Richard Hickox

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present eclectic sounds on CD and investigate
SuperCollider, a computer language which generates music, including one piece by Jem Finerwhich lasts 1,000 years.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Russell
Unknown:
Robert Sandall

With Jonathan Swain.
Verdelot Sint Dicte Grates Christo
12.10 Durante Concerto No 3 in E flat
12.20 Prokofiev Four Etudes, Op 2
12.30 Milo Cipra Symphony No 2
1.00 Bo Holten and Stephen Cleobury conduct the BBC Singers in performances of choral music, including works by Desprez and Constanzo Festa.
2.10 Dvorak Violin Sonatina in G, Op 100
2.30 Suk Serenade in E flat for strings. Op 6
2.55 Schubert Moments Musicaux, D780
3.20 Kuhnau Biblical Sonata No 5
(Gideon, the Saviour of Israel)
3.30 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G, BWV10493.45 Mozart Violin Concerto No 1 in B flat, K20 74.15 Milton Bames Papageno Variations 4.30 Brahms
Variations on a theme by Haydn, Op 56a (St Anthony) 4.50 Biber Sonata XII
5.00 G Gabriell Canzon Primi Toni a 8 (Sacrae Symphoniae) 5.05 Vivaldi
Concerto da Camera in G minor, RV105
5.20 Mozart, compl Staedler Violin Sonata in C, K403
5.35 Nielsen Little Suite for strings, Op 1
5.50 D Scarlatti Sonata in G, Kk.104

Contributors

Unknown:
Bo Holten
Unknown:
Stephen Cleobury
Unknown:
Constanzo Festa.
Unknown:
Bach Brandenburg
Unknown:
Milton Bames
Unknown:
Primi Toni

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