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With Tommy Pearson.
Byrd Motet: Infelix Ego Sarum Consort, conductor Andrew Mackay
6.40 Haydn Piano Concerto in D, H XVIII 2 Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, director Emanuel Ax (piano)
7.00 Vaughan Williams Overture: The
Poisoned Kiss Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor George Hurst
7.45 Handel Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op 6 No 4 Northern Sinfonia, director George Malcolm
8.00Turina Serenata for strings I Musici de Montreal, conductor Yuli Turovsky (conductor)
8.45 Shostakovich Ballet Suite No 1
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Pearson.
Conductor:
Andrew MacKay
Conductor:
George Hurst
Director:
George Malcolm

2: Early Days in Dusseldorf (1850-51) Schumann had his reservations about movingto Dusseldorf as municipal director of music, not least because of the proximity of a lunatic asylum. But his relationships with the municipal orchestra and choir- at least initially- were fruitful ones. With Donald Macleod.
FunfStucke im Volkston (Nos 1-3) Stephen Isserlis (cello),
Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Symphony No 3 in E flat (Rhenish)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Overture: Die Braut von Messina
Polish National Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Johannes Wildner

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Cello:
Stephen Isserlis
Piano:
Christoph Eschenbach
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Conductor:
Johannes Wildner

With Jonathan Swain.
Bach, arr Schumann Partita No 3 in E, BWV1006 Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin), Gordon Back (piano)
10.21 Sibelius BlackRoses , Op 36 No 1; On a Balcony, Op 38 No 2 Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Janos Solyom (piano)
10.27 Stravinsky Apollo (1947) London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Igor Markevitch
10.58 CPE Bach Trio Sonata in C minor, H5 79 (Sanguineus et Melancholicus) Purcell Quartet
11.14 Strauss Ah! Warum Hast Du Mich
NichtAngesehen (Salome, conclusion)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Georg Solti

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Violin:
Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Piano:
Sibelius Blackroses
Soprano:
Birgit Nilsson
Soprano:
Janos Solyom
Conductor:
Igor Markevitch
Conductor:
Georg Solti
Salome:
Birgit Nilsson (soprano)
Herodias:
Grace Hoffman (mezzo)
Herod:
Gerhard Stolze (tenor)

New Generation Artists
A week of performances given by Radio 3's New Generation Artists, featuring today pianist Simon Trpceski , mezzo
Alice Coote , soprano Emma Bell , cellist
Liwei Qin and the Karol Szymanowski Quartet in studio recordings made specially forthe programme. Introduced by Verity Sharp. Music includes:
Tchaikovsky, arr Pletnev Concert Suite: Nutcracker
Mozart String Quartet in D minor, K421 Duparc Chanson Triste; Extase Barber Cello Sonata

Contributors

Pianist:
Simon Trpceski
Soprano:
Alice Coote
Soprano:
Emma Bell
Unknown:
Liwei Qin
Introduced By:
Verity Sharp.

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Charles Mackerras conducts the BBC
Symphony Orchestra in Sullivan's Cello
Concerto, a work he helped to reconstruct from memory afterthe score was lost without trace. The soloist is Paul Watkins.
Presented by Sandy Burnett.
Sullivan Overture di Balla; Cello Concerto (reconstr MackielMackerras) Elgar Symphony No 1 in A flat Conductor Andrew Davis

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles MacKerras
Unknown:
Paul Watkins.
Presented By:
Sandy Burnett.
Conductor:
Andrew Davis

Fetes Galantes: Verlaine settings by Debussy and others, lain Burnside introduces a specially recorded recital in which he and soprano Lisa Milne perform a selection of settings of Verlaine poems by Debussy, Delius, Hahn and Szulc.

Contributors

Soprano:
Lisa Milne

The second concert in Glasgow's international celebration of the art of the violin. New music from Scotland is at the heart of tonight's programme from Glasgow City Hall; Anthony Marwood is the soloist in a performance of a tragic, war-inspired violin concerto by Sally Beamish. Presented by Sandy Burnett.

Anthony Marwood (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins

MacCunn Overture: Ship o' the Rend

Sally Beamish Violin Concerto

Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor

Contributors

Presenter:
Sandy Burnett
Violinist:
Anthony Marwood
Musicians:
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins

Richard Coles visits Terry Farrell 's new super aquarium in Hull, the Deep, which contains the world's only underwater lift, and considers ourfascination with the great unplumbed depths. Also, a first-night review of Michael Grandage 's
Richard /// starring Kenneth Branagh , which opens at the Sheffield Crucible.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Coles
Unknown:
Terry Farrell
Unknown:
Michael Grandage
Unknown:
Kenneth Branagh

With Jonathan Swain.
Lutoslawski Dance Preludes
12.15 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor, Op 37
12.50 Ole Buck Two Faery Songs
1.00 Viol music by Couperin, Forqueray and Marais, and lute music by Bach, the Chaconne from the Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV1004. From recitals recorded last year, one at Bantry House, Cork, as part of the West Cork Chamber Festival, and the other at Kuhmo Festival in Finland.
2.10 Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor 2.50 Purcell Pavane and Chaconne in G minor

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.

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