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With Sandy Burnett.
Vivaldi O Qui Coeli Terraeque Serenitas, RV631
Susan Gritton (soprano) The King's Consort, director Robert King

6.25 Mozart Ballet Music (Idomeneo)
Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood

7.03 Vaughan Williams Concerto Accademico
Yehudi Menuhin (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult

7.45 Beethoven Six Variations, Wo034
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

8.03 Chopin Introduction and Polonaise Brillante, Op8
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)

8.42 Tippett Suite in D (Birthday Suite for Prince Charles)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Georg Solti

Contributors

Presenter:
Sandy Burnett
Soprano:
Susan Gritton
Musicians:
The King's Consort
Music Director:
Robert King
Musicians:
Academy of Ancient Music
Music Director:
Christopher Hogwood
Violinist:
Yehudi Menuhin
Musicians:
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Adrian Boult
Pianist:
Mikhail Pletnev
Cellist:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Pianist:
Martha Argerich
Musicians:
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Georg Solti

Stephanie Hughes introduces performances from St George's Bristol given by the resident chamber group, the Zenith Chamber Ensemble - Peter Manning (violin), Timothy Hugh (cello) and Leon McCawley (piano) - playing the Handel/Halvorsen Passacaglia, Beethoven's Variations on God Save the King and Mendelssohn's Piano trio in D minor, Fibonacci Sequence playing Martinu's La Revue de Cuisine and Mozart's quintet for piano and wind. Plus Cecilia McDowall's Bells in the Air for trumpet and horn. Jonathan Lemalu, BBC New Generation artist and recent winner of the RPS Young Artist and Kathleen Ferrier awards, sings Schubert and Bolcom with pianist Michael Hampton. Plus the best of orchestral and choral music from around Europe.
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Contributors

Introduces:
Stephanie Hughes
Unknown:
St George
Violin:
Peter Manning
Violin:
Timothy Hugh
Piano:
Leon McCawley
Unknown:
Cecilia McDowall
Horn:
Jonathan Lemalu
Horn:
Kathleen Ferrier
Pianist:
Michael Hampton.

With the music scene becoming increasingly pluralistic how does this effect the role of classical music? To discuss Who Needs Classical Music? Ivan Hewett is joined at the Assembly Rooms in Bath by a panel of leading figures in music, including the pianist Joanna MacGregor, jazz violinist Mark Feldman, composer Julian Johnson, oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil and the artistic director of Bath Festival, Tim Joss.
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Contributors

Music:
Ivan Hewett
Pianist:
Joanna MacGregor
Violinist:
Mark Feldman
Unknown:
Julian Johnson
Unknown:
Rabih Abou
Unknown:
Tim Joss.

Isaac Stern
In the second of two programmes from the BBC archives about the violinist
Isaac Stern , Stephen Johnson explores the formation of the Isaac Stern Trio and introduces a performance of the Schubert Trio in E flat, D929, for piano and strings, recorded in 1968.

Contributors

Unknown:
Isaac Stern
Violinist:
Isaac Stern
Violinist:
Stephen Johnson

David Owen-Norris explores the enduring appeal of live performance. His studio guests include classical singer Catherine Bott, jazz saxophonist Andy Sheppard and critic Miles Kington. They examine what makes live music so exciting and how it compares with digital recordings.

Contributors

Presenter:
David Owen-Norris
Guest:
Catherine Bott
Guest:
Andy Sheppard
Guest:
Miles Kington
Producer:
Lore Windemuth

Conceived and directed by Simon McBurney with the theatre company Complicite. In 1991, tourists descending a 3,000-metre peak find a body emerging from the ice. Stories of journeys fragment and revolve like the act of memory itself as Mnemonic questions our understanding of time and our attempts to retell the past.

Contributors

Conceived and Directed By:
Simon McBurney
[Actress]:
Annabel Arden
[Actress]:
Katrin Cartlidge
[Actor]:
Hannes Flaschberger
[Actor]:
Richard Katz
[Actor]:
Marcello Magni
[Actor]:
Simon McBurney
[Actor]:
Tim McMullan
[Actor]:
Kostas Philippoglou
[Actor]:
Rolf Saxon
[Actress]:
Catherine Schaub Abkarian
[Actor]:
Daniel Wahl

1,000 Years of Coronation Music from Westminster Abbey
Paul Guinery introduces a Golden Jubilee edition recorded last month in Westminster Abbey as part of the Jubilee conference of the Society for Court Studies. Including plainsong from the time of William I and music written for the Coronation in 1953.
Andrew Reid (organ), Choir of Westminster Abbey, St James's Baroque Players,
London Brass, conductor James O'Donnell
Parry I Was Glad
Blow Let My Prayer Come Up into Thy Presence
Bairstow Let My Prayer Come Up into Thy Presence
Handel My Heart Is Inditing; Zadok the Priest
Vaughan Williams The Old Hundredth
Blow God Spake Sometime in Visions
Gibbons O Clap Your Hands Together
Elgar O Hearken Thou
Howells O God Our Defender
Walton Coronation Te Deum

Contributors

Introduces:
Paul Guinery
Unknown:
Andrew Reid
Unknown:
St James
Conductor:
James O'Donnell
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams

With Susan Sharpe.

Franz Berwald String Quartet in E flat

12.30 Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No 3

12.50 Buxtehude Ciaccona Quemadmodum Desiderat Cervus, BuxWV92

1.00 "Fallen Women": music by Hildegard of Bingen and St Birgitta of Sweden and excerpts from the Codex Las Huelgas.

2.10 Schubert Piano Sonata in C, D840

2.30 Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)

3.05 Beethoven Trio in B flat, Op 11

3.30 Mozart Flute Concerto in D, K314

3.55 Nicolas Gombert Credo a 8 4.15 Pieter van Maldere Sinfonia in D, Op 5 No 1

4.30 Mozart Finch ' Han dal Vino (Don Giovanni)

4.45 Borodin Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)

5.00 Gluck Dances of the Furies (Orphee et Eurydice)

5.10 Strauss Was Erblickelch? (Daphne)

5.25 Prokofiev Symphony No 1 (Classical)

5.40 Rachmaninov Etude-Tableau in A minor, Op 39 No 2

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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