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With Penny Gore.
Bizet Overture in A Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
6.15 Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor, K310 Alicia de Larrocha
7.00 Bantock Comedy Overture: The Pierrot of the Minute Bournemouth
Sinfonietta, conductor Norman Del Mar
7.40 Arnold Clarinet Concerto No 2
Thea King, English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth
8.00 J Strauss (son) Overture: Die Fledermaus Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Willi Boskovsky
8.35 Stravinsky Symphony in three movements Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Georg Solti

Contributors

Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Unknown:
Alicia de Larrocha
Conductor:
Norman Del Mar
Conductor:
Barry Wordsworth
Conductor:
Willi Boskovsky
Conductor:
Stravinsky Symphony
Conductor:
Georg Solti

(1893-1952). Forthe first time Composer of the Week explores the life and music of the Dane Rued Langgaard , who died 50 years ago this week. Misunderstood and ridiculed in his lifetime, only now is he being recognised as a maligned genius. Donald Macleod begins the series with a look at Langgaard's early years. With contributions from Langgaard's biographer, Bendt Viinholt Nielsen. Morning on the Seashore Bengt Johnsson (piano)
Legend (Symphony No 1) Danish National RSO, conductor Leif Segerstam Das Auge ! Anne Margrethe Dahl (soprano), Ulrich Staerk (piano) Augustinusiana (A MusicalJoke)
Members of the Jutland Ensemble
The Star in the East Anne Margrethe Dahl (soprano), Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, conductor Frans Rasmussen
Symphony No 4 (Fall of the Leaf) BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Grant Llewellyn
Vergeblich Anne Margrethe Dahl (soprano), Ulrich Staerk (piano) Producer David Gallagher

Contributors

Unknown:
Dane Rued Langgaard
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Bendt Viinholt Nielsen.
Piano:
Bengt Johnsson
Conductor:
Leif Segerstam
Conductor:
Das Auge
Soprano:
Anne Margrethe Dahl
Soprano:
Ulrich Staerk
Soprano:
Anne Margrethe Dahl
Conductor:
Frans Rasmussen
Conductor:
Grant Llewellyn
Soprano:
Anne Margrethe Dahl
Soprano:
Ulrich Staerk
Producer:
David Gallagher

With Jonathan Swain. This week featuring Dvorak overtures and symphonic poems, and recordings by the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
Handel, arr Howarth Overture (Music for the RoyalFireworks) Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
10.10 Dvorak In Nature's Realm, Op 91 Bavarian RSO, conductor Rafael Kubelik
10.25 Morley A Lieta Vita (Sing We and Chant It) Red Byrd
10.28 Gabrieli Sonata Plan ' e Forte
(Symphoniae Sacrae 1,1597) Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
10.33 Dvorak The Water Goblin, Op 107 Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vaclav Talich

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Conductor:
Rafael Kubelik
Conductor:
Vaclav Talich

Cheltenham International Festival of Music
The Regency splendours of the Pittville Pump Room provide the backdrop for a series of morning concerts of chamber music during the next two weeks. Chris de Souza is there for today's concert, which features the Endellion String Quartet. Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 76 No Ades Arcadiana
11.50 Twenty Minutes: Utz
During the intervals this week, a five-part reading of Bruce Chatwin 's classic story set in Prague, where the eccentric Kaspar Joachim Utz has trouble with his porcelain collection. To hoard in private orto connect with the world - that is the question. Abridged by Alison Joseph and read by Ian McDiarmid.
12.10 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2
Artists mucking in together: page 34

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris De Souza
Unknown:
Ades Arcadiana
Unknown:
Bruce Chatwin
Unknown:
Kaspar Joachim Utz
Abridged By:
Alison Joseph
Read By:
Ian McDiarmid.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Steven Osborne is the soloist in Ravel's jazzy piano concerto and begins the programme with a little jazz of his own. With Sandy Burnett.
Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 2 Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk
Dvorak Serenade in D minor for wind, Op 44 Conductor Garry Walker
Ravel Piano Concerto in G
Steven Osborne , conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Sibelius Symphony No 2
Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk

Contributors

Unknown:
Steven Osborne
Unknown:
Sandy Burnett.
Conductor:
Jerzy Maksymiuk
Conductor:
Dvorak Serenade
Conductor:
Garry Walker
Conductor:
Steven Osborne
Conductor:
Jerzy Maksymiuk
Conductor:
Jerzy Maksymiuk

BBCSO at the Cheltenham Festival
The BBC Symphony Orchestra visits the elegant Regency spa town and plays at one of its 2,000 listed buildings-the Town Hall. Leonard Slatkin conducts two
American classics and one of Stravinsky's great ballet scores, and Melvyn Tan is the soloist in Schumann's piano concerto. Melvyn Tan (piano), BBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor Ives The Unanswered Question
Stravinsky Ballet: Petrushka (194 7)

Contributors

Unknown:
Leonard Slatkin
Unknown:
Melvyn Tan
Piano:
Melvyn Tan
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin

Isabel Hilton presents another edition of the arts, culture and ideas programme.
Tonight, travel writing and fiction. To what extent are travel books non-fiction? And how far can real journeys inform and direct the imagination of the novelist?

Contributors

Unknown:
Isabel Hilton

With Jonathan Swain.
Scriabin Poem of Ecstasy, Op 54
12.30 Arensky Suite No 2 for two pianos, Op 2312.45 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F, BWV1047
1.00 Beethoven String Trio in E flat, Op 3 Janacek Mladi Kodaly Serenade for two violins and viola, Op 12
Janacek String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters) 2.45 Bruckner Te Deum in C
3.10 Rosetti Concerto in E flat for two Doms
3.30 Sibelius Symphony No 5
4.10 Bach Fugue (Sonata No 3 in C for solo violin, BWV1005)
4.25 Stenhammar Three Choral Songs
4.30 Roussel Three pieces for piano. Op 49
4.40 JM Bach LiebsterJesu Hor Mein
Flehen4.50 Rimsky-Korsakov The Three Wonders (Tale of Tsar Saltan)
5.00 Grieg Triumphal March (Sigurd Jorsalfar )
5.15 Schumann Myrten , Op 25 (excerpts)
5.30 Mozart Piano Sonata in B flat, K281
5.40 Telemann Sonata in C minor
5.50 Schubert Moment Musical No 1 in C, D780

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Janacek Mladi Kodaly
Unknown:
Bruckner Te Deum
Unknown:
Sigurd Jorsalfar
Unknown:
Schumann Myrten

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