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With Penny Gore.
Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 3
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
6.15 Vivaldi In Turbata Mare Irato, RV627 Emma Kirkby (soprano), Tafelmusik
7.00 Biber Sonata a 7 London Consort, conductor Philip Pickett
7.08 Albeniz La Vega
Alicia de Laroccha (piano)
8.00 Kodaly Theatre Overture Philharmonia Hungarica , conductor Antal Dorati
8.38 Respighi The Birds
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor I stvan Kertesz

Contributors

Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Soprano:
Emma Kirkby
Conductor:
Philip Pickett
Conductor:
Albeniz La Vega
Conductor:
Philharmonia Hungarica
Conductor:
Antal Dorati

Donald Macleod introduces the music Langgaard wrote during the First World War. While in his early twenties,
Langgaard seems to have felt he could do anything and wrote music many years ahead of its time, full of new ideas that no western composer had evertried before. This is most evident in the astonishing Music of the Spheres.
Train Moving Away (String Quartet No 2) Kontra Quartet
Music of the Spheres
Henriette Bonde-Hansen (soprano), Danish National Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Schonwandt
Insektarium Teddy Teirup (piano) Lenau Moods No 4
Annette Simonsen (mezzo), members of the Randers Chamber Orchestra

Contributors

Introduces:
Donald MacLeod
Soprano:
Henriette Bonde-Hansen
Conductor:
Michael Schonwandt
Piano:
Insektarium Teddy Teirup

With Jonathan Swain.
Ewald Quintet No 3 in D, Op 7 Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
10.19 Dvorak The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op 109 London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Istvan Kertesz
10.46 Bernstein, arrCrees "Cool" Fugue and Finale (West Side Story Suite) Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Conductor:
Istvan Kertesz

Cheltenham International Festival of Music
Chris de Souza presents another mid-morning concert from the Pittville Pump Room in Cheltenham, given as part of this year's festival of music. Today's featured artists are the Haffner Wind Ensemble and pianist Angela Hewitt.
Rameau/Oubradous Symphonies et Dances
Mihaud Suite d'apres Corrette, for oboe, clarinet and bassoon
Bach/M Berkeley Re-inventions
11.50 Twenty Minutes: Utz
By Bruce Chatwi n. 2: More facts on mysterious Marta. Read by Ian McDiarmid.
12.10 Mozart Adagio and Allegro in F minor, K594; Quintet in Eflat for piano and winds, K452

Contributors

Pianist:
Angela Hewitt.
Unknown:
Bruce Chatwi
Read By:
Ian McDiarmid.
Read By:
Mozart Adagio

Stephanie Hughes presents a recital recorded last Thursday in the church of St Andrew Holborn, another concert in the City of London Festival's Angel series.
Judith Bingham 's response to the impact of war on children isframed by two quartets in the dark key of F minor. But they share more than their key: the Beethoven and Shostakovich in today's concert inhabit a similarworld of emotional extremes.
Helen Meyerhoff (soprano), Chamber Domaine
Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 (Serioso)
Judith Bingham My Father's Arms
Shostakovich String Quartet No 11, Op 122

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes
Unknown:
Judith Bingham
Soprano:
Helen Meyerhoff
Unknown:
Judith Bingham

BBC Philharmonic
Presented by Sandy Burnett.
Wagner Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Gotterdammerung) Conductor Edward Downes
Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony Conductor Vassily Sinaisky
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 1
Mikhail Rudy , conductor Vassily Sinaisky Scriabin Poem of Ecstasy Conductor Vassily Sinaisky

Contributors

Presented By:
Sandy Burnett.
Presented By:
Wagner Dawn
Conductor:
Edward Downes
Conductor:
Tchaikovsky Manfred
Conductor:
Vassily Sinaisky
Conductor:
Mikhail Rudy
Conductor:
Vassily Sinaisky
Conductor:
Scriabin Poem
Conductor:
Vassily Sinaisky

Spotlight on Grace Bumbry lain Burnside talks to the celebrated
American mezzo about her career and about her favourite recordings,which include excerpts from the operas of Verdi, songs by Schubert and Schumann, and spirituals.

John Dankworth , one of Britain's most influential jazz musicians, is 75 this year, and tonight's concert comes from the Stables, Wavendon, in Buckinghamshire, where the acclaimed National Youth Jazz
Orchestra, under their director Bill Ashton , present an evening of his music. With special guests Cleo Laine , Tony Coe and Charlie Barber , and featuring Dankworth's compositions old and new, including memorable scores for film and television.
And there's an opportunityto hear John Dankworth and Friends, the quartet Dankworth has formed with Alec Dankworth (bass), Allan Ganley (drums), John Horier (piano) and Mark Nightingale (trombone). Presented by Geoffrey Smith. Music includes:
Mark Armstrong Fanfare: Worshipful Company
Dankworth What the Dickens!
With Tony Coe (saxophone) Dankworth Double Vision
Dankworth Shakespeare Sonnets With Cleo Laine

Contributors

Unknown:
John Dankworth
Director:
Bill Ashton
Unknown:
Cleo Laine
Unknown:
Tony Coe
Unknown:
Charlie Barber
Unknown:
John Dankworth
Bass:
Alec Dankworth
Bass:
Allan Ganley
Piano:
John Horier
Piano:
Mark Nightingale
Presented By:
Geoffrey Smith.
Unknown:
Mark Armstrong
Unknown:
Tony Coe
Unknown:
Dankworth Shakespeare
Unknown:
Cleo Laine

Tonight, Richard Coles examines the life and legacy of Georges Bataille , philosopher, writer of the erotic masterpiece Story of the Eye, and an important influence on Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Coles
Unknown:
Georges Bataille

Trombonist Torbjorn Sunde joins guitarist Terje Rypdal and there is music from the Maria Kannegaard Trio and James MacMillan. Introduced by Fiona Talkington.

Contributors

Unknown:
Torbjorn Sunde
Guitarist:
Terje Rypdal
Guitarist:
James MacMillan.
Introduced By:
Fiona Talkington.

With Jonathan Swain.

Elgar Sea Pictures, Op 37

12.30 Stanford Cello Sonata No 2 in D minor, Op 39

1.00 A recital of songs by Henry Lawes, Thomas Campion and Alfonso Ferrabosco performed by Emma Kirkby (soprano) and Anthony Rooley (lute). Recorded in October 2000 at St David's Hall, Cardiff.

1.50 Wagner Siegfried Idyll

2.10 Mahler Kindertotenlieder

2.35 Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor, D784

3.00 Beethoven Violin Concerto in D, Op 61

3.45 Nielsen Wind Quintet

4.10 Debussy Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme

4.20 Fasch Sonata in D minor

4.30 Liszt Les Preludes

4.50 Puccini, transcr Epstein Excerpts from La Boheme

5.00 MacDowell Suite in A minor for large orchestra

5.20 Caldara Vi Sento, O Dio; Di Quel Sangue (La Passione di Gesu Christo)

5.40 Wojclech Kllar Choral Prelude

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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