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With Penny Gore.
Copland Ballet: Appalachian Spring St Paul Chamber Orchestra, conductor Hugh Wolff
6.40 Beethoven Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 81a (Les Adieux) Louis Lortie (piano)
7.00 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E, RV271 (L'Amoroso) Piero Toso , I Solisti Veneti , conductor Claudio Scimone
7.50 Bach Piece d'orgue in G, BWV572 Marie-Claire Alain (organ)
8.00 Merikanto Scherzo
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Tuomas Ollila
8.30 Debussy, orch Stokowski Night in Granada National Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Leopold Stokowski

Contributors

Conductor:
Hugh Wolff
Piano:
Louis Lortie
Unknown:
Piero Toso
Conductor:
Solisti Veneti
Conductor:
Claudio Scimone
Unknown:
Marie-Claire Alain
Conductor:
Tuomas Ollila
Conductor:
Leopold Stokowski

2: War and Revolution
Donald Macleod examines how the First
World War and the subsequent traumatic events in Hungary led to Kodaly's unprecedented period of compositional silence during the early 1920s. This period signalled a transformation in his musical output, from mostly solo works and chamber music to pieces for orchestra or massed voices.
A Red Apple Smiles (Two Folk Songs from Zobor) GyorGirls' Choir, conductor Miklos Szabo
Sonata for solo cello, Op 8 Janos Starker
Psalmus Hungaricus, Op 13
Andras Molnar (tenor), Hungarian State
Chorus, Bela Bartok Children 's Chorus of Gyor, Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Conductor:
Miklos Szabo
Tenor:
Andras Molnar
Unknown:
Bela Bartok Children
Conductor:
Ivan Fischer

With Rob Cowan.
Wagner Overture: Die Meistersinger LSO, conductor John Barbirolli
10.12 Handel Concerto in B flat, Op 4 No 6 Wanda Landowska (harpsichord), conductor Eugene Bigot
10.25 Faure Après un Rêve
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Vladimir Yampolsky (piano)
10.29 Mozart Regina Coeli , K276
Barbara Bonney (soprano), Elisabeth von Magnus (contralto), Uwe Heilmann (tenor), Gilles Cachemaille (bass), Arnold
Schoenberg Choir, Vienna Concentus Musicus, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
10.37 Wieniawski Capriccio-valse
Erica Morini (violin), Max Lanner (piano)
10.42 Sullivan, arr Robinson Savoy
Dances Pro Arte Orchestra, conductor Stanford Robinson

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
John Barbirolli
Harpsichord:
Wanda Landowska
Conductor:
Eugene Bigot
Cello:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Piano:
Vladimir Yampolsky
Piano:
Mozart Regina Coeli
Soprano:
Barbara Bonney
Contralto:
Uwe Heilmann
Bass:
Gilles Cachemaille
Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Violin:
Erica Morini
Violin:
Max Lanner
Conductor:
Stanford Robinson

Cheltenham International Festival of Music
Chris de Souza presents the second week of this week's mid-morning concerts from the Pittville Pump Room in Cheltenham, given as part of this year's Festival of Music. Today's featured artists are the Nash Ensemble.
Schumann Phantasiestucke , Op 73 Turnage Cantilena
11.40 Twenty Minutes: Summer Pleasures Novelist Helen Dunmore delights in the pleasures of summer bathing at a members-only lake.
12.00 Mozart Oboe Quartet in F, K370 Franck Piano Quintet in F minor

Contributors

Unknown:
Schumann Phantasiestucke
Unknown:
Helen Dunmore

Leamington French Music Festival
Chris de Souza introduces the first of five concerts from this year's festival.
Debussy String Quartet Ludwig Quartet Faure Cinque Mélodies "de Venise"
Emma Bell (soprano), Andrew West (piano) Debussy Petite Suite
Kathryn Stott and Noriko Ogawa (pianos)

Contributors

Introduces:
Chris de Souza
Soprano:
Emma Bell
Soprano:
Andrew West
Unknown:
Kathryn Stott
Pianos:
Noriko Ogawa

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Presented by Paul Guinery.
Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde) Conductor Mark Wigglesworth Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216 Krysia Osostowicz , conductor Joseph Swensen
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Lars Vogt , conductor Mark Wigglesworth
Mozart Symphony No 36 in C, K425 (Linz) Conductor Joseph Swensen

Contributors

Presented By:
Paul Guinery.
Conductor:
Mark Wigglesworth
Conductor:
Krysia Osostowicz
Conductor:
Joseph Swensen
Conductor:
Lars Vogt
Conductor:
Mark Wigglesworth
Conductor:
Joseph Swensen

Geoffrey Smith talks to the American song composer Ned Rorem about his songs, the poets he sets most frequently and the American song tradition which has inspired him. Includes songs by Rorem, Copland, Bernstein, Sondheim and Cole Porter.

Contributors

Talks:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Ned Rorem
Unknown:
Cole Porter.

Cheltenham Festival
Chris de Souza introduces a concert live from the Pittville Pump Room in which two of the most talented young quartets, the Belcea and the Jerusalem, join forces in music by Shostakovich, Mendelssohn and Walton, and are heard individually in works by Webern and Kurtag.
Shostakovich Two Pieces for string octet, Op 11
Webem Slow movement Belcea Quartet Kurtag Officium Breve Jerusalem Quartet
8.15 Twenty Minutes: Burmese Daze In the first of two South East Asian excursions, novelist and broadcaster Christopher Hope visits the "half police-state and paradise" now known as Myanmar.
8.35 Walton, arr M Berkeley Touch Her Soft Lips and Part (Henry V)
Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20 See also tomorrow 11am

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Hope

With Susan Sharpe.
Sweelinck Tes Beaux Yeux
12.15 Weber Symphony No 1 in C
12.40 Bach Viola da Gamba Sonata No 3 in G minor, BWV1029
1.00 Ensemble Daedalus perform spiritual and sacred works from the 15th-century Segovia Cathedral Songbook, including compositions by Heinrich Isaac , Jakob Obrecht , Francisco de la Torre and Juan del Encina. Recorded at the Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Kerk, Haarlem, in August 1991.
2.10 Jenner Trio in E flat for clarinet, horn and piano 2.40 Mozart Piano Sonata in C,
K330 3.00 Brahms Symphony No 2 in D
3.40 Schumann FunfGesangederFruhe, Op 133
3.50 Haydn String Quartet in B minor, Op 64 No 2
4.10 Arcangelo Califano Sonata a quattro in C for two oboes 4.20 Mozart, arr Danzi Duos from Cosi Fan Tutte
4.35 Boris Blacher Variations on a theme of Nicolo Paganini , Op 264.50 G Gabrieli Magnificat 5.05 Bizet Parle-moi de Ma Mere (Carmen) 5.15 Gershwin Lullaby
5.25 Chaminade Automne, Op 35 No 2
5.35 Mendelssohn Psalm 22, Op 78 No 3
5.50 Sarasate Zigeunerweisen , Op 20

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
Bach Viola
Unknown:
Heinrich Isaac
Unknown:
Jakob Obrecht
Unknown:
Francisco de la Torre
Unknown:
Jenner Trio
Unknown:
Danzi Duos
Unknown:
Boris Blacher
Unknown:
Nicolo Paganini
Unknown:
Sarasate Zigeunerweisen

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