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With Tommy Pearson.
Britten The Sword in the Stone
Nash Ensemble
6.40 CPE Bach Cello Concerto in A,
Wql 72 Anner Bylsma , Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Gustav Leonhardt
7.00 Beethoven Wellington's Victory Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Herbert von Karajan
7.40 Mozart Symphony No 13 in F, K112 Vienna Concentus Musicus, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
8.00 Ireland Tritons
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox
8.50 Gershwin Overture: Oh, Kay! Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas

Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Pearson.
Unknown:
Anner Bylsma
Conductor:
Gustav Leonhardt
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas

Although Delius was brought up in England, he didn't much care for the place and lived abroad for virtually all of his adult life. It is nonetheless with England that he remains most strongly associated.
Donald Macleod explores the composer's complex relationship with the land of his birth, and looks at the influential championship of his music by conductor Thomas Beecham.
Brigg Fair Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Thomas Beecham
Cello Sonata Julian Lloyd Webber, Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Divertissement; The War Song of the Saracens (Hassan) Bournemouth Sinfonietta Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley
Winter Landscapes; The March of Spring (North Country Sketches)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Conductor:
Thomas Beecham.
Conductor:
Thomas Beecham
Unknown:
Julian Lloyd Webber
Conductor:
Vernon Handley
Conductor:
Richard Hickox

With Jonathan Swain.
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Kiril Kondrashin
10.35 Bach Lute Partita No 2 in C minor, BWV997Julian Bream (guitar)
10.56 Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 2, Op 38
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Heinz Holliger
11.19 Carulli Duo in G, Op 34
Julian Bream and John Williams (guitars)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Conductor:
Heinz Holliger
Conductor:
Carulli Duo
Unknown:
Julian Bream
Guitars:
John Williams

Music and Arts Week
4: 1900 Vienna
Christopher Cook visits the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with design historian Sorrel Hershbergto explore how the furniture and metalwork of the Wiener Werkstatte connects to the music written in turn-of-the-century Vienna.
Schreker Intermezzo for strings, Op 8 BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor David Porcelijn
Mahler Five Ruckert Lieder Alice Coote
(soprano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Christian Gansch
Webern LangsamerSatz ; FunfStucke Karol Szymanowski Quartet Berg Piano Sonata, Op 1 Ashley Wass (piano)
Strauss, arr Schoenberg Waltz: Kaiser Britten-Pears Ensemble

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Museum
Unknown:
Sorrel Hershbergto
Unknown:
Wiener Werkstatte
Conductor:
David Porcelijn
Soprano:
Alice Coote
Conductor:
Christian Gansch
Conductor:
Webern Langsamersatz

Russian Roulette
A concert recorded last year at St George's Bristol. Presented by Chris de Souza. Krzysztof Smietana (violin), Mikhail Kazakevich (piano)
Prokofiev Five Melodies, Op 35a Shostakovich Preludes, Op 34 (excerpts) Prokofiev Violin Sonata No 2, Op 94a

Contributors

Presented By:
Chris de Souza.

Ulster Orchestra
Conductor Janos Furst
Presented by Sandy Burnett. Part Summa
Mozart Concerto in E flat for two pianos, K365 Finghin Collins and Hugh Tinney Martinu Double Concerto for two string orchestras, piano and timpani
Nielsen Symphony No 4 (Inextinguishable)

Contributors

Conductor:
Janos Furst
Presented By:
Sandy Burnett.
Unknown:
Finghin Collins
Unknown:
Hugh Tinney

Jeanne Lamon
Today Lucie Skeaping is in conversation with Canadian violinist Jeanne Lamon. As both soloist with and director of the chamber orchestra Tafelmusik, Lamon has devoted her career to the performance of Baroque and classical music on period instruments and has recorded a very wide range of music. Including music by Vivaldi, Bach, Haydn and Handel.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeanne Lamon
Unknown:
Lucie Skeaping
Violinist:
Jeanne Lamon.

Edinburgh International Festival 2002
Andras Schiff directs the Chamber
Orchestra of Europe and takes the solo piano parts in Janacek's rarely heard Capriccio (for left hand only) and the Schumann concerto. A concert given at the Usher Hall last month, presented by Sandy Burnett.
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor/director Andras Schiff (piano) Bach Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV1067 Janacek Capriccio
Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor Bach Suite No 4 in D, BWV1069

Contributors

Unknown:
Andras Schiff
Presented By:
Sandy Burnett.
Piano:
Andras Schiff

Philip Dodd talks to Sam Mendes about his film The Road to Perdition and reviews
Mendes's production of Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse. Also tonight, AS Byatt discusses her new novel,
A Whistling Woman, and locks horns with geneticist Steve Jones about his study of masculinity, The Descent of Men.

Contributors

Talks:
Philip Dodd
Unknown:
Sam Mendes
Unknown:
Steve Jones

Electro-balladeers Lali Puna , singers
Martin Carthy and NormaWaterson, and jazz-inspired composer
Mark-Anthony Turnage feature in tonight's programme, presented by Verity Sharp.

Contributors

Singers:
Lali Puna
Singers:
Martin Carthy
Unknown:
Mark-Anthony Turnage
Presented By:
Verity Sharp.

With John Shea.
Gesualdo Ave, Dulcissima Maria
12.10 Kodaly Cello Sonata, Op 4
12.30 Szaloneck Miserere
12.40 Decsenyi An Epitaph from Aquincum
1.00 Brahms Variations on a theme by Haydn, Op 56a (St Antony)
Mahler Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen
Brahms, arr Rubbra 25 Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, Op 24
2.05 Handel Floridante (excerpts)
2.35 Mozart Piano Sonata in C, K330

Contributors

Unknown:
John Shea.
Unknown:
Dulcissima Maria
Unknown:
Szaloneck Miserere
Unknown:
Fahrenden Gesellen

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