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With Penny Gore .
John Bennet All Creatures Now Are Merry Minded
I Fagiolini, conductor Robert Hollingworth
6.40 Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor, Op 120 No 1 Franklin Cohen , Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
7.00 Chabrier Overture:
Gwendoline RPO , conductor Thomas Beecham
7.30 Weill Speak Low (One Touch of Venus) Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo),
North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
8.00 Delius La Calinda Northern Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
8.35 Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme ofPaganini Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn

Contributors

Unknown:
Penny Gore
Unknown:
John Bennet
Conductor:
Robert Hollingworth
Unknown:
Franklin Cohen
Piano:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Conductor:
Gwendoline Rpo
Conductor:
Thomas Beecham
Conductor:
Weill Speak Low
Unknown:
Anne Sofie von Otter
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Piano:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Conductor:
Andre Previn

5: Late Works, 1980-94. Following the collapse of the communist system in Poland, the composer became chair of the Polish Cultural Council and an international composers' competition was inaugurated in his name. Donald Macleod looks at Lutoslawski's final works.
Fanfare for Louisville
Polish National RSO, conductor Antoni Wit Partita Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), BBCSO conducted by the Composer
Chantefleurs et Chantefables (excerpt);
Symphony No 4 Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Conductor:
Antoni Wit
Conductor:
Esa-Pekka Salonen

With Rob Cowan.
Dvorak Hussite Overture, Op 67 LSO, conductor Witold Rowicki
10.16 Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44 Philippe Entremont (piano), Alban Berg Quartet
10.46 Szymanowski Symphony No 3 (Song of the Night)
Stefania Woytowicz (soprano), Warsaw National Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Witold Rowicki
11.12 Chopin Scherzo No 4 in E, Op 54 Artur Rubinstein (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Piano:
Philippe Entremont
Piano:
Alban Berg
Soprano:
Stefania Woytowicz
Piano:
Artur Rubinstein

Thomas Tomkins - Unsung Genius
From St Andrews in the Square in Glasgow, Sandy Burnett introduces a recital of songs by one of Britain's most under-rated composers, along with madrigals by his Italian contemporaries. I Fagiolini, director Robert Hollingworth
Tomkins See , See the Shepherds' Queen; Music Divine; How Great Delight; When I Observe
Monteverdi Non Piu Guerra Pietate;
Ohime Se Tanto Amate; Piagn 'e Sospira Tomkins Oft Did I Marie; Was Ever Wretch Tormented
Gesualdo Itene 0 1 Miei Sospiri
Tomkins Weep No More; To the Shady Woods ; Too Much / Once Lamented

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Tomkins
Unknown:
St Andrews
Introduces:
Sandy Burnett
Director:
Robert Hollingworth
Director:
Tomkins See
Unknown:
Sospira Tomkins
Unknown:
Miei Sospiri
Unknown:
Shady Woods

BBC Symphony Orchestra - Elgar Symphonies
Elgar's Third Symphony, completed by Anthony Payne , has been a staple of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's repertoire since they gave its first performance in 1998. Andrew Davis conducts a performance from the orchestra's tour of the Far East last year, and Piers Lane champions a neglected masterpiece by another English composer, John Ireland.
Presented by Martin Handley.
Sallinen String Quartet No 3 (arrfor string orchestra) Conductor Ola Rudner Ireland Piano Concerto
Piers Lane , conductor Andrew Davis
Elgar, completed Payne Symphony No 3 in C minor Conductor Andrew Davis

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Payne
Unknown:
Andrew Davis
Unknown:
John Ireland.
Presented By:
Martin Handley.
Conductor:
Ola Rudner
Conductor:
Piers Lane
Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Conductor:
Andrew Davis

Art Pepper. Julian Joseph introduces recordings by the West Coast saxophonist, with highlights from a BBC interview from 1980. Selections include Pepper's early work with the Stan Kenton Orchestra, a small-group session with the Miles Davis rhythm section and a collaboration with arranger Marty Paich.

Contributors

Introduces:
Julian Joseph
Unknown:
Stan Kenton
Unknown:
Miles Davis
Unknown:
Marty Paich.

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and news from the arts world. He is joined by jazz diva Flora Purim and her musical partner AirtoMoreira, with whom she has collaborated on over 30 albums, and violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt play live in the studio.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Rafferty
Violinist:
Christian Tetzlaff
Pianist:
Lars Vogt

A concert from the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, presented by Geoffrey Smith. Mark Elder conducts the Halle Orchestra in Aaron Jay Kernis 's New Era Dance and Duke Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder. Plus excerpts from the Cole Porter songbook, including Another Openin', Another Show; I've Got You under My Skin and My Heart Belongs to Daddy, sung by Claire Martin.

Contributors

Presented By:
Geoffrey Smith.
Unknown:
Aaron Jay Kernis
Sung By:
Claire Martin.

Richard Coles talks to William FPepper , attorney and friend of Martin Luther King , whose new book An Act of State is a devastating account of the United States government's role in King's assassination in 1968. The book sets out the details from the explosive 1999 court case, which outlined the involvement of the FBI and CIA, local Memphis police, and organised crime in a conspiracyto murder King.

Contributors

Talks:
Richard Coles
Unknown:
William Fpepper
Unknown:
Martin Luther King

Mark-Anthony Turnage. A concert recorded earlier in the week as part of the Barbican's Composer Weekend. Pianist John Taylor , bassist Dave Carpenter and percussionist Peter Erksine perform their own compositions as well as Turnage's, and music by some of Turnage's musical heroes. Plus an interview with the composer.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark-Anthony Turnage.
Pianist:
John Taylor
Bassist:
Dave Carpenter
Unknown:
Peter Erksine

With Jonathan Swain. Mendelssohn
Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 in C, K467 Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A 2.20 Cage Four2; Story; Litany for the Whale Copland Lincoln Portrait 2.50 Weiss Lute Suite No 17 in F minor 3.15 Tchaikovsky The Seasons, Op 37b 4.00 J Strauss (son) Waltz: Wienerblut, Op 354
4.10 Haydn Piano Trio in A, H XV 18
4.30 Palestrina Gloriosi Principes Terrae
4.35 Mouret Cantata: AndromedeetPersee
4.50 Fesch Concerto in D, Op 5 No 1
5.00 Chopin Ballade No 1 in G minor. Op 23
5.05 Porumbescu Ballad 5.15 Praetorius Dans une Etable Obscure 5.20 Bizet
L 'Arlesienne: Suite No 1 5.35 Bourdon
Poeme Elegiaque 5.40 Davide da Bergamo La Vera Piva Montanara 5.50 Farnaby, arr Howarth Fancies, Toyes andDreames

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Praetorius Dans

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