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With Sandy Burnett.
Handel Concerto Grosso in D, HWV31 7 Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Marc Minkowski
6.50 Sibelius Scene with Cranes, Op 44 No 2 CBSO, conductor Simon Rattle
7.00 Mendelssohn Fantasy in F sharp minor, Op 28 (Sonate Ecossaise) Nicolai Demidenko (piano)
7.50 Waxman Tristan and Isolde Fantasia Mark Kaplan (violin), Cristina Ortiz (piano)
8.00 Vaughan Williams Sea Songs Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor George Hurst
8.30 Kodaly Variations on a Hungarian
Folk Song ("The Peacock") Philharmonia Hungarica, conductor Antal Dorati

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandy Burnett.
Conductor:
Marc Minkowski
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Piano:
Nicolai Demidenko
Piano:
Waxman Tristan
Violin:
Mark Kaplan
Violin:
Cristina Ortiz
Conductor:
George Hurst
Conductor:
Antal Dorati

2: Milan. Donald Macleod looks at
Puccini's early operatic successes (Le
Villi, Manon Lescaut ) and failures (Edgar). Prelude: Edgar, Act 1 Berlin RSO, conductor Riccardo Chailly
Edgar, Act 2 (excerpts)
Gwendoline Killebrew (soprano), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Vicente Sardinero (baritone), New York Opera Orchestra, conductor Eve Queler Edgar , Act 3 (excerpts) Renata Scotto
(soprano), New York Schola Cantorum and Opera Orchestra, conductor Eve Queler Crisantemi Hagen Quartet
Manon Lescaut , Act 2 (excerpt)
Nina Rautio (soprano), Peter Dvorsky (tenor), Luigi Roni and Silvestro Sammaritano (basses), Milan La Scala Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Manon Lescaut
Conductor:
Riccardo Chailly
Soprano:
Gwendoline Killebrew
Soprano:
Carlo Bergonzi
Baritone:
Vicente Sardinero
Unknown:
Queler Edgar
Soprano:
Renata Scotto
Unknown:
Queler Crisantemi Hagen
Unknown:
Manon Lescaut
Soprano:
Nina Rautio
Soprano:
Peter Dvorsky
Tenor:
Luigi Roni
Tenor:
Silvestro Sammaritano
Conductor:
Lorin Maazel

With Rob Cowan.

Mozart Hier Soll Ich Dich denn Sehen Konstanze; In Mohrenland Gefangen War (Die Entfuhrungaus dem Serail) - Aksel Schiotz (tenor), Copenhagen Royal Orchestra, conductor Egisto Tango

10.06 Liszt Prometheus - Moscow RSO, conductor Nikolai Golovanov

10.21 Listener Request: Chopin Preludes, Op 28 (excerpts) - Moriz Rosenthal (piano)

10.27 Listener Request: Vaughan Williams Symphony No 4 - Boston SO, conductor Colin Davis

10.59 Buxtehude Aperite Mihi Portas Justitiae - Elsa Sigfuss (alto), Aksel Schiotz (tenor), Holger Norgaard (bass), Else Marie Bruun and Julius Koppel (violins), Torben Anton Svendsen (cello), Mogens Woldike (harpsichord)

11.08 Liszt La Procession Nocturne - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur

11.24 Agerby Majnat - Aksel Schiotz (tenor), Aksel Agergy (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Rob Cowan

Artist in Focus: Mariss Jansons
The conductor talks to Humphrey Burton about the character and descriptive nature of music by Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky and the particular demands it makes on an orchestra.
Ravel Daphnis and Chloe Suite No 2 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Honegger Symphony No 3 (Liturgique) Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Debussy Prelude a I'Apres-midi d'un
Faune BBC National Orchestra of Wales Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1919 version) Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra

Contributors

Unknown:
Mariss Jansons
Unknown:
Humphrey Burton

BBC Philharmonic
Ilya Gringolts (violin), conductor Walter Weller Presented by Louise Fryer.
Zemlinsky Sinfonietta , Op 23
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor Dvorak Symphony No 5 in F

Contributors

Violin:
Ilya Gringolts
Conductor:
Walter Weller
Presented By:
Louise Fryer.
Presented By:
Zemlinsky Sinfonietta

The Four Temperaments lain Burnside finds songs by Schubert,
Mahler, Dowland, Charles Trenet , Monty Python and Joni Mitchell to match the four temperaments -sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholic and choleric.

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Trenet
Unknown:
Monty Python
Unknown:
Joni Mitchell

As a prelude to tonight's Performance on 3 from London's Barbican Hall,
Paul Guinery presents a concert live from the neighbouring St Giles Church with choral music by the featured composer Toru Takemitsu and music by other 20th-century composers that Takemitsu admired. BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury Debussy Trois C hansons de Charles d'Orleans Takemitsu Sakura
Messiaen 0 Sacrum Convivium
Feldman Christian Wolff in Cambridge Takemitsu Sayonara Cage Four2
Takemitsu Shima E; Maru to Sankaku No Uta Ravel Trois Chansons

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Guinery
Unknown:
Toru Takemitsu
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury
Unknown:
Hansons de Charles
Unknown:
Feldman Christian Wolff
Unknown:
Takemitsu Shima

BBC Symphony Orchestra
A concert live from the Barbican, London. Norbert Blume (viola), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kazushi Ono Takemitsu A String around Autumn
7.50 Twenty Minutes: Britain's First Film-maker
Robert Paul is almost forgotten today but in 1894 he launched the moving picture business in Britain and became a world-class player in the early film industry. Rim historian Ian Christie pieces togetherthe puzzle of this pioneering career.
8.10 Mahler Symphony No 7

Contributors

Viola:
London. Norbert Blume
Conductor:
Kazushi Ono
Unknown:
Robert Paul
Unknown:
Ian Christie

Fiona Talkington introduces JPP, Finland's finest fiddlers, whojoined Shetland fiddler Catriona Macdonald in Edinburgh this
Easter. Plus excerpts from the soundtrack to a new film, Heartlands, written by John McCuskerand Kate Rusby.

Contributors

Introduces:
Fiona Talkington
Unknown:
Catriona MacDonald
Written By:
Kate Rusby.

With Jonathan Swain.

WF Bach Rute Duet No 6 in G

12.15 Hummel Clarinet Quartet in E flat

12.45 Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 3

1.00 A recital of medieval English music performed by Sequentia.

2.00 Schoenberg Three Piano Pieces, Op 11

2.15 Britten Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge, Op 10

2.45 Kilpinen Spielmannslieder, Op 77

3.00 BBC Schools
3.00 Something to Think About
3.15 Let's Move
3.35 Time to Move
3.55 Stories and Rhymes
4.10 Let's Sing

4.30 Bruhns Prelude and Fugue in G minor

4.35 Handel Concerto Grosso in A, Op 6 No 11

4.50 Donizetti Edgar's Aria (Lucia di Lammermoor)

5.00 Moniuszko Polonaise (The Countess)

5.15 Weber Bassoon Concerto in F, Op 75

5.35 Liszt Liebestraume

5.40 Wilbye O What Shall I Doe; Weepe, Mine Eyes

5.50 D. Scarlatti Keyboard Sonata in A, Kk39

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

BBC Radio 3

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