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With Penny Gore.

6.20 Haydn Symphony No 64 in A, (Tempora Mutantur) - Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood

6.45 Debussy Prelude a L'Apres-midi d'un Faune - London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas

7.00 Elgar Overture: Froissart - LPO conducted by the Composer

7.45 Lutoslawski Dance Preludes - Sharon Kam (clarinet), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Krzysztof Penderecki

8.15 Bach Trio Sonata in F, BWV525 - London Baroque

8.40 Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2, Op 102 - Performed by the Composer, French National Radio Orchestra, conductor Andre Cluytens

1: The Air from Another Planet
Donald Macleod traces the early career of Arnold Schoenberg , whose music was greeted with hostility almost from the first. As the teacher of Alban Berg and Anton Webern , he became the father of what is known as the Second Viennese School of composition.
Schoenberg Klavierstiick , Op 19 No 6 Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Chamber Symphony No 1, Op 9 (1906 version) Ensemble InterContemporain, conductor Pierre Boulez
String Quartet No 2, 0pl0(4thmvt)
(1929 version for string orchestra)
Faye Robinson (soprano), Stockholm Chamber Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen Five Orchestral Pieces, Op 16
Chicago SO, conductor Daniel Barenboim Producer Megan Jones

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Arnold Schoenberg
Unknown:
Alban Berg
Unknown:
Anton Webern
Unknown:
Schoenberg Klavierstiick
Piano:
Daniel Barenboim
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez
Soprano:
Faye Robinson
Conductor:
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Conductor:
Daniel Barenboim
Producer:
Megan Jones

With Rob Cowan. Featuring Mozart serenades and performances by Danish-American baritone Lauritz Melchior.
Bernstein Galop ; Waltz; Danzon (Fancy Free) Boston Pops Orchestra, conductor Arthur Fiedler
10.08 Verdi Di Provenza il Mar (La Traviata, Act 2) Leoncavallo Vesti la Giubba
(IPagliacci) Lauritz Melchior (baritone), unknown orchestra and conductor
10.17 Mozart Divertimento in D, K131 Cleveland Orchestra, conductor George Szell
10.43 Wagner Isolde ! Tristan! ... Solllch Lauschen (Tristan und Isolde, Act 2)
Frida Leider (soprano), Lauritz Melchior (tenor), Berlin State Opera Orchestra, LSO, conductor Albert Coates
11.01 Couperin Les Fastes de la Grande Menestrandise (Pieces de Clavecin, Ordre No 11) Wanda Landowska (harpsichord)
11.07 Strauss Dance Suite after Couperin (excerpts) Philharmonia/Artur Rodzinski

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Baritone:
Lauritz Melchior.
Baritone:
Bernstein Galop
Conductor:
Arthur Fiedler
Conductor:
Verdi Di Provenza
Baritone:
Lauritz Melchior
Conductor:
Mozart Divertimento
Conductor:
George Szell
Conductor:
Wagner Isolde
Unknown:
Solllch Lauschen
Soprano:
Frida Leider
Soprano:
Lauritz Melchior
Conductor:
Albert Coates
Conductor:
Couperin Les Fastes
Harpsichord:
Wanda Landowska

Each day this week Humphrey Burton presents highlights from the previous day's round in the BBC Singer of the World Song Prize. The first heat, held yesterday at the New Theatre in Cardiff, featured Burak Bilgili (bass - from Turkey) with Phillip Thomas (piano), Tania Kross (mezzo-from the Netherlands) with Hans Schellevis , D'Arcy Bleiker (bass-baritone - Switzerland) with PhillipThomas, and Nicholas Phan (tenor - USA) with Simon Lepper.
The first heat of the BBC Singer of the World opera competition is shown on BBC4 tonight at 7.15pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Burton
Bass:
Burak Bilgili
Piano:
Phillip Thomas
Piano:
Tania Kross
Unknown:
Hans Schellevis
Bass-Baritone:
D'Arcy Bleiker
Bass-Baritone:
Nicholas Phan
Unknown:
Simon Lepper.

Ulster Orchestra
Tommy Pearson presents music by Alan Rawsthorne and Constant Lambert.
Lambert Aubade Héroïque
Rawsthome Piano Concerto No 1
Peter Donohoe , conductor Takua Yuasa Stravinsky Suite: Pulcinella
Conductor Charles Hazlewood
Rawsthome Improvisations on a Theme of Constant Lambert
Conductor Takua Yuasa
Roussel Symphony No 4
Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk

Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Pearson
Music By:
Alan Rawsthorne
Conductor:
Peter Donohoe
Conductor:
Takua Yuasa
Conductor:
Charles Hazlewood
Conductor:
Takua Yuasa
Conductor:
Jerzy Maksymiuk

Richard Rodgers Revisited.
Edward Seckerson looks at a couple of Rodgers and Hammerstein's shows that originally flopped on Broadway: Pipe Dream and Allegro. Plus Rodgers and Hart's To Keep My Love Alive from A Connecticut Yankee. ADDRESS: Stage and Screen, Room 220, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow, G12 8DG EMAIL: stageandscreen@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Seckerson
Unknown:
Queen Margaret Drive

BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor Michael Nyman (piano)
In a concert recorded earlierthis month at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Michael Nyman conducts and performs music from some of his film scores, including
Gattaca, The Claim, The Draughtsman's Contract, Prospero's Books and The Piano. Presented by Tommy Pearson.

Contributors

Conductor:
Michael Nyman
Unknown:
Albert Hall
Unknown:
Michael Nyman
Presented By:
Tommy Pearson.

Paul Allen and guests discuss Michael Wood 's four-part television series exploring Shakespeare's life, In Search of Shakespeare. Plus the first in a week-long series of profiles and interviews with hot, young British-based architects: Alejandro Zaera Polo of Foreign Office Architects. Producer Angharad Law

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Michael Wood
Unknown:
Alejandro Zaera Polo

Verity Sharp 's selections tonight include traditional kantele musicfrom Finland, ritual chanting from the Loseling Dratsang of Drepung Monastery, Tibet, and Morton Feldman 's For Samuel Beckett , performed by the Chamber Music Ensemble for New Music of Berlin directed by Roland Kluttig.

Contributors

Unknown:
Verity Sharp
Unknown:
Loseling Dratsang
Unknown:
Morton Feldman
Unknown:
Samuel Beckett
Directed By:
Roland Kluttig.

With Jonathan Swain. Rossini Overture:
La Gazza Ladra 12.20 Boccherini Cello
Concerto in D, G478 12.40 Bach Cantata No 4: Christ Lag in Todesbanden
1.00 Ragnstrom Violin Suite No 2
Stenhammar Late Summer Nights, Op 33 Wiren Violin Sonatina Oskar Lindberg Piano Quartet Larsson Violin Sonatina
2.20 Mielczewski Missa super 0 Gloriosa Domina 2.35 JM Kraus Sinfonie in E flat
3.00 4.30 BBC Schools
3.00 Let's Make a Story 3.15 Just Poetry
3.25 Just Poetry 3.35 Just Poetry
3.45 Tales from Europe 4.00 Word Games
4.15 Word Games
4.30 Dessane Ouverture 4.35 Parry Lord , Let
Me Know Mine End (Songs of Farewell, No 6) 4.50 Georg Muffat Concerto
Grosso No 11 in E minor (Delirium Amoris)
5.00 Josquin des Prez Plaine de Dueil 5.15 Francaix Eight Exotic Dances
5.25 Fesch Concerto in G minor for two flutes, Op 5 No 2 5.40 Gounod, arr Liszt Valse de I 'Opera Faust 5.50 Wagner The Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walkure)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Mielczewski Missa
Unknown:
Parry Lord
Unknown:
Georg Muffat
Unknown:
Liszt Valse

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