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Donald Macleod and Jeremy Summerly examine the wide range of texts that Lassus set to music, and the radical nature of his compositions.
ProphetiaeSibyllarum Hilliard Ensemble Domine Exaudi (Penitential Psalm No 7) Henry's Eight
Salve Regina Choir of New College,
Oxford, director Edward Higginbottom

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Jeremy Summerly
Director:
Edward Higginbottom

St Magnus Festival
Linda Ormiston hears the tale of a Russian baby who was shipwrecked on Orkney in the 18th century.
Durufle Sicilienne (Suite, Op 5) Darius Battiwalla (organ)
Jennifer Wrigley Stoned Giants; Newark Bay Perfomed by the Composer (violin), Hazel Wrigley (guitar)
Chopin Nocturnes , Op 62: No 1 in B; No 2 in E; Scherzo in E, Op 54 Angela Hewitt (piano)
James MacMillan 0 BoneJesu
The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19
Faure, arr Casals Après un Rêve
Paul Watkins (cello), HuwWatkins (piano)

Contributors

Organ:
Darius Battiwalla
Guitar:
Hazel Wrigley
Guitar:
Chopin Nocturnes
Piano:
Angela Hewitt
Piano:
James MacMillan
Cello:
Paul Watkins

Leamington Festival 2003
Tommy Pearson introduces a concert recorded earlierthis year at the Leamington Festival.
Leon McCawley (piano)
Haydn Piano Sonata in E minor, HXVI 34 Berg Piano Sonata, Op 1
Beethoven Piano Sonata in A, Op 101

Contributors

Introduces:
Tommy Pearson
Piano:
Leon McCawley
Piano:
Haydn Piano Sonata

Another chance to hear Monday's evening Prom, introduced by Louise Fryer.
Stephen Hough (piano), Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer
Beethoven Overture: The Creatures of Prometheus
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor Revised 7pm

Contributors

Introduced By:
Louise Fryer.
Piano:
Stephen Hough
Conductor:
Ivan Fischer

J Live from Eton College Chapel, sung by this year's Eton Choral Course. Introit:
These Hours, and That which Hovers O'er
My End (Adrian Cruft ). Responses: Paul Spicer. Psalms: 114, 115 (Tonus
Peregrinus, Knight). First Reading: Hosea 6, wl-6. Office Hymn: The Duteous Day Now Closeth (Innsbruck). Magnificat: Giles Swayne. Second Reading: Luke 15, wll-32. Nunc Dimittis (eight-part)
(Howells). Anthem: Komm, Jesu, Komm
(Bach). Final Hymn: A Safe Stronghold Our God Is Still (Ein'FesteBurg). Organ
Voluntary: Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV542 (Bach). Director of music Ralph Allwood. Organist Mark Shepherd.

Contributors

Unknown:
Adrian Cruft
Unknown:
Paul Spicer.
Unknown:
Giles Swayne.
Organist:
Ralph Allwood.
Organist:
Mark Shepherd.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Presented by Martin Handley.
Paul Watkins (cello), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin

Haydn: Symphony No 104 in D (London)
William Schuman: A Song of Orpheus

Contributors

Presenter:
Martin Handley
Cellist:
Paul Watkins
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin

Sukhdev Sandu goes in search of the early presence of black people in the English metropolis. Black London was a real person - a name taken by one of the first Africans to be repatriated to West Africa in the 18th century. With SI Martin and the music of Lord Kitchener and Ignatius Sancho. Producer Tim Dee

Contributors

Unknown:
Si Martin
Unknown:
Ignatius Sancho.
Producer:
Tim Dee

nLive from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Mendelssohn's incidental music to
Antigone is placed in its dramatic context, in a version devised by Eugenia Arsenis , based on Sophocles's original text.
Antigone quarrels with King Creon about her dead brother Polynices - with tragic results. Presented by Christopher Cook.
Roderick Williams and Stephan Loges
(baritones), BBC Singers (men's voices), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Mendelssohn Antigone (sung in English)

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Unknown:
Eugenia Arsenis
Presented By:
Christopher Cook.
Unknown:
Roderick Williams
Baritones:
Stephan Loges
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Mendelssohn Antigone
Antigone:
Zoe Wattes
Creon:
Brian Protheroe
Ismene:
Kate Duchene
Haemon:
David Tennant
Teiresias:
John Carlisle

With Susan Sharpe.
JM Kraus Sinfonie in D 12.25 Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 4 in G 1.00 A recital of chamber music by Handel, performed by Louise Pellerin (oboe), Helene Plouff
(violin) and Dom Andr6 Laberge (organ).
2.10 Sibelius Song of the Earth, Op 93
2.30 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique) 3.20 Schumann Liederkreis , Op 39 3.45Schreker
Symphonic Interlude (Der Schatzgraber)
4.00 Schweiter Sancta Maria 4.05 JeneyBird Tempting 4.10 Koshkin Alighting of Birds 4.20 Schumann Vogel als Prophet, Op 82 No 7 4.25 Schmelzer Suite No 2 in D
4.30 Swedish tradition Three Choral Songs
4.40 Madetoja Overture, Op 7 4.50 Suk Elegie , Op 23 5.00 Bouwman Overture: Thalia 5.05 Chopin Preludes, Op 28
(excerpts) 5.15 Quantz Trio Sonata in E flat 5.25 Sweelinck Laudate Dominum
5.30 Bach Concerto in C minor for oboe and violin, BWV1060
5.40 Wagner Overture: Tannhauser

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Oboe:
Louise Pellerin
Oboe:
Helene Plouff
Unknown:
Schumann Liederkreis
Unknown:
Schumann Vogel
Unknown:
Suk Elegie

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