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With Donald Macleod and Jeremy Summerly. The Renaissance saw a renewal of interest in Classical poetry as well as a blossoming in contemporary writing. Lassus set both ancient and modern poetry to music.
Dulces Exuviae (Dido's Lament)
Huelgas Ensemble, director Paul van Nevel Lagrime di San Pietro
Emma Kirkby and Evelyn Tubb (sopranos), Mary Nichols and Cathy Cass (altos),
Joseph Cornwell and Andrew King (tenors), Richard Wistreich (bass), Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Jeremy Summerly.
Director:
Paul van Nevel
Director:
Lagrime Di San Pietro
Director:
Emma Kirkby
Sopranos:
Evelyn Tubb
Sopranos:
Mary Nichols
Sopranos:
Cathy Cass
Unknown:
Joseph Cornwell
Tenors:
Andrew King
Bass:
Richard Wistreich
Director:
Anthony Rooley

St Magnus Festival
Linda Ormiston drops in on the Orkney
Conductors' Course, and poet-in-residence Paul Muldoon examines a hole in the wall.
Peter Maxwell Davies 0 Magnum Mysterium The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers
Traditional Laxo Burn; The Hoy Tune Jamie Marwick (mandolin), Neil Sabiston (accordion)
Chick Corea , arr Smith Children 's Songs (excerpts) Tommy Smith (tenor saxophone), Scottish Ensemble
Messaien Les Bergers; Les Enfants de Dieu; Jesus Accepte la Souffrance ; Dieu Parmi Nous (La Nativité du Seigneur) Darius Battiwalla (organ)
Richard Rodgers It Never Entered My Mind (Higher and Higher) Tommy Smith (tenor saxophone), Brian Kellock (piano) Robert Carver 0 Bone Jesu
The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers Maxwell Davies Maws in Las Vegas BBC Philharmonic, conductor Rumon Gamba

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Muldoon
Unknown:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Conductor:
Harry Christophers
Accordion:
Neil Sabiston
Accordion:
Chick Corea
Tenor:
Tommy Smith
Unknown:
Jesus Accepte La Souffrance
Unknown:
Darius Battiwalla
Unknown:
Richard Rodgers
Tenor:
Tommy Smith
Piano:
Brian Kellock
Piano:
Robert Carver
Conductor:
Harry Christophers
Conductor:
Maxwell Davies Maws
Conductor:
Rumon Gamba

Another chance to hear a recital given last year at St Stephen Walbrook as part of the City of London Festival. The Orlando
Consort perform vocal music from the Renaissance and today, by Dunstaple, Will May, Dave Hunt , Walter Frye , Gavin Bryars and others.

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Walbrook
Unknown:
Dave Hunt
Unknown:
Walter Frye
Unknown:
Gavin Bryars

Another chance to hear Tuesday evening's Prom, presented by Louise Fryer.
Sarah Fox and Julia Gooding (sopranos), Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Mark Le Brocq (tenor), Matthew Hargreaves (bass), The English Concert and Choir,
Academy of Ancient Music and Chorus, Royal Academy of Music Baroque
Orchestra, director Andrew Manze (violin) Corelli Concerto Grosso in D, Op 6 No 4 Handel Motet: Silete Venti , HWV242 Corelli Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 6 No 8 (Christmas Concerto) Handel Dixit Dominus , HWV232 Revised 7.30pm

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Fryer.
Presented By:
Sarah Fox
Sopranos:
Julia Gooding
Sopranos:
Sarah Connolly
Tenor:
Mark Le Brocq
Tenor:
Matthew Hargreaves
Violin:
Andrew Manze
Unknown:
Silete Venti
Unknown:
Handel Dixit Dominus

Soprano Carolyn Sampson joins lutenist
Elizabeth Kennyfor a programme of songs from 16th-century Italy, France and England, featuring music by Monteverdi, Strozzi, Charpentier, Michel Lambert , Purcell and Locke.

Contributors

Soprano:
Carolyn Sampson
Unknown:
Elizabeth Kennyfor
Unknown:
Michel Lambert

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
A Prom featuring two symphonies: James MacMillan's latest, which attempts to bridge musical divides between east and west, and Beethoven's well-loved journey from darkness to triumph. And Italian soprano Barbara Frittoli makes her Proms debut with Strauss's autumnal songs. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Barbara Frittoli (soprano), BBC Philharmonic, conductors James MacMillan and Gianandrea Noseda

MacMillan Symphony No 3 (Silence) (first European performance)

Strauss Four Last Songs

Contributors

Presenter:
Petroc Trelawny
Soprano:
Barbara Frittoli
Musicians:
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
James MacMillan
Conductor:
Gianandrea Noseda

Martin Wainwright explores the background, influence and relevance to the modern world of Hayylbn Yaqzan , a 12th-century Arabic philosophical treatise. With Doris Lessing ,
Samar Attar , Tariq Ali , James Montgomery and Charles Butterworth. Excerpts are read by Nadim Sawalha. Producer Merilyn Harris

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Wainwright
Unknown:
Hayylbn Yaqzan
Unknown:
Doris Lessing
Unknown:
Samar Attar
Unknown:
Tariq Ali
Unknown:
James Montgomery
Unknown:
Charles Butterworth.
Read By:
Nadim Sawalha.
Producer:
Merilyn Harris

Verity Sharp looks at who's playing this weekend at Womad. Plus a Renaissance love song sung by Catherine Bott , traditional Irish tunes from Danu, Astor Piazzolla 's Tango: Escualo, and Zimbabwean pop from the Four Brothers.

Contributors

Unknown:
Verity Sharp
Sung By:
Catherine Bott
Unknown:
Astor Piazzolla

With Susan Sharpe.

Tchaikovsky Overture: Hamlet

12.20 Schubert, transcr Liszt Standchen

12.30 Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K581

1.00 Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela
Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor
Sibelius Symphony No 1

2.15 Gorecki Miserere, Op 44

2.50 Reger Fantasy on Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns die Stimme!, Op 52 No 2

3.10 Weiss Lute Partita in D minor

3.25 Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat, Op 97 (Archduke)

4.05 Kreisler Ghasel; The Praise of lslay; Ein Altes Lied; The Old Refrain

4.20 Liszt St Francis of Assisi Preaching to the Birds (Two Legends)

4.30 Poulenc Sept Chansons

4.45 Moniuszko Overture: Paria

4.55 Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt Suite No 1)

5.00 Sweelinck Herrlich Lieb Hab' Ich Dich, O Herr

5.10 Georg Muffat Violin Sonata

5.20 Handel Sorge nel Petto (Rinaldo)

5.25 John Browne O Maria Salvatoris Mater

5.40 Haydn/Pleyel, arr Perry Divertimento in B flat, H 1146

5.50 Bellini Overture: Norma

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More