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With Penny Gore. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Wagner Prelude, Act 3: Lohengrin Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly J Strauss (son)/Schulz/Evler Concert
Arabesques on Themes of On the Beautiful Blue Danube Earl Wild (piano) Sullivan In a Doleful Train (Patience) Soloists, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Isidore Godfrey Rosetti
Symphony in D (La Chasse) Hamburg SO, conductor Johannes Moesus
8.00-9.00: Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G, BWV1049 Hanover Band, director Anthony Halstead Vivaldi 0 Qui Coeli Terraeque Serenitas, RV631 Anke Herrmann (soprano), Academia Montis Regalis, director Alessandro de Marchi
9.00-10.00: Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A
Sabine Meyer , Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado

Contributors

Conductor:
Riccardo Chailly
Conductor:
J Strauss
Conductor:
Isidore Godfrey Rosetti
Conductor:
Johannes Moesus
Conductor:
Bach Brandenburg
Director:
Anthony Halstead Vivaldi
Soprano:
Anke Herrmann
Unknown:
Sabine Meyer
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado

With Jonathan Swain.
Listener Request:
Haydn Minuets, H IX 16: No 5 in F, No 6 in D Philharmonia Hungarica, conductor Antal Dorati
10.05 Mahler Five Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhom Lucia Popp
(soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
10.20 Bartok Divertimento
Strings of the Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ferenc Fricsay
10.46 Ligeti Six Bagatelles Aulos Wind Quartet
10.58 Mozart Non Giova Lusingarsi ...
S 'Altro Che Lagrime (La Clemenza di Tito, Act 2) Lucia Popp (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzo), Royal Opera House Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
11.03 Mozart Ecco il Punto ... Non Piu di Fiori (La Clemenza di Tito, Act 2)
Lucia Popp (soprano), Zurich Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
11.16 Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G LPO, conductor Charles Mackerras

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Conductor:
Antal Dorati
Soprano:
Lucia Popp
Soprano:
Geoffrey Parsons
Piano:
Bartok Divertimento
Conductor:
Ferenc Fricsay
Unknown:
Mozart Non Giova Lusingarsi
Soprano:
Lucia Popp
Soprano:
Janet Baker
Conductor:
Colin Davis
Soprano:
Lucia Popp
Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras

Donald Macleod turns his attention to works composed in the USSR in 1943. Plus a tribute to Rachmaninov, who died in that year.

Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 7 (3rd mvt) - Sviatoslav Richter

Shostakovich Symphony No 8 (excerpt) - Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Mravinsky

Prokofiev Flute Sonata (1st mvt) -Â Laura Gilbert, Emma Tahmizian (piano)

Khachaturian Symphony No 2 (excerpt) - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

Rachmaninov Vespers, Op 37 (All-Night Vigil) (Nunc Dimittis) - St Petersburg Cappella, director Vladislav Tchernouchenco

(Rptd Wednesday at 12 midnight)

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald MacLeod

Verbier Festival
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist
Emanuel Ax perform together for the first time. Presented by Fiona Talkington.
Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Emanuel Ax (piano) Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat, K454 Debussy Violin Sonata
Grieg Violin Sonata No 3 in C minor

Contributors

Violinist:
Christian Tetzlaff
Presented By:
Fiona Talkington.

BBC Philharmonic
Louise Fryer presents excerpts from the earliest, 1943 version of Prokofiev's wartime opera War and Peace.
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Bartok Suite: The Miraculous Mandarin
Ewa Kupiec (piano), conductor Gilbert Varga Prokofiev War and Peace (excerpts) Conductor Gianandrea Noseda

Contributors

Piano:
Ewa Kupiec
Conductor:
Gilbert Varga
Conductor:
Gianandrea Noseda

A new position in the week for Brian Kay 's programme kicks off with Arthur Sullivan 's overture to lolanthe. Plus music by Roger Quilter , Peter Yorke and Eric Coates , and Haydn Wood 's orchestral tone poem Mannin Veen.

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Kay
Unknown:
Arthur Sullivan
Music By:
Roger Quilter
Music By:
Peter Yorke
Music By:
Eric Coates
Music By:
Haydn Wood
Unknown:
Mannin Veen.

Leeds International Pianoforte Competition
After almost 130 performances over a fortnight, the judges of the 40th Leeds International Piano Competition have narrowed the competitors down to 12. Tommy Pearson introduces profiles, performances and comment from the 2003 semi-finals.
The two-part final is broadcast tomorrow at 7.30pm and on Saturday at 6.30pm
Family highlights for the week: page 32

Contributors

Introduces:
Tommy Pearson

Paul Allen talks to Peter Carey about his new novel My Life as a Fake, inspired by a real literary hoax that occurred in Australia during Carey's boyhood. And with the re-release of Victor Erice 's 1973 classic
The Spirit of the Beehive, set during the reign of Franco in Spain, Paul Allen and guests consider the use of innocence and childhood as allegorical tool in cinema. Producer Stephen Hughes

Contributors

Talks:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Peter Carey
Unknown:
Victor Erice
Unknown:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Stephen Hughes

Indian singer Pand it AjoyChakrabarty with a song about distance and separation, the Spanish bagpipes of La Musgana , and aversion of the anonymous 15th-century tune La Folia, played by Jordi Savall and HesperionXX. Introduced by Verity Sharp.

Contributors

Unknown:
La Musgana
Played By:
Jordi Savall
Introduced By:
Verity Sharp.

5: The Birds. Donald Macleod explores
Messiaen's fascination with birds and the affect birdsong had on his composition. Bonjour Toi, Colombe Verte (Harawi)
Marcelle Bunlet (soprano) accompanied by the Composer (piano)
L 'Ascension (excerpt) Bastille Opera
Orchestra, conductor Myung-Whun Chung Le Traquet Stapazin (Catalogue d'Oiseaux, Book 2) PeterHill (piano) Saint Francois d'Assise (excerpts) Dawn Upshaw (soprano), John Aler
(tenor), Tom Krause and Urban Malmberg (baritones), Jose van Dam (bass-baritone), Arnold Schoenberg Choir,
Halle Orchestra , conductor Kent Nagano Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Conductor:
Myung-Whun Chung
Soprano:
John Aler
Tenor:
Tom Krause
Conductor:
Halle Orchestra

With John Shea.
Khachaturian Spartacus andPhrygia-Adagio (Spartacus) Prokofiev Violin
Concerto No 2 in G minor Debussy Trois Nocturnes 2.00 Peterson-Berger Froso Flowers, Book 2 2.25 Telemann Deus Judicum Tuum Regi Da 2.45 Rlmsky-Korsakov Scheherazade 3.35 Dvorak
Piano Trio in E minor, Op 90 (Dumky)
4.10 Suk Fantastic Scherzo, Op 25
4.25 Berlioz, transcr Liszt Danse des
Sylphes 4.30 Telemann Trio Sonata No 3 in G minor for oboe, violin and continuo (Essercizii Musici) 4.40
Sweelinck Almande Chapelle 4.45 Lassus Jubliate Deo; lo Ti Voria; Tristis Est Anima Mea
4.50 Frescobaldi Canzona Quinta a 3; Canzon Quinta a 4 5.00 Artur Kapp Symphonic Prelude: Graves
5.10 Barkauskas Concerto for Orchestra
No 2 5.20 Bartok 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs 5.35 Berlioz Marche Hongroise: Rakoczy (La Damnation de Faust)
5.40 Liszt Fantasy on "Szozat"
5.50 Bach Violin Concerto in C minor,
BWV1060 6.05Czemy Brilliant Polonaise, Op 296 6.20 G Gabrieli Canzon Primi Toni
6.25Sances Lagrimosa Belta
6.30 Karlowicz Violin Concerto in A

Contributors

Unknown:
John Shea.
Unknown:
Korsakov Scheherazade
Musici:
Sweelinck Almande Chapelle
Musici:
Lassus Jubliate
Unknown:
Frescobaldi Canzona Quinta
Unknown:
Artur Kapp

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