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With Penny Gore. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Mozart Overture: Le Nozze di Figaro Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Massenet Meditation (Thais) New
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel (violin) Debussy Marche
Ecossaise Jean-Philippe Collard and Michel Beroff (pianos)
8.30-9.00: Haydn Keyboard Concerto in G, H XVIII 4 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano), Zurich Chamber Orchestra, conductor Edmond de Stoutz
9.00-10.00: Dvorak Violin Sonata in F,
Op 57 Josef Suk (violin), Josef Hala (piano) Purcell Airs from The Indian Queen
Parley of Instruments Baroque Orchestra, director Roy Goodman

Contributors

Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Conductor:
Lorin Maazel
Unknown:
Jean-Philippe Collard
Pianos:
Michel Beroff
Piano:
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Conductor:
Edmond de Stoutz
Violin:
Josef Suk
Violin:
Josef Hala
Director:
Roy Goodman

With Jonathan Swain.
Vaughan Williams 0 Clap Your Hands Choir of King's College, Cambridge, ECO, conductor David Willcocks
10.04 Rossini Overture: // Signor
Bruschino London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington
10.10 Schumann Piano Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 22 Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
10.29 Schubert Symphony No 9 in C (Great) London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington
11.29 Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music Soloists, BBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Henry Wood
11.44 Strauss Serenade for 13 wind instruments, Op 7 London Winds, director Michael Collins (clarinet)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Conductor:
David Willcocks
Conductor:
Roger Norrington
Piano:
Sviatoslav Richter
Conductor:
Roger Norrington
Conductor:
Vaughan Williams Serenade
Conductor:
Henry Wood
Conductor:
Strauss Serenade
Clarinet:
Michael Collins

With Donald Macleod. 2: The Prague By the mid-1780s Mozart was well established in Vienna, and The Marriage of Figaro met with such great success in Prague that Mozart was commissioned to write a new opera: Don Giovanni. His Symphony No 38 seems also to have been written for a Prague audience.
Horn Concerto in Eflat, K495 (3rd mvt) Alan Civil, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner Le Nozze di Figaro, Act 2 (excerpt)
Roberta Peters , Rosalind Elias (soprano), George London and Lisa della Casa (sopranos), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Erich Leinsdorf
Symphony No 38 in D, K504 (Prague) The English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock Rptd Mon 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Don Giovanni.
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Roberta Peters
Soprano:
Rosalind Elias
Soprano:
George London
Conductor:
Erich Leinsdorf

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Stravinsky Ballet: Agon Conductor Man
Volkov Delius Dance Rhapsody No 2 Conductor Alexander Titov
Ives Symphony No 2
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Conductor Mark Stringer

Contributors

Unknown:
Volkov Delius
Conductor:
Alexander Titov
Conductor:
Mark Stringer

Exiles. lain Burnside follows the journeys of Kurt Weill , Erich Korngold and Franz Schubert , as well as Miriam Makeba ,
Marlene Dietrich and Enya, as they set off for pastures new.

Contributors

Unknown:
Kurt Weill
Unknown:
Erich Korngold
Unknown:
Franz Schubert
Unknown:
Miriam Makeba
Unknown:
Marlene Dietrich

Edinburgh International Festival 3: Siegfried by Richard Wagner.
Recorded last month at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Introduced by Donald Macleod , who between the acts describes the following drama. Plus a chance to hear a vintage recording of Anna Russell delivering her classic analysis of the Ring cycle, in which she describes the Rhinemaidens as "a sort of aquatic Andrews Sisters". Sung in German.
Scottish Opera Orchestra, conductor Richard Armstrong
Act 1 Siegfried, son of Siegmund and Sieglinde, re-forges the fragments of Nothung, the magic sword.
6.30 Act 2 Siegfried kills a dragon and wins the ring, takes advice from a woodbird, and sets off to win Brunnhilde.
8.30 Act 3 Brunnhilde is released from her ring of flames and surrenders to her mortal destiny.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Wagner.
Introduced By:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Anna Russell
Conductor:
Richard Armstrong
Siegfried:
Graham Sanders (tenor)
Brunnhilde:
Elizabeth Byrne (soprano)
Mime:
Alasdair Elliott (tenor)
The wanderer:
Matthew Best (bass-Baritone)
Alberich:
Peter Sidhom(baritone)
Fafner:
Markus Hollop (bass)
Woodbird:
Gillian Keith (soprano)
Erda:
Mary Phillips (contralto)

Isabel Hilton is joined by Michael Rosen to discuss the re-release of DerGolem, Paul Wegener 's 1920s German Expressionist masterpiece based on a legend in Jewish mysticism. In the Jewish ghetto in 16th-century Prague, an astrologer foresees doom for his people and to tryto protect them he brings to life a clay giant.

Contributors

Unknown:
Isabel Hilton
Unknown:
Michael Rosen
Unknown:
Paul Wegener

Fiona Talkington with more music from the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. Plus excerpts from Goran Bregovic 's score to Patrice Chereau 's film La Reine Margot and tracks from Robert Wyatt 's new album Cuckooland.

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington
Unknown:
Goran Bregovic
Unknown:
Patrice Chereau
Unknown:
Robert Wyatt

With Donald Macleod.
Mompou Prelude No 9 Stephen Hough (piano)
Strauss Sextet (Capriccio) Members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Poulenc Figure Humaine BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Layton
Dallapiccola Six Carmina Alcaei Dallapiccola Ensemble, conductor Luigi Suivini
Strauss Horn Concerto No 2 (excerpt) Dennis Brain , Philharmonia, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Piano:
Stephen Hough
Conductor:
Stephen Layton
Conductor:
Luigi Suivini
Unknown:
Dennis Brain
Conductor:
Wolfgang Sawallisch

With John Shea.
D'lndia // Terzo Libro de Madrigali
Cinque Voci Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley 1.55 Mozart Piano Concerto No 2 7 in B flat, K595
2.30 Weber Grand Duo Concertant, Op 48
2.50 Sibelius Symphony No 2
3.30 Strauss Violin Sonata in E flat, Op 18
4.00 Mohrheim Organ Trio No 4 in A
4.05 Leonardo Leo Cello Concerto in D minor 4.15 Wagner Overture:
Tannhauser 4.30 Jarzebski Corona Aurea
4.40 Pekiel // Missa senza le Cerimonie
4.50 Dvorak Polonaise in Eflat
5.00 Turina Fiesta en San Juan de
Aznalfarache (Sinfonia Sevilliana, Op 23)
5.05 Prevorsek Spanish Dance
5.10 Ginastera Pampeana No 2, Op 21
5.15 Falla Siete Canciones Populares Espahola 5.30 Albeniz Spanish Suite, Op 4 7 5.55 Sarasate Fantasy after
Bizet's Carmen, Op 25 6.05 Devienne Trio No 2 in C 6.15 Pezel Fourlntradas
6.30 Stravinsky Mass
6.50 Chopin Rondo a la Mazur in F, Op 5

Contributors

Unknown:
John Shea.
Director:
Anthony Rooley
Cello:
Leonardo Leo
Unknown:
Jarzebski Corona Aurea
Unknown:
Dvorak Polonaise
Unknown:
Ginastera Pampeana
Unknown:
Chopin Rondo

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