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With Penny Gore. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Beethoven Overture: Egmont Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor George Szell Schubert Kennst Du das Land, D321 Barbara Bonney (soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
8.00-9.00: Britten Prelude and Fugue, Op 29 ECO conducted by the Composer Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue, Op 87 7 No 4 Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
9.00-10.00: Mozart Piano Concerto
No 22 in E flat, K482 (cadenzas by Britten) Sviatoslav Richter , English Chamber
Orchestra, conductor Benjamin Britten

Contributors

Conductor:
George Szell
Soprano:
Barbara Bonney
Soprano:
Geoffrey Parsons
Piano:
Sviatoslav Richter
Unknown:
Sviatoslav Richter
Conductor:
Benjamin Britten

With Rob Cowan.
Shaker tradition Holy Mother's Protecting Chain; Simple Gifts Shakers of Sabbathday Lake, Schola Cantorum, Boston Camerata, director Joel Cohen
10.05 Copland Symphony No 3
Dallas SO, conductor Eduardo Mata
10.48 Brahms Rhapsody in G minor, Op 79 No 2 Artur Schnabel (piano)
10.55 Listener Request: Telemann Ouverture Jointe d'une Suite Tragic-
Comique Berlin AkademiefCirAlte Musik
11.11 Listener Request:
Reger Sinfonietta, Op 90 (3rd mvt) Peter Rosenberg (violin),
Bamberg SO, conductor Horst Stein
11.21 Beethoven Piano Sonata in G, Op 31 No 1 Artur Schnabel
11.46 Wagner Wahn! Wahn! Uberall Wahn (Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg) Otto Edelmann (bass-baritone), Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, conductor Hans Knappertsbusch

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Director:
Joel Cohen
Conductor:
Eduardo Mata
Piano:
Artur Schnabel
Violin:
Peter Rosenberg
Conductor:
Horst Stein
Unknown:
Artur Schnabel
Bass-Baritone:
Otto Edelmann
Conductor:
Hans Knappertsbusch

Donald Macleod introduces two operas that launched Verdi firmly into the international arena - his first
Shakespeare opera, Macbeth, and one of the best-loved of all his operas, Rigoletto. Macbeth, Act 1 (conclusion)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus,
New Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Muti
Rigoletto, Act 3
Vienna State Opera Chorus,
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Carlo Maria Giulini
Repeated Monday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Introduces:
Donald MacLeod
Conductor:
Riccardo Muti
Conductor:
Carlo Maria Giulini
Macbeth:
Sherrill Milnes (baritone)
Lady Macbeth:
Fiorenza Cossotto (mezzo)
Banquo:
Ruggero Raimondi (bass)
Macduff:
Jose Carreras (tenor)
Rigoletto:
Plero Cappuccllll (baritone)
Gilda:
Lleana Cotrubas (soprano)
The Duke:
Placido Domingo (tenor)
Sparafucile:
Nicolai Ghiaurov(bass)
Maddalena:
Elena Obraztsova (mezzo)

Paris and St Petersburg
Sean Rafferty presents the first in a series of four recitals this week from Belfast.
French violinist and former winner of the Tchaikovsky Competition Raphael Oleg is accompanied by pianist Artur Pizarro. Ravel Violin Sonata in G
Prokofiev Violin Sonata No 1, Op 80 Ravel Tzigane

Contributors

Unknown:
St Petersburg
Unknown:
Sean Rafferty
Unknown:
Raphael Oleg
Pianist:
Artur Pizarro.

Ulster Orchestra: White Nights Thorleif Thedeen (cello), conductor Alexander Anissimov
Introduced by Edward Seckerson. Prokofiev Two Pushkin Waltzes
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1
Glinka Overture and Ballet: Ruslan and Lyudmila Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: The Tale of Tsar Saltan

Contributors

Conductor:
Alexander Anissimov
Introduced By:
Edward Seckerson.
Unknown:
Lyudmila Rimsky-Korsakov

The Pity of War
Sally Matthews (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), lain Burnside (piano) lain Burnside presents a programme of songs about war in all its aspects including music by Britten, Tippett,
Poulenc, Mahler, Weill and Eisler. Plus First World War poetry read by Simon Russell Beale.

Contributors

Soprano:
Sally Matthews
Soprano:
Mark Padmore
Read By:
Simon Russell Beale.

Robin Holloway 60th Birthday Concert A birthday tribute to the composer given earlier this week at Wigmore Hall.
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Nash Ensemble , conductor Lionel Friend
Holloway Fantasy Pieces on Schumann 's
Liederkreis Schumann : Liederkreis, Op 24 Holloway Spring Music (first performance)
Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Holloway
Tenor:
John Mark Ainsley
Tenor:
Nash Ensemble
Unknown:
Liederkreis Schumann

Germaine Greertalks to Philip Dodd about her life and career, her love of art and her motivations as a critic. And she discusses her reasons for choosing male beauty and sexual ity as the subject of her controversial new book Boy - a celebration of the adolescent male in art. Producer Aasiya Lodhi

Contributors

Unknown:
Germaine Greertalks
Unknown:
Philip Dodd
Producer:
Aasiya Lodhi

Verity Sharp presents music from this year's Festival in the Desert near
Timbuktu, including performances by Ensemble Tartit and Tinariwen, as well as music from French singer FrangoizBreut and the group A Silver Mount Zion.

Contributors

Unknown:
Verity Sharp

With Donald Macleod.
A Gabrieli De Profundis
The Sixteen, director Harry Christophers G Gabrieli Plaudite
A Gabrieli Laudate Dominum
G Gabrieli Virtute Magna
Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, Wren Orchestra, conductor Bernard Rose
G Gabrieli Sacri di Giove Auge; Lieto Godea A Gabrieli/G Gabrieli In Nobil Sangue Consort of Musicke, Baroque Brass of London, director Anthony Rooley
G Gabrieli Lieto Godea (instrumental version) Schutz Academy, conductor Howard Arman
Quis Est Iste; Hodie Christus Natus Est Winchester Cathedral Choir, London Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble, conductor Martin Neary
Exaudi Me Domine Huelgas Ensemble, conductor Paul van Nevel Repeated from wed

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Director:
Harry Christophers
Conductor:
Bernard Rose
Director:
Anthony Rooley
Conductor:
Howard Arman
Conductor:
Martin Neary
Conductor:
Paul van Nevel

With John Shea.
Verdi Messa da Requiem 2.30 Bach Lute Suite in C minor, BWV997 2.55 Praetorius Meine Seel Erhebet den Herren 3.05 Byrd
Pavana Lachrimae 3.15 Britten Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge 3.40 Prokofiev Cello Sonata, Op 119 4.05 Beethoven Variations on Es Wareinmal Ein, Wo066
4.15 Vivaldi Concerto da Camera in G minor, RV107 4.30 Rachmaninov Two Pieces for cello and piano, Op 2
4.45 Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite No 1
5.00 Zlatic Three Symphonic Poems
5.10 Gotovac Ode to the Homeland
5.15 Zajc Symphonic Picture in C minor, Op 394 5.40 Livadic Notturno in F sharp minor 5.45 Bersa Sunny Fields
6.00 Parac Andante Amoroso
6.10 Kelemen Variations for piano
6.20 Sor Introduction and Variations on Mozart's 0 CaraArmonia, Op 9
6.30 Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor

Contributors

Unknown:
John Shea.
Unknown:
Verdi Messa
Unknown:
Bach Lute
Unknown:
Livadic Notturno

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