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With Sandy Burnett. This week featuring serenades. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Biber Serenade: 7'he
N/ghtwatchman New London Consort, conductor Philip Pickett
Gottschatk, orch Hershy Kay Ce/ebre 7arante//e. Op 67 No 5 Eugene List
(piano). Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conductor tgor Buketoff
Cimarosa Overture.' // Mafr/mon/o Segreto Nikoiaus Esterhazy Sinfonia. conductor Aiessandro Amoretti
Debussy Su/te Bergamasque Tamas Vasary (piano)
8.30-10.00: Mozart Serenade /n Ff/at for Wind, K375 The Engtish Concert Winds

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandy Burnett.
Conductor:
Philip Pickett
Unknown:
Hershy Kay

With Jonathan Swain.
This week featuring Wagner overtures and preludes and recordings by Tatiana Nikoiaieva.

Bach Prelude and Fugue in C (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1) - Tatiana Nikolaieva (piano)

10.05 Wagner Prelude, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg - Berlin State Opera Orchestra, conductor Karl Muck

10.15 Bach Preludes and Fugues in B flat minor; in B; in B minor (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2) - Tatiana Nikolaieva (piano)

10.36 Stravinsky Octet European Soloists Ensemble, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy

10.51 Wagner Prelude, Act 1: Parsifal - London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington

11.03 Beethoven String Quartet in B flat, Op 18 No 6 - Vegh Quartet

11.29 Bach Concerto in F in the Italian Style, BWV971 - Tatiana Nikolaieva (piano)

11.43 Wagner Prelude, Act 1: Lohengrin - Lucerne Festival Orchestra, conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

The prolific American composer Ned Rorem celebrates his 80th birthday this week. Donald Macleod introduces his music and talks to Rorem, also an eloquent writer and a gay icon, about a life spent in the company of artists, including Cocteau, Sartre and Billie Holliday.

Early in the Morning - Susan Graham (mezzo), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

The Lordly Hudson - Nathan Gunn (baritone), Kevin Murphy (piano)

Air Music - Louisville Orchestra, conductor Peter Leonard

Their Lonely Betters; His Beauty Sparkles; Boy with a Baseball Glove (Evidence of Things Not Seen) - Monique McDonald (soprano), Rufus Muller (tenor), Steven Blier (piano)

(Repeated Sunday 12 midnight)

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod
Subject:
Ned Rorem
Producer:
Lyndon Jones

Knight and Dame
Live from the Wigmore Hall, London, introduced by Stephanie Hughes.
Felicity Lott (soprano), Thomas Allen (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Britain's much loved Knight and Dame perform solos and duets by composers including Purcell, Quitter, Warlock, Lehar, Messager and Richard Rodgers.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Stephanie Hughes.
Soprano:
Felicity Lott
Baritone:
Thomas Alien
Piano:
Maicoim Martineau
Unknown:
Messagerand Richard Rodgers.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Christian Gansch
There's an English feel to Afternoon Performance this week, and today the BBC National Orchestra of Wales celebrates Robin Holloway's 60th birthday.
Presented by Warwick Thompson.
Beethoven Violin Concerto
Anthony Marwood
Holloway Third Idyll: Frost at Midnight
Schubert Symphony No 5 in B flat

Contributors

Conductor:
Christian Gansch
Presenter:
Warwick Thompson

Legends: Angela Lansbury
!n the second of two programmes celebrating Angela Lansbury 's 78th birthday. Edward Seckersonta !kstothe much-!oved actress about her remarkab!e mus!ca! career, covering shows from
Bedhnobs and Broomsticks to Gypsy and Sweeney Tbdd.
ADDRESS: Stage and Screen.
Room 220. Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , G!asgowG128DG emai!: stageandscreen@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Angela Lansbury
Unknown:
Angela Lansbury
Unknown:
Edward Seckersonta
Unknown:
Sweeney Tbdd.
Unknown:
Queen Margaret Drive

BBC Philharmonic
Petroc Tretawny presents a concert from Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, recorded earlier this month, featuring a rare performance of the Rewa< symphony by Polish composer Mieczystaw Kanowicz. Stephen Hough (piano), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gianandrea Noseda
Chopin, arr Stravinsky Grande Valse
BnMante: Nocturne in /t Sat, Op 32 No 2 Kanowicz Sympnony in E minor (Revival) Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor

Contributors

Unknown:
Mieczystaw Kanowicz.
Piano:
Stephen Hough
Conductor:
Gianandrea Noseda
Unknown:
Stravinsky Grande Valse

Guest presenter Shaheera Asante opens a fortnight of programmes with music from French fusion composer
Frederick Rousseau , the soio vio! pieces of Sainte Colombo the Younger, and the sounds of the Maghreb from the Orchestre National de Barbes.

Contributors

Presenter:
Shaheera Asante
Unknown:
Frederick Rousseau

Donald Macleod looks at the works Falla completed within a year of his return to Spain in 1914.

Homenale: Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy - Mildred Clary (guitar)

Noches en los Jardines de Espana - Alicia de Larrocha (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos

El Amor Brujo - Teresa Berganza (mezzo), London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Garcia Navarro

(Repeated from Tuesday)

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Susan Sharpe.

Debussy Estampes: Chansons de Bilitis; Cello Sonata in D minor; Fetes Galantes, set 2; String Quartet in G minor, Op 10

2.10 Butterworth A Shropshire Lad

2.20 Gorecki O Domina Nostra, Op 55

2.55 Shostakovich Symphony No 13 (Babi Yar)

4.00 Brahms Intermezzo in A, Op 118 No 2

4.05 C.P.E. Bach Flute Sonata in A minor, Wq132

4.15 Joseph Pranzer Concert Duo No 4 for two clarinets

4.30 Rudolf Matz Quartetto

4.45 Otto Deutsch Overture: The Croatian Girl

5.00 Bach Cantata: Widerstehe doch der Sunde, BWV54

5.10 Biber Harmonia Romana

5.20 Gregorio Huet Fantasia

5.30 Caldara Stabat Mater

5.35 Franck Prelude, Fugue and Variation in B minor, Op 18

5.45 Dinu Lipatti Improvisation

5.50 Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream

6.05 Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor

6.35 Mozart Symphony No 29 in A, K201

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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