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With Sandy Burnett.
Music includes:

7.00-8.30: Rossini Overture: Il Signor - Bruschino Philharmonia, conductor Carlo Maria Giulini
Elgar Serenade in E minor for Strings, Op 20 - LPO, conductor Vernon HandleyÂ
Biber Battalia a 10 in D - New London Consort, conductor Philip Pickett

8.30-10.00: Liszt Apres une Lecture de Dante (Fantasia quasi Sonata) (Annees de Pelerinage, Book 2: Italy) - Alfred Brendel (piano)
Mozart Serenade in D, K320 (Posthorn) - Bavarian Radio SO, conductor Colin Davis

Contributors

Presenter:
Sandy Burnett

With Jonathan Swain.
Wagner Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Gotterdammerung)
Chicago SO, conductor Fritz Reiner
10.14 Bach Contrapuncti Nos 12-14 (The Art of Fugue)
Tatiana Nikolaieva (piano)
10.41 Wagner Siegfried 's Death and Funeral March (Gotterdammerung) NBCSO, conductor Arturo Toscanini
10.55 Szymanowski Litany to the Virgin Mary Elzbieta Szmytka (soprano),
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle
11.04 Bach Preludes and Fugues in G; G minor (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1) Tatiana Nikolaieva (piano)
11.15 Mozart Serenade in C minor, K388 London Wind Soloists, director Jack Brymer
11.40 Wagner Wotan 's Farewell and Magic Fire Music (Die Walkiire) Cleveland Orchestra, conductor George Szell

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Wagner Dawn
Conductor:
Fritz Reiner
Conductor:
Bach Contrapuncti Nos
Piano:
Tatiana Nikolaieva
Piano:
Wagner Siegfried
Conductor:
Arturo Toscanini
Soprano:
Elzbieta Szmytka
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Conductor:
Bach Preludes
Piano:
Tatiana Nikolaieva
Piano:
Mozart Serenade
Director:
Jack Brymer
Director:
Wagner Wotan
Conductor:
George Szell

Rorem, along with Barber, Copland and Bernstein, is part of an exclusive group of composers who have fostered a unique American idiom in song. Donald Macleod concludes his series of conversations with Ned Rorem by considering some themes that recur frequently in the composer's work: the seasons, memory, the marking of time and the eternal. Sonnet (Santa Fe Songs)
Susan Graham (mezzo), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Ensemble Oriol Rejoice We All in the Lord Harvard University Choir, conductor Murray Forbes Somerville
Symphony No 2 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jose Serebrier Bright Music Fibonacci Sequence
Little Elegy Susan Graham (mezzo), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Repeated Thursday 12 midnight

Contributors

Song:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Ned Rorem
Songs:
Susan Graham
Piano:
Malcolm Martineau
Conductor:
Jose Serebrier
Unknown:
Susan Graham
Piano:
Malcolm Martineau

Schwarzenberg Schubertiade
Stephanie Hughes presents another recital from this year's Schubertiade. Thomas Hampson (baritone), Wolfram Rieger (piano)
Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn (excerpts)

Contributors

Unknown:
Schwarzenberg Schubertiade
Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes
Baritone:
Thomas Hampson
Piano:
Wolfram Rieger

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Jerzy Maksymiuk plays music by two English favourites- Vaughan Williams and Elgar- and heads north of the border for Maxwell Geddes and MacCunn.
Nikolai Demidenko plays music by another great piano virtuoso, Franz Liszt.
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Maxwell Geddes Voyager Elgar Sea Pictures
Louise Winter (soprano),
Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk MacCunn Ship o' the Rend
Liszt Piano Concerto No 2 in A
Nikolai Demidenko ,
Conductor Martyn Brabbins

Contributors

Unknown:
Jerzy Maksymiuk
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Maxwell Geddes
Unknown:
Nikolai Demidenko
Unknown:
Franz Liszt.
Unknown:
Thomas Tallis
Unknown:
Maxwell Geddes Voyager
Soprano:
Louise Winter
Conductor:
Jerzy Maksymiuk
Conductor:
MacCunn Ship
Conductor:
Nikolai Demidenko
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins

Ian Carr
Julian Joseph is joined by Ian Carr , well known in the world of jazz both as a writer and as a musician. Today Carr's work as a bandleader and a pioneer of jazz-rock is in the spotlight.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Carr
Unknown:
Julian Joseph
Unknown:
Ian Carr

Artur Pizarro Beethoven Cycle
Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro continues his cycle of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas. Tonight's programme features fourworks, ranging from the playful A major sonata to the more dramatic C minor. Artur Pizarro (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in A, Op 2 No 2; Sonata in A flat, Op 26;
Sonata in C minor, Op 10 No 1; Sonata in E flat, Op 31 No 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Artur Pizarro Beethoven
Pianist:
Artur Pizarro

Jim Black Alas No Axis
Jez Nelson presents a live concert from Jim Black 's genre smashing post-rock-Jazz-ambient-electronica outfit Alas no
Axis at London's Spitz Club. With Icelandic duo Skuli Sverrisson on bass guitar and Hilmar Jensson on lead and rhythm, Chris Speed on saxophones and clarinets, and all players contributing to the electronics.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Black
Unknown:
Skuli Sverrisson
Unknown:
Hilmar Jensson
Unknown:
Chris Speed

With Susan Sharpe.
Bizet Carmen Suite No 1; Je Dis Que Rien Ne M'epouvante (Carmen) Shostakovich Four movements from Jazz Suite No 2
Strauss Wiegenlied, Op 41 No 1;
Zueignung, Op 10 Nol Verdi Overture: La Forza del Destino Puccini Mi Chiamano Mimi (La Boheme); 0 Mio Babbino Caro (Gianni Scicchi ) J Strauss (son)
Perpetuum Mobile, Op 257; Czardas
(Klange der Heimat) (Die Fledermaus); Overture: DerZigeunerbaron Puccini Quando M 'en Vo' Soletta (La Boheme)
2.15 Arriaga Symphony in 02.45
Granados Valse Poetico 2.55 Janacek
Violin Sonata 3.15 Enescu Symphony
No 1 in Eflat 3.50 Mozart Piano Sonata in B flat, K3334.05 Brahms, orch Martin Schmeling Hungarian Dance No 1
4.10 Schubert Die Junge Nonne ; Das Rosenband; Aufdem See 4.20 Haydn Keyboard Sonata in C, H XVI 354.30 Goldmark Overture: Im Fruhling 4.45 Mihkel Liidig The Dawn 4.50 Rudolf Tobias Prelude and Fugue in D minor
5.00 Kaspar Forster Sonata a 3 in C minor
5.05 JC Bach Motet: Ich Lasse Dich Nicht
5.10 Antoine Forqueray La Regente 5.15 Franz Schmidt Intermezzo (Notre Dame)
5.20 Theodor Leschetizky Andante Finale - Paraphrase on Donizetti 's Lucia di Lammermoor5.25 Reger Fantasy on Wachet auf, Ruft Uns die Stimme, Op 52 No 2 5.45 Chopin Polonaise-fantasie in A flat, Op 616.00 Mozart String Quartet in D, K5 75 6.20 Faur6 Suite: Dolly

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
Chiamano Mimi
Unknown:
Mio Babbino Caro
Unknown:
Gianni Scicchi
Unknown:
Derzigeunerbaron Puccini
Unknown:
Granados Valse Poetico
Unknown:
Junge Nonne
Unknown:
Rudolf Tobias
Unknown:
Kaspar Forster

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