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With Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Chausson Viviane, Op 5 Basle Symphony Orchestra, conductor Armin Jordan
Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op 34 Bela Kovacs (clarinet), Kodaly Quartet Dvorak Song to the Moon (Rusalka) Frederica von Stade (soprano), Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa
8.00-9.00: Beethoven Six Bagatelles, Op 126 Alfred Brendel (piano) Bantock Celtic Symphony
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Handley.
Conductor:
Armin Jordan
Clarinet:
Bela Kovacs
Clarinet:
Kodaly Quartet
Soprano:
Frederica von Stade
Conductor:
Seiji Ozawa
Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Conductor:
Vernon Handley

Rob Cowan presents some of his favourite recordings, together with regular features, including The Innocent Ear, and a Bargain Hunter CD recommendation. Plus music from the vintage artist from this week's CD Masters, and the recommended recording of Mozart's Requiem from Building a Library on yesterday's CD Review.
Music includes:
Valente Gallarda Napolitana HesperionXXI Wagner Prelude und Liebestod: Tristan und Isolde
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Mravinsky
Ravel Oiseaux Tristes (Miroirs) Lise de la Salle (piano)
Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No 1 Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Constantin Silvestri
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Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan
Conductor:
Yevgeni Mravinsky
Conductor:
Ravel Oiseaux Tristes
Conductor:
Constantin Silvestri

Michael Berkeley talks to the journalist
Mary Ann Sieghart , currently of The Times. Music, particularly singing, is among her many private passions, and her musical choices today include the Mozart and Brahms Requiems, Wagner's Die
Meistersinger von Nurnberg and songs by Strauss, Hugh Masekela and Otis Redding.

Contributors

Talks:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Mary Ann Sieghart
Unknown:
Hugh Masekela
Unknown:
Otis Redding.

In another live and interactive edition of the programme, Catherine Bott is joined by veteran countertenor James Bowman to talk about his long and glittering career. Examples of his many recordings of Baroque and early Classical repertory include music by Couperin, Landini and Dowland. Email your questions for James Bowman to [email address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Catherine Bott
Unknown:
James Bowman
Unknown:
James Bowman

Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert by a leading Dutch-based period-instrument orchestra, recorded at the international festival in Schwetzingen, Germany. Orchestra of the 18th Century, conductor Frans Bruggen
Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished)
Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)

Contributors

Introduces:
Stephanie Hughes
Conductor:
Frans Bruggen

Stephen Johnson delves into the BBC's written and sound archives to examine the musical achievements of three of the BBC
Symphony Orchestra's chief conductors. In the first programme he introduces Adrian Boult , the man who saw the orchestra through some of its stormiest years during the first couple of decades of its existence.

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Johnson
Unknown:
Adrian Boult

A concert recorded last month in the City Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In his piano concerto and the D minor Symphony
Schumann enshrined the musical spirit of his young wife Clara. The Northern Sinfonia perform the rarely heard original version of the symphony, and the programme begins with the overture Manfred(1848), inspired by Byron's epic drama.
Christoph Berner (piano), Northern
Sinfonia, conductor Thomas Zehetmair Schumann Overture: Manfred; Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 5;
Symphony No 4 in D minor (1841 version)

Contributors

Piano:
Christoph Berner
Conductor:
Thomas Zehetmair

By Steve Chambers. Roy Delamere is the Tony Soprano of the North East. He's a powerful, charismatic criminal who controls the Newcastle underworld. On his 50th birthday he's opening his own art gallery, the Ice Factory. He should be celebrating but forthe first time in his adult life, he's weak. Somebody is trying to unnerve Roy and it's working.
Fragments of memory collide with everyday actions as Roy is forced to face his enemies from outside and within. Director Pauline Harris

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Chambers.
Unknown:
Roy Delamere
Director:
Pauline Harris
Roy Delamere:
Deka Walmsley
Jarrett:
Rod Arthur
Doctor:
Rod Arthur
Fat Robb:
John Carter
Peter:
John Carter
Doorman:
John Carter
Kay:
Fiona Clarke
Monica:
Charlie Hardwick
Jonnie:
Phillippa Wilson
Woman:
Phillippa Wilson
Syd Delamere:
Ian Hogg
Child:
Chelsea Halfpenny

1: The Man Who Didn't Belong With Donald Macleod.
Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma) (Theme) BBCSO, conductor Andrew Davis Overture: Froissart BBC Philharmonic, conductor Edward Downes
Five Partsongs from the Greek Anthology Finzi Singers, conductor Paul Spicer
Cello Concerto in E minor Paul Tortelier , LPO, conductor Adrian Boult Repeated from Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Conductor:
Edward Downes
Conductor:
Paul Spicer
Unknown:
Paul Tortelier
Conductor:
Adrian Boult

With Louise Fryer.

Eben Salve Regina

Tucapsky In Honorem Vitae

Dvorak In Nature's Realm, Op 63

Martinu The Romance of the Dandelions Novak Bells; Prague; A Prayer for My Country (Op 71)

1.50 Stucken Symphonic Prologue: William Ratcliffe

2.15 Brahms Piano Trio in E flat, Op 40

2.45 Mozetich Violin Concerto

3.10 Bach Toccata and Fugue in F, BWV540

3.25 Luengen O Lacrimosa

3.40 Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra

4.10 Bree Allegro in D minor for four string quartets

4.25 Biber Sonata No 1 in C (Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes)

4.30 Voigtlander Four Songs

4.40 Froberger Toccata No 11 in E minor

4.45 JM Bach Es ist ein Grosser Gewinn

5.00 Dvorak Leave Me Alone (Op 82)

5.05 Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia

5.10 Busoni All' Italia (Seven Elegies)

5.20 Michna z Otradovic Laudate Pueri Dominum

5.25 Handel Trio Sonata in G, Op 5 No 4

5.35 Chopin Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58

6.10 MacDowell Suite in A minor, Op 42

6.30 Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 in C, K467

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Fryer

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