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With Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Handel Ballet Music (II Pastor Fido) English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner Debussy En blanc et Noir
Martha Argerich and Stephen Kovacevich (pianos)
Delius Over the Hills and Far Away Welsh National Opera Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
8.30-10.00: Vivaldi Magnificat, RV610a Roberta Invernizzi (soprano),
Sara Mingardo (contralto), Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor), Matteo Bellotto (baritone), Concerto Italiano, director Rinaldo Alessandrini
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K364 Itzhak Perlman (violin), Pinchas Zukerman (viola),
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Zubin Mehta
Bach, orch Webern Fugue (Musical Offering, BWV1079)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandy Burnett.
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Unknown:
Martha Argerich
Pianos:
Stephen Kovacevich
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Soprano:
Roberta Invernizzi
Contralto:
Sara Mingardo
Contralto:
Gianluca Ferrarini
Tenor:
Matteo Bellotto
Director:
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Violin:
Itzhak Perlman
Viola:
Pinchas Zukerman
Conductor:
Zubin Mehta
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado

With Jonathan Swain.
Corrette Carillon pour les Morts Musica Antiqua, Koln, conductor Philippe Herreweghe
10.05 Liszt Funérailles Alfred Brendel (piano)
10.16 Strauss Tod und Verklarung, Op 24 Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Willem Mengelberg
10.41 Listener Request:
Victoria Eram Quasi Agnus; Una Hora;
Seniores Populi (Tenebrae Responsories) Westminster Cathedral Choir, master of music George Malcolm
10.50 Sallinen String Quartet No 3
(Aspects ofHenrik Peltoniemi's Funeral March) Jean Sibelius Quartet
11.03 Victoria TaedetAnimam Meam ; Introit (Missa pro Defunctis) Westminster Cathedral Choir, master of music David Hill
11.18 Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra , Op 30Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Herbert von Karajan

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Conductor:
Philippe Herreweghe
Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Conductor:
Willem Mengelberg
Music:
George Malcolm
Unknown:
Jean Sibelius
Unknown:
Victoria Taedetanimam Meam
Music:
David Hill
Unknown:
Sprach Zarathustra
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan

Donald Macleod introduces the musicals that firmly established Porter's reputation as one of the most important songwriters of his day.
Love for Sale (The New Yorkers) Elizabeth Welch
Mister and Missus Fitch
Pearl Bailey
Night and Day; After You, Who?; I've Got You under My Skin (Gay Divorce) Fred Astaire
It's 's Bad for Me; Solomon; The Physician (Nymph Errant)
Gertrude Lawrence
/ Get a Kick out of You; All through the Night; There'll Always Be a Lady Fair; Where Are the Men; You're the Top; Anything Goes (Anything Goes) Kim Criswell , Cris Groenendaal and Frederica von Stade, Ambrosian Chorus,
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor John McGlinn
Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Introduces:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Elizabeth Welch
Unknown:
Fred Astaire
Unknown:
Gertrude Lawrence
Unknown:
Kim Criswell
Unknown:
Cris Groenendaal
Conductor:
John McGlinn

Another chance to hear a recital given last year by Dutch cellist Quirine Viersen and pianist Silke Avenhaus at the NTL Studio of Belfast's Waterfront Hall.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny .
Schumann Phantasiestucke , Op 73
Beethoven Cello Sonata in C, Op 102 No 1 Moebius Phantasiestucke
Chopin Introduction and Polonaise Brillant in C, Op 3 (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Quirine Viersen
Pianist:
Silke Avenhaus
Presented By:
Petroc Trelawny
Presented By:
Schumann Phantasiestucke

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Philharmonic Janine Jansen (violin), conductor Gianandrea Noseda
Martin Handley presents a live concert from a studio in Manchester.
Schubert Overture in E minor, D648 Britten Violin Concerto
Schubert Symphony No 9 in C (Great)

Contributors

Violin:
Philharmonic Janine Jansen
Conductor:
Gianandrea Noseda
Conductor:
Martin Handley

Irina Mataeva (soprano),
Ekaterina Semenchuk (mezzo), Andrei llyshnikov (tenor), Vladimir Moroz (baritone), llya
Bannik (bass), Larissa Gergieva (piano) lain Burnside introduces the second part of a specially recorded recital of Rachmaninov songs given by students at the Mariinsky Young Singers'Academy in St Petersburgwith Larissa Gergieva , the head of the academy, at the piano.

Contributors

Soprano:
Irina Mataeva
Soprano:
Ekaterina Semenchuk
Tenor:
Vladimir Moroz
Bass:
Larissa Gergieva
Unknown:
Larissa Gergieva

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Susan Gritton (soprano),
Dietrich Henschel (baritone), European Voices, conductor Simon Rattle
A second concert this week of music by Brahms and Schumann, live from Birmingham's Symphony Hall.
Presented by Christopher Cook. Schumann Overture: Genoveva; Nachtlied, Op 108
7.50 Twenty Minutes: No Abiding City
Roderick Swanston explores the theology and context of Brahms's "human" Requiem.
8.10 Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem

Contributors

Soprano:
Susan Gritton
Soprano:
Dietrich Henschel
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Presented By:
Christopher Cook.
Unknown:
Roderick Swanston

Isabel Hilton considers one of the first Holocaust memoirs, Nine Suitcases, which was written in 1948, a year before the author Bela Zsolt took his own life.
Producer Horatio Clare

Contributors

Unknown:
Isabel Hilton
Unknown:
Bela Zsolt
Producer:
Horatio Clare

3: Berlioz the Dramatist
With Donald Macleod and David Cairns. La Mort de Cleopatre (excerpt)
Janet Baker (mezzo), LSO, conductor Colin Davis Overture: Le Roi LearScottish National
Orchestra .conductor Alexander Gibson La Damnation de Faust (excerpts, including the Dance of the Sylphs and the Invocation to Nature) Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Jules Bastin (bass), London Symphony Chorus, LSO, conductor Colin Davis Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
David Cairns.
Unknown:
Janet Baker
Conductor:
Colin Davis
Conductor:
Alexander Gibson
Tenor:
Nicolai Gedda
Bass:
Jules Bastin
Conductor:
Colin Davis

With Louise Fryer.
Rameau Suite: Les Indes Galantes
Haydn Symphony No 85 in B flat (La Reine) Spohr Symphony No 6 in G (Historische)
2.05 Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor
2.35 Praetorius Dans une Etable Obscure
2.40 Regamey Quintet 3.15 Lutoslawski Epitaph 3.20 Hindemith Mathis derMaler
3.45 Berlioz Overture: Le Roi Lear
4.00 Rossini Ecco Ridente in Cielo (II
Barbiere di Siviglia) 4.05 Mozart Fantasy in C minor, K396 4.20 K Forster Vanitas
Vanitatum 4.30 Byrd Pavan and Galliard in G (Quadran) 4.45 Halevy Salut , Salut a Cette Noble France (La Reine de Chypre)
5.00 Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps 5.05Ligeti Six Bagatelles
5.20 Holm Desert and Health 5.25 Brahms
Alto Rhapsody 5.35 Nielsen Sunset,
Op 4 No 1 5.40 Montsalvatge Cancion de Cuna para Dormir a un Negrito Catalan
Tradition, arr Harman El Cant dels Ocells
5.45 Erkel Swan Song 5.55 Rautavaara Regular Sets of Elements, Op 60
6.05 Lhotka String Quartet
6.45 Prokofiev Symphony No 1 (Classical)

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Fryer.
Unknown:
Praetorius Dans
Unknown:
Hindemith Mathis
Unknown:
Forster Vanitas
Unknown:
Byrd Pavan
Unknown:
Halevy Salut
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams

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