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With Rob Cowan. Regularfeatures include The Innocent Ear and a Bargain Hunter CD recommendation. Plus excerpts from the recording of Mozart's Die Zauberflote recommended on yesterday's CD Review. Other music includes:
Busoni Giga , Bolero e Variazione (An die
Jugend) (after Mozart) Anatol Ugorsky (piano) Wieniawski Polonaise Brilliant No 1, Op 4 Jascha Heifetz (violin), Emanuel Bay (piano) Bach Air (Orchestral Suite No 3 in D,
BWV1068) (Air on a G String) Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), unnamed string orchestra directed by Nikolai Anosov Couperin La Francoise (Les Nations,
Premiere Ordre) Frans Briiggen (flute), JaapSchroder (violin), Anner Bylsma
(cello), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) Email your comments to: cowancollection@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Unknown:
Busoni Giga
Piano:
Anatol Ugorsky
Violin:
Jascha Heifetz
Violin:
Emanuel Bay
Cello:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Directed By:
Nikolai Anosov
Directed By:
Couperin La Francoise
Flute:
Frans Briiggen
Violin:
Anner Bylsma
Cello:
Gustav Leonhardt

Praise and Be Prepared!
A programme of American songs of praise interspersed with John Cage 's Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano, plus the first performance of his Variations I for Stephen Montague. Presented by John Tusa , live from LSO St Luke's in London.
Rolf Hind (piano), Deborah Miles-Johnson (mezzo), BBC Symphony Chorus, conductor Stephen Jackson
Henry Billings Let Tyrants Shake Their Iron Rod (Tune: Chester)
Virgil Thomson Four Southern Hymns
John Cage Sonatas 1, 2 and 3 (Sonatas and Interludes)
Alan Hovhaness Psalm 143: Hear My Prayer, OLord, Op 149 Ives Psalm 67
Randall Thompson Alleluia
John Cage Sonatas 4, 5 and 6 (Sonatas and Interludes)
Aaron Copland In the Beginning
John Cage Sonatas 11 and 12 (Sonatas and Interludes); Variations I for Stephen Montague (first performance)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cage
Unknown:
Stephen Montague.
Presented By:
John Tusa
Piano:
Deborah Miles-Johnson
Conductor:
Stephen Jackson
Conductor:
Henry Billings
Unknown:
Alan Hovhaness
Unknown:
Randall Thompson Alleluia
Unknown:
John Cage Sonatas
Unknown:
Aaron Copland
Unknown:
Stephen Montague

4/4. Deborah Bull talks to
Shobana Jeyasingh about how hymns and Indian classical music have inspired her unique choreography. With music by Michael Nyman , Louis Couperin , Kevin Volans and llayaraja. Producer Lucy Greenwell

Contributors

Talks:
Deborah Bull
Unknown:
Shobana Jeyasingh
Music By:
Michael Nyman
Music By:
Louis Couperin
Music By:
Kevin Volans
Producer:
Lucy Greenwell

Cage and the New York School
Live from the Barbican in London. John
Tusa introduces music by the group of composers associated with Cage in the 1950s, members of the New York School. Ralph van Raat (piano), Clio Gould (violin), London Sinfonietta, conductor David Porcelijn Morton Feldman Madame Press Died Last
Week at Ninety
Christian Wolff Spring
John Cage Concerto for Prepared Piano
4.50 Twenty Minutes: Here's One I Made Earlier Pianist and composer
Stephen Montague lifts the lid on the prepared piano.
5.10 Earle Brown Centering
John Cage Apartment House 1776

Contributors

Piano:
Ralph van Raat
Piano:
Clio Gould
Conductor:
David Porcelijn
Conductor:
Morton Feldman Madame
Unknown:
Stephen Montague
Unknown:
John Cage

The Moving and the Still
By Howard Barker. In a monastery in 1450 a young scribe is passionately committed to his art. Then, a printing press from Germany arrives at the scriptorium.
Director Peter Kavanagh

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Barker.
Director:
Peter Kavanagh
Hoik:
Chris Moran
Slee:
Neil Dudgeon
Mother:
Lesley Manville
Tram:
John Wood
November:
Anton Lesser
Hergood/Clerk:
Damian Lynch
Light:
Declan Wilson
Toonelhuis:
John Rowe
Signor/Confessor:
Vincenzo Nicoli

Cage and Friends
Live from the Barbican Centre, London. John Tusa presents music by John Cage and works by two of his friends: Lou Harrison and Morton Feldman.
Frances M Lynch and Nicole Tibbels
(sopranos), Rolf Hind (piano), Paul Watkins (cello), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre-Andre Valade
Cage Songbooks (excerpts); A Flower;
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs; Seven Haiku
8.50 Twenty Minutes: In the Company of Mushrooms Ivan Hewett , who like John Cage is obsessed with mushrooms, discusses mycology with chef Antonio Carluccio and author Elios Schaechter.
9.10 Lou Harrison Symphony No 4 (lstmvt) Morton Feldman Cello and Orchestra
CagelOl (first UK performance)

Contributors

Music By:
John Cage
Unknown:
Lou Harrison
Unknown:
Morton Feldman.
Sopranos:
Nicole Tibbels
Sopranos:
Rolf Hind
Piano:
Paul Watkins
Conductor:
Pierre-Andre Valade
Unknown:
Ivan Hewett
Unknown:
John Cage
Unknown:
Antonio Carluccio
Unknown:
Elios Schaechter.
Unknown:
Lou Harrison
Cello:
Morton Feldman

With Louise Fryer. Palestrina, arr Soriano Missa Papae
Marcelli Sandstrom Surge Aquilo
Frank Martin Mass Swedish Radio Chorus
2.05 Faure Nocturne in E flat, Op 36
2.10 Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain
2.35 Mozart String Quartet in G, K387
3.05 Sibelius Four Songs 3.15Jarnefelt The Sound of Home 3.25Canis Tota
Pulchra Es 3.30 Schenck Viola da Gamba
Sonata in E minor, Op 9 No 5 3.45 Pachelbel Canon and Gigue in D 3.50 Bach Cantata No 54: Widerstehe doch derSunde
4.05 Beethoven Variations on Quant' EPiu Bello , Wo069 4.10 Grieg Triumphal March (Sigurd Jorsalfar) 4.20 Martinu Variations on a Slovak Theme 4.30 Janequin La Chasse 4.35 Handel Rejoice Greatly,
0 Daughters of Zion (Messiah) 4.40 Wilms Rondo-Polonaise in D 4.50
Sarasate Zigeunerweisen , Op 20 5.00 Hannikainen First Snow 5.05 Kodaly Adagio
5.15 Debussy Prélude a I 'Apres-Midi d 'un Faune 5.25 Moszkowski Romance sans
Paroles 5.30 Purcell The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation 5.35 Henry Eccles Double Bass Sonata in G minor 5.45
Glinka Susanin 's aria (A Life for the Tsar)
5.50 Chopin Ballade in G minor, Op 23
6.00 Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
6.20 Rudolf Escher Ciel , Airet Vents
6.35 Dohnanyi Piano Quintet No 2, Op 26

Contributors

Unknown:
Epiu Bello
Unknown:
Janequin La Chasse
Unknown:
Wilms Rondo-Polonaise
Unknown:
Sarasate Zigeunerweisen
Unknown:
Glinka Susanin
Unknown:
Chopin Ballade
Unknown:
Rudolf Escher Ciel

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