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With Penny Gore, who this week plays
Mozart string quintets and works inspired by rivers. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Handel Water Music: Suite
No 2 in D, HWV349 English Baroque
Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner Mozart String Quintet in B flat, K174 Arthur Grumiaux and Arpad Gerecz
(violins), Georges Janzer and Max Lesueur (violas), Eva Czako (cello)
8.30-10.00: Villa-Lobos Amazonas
Lyon National Orchestra, conductor
Emmanuel Krivine Tchaikovsky Serenade Mélancolique, Op 26 Yehudi Menuhin (violin), RPO, conductor Adrian Boult
Purcell Of Old, When Heroes Thought It Base (Yorkshire Feast Song) Soloists, the English Concert and Choir, director Trevor Pinnock

Contributors

Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Unknown:
Arthur Grumiaux
Violins:
Georges Janzer
Violins:
Max Lesueur
Violas:
Eva Czako
Violin:
Yehudi Menuhin
Conductor:
Adrian Boult
Director:
Trevor Pinnock

With Jonathan Swain. This week featuring Elgar symphonies and concertos, and recordings by Sigiswald Kuijken.
Elgar Prelude: The Kingdom, Op 51 BBCSO conducted by the composer
10.10 Rosenmuller Sonata No 2 in E minor for two violins Alarius Ensemble
10.22 Hindemith Kammermusik No 1
Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble conducted by the composer
10.39 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G, BWV1049 Sigiswald Kuijken (violin), Frans Bruggen and Kees Boeke
(recorders), Ensemble with Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
10.56 Elgar Symphony No 1 in A flat LSO conducted by the composer
11.43 Couperin 136me Concert a Deux
Instrumens à /'Unisson (Les Goûts-Réünis) Sigiswald and Wieland Kuijken (violas da gamba)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Hindemith Kammermusik
Unknown:
Bach Brandenburg
Violin:
Frans Bruggen
Violin:
Kees Boeke
Harpsichord:
Gustav Leonhardt
Violas:
Wieland Kuijken

William Boyce (1711-79)
1/5. Boyce became one of London's most renowned composers in his own lifetime, but by the beginning of the 20th century his music was all but forgotten. Donald Macleod explores the reasons why.
Trio Sonata No 4 in G minor (2nd mvt)
Parley of Instruments, director Peter Holman Turn Thee unto Me Oxford New College Choir, director Edward Higginbottom
Symphony in D, Op 2 No 5 (St Cecilia 's Day Ode, 1739) The English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
Ode for St Cecilia 's Day, 1739: See Fam 'd Apollo and the Nine (Part 2) (excerpt) Soloists, Oxford New College Choir,
Hanover Band, conductor Graham Lea-Cox Producer Chris Taylor Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
William Boyce
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Director:
Peter Holman
Director:
Edward Higginbottom
Director:
Trevor Pinnock
Producer:
Chris Taylor

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Today's programme includes a concert given in St Asaph Cathedral, North Wales, the burial place of Welsh composer William Mathias. Presented by Tommy Pearson. Elgar Overture: In the South (Alassio); Chanson de Matin, Op 51 No 2 Conductor Richard Hickox
Mathias Anniversary Dances, Op 95 Schumann Symphony No 3 in E flat
(Rhenish) Conductor Grant Llewellyn

Contributors

Unknown:
William Mathias.
Presented By:
Tommy Pearson.
Unknown:
Chanson de Matin
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Grant Llewellyn

East Meets West: Raga and Rhapsody
1/5. Sonia Deol begins this week's diverse series of music focusing on the influence of Eastern cultures on Western music, with a concert performed last November at
St David's Hall, Cardiff. Welsh composer
Peter Stacey brings together dhol drummers, singers and dancers from the Asian community in South Wales with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Plus a new concerto for bansuri flute master Hariprasad Chaurasia , who also plays a traditional set. Hariprasad Chaurasia (bansuri),
Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot), Rolf Hind (piano), South Wales Asian community performers, BBC NOW, conductor Philip Ellis
Stacey Sangeet Kala (first performance) Chaurasia Ballet: Krishna
Stacey Bansuri Concerto (first performance) Foulds Mantra of Activity (Three Mantras) Messiaen TurangaHla-Symphonie
(3rd mvt: Turangafila 1; 5th mvt: Joie du Sang des Etoiles)
Trad Indian music Hariprasad Chaurasia See also 11.15pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Sonia Deol
Unknown:
Peter Stacey
Unknown:
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Unknown:
Cynthia Millar
Piano:
Rolf Hind
Conductor:
Philip Ellis
Conductor:
Stacey Sangeet Kala
Unknown:
Messiaen Turangahla-Symphonie

Isabel Hilton profiles the work of feminist artist Helen Chadwick , as an exhibition opens at Leeds's Henry Moore Institute. And Michael Holroyd talks about his new book, Mosaic. Producer Aasiya Lodhi

Contributors

Unknown:
Isabel Hilton
Artist:
Helen Chadwick
Artist:
Michael Holroyd
Producer:
Aasiya Lodhi

Fiona Talkington mixes and matches music, including Al Stewart's Café Society, Bibi GolAfruz from Ensemble Bakhtar and, across the week, Glenn Gould 's live performance of Bach's Goldberg
Variations at the 1959 Salzburg Festival.

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington
Unknown:
Bibi Golafruz
Unknown:
Glenn Gould
Unknown:
Salzburg Festival.

With John Shea. Prokofiev Cello Sonata, Op 119 Saxton Cello Sonata on a theme of Walton Poulenc Cello Sonata 2.00 Kreisler String Quartet in A minor 2.35
Josquin des Prez Miserere 2.50 Debussy Nocturnes 3.15 Dowland A Pilgrim's Solace (excerpts) 3.30 Mozetich Postcards from the Sky 3.40 Haydn Keyboard Sonata in C minor, H XVI 20 4.00 Rossini Overture: The Thieving Magpie 4.10 Beethoven
Contredanse No 1 4.15 Erkel Duo Brillant
4.30 Thomas 0 Vin Dissipe la Tristesse
(Hamlet) 4.35 Telemann Scherzo Melodico No 2 in B flat (Martedi) (Pyrmonter
Kurwoche) 4.45 Anon Diferencias sobre las Vacas 4.50 Satie La Belle Excentrique
5.00 Poulenc Litanies a la Vierge Noire
5.10 Bach Prelude and Fugues: in B minor, BWV893: in B, BWV892 (Well-Tempered
Clavier) 5.20Larsson String Quartet No 3, Op 65 5.45 Tallis Spem in Alium
5.55 Chopin Nocturne in F. Op 15 No 1
6.00 Mozart Mentre Ti Lascio, 0 Figlia, K513
6.05 Lindberg Piano Quartet 6.30 Byrd
0 Lord, Make Thy Servant Elizabeth; Agnus Dei (Mass for 5 voices) 6.40 Grieg, orch Sitt Four Norwegian Dances, Op 35

Contributors

Unknown:
John Shea.
Unknown:
Vin Dissipe
Unknown:
Tallis Spem
Unknown:
Agnus Dei

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