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This week Penny Gore celebrates the 200th anniversary of Glinka's birth, plays recordings with connections to the Bath International
Music Festival and discovers some rarely heard Reger orchestrations of Schubert songs.
7.00-8.30: Rossini Sonate a Quattro No 1 in G Ensemble Explorations Glinka Grand Sextet in E flat Capricorn Martinu Clarinet Sonatina Julian Bliss , Julien Quentin (piano)
8.30-10.00: Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in Eflat, K364 Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Bath Festival Orchestra, director Rudolf Barshai (viola) Schubert, orch Reger Im Abendrot , D799; Litaneyaufdas Fest Alter Seelen, D343; Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118
Camilla Nylund (soprano), North German
Radio PO, conductor Werner Andreas Albert lbert The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Strasbourg PO, conductor Jan Latham-Koenig

Contributors

Clarinet:
Sonatina Julian Bliss
Piano:
Julien Quentin
Violin:
Yehudi Menuhin
Viola:
Rudolf Barshai
Unknown:
Reger Im Abendrot
Soprano:
Camilla Nylund
Conductor:
Werner Andreas Albert
Conductor:
Jan Latham-Koenig

With Jonathan Swain.
This week featuring late piano works by Schubert and recordings by Albert Coates. Tippett Praeludium for brass, bells and percussion English Northern Philharmonia, conductor Michael Tippett
10.09 Schubert Impromptu in C minor, 0899 No 1 Artur Schnabel (piano)
10.20 Strauss Don Juan London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Albert Coates
10.36 Listener request: Wolf DerTambour ; Der Rattenfanger Heinz Rehfuss (baritone), Frank Martin (piano)
10.43 Schubert Piano Sonata in A, D959 Stephen Kovacevich
11.23 Wagner Isolde ! Tristan!; 0 sink' hernieder (Tristan und Isolde) Frieda Leider
(soprano), Lauritz Melchior (tenor), Berlin State Opera Orchestra/LSO, conductor Albert Coates
10.41 Listener request: Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat, BWV1051 II Giardino Armonico, director Giovanni Antonini

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Albert Coates.
Unknown:
Tippett Praeludium
Conductor:
Michael Tippett
Conductor:
Schubert Impromptu
Piano:
Artur Schnabel
Conductor:
Albert Coates
Unknown:
Wolf Dertambour
Piano:
Frank Martin
Unknown:
Stephen Kovacevich
Unknown:
Wagner Isolde
Soprano:
Frieda Leider
Soprano:
Lauritz Melchior

1/5. Donald Macleod spends this week in the company of Judith Weir , who turned 50 earlier this month.
Arise! Arise! You Slumbering Sleepers Schubert Ensemble
Airs from Another Planet
Lontano, conductor Odaline de la Martinez Voice of Desire
Alice Coote (mezzo), Julius Drake (piano)
The Welcome Arrival of Rain BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra, conductor llan Volkov A Night at the Chinese Opera (excerpt)
Timothy Robinson (tenor), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Andrew Parrott
Producer Lyndon Jones Repeated onSundayatl2 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Judith Weir
Piano:
Julius Drake
Tenor:
Timothy Robinson
Conductor:
Andrew Parrott
Producer:
Lyndon Jones

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London.
Stephanie Hughes presents a recital by the young New Zealander bass-baritone
Jonathan Lemalu with pianist Malcom Martineau. Faure L 'Horizon Chimérique, Op 118
Quitter Seven Elizabethan Lyrics, Op 12 Schumann Liederkreis , Op 24

Contributors

Bass-Baritone:
Jonathan Lemalu
Pianist:
Malcom Martineau.
Unknown:
Schumann Liederkreis

Presented by Sarah Walker.

Liebermann Revelry - Conductor Grant Llewellyn

Schwanter A Sudden Rainbow

Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 in C, K467 - Stephen Hough, conductor Leonard Slatkin

Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor

Youmans, arr Shostakovich Tahiti Trot - Conductor Leonard Slatkin

Contributors

Presenter:
Sarah Walker
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Grant Llewellyn
Pianist:
Stephen Hough
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin

A Feast of Cole Porter
1/2. Edward Seckerson celebrates the sophistication and wit of songwriter
Cole Porter. Today including Let's Do It, Fifty Million Frenchmen, The New Yorker, Gay Divorce, Nymph Errant, and Ethel Merman in Anything Goes. ADDRESS: Stage and Screen, Room 220, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreen@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Seckerson
Songwriter:
Cole Porter.
Songwriter:
Ethel Merman
Unknown:
Queen Margaret Drive

Angela Hewitt
Edward Seckerson introduces a recital given last week at London's Wigmore Hall by Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt. Bach Partita in C minor, BWV826
Beethoven Piano Sonata in Eflat, Op 7 Bach Partita in D, BWV828
Beethoven Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2 (Moonlight)

Contributors

Unknown:
Angela Hewitt
Introduces:
Edward Seckerson
Pianist:
Angela Hewitt.

Paul Allen travels to "the most English of Italian Cities", Genoa, to present a cultural map of Italy's main commerical seaport and now
European Capital of Culture 2004. Its famous sons include Christopher Columbus, Nicolo Paganini and the contemporary architect
Renzo Piano; and its admirers have included Charles Dickens and Richard Wagner. Producer Aasiya Lodhi

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Nicolo Paganini
Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
Richard Wagner.
Producer:
Aasiya Lodhi

Fiona Talkington presents American cellist
David Darling and the Bunun Singers of Taiwan recorded in the Queen Elizabeth Hall last week. Also music from Todd Rundgren 's album A Cappella and Ballet Inganzo, a group of teenage musicians and dancers from Rwanda.

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington
Unknown:
David Darling
Unknown:
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Unknown:
Todd Rundgren

2/5. Donald Macleod looks at how Schumann used in his work a pair of imaginary characters, the quiet, reflective Eusebius and the passionate, energetic Florestan-twin reflections of his own personality.
Eusebius; Florestan (Carnaval, Op 9 Nos 5 and 6) Andreas Boyde (piano) Papillons, Op 2 Nos 11 and 12 SviatoslavRichter (piano) Four Duets, Op 34 Dorothea Roschmann (soprano),
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano) Davidsbundlertanze, Op 6 Maurizio Pollini (piano) Repeated from Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Piano:
Andreas Boyde
Soprano:
Dorothea Roschmann
Tenor:
Ian Bostridge
Tenor:
Graham Johnson
Piano:
Maurizio Pollini

With Louise Fryer.
Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp Frumerle Piano Trio No 2 Bax Fantasy Sonata for harp and viola
2.00 Elgar Sea Pictures, Op 3 7 2.20 Kodaly Missa Brevis
2.55 Handel Keyboard Suite in G minor, Set 2 No 6
3.10 Bach Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV1067
3.30 Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219 4.00 Lassus Musica Dei Donum 4.10 A Forqueray, arr JB Forqueray Harpsichord Suite 4.25 Handel Vo'DarPaceaunAlma Ultiera (Tamertano) 4.30 Benoit Alma Redemptoris
4.35 Schumann Overture: Die Braut von Messina
4.45 Doppter Souvenir de Prague, Op 24 5.00 Kodaly Hary Janos (excerpts) 5.05 Mllhaud, arr Kaln Scaramouche
5.15 Schubert Memnon, D541;Auflosung,
D80 DerMusensohn , 0764 5.25 Quantz flute Duet, Op
5.35 Morales Andreas Christi Famulus 5.40 Debussy Hommage a Haydn Poulenc Les Chemins de IAmour
5.45 J Strauss (son) Polka: Tik-tak, Op 365; Csardas (Die Fledermaus) 6.00 Bach Concerto in the Italian Styfe in F, BWV971 6.15 Hummel Trumpet Concerto in
6.30 Haydn Symphony No 6 7 F F

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Fryer.
Unknown:
Benoit Alma Redemptoris
Unknown:
Kodaly Hary
Unknown:
D80 Dermusensohn

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