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With Penny Gore. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Haydn Symphony No 38 in C
Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment, director Franz Briiggen Liszt Scherzo and March Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
Prokofiev Suite: The Love for Three Oranges BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Rudolf Kempe
8.30-10.00: Stravinsky Suite Italienne
Jascha Heifetz (violin), GregorPiatigorsky(cello) Copland Suite: Appalachian Spring Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Contributors

Director:
Franz Briiggen
Piano:
Vladimir Horowitz
Conductor:
Rudolf Kempe
Violin:
Jascha Heifetz

With Jonathan Swain.
H Casadesus La Sommeilleuse; Sur les Jolis Ponts de Paris Hugues Cuenod (tenor), Madeleine Lipatti (piano)
10.06 Haydn Symphony No 49 in Fminor(La
Passione) Zagreb Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Antonio Janigro
10.29 Poulenc Cinq Mélodies Hugues
Cuenod (tenor) with the composer (piano)
10.40 Brahms Serenade No 1 in D, Op 11
(arr Boustead for nonet) Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
11.26 Haydn Symphony No 88 in G Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Tenor:
Hugues Cuenod
Piano:
Madeleine Lipatti
Conductor:
Antonio Janigro
Conductor:
Fritz Reiner

2/5. Brahms returned to his home town of Hamburg in 1859, where his reputation as a composerwas steadily growing, and he threw himself into the city's musical and cultural life. But his ambition to conduct the Hamburg
Philharmonic Orchestra was thwarted, and a job opportunity in Vienna turned out not to be what he expected. Presented by Donald Macleod. Gesange, Op 17 Monteverdi Choir, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Serenade No 2 in A, Op 16 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Bernard Haitink
Geistliches Wiegenlied , Op 91 No 2
Brigitte Fassbaender (soprano), Thomas Riebl (viola), Irwin Gage (piano)
German Requiem (excerpt) Hakan Hagegard (baritone), Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor James Levine Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Presented By:
Donald MacLeod.
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink
Conductor:
Geistliches Wiegenlied
Soprano:
Brigitte Fassbaender
Soprano:
Thomas Riebl
Viola:
Irwin Gage
Baritone:
Hakan Hagegard
Conductor:
James Levine

Bath International Music Festival
1/4. This week Petroc Trelawny presents a series of concerts given at the Bath Assembly Rooms as part of this year's festival, which finished on Sunday. Today, the Leopold Trio are joined by pianist Alfredo Perl. Sibelius String Trio in G minor
Faure Piano Quartet No 2 in G minor

Contributors

Pianist:
Alfredo Perl.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Presented by Sandy Burnett. Sibelius Fmlandia , Op 26
Conductor Christopher Seaman Grieg Norwegian Dances, Op 35 Conductor Alan Buribayev
Schumann Introduction and Allegro Appassionato in G, Op 92
Jonathan Biss (piano), conductor Garry Walker Brahms Symphony No 2 in D Conductor Nan Volkov
Sibelius Spring Song, Op 16 Conductor JerzyMaksymiuk

Contributors

Presented By:
Sandy Burnett.
Presented By:
Sibelius Fmlandia
Conductor:
Christopher Seaman
Conductor:
Alan Buribayev
Conductor:
Allegro Appassionato
Piano:
Jonathan Biss
Conductor:
Garry Walker
Conductor:
Nan Volkov

lain Burnside presents a specially recorded recital given by the soprano Laura Claycomb with pianist Roger Vignoles. They perform songs by Debussy, Leonard Bernstein, Mark Blitzstein and Lee Hoiby , together with Messiaen's cycle Chants de Terre et de Ciel.

Contributors

Soprano:
Laura Claycomb
Pianist:
Roger Vignoles.
Unknown:
Leonard Bernstein
Unknown:
Mark Blitzstein
Unknown:
Lee Hoiby

Spitalfields Festival
Penny Gore introduces a concert broadcast live from Wilton's Music Hall in London's East End, given as part of this year's
Spitalfields Festival and including the first performance of Judith Weir 's new piano trio. Florestan Trio
Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat, Op 1 No 1 Weir Piano Trio No 2 (first performance) Hear Weir's Piano Trio No 1 in Composer of the Week at 12 midnight
8.20 Twenty Minutes: Ulysses
1/3. One of the most important novels of the 20th century, James Joyce 's Ulysses is set on Bloomsday- 16 June 1904. Three Joyce enthusiasts celebrate the day's centenary by revisiting the book and its author.
Joyce's Women. Author Edna O'Brien explores the fictional and real women in Joyce's life, from his mother ("he loved her with the same fervour as he had loved the Virgin Mary , women without stain") to Molly Bloom ("all rhapsody and appetite, her sexual odyssey a torrent of desire, drollery and acumen").
The series continues next Wednesday and Friday evening
8.40 Ravel Piano Trio

Contributors

Unknown:
Judith Weir
Unknown:
James Joyce
Unknown:
Edna O'Brien
Unknown:
Virgin Mary
Unknown:
Molly Bloom

Philip Dodd talks to Dr George Carey about his autobiography Know the Truth, the first such book to be written by a former Archbishop of Canterbury. Producer Anthony Denselow

Contributors

Talks:
Philip Dodd
Unknown:
Dr George Carey
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

A North Vietnamese love song, a motet by William Byrd , music by Orlando Gibbons arranged by cellist Matthew Barley , and a song from Peru sung by Susanna Baca all feature in Verity Sharp 's late-evening mix.

Contributors

Unknown:
William Byrd
Music By:
Orlando Gibbons
Unknown:
Matthew Barley
Sung By:
Susanna Baca
Unknown:
Verity Sharp

3/5. Judith Weir discusses her instinct forthe theatrical with Donald Macleod.
King Harald's Saga (excerpt); The Bagpiper's String Trio; The Consolations of Scholarship (excerpt); Heroic Strokes of the Bow; Piano Trio No 1
Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Judith Weir
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.

With Louise Fryer.

Cipriano de Rore Il Quinto Libro di Madrigali (1568) - Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley

1.50 Marques y Garcia Symphony No 4 in E

2.25 Koechlin Oboe Sonata, Op 58

2.50 Satie Ballet: Parade

3.05 Vieuxtemps Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor

3.35 Rachmaninov Prelude in F sharp minor. Op 23 No 1

3.40 Grechaninov Missa Festiva, Op 154

4.00 Weber Rondo Brillante in E flat, Op 62

4.05 Rossini Non Pit Mesta (La Cenerentola)

4.10 Grieg Holberg Suite, Op 40

4.30 Bax Hardanger

4.35 Schubert Three Lieder

4.45 Albeniz Cordoba, Op 232 No 4

4.50 Fougstedt Concert Overture

5.00 Vivaldi Concerto in C for strings, RV114

5.05 Sweelinck Organ Fantasia

5.10 Bach Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV1056

5.20 Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70

5.30 Orban Cor Mundum

5.40 Strauss Grand Suite (Der Rosenkavalier)

6.00 Cipriano de Rore Alma Susanna

6.05 Van Maldere Sinfonia in D, Op 5 No 1

6.25 Schumann Sechs Gesange, Op 89Â

6.35 Zeljenka Piano Concertino

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Fryer

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