Programme Index

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With Sandy Burnett.

Music includes:

7.00-8.30: Vivaldi Clarae Stellae - Sara Mingardo (contralto), Concerto Italiano, director Rinaldo Alessandrini

Barber Summer Music - Michael Thompson Wind Quintet

Schubert Marche Militaire in D, D733 No 1 - Daniel Barenboim and Radu Lupu (piano duet)

8.30-10.00: Boccherini Guitar Quintet No 3 in B flat - Pepe Romero (guitar), Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble

Rachmaninov Suite No 2 in C, Op 17 - Dmitri Alexeev and Nikolai Demidenko (pianos)

Schumann Konzertstuck in F, Op 86 - Roger Montgomery, Gavin Edwards, Susan Dent and Robert Maskell (horns), Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner

Contributors

Presenter:
Sandy Burnett

With Jonathan Swain.

Goldberg, attrib Bach Trio Sonata in C - Musica Antiqua, Koln, director Reinhard Goebel

10.14 Britten The Rape of Lucretia (excerpts) - Joan Cross (soprano), Nancy Evans (mezzo), Peter Pears (tenor), Frederick Sharp (baritone), English Opera Group, conductor Reginald Goodall

10.31 Bach Canons, BWV1072-77 - Musica Antiqua, Koln, director Reinhard Goebel

10.38 Britten Albert Herring (conclusion) - April Cantelo and Sylvia Fisher (soprano), Johanna Peters and Sheila Rex (mezzos), Peter Pears (tenor), John Noble and Joseph Ward (baritones), Owen Brannigan (bass), English Chamber Orchestra conducted by the composer

10.56 Listener request: Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV988 - Glenn Gould (piano)

11.48 J.M. Bach Liebster Jesu, hor mein Flehen - Maria Zedelius (soprano), David Cordier (alto), Paul Elliott and Hein Meens (tenors), Michael Schopper (bass), Musica Antiqua, Koln, director Reinhard Goebel

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

2/5. With Donald Macleod. Following the success of his one-act student opera Aleko and graduation from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892, Rachmaninov began his composing career. But the 1897 premiere of his first symphony was savaged by the critics, and the devastated composer was put off composition for the next two years.

The Chorus of Spirits - Russian State Symphonic Cappella

Do Not Sing to Me Fair Maiden, Op 4 No 4 - Alexandre Naoumenko (tenor), Howard Shelley (piano)

Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19 (2nd mvt) - Moray Welsh, Martin Roscoe (piano)

Spring - Tigram Martyrosyan (bass), Russian State Symphonic Capella, Russian State SO, conductor Valery Poliansky

Symphony No 2 in E minor (3rd mvt) - Philharmonia, conductor Kurt Sanderling

Were You Hiccupping, Natasha? - Sergei Leiferkus (bass), Howard Shelley (piano)

(Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight)

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

Petroc Trelawny presents a special edition from the Ulster Hall in Belfast.

David Porcelijn conducts the Ulster Orchestra in a programme of variations and a specially commissioned fanfare by Gareth Wood.

Michael D'Arcy (violin), Alex Slobodyanik (piano), conductor David Porcelijn

Gareth Wood Fanfare (first performance)

Vaughan Williams Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus

Hamilton Harty Variations on a Dublin Air

Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op 43

Kodaly Peacock Variations

Contributors

Presenter:
Petroc Trelawny
Musicians:
Ulster Orchestra
Violinist:
Michael D'Arcy
Pianist:
Alex Slobodyanik
Conductor:
David Porcelijn

To mark the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday in James Joyce's novel Ulysses, Iain Burnside presents a programme in which he accompanies soprano Elizabeth Atherton and tenor Andrew Kennedy in settings of Joyce's poetry by Moeran, Barber, Bax, Howells, Bliss, Bridge, Roussel and Cage.

Contributors

Presenter/Pianist:
Iain Burnside
Soprano:
Elizabeth Atherton
Tenor:
Andrew Kennedy

Lucie Skeaping presents a performance of Handel's pastoral masque Acis and Galatea given at St John's Smith Square on Saturday.

English Voices, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, conductor Ivor Bolton

Contributors

Presenter:
Lucie Skeaping
Singers:
English Voices
Musicians:
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Conductor:
Ivor Bolton
Galatea:
Sophie Daneman (soprano)
Acis:
Paul Agnew (tenor)
Damon:
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Polyphemus:
Alan Ewing (bass)

Isabel Hilton presents the first radio interview with the winner of the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2004, fresh from the awards ceremony this evening at the Savoy Hotel in London.

(See also Samuel Johnson Prize Live on BBC4 at 9pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Isabel Hilton
Producer:
Kirsty Pope

Verity Sharp's selection includes pianist Keith Jarrett playing Bach, Italian contemporary music group Sentieri Selvaggi performing David Lang's Sweet Air, Mille Fleurs singing music from 13th-century Spain, and a song from Algerian rai queen Cheikha Remitti.

Contributors

Presenter:
Verity Sharp

With Louise Fryer.

D'India Il Primo Libro di Madrigali (1606)

1.50 Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op 59 No 1 (Razumovsky)

2.30 Haydn Piano Trio in E, H XV28

2.45 Melcer-Szczawinski Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor

3.20 Sibelius Symphony No 6

3.50 Olsson Gregorian Melodies, Op 30

4.05 Anon Gregorian Chant: Lux Vera Lucis

4.10 J.C. Bach Quintet in G, Op 11 No 2

4.20 Raitto The Swans, Op 15

4.25 Saint-Saens The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)

4.30 Schubert Fischerweise, D881

4.35 Bach Four organ works

4.40 Weiss Prelude-Fantasia in D

4.45 Vaszy Comedy Overture

4.50 Strauss Traumerei am Kamin (Intermezzo)

5.00 Van Hoof Overture: Willem de Zwijger

5.05 Mozart Oboe Quartet in K370

5.20 Strauss Macbeth, Op 23

5.35 Cipriano de Rore Datemi Pace

5.40 Larsson Pastoral Suite, Op 19

5.55 Eisner Polonaise in E flat

6.00 D'India Cor Mio, Deh, Non Languire

6.05 Poulenc Oboe Sonata

6.20 Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in D minor

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Fryer

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