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This week Sandy Burnett explores some recent recordings of Handel operas and charts the development ofthe symphonic poem in France.
7.00-8.30 Saint-Saens Phaéton, Op 39 French National Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa Nielsen Overture: Helios Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi Schumann Kinderszenen , Op 15 Annie Fischer (piano)
8.30-10.00: Franck Ce Qu 'on Entend sur la Montagne Belgian Radio SO, conductor Brian Priestman Handel Rinaldo, Act 3 (battle and closing scenes) Soloists, Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandy Burnett
Conductor:
Seiji Ozawa
Unknown:
Schumann Kinderszenen
Piano:
Annie Fischer
Conductor:
Christopher Hogwood

With Rob Cowan. This week featuring Liszt's Années de Pèlerinage and recordings by conductor Bruno Walter.
Mozart Overture: Le Nozze di Rgaro British Symphony Orchestra, conductor Bruno Walter
10.06 Liszt Années de Pèlerinage, Année 1
(Suisse): La Chapelle de Guillaume Tell Alfred Brendel (piano) Au Lac de Wallenstadt Andre Watts (piano) Au Bordd'une Source Vladimir Horowitz (piano) Eglogue Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
10.26 Mozart Le Nozze di Rgaro, Act 2 (excerpt)
Vienna PO, conductor Bruno Walter
10.38 Listener request: Arensky Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 32 Jascha Heifetz (violin), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello), Leonard Pennario (piano)
11.05 Mozart Symphony No 41 in C, K551 (Jupiter) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Bruno Walter
11.34 Liszt Années de Pèlerinage, Année 1 (Suisse): Valleed'Obermann Claudio Arrau (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Bruno Walter.
Conductor:
Bruno Walter
Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Unknown:
Wallenstadt Andre
Piano:
Vladimir Horowitz
Piano:
Eglogue Arturo Benedetti
Conductor:
Bruno Walter
Violin:
Jascha Heifetz
Violin:
Gregor Piatigorsky
Cello:
Leonard Pennario
Conductor:
Bruno Walter
Countess:
Aulikki Rautavaara (soprano)
Susanna:
Esther Rethy (soprano)
Figaro:
Ezio Pinza (baritone)
Count:
Mariano Stabile (baritone)

1/5. Introducing
Percy Donald Macleod looks beyond the sensational aspects of Grainger's life to discover a musician who desperately wanted to be taken seriously. Traditional, arr Grainger Country Gardens Percy Grainger (piano)
My Robin Is to the Greenwood Gone City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox Grainger Hill Song No 1
Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, conductor Clark Rundell Eigar, arr Grainger Nimrod
Grainger Paraphrase on Tchaikovsky's Flower Waltz (The Nutcracker) Martin Jones (piano) Jungle-Book Verses Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, conductor Richard Hickox The Immovable Do BBC Philharmonic, conductor Richard Hickox
Producer Chris Taylor Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Percy Donald MacLeod
Piano:
Percy Grainger
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Clark Rundell
Unknown:
Grainger Nimrod
Unknown:
Grainger Paraphrase
Piano:
Martin Jones
Unknown:
St Martin
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Producer:
Chris Taylor

New Generations
Verity Sharp presents a recital given last week atthe Wigmore Hall in London by the young German ensemble the Artemis Quartet.
Beethoven String Quartet in F (arr of Piano Sonata in E, Op 14 No 1)
Schubert String Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden)

Contributors

Unknown:
Verity Sharp

BBC
Philharmonic Jennifer Galloway (oboe),
ConductorVassily
Sinaisky Tommy Pearson presents a week of music by Austrian and German composers. Mozart Oboe Concerto in C,
K314 Bruckner , ed Nowak Symphony No 4 in Eflat (Romantic)

Contributors

Oboe:
Philharmonic Jennifer Galloway
Conductorvassily:
Sinaisky Tommy Pearson
Unknown:
K314 Bruckner

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Aldeburgh Festival: The to Passion
Humphrey Burton presents one of the highlights of this year's Aldeburgh Festival: the new chamber music theatre piece by Harrison Birtwistle , who turns 70 next month. The lo Passion, for string quartet, clarinet and six performers, to a text by Stephen Plaice , combines Magritte-type imagery, ritual and myth, and a powerful score exploring the darker side of sexual obsession. The Almeida Opera production is directed at the Snape Maltings, Suffolk, by Stephen Langridge.
Teresa Banham and Joseph Alessi (actors),
Claire Booth and Amy Fretton (sopranos), Sam McElroy and Richard Morris (baritones),
Quatuor Diotima , director Alan Hacker (clarinet)

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Burton
Unknown:
Harrison Birtwistle
Unknown:
Stephen Plaice
Unknown:
Stephen Langridge.
Unknown:
Teresa Banham
Unknown:
Joseph Alessi
Sopranos:
Amy Fretton
Sopranos:
Sam McElroy
Sopranos:
Richard Morris
Baritones:
Quatuor Diotima
Clarinet:
Alan Hacker

The first in a series this week of love letters to the unloved spaces that litter the environment. Car Parks. Andrew Nairn , director of the Modern Art Oxford gallery argues, in the words of Joni Mitchell , that we should pave paradise and put up a parking lot. Producer Martin Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Nairn
Unknown:
Joni Mitchell
Producer:
Martin Smith

With Susan Sharpe.
Pugnl Gran Quartetto in E flat. Op 2 Eberl Grand Quintetto in G minor, Op 411.45 Mozart Piano Concerto No 26 in 0, K537 (Coronation) 2.15 Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A
2.55 Boccherinl Cello Concerto No 6 in D 3.10 Benott Five Motets 3.25 Willan Symphony No 2 in C minor
4.10 Stanford Fantasia and Toccata in D minor 4.20 Fux Laudate Dominum 4.25 Brahms Hungarian Dances (excerpts) 4.40 Sarasate Zigeunerweisen , Op 20
4.50 Stenhammar Spring Night 5.00 JG Naumann
Overture: Cora 5.10 Buffardln Flute Concerto in E minor
5.20 Muller Siciliano in D minor 5.25 Zarzycki Polish Suite, Op 37 5.50 Chopin Nocturne in E. Op 62 No 2
6.00 Moniuszko String Quartet No 2 in F 6.15 Banchieri Cor Mio Deh Non Languire 6.20Sisask Three motets
6.35 Debussy La Mer

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
Sarasate Zigeunerweisen
Unknown:
Muller Siciliano
Unknown:
Banchieri Cor Mio

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