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With Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Augusta Holmes Irlande Rheinland-PfalzPO, conductor Samuel Friedmann Felix Maximo Lopez
Variaciones del Fandango Espahol Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice
New York PO, conductor Leonard Bernstein Paganini Introduction and Variations on Nel Cor Piu Non Mi Sento from Paisiello 's La Molinara, Op 38 Leila Josefowicz (violin)
8.30-10.00: Brahms Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, 0p24 Emanuel Ax (piano) Handel Alcina , Act 3 Scenes 5-12
Soloists, Laurent Naouri (bass), Les Arts Florissants, director William Christie

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandy Burnett.
Harpsichord:
Andreas Staier
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Violin:
Leila Josefowicz
Piano:
Handel Alcina
Soloists:
Laurent Naouri
Director:
William Christie

With Rob Cowan.
Listener request: Franck Violin Sonata in A
ZinoFrancescatti, Robert Casadesus (piano)
10.28 Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor Bruno Walter
11.05 Liszt Années de Pèlerinage, Année 3: Aux Cypres de la Villa d'Este Alfred Brendel (piano) SuntLacrymae Rerum Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
11.23 Wagner Good Friday Music (Parsifal) Columbia SO, conductor Bruno Walter
11.50 Liszt Années de Pèlerinage, Année 3: Marche Funebre Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Piano:
Robert Casadesus
Conductor:
Bruno Walter
Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Piano:
Zoltan Kocsis
Conductor:
Bruno Walter

5/5. A Prophet without Honour.
Grainger anticipated many modern trends in Western music, but his old age brought frustration as his music and ideas became increasingly neglected. With Donald Macleod. Grainger Handel in the Strand Martin Jones (piano)
The Lonely Desert-Man Sees the Tents of the Happy Tribes Delia Jones (mezzo),
Mark Padmore (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Penelope Thwaites (piano)
Free Music Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Traditional, arr Grainger Lincolnshire Posy Central Band of the RAF, conductor Wg Cdr Eric Banks
BriggFair; The Gypsy's Wedding Day James Gilchrist (tenor), Polyphony, conductor Stephen Layton
Grainger Suite: In a Nutshell City of Birmingham SO, conductor Simon Rattle Repeated on Thursday at 12 midnight See also 9.10pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Grainger Handel
Piano:
Martin Jones
Unknown:
Delia Jones
Tenor:
Mark Padmore
Tenor:
Stephen Varcoe
Piano:
Penelope Thwaites
Unknown:
St Martin
Tenor:
James Gilchrist
Conductor:
Stephen Layton
Conductor:
Simon Rattle

City of London Festival
4/4. Stephanie Hughes presents soprano Ailish Tynan with Simon Lepper (piano) in a recital given yesterday at LSO St Luke's. Haydn Canzonets: The Sailor's Song, HXXVIa 31; Piercing Eyes, HXXVIa35 Berg Seven Early Songs
Jonathan Harvey Two Songs on Buddhist Texts (first performance)
Webem Eight Early Songs
Haydn Canzonets: The Spirit's Song,
HXXVIa 41; The Mermaid's Song, HXXVIa25

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes
Soprano:
Ailish Tynan
Piano:
Simon Lepper
Songs:
Jonathan Harvey

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Presented by Tommy Pearson.
Weber Clarinet Concerto No 2 in E flat
Yann Ghiro , conductor Garry Walker Strauss Tod und Verklarung Conductor Han Volkov
Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica) Conductor Martyn Brabbins

Contributors

Presented By:
Tommy Pearson.
Conductor:
Yann Ghiro
Conductor:
Garry Walker
Conductor:
Strauss Tod
Conductor:
Han Volkov
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins

RoyHaynes Julian Joseph is joined by Geoffrey Smith to look at the work of drummer Roy Haynes , whose career stretches back over half a century and has included stints with Charlie Parker , John Coltrane and almost everyone else.

Contributors

Unknown:
Royhaynes Julian Joseph
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Roy Haynes
Unknown:
Charlie Parker
Unknown:
John Coltrane

Aldeburgh Festival
Humphrey Burton presents a concert given last week at the Snape Maltings in Suffolk, in which the Aldeburgh Festival's artistic director Thomas Ades conducted a programme of English music.
Isabelle van Keulen (viola),
Britten-Pears ChamberChoir ,
Britten Sinfonia , conductor Thomas Ades
Tippett Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli
Hoist Canons: Lovely Venus; David's Lament for Jonathan; The Fields of Sorrow Birtwistle The Fields of Sorrow
Britten Suite on English Folk Tunes, Op 90 (A Time There Was ...)
Vaughan Williams Flos Campi

Contributors

Director:
Thomas Ades
Viola:
Britten-Pears Chamberchoir
Conductor:
Britten Sinfonia
Conductor:
Thomas Ades
Conductor:
Tippett Fantasia Concertante

Susan Hitch reports on African Dogme, a group of African directors who, following Lars von Trier and the Dogme 95 school of film-making, have got together to create their own set of rules for making movies, to be announced at the Zanzibar International Film Festival, opening this week. Plus an interview with Timothy Garton Ash, who argues in his new book, Free World, that Britain does not have to choose between Europe and America.

Contributors

Reporter:
Susan Hitch
Interviewee:
Timothy Garton Ash
Producer:
Kirsty Pope

With Susan Sharpe.

Mahler Symphony No 3

2.40 Andriessen Qui Habitat

2.50 Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 65

3.20 Mendelssohn String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 13

3.50 Brahms Gestillte Sehnsucht, Op 91 No 1

3.55 Franck Symphonic Variations

4.15 Grazioli Pastorale

4.25 Courtols Piens d'Amoroso Gibbons What Is Our life?

4.30 Donora There Where Kvarner Lies

4.40 Liszt, transcr Lhevinne Reminiscences on Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable

4.50 Chabrier Espana

5.00 Stenhammar Ithaka, Op 21

5.10 Debussy Reverie

5.10 Back The Boy with a Cart

5.15 Fomerod Concert for two violins and piano, Op 16

5.35 Frielberg Three Mazurkas

5.50 Berenguier de Palazol Aital Donna

Giraut de Bomelh Reis Glorios

Bernart de Ventadorn Quan Vei la Lauzeta Mover

5.55 Schubert Impromptu No 4 in A flat, D899

6.05 Buxtehude Magnificat Primi Toni, BuxWV203

6.10 C.P.E. Bach Flute Concerto in D minor H426

6.35 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

BBC Radio 3

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