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With Martin Handley.

Music includes:

7.00-8.00: Severac En Tartane (Cerdaiia) - Jordi Maso (piano)

D'Indy Jour d'Ete a la Montagne - Symphonic Triptych, Op 61 - Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Marek Janowski

8.00-9.00: Warlock Suite: Capriol - Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor George Hurst

Mozart Symphony No 39 in E flat, K543 - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Handley.
Conductor:
Marek Janowski
Conductor:
George Hurst
Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt

With Rob Cowan.

Regular features include The Innocent Ear and a Bargain Hunter CD recommendation.

Music also includes:

Handel, transcr Elgar Overture in D minor - London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult

Purcell Now that the Sun Hath Veiled His Light - Chanticleer, director Joseph Jennings; Capriccio Stravagante - conductor Skip Sempe

Shostakovich Adagio Fragment of 1934 (sketch for the opening of the Fourth Symphony) - LSO, conductor Mstislav Rostropovich

Mozart String Quartet in D, K499 - Smetana Quartet

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G, BWV1049 - Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, conductor Karl Munchinger

Shostakovich Five Fragments, Op 42 - LSO, conductor Mstislav Rostropovich

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Contributors

Presenter:
Rob Cowan

Michael Berkeley's guest is the young writer Edwin Thomas, who also uses the name Tom Harper. He is a student of medieval history and his recently published novel, The Mosaic of Shadows, is set in 11th-century Byzantium. His musical choices range from Mozart and Weber to Natalie Merchant and Maurice Jarre's soundtrack for Lawrence of Arabia.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Edwin Thomas
Unknown:
Tom Harper.
Unknown:
Maurice Jarre

Stephanie Hughes introduces an eclectic recital given at London's Wigmore Hall by mezzo Magdalena Kozena and pianist Malcolm Martineau.

Kozeluch Four Ariette: Sognando mi Parea; Spira Pur; Sento Amor; Per Pieta, Bell Idol Mio
Schumann Gedichte der Konigen Maria Stuart
Musorgsky The Nursery
Janacek Ten Silesian Songs (excerpts)
Debussy Chansons de Bilitis
Novak A Tale of the Heart
Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn (excerpts)

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes
Mezzo:
Magdalena Kozena
Pianist:
Malcolm Martineau

Loyd Grossman visits the London home of 18th-century composer and virtuoso pianist Jan Ladislav Dussek. Admired by the likes of Marie Antoinette and Haydn, Dussek fled the French Revolution for England, where he became an important player in the development of the early Romantic piano repertoire. The memorabilia in his Soho house records some of the salacious stories of his life and vividly captures the spirit of his age.

Contributors

Presenter:
Loyd Grossman

More listeners' requests from the postbag, including two of Satie's Gymnopedies, Bruckner's motet Christus Factus Est, and Cyril Scott's Neptune, dedicated to the conductor Albert Coates. Plus more from the BBC's archive.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Kay

Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
This season's Bohemian theme continues with an all-Czech Prom.
With Petroc Trelawny.
Anda-Louise Bogza (soprano), Peter Straka (tenor), Ivan Kusnjer (baritone), BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Jiri Belohlavek

Janacek: Sinfonietta

6.55 Twenty Minutes: Thermal Inversion
John Tusa looks back to his childhood on the East Tilbury estate of Bata, the Czech shoe company that arrived in Britain in the early 1930s. He uncovers the stories of the men and women who, like his father, left Czechoslovakia to build Bata factories in Britain and around the world.

7.15 Dvorak: The Spectre's Bride Repeated next Tuesday at 2.30pm

Contributors

Presenter:
Petroc Trelawny
Soprano:
Anda-Louise Bogza
Tenor:
Peter Straka
Baritone:
Ivan Kusnjer
Singers/Musicians:
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor:
Jiri Belohlavek
Speaker (Twenty Minutes):
John Tusa

Alun Armstrong stars in a play by Zoltan Egressy, adapted by Ryan Craig from a translation by Katalin Trencsenyi.
A stranger appears in a pub in a rural village, triggering mayhem.

Contributors

Auhtor:
Zoltan Egressy
Adapted by:
Ryan Craig
Translation by:
Katalin Trencsenyi.
Director/Producer:
Anastasia Tolstoy
Landlord:
Alun Armstrong
Ribbon:
Sheridan Smith
Turnip:
Darryl Clark
Peg:
Pearce Quigley
Woman:
Sally Rogers
Wife:
Sally Rogers
Priest:
Philip Fox
Nick:
Bertie Carvel
Satan:
Jon Glover

1/5. With Donald Macleod.
Es muss ein Wunderbares sein; Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses; Grande Fantaisie Symphonique on themes from Berlioz's Lelio (excerpt); Au Lac de Wallenstadt; Les Cloches de Geneve (Annees de Pelerinage, Annee 1: Suisse); Benediction de Dieu dans la Solitude (Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses) (Repeated from Monday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Grande Fantaisie

With Jon Shea.

From the 2003 Utrecht Early Music Festival, Capella Currende and Concerto Palatino, under director Erik van Nevel, perform motets by De Monte and Lassus.

1.55 Elgar Organ Sonata No 1 in G. Op 28

2.20 Brahms Double Concerto in A minor, Op 102

2.55 Kodaly Dances from Marosszek

3.10 Komorowski, arr Maklaklewicz The Cranberry Tree

3.10 Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 65

3.40 Mozart Symphony No 38 in D (Prague)

4.05 Verdi Ella Giammai M'amo (Don Carlos)

4.15 Durante Concerto per quartetto No 3 in E flat

4.25 Purcell Chaconne (Dioclesian)

4.30 Rosenmuller Benedicam Dominum

4.35 Janacek Suite, Op 3

4.50 Vatrostav Usinski Our Father (Porin)

5.00 Mozart Overture: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail

5.05 Schickhardt Concerto in G minor

5.25 R Rodney Bennett Aubade

5.35 Sutermeister Piano Sonatine in E flat

5.50 Wilhelm Klenzl Selig sind die Verfolgung leiden (Der Evangelimann)

5.55 Gabrieli Sonata for three violins

6.00 De Monte Usquequo Domine a 6 (Part 2)

6.05 Schubert Die Forelle; Nacht und Traume; Der Musensohn

6.10 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 10 No 1

6.30 Relcha Symphony in E flat, Op 41

Contributors

Presenter:
Jon Shea
Musicians:
Capella Currende
Musical Director:
Erik van Nevel

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