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This week Penny Gore features excerpts from Gluck's operas. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Balakirev Overture on Russian
Themes Philharmonia, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov Mahler Piano Quartet
Oleg Maisenberg (piano), Gidon Kremer (violin),
Veronika Hagen (viola), Clemens Hagen (cello) Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice) Academy of St Martin in the Reids, conductor Neville Marriner
8.30-10.00: Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in Eflat, K364 Gidon Kremer (violin),
Kirn Kashkashian (viola), Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt Gluck L 'Innocenza Giustificata,
Act 2 Scenes 5-8 Maria Bayo and Veronica Cangemi (sopranos), RuhrChorwerk, Cappella Coloniensis, conductor Christopher Moulds Bartok Concerto for orchestra Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer

Contributors

Conductor:
Yevgeni Svetlanov
Piano:
Oleg Maisenberg
Piano:
Gidon Kremer
Viola:
Veronika Hagen
Viola:
Clemens Hagen
Cello:
Gluck Dance
Unknown:
St Martin
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Violin:
Gidon Kremer
Violin:
Kirn Kashkashian
Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Conductor:
Veronica Cangemi
Conductor:
Christopher Moulds
Conductor:
Ivan Fischer

With Jonathan Swain.
This week featuring Scriabin piano sonatas and recordings by Margaret Price.
Mozart Come Scoglio (Cosi Fan Tutte, Act 1) Margaret Price (soprano), New Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Otto Klemperer
10.07 Scriabin Piano Sonata No 1, Op 6 Robert Szidon
10.35 Haydn String Quartet in C, Op 33 No 3 (Bird) Janacek Quartet
10.59 BergAltenberglieder, Op 4 Margaret Price (soprano),
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
11.12 Handel Trio Sonata in G minor, Op 2 No 6 William Bennett and Trevor Wye (flutes), Denis Vigay (cello), George Malcolm (harpsichord)
11.23 Scriabin Piano Sonata No 2, Op 19 Sviatoslav Richter
11.36 Wagner Wesendonk Lieder Margaret Price (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Margaret Price.
Soprano:
Margaret Price
Conductor:
Otto Klemperer
Unknown:
Robert Szidon
Unknown:
Janacek Quartet
Soprano:
Margaret Price
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Unknown:
William Bennett
Flutes:
Trevor Wye
Flutes:
Denis Vigay
Cello:
George Malcolm
Unknown:
Sviatoslav Richter
Soprano:
Margaret Price
Piano:
Graham Johnson

1/5. The Austrian composer Erich Korngold was born in Brunn (now Brno in the Czech Republic) and began composing at the age of six. A piano sonata written when he was 11 impressed Gustav Mahler, and his works were praised by Strauss, Humperdinck, and the conductor Artur Nikisch.
Donald Macleod looks at how the stage was set for Korngold's glittering career.

Film music: The Adventures of Robin Hood (excerpt) - Moscow Symphony Orchestra, conductor William Stromberg

Marietta's Lied (Die tote Stadt) (arr Forsberg) - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (piano), Kjell Lysell (violin), Ulf Forsberg (violin), Nils-Erik Sparf (viola), Mats Lidstrom (cello)

Don Quixote's Dreams of Heroic Deeds (Don Quixote) - Alexander Frey (piano)

Piano Sonata No 1 - Geoffrey Tozer

Der Schneemann, Act 1 - BBC Philharmonic, conductor Matthias Bamert

(Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight)

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod
Producer:
Johannah Smith

Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. Presented by Chris de Souza.
Hélène Grimaud (piano), Australian Youth
Orchestra, conductor Lawrence Foster Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor
4.15 Twenty Minutes: Aloft on Easterly Winds On the Bristol Downs, Alyn Shipton talks to kite fliers, historians and poet Seamus Heaney about this symbol of freedom.
4.35 Carl Vine Celebrare Celeberrime (first UK performance)
Shostakovich Symphony No 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Presented By:
Chris de Souza.
Piano:
Hélène Grimaud
Conductor:
Lawrence Foster
Talks:
Alyn Shipton
Unknown:
Seamus Heaney

Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. Presented by Louise Fryer.
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Oslo rnilharmonic Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn Debussy Prelude a l'Apres-Midi d 'un Faune Andre Previn Violin Concerto (Anne-Sophie)
8.25 Twenty Minutes: The Man in Black (Polo Neck) Petroc Trelawny presents a profile of tonight's conductor, Andre Previn: Julian Joseph considers his work as a jazz pianist; Lorna Luft looks at his film music and the songs he wrote for stars such as Luft's mother, Judy Garland; John Ammonds hails his comic timing; and Humphrey Burton recalls his pioneering television work.
8.45 Prokofiev Symphony No 5

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Fryer.
Conductor:
Andre Previn
Violin:
Faune Andre Previn
Conductor:
Andre Previn
Conductor:
Julian Joseph
Pianist:
Lorna Luft
Unknown:
Judy Garland
Unknown:
John Ammonds
Unknown:
Humphrey Burton

One hundred and fifty years ago Henry David
Thoreau published Walden, his classic account of life in a cabin in the woods around Walden
Pond at Concord, Massachusetts. Professor GeoffWard goes to the pond to consider
Thoreau's achievement. Contributors include the novelists Rick Moody and Alexander Theroux and Thoreau scholars Lawrence Buell and Elizabeth Witherell. Producer Johannah Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry David
Unknown:
Alexander Theroux
Unknown:
Lawrence Buell
Unknown:
Elizabeth Witherell.
Producer:
Johannah Smith

Verity Sharp with Anglo-American folk classics from the Doc Watson family, film music by John Lurie , and a collaboration between guitarists Taj Mahal and Ali Farka Toure.

Contributors

Unknown:
Verity Sharp
Unknown:
Doc Watson
Music By:
John Lurie
Music By:
Ali Farka Toure.

Presented by John Shea.
Danish Radio Young Chamber Group Competition.
5/7. More highlights from the second round of this year's competition, including performances of Brahms, Beethoven, Debussy, Jersild and Spahlinger.
2.10 Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2
2.25 Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony
3.20 Leopolita Missa Paschalis
3.40 Couperin Ordre No 8 in minor (Livres de Clavecin)
4.10 Corelli Concerto Grosso in F. Op 6 No 9 4.20 Warlock Serenade for Strings 4.25 Diepenbrock Clair de Lune
4.30 Debussy Prelude a I 'Apres-Midi d'un Faune
4.40 Buxtehude Praeludium, Fugue and Chaconne in C,
BuxWV13 7 4.50Telemann Scherzo Melodico No 2 in B flat (Martedi) (Pyrmonter Kurwoche) 5.00 Schubert Overture in the Italian Style, D590 5.05 Grunfeld Soirees de Vienne, Op 56 5.15 Kalman Wenn es Abend wird (Grafm Mariza)
5.20 Mozart String Quartet in G, K156 5.30 Grainger Colonial Song 5.40 Ravel La Valse 5.50 Barber Agnus Dei 6.00 Clerambautt Cantata: Leandre et Hero
6.20 Bach Viola da Gamba Sonata No 2 in D. BWV1028
6.35 Haydn Symphony No 100 in G (Military)

Contributors

Presented By:
John Shea.
Unknown:
Kalman Wenn

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