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This week Sandy Burnett explores Haydn's Paris symphonies in order of composition. Plus a chance to hear Ravel's solo piano music. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Ravel Serenade Grotesque Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) Rossini Serenata in E flat Ensemble Explorations Maurice Ravel
Pavane pour une Infante Défunte Performance attributed to the composer (piano roll) Lobo Versa Est in Luctum Westminster Cathedral Choir, conductor David Hill Castelnuovo-Tedesco, arr Fung Figaro (after Rossini's II Barbiere di Siviglia) Musici de Montreal, director Yuli Turovsky (cello) Gershwin An American in Paris New York Philharmonic, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
8.30-10.00: Ravel Miroirs Jean-Efflam
Bavouzet (piano) Haydn Symphony No 87 in A Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, conductor Frans Bruggen

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandy Burnett
Piano:
Yves Thibaudet
Piano:
Rossini Serenata
Unknown:
Lobo Versa Est
Conductor:
David Hill
Unknown:
Fung Figaro
Cello:
Yuli Turovsky
Conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Conductor:
Frans Bruggen

This week featuring orchestral music by Britten and recordings by Rachmaninov. Introduced by Jonathan Swain.
Vivaldi Concerto in G minor, RVW578 (LEstro Armonico) Alan Loveday and lona Brown (violins), Academy of Saint Martin in the Reids, conductor Neville Marriner
10.13 Benjamin Britten Piano Concerto Sviatoslav Richter , English Chamber
Orchestra, conducted by the composer
10.49 Stockhausen Stimmung (excerpt) Singcircle, director Gregory Rose
10.57 F Couperin La Francoise (Les Nations) Hesperion XX, director Jordi Savall (bass viol)
11.14 Chopin Five waltzes: in E flat, Op 18; in F Op 34 No 3; in D flat, Op 64 No 1 (Minute); in B minor, Op 69 No 2; in G flat, Op 70 No 1 Sergei Rachmaninov (piano)
11.30 Britten Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra, conductor and narrator Malcolm Sargent
11.51 Bach, arr Rachmaninov Prelude, Gavotte and Gigue (Violin Partita No 3 in A minor, BWV827) Sergei Rachmaninov (piano)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Alan Loveday
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Piano:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Sviatoslav Richter
Unknown:
Stockhausen Stimmung
Director:
Gregory Rose
Bass:
Jordi Savall
Narrator:
Malcolm Sargent
Piano:
Sergei Rachmaninov

1/5. Musical Colossus. Wagner extended his art into politics and philosophy, morality and psychology, but today Donald Macleod focuses on his purely musical achievements. The Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walkure, Act 3) Soloists, Vienna PO, conductor Georg Solti
Der Fliegende Hollander, Act 1 (Introduction) Hans Sotin (bass), Peter Seiffert (tenor),
Berlin Deutsche Oper Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli
Lohengrin, Act 1 (Prelude) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
Tristan und Isolde, Act 2 (Scene 2)
Peter Hofmann (tenor), Hildegard Behrens (soprano), Bavarian RSO, conductor Leonard Bernstein
Lohengrin, Act 3 (Prelude) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel
Producer Chris Taylor Repeated Sunday 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Conductor:
Georg Solti
Bass:
Hans Sotin
Bass:
Peter Seiffert
Conductor:
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Tenor:
Peter Hofmann
Tenor:
Hildegard Behrens
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Conductor:
Lorin Maazel
Producer:
Chris Taylor

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
John Lill (piano), conductor Walter Weller
This week's programmes feature Romantic symphonies, today from a concert given at St David's Hall, Cardiff, in June. Presented by Louise Fryer.
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat
Bruckner Symphony No 9 in D minor

Contributors

Conductor:
Walter Weller
Presented By:
Louise Fryer.

Violinist Joshua Bell talks about the demands of playing on film soundtracks, and composer Nigel Hess discusses his score for the film Ladies in Lavender. With Tommy Pearson.
ADDRESS: Stage and Screen, Room 220. Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreen@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Violinist:
Joshua Bell
Unknown:
Nigel Hess
Unknown:
Tommy Pearson.
Unknown:
Queen Margaret Drive

Nash Ensemble
A concert given at Wigmore Hall, London, last month. Presented by Christopher Cook. Sally Matthews (soprano), Nash Ensemble , conductor Lionel Friend
Mark-Anthony Tumage Two Baudelaire Songs (first performance) Britten Sinfonietta, Op 1
Mozart Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, K478 Debussy, arr Walter Prélude a I'Apres-Midi d'unFaune
Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D667 (Trout)

Contributors

Presented By:
Christopher Cook.
Soprano:
Sally Matthews
Soprano:
Nash Ensemble
Conductor:
Lionel Friend
Conductor:
Mark-Anthony Tumage

Exhortation and Kohima- John Tavener 's setting of the words "They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old," from war poet
Laurence Binyon 's For the Fallen - is sung by Polyphony, directed by Stephen Layton. Plus Jaco Pastorius 's Portrait of Tracy. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tavener
Unknown:
Laurence Binyon
Directed By:
Stephen Layton.
Unknown:
Jaco Pastorius
Presented By:
Fiona Talkington.

Presented by Susan Sharpe.

Takemitsu Rain Tree Sketch

Haydn Piano Sonata in C minor, H XVI 20

Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor

1.45 A Gabrieli Four Madrigals

1.55 Marais Suite No 2 in G

2.35 Tchaikovsky, arr Hausen Chants sans Paroles

2.40 Szymanowski String Quartet No 2, Op 56

3.00 Marques y Garcia Symphony No 4 in E

3.35 Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op 34

4.00 Lassus Christe Dei Soboles; Accipe Daque

4.05 J Strauss (son) Waltz: By the Beautiful, Blue Danube, Op 314

4.15 R Strauss Festmusik der Stadt Wien, Op 133

4.25 Chopin Mazurka No 31 in A flat, Op 50 No 2

4.30 CPE Bach Sinfonia in D

4.40 Rossini Overture: Guillaume Tell

4.50 Kalman Komm, Zigany: Czardas (Countess Maritza)

5.00 Schubert 16 Landler, D366

5.10 Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Act 3 (Prelude)

5.15 Goleminov Harvest

5.20 Brahms Intermezzo in E flat minor, Op 118 No 6

5.25 Josquin des Prez Absolve Quaesumus Domine/Requiem Aeternam

5.30 Giuliani Duo Concertant in E minor, Op 25 (Grand Sonata) (2nd mvt)

5.40 Beethoven String Quartet in C, Op 59 No 3 (Rasumovsky)

5.50 Liszt Gondoliera (Venezia e Napoli)

6.00 Respighi Organ Prelude in B flat on Bach's In dich hab' ich gehoffet, Herr

6.05 Bach Keyboard Concerto No 4 in A, BWV1055

6.20 Pachelbel Two Motets

6.25 Scarlatti Keyboard Sonata in B minor, Kk377

6.30 Mozart Symphony No 38 in D, K504 (Prague)

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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