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With Penny Gore. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Puccini Intermezzo (Manon Lescaut, Act 3) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly Dring Festival Scherzo
Martin Roscoe (piano), Guildhall Strings , director Robert Salter
8.30-10.00: Spohr Octet in E, Op 32 Gaudier Ensemble
Part Seven Advent Antiphons
Polyphony, director Stephen Layton
Schumann Etudes Symphoniques , Op 13 Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

Contributors

Conductor:
Riccardo Chailly
Piano:
Martin Roscoe
Piano:
Guildhall Strings
Director:
Robert Salter
Director:
Spohr Octet
Director:
Stephen Layton
Director:
Schumann Etudes Symphoniques
Piano:
Mikhail Pletnev

With
Jonathan Swain . Bach Mass in B minor, BWV232 (excerpt)
Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto), Claes Ahnsjo (tenor), Bavarian Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eugen Jochum
10.29 Ibert Concerto for cello and winds Jacqueline du Pre (cello), Michael Krein Orchestra, conductor Michael Krein
10.43 Rameau Les Boreades (extract)
Jennifer Smith (soprano), Philip Langridge and John Aler (tenors), Gilles Cachemaille and Francois Le Roux (baritones),
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
11.05 Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Emil Gilels , Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Eugen Jochum

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain
Contralto:
Brigitte Fassbaender
Contralto:
Claes Ahnsjo
Conductor:
Eugen Jochum
Cello:
Michael Krein
Conductor:
Michael Krein
Conductor:
Rameau Les Boreades
Soprano:
Jennifer Smith
Soprano:
Philip Langridge
Tenors:
John Aler
Tenors:
Gilles Cachemaille
Baritones:
Francois Le Roux
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Unknown:
Emil Gilels
Conductor:
Eugen Jochum

5/5. Simplicity. In Nielsen's final years - his most creative period, despite declining health - he set himself a new challenge: a search for simplicity. Donald Macleod explores Nielsen's last works.
Molto Adagio, Op 59 No 2 Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Symphony No 6 (Sinfonia Semplice) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Commotio, Op 58 Christopher Herrick (organ) Repeated on Thursday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Conductor:
Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Unknown:
Christopher Herrick

Far from Home: BBC Symphony Orchestra
Lang Lang (piano), conductor Lawrence Foster Edward Seckerson introduces a concert given in Wiesbaden in July.
Liszt, arr Adams La Lugubre Gondola
Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor
Schumann Symphony No 1 in B flat (Spring)

Contributors

Piano:
Lang Lang
Conductor:
Lawrence Foster
Introduces:
Edward Seckerson

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Some of the great paintings by Turner, including Sunrise with Sea Monsters, The
Shipwreck and Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps were the inspiration for Thea Musgrave 's new concerto for orchestra. The concert, from Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, also includes another great work inspired by a group of paintings - this time those of Viktor Hartmann - Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition of 1874. Presented by Chris de Souza. Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Zinman
Thea Musgrave Turbulent Landscapes Ravel Piano Concerto in G Musorgsky , orch Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

Contributors

Unknown:
Thea Musgrave
Unknown:
Viktor Hartmann
Presented By:
Chris de Souza.
Piano:
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Conductor:
David Zinman
Conductor:
Thea Musgrave
Unknown:
G Musorgsky

Viridltas James Dillon 's extraordinary virtuoso work for sixteen solo voices weaves together Latin, Gaelic, spells and traditional texts. BBC Singers, conductor Simon Joly James Dillon Viriditas

Contributors

Unknown:
Viridltas James Dillon
Conductor:
Simon Joly
Conductor:
James Dillon Viriditas

The American novelist Richard Ford talks to Philip Dodd. Ford has been described as one of America's reigning interpreters of "achy, bittersweet familial melancholy". The author of novels such as The Sportwriter and Independence Day, his work features restless and alienated male protagonists who are haunted by painful experiences that render them incapable of emotional commitment. Producer Anthony Denselow

Contributors

Talks:
Richard Ford
Unknown:
Philip Dodd.
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

With Louise Fryer.

Handel: Flavio - Ensemble 415, conductor Rene Jacobs (Innsbruck Early Music Festival, 1989)

3.40 Schubert Piano Sonata in C, D840

4.00 Doppler Andante and Rondo, Op 25

4.10 Auric, arr Lane Suite: Passport to Pimlico

4.15 Mozart Non Piu Andrai Farfallone (Le Nozze di Figaro)

4.20 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 3, Op 28

4.30 Wagner Mogst du, mein kind (Der Fliegende Hollander)

4.35 Melartin Easy Pieces, Op 121

4.50 Baird Giocoso Overture

5.00 Vecchi Ardo Si Ma Non t'Amo

5.05 Albicastro Concerto a 4, Op 7 No 2

5.15 Saint-Saens The Swan

5.20 Faure Nocturne in E minor, Op 107

5.25 Stenhammar Ithaka, Op 21

5.35 Josquin des Prez Qui Habitat in Adjutorio Altissimi

5.45 Alpaerts Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils

5.50 Schumann String Quartet in A, Op 41 No 3

6.20 Ravel Piano Concerto (left hand)

6.35 Bach, transcr d'Albert Passacaglia in C minor, BWV582

6.45 Hellendaal Cello Sonata, Op 5 No 5

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Fryer
Conductor (Ensemble 415):
Rene Jacobs
Ravio (Handel Flavio):
Jeffrey Gall (countertenor)
Guido Derek:
Lee Ragin (countertenor)
Emilia:
Lena Lootens (soprano)
Teodata:
Bernarda Fink (mezzo)
Vitige:
Christina Hogman (soprano)
Ugone:
Glanpaolo Fagotto (tenor)
Lotario:
Ulrich Messthaler (bass)

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