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Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Brahms Ballade , Op 10 No 3
Grigory Sokolov (piano) Bach Cantata No 61: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland Nancy
Argenta (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson
(tenor), Olaf Bar (baritone), Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists, director John Eliot Gardiner Beethoven Romance in F, Op 50
Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra , conductor Bernard Haitink
8.30-10.00: Faure Ballade in F sharp, Op 19 Jean-Philippe Collard (piano), Toulouse
Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson JC Bach Quintet in D, Op 11 No 6 Vienna Concentus Musicus, conductor
Nikolaus Harnoncourt Benjamin Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, Op 1
ECO conducted by the composer

Contributors

Presented By:
Penny Gore
Unknown:
Brahms Ballade
Piano:
Grigory Sokolov
Unknown:
Heiden Heiland Nancy
Soprano:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Tenor:
Olaf Bar
Baritone:
Monteverdi Choir
Director:
John Eliot
Director:
Gardiner Beethoven
Violin:
Arthur Grumiaux
Violin:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink
Conductor:
Faure Ballade
Conductor:
Michel Plasson
Conductor:
Jc Bach Quintet
Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt Benjamin Britten

With Rob Cowan.
Listener request:
Bartok Dance Suite Philharmonia Hungarica, conductor Antal Dorati
10.20 Bach Toccata and Fugue in F, BWV540 Helmut Walcha (organ)
10.47 Schubert Piano Trio in Eflat, D929 Isaac Stern (violin), Leonard Rose (cello), Eugene Istomin (piano)
11.30 Bach Toccata , Adagio and Fugue in C, BWV564 Ton Koopman (organ)
11.42 Perotin Viderunt Omnes Early Music Consort of London, director David Munrow
11.55 Bach Fantasia super Komm, heiliger Geist, BWV651 Hanns Ander-Donath (organ)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Antal Dorati
Conductor:
Bach Toccata
Unknown:
Helmut Walcha
Violin:
Isaac Stern
Violin:
Leonard Rose
Piano:
Eugene Istomin
Piano:
Bach Toccata
Unknown:
Perotin Viderunt
Director:
David Munrow
Director:
Bach Fantasia

Donald Macleod introduces works inspired by the paintings of Whistler, the poetry of Pierre Louys and the plays of Maurice Maeterlinck. Fantoches (Fetes Galantes); Chansons de Bilitis Veronique Gens (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Nocturnes (transcr Ravel) Stephen Coombs and Christopher Scott (piano duet)
Pelleas et Melisande, Act 4 Scenes 3 and 4 Montreal Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Introduces:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Pierre Louys
Unknown:
Maurice Maeterlinck.
Soprano:
Bilitis Veronique Gens
Piano:
Roger Vignoles
Unknown:
Stephen Coombs
Piano:
Christopher Scott
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Pelleas:
Didler Henry (baritone)
Melisande:
Colette Alllot-Lugaz (soprano)

Strings Attached: Primrose Premieres
Glasgow's celebration of the great viola player William Primrose 's centenary continues in this week's Lunchtime Concerts, from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Presented by Andrew McGregor.
Nobuko Imai (viola), Ian Brown (piano) Britten Lachrymae , Op 48
Hindemith Viola Sonata, Op 11 No 4 Roy Harris Soliloquy and Dance Kreisler Liebesfreud; Liebesleid

Contributors

Unknown:
William Primrose
Presented By:
Andrew McGregor.
Viola:
Nobuko Imai
Viola:
Ian Brown
Piano:
Britten Lachrymae
Unknown:
Roy Harris Soliloquy

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Presented by Sandy Burnett. Berlioz Overture: Beatrice et Benedict
Conductor Andrew Litton
Stravinsky Chant du Rossignol Conductor Nan Volkov
Lalo Cello Concerto in D minor
Xavier Phillips
Franck Le Chasseur Maudit
Milhaud Ballet: Le Boeuf sur le Toit
Conductor Emmanuel Plasson

Contributors

Presented By:
Sandy Burnett. Berlioz
Conductor:
Andrew Litton
Conductor:
Stravinsky Chant
Conductor:
Nan Volkov
Unknown:
Xavier Phillips
Unknown:
Franck Le Chasseur Maudit
Conductor:
Emmanuel Plasson

lain Burnside introduces a studio recital of 20th-century English music.
James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano) Robin Holloway This Is Just to Say Tippett Boyhood 's End
Britten The Holy Sonnets of John Donne , Op 35

Contributors

Tenor:
James Gilchrist
Tenor:
Anna Tilbrook
Piano:
Robin Holloway
Unknown:
Tippett Boyhood
Unknown:
John Donne

Steven Osborne performs Messiaen's monumental, deeply religious and joyfully ecstatic piano cycle, written in Paris during the German occupation of the Second World War. This concert was given at London's Wigmore Hall on Friday. Steven Osborne (piano)
Messiaen Vingt Regards surl'Enfant Jesus

Contributors

Unknown:
Steven Osborne
Piano:
Steven Osborne

As Andrew Lloyd Webber 's musical version of The Phantom of the Opera hits the big screen, starring Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum , Susan Hitch traces the history of the tale, starting with Gaston Leroux 's original novel of 1911. Producer Philippa Ritchie

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Unknown:
Gerard Butler
Unknown:
Emmy Rossum
Unknown:
Susan Hitch
Unknown:
Gaston Leroux
Producer:
Philippa Ritchie

Fiona Talkington with John Law 's The Coming, which is based on 0 Come, 0 Come
Emmanuel, plus "windswept eccentric pop meets dusty jazz" from Hanne Hukkelberg , recorded at the London Jazz Festival.

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington
Unknown:
John Law
Unknown:
Hanne Hukkelberg

3/5. Conflict. Nielsen completed his Fourth Symphony in 1914, and saw it as reflecting the life-force "transformed by its struggle to survive all obstacles thrown against it". Donaid Macleod looks at a selection of Nielsen's works written during this period of domestic and political crisis.
Now Leaps the Spring from Its Bed
Peder Severin (tenor), Dorte Kirkeskov (piano) Symphony No 4 (Inextinguishable)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , conductor Simon Rattle
Suite: Den Luciferiske , Op 45 (excerpt) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Pan and Syrinx, Op 49
Beethoven Academy, conductor Jan Caeyers Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Donaid MacLeod
Tenor:
Peder Severin
Tenor:
Dorte Kirkeskov
Conductor:
Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Unknown:
Den Luciferiske
Piano:
Leif Ove Andsnes

With Louise Fryer.

Tirami Su perform music by Monteverdi, Giovanni Legrenzi, William Lawes, Tobias Hume, Purcell, Scheidt and Schmelzer.

2.10 Albrecht Quintet for piano and winds

2.15 Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2

2.45 Bruckner Symphony No 4 in E flat (Romantic)

3.50 Liszt St Francois de Paule Marchant sur les Plots (Legendes)

4.00 Fux Laudate Dominum

4.05 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F, BWV1047

4.15 Debussy L'Isle Joyeuse

4.20 Nielsen Violin Sonata No 2, Op 35 (2nd mvt)

4.30 Lindblad Dreams

4.45 Jarnefelt The Sound of Home

5.00 CPE Bach Heilig, Wq217

5.05 Buxtehude Fugue in G, BuxWVl 75

5.10 Rimsky-Korsakov Cradle Song (May Night)

5.15 Mozart Piano Sonata in D, K576

5.25 Gotovac Balkan Song and Dance, Op 16

5.35 Traditional, collected Bartok Bagpipe tunes

5.40 Milhaud Scaramouche

5.50 Pipkov To Grandma (Subdued Songs)

5.55 Rimsky-Korsakov The Three Wonders (Suite: The Tale of Tsar Saltan)

6.05 Enescu Piano Sonata No 3, Op 24

6.25 Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 76 No 1

6.45 Grieg Overture: In Autumn

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Fryer

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