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This week Penny Gore introduces music inspired by bells and looks back over eight centuries of new musical ideas.
7.00-8.30: Grainqer Blithe Bells
Penelope Thwaites (piano) Bach Cantata No 53: Schlage doch, gewunschte Stunde Robin Blaze (countertenor), Parley of Instruments
Debussy Prelude a I'Apres-Midi d'un Faune Montreal SO, conductor Charles Dutoit
8.30-10.00: Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op 36
Bolshoi SO, conductor Alexander Lazarev
Janacek String Quartet No 1 (Kreutzer Sonata) Melos Quartet
Musorqsky Coronation scene (Boris Godunov ) Alexander Vedernikov (bass), USSR TV and Radio Large Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev

Contributors

Introduces:
Penny Gore
Piano:
Penelope Thwaites
Unknown:
Stunde Robin Blaze
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Conductor:
Alexander Lazarev
Unknown:
Boris Godunov
Bass:
Alexander Vedernikov
Conductor:
Vladimir Fedoseyev

With Rob Cowan. This week featuring
Beethoven's Op 10, Op 27 and Op 31 Piano Sonatas, and the recordings of German conductor Carl Schuricht.
Wagner Overture: Der fliegende Hollander Orchestra conducted by Carl Schuricht
10.10 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor. Op 10 No 1 Maurizio Pollini
10.28 Listener request:
Stanford The Blue Bird, Op 119 No3 Elgar The Shower, Op 71 No 1 Swingle 2
10.33 Beethoven Piano Sonata in F
Op 10 No 2 Valentina Kamenikova (piano)
10.55 Mahler Das Lied von der Erde
Kerstin Thorborg (mezzo), Carl Martin Oehmann (tenor), Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Carl Schuricht

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Carl Schuricht.
Conducted By:
Carl Schuricht
Unknown:
Maurizio Pollini
Piano:
Valentina Kamenikova
Unknown:
Kerstin Thorborg
Tenor:
Carl Martin Oehmann
Conductor:
Carl Schuricht

Live from Wigmore Hall in London. Verity
Sharp presents a concert by a young Swiss cellist who has recently joined the Radio 3
New Generation Artists Scheme. Christian Poltera (cello), Martin Helmchen (piano)
Beethoven Cello Sonata in D, Op 102 No 2;
Variations on Bei Mannern welche Liebe fuhlen from Mozart's Die Zauberflote, Wo046 Brahms Cello Sonata in E minor, Op 38

Contributors

Cello:
Christian Poltera
Piano:
Martin HelmcHen

BBC Philharmonic
This week featuring 20th-century symphonies. Presented by Sarah Walker.
Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Howells Take Him Earth for Cherishing Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms aure Requiem
FLibby Crabtree (soprano), Jonathan Arnold (baritone), the Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers Sibelius Symphony No 2
Conductor Van Pascal Tortelier

Contributors

Presented By:
Sarah Walker.
Unknown:
Stravinsky Symphony
Soprano:
Flibby Crabtree
Baritone:
Jonathan Arnold

With Grand Hotel currently playing at the Donmar Warehouse in London, Edward Seckerson talks to composer Maury Yeston, also composer of Nine and Titanic, about how he had to rescue the show from almost certain disaster in Boston. Plus music from the other Phantom of the Opera.
Address: Stage and Screen, [address removed] email: [email address removed]

Contributors

Interviewer:
Edward Seckerson
Interviewee:
Maury Yeston

Continuing a series of Proms highlights with the first of two concerts given at London's Royal Albert Hall this summer by the orchestra that can claim to be the world's oldest.

Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Bernard Haitink

Mozart Symphony No 41 in C, K551 (Jupiter)

Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E

(Revised rpt)

Contributors

Musicians:
Dresden Staatskapelle
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink

5/8. Joan Bakewell asks another guest about the nature of his beliefs. Ziauddin Sardar is a Muslim writer dedicated to the renewal of Islam; a commentator who has described his life as "desperately seeking Paradise". Producer Norman Winter

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Bakewell
Unknown:
Ziauddin Sardar
Producer:
Norman Winter

This concert was the last in last year's Proms chamber music series, held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in September.

Rolf Hind (piano), Britten Sinfonia, conductor Nicholas Daniel (oboe)

Janacek Concertino

Dallapiccola Piccola Musica Notturna

Simon Holt The Coroner's Report

Martinu La Revue de Cuisine

(Revised)

Contributors

Pianist:
Rolf Hind
Musicians:
Britten Sinfonia
Conductor/Oboist:
Nicholas Daniel

2/5. Vivaldi's reputation was made at the Ospedale della Pieta, a Venice orphanage where he demonstrated his skills as composer and director of music. With Donald Macleod.
Violin Concerto in G, RV301 (La Stravaganza); Violin Concerto in D minor, RV235;
Dixit Dominus , RV595; Flute Concerto in G minor,
RV439 (La Notte) Repeated from Tuesday at 12 noon

Contributors

Violin:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Dixit Dominus

Presented by Susan Sharpe.

Beethoven String Trio in C minor, Op 9 No 3

Mozart Divertimento in E flat, K563

2.10 JE Bach Das Vertrauen der Christen auf Gott

2.30 Schubert Piano Sonata in D, D850

3.05 Mahler Symphony No 1

4.05 Saint-Saens Saltarelle, Op 74

4.10 Faure Elegie, Op 24

4.15 Ravel, arr Maganini Pavane pour une Infante Defunte

Ravel, arr Gillet Piece en Forme de Habanera

4.25 Albeniz Cordoba (Cantos de Espana, Op 232 No 4

4.30 Ciconia O Petre Christi Discipule Tapissier Eya Dulcis; Vale Placens

4.35 Dufay Balsamus et Munda Cera

4.40 Frescobaldi, arr Kraus Madrigale; Canzona Prima

4.45 Lolli Sonata in B flat

4.50 A Scarlatti Concerto Grosso No 1 in F minor

5.00 Saint-Georges Overture: L'Amant Anonyme

5.05 Gluck Non Piu! L'Eroe Trojano, Illustri Atleti: Lodi al Nume nell'Arco Possente (Paride ed Elena)

5.10 Kutev Gherman

5.20 Villa-Lobos O Polichinello (Prole do Bebe)

5.25 Bobescu Symphonic Pieces

5.40 Albert Der Tag beginnet zu vergehen

5.45 Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat

6.00 Groneman Concerto in G

6.05 Sweelinck Ick Voer at over Rijn

6.15 Boccherini String Quintet No 2 in E flat

6.35 Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

BBC Radio 3

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