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Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Debussy Suite Bergamasque Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
Bazzini La Ronde des Lutins
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Peter Nagy (piano) Ives/Schuman Variations on America Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
8.30-10.00: Rubinstein Nocturne, Op 11 No 2 Nobuko Imai (viola), Roland Pontinen (piano) Schubert Mass in G, D167 Barbara Bonney
(soprano), Jorge Antonio Pita (tenor), Andreas Schimidt (bass), Vienna State Opera Chorus, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor
Claudio Abbado David Diamond Symphony No 4 Seattle Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gerard Schwarz

Contributors

Presented By:
Sandy Burnett.
Piano:
Zoltan Kocsis
Violin:
Leonidas Kavakos
Violin:
Peter Nagy
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin
Viola:
Nobuko Imai
Viola:
Roland Pontinen
Soprano:
Barbara Bonney
Soprano:
Jorge Antonio Pita
Tenor:
Andreas Schimidt
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Conductor:
David Diamond
Conductor:
Gerard Schwarz

With Rob Cowan.
Saint-Saens Overture: Spartacus Paris Orchestral Ensemble, conductor Jean-Jacques Kantorow
10.17 Ravel String Quartet LaSalle Quartet
10.47 Bach Cantata No 31: Der Himmel lacht! Die Erdejubilieret Agnes Giebel (soprano), Helmut Krebs (tenor), Erich Wenk (bass),
Heinrich Schutz Choir , Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra, conductor Fritz Werner
11.13 Saint-Saens Symphony No 2 in A minor Tapiola Sinfonietta, conductor Jean-Jacques Kantorow
11.36 Cage String Quartet in Four Parts LaSalle Quartet

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Soprano:
Agnes Giebel
Soprano:
Helmut Krebs
Tenor:
Erich Wenk
Bass:
Heinrich Schutz Choir
Conductor:
Fritz Werner
Conductor:
Jean-Jacques Kantorow

2/5. Steve Reich. Terry Riley 's revolutionary work In C inspired Steve Reich to become one of Minimalism's key exponents. Donald Macleod explores the development of Reich's music from the austerity of Piano Phase to the action-packed portrait of New York in City Life. Piano Phase
Nurit Tilles and Edmund Niemann (pianos) Drumming Steve Reich and Musicians
New York Counterpoint Roland Diry (clarinet) City Life
Ensemble Modern, conductor Peter Runder
Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Reich.
Unknown:
Terry Riley
Unknown:
Steve Reich
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Nurit Tilles
Pianos:
Edmund Niemann
Unknown:
Steve Reich
Clarinet:
Roland Diry
Conductor:
Peter Runder

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ha-na Chang (cello), conductor Nan Volkov
Edward Seckerson presents a concert given in Oviedo as part of the BBCSSO's Spanish tour last year.
Breton En la Alhambra
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor

Contributors

Conductor:
Nan Volkov
Conductor:
Edward Seckerson

The Week in Westminster lain Burnside explores the shady world of politics through songs by figures as diverse as Benjamin Britten , Flanders and Swann, Billy Bragg , the Proclaimers and Frank Loesser.

Contributors

Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Billy Bragg
Unknown:
Frank Loesser.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Leonidas Kavakos (violin), conductor Marin Alsop
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's principal conductor, Marin Alsop , begins a mini-series of Stravinsky ballet scores and is joined by Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos in Korngold's ravishing, Romantic concerto.
Recorded on Friday at the Anvil, Basingstoke. Presented by Verity Sharp.
Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1919 version) Korngold Violin Concerto
Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor

Contributors

Conductor:
Marin Alsop
Violinist:
Leonidas Kavakos

The author of Enduring Love and Atonement, Ian McEwan , has just had his tenth novel,
Saturday, published. He talks to Paul Allen about his career, which began when he shattered the taboos of genteel literary Britain in the 1970s. Producer Phil Tinline

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McEwan
Unknown:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Phil Tinline

Shaheera Asante presents music in a rare language and also in an invented language: the Harp Consort sings in Guernesiais, the dialect of medieval Norman French spoken in Guernsey, and Julien Jacob , born in Benin and now living in Brittany, performs in his own African-influenced musical style and language. Plus more Your 3 listeners' playlists.

Contributors

Unknown:
Shaheera Asante
Unknown:
Julien Jacob

3/5. Donald Macleod looks at the friendship between Franz Schubert and Anselm
HCittenbrenner, who kept the manuscript of the Unfinished Symphony locked away in his house for 37 years after Schubert's death and had to be tricked out of it in order for it to be performed and made known to the general public.
Waltz in A flat, D365 No 2 (Trauerwalzer) Alfred Kitchen (piano)
Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118
Lucia Popp (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano) 13 Variations on a theme by Anselm Huttenbrenner , D576 Luba Edlina (piano)
Ariettas (Claudine von Villa Bella ) Arleen Auger (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished) Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
Repeated from Wednesday at 12 noon

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Franz Schubert
Soprano:
Lucia Popp
Soprano:
Irwin Gage
Unknown:
Anselm Huttenbrenner
Piano:
Luba Edlina
Unknown:
Claudine von Villa Bella
Soprano:
Arleen Auger
Soprano:
Graham Johnson
Conductor:
Colin Davis

With Jonathan Swain.
Herne Early Music Festival, Germany, 2003
Madrigals Old and New The King's Singers perform madrigals by English Tudor composers and Monteverdi, Gesualdo and Lassus, plus music by Britten, Ligeti and Joby Talbot. 1.50 Willan Symphony No 2 2.35 Debussy Children's Corner 2.50 Dobrzynski Symphony No 2 in C minor Caractéristique 3.30 Montsalvatge Concierto Breve 3.55 Glinka Spanish Overture No 2 4.05 Spassov Northern Song: The White Ship: Solveig's Song
4.15 Grieg Peer Cynt: Suite No 14.30 Vladigerov Poeme Hébreu, Op 47 4.45 Liszt Valse Oubliée No 1
4.45 Liszt Romance Oubliée 4.50 Dvorak Polonaise in E flat 5.00 Donizetti Overture: La Fille du Regiment
5.05 Langlais Organ Concerto No 3 (Reaction)
5.30 Stoyanov Grotesque Suite (Bai Ganju)
5.55 Telemann Scherzo Melodico No 4 in E flat (Giovedi) (Pyrmonter Kurwoche) 6.05 Joby Talbot The Wishing Tree
6.15 Durante Concerto per Quartetto No 4 in E minor
Jocelyn Pook Mobile 6.25 Jelly Roll Morton Frog-I-More Rag 6.30 Spoliansky Nie wieder Liebe 6.30 Arlen Over the Rainbow (two arrangements) 6.40 Gershwin An American in Paris

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Joby Talbot.
Unknown:
Jocelyn Pook

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