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Presented by Penny Gore . This week featuring recordings by the versatile cellist and conductor Cristophe Coin , and iconic works in the key of C from across the centuries.
7.00-8.30: Vivaldi Cello Concerto in G, RV414 Christophe Coin , Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood Druzecky Partita in D Collegium Musicum Pragense
Ravel Bolero LSO, conductor Pierre Monteux
8.30-10.00: Bach Orchestral Suite No 1 in C, BWVI066 Berlin Academy of Ancient Music Boccherini Piano Quintet in C, Op 57 No 6 Patrick Cohen (piano), Ouatuor Mosaïques

Contributors

Presented By:
Penny Gore
Conductor:
Cristophe Coin
Unknown:
Christophe Coin
Director:
Christopher Hogwood Druzecky
Conductor:
Pierre Monteux
Piano:
Patrick Cohen

With Jonathan Swain. Featuring songs by Poulenc and recordings by conductor Leslie Heward.

Borodin: Overture: Prince Igor - Halle Orchestra, conductor Leslie Heward

10.10 Poulenc: Banalites - Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

10.20 Martinu: Sinfonietta: La Jolla - Saint Paul CO, conductor Christopher Hogwood

10.40 Poulenc: Cocardes - Francois Le Roux (baritone), Pascal Roge (piano)

10.50 Mozart: Violin Sonata in B flat, K454 - Henryk Szeryng, James Tocco (piano)

11.15 Ireland: Piano Concerto - Eileen Joyce, Halle Orchestra, conductor Leslie Heward

11.40 Francis Poulenc: Trois Poemes de Louise de Vilmorin - Denise Duval (soprano), accompanied by the composer (piano)

11.50 Listener request: Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor, Op 28 - Alfredo Campoli (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Walter Goehr

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

1/5. Mantua in its heyday was host to one of the most brilliant courts in late Renaissance Italy. That's where Claudio Monteverdi wrote the world's first operatic masterpiece - L'Orfeo. This week, Donald Macleod raises the curtain on Monteverdi's dramatic music, from his most powerfully expressive madrigals to his lavish ballets and highly original operas. De la Bellezza le Dovute Lodi
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, director John Eliot Gardiner
Cruda Amarilli , Che co/ Nome Ancora; 0 Mirtillo, Mirtillo, Anima Mia ; Tamo Mia Vita
Concerto Italiano, director Rinaldo Alessandrini L'Orfeo: Act 3 (Possente Spirto); Act 4
Ian Bostridge (tenor: Orfeo), Patrizia Ciofi
(soprano: Euridice), Veronique Gens (soprano: Proserpina), Lorenzo Regazzo (bass: Pluto), European Voices, Les Sacqueboutiers, Le
Concert d'Astree, director Emmanuelle HaTm
Producer Deborah Preston Repeated on Sunday at midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Claudio Monteverdi
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Director:
John Eliot Gardiner
Director:
Cruda Amarilli
Unknown:
Anima Mia
Unknown:
Tamo Mia Vita
Director:
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Tenor:
Ian Bostridge
Soprano:
Patrizia Ciofi
Soprano:
Veronique Gens
Bass:
Lorenzo Regazzo
Producer:
Deborah Preston

Introduced by Verity Sharp live from
London's Wigmore Hall. One of the world's leading Wagnerian mezzos, Petra Lang , accompanied by Charles Spencer (piano), performs Wagner's Wesendonk Lieder and a selection of well-known songs by Mahler and Sibelius.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Verity Sharp
Unknown:
Petra Lang
Accompanied By:
Charles Spencer
Unknown:
Wesendonk Lieder

BBC Symphony Orchestra
This week Sandy Burnett presents a series of piano concertos.
Bartok Four Pieces for Orchestra
Conductor Zsolt Nagy
Ravel Concerto for piano (left hand) Jean-Yves Thibaudet , conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste Shostakovich Symphony No 4 Conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandy Burnett
Conductor:
Zsolt Nagy
Conductor:
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Conductor:
Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Conductor:
Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Sondheim at 75
2/2. Excerpts from Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd , Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins, Passion and Bounce feature in the conclusion to
Edward Seckerson 's birthday tribute to the master of the American musical, Stephen Sondheim.
ADDRESS: Stage and Screen, Room 220, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreen@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Sweeney Todd
Unknown:
Edward Seckerson
Musical:
Stephen Sondheim.
Unknown:
Queen Margaret Drive

Tommy Pearson presents a concert given on Saturday at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, of music inspired by stories from Scandinavia:
Danish composer Per Norgard 's new piece based on the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen , and Grieg's music for Ibsen's play Peer Gynt. Simon Callow (narrator), Yvette Bonner
(soprano), Helen Gjerris (mezzo), Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor), Oxford Schola Cantorum,
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Youth Chorus, percussionists of the CBSO Youth Orchestra, CBSO, conductor Rumon Gamba Per Norgard The Will o' the Wisps Go to Town (first performance)
Grieg Incidental Music: Peer Gynt (excerpts)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Pearson
Unknown:
Per Norgard
Unknown:
Hans Christian Andersen
Narrator:
Simon Callow
Narrator:
Yvette Bonner
Soprano:
Helen Gjerris
Tenor:
Richard Edgar-Wilson
Conductor:
Rumon Gamba
Conductor:
Per Norgard

Philip Dodd and guests discuss the final part of English National Opera's Ring cycle: Twilight of the Gods, directed by Phyllida Lloyd and conducted by Paul Daniel. Producer Kirsty Pope

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Dodd
Directed By:
Phyllida Lloyd
Conducted By:
Paul Daniel.
Producer:
Kirsty Pope

Presented by Louise Fryer.
Beethoven Clarinet Trio in B flat, Op 11; String Quintet in C, Op 291.55 Bruckner Symphony No 3 in D minor
2.45 Granados Four Tonadillas 2.50 Spohr Duo in F, Op 148 3.10 Enescu String Quartet in G, Op 22 No 2
3.40 Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in 0, BWV1068
4.00 Dufay Revellies Vous 4.00 G Gabriell Canzon
Prima a 5 4.05 Couperin Douzième Concert deux violes
4.15 C Schumann Scherzo in D minor, Op 10 No 1
4.20 Mendez Csardas 4.25 Rossini Non Piu Mesta (La Cenerentola) 4.25 Auric, arr Lane Suite: Passport to Pimlico 4.35 Haydn Piano Sonata in 0 minor, H XVI 33
4.50 Anon Caminus Ardebat 5.00 Puccini 0 M/o Babbino Caro (Gianni Schicchi ) Anon, arr
Richards Baylero 5.05 Debussy Rêverie 5.10 Glinka Nocturno
5.15 Wilbye Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers: Oft Have I Vowed 5.20 Sibelius Serenade No 1, Op 69a 5.30 Forqueray Sarabande: La d'Aubone 5.35 Debussy Ondine (Preludes, Book 2) Schreker Valse Lente
5.40 Handel, arr Halvorsen Passacaglia in G minor
5.50 Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 in C, K467
6.20 Poulenc Cello Sonata 6.40 Rachmaninov Italian Polka 6.45 Larsson Pastoral Suite, Op 19

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Fryer.
Unknown:
Dufay Revellies Vous
Unknown:
Mendez Csardas
Unknown:
Babbino Caro
Unknown:
Gianni Schicchi
Unknown:
Richards Baylero
Unknown:
Glinka Nocturno
Unknown:
Schreker Valse Lente
Unknown:
Halvorsen Passacaglia

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