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Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Liszt Vallée d'Oberman (Annees de Pèlerinage, Book 1: Suisse) Georges Cziffra (piano) Brahms Vier Gesange, Op 17 Women's voices of the South German Vocal Ensemble, members of Marie Luise Neunecker Horn Ensemble,
Ludmilla Muster (harp), director Rolf Beck
Telemann Flute Concerto in G minor, TWV42:g2 Karl Kaiser , Cologne Camerata Verdi Come in Quest' Ora (Simon Boccanegra, Act
Mirella Freni (soprano), La Scala Orchestra, Milan, conductor Claudio Abbado
8.30-10.00: Liszt Eglogue; La Mal du Pays (Annees de Pèlerinage, Book 1: Suisse) Lazar Berman (piano) Berwaid Septet Members of the Berlin Wind Octet
Beethoven Choral Fantasia in C minor, Op 80 Maurizio Pollini (piano), Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado

Contributors

Presented By:
Penny Gore
Piano:
Georges Cziffra
Harp:
Ludmilla Muster
Director:
Rolf Beck
Unknown:
Karl Kaiser
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Piano:
Lazar Berman
Piano:
Maurizio Pollini
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado

With Jonathan Swain.
Liszt Totentanz Byron Janis (piano), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner
10.15 Schumann Szenen aus Goethes Faust,
Part 3 (excerpt) Elizabeth Harwood and Felicity Palmer (sopranos), Meriel Dickinson and Pauline Stevens (mezzos), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass), Wandsworth School Choir. Aideburgh Festival Singers, ECO, conductor Benjamin Britten
10.40 Liszt Paraphrase on themes from Verdi's Rigoletto Byron Janis (piano)
10.45 Schumann Requiem fur Mignon, Op 98b Barbara Bonney and Brigitte Poschner-Klebel (sopranos), Dalia Schaechter and Margareta Hintermeier (mezzos), Jorge Antonio Pita
(tenor), Andreas Schmidt (bass), Vienna State Opera Chorus, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado
11.00 Strauss Burleske in D minor Byron Janis (piano), Chicago SO, conductor Fritz Reiner
11.30 Listener request:
Bartok String Quartet No 6 Takacs Quartet

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Piano:
Byron Janis
Conductor:
Fritz Reiner
Unknown:
Elizabeth Harwood
Sopranos:
Felicity Palmer
Sopranos:
Meriel Dickinson
Sopranos:
Pauline Stevens
Contralto:
Alfreda Hodgson
Bass:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Conductor:
Benjamin Britten
Sopranos:
Barbara Bonney
Sopranos:
Brigitte Poschner-Klebel
Sopranos:
Dalia Schaechter
Sopranos:
Margareta Hintermeier
Tenor:
Jorge Antonio Pita
Tenor:
Andreas Schmidt
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Piano:
Byron Janis
Conductor:
Fritz Reiner

2/5. The Ballets Russes.
A look at how Stravinsky's name was established outside Russia through his collaboration with the Russian ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev. With Donald Macleod.
Music includes: Two Poems of Paul Verlaine
John Shirley Quirk (baritone), Ensemble
Intercontemporain, conductor Pierre Boulez Oedipus Rex, Act I (excerpt)
Thomas Moser (tenor), Siegmund Nimsgern (baritone), Bavarian Radio Male Chorus, Bavarian Radio SO, conductor Colin Davis
The Rite of Spring, Part 1 (excerpt) Paris Conservatory Concert Society Orchestra, conductor Pierre Monteux
Les Noces (1st tableau: At the Bride's House) Basia Retchitzka (soprano), Lucienne Devallier (contralto), Hugues Cuenod (tenor), Heinz Rehfuss (baritone), Vladimir Diakoff (bass), Geneva Motet Choir, Renee Peter, Doris Rossiaud and Roger Aubert (pianos), director Jacques Horneffer (piano) Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Detroit Chamber Winds and Friends
Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Serge Diaghilev.
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Baritone:
John Shirley Ouirk
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez
Tenor:
Thomas Moser
Conductor:
Colin Davis
Conductor:
Pierre Monteux
Soprano:
Basia Retchitzka
Soprano:
Lucienne Devallier
Tenor:
Heinz Rehfuss
Baritone:
Vladimir Diakoff
Unknown:
Renee Peter
Unknown:
Doris Rossiaud
Pianos:
Roger Aubert
Piano:
Jacgues Horneffer

Celebrating Mozart: Mozart and Chopin Part of a year-long celebration of Mozart's music, this series showcases his piano works alongside music by Fryderyk Chopin. Today's concert was recorded in February at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh. With pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin. Introduced by Claire English . Mozart Piano Sonata in B flat, K570
Chopin Polonaise in C sharp minor, Op 26 No 1 Mozart Piano Sonata in C, K545
Chopin Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise in E flat, Op 22

Contributors

Music By:
Fryderyk Chopin.
Pianist:
Marc-Andre Hamelin.
Introduced By:
Claire English
Unknown:
Chopin Polonaise
Unknown:
Grand Polonaise

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
The Strauss tone poem in today's programme was written when he was only 25. With Martin Handley.
Strauss Tod und Verklarung Conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Weber Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor Martin Frost , conductor Douglas Bostock Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral) Conductor James Judd

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Handley.
Unknown:
Strauss Tod
Conductor:
Tadaaki Otaka
Conductor:
Martin Frost
Conductor:
Douglas Bostock
Conductor:
James Judd

lain Burnside presents a recital in which he accompanies mezzo Sarah Connolly in a sequence of late-Romantic and Expressionist songs by Schoenberg, ending with his song cycle, The Book of the Hanging Gardens.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Connolly

Tokyo Quartet
Eastern and Western traditions are contrasted in this concert from Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, recorded last month. Introduced by Penny Gore . Mozart String Quartet in B flat, K589 TakemitsuA A Way Alone
Beethoven String Quartet in E flat, Op 127

Contributors

Unknown:
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Introduced By:
Penny Gore

James J O'Donnell joins Robert Hanks to discuss his new biography of Saint Augustine , considered by many to be the most important
Christian thinker after St Paul. Producer Ariane Koek

Contributors

Unknown:
James J O'Donnell
Unknown:
Robert Hanks
Unknown:
Saint Augustine
Unknown:
St Paul.
Producer:
Ariane Koek

American group Tortoise, English singer/ songwriters Robert Wyatt and June Tabor , and John Cage 's Second Construction, for percussion ensemble. With Fiona Talkington.

Contributors

Songwriters:
Robert Wyatt
Songwriters:
June Tabor
Songwriters:
John Cage
Unknown:
Fiona Talkington.

With John Shea.

Schutz Mein Herz ist bereit
Michael Jacob Himmel weine bitterlich
Selle O Ungluck: Frisch auf mein Herz
Rognoni Anchor Che col Partire
L Rossi Lamento della Regina di Svezia
Fontana Sonata Settima
Merula Nigra Sum Cesti Duri Lacci Argia; Fuggi Purdal Mio Sen (L'Argia)

1.45 Debussy Images (excerpts)

2.05 Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor

3.00 Schubert, transcr Landowska Waltzes (Die schone Mullerin)

3.10 Beethoven Piano Trio in G. Op No 2

3.40 Mendelssohn Incidental music A Midsummer Night's Dream

4.05 Stadlmayr Ave Maris Stella

4.10 Sainte-Colombe Concert a Deux Violes No 44: Tombeau des Regrets

4.20 Verdi Per Me Giunto (Don Carlos)

4.30 Bersa Dramatic Overture

4.45 Vllla-Lobos Guitar Prelude No 1 in E minor

4.50 Satie, arr Milhaud Jack-in-the-Box

5.00 Brahms Academic Festival Overture

5.10 Kodaly The Aged

5.20 Debussy, arr Allen Arabesque No 2
Granados El Peleie (Goyescas, Op 11)

5.25 Mahler Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grunen Wald

5.30 Gorczycki Laetatus Sum

5.35 Szervanszky Serenade

6.00 Chausson Poeme, Op 25

6.15 Traditional, coll Bartok Three Folk Songs from Gyergyo

6.20 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks

6.45 Rangstom Partita

Contributors

Presenter:
John Shea

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