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This week Penny Gore explores music from the life and times of Jane Austen and compares the Baroque suite with later interpretations of the form.
7.00 8.30 : William Lawes Royall Consort No 5 in D Sonnerie, director Monica Huggett Haydn A Pastoral Song, H XXVIa 27
Lisa Milne (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano) Pleyel Piano Sonatina No 2 in D minor Martin Souter
8.30 10.00 : Glazunov Alia Spagnuola (Five Novellettes, Op 15) Vertavo Quartet Hindemith French Dance Suite
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conductor Werner Andreas Albert
Bax Three Pieces for small orchestra English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Jeffrey Tate

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Austen
Unknown:
Royall Consort
Director:
Monica Huggett
Soprano:
Lisa Milne
Soprano:
Roger Vignoles
Unknown:
Martin Souter
Conductor:
Werner Andreas Albert
Conductor:
Jeffrey Tate

This week featuring Glazunov's orchestral music, and recordings by early keyboard specialist Ralph Kirkpatrick. Presented by Rob Cowan.

Glazunov Poeme Lyrique, Op 12 - USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky

10.20 Gibbons The Queene's Command Couperin - Le Carillon de Cithere

D. Scarlatti Sonatas: in D, Kk535; in A minor, Kk175 - Ralph Kirkpatrick (harpsichord)

10.30 Glazunov Stenka Razin , Op 13 - USSR SO, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov

10.45 Listener request: Shostakovich String Quartet No 9, Op 117 - Fitzwilliam Quartet

11.15 Bach Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV903 - Ralph Kirkpatrick (harpsichord)

11.25 Glazunov The Sea, Op 28 - USSR RSO, conductor Gennady Provatorov

11.40 Haydn Arianna a Naxos, H XXVIb 2 - Jennie Tourel (mezzo), Ralph Kirkpatrick (period piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Rob Cowan

1/5. Donald Macleod explores the life and works of the composer who has been dubbed the "wife of Haydn", perhaps because of the similarity of Boccherini's style to that of his contemporary, as well as to the pervasive charm of his music. Ce//o Sonata in C, G17
Richard Lester , David Watkin (cello) Cello Concerto No 6 in D
Mstislav Rostropovich , Zurich Collegium Musicum, conductor Paul Sacher Symphony in C, Op 37 No 1
Academia Montis Regalis Baroque Orchestra, director Luigi Mangiocavallo
Producer Gwawr Owen Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Richard Lester
Cello:
David Watkin
Unknown:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Conductor:
Paul Sacher
Producer:
Gwawr Owen

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Michael Collins (clarinet), conductor Vassily Sinaisky
A concert given at City Hall Perth last year. Presented by Louise Fryer.
Strauss Suite: Der Rosenkavalier
Nielsen Clarinet Concerto
Sibelius Symphony No 2

Contributors

Conductor:
Vassily Sinaisky
Presented By:
Louise Fryer.

Legends: Thomas Hampson
The great American baritone, who's currently appearing at Covent Garden in Un Ballo in Maschera, talks to Edward Seckerson in the Crush Room at the Royal Opera House in front of a live audience. With music from Verdi's
Don Carlos , Mozart's LeNozzedi Figaro and Britten's Billy Budd.
ADDRESS: Stage and Screen, Room 220, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreen@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Hampson
Unknown:
Edward Seckerson
Unknown:
Don Carlos
Unknown:
Lenozzedi Figaro
Unknown:
Billy Budd.
Unknown:
Queen Margaret Drive

City of London Sinfonia
As part of the festival at London's South Bank Centre celebrating the music of Peter Maxwell Davies, Richard Hickox conducts a first performance at the heart of an all-British concert. A Dance on the Hill is a setting of four poems from George Mackay Brown 's collection Following a Lark. Presented by Penny Gore . Lucy Crowe (soprano),
Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Britten Suite: A Time There Was
Peter Maxwell Davies A Dance on the Hill (BBC commission: first performance) Tippett Fantasia on a theme of Corelli Vaughan Williams A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No 3)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Maxwell
Unknown:
Richard Hickox
Unknown:
George MacKay Brown
Presented By:
Penny Gore
Soprano:
Lucy Crowe
Soprano:
Pamela Helen Stephen
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Unknown:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Unknown:
Tippett Fantasia
Unknown:
Corelli Vaughan Williams

Philip Dodd considers the life and work of American poet e e cummings in light of the first biography for 25 years, which draws on 400 boxes of previously sealed papers. Producer Phil Tinline

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Dodd
Producer:
Phil Tinline

Verity Sharp presents vintage Django Reinhardt and Martin Carthy , music from the spiritual,
17th-century world of Heinrich Biber played by Andrew Manze , and Sweden's Nyckelharpa Orchestra playing tunes by the 19th-century master Byss-Calle who, according to legend, had supernatural powers and could work magic.

Contributors

Unknown:
Verity Sharp
Unknown:
Django Reinhardt
Unknown:
Martin Carthy
Unknown:
Heinrich Biber
Played By:
Andrew Manze

With Jonathan Swain.
Mozart Oboe Quartet in F K370 Dvorak Piano Quintet in A, Op 811.45 Poulenc Cantata: Figure Humaine
2.05 Kodaly Sonatina 2.15 Bruckner Symphony No 2 in Cminor 3.20 Brahms Vier Klavierstucke , Op 119
3.35 BoTldleu Harp Concerto in C 4.00 Beethoven Nine Variations on Quant' e Piu Be/to, WoO69 4.05 Abel Symphony in D, Op 10 No 5 4.15 Saint-Saens Oboe Sonata in D, Op 166 4.25 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
4.45 Coward I'll Follow My Secret Heart (Conversation Piece)
4.50 Adriaenssen Allemande: Prince (Pratum Musicum) Pachelbel Canon and Gigue in D 5.00 Jarnefelt Lullaby Bozza Jourd'Ete a la Montagne 5.10 Malmfors Hansel and Gretet: The Willows 5.15 Suk Elegy, Op 23 5.25 Faure Nocturne No 4 in E flat, Op 36 5.30 Andriessen Qui habitat 5.40 Musorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain
5.50 Verdi Oh Cielo, Dove Son to (Stiffelio)
6.05 Schumann Piano Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 22
6.25 Martinu Variations on a Slovak Theme
6.35 Dohnanyl Ruralia Hungarica, Op 32b

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Brahms Vier Klavierstucke

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