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This week Penny Gore explores musical borrowings: firstly with Baroque composers using each others' material, and secondly with 20th-century composers revisiting the past.
7.00-8.30: Atterberg Varmland Rhapsody Norrkiping SO, conductor Jun Ichi Hirokami Haydn String Quartet in E flat, Op 20 No 1
Hagen Quartet Mozart Prelude and Fugue in C, K394 Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
8.30-10.00: Strauss Le Bourgeois
Gentilhomme Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Marcello, transcr Bach Concerto in D minor,
BWV974 Alessio Bax (piano) Debussy Fantaisie Zoltan Kocsis (piano). Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer

Contributors

Conductor:
Jun Ichi Hirokami
Piano:
Andrei Gavrilov
Piano:
Alessio Bax
Piano:
Debussy Fantaisie
Piano:
Zoltan Kocsis
Conductor:
Ivan Fischer

With Jonathan Swain. This week featuring choral works by Thomas Tallis and recordings by conductor Otto Klemperer.
Offenbach Overture: La Belle Helene
Berlin Staatskapelle, conductor Otto Klemperer
10.10 Tallis Salve Intemerata
Chapelle du Roi, director Alistair Dixon
10.25 Listener request: Boccherini Cello Concerto No 6 in D, G479 Mstislav Rostropovich , Zurich Collegium Musicum, conductor Paul Sacher
10.45 Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Otto Klemperer
11.15 Tallis Gaude Gloriosa Dei Mater
Clerkes of Oxenford, director David Wulstan
11.35 Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements Philharmonia, conductor Otto Klemperer

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Thomas Tallis
Conductor:
Otto Klemperer.
Conductor:
Otto Klemperer
Conductor:
Tallis Salve Intemerata
Director:
Alistair Dixon
Unknown:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Conductor:
Paul Sacher
Conductor:
Otto Klemperer
Director:
David Wulstan
Conductor:
Otto Klemperer

1/5. Berlioz the Songwriter
Although better known for his larger orchestral works, Berlioz also wrote songs most of his life. Berlioz authority David Cairns talks to
Donald Macleod about Berlioz's contribution to songwriting. Elegie en Prose (Irlande, Op 2)
Robert Tear (tenor), Viola Tunnard (piano)
Le Jeune Pâtre Breton, Op 13 No 4 John Aler
(tenor), Bernd Schenk (horn), Cord Garben (piano) Les Nuits dEt6, Op 7Susan Graham (mezzo), Royal Opera House Orchestra, conductor John Nelson La Mort d'Ophelie Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano), Cord Garben (piano) Repeated on Sunday 12 June at 12 midnight

Contributors

Talks:
David Cairns
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Tenor:
Viola Tunnard
Tenor:
John Aler
Tenor:
Bernd Schenk
Conductor:
John Nelson

Ulster Orchestra
This week featuring music by Mozart. Presented by Sandy Burnett.
Mozart Symphony No 35 in D, K385 (Haffner) Conductor David Porcelijn
Nikolai Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor Conductor Nicholas Braithwaite
Harty Violin Concerto in D minor
Michael d'Arcy, conductor Nicholas Braithwaite Haydn Symphony No 101 in D (Clock) Conductor David Porcelijn

Contributors

Presented By:
Sandy Burnett.
Conductor:
David Porcelijn
Conductor:
Nicholas Braithwaite
Conductor:
Nicholas Braithwaite
Conductor:
David Porcelijn

Legends: Anja Sllja
Edward Seckerson celebrates the 70th birthday, last month, of the great German soprano Anja Silja. With music from DerFliegende Hollander , Lohengrin, Fidelio and a specially recorded excerpt from Janacek's The Makropoulos Case. ADDRESS: Stage and Screen. Room 220. Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive. Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreen@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Anja Sllja
Unknown:
Edward Seckerson
Soprano:
Anja Silja.
Unknown:
Derfliegende Hollander

Live from the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, seven composers present their "take" on the music of their forebears, from the 13th to the 17th centuries. With Sarah Walker. BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury
Taverner Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas Interspersed with: Elspeth Brooke Gloria/Halleluja (BBC commission; first performance)
Judith Bingham In Nomine (BBC Commission; first performance)
7.50 Twenty Minutes: The Signature Merchant: A man with a dark secret appears to be offering hope on Kampala's chaotic streets. A short story by Moses Isegawa. Read by Maynard Eziashi.
8.10 Thea Musgrave A Medieval Summer (after Sumer Is Icumen in) Bob Chilcott My Prayer (after Purcell)
John Hoybye The Slow Spring (after Morley) Bo Holten In Nomine (after Taverner)
Steve Martland Summer Rounds (after Sumer Is Icumen in)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Walker.
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury
Unknown:
Judith Bingham
Story By:
Moses Isegawa.
Read By:
Maynard Eziashi.
Read By:
Thea Musgrave
Unknown:
Bob Chilcott
Unknown:
John Hoybye
Unknown:
Bo Holten
Unknown:
Steve Martland

Shaheera Asante presents a series of "songlines" this week, in which African musicians tell the stories of songs they're about to perform. Plus music from Congolese band
Konono No 1, who perform on amplified thumb-pianos and are making their UK debut.

Contributors

Unknown:
Shaheera Asante

With Jonathan Swain. Bach, arr Nikolov Chaconne in D minor Nenov Piano Concerto Djurov Fantasy
2.15 Dvorak Slavonic Dances , Op 46 2.50 Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence, Op 70 3.25 Donizetti Una Furtiva Lagrima (L'Elisir d'Amore) 3.30 Poulenc Oboe Sonata
3.45 Sibelius 0 Precious Finland, Op 23 No 9 Mozart
Piano Sonata in B flat, K2814.00 Auric, arr Lane Suite: The Lavender Hill Mob 4.05 Stravinsky Rag-Time 4.10
Gershwin Three songs 4.20 Debussy L'lsle Joyeuse 4.25 Handel Recorder Sonata in C, Op I No 7 4.40 Hurlebusch Concerto in A 4.50 Frescobaldi Canzona Quinta a 3: Canzon Quinta a 4 (Canzoni da Sonare) 5.00 H Lawes Orpheus's Hymn Greene Orpheus with His Lute 5.05
Khachaturian Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Ballet: Spartacus) 5.15 Sarti Song of the Cherubim Strauss Auf stillem Waldespfad, Op 9 No 15.25 Kyurkchiiski A Little Bird Is Singing Bartok Bulgarian Rhythm (Mikrokosmos)
5.30 Wingfield Three Bulgarian Dances 5.35 Stainov Thracian Dances 5.40 Verdi Ella Mi Fu Rapita (Rigoletto)
5.45 Rychnovsky Gloria (Missa super Et Valde Mane)
5.50 Liszt Orpheus 6.00 Stoyanov Metamorphoses
6.15 Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 (Lark)
6.30 St John Koukouzel Our Bishop and Arch-Shepherd: Orthodox anon, 16th century Glory, Only-Begotten Zielensky Confirma Hoc Deus 6.40 Goleminov
Symphonic Variations on a theme by Dobri Hristov

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Nikolov Chaconne
Unknown:
Dvorak Slavonic Dances
Unknown:
Stravinsky Rag-Time
Unknown:
Frescobaldi Canzona Quinta
Unknown:
Greene Orpheus
Unknown:
Khachaturian Adagio
Unknown:
Sarti Song
Unknown:
Cherubim Strauss
Unknown:
Rychnovsky Gloria
Unknown:
John Koukouzel
Unknown:
Dobri Hristov

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