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Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Schumann Adagio and Allegro, Op 70 Radovan Vlatkovic (horn),
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Gade Echoes of Ossian, Op 1 Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Dmitri Kitaienko Wieniawski Polonaise Brillante No 2 in A, Op 21
Maxim Vengerov (violin), Ian Brown (piano)
8.30-10.00: Schoenberg Concerto for string quartet and orchestra Schoenberg Quartet, Arnhem PO, conductor Roberto Benzi
Vivaldi, transcr Bach Organ Concerto in D minor, BWV596 Simon Preston Mozart Ballet music: Idomeneo Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood

Contributors

Presented By:
Penny Gore
Horn:
Radovan Vlatkovic
Horn:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Conductor:
Dmitri Kitaienko Wieniawski
Conductor:
Polonaise Brillante
Violin:
Maxim Vengerov
Violin:
Ian Brown
Conductor:
Roberto Benzi
Director:
Christopher Hogwood

Presented by Jonathan Swain. Tallis Videte Miraculum
Tallis Scholars , director Peter Phillips
10.10 Listener request: Handel Concerto Grosso in A, Op 6 No 11 English Baroque
Orchestra, conductor Hermann Scherchen
10.25 Tallis Cantiones Sacrae: Honor, Virtus et Potestas Cantores in Ecclesia, conductor Michael Howard
0 Sacrum Convivium Choir of New College, Oxford, director Edward Higginbottom Spem in Alium Oxford Camerata, director Jeremy Summerly
10.50 Mahler Das Lied von derErde
Christa Ludwig (mezzo), Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Philharmonia, conductor Otto Klemperer

Contributors

Presented By:
Jonathan Swain.
Presented By:
Tallis Videte Miraculum
Presented By:
Tallis Scholars
Director:
Peter Phillips
Conductor:
Hermann Scherchen
Conductor:
Michael Howard
Director:
Edward Higginbottom
Director:
Jeremy Summerly
Unknown:
Christa Ludwig
Tenor:
Fritz Wunderlich
Conductor:
Otto Klemperer

4/5. Berlioz the Symphonist. Donald Macleod and David Cairns consider the artistic viewpoint from which Berlioz approached the symphony. He saw it as a form of drama that could equal anything on the stage.
Ronde du Sabbat (Symphonie Fantastique) London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
Harold in Italy (2ndmvt) Tabea Zimmermann (viola), London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
Symphonie Funèbre dstmvt) (excerpt) Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit Romeo et Juliette (finale)
Gilles Cachemaille (baritone), Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Repeated on Wednesday 15 June at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
David Cairns
Conductor:
Colin Davis
Viola:
Tabea Zimmermann
Conductor:
Colin Davis
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Baritone:
Gilles Cachemaille
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner

BBC Philharmonic
Presented by Sandy Burnett.
Mendelssohn Overture: Ruy Bias Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Liadov The Enchanted Lake
Conductor Vassily Sinaisky
Mozart Piano Concerto No 15 in B flat, K450 Pierre-Laurent Aimard, conductor Vassily Sinaisky
Shostakovich Symphony No 5 Conductor Gianandrea Noseda

Contributors

Presented By:
Sandy Burnett.
Conductor:
Vassily Sinaisky
Conductor:
Vassily Sinaisky
Conductor:
Gianandrea Noseda

Ernest Tomlinson conducts Haydn Wood in his adopted homeland of the Isle of Man; there's the first appearance on the show of Gustav Hoist;
Carry On film music from Bruce Montgomery ; and Arthur Sullivan 's May Day in Queen Elizabeth's
Time from his ballet Victoria and Merrie England.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ernest Tomlinson
Unknown:
Haydn Wood
Unknown:
Bruce Montgomery
Unknown:
Arthur Sullivan

BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican
Two musical journeys through life: Rachmaninov's The Bells, based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem that examines the symbolism of bells as markers for four stages of life - birth, marriage, danger and death; and Shostakovich's final symphony, filled with allusions to his own past and to the musical styles that influenced him. Presented from London's Barbican Centre earlier this week by Christopher Cook.
Galina Gorchakova (soprano), llya Levinsky (tenor), Pavel Baransky (baritone),
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste Shostakovich Symphony No 15
8.20 Twenty Minutes: Lagos, Lagos
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. One of a series of African short stories about street life.
As Chidra was being driven across Lagos, she was struck by how dissatisfied the people looked. "She too was one of those dissatisfied people. But she hoped it would end today." Read by Susan Aderin.
8.40 Rachmaninov The Bells

Contributors

Unknown:
Edgar Allan Poe
Unknown:
Christopher Cook.
Soprano:
Galina Gorchakova
Tenor:
Pavel Baransky
Conductor:
Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Unknown:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Read By:
Susan Aderin.

Shaheera Asante looks forward to the UK tour of South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim , and samples the new recording by So Percussion of the Steve Reich classic Drumming.

Contributors

Unknown:
Shaheera Asante
Pianist:
Abdullah Ibrahim
Unknown:
Steve Reich

Presented by Jonathan Swain.

Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite No 1

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D

Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor

2.30 Duruf Requiem

3.10 Sibelius Masonic Ritual Music, Op 113

3.30 Mozart Quintet in E flat for piano and wind, K452

3.55 Peterson-Berger The Spring Came on a Walpurgis Night; Buxtehude Canzonetta in A minor, BuxWV225

4.00 Buxtehude Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern, BuxWV223

4.10 Locke Fantazie; Suite in A minor

4.20 Pachelbel Two Motets

4.30 Hellendaal Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op 3 No 2

4.40 Berlioz, transcr Liszt Danse des Sylphes

4.45 Gounod Avant de Quitter Ces Lieux (Faust, Act 2)

4.50 Donizetti Sinfonia in G minor

5.00 Tinel Overture: Polyeucte

5.15 Archangelski Now Lettest; Judgement Day

5.25 Fateev Blessed Is the Man

5.30 Hristov In Your Kingdom; Respighi Trittico Botticelliano

5.50 Ibert Trois Pieces Breves

6.00 CFE Horneman Overture: Aladdin

6.10 Kuula Fairytale Visions, Op 19

6.25 Daniel-Lesurs Le Cantique des Colonnes

6.40 Liszt Les Preludes

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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