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Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Stravinsky Suite Italienne
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Peter Nagy (piano) Arnold A Grand, Grand Overture
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Rumon Gamba Antheil A Jazz Symphony New World Symphony, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
8.30-10.00: Krommer Octet-Partita in F Op 57 Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner Caqe In a Landscape Alexei Lubimov (piano)

Contributors

Presented By:
Sandy Burnett.
Violin:
Leonidas Kavakos
Violin:
Peter Nagy
Conductor:
Rumon Gamba
Conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Conductor:
Krommer Octet-Partita
Conductor:
Fritz Reiner
Piano:
Alexei Lubimov

With Rob Cowan.
Campion Never Love Unless You Can; If Thou
Longst So Much to Learn; Oft Have I Sighed; Fain Would I Wed a Fair Young Man
Rosseter Prelude; Galliard;
Almain Janet Baker (mezzo), Robert Spencer (lute)
10.15 Bruch Symphony No 2 in F Minor Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur
10.51 Holborne Countess of Pembroke's Paradise Anon Sir Philip Sidney 's Lamentation A Ferrabosco Pavin
R Johnson Allemayne J Johnson Allmaine Eugen Dombois (lute)
11.03 Vaughan Williams Intermezzo: My Pretty Bess; Burlesca: Epitaph on John Jayberd of Diss (Tudor Portraits) Robert Anderson (bass-baritone), Mendelssohn Choir, Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra, conductor William Steinberg
11.11 Listener request: Hummel Septet in D minor, Op 74 Judith Mendenhall (flute), Rudolph Vrbsky (oboe), Robert Routch (horn), Caroline Levine (viola), Lisa Lancaster (cello), Julius Levine (double bass), Beth Levin (piano)
11.45 Newsidler Preambel; Welscher Tantz Wascha Mesa; DerJuden Tantz
Moritz, Landgrave of Hessen Pavane Lassus Madonna Mia Pieta
Konrad Ragossnig , Jurgen Hubscher and Dieter Kirsch (lutes)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Unknown:
Almain Janet Baker
Unknown:
Robert Spencer
Conductor:
Kurt Masur
Unknown:
Sir Philip Sidney
Unknown:
Johnson Allemayne
Unknown:
J Johnson Allmaine
Unknown:
Eugen Dombois
Bass-Baritone:
Robert Anderson
Conductor:
William Steinberg
Flute:
Judith Mendenhall
Flute:
Rudolph Vrbsky
Oboe:
Robert Routch
Horn:
Caroline Levine
Viola:
Lisa Lancaster
Cello:
Julius Levine
Bass:
Beth Levin
Unknown:
Welscher Tantz
Unknown:
Derjuden Tantz
Unknown:
Konrad Ragossnig
Unknown:
Jurgen Hubscher
Unknown:
Dieter Kirsch

2/5. Robert Simpson was in many ways a maverick figure, and yet he was also a man of great humility who spoke freely of his debt to other composers. Today Donald Macleod discusses these aspects of Simpson's character with writer and broadcaster Stephen Johnson. Symphony No 3 (2nd movement: Adagio) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley String Quartet No 6 Delme Quartet
Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Simpson
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Stephen Johnson.
Conductor:
Vernon Handley

City of London Festival: Odes and Icons 5/12. This year the City of London Festival celebrates the seminal music of the 20th century. This performance of Stravinsky's dark masterpiece of music theatre was given earlier this month in Wilton's Music Hall. Presented by Fiona Talkington.
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Stravinsky The Soldier's Tale

Contributors

Presented By:
Fiona Talkington.
The Soldier:
Anthony Marwood (violin)
Devil:
Lain Woodhouse
Narrator:
Walter van Dyk

Voices from Venice lain Burnside glides through the canals of La Serenissima in search of songs that recall the city of Canaletto, Vivaldi and the Doges. With music by Gounod, Schumann, Reynaldo Hahn , Richard Rodgers , Benjamin Britten , Giovanni Croce and the music-hall star Billy Merson.

Contributors

Unknown:
Reynaldo Hahn
Unknown:
Richard Rodgers
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Giovanni Croce
Unknown:
Billy Merson.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Fairy tales open and close this Prom, with Liadov's folk-infused tone poems and Stravinsky's ballet inspired by Hans Christian Andersen. Plus two contrasting recent works.
Presented by Christopher Cook.
Claire Booth (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor John Storgards
Liadov Baba-Yaga; The Enchanted Lake; Kikimora Oliver Knussen Whitman Settings, Op 25 Detlev Glanert Theatrum Bestiarum (BBC commission: first performance)
8.30 Twenty Minutes: Tales from Russia
Philip Bullock looks at the pagan roots of traditional Russian folk practice, how it managed to survive for many centuries after Christianisation, and the artistic outpourings that it inspired.
8.50 Stravinsky Ballet: The Fairy's Kiss
This concert is live on BBC4 at 7.30pm Repeated on Monday at 2pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Hans Christian Andersen.
Presented By:
Christopher Cook.
Conductor:
John Storgards
Unknown:
Philip Bullock

2/4. Detlev Glanert. German composer Detlev Glanert introduces a selection of his chamber music and talks to Andrew McGregor. Recorded earlier today at the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Tau Way (piano), Vera Landwing (violin) and Diego Carneiro (cello) from Trinity College of Music
Violin Sonata; Fantasies for piano, Nos 3 and 4; Serenade for cello and piano

Contributors

Unknown:
Detlev Glanert.
Introduces:
Detlev Glanert
Unknown:
Andrew McGregor.
Unknown:
Albert Hall
Piano:
Vera Landwing
Piano:
Diego Carneiro

Fiona Talkington with music from the Malagasy guitar of Modeste Hughes , tracks from accordion masters John Kirkpatrick and Chris Parkinson 's album The Sultans of Squeeze, and Moon Shines at Night by duduk maestro Djivan Gasparyan.

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington
Unknown:
Modeste Hughes
Unknown:
John Kirkpatrick
Unknown:
Chris Parkinson
Unknown:
Moon Shines
Unknown:
Djivan Gasparyan.

3/5. Gluck regarded his opera Alceste as one of his greatest achievements, and he wrote two versions for the audiences in Vienna and Paris.
Donald Macleod introduces excerpts from the French version and takes a look at Paride ed Elena.
Repeated from Wednesday at 12 noon

Contributors

Introduces:
Donald MacLeod

With John Shea. Albicastro Concerto in D, Op 7No 8 Leo
Cello Concerto in D Biber Pars III in A minor (Mensa Sonora) Vivaldi Cello Concerto in C minor, RV401 Muffat Sperantis Gaudia 2.00 Messemaeckers Grande Marche Funebre
2.10 Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica) 3.00
Grieg Selected Lyric Pieces 3.25 Brahms String Quintet in G, Op m 3.55 Glinka Overture in D 4.00 Ibert Cinq Pieces en Trio 4.10 Chopin Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor, Op 39
4.15 Milhaud Three Rag-Caprices, Op 78 4.25 Gershwin I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'; Bess. You Is My Woman Now (Porgy and Bess) 4.30 Mozart Symphony No 35 in D, K385
(Haffner) 4.50 Moniuszko Triolet ; The Kitten; The Reason
5.00 Kelemen Variations for piano 5.10 Manchicourt Nunc Enim si Centum Lingue Sint 5.15 Bach Sarabande (Cello Suite No 1 in G, BWVI007) 5.20 Saint-Saens My
Heart at Thy Sweet Voice (Samson et Dalila) 5.25 Herbert Moonbeams (The Red Mill) 5.30 Raffaelli Introduction and Theme with Variations in A 5.40 H Albert Musikalische Kurbshutte 5.50 Puccini Intermezzo (Manon Lescaut)
5.55 7.00 Haydn Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, H XVI 36
6.14 Berwaid String Quartet No 2 in A minor 6.30 Ravel Un Grand Sommeil Noir; Ronsard a Son Ame; Rêves
6.40 Glazunov Barcarolle in D flat, Op 22 No 16.45
Noskowski Ballet music: A Hut out of the Village (excerpts)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Shea.
Unknown:
Muffat Sperantis
Unknown:
Ibert Cinq
Unknown:
Moniuszko Triolet
Cello:
Bach Sarabande
Unknown:
Herbert Moonbeams
Unknown:
Albert Musikalische
Unknown:
Noskowski Ballet

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