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This week Penny Gore features double concertos and Hungarian composers and performers.
7.00-8.30: Vivaldi Concerto in G for two mandolins, RV532 II Giardino Armonico , director Giovanni Antonini Hoist Japanese Suite, Op 33 LSO, conductor Adrian Boult Handel Va Tacito (Giulio Cesare ) Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
8.30-10.00: Weber Overture: Euryanthe Philharmonia, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Haydn Piano Sonata in E flat, H XVI 49 Andras Schiff Kodaly Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song (The Peacock) Philharmonia Hungarica, conductor Antal Dorati

Contributors

Unknown:
Giardino Armonico
Director:
Giovanni Antonini
Unknown:
Giulio Cesare
Unknown:
Andreas Scholl
Unknown:
Andras Schiff Kodaly
Conductor:
Antal Dorati

This week Jonathan Swain features Rachmaninov's piano works and recordings by Lovro von Matacic. Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 3 No 2 Performed by the composer
10.04 Lehar So kommen sie! ...Ich bin eine anstand'qe Frau (Die lustige Witwe)
Hanny Steffek (soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Philharmonia, conductor Lovro von Matacic
10.09 Rachmaninov Prelude in E, Op 32 No 3
John Lill (piano) Prelude in B, Op 32 No 11 Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Prelude in G sharp minor, Op 32 No 12 Anatole Kitain (piano)
10.17 Listener request: William Alwyn Sinfonietta for Strings LPO conducted by the composer
10.44 Rachmaninov Suite No I in G minor, Op 5 Lyubov Bruk and Mark Taimanov (pianos)
11.06 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique) Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Lovro von Matacic

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain
Unknown:
Sergei Rachmaninov
Soprano:
Hanny Steffek
Soprano:
Nicolai Gedda
Piano:
John Lill
Piano:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Unknown:
William Alwyn Sinfonietta
Unknown:
Lyubov Bruk
Pianos:
Mark Taimanov

1/5. French composer Chabrier's approach to harmony is cited as a formative influence on later composers such as Ravel, Debussy and Poulenc. Chabrier was largely self-taught and was a civil servant for 18 years before he switched to composing full-time.
Espana Vienna PO, conductor John Eliot Gardiner Marion S'en Va-t-a I'Ou Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
Impromptu in C Jean Casadesus (piano) Lied Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
Fisch-Ton-Kan (excerpts) Soloists,
Strasbourg Collegium Musicum Orchestra, director Roger Delage
L'Invitation au Voyage Felicity Lott (soprano), Ursula Leveaux (bassoon), Graham Johnson (piano) Overture: Gwendoline Slovak Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Jean-Paul Penin
Producer Johannah Smith Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Soprano:
Ou Felicity Lott
Piano:
Graham Johnson
Piano:
Jean Casadesus
Baritone:
Stephen Varcoe
Piano:
Graham Johnson
Director:
Roger Delage
Soprano:
Felicity Lott
Soprano:
Ursula Leveaux
Bassoon:
Graham Johnson

BBC Philharmonic
This week Martin Handley focuses on French music, ranging from the medieval to the late 20th-century. Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival
Debussy Prelude a I'Apres-Midi d'un Faune Ravel Suite: Ma Mere I'Oye Conductor Pascal Rophe Berlioz Overture: Le Corsaire
Faure Pavane Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier Faure Requiem Libby Crabtree (soprano), Jonathan Arnold (baritone), the Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Handley
Soprano:
Libby Crabtree
Baritone:
Jonathan Arnold
Conductor:
Harry Christophers

The Ghostess with the Mostess Marni Nixon was the queen of Hollywood's dubbing singers. Edward Seckerson describes how she secretly starred in the films of My Fair Lady, The King and I and West Side Story.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mostess Marni Nixon
Singers:
Edward Seckerson

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
A concert given last Saturday at St Asaph's
Cathedral as part of the North Wales international Music Festival. Presented by Chris de Souza. David Cowley (oboe), Pascal Roge (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Douglas Boyd
Britten Sinfonietta for ten instruments, Op 1 Poulenc Piano Concerto
Franc.aix L' Horloge de Flore
Mozart Symphony No 40 in G minor, K550

Contributors

Presented By:
Chris de Souza.
Oboe:
David Cowley
Oboe:
Pascal Roge
Conductor:
Douglas Boyd
Conductor:
Britten Sinfonietta

Ronald Corp conducts the BBC Singers in music celebrating earthly pleasures:
Holst Bring Us in Good Ale, Op 34 No 4 Pearsall Lay a Garland on Her Hearse
Ronald Corp Heraclitus; I Strove with None Pinsuti In This Hour of Softened Splendour Sterndale Bennett Come Live with Me
Antonin Tucapsky In Honorem Vitae

Contributors

Unknown:
Antonin Tucapsky

Chris Patten talks to Paul Allen about his new book, Not Quite the Diplomat, which presents a personal view of Britain, Europe and America in the 21st century. Producer Ian Willox

Contributors

Talks:
Chris Patten
Unknown:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Ian Willox

Presented by Shaheera Asante. With music today from the Malian duo Amadou and Miriam, Norwegian pianist Christian Wallumrod and Alice Coltrane 's 1970 Journey in Satchidananda, featuring saxophonist Pharoah Sanders.

Contributors

Presented By:
Shaheera Asante.
Pianist:
Christian Wallumrod
Pianist:
Alice Coltrane
Unknown:
Pharoah Sanders.

With John Shea. Linde Piano Sonatine No I Op 15
Frumerie Piano Sonata No 1, Op 64 Linde String Trio, Op 37 Frumerie Piano Quartet No 1
2.04 Sibelius Symphony No 2
2.48 A Scarlatti Toccata per Cembalo d'Ottava Siete in D minor 3.08 Blow How Art Thou Fallen from Heaven, 0 Lucifer 3.12 Stradella L'Anime del Purgatorio
3.53 Villa-Lobos 12 Guitar Studies: No 4; No 6
4.59 Rosauro Cenas Amerindias 4.08 OL Fernandez
Second Suite Brasiliera 4.14 Pachelbel Canon and Gigue in D 4.19 Telemann Concerto in E minor for recorder and flute 4.33 Linde Naive Songs, Op 20 Nos 1-9 4.47
Frumerie Songs of the Heart. Op 27 5.00 Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 2 in 0 minor 5.24 De Fesch Violin
Concerto in C minor, Op 5 No 5 5.34 Froberger Lamento sopra la Morte Ferdinandi III 5.41 Frumerie The Lament; It Is Finest in the Twilight: There Came a Note 5.50
Jarnefelt Lullaby 5.54 Faure Nocturne in B flat, Op 37
6.02 C Scott Lotus Land, Op 47 No Uversion for piano)
6.08 Marie Predicaments 6.17 Steve Reich Clapping Music 6.23 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in F minor (orchestral version) 6.36 Elgar Sea Pictures. Op 37

Contributors

Unknown:
John Shea.
Unknown:
Rosauro Cenas Amerindias
Unknown:
Morte Ferdinandi
Unknown:
Steve Reich

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