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Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Mendelssohn Overture in C for wind, Op 24 Consortium Classicum Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet) ISO, conductor John Barbirolli Popper Hungarian Rhapsody, Op 68
Janos Starker (cello), Shiqeo Niriki (piano)
8.30-10.00 Haydn (attrib) Concerto in E flat for two horns Michael Thompson and Richard Watkins , Philharmonia, conductor Christopher
Warren-Green Debussy Estampes Zoltan Kocsis (piano) Bartok Hungarian Sketches Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer

Contributors

Presented By:
Penny Gore
Unknown:
Classicum Delius
Conductor:
John Barbirolli
Cello:
Shiqeo Niriki
Horns:
Michael Thompson
Horns:
Richard Watkins
Conductor:
Ivan Fischer

With Jonathan Swain.
Von Einem Bruckner Dialog, Op 39 Vienna SO, conductor Lovro von Matacic
10.15 Rachmaninov Prelude in D flat, Op 32 No 13 John Browning (piano) Prelude in B flat minor, Op 32 No 2 Helene Grimaud (piano) Prelude in E flat minor, Op 23 No 9 Earl Wild (piano)
10.27 Musorqsky Coronation Scene (Boris Godunov) Julius Katona (tenor), Gottlob Frick
(bass), Berlin Deutsches Oper Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Lovro von Matacic
10.36 Rachmaninov Prelude in G, Op 32 No 5 Geza Anda (piano) Prelude in C, Op 32 No 1 Dmitri Alexeev (piano)
10.42 Listener request: Schumann
Frauenliebe und -leben, Op 42 Lisa della Casa (soprano), Sebastian Peschko (piano)
11.04 Rachmaninov Variations on a theme of Chopin, Op 22 Jorge Bolet (piano)
11.35 Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien , Op 45 Milan La Scala Orchestra, conductor Lovro von Matacic

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Piano:
John Browning
Piano:
Helene Grimaud
Tenor:
Julius Katona
Tenor:
Gottlob Frick
Conductor:
Lovro von Matacic
Piano:
Geza Anda
Piano:
Dmitri Alexeev
Soprano:
Sebastian Peschko
Piano:
Jorge Bolet
Piano:
Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien
Conductor:
Lovro von Matacic

4/5. Despite a natural talent for writing light opera, Emmanuel Chabrier 's obsession was grand opera. Brisefs was his last offering in the genre and was the work in which Chabrier saw himself as a modernist, raising the ideals of French opera above and beyond anything that had come before. Donald Macleod examines the history of this opera and the reasons why
Chabrier saw it as his crowning masterpiece. Duo de I'Ouvreuse de I'Opera Comique et de I'Employé du Bon Marche
Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Toby Spence (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Marche Joyeuse Orchestre National de France, conductor Armin Jordan
Briseis, Act 1 Scene 2 (excerpt) Joan Rodgers (soprano), Kathryn Harries (mezzo),
Mark Padmore (tenor), Chorus of Scottish Opera,
BBC Scottish SO, conductor Jean-Yves Ossonce Ballade des Gros Dindons Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
Villanelle des Petits Canards; Pastorale des Cochons Roses; Les Cigales Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
A la Musique Toulouse Midi-Pyrenees Choir
(women's voices), Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Emmanuel Chabrier
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Soprano:
Geraldine McGreevy
Soprano:
Toby Spence
Tenor:
Graham Johnson
Conductor:
Armin Jordan
Soprano:
Joan Rodgers
Soprano:
Kathryn Harries
Tenor:
Mark Padmore
Conductor:
Jean-Yves Ossonce
Baritone:
Graham Johnson
Soprano:
Graham Johnson
Conductor:
Michel Plasson

Celebrating Mozart - Mainly Mozart
3/4. Presented by Petroc Trelawny from the Royal Centre in Nottingham.
Leon McCawley (piano), Emperor Quartet Mozart Piano Sonata in A, K331
Mendelssohn Capriccio in E minor, Op 81 No 3 Mozart Piano Concerto No 12 in A, K414
(arr composer for piano and string quartet)

Contributors

Piano:
Leon McCawley
Unknown:
Mendelssohn Capriccio

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Presented by Martin Handley.
Ravel Sheherazade Ailish Tynan (soprano), conductor Man Volkov
Messiaen Turangatila Symphony
Howard Shelley (piano), Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot), conductor Ilan Volkov

Contributors

Presented By:
Martin Handley.
Conductor:
Man Volkov
Conductor:
Messiaen Turangatila Symphony
Piano:
Howard Shelley
Piano:
Cynthia Millar
Conductor:
Ilan Volkov

The Complete Solo Piano Works of Ravel and Debussy
1/6. From 1880 to 1894. Artur Pizarro begins a major series at St John's, Smith Square, London, in which he performs the the complete works for piano solo by Debussy and Ravel. Tonight, he opens with music written by Debussy in the 1880s.
Introduced live by Sarah Walker.
Debussy Intermède; Danse Bohémienne; Deux
Arabesques; Ballade; Rêverie; Suite Bergamasque
8.30 Twenty Minutes: The Importance of Elsewhere Simon Callow visits Philip Larkin 's Belfast and finds the people and places behind the poems of The Less Deceived, published to great acclaim 50 years ago. Producer Owen McFadden
8.50 Debussy Tarantelle Styrienne; Valse
Romantique; Mazurka; Nocturne; Images Oubliees

Contributors

Unknown:
Artur Pizarro
Unknown:
Sarah Walker.
Unknown:
Simon Callow
Unknown:
Philip Larkin
Producer:
Owen McFadden

Paul Allen and guests discuss Frank McGuinness 's latest play, Speaking Like Magpies, which deals with the background to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Plus an exploration of why Italy is so bad at protecting and preserving its cultural heritage. Producer Fiona McLean

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Frank McGuinness
Producer:
Fiona McLean

Shaheera Asante 's selections include new music from Czech violinist and vocalist Iva Bittova , thinking songs from the Central African Republic, and Bartok's Three Hungarian Folk
Songs from the Csik District for piano.

Contributors

Unknown:
Shaheera Asante
Unknown:
Iva Bittova

With John Shea.

Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements

Liszt Piano Concerto No 2 in A

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

2.37 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115

3.15 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K297b

3.45 Bach French Suite No 5 in G, BWV816

4.02 Corelli Sonata da Chiesa in A, Op Wo 3

4.09 Handel Sorge nel Petto (Rinaldo)

4.14 Jersild To Play in the Wood

4.28 Chopin Grand Valse Brillante in E flat, Op 18

4.33 Haydn Symphony No 49 in F minor (La Passione)

4.51 Mokranjac Tenth Song-Wreath (Songs from Ohrid)

5.00 Debussy, arr Trayanov Clair de Lune

5.04 Hildeqard of Bingen O Virgo ac Diadema Purpurae Regis

5.10 Villa-Lobos Guitar Prelude No 3 in A minor

5.17 Barriere Sonata in G for two cellos
5.26 Liszt Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (Annees de Pelerinage: Italie)

5.34 Wagner Ailmacht 'ge Jungfrau (Tannhauser, Act 3)

5.40 Sibelius Romance

5.43 Hove Allemande Monsieur

5.45 Fesch Concerto in G, Op 5 No 3

5.53 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 111

6.21 Saint-Saens Les Titans, Op 71 No 2

6.29 Sibelius Symphony No 6

Contributors

Presenter:
John Shea

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