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Presented by Martin Handley.
7.00-8.00: Liszt Les Preludes LSO, conductor Antal Dorati Poulenc Mass in G The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
8.00-9.00: Szymanowski Romance in D, Op 23 Ulf Hoelscher (violin), Mikhail Rudy (piano)
Brahms Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel, Op 24 Andras Schiff (piano)

Contributors

Presented By:
Martin Handley.
Unknown:
Harry Christophers
Violin:
Ulf Hoelscher
Violin:
Mikhail Rudy
Piano:
Andras Schiff

With Rob Cowan. Including some of the Tippett orchestral recordings recommended on yesterday's CD Review. Other music includes: Humperdinck The Shepherd's Farewell
(Shakespeare Suite No 2) Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Karl Anton Rickenbacher A Scarlatti Son Tutta Duolo ; Rugiodose, Odorose Tito Schipa (tenor), orchestra conducted by Dino Olivieri Haydn Piano Sonata in F; H XVI 23 Yevgeni Koroliov (piano)
Bizet Te Ergo Quaesumus (Te Deum)
Angela Maria Blasi (soprano), Munich Symphony Orchestra, conductor Hans Rudolf Zobeley Vivaldi Et in Terra Pax Hominibus (Gloria)
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), The King's Consort, conductor Robert King
Mozart String Quartet in E flat, K428 Guarneri Quartet
Strauss, arr Leinsdorf Interludes (Die Frau ohne Schatten) Philharmonia, conductor Erich Leinsdorf
Debussy Reflets dans I'Eau (Images) Paul Jacobs (piano)
Tord Gustavsen IGN Tord Gustavsen Trio Schumann Tragodie, Op 54 No 3
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Irwin Gage (piano) The Third Programme, a documentary about the birth of the Third Programme in the 1950s, is on BBC4 tonight at 9.20pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Unknown:
Tutta Duolo
Tenor:
Odorose Tito Schipa
Conducted By:
Dino Olivieri
Piano:
Yevgeni Koroliov
Soprano:
Angela Maria Blasi
Conductor:
Hans Rudolf Zobeley
Unknown:
Joyce Didonato
Conductor:
Robert King
Unknown:
Guarneri Quartet
Conductor:
Erich Leinsdorf
Conductor:
Debussy Reflets
Piano:
Paul Jacobs
Unknown:
Brigitte Fassbaender
Piano:
Irwin Gage

Michael Berkeley talks to Patrick Leigh Fermor , who celebrates his 90th birthday this year.
Famous for his wartime exploits on Crete, he became one of the finest travel writers of his generation. His musical choices include Victoria, Couperin, Berlioz, Debussy and Irving Berlin.

Contributors

Talks:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Patrick Leigh Fermor

Presented by Stephanie Hughes.
The American soprano Renee Fleming in a rare recital appearance at the Barbican in London. Her programme includes songs by Henry Purcell , George Crumb , Andre Previn , Alban Berg and Robert Schumann.

Contributors

Presented By:
Stephanie Hughes.
Soprano:
Renee Fleming
Songs By:
Henry Purcell
Songs By:
George Crumb
Songs By:
Andre Previn
Songs By:
Alban Berg
Songs By:
Robert Schumann.

Loyd Grossman visits Benjamin Britten's former home, the Red House in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, where he produced some of his finest works. Still very much alive with the spirit of the composer, the house is now a major centre for Britten research and performance.

Contributors

Presenter:
Loyd Grossman
Producer:
Kate Bolton

More listeners' requests, including an intensely personal setting of the mass by the Swiss composer Frank Martin, George Dyson's charming Children's Suite and the first of Rachmaninov's four piano concertos.
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Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Martin
Unknown:
George Dyson

With Tom Service. In Charles Mackerras 's 80th birthday year, a profile of the conductor seen through the eyes of those most closely associated with him, including Janet Baker and Edinburgh Festival director Brian McMaster. Plus the story of a new opera, A Shetland Odyssey, which unites the Tete a Tete opera company with the knitters and spinners of Shetland. Producer Jeremy Evans

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles MacKerras
Unknown:
Janet Baker
Director:
Brian McMaster.
Producer:
Jeremy Evans

Starring David Tennant and Samantha Spiro, with an introduction by Richard Eyre.

Shakespeare's delightful comedy sparkles with the verbal sparring of the two reluctant lovers in a world where nothing is quite what it seems.

Contributors

Author:
William Shakespeare
Introduction:
Richard Eyre
Music written and performed by:
Simon Oakes
Music written and performed by:
Adam Wolters
Producer/Director:
Sally Avens
Leonato:
David Swift
Beatrice:
Samantha Spiro
Hero:
Emilia Fox
Antonio/Sexton:
Sean Baker
Don Pedro:
David Westhead
Claudio:
Chlwetel Ejiofor
Benedick:
David Tennant
Don John:
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Borachio:
Stephen Critchlow
Conrade:
Jonathan Keeble
Dogberry:
David Haig
Verges:
Peter Gunn
Margaret:
Maxine Peake
Ursula:
Helen Ayres
Friar Francis:
Dermot Crowley
Messenger/Watchman/Servant/Lord:
David Thorpe
Watchman:
Philip Joseph
Singer at the Tom:
Simon Greene
Boy:
Jordan Calvert

John Tusa ends his five-year series of interviews with 52 of the world's great artistic minds with an investigation into the origins of creativity itself. Contributors include Bernardo Bertolucci ,
Harrison Birtwistle , Bill Viola , Simon McBurney , Merce Cunningham and Frank Auerbach. Producer Philip Sellars

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Bernardo Bertolucci
Unknown:
Harrison Birtwistle
Unknown:
Bill Viola
Unknown:
Simon McBurney
Unknown:
Merce Cunningham
Unknown:
Frank Auerbach.
Producer:
Philip Sellars

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