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This week Sandy Burnett explores Mozart's symphonies and and violin sonatas and music written by composers abroad. Music includes:
Mozart Symphony No 22 in C, K162 Vienna PO, conductor James Levine Barber Adagio for
Strings, Op 11 Saint Louis SO, conductor Leonard Slatkin Chabrier Espana Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
8.30-10.00: Handel Concerto Grosso in D,
Op 3 No 6 Hanover Band, director Roy Goodman Mozart Violin Sonata in F K376 Frank Peter Zimmermann, Alexander Lonquich (piano) Elgar Overture: In the South (Alassio) BBC
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandy Burnett
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin
Conductor:
Michel Plasson
Director:
Roy Goodman
Unknown:
Frank Peter
Piano:
Alexander Lonquich
Conductor:
Andrew Davis

With Rob Cowan. This week featuring conductors as composers, and recordings by Alfred Cortot. Debussy Suite: Children's Corner Alfred Cortot (piano)
10.16 Jean Martinon Violin Concerto No 2 Henryk Szeryng , Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik
10.49 Listener request: Liszt Psalm
XIII Walter Midgley (tenor), Beecham Choral Society, RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham
11.15 Chopin Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat, Op 35 Alfred Cortot
11.34 Bach/Malloch The Art of Fuguing
(Movements 8,19-21) California Boys' Choir with orchestra, conductor Lukas Foss
11.54 Bach, arr Cortot Arioso (Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV1056) Alfred Cortot (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Unknown:
Alfred Cortot.
Piano:
Alfred Cortot
Violin:
Jean Martinon
Unknown:
Henryk Szeryng
Conductor:
Rafael Kubelik
Tenor:
Xiii Walter Midgley
Conductor:
Thomas Beecham
Unknown:
Alfred Cortot
Conductor:
Lukas Foss
Piano:
Alfred Cortot

1/5. This week Donald Macleod looks at the music and lives of two 18th-century English composers who were household names in their day, Thomas Arne and William Boyce.
Arne Which Is the Properest Day to Drink? Deller Consort
Fame's an Echo; Not on Beds of Adding Flow'rs
(Comus) Julianne Baird (soprano), Alison Mackay (viola da gamba), Colin Tilney (harpsichord) Harpsichord Sonata No 3 in G Trevor Pinnock Boyce Trio Sonata No 8 in E flat
Collegium Musicum 90, director Simon Standage (violin) Arne Frolic and Free Richard Morton (tenor), Parley of Instruments, director Roy Goodman
Boyce Coronation Anthems: The King Shall Rejoice: Come, Holy Ghost; Praise the Lord, 0 Jerusalem Choir of New College, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music, director Edward Higginbottom Producer Cath McGhee Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight RT DIRECT: CD offers: Arne, Six Favourite Concertos (ref: [number removed]); Boyce, The Eight Symphonies (ref: [number removed]) - these are available for E6.99 each. Price includes p&p. To order please send a cheque, payable to Selections, to: [address removed], or phone: [number removed] (national rate), or visit www.selections.com/rtdirect, quoting reference number

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Thomas Arne
Unknown:
William Boyce.
Soprano:
Julianne Baird
Soprano:
Alison MacKay
Harpsichord:
Colin Tilney
Unknown:
Trevor Pinnock
Unknown:
Collegium Musicum
Violin:
Simon Standage
Violin:
Arne Frolic
Tenor:
Richard Morton
Director:
Roy Goodman
Director:
Edward Higginbottom
Producer:
Cath McGhee

Celebrating Mozart - the Great Quartets
1/5. in the first of this week's exploration of Mozart's mature string guartets, the Czech Skampa Quartet play two that Mozart dedicated to his teacher, Haydn. From Wigmore Hall in London, presented by Fiona Talkington . Skampa Quartet
Mozart String Quartet in D minor, K421; String Quartet in E flat, K428

Contributors

Presented By:
Fiona Talkington

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Presented by Sarah Walker. This week's programmes feature concertos for the lower string instruments.
Elliott Carter Boston Concerto
Conductor Nan Volkov
Andrew Toovey Viola Concerto
Lawrence Power, conductor Henrik Schaefer Bartok Divertimento for strings Conductor Ilan Volkov

Contributors

Presented By:
Sarah Walker.
Conductor:
Henrik Schaefer
Conductor:
Bartok Divertimento
Conductor:
Ilan Volkov

Miklos Rozsa
Edward Seckerson introduces his favourite epic film scores by the Hungarian composer
Miklos Rozsa , including El Cid , Quo Vadis and Ben-Hur. ADDRESS: Stage and Screen, Room 220, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreen@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Miklos Rozsa
Introduces:
Edward Seckerson
Unknown:
Miklos Rozsa
Unknown:
El Cid
Unknown:
Queen Margaret Drive

Shostakovich and His Heroes
2/12. Presented by Petroc Trelawny . lldar Abdrazakov (bass), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gianandrea Noseda
Prokofiev Overture: War and Peace
Shostakovich Suite on Verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti ; Symphony No 5
This concert series continues tomorrow at 7.30pm
RT DIRECT: A complete set of Shostakovich's Symphonies (11 CDs) is available for F25, including p&p. To order please send a cheque, payable to Selections, to: [address removed], or phone: [number removed] (national rate) quoting [number removed], or visit www.selections.com/rtdirect

Contributors

Presented By:
Petroc Trelawny
Conductor:
Gianandrea Noseda
Unknown:
Michelangelo Buonarroti

Paul Allen and guests discuss Steven Spielberg 's new film, Munich, about Israel's reprisals against the Palestinians for the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games. Producer Anne Marie Cole See also Munich: Operation Bayonet tonight at 11.20pm on BBC2, and Munich: Mossad's Revenge on Thursday at 10pm on Channel 4
Agents of death: page 25

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Steven Spielberg
Producer:
Anne Marie Cole

Presented by Jonathan Swain. Russian group Harmonie-Octett at the 2005 Vendsyssel Festival in Denmark.
Hummel Octet-Partita in E flat Mozart Divertimento in F, K213 Beethoven Wind Sextet in E flat, Op 77; Wind Octet in E flat, Op 103 Uhl Eine vergnijgliche Musik
2.15 Mokranjac Third Song-Wreath (From My Homeland)
2.24 Verdi Messa da Requiem 3.46 Chopin Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op 44 3.57 Janacek The Fiddler's Child
4.10 Mozart Church Sonata in B flat, K212
4.16 Fanny Mendelssohn Songs without Words, Op 6
4.26 Granados, arr Harman Quejas o la Maja y eIRuisehor (Goyescas) 4.33 Lipinski Allegro (Violin Concerto No4 in A)
4.49 Eisner Polonaise in B flat 4.54 Monluszko
Overture: Verbum Nobile 5.00 CPE Bach Fantasia in C, Wq61 No 6 5.07 Bach Furchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir,
BWV228 5.16 Haydn Two Marches in E flat 5.23 Hummel Piano Trio in F, Op 22 5.37 Lisinski Grand Overture No 7
5.51 Duparc L'lnvitation au Voyage 5.56 Papandopulo
By the Grave of the Beauty, Op 39 6.04 Dvorak My Home Land, Op 62 6.15 Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Op 216.47 Liqeti Six Bagatelles for wind quintet

Contributors

Presented By:
Jonathan Swain.

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