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This week Penny Gore explores the last works of a range of composers. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Chopin Polonaise-Fantasy in A flat, Op 61 Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 2
Verdi Ave Maria (Four Sacred Pieces)
Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965
8.30-10.00: Purcell Lovely Albina's Come Ashore Lalo Symphonie Espagnole, Op 21 Debussy Sonate en Trio

Contributors

Unknown:
Chopin Polonaise-Fantasy
Unknown:
Schubert Der Hirt

This week Jonathan Swain features Debussy orchestral music, including arrangements by other composers, and recordings by choral conductor Edwin Loehrer.
Debussy, orch Ravel Marche Ecossaise; Danse NBC SO, conductor Arturo Toscanini
10.13 Vivaldi La Ninfa e il Pastore, RV690 (excerpt) Grete Rapisardi Savio and Silvana Zanolli
(sopranos), Amilcare Blaffard (tenor), Milan
Chamber Orchestra, conductor Edwin Loehrer
10.29 Mozart Horn Concerto No 3 in E flat, K447 Alan Civil, RPO, conductor Rudolf Kempe
10.45 Monteverdi Vago Augelletto ; Lettera Amorosa ; Cor Mio Non Mori?
Claudia Carbi (soprano), Lugano Chamber Society, conductor Edwin Loehrer
11.02 Debussy La Mer BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini
11.26 Palestrina Magnificat Lugano Chamber Society, conductor Edwin Loehrer
11.34 Debussy Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien LSO, conductor Pierre Monteux

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain
Conductor:
Edwin Loehrer.
Conductor:
Arturo Toscanini
Conductor:
Vivaldi La Ninfa
Sopranos:
Silvana Zanolli
Sopranos:
Amilcare Blaffard
Conductor:
Edwin Loehrer
Conductor:
Rudolf Kempe
Conductor:
Monteverdi Vago Augelletto
Conductor:
Lettera Amorosa
Soprano:
Claudia Carbi
Conductor:
Edwin Loehrer
Conductor:
Arturo Toscanini
Conductor:
Edwin Loehrer
Conductor:
Pierre Monteux

1/5. Donald Macleod talks to British composer
Richard Rodney Bennett at his home in New York about his career as a composer and performer. Gormenghast Andrew Johnson (treble), BBC Philharmonic, conductor John Harle
A Good-Night BBC Singers, director Stephen Cleobury (organ)
Film music: Murder on the Orient Express
(arr Lindup) BBC Philharmonic/Rumon Gamba On Christmas Day BBC Singers, director Stephen Cleobury (organ)
Symphony No 3 Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor James DePreist
Producer Kerry Clark Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight RT DIRECT: Richard Rodney Bennett Original Soundtrack Recordings is available on CD for £6.99 including 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. Quote ref: [number removed]
See also Richard Rodney Bennett tomorrow 8.30pm Radio 2

Contributors

Talks:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Unknown:
Andrew Johnson
Conductor:
John Harle
Director:
Stephen Cleobury
Director:
Stephen Cleobury
Conductor:
James Depreist
Producer:
Kerry Clark
Unknown:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Unknown:
Richard Rodney Bennett

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Towns and Cities
Presented by Edward Seckerson. Ireland A London Overture
Coates Four Old English Songs
Jamie MacDougall (tenor), conductor John Wilson Bernstein Serenade (after Plato's The Symposium) Anne Akiko Meyers (violin), conductor Han Volkov Bax Tintagel Conductor John Wilson Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915 Ailish Tynan (soprano), conductor Jurjen Hempel

Contributors

Presented By:
Edward Seckerson.
Tenor:
Jamie MacDougall
Conductor:
John Wilson
Conductor:
Bernstein Serenade
Violin:
Anne Akiko Meyers
Conductor:
Han Volkov
Conductor:
John Wilson
Soprano:
Ailish Tynan
Conductor:
Jurjen Hempel

There's No Business like Irving Berlin
2/2. Edward Seckerson 's tribute to the "king of Tin Pan Alley", American songwriter Irving Berlin. Including Ella Fitzgerald in Top Hat, Follow the Fleet with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers , and Judy Garland as Hannah Brown in Easter Parade. Plus the second biggest-selling song of all time ... Want a clue? It's sung by Bing Crosby !
ADDRESS: Stage and Screen, Room 220, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreen@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Seckerson
Unknown:
Ella Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Fred Astaire
Unknown:
Ginger Rogers
Unknown:
Judy Garland
Unknown:
Hannah Brown
Sung By:
Bing Crosby
Unknown:
Margaret Drive

Celebrating Mozart: the Piano Concertos
3/7. Manchester's Piano 2006 festival continues with three of Mozart's most celebrated Viennese concertos. Introduced by Louise Fryer.
Royal Northern College of Music Chamber Orchestra, conductor Andre de Ridder
Mozart Piano Concerto No 15 in B flat, K450 Alexandra Dariescu
Mozart Piano Concerto No 19 in F, K459 Director Finghin Collins (piano)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 26 in D, K537 Freddy Kempf

Contributors

Introduced By:
Louise Fryer.
Unknown:
Alexandra Dariescu
Piano:
Finghin Collins
Unknown:
Freddy Kempf

Fiona Talkington introduces highlights of a concert given by the Norwegian pianist and composer Ketil Bjornstad. Plus music by Kora virtuoso Toumani Diabate , including tracks from his new album, Boulevard de I'Indépendance.

Contributors

Introduces:
Fiona Talkington
Unknown:
Ketil Bjornstad.
Unknown:
Toumani Diabate

2/5. Industrious Times. With Donald Macleod. M Barbiere di Siviglia (opening) Soloists,
Hungarian Radio Chorus, Failoni Chamber
Orchestra Budapest, conductor Will Humburg Otello, Act 2 (end) Soloists, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Philharmonia, conductor David Parry La Cenerentola, Act 1 (end) Soloists, Scottish
Opera Chorus, LSO, conductor Claudio Abbado Repeated from Tuesday at 12 noon

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Conductor:
David Parry
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado

Presented by John Shea. Brahms Violin Sonata No 1 in G, Op 78 Grieg Violin Sonata No I in F; Op 8
Vilde Frang Bjaerke (violin), Jens Elvekjasr (piano)
1.49 Beethoven Piano Trio in G, Op I No 2
2.21 Berlioz Grande Messe des Morts
3.39 Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: The Tale of Tsar Saltan
4.01 Giuliani Variations for guitar and violin, Op 81
4.09 Telemann Scherzo Melodico No I in A (Lunedi)
(Pyrmonter Kurwoche) 4.27 Schütz Ride la Primavera
4.35 Forster Sonata a 3 in C minor
4.46 Norman Moonbeams , Op 49 No 2; Ahasuerus, Op 55 No 7 4.53 Geijer Midnight Fantasy
5.00 Gershwin Strike Up the Band
5.05 Gottschalk Bamboula , Danse des Nègres, Op 2
5.15 Kapsberger Toccata Arpeggiata 5.21 Kuljeric Barocchiana 5.34 Serocki Romantic Concerto
6.00 Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op 52
6.18 Grainger Molly on the Shore 6.23 Delius Midsummer Song; La Calinda 6.33 Bach Magnificat in D, BWV24

Contributors

Presented By:
John Shea.
Violin:
Jens Elvekjasr
Unknown:
Norman Moonbeams
Unknown:
Gottschalk Bamboula
Unknown:
Kuljeric Barocchiana
Unknown:
Grainger Molly

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