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Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Mozart Overture: Le Nozze di Figaro Leningrad PO, conductor
Yevgeni Mravinsky Beethoven String Quartet in F major (arr from Piano Sonata, Op 14 No I) La Salle Quartet Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 1
Andrei Gavrilov , LSO, conductor Simon Rattle
8.30-10.00: Leonard Bernstein Three Dance Episodes (On the Town) New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the composer
Puccini Viene la Sera (Madama Butterfly)
Mirella Freni (soprano), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Vienna PO, conductor Herbert von Karajan
Purcell Incidental Music: Abdelazer Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood

Contributors

Presented By:
Penny Gore
Conductor:
Yevgeni Mravinsky Beethoven
Unknown:
Andrei Gavrilov
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Unknown:
Puccini Viene
Soprano:
Luciano Pavarotti
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Conductor:
Christopher Hogwood

With Rob Cowan.
Beethoven Symphony No 2 in D, Op 36 Dresden PO, conductor Herbert Kegel
10.36 Bach Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV147 Joan Sutherland (soprano),
Helen Watts (contralto), Wilfrid Brown (tenor), Thomas Hemsley (bass), Geraint Jones Singers and Orchestra, conductor Geraint Jones
11.11 Bartok String Quartet No 6 Fine Arts Quartet
11.45 Britten Sanctus (War Requiem)
Kari Lovaas (soprano), Theo Adam (bass-baritone), Leipzig Radio Choir, Dresden
Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Herbert Kegel

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Herbert Kegel
Conductor:
Bach Herz
Soprano:
Joan Sutherland
Soprano:
Helen Watts
Contralto:
Wilfrid Brown
Tenor:
Thomas Hemsley
Bass:
Geraint Jones
Conductor:
Geraint Jones
Soprano:
Kari Lovaas
Soprano:
Theo Adam
Conductor:
Herbert Kegel

5/5. Casa Ricordi. Donald Macleod looks at the relationship Verdi had with his publishing house, Casa Ricordi , which tirelessly promoted his music over the years and ensured that by his death in 1901 he had become a very wealthy man. Piangea Cantando nell'Erma Landa ...Ave Maria (Otello, Act4) Cheryl Studer (soprano), Bastille
Opera Orchestra, conductor Myung-Whun Chung Libera Me (Messa da Requiem) Carol Vaness (soprano), Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis Je Viens Solliciter de la Reine.... 0 Bien Perdu (Don Carlos , Act 2) Karita Mattila (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor), Orchestre de Paris, conductor Antonio Pappano
Gloria all'Egitto, ad Iside,.. Vieni, 0 Guerriero
Vindice (Aida, Act 2) Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Vienna PO, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Repeated on Thursday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Casa Ricordi.
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Casa Ricordi
Unknown:
Piangea Cantando
Unknown:
Erma Landa
Soprano:
Cheryl Studer
Conductor:
Myung-Whun Chung
Soprano:
Carol Vaness
Conductor:
Colin Davis
Unknown:
Don Carlos
Tenor:
Roberto Alagna
Conductor:
Antonio Pappano
Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt

BBC Philharmonic, BBC Singers
British Symphony Series: James MacMillan Presented by Sandy Burnett.
James MacMillan Laudi alia Vergine Maria Carver Gaude Flore Virginali
BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury Bax November Woods
Conductor Vernon Handley
James MacMillan Tremunt Videntes Angeli BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury
James MacMillan Symphony No 3 (Silence) Conducted by the composer

Contributors

Unknown:
James MacMillan
Presented By:
Sandy Burnett.
Presented By:
James MacMillan Laudi
Unknown:
Vergine Maria
Unknown:
Carver Gaude Flore Virginali
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury
Conductor:
Vernon Handley
Conductor:
James MacMillan
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury
Conductor:
James MacMillan

For younger listeners, Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson introduce music from the film Lilo and Stitch, a diplomatic waltz from Russia and music by Malcolm Arnold for The Belles of St Trinian's.

Contributors

Unknown:
Angellica Bell
Unknown:
Adrian Dickson
Music By:
Malcolm Arnold

Ronald Shannon Jackson
Julian Joseph and James Wyllie discuss one of the most inventive of jazz drummers,
Ronald Shannon Jackson. His individual drumming style has accompanied Ornette Coleman , Albert Ayler and Charles Mingus. Producer Keith Loxam

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Unknown:
Julian Joseph
Unknown:
James Wyllie
Unknown:
Ronald Shannon Jackson.
Unknown:
Ornette Coleman
Unknown:
Albert Ayler
Unknown:
Charles Mingus.
Producer:
Keith Loxam

Live from the Barbican, London. Presented by Louise Fryer.
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), BBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Bach, orch Davis Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV582
Brahms Violin Concerto in D
8.25 Twenty Minutes: The Trouble with Flags Talking to artists and musicians from Kosovo,
Turkey and Bosnia, Simon Mundy reports on the emerging tensions between culture and nationalism within the changing context of Europe and asks whether national culture is becoming a threat to political and artistic progress.
8.45 Elqar Symphony No 1 in A flat

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Fryer.
Violin:
Leonidas Kavakos
Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Unknown:
Davis Passacaglia
Unknown:
Simon Mundy

Matthew Sweet tackles the first English translation of Walter Benjamin 's book On Hashish, based on his experiments with the drug in the late 1920s. Producer Zahid Warley

Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Sweet
Unknown:
Walter Benjamin
Producer:
Zahid Warley

FuseLeedsO6
2/2. Mark Russell and Robert Sandall introduce highlights from Spire, an event that brings together classical and electronic music in a sonic exploration of the organ as an instrument. Recorded last Friday at Leeds Town Hall.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Russell
Unknown:
Robert Sandall

Hermeto Pascoat
Jez Nelson presents another chance to hear one of the highlights of Jazz on 3 last year: Brazilian musical visionary Hermeto Pascoal with a sextet including his son - percussionist Fabio Pascoal , bassist Itibere Zwarg , the wordless vocals of Aline Morena , and woodwind player Vinicius Dorin , recorded in concert at London's Jazz
Cafe. And Linton Chiswick interviews Norwegian singer Karin Krog in advance of her only UK date this year, at the Bath Festival. Plus a round-up of the best new jazz CD releases. Producer Joby Waldman

Contributors

Unknown:
Hermeto Pascoal
Bassist:
Fabio Pascoal
Bassist:
Itibere Zwarg
Unknown:
Aline Morena
Unknown:
Vinicius Dorin
Singer:
Karin Krog
Producer:
Joby Waldman

With Susan Sharpe. BBC Proms 2005: Elgar Serenade , Op 20 Scottish Ensemble, conductor Clio Gould Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Juilliard Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music, conductor Colin Davis
2.09 Roussel Piano Trio, Op 2 2.38 Mendelssohn Three Psalms, Op 78 2.59 Peeters Organ Concerto
3.42 Rachmaninov Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op 42
4.03 Vivaldi Concerto da Camera in C, RV87 4.11 Forster Congregantes Philistei 4.25 Josquin des Prez La Déploration de Johan Okeghem 4.31 Hindemith
Trauermusik 4.39 N Lindberg Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? 4.42 Granados Four Tonadillas
4.51 Salnt-Saens Danse Macabre, Op 40 5.00 Faure Nocturne in E flat minor, Op 33 No 15.08 Donizetti
Overture: La Fille du Régiment 5.17 Schoenberg Galathea: Mahnung (Cabaret Songs) 5.26 Berwald String Quartet No 2 in A minor 5.45 Matusic Two Croatian Folk Songs
5.52 Bartok Four Hungarian Folk Songs 6.06 Bach Trio Sonata No 3 in D minor, BWV527 6.21 Telemann Missa Brevis 6.37 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
Elgar Serenade
Conductor:
Colin Davis

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