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Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Bernstein Overture: Wonderful Town Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Simon Rattle Susato, arr Iveson Suite Philip Jones Brass Ensemble Strauss Till Eulenspiegel San Francisco SO/Herbert Blomstedt
8.30-10.00: Boyce Symphony No 5 in D (Eight Symphonies in Eight Parts, Op 2) Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood Parry I Was Glad London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/ Richard Hickox Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068 Berlin Academy for Ancient Music

Contributors

Presented By:
Sandy Burnett.

With Jonathan Swain.
10.00 Charles Williams The Dream of Olwen (While I Live) Maryan Rawicz and Walter Landauer (pianos), Mantovani and his Orchestra Richard Addinsell Prelude and Waltz
(Blithe Spirit) London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Muir Mathieson
10.16 Mozart Piano Sonata in F, K533 Marcelle Meyer
10.28 George Melachrino
Suite: No Orchids for Miss Blandish The Melachrino Orchestra, conductor George Melachrino
10.38 Chabrier Dix Pièces Pittoresques (Nos 1-5) Marcelle Meyer (piano)
10.55 Francis Chagrin The Hoffnung
Symphony Orchestra (Tales of Hoffnung)
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Rumon Gamba Georges Auric The Titfield Thunderbolt (excerpts) Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conductor Kenneth Alwyn
11.06 Chabrier Dix Pièces Pittoresques (Nos 7-10) Marcelle Meyer (piano)
11.26 John Tavener Canciones Espaholas James Bowman and Kevin Smith
(countertenors), Nash Ensemble conducted by the composer
11.45 Stravinsky Piano Sonata Marcelle Meyer

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Charles Williams
Unknown:
Maryan Rawicz
Pianos:
Walter Landauer
Conductor:
Muir Mathieson
Unknown:
Marcelle Meyer
Unknown:
George Melachrino
Conductor:
George Melachrino
Piano:
Marcelle Meyer
Conductor:
Rumon Gamba
Conductor:
Georges Auric
Conductor:
Kenneth Alwyn
Piano:
Marcelle Meyer
Unknown:
James Bowman
Unknown:
Kevin Smith
Unknown:
Marcelle Meyer

4/5. By the 1930s, Bartok's international reputation as both composer and pianist was at its peak. But at home in Hungary he was still struggling to gain the recognition he deserved.
Donald Macleod explores the years leading up to the Second World War as Bartok began to realise his future could lie outside his beloved Hungary. Cantata Profana
Tamas Daroczy (tenor), Alexandru Agache (baritone), Hungarian Radio and Television Choir, Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Georg Solti
Wandering; Loafer's Song (Two- and Three-Part Choruses) Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music Chamber Chorus, conductor Antal Dorati Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa
Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Tenor:
Tamas Daroczy
Tenor:
Alexandru Agache
Conductor:
Georg Solti
Conductor:
Antal Dorati
Conductor:
Seiji Ozawa

Aldeburgh Festival 2006
3/8. Stephanie Hughes introduces settings of poetry by WH Auden.
Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Christopher Glynn (piano) Britten On This Island
Lutyens Two Auden Settings Henze Three Auden Settings
Simon Bainbridge Auden Setting (first performance)
Britten Six Auden Settings; When You're Feeling like Expressing Your Affection

Contributors

Introduces:
Stephanie Hughes
Tenor:
Andrew Kennedy
Piano:
Christopher Glynn

Russian Symphonies; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Presented by Sarah Walker. Rimsky-Korsakov Sadko Conductor Mikhail Agrest
Rubinstein Piano Concerto No 4 in D minor With Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano), conductor Michael Stern
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique) Conductor Alexander Titov

Contributors

Presented By:
Sarah Walker.
Conductor:
Mikhail Agrest
Piano:
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Conductor:
Michael Stern
Conductor:
Alexander Titov

Today's music includes Leroy Anderson 's
Waltzing Cat and fast-fingered brass playing from Romanian group Fanfare Ciocarlia.
Presented by Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson.

Contributors

Unknown:
Leroy Anderson
Presented By:
Angellica Bell
Unknown:
Adrian Dickson.

Aldeburgh Festival 2006
A concert given by the Birmingham
Contemporary Music Group, introduced by Stephanie Hughes.
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Craig Ogden (guitar), Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conductor Thomas Ades Berg Adagio
Webern Six Pieces, Op 6
Schoenberg Ode to Napoleon, Op 41 Henze Kammermusik

Contributors

Introduced By:
Stephanie Hughes.
Tenor:
Ian Bostridge
Tenor:
Craig Ogden
Conductor:
Thomas Ades

As part of London Architecture Biennale, Matthew Sweet is joined at Tate Modern by a panel that includes architects Rodney Gordon and Quinlan Terry to explore the ongoing influence of 1960s architecture on today's Britain. Producer Anthony Denselow

Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Sweet
Unknown:
Rodney Gordon
Unknown:
Quinlan Terry
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

With Jonathan Swain. Mozart Symphony No 36 in C, K425 (Linz): Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488; Piano Concerto No 21 in C, K467 Stephen Hough (piano), Danish National SO, conductor Thomas Dausgaard 2.30 Luclc Missa Jubilaris
2.59 Beethoven Piano Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2 (Tempest) 3.23 Martin Five Ariel Songs 3.35 Sibelius Serenade No I in D, Op 69a 3.43 Kaskl Symphony in B minor, Op 16 4.10 Bach Furchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir, BWV228 4.18 Mendelssohn Three Etudes, Op 104 4.26
Bree Overture: Le Bandit 4.34 Puccini Un Bel Di Vedremo (Madame Butterfly) 439 Sweellnck 0 Domine Jesu Christe
4.47 Meder Sinfonia No 4, Op 15.00 Mozart Overture: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail 5.06 Handel Pens/eri Notturni diFilli, HWV134 5.17 Holst St Paul's Suite 5.31 Pettersson Two Elegies; Romanza 5.37 Dvorak Polonaise in E flat
5.43 Wleniawski Polonaise in A, Op 215.53 Puccini Intermezzo (Manon Lescaut) 5.59 Hummel Trumpet
Concerto in E flat 6.18 Haydn String Quartet in C. Op 76 No 3 (Emperor) 6.44 Rosetti Grande Symphonie in D

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Piano:
Stephen Hough
Conductor:
Thomas Dausgaard

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