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Presented by Martin Handley.

7.00-8.00: Purcell Te Deum in D - Rachel Wheatley and Rachel Platt (sopranos), Angus Davidson (countertenor), Simon Berridge, Rogers Covey-Crump and Paul Agnew (tenors), Simon Grant (bass), Taverner Choir and Players, director Andrew Parrot

Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 2 in D minor - Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Lawrence Foster

8.00-9.00: Handel Water Music: Suite No 3 Le Concert Spirituel, director Herve Niquet

Rachmaninov Symphony No 1 in D minor - Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin

Contributors

Presenter:
Martin Handley

With Rob Cowan. There's also a chance to hear Schumann's Carnaval, as recommended on yesterday's CD Review. Music includes:
Brahms Serenade No 1 in D, Op 11 (6 mvt) Czech PO, conductor Jiri Belohlavek
Mozart Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben (Zaide) Rita Streich (soprano), RIAS SO, Berlin, conductor Artur Rother
Schmidt Three Fantasy Pieces
Nancy Green (cello), Frederick Moyer (piano) Weinberger Fugue (Schwanda the Bagpiper) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Rudolf Kempe
Bach So gehest da nun, mein Jesu hin, BWV500; Mein Jesu was fOr Seelenweh,
BWV487 Bach , arr Jansen Heut ' triumphant Gottes Sohn Aafje Heynis (contralto), Simon C Jansen (organ)
Ronald Corp Forever Child; Where Go the Boats; God Be in My Head; Lute-Book Lullaby
Voces Cantabiles, conducted by the composer Bartok Ballad; Hungarian Peasant Dances (Hungarian Peasant Songs)
Hungarian National PO, conductor Zoltan Kocsis Tournier Suite for flute, violin, viola, cello and harp, Op 34 Linos Harp Quintet
Christian Gouinguene , after Heinichen Trombone Concerto in A minor
Armon Rosin , Vienna Chamber Orchestra, conductor Philippe Entremont
Wiren Serenade for Strings, Op 11
National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada, conductor Eduardo Mata
Charpentier Scene 5: Les Arts Florissants
Les Arts Florissants, director William Christie

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Jiri Belohlavek
Conductor:
Mozart Ruhe
Soprano:
Rita Streich
Conductor:
Artur Rother
Cello:
Nancy Green
Cello:
Frederick Moyer
Conductor:
Rudolf Kempe
Unknown:
Mein Jesu
Unknown:
Bwv487 Bach
Unknown:
Jansen Heut
Contralto:
Simon C Jansen
Conductor:
Zoltan Kocsis
Conductor:
Tournier Suite
Unknown:
Christian Gouinguene
Unknown:
Armon Rosin
Conductor:
Philippe Entremont
Conductor:
Wiren Serenade
Conductor:
Eduardo Mata
Director:
William Christie

Michael Berkeley 's guest today is the writer and broadcaster John Amis , who has just published a memoir My Music in London 1945-2000. His choices today range from Puccini, through Grainger to Britten and Tippett.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
John Amis

Stephanie Hughes presents a recital recorded earlier this year at Wigmore Hall, London. Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Beethoven Piano Sonata in A flat, Op 110 Sorensen The Shadows of Silence
Janacek In the Mists
Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor, D958

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes

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Tom Service investigates the world of "semi-opera" and speaks to Mark Morris and Jane Glover about their staging of Purcell and Dryden's King Arthur for English National Opera. And composer Judith Weir talks about the new version of her opera Blond Eckbert currently touring the UK.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Morris
Unknown:
Jane Glover
Talks:
Judith Weir

Aled Jones visits the beautiful home of Russian Orthodoxy in London, the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God and All Saints, to discover the wealth of choral music associated with this faith. Father Michael Fortounatto , formerly leader of the cathedral choir, is his guide.

Contributors

Unknown:
Aled Jones
Unknown:
Father Michael Fortounatto

Leila Aboulela 's dramatisation of Chechen warrior Imam Shamyl 's kidnapping of Georgian princess, Anna, to regain his son Jamal who, taken by the Russians, had become an officer loyal to the Tsar.
Producer/Director Bruce Young

Contributors

Unknown:
Leila Aboulela
Unknown:
Imam Shamyl
Director:
Bruce Young
Shamyl:
Raad Rawl
Princess Anna:
Katherine Igoe
Prince David:
Matthew Pidgeon
Tsar:
Michael Cochrane
Madame Drancy:
Caroline Loncq
Alexander:
Jordan Waller
Jamal:
Shlv Grewal
Khazi:
Ben Onwukwe
Chouanette:
Abigail Thaw
Ameena:
Sarah Ozeke
Zaidette:
Nina Wadia
Jamaluddin RenuSetna:
Caroline Loncq
Lezgin:
Harry Myers
Cousin/Sergeant/Russian General:
Richard Katz

With Susan Sharpe.
Monteverdi Vespro delta Beata Vergine Ars Nova Vocal Group, Concerto Copenhagen, conductor Paul Hillier
2.30 Liszt Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses,
(excerpts) 3.15 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34
4.00 Bach Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV225
4.15 Biber Sonata XII a Otto (Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes) 4.20 Bizet Parle-Moi de Ma Mere (Carmen)
4.32 Busoni Piano Sonatina No 6 (Sonatina super
Carmen) (Kammerfantasie) 4.41 Klami Numisuutarit
4.49 Novacek Perpetuum Mobile 4.53
Sibelius Lemminkainen 's Return, Op 22 5.00 Wegelius Rondo quasi Fantasia 5.11 Mozart Fantasy and Fugue in C, K394
5.21 Palestrina Litaniae de BeataVergine Maria 5.27 Salzedo Variations sur un Thème dans le Style Ancien,
Op 30 5.38 Villa-Lobos Song of the Black Swan 5.41 Erkel Swan Song (Hunyadi Laszlo ) 5.48 Sorkocevic Adagio
5.53 Gesualdo Ave Dulcissima Maria 6.00 Buxtehude
Toccata and Fugue in F Bux WV156 6.09 Karlowicz Violin Concerto in A, Op 8 6.39 Pez Concerto Pastorella
6.47 Mozart, arr Grieg Piano Sonata in C, K54

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Conductor:
Paul Hillier
Unknown:
Bizet Parle-Moi
Unknown:
Novacek Perpetuum
Unknown:
Sibelius Lemminkainen
Unknown:
Wegelius Rondo
Song:
Hunyadi Laszlo
Unknown:
Dulcissima Maria

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