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With Penny Gore. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Lully Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (excerpts) Le Concert des Nations, conductor
Jordi Savall Bach English Suite No 2 in A minor, BWV807 Murray Perahia (piano)
Shostakovich Eight Pieces Alban Gerhardt (cello), Steven Osborne (piano)
8.30-10.00: Butterworth Is My Team Ploughing? (A Shropshire Lad) Bryn Terfel (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Beethoven
Romance No 1 in G, Op 40 Gil Shaham (violin), Orpheus CO Copland Suite: Billy the Kid
New York PO, conductor Leonard Bernstein

Contributors

Conductor:
Jordi Savall
Piano:
Murray Perahia
Cello:
Alban Gerhardt
Cello:
Steven Osborne
Baritone:
Bryn Terfel
Piano:
Malcolm Martineau
Violin:
Gil Shaham
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein

With Jonathan Swain.
Rimsky-Korsakov, arr Rachmaninov Flight of the Bumble-Bee Sergei Rachmaninov (piano)
10.03 Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: The Tale of Tsar Saltan , Op 57 Philharmonia, conductor Paul Kletzki
10.24 Hasselmans La Source, Op 44 Heller, arr Hasselmans Etude
Hasselmans Follets, Op 48 Lily Laskine (harp)
10.33 Couperin Les Moissonneurs : L'Anguille;
Les Folies Françaises ou Les Dominos; Les Petits Moulins a Vent Georges Cziffra (piano)
10.50 Mozart Concerto in C for flute and harp, K299 Rene le Roy (flute), Lily Laskine (harp), RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham
11.19 Nielsen April Song; The Golden-White Twilight; Lament; So Bitter Was My Heart
Aksel Schiotz (tenor), Christian Christiansen and Herman D Kopell (piano), Copenhagen Royal Orchestra, conductor Johan Hye-Knudsen
11.29 Bowen Serious Dance, Op 52 No 2 Stephen Hough (piano)
11.34 Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh Leningrad PO, conductor Yevgeni Mravinsky

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Piano:
Sergei Rachmaninov
Unknown:
Tsar Saltan
Conductor:
Paul Kletzki
Harp:
Couperin Les Moissonneurs
Unknown:
Petits Moulins
Flute:
Lily Laskine
Conductor:
Thomas Beecham
Tenor:
Christian Christiansen
Piano:
Herman D Kopell
Conductor:
Johan Hye-Knudsen
Piano:
Stephen Hough
Conductor:
Yevgeni Mravinsky

2/5. Religion and Politics. Church and state were uncomfortable but constant bedfellows in 17th-century England, making life complicated for Purcell, who held top jobs with both. Presented by Donald Macleod.
Rejoice in the Lord Alway (Bell Anthem)
Winchester Cathedral Choir, Brandenburg Consort, director David Hill
Voluntary in D minor Paul Plummer (organ)
I Will Love Thee, 0 Lord Michael George (bass),
Choir of New College, Oxford, the King's Consort, conductor Robert King
Retir'd from Mortals' Sight
Nancy Argenta (soprano), Nigel North (archlute) Suite No 3 in G Kenneth Gilbert (harpsichord) Funeral Music for Queen Mary II Oxford
Camerata, conductor Jeremy Summerly Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Presented By:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Paul Plummer
Bass:
Lord Michael George
Conductor:
Robert King
Soprano:
Nancy Argenta
Soprano:
Nigel North
Harpsichord:
Kenneth Gilbert
Conductor:
Jeremy Summerly

Shostakovich in Context
1/4. John Toal introduces the first of this week's recitals to mark the centenary of Shostakovich's birth, recorded at the Guildhall in Londonderry. Alexander Melnikov (piano), Brodsky Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No 7
Elena Firsova Quartet No 12 (Farewell) Shostakovich Piano Quintet

Contributors

Introduces:
John Toal

Shostakovich in Context
BBC Philharmonic
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch .
Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: Ivan the Terrible Conductor Vassily Sinaisky
Shostakovich October Conductor Gianandrea Noseda
Kabalevsky Piano Concerto No I
With Kathryn Stott , conductor Neeme Jarvi Shostakovich Symphony No 8 Conductor Vassily Sinaisky

Contributors

Presented By:
Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Conductor:
Vassily Sinaisky
Conductor:
Gianandrea Noseda
Conductor:
Kathryn Stott
Conductor:
Vassily Sinaisky

Bernarda Fink. lain Burnside introduces a concert given by mezzo Bernarda Fink and pianist Roger Vignoles at Schwarzberg as part of the Schubertiade festival, including songs by Haydn, Wolf, Berg, Brahms and Ginastera.

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernarda Fink.
Unknown:
Bernarda Fink
Pianist:
Roger Vignoles

Stephanie Hughes introduces a variety of popular operatic excerpts featuring singers and conductors from the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House in London, recorded on stage at their Gala concert last July.
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Gounod Faust (excerpts)
Nikola Matisic (tenor: Faust), Robert Gleadow
(bass: Mephistopheles), conductor Rory Macdonald Donizetti L'Elisir d'Amore (Act 2, excerpt)
Marina Poplavskaya (soprano: Adina), Robert Murray (tenor: Nemorino), conductor Rory Macdonald Mozart Idomeneo (Act 2, excerpt)
Nikola Matisic (tenor: Arbace), Katie Van Kooten (soprano: Ilia), Andrew Sritheran (tenor: Idomeneo), conductor Rory Macdonald Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride
Conductor Rory Macdonald
Mozart Don Giovanni (Act 1, excerpt)
Ana James (soprano: Zerlina), Marina Poplavskaya (soprano: Donna Elvira ), Katie Van Kooten (soprano: Donna Anna ), Robert Murray (tenor: Don Ottavio), Robert Gleadow (bass: Don Giovanni ), conductor Oliver Gooch
Strauss Der Rosenkavalier (Act 3, excerpt)
Ana James (soprano: Sophie), Katie Van Kooten (soprano: the Marschallin), Liora Grodnikaite
(mezzo: Octavian), Robert Gleadow (bass: Faninal), conductor Rory Macdonald

Contributors

Introduces:
Stephanie Hughes
Tenor:
Nikola Matisic
Bass:
Robert Gleadow
Conductor:
Rory MacDonald
Soprano:
Marina Poplavskaya
Tenor:
Robert Murray
Conductor:
Rory MacDonald
Conductor:
Mozart Idomeneo
Tenor:
Nikola Matisic
Soprano:
Katie van Kooten
Tenor:
Andrew Sritheran
Conductor:
Rory MacDonald
Conductor:
Mozart Don Giovanni
Soprano:
Ana James
Soprano:
Marina Poplavskaya
Soprano:
Donna Elvira
Soprano:
Katie van Kooten
Soprano:
Donna Anna
Tenor:
Robert Murray
Bass:
Robert Gleadow
Bass:
Don Giovanni
Conductor:
Oliver Gooch
Conductor:
Strauss Der Rosenkavalier
Soprano:
Ana James
Soprano:
Katie van Kooten
Unknown:
Liora Grodnikaite
Bass:
Robert Gleadow
Conductor:
Rory MacDonald

"Three-chord rock merged with the power of the word" is how American singer Patti Smith described her music on the release of her debut album Horses in 1975. She talks to Susan Hitch about her career and about her new book of poetry, Auguries of Innocence. Producer Martin Smith

Contributors

Singer:
Patti Smith
Unknown:
Susan Hitch
Producer:
Martin Smith

With Susan Sharpe.

Telemann Overture (Suite) in C (Hamburger Ebbe und Fluth, TWV55C3)

Handel Scherzano Sul Tuo Volto; Cara Sposa; Dunque i Lacci; Ah! Crudel, if Piano Mio (Rinaldo): To Thee, Glorious Son (Theodora)

Bach Suite No 4 in D, BWV1069

2.11 Mozart Sonata in G for two pianos, K283

2.24 Grieg Violin Sonata No 3 in C minor, Op 45

2.48 Shostakovich Symphony No 7 (Leningrad)

4.00 Brahms Four Songs, Op 17

4.15 Neufville Aria Prima

4.22 Haczewski Symphony in G

4.31 Groneman Flute Concerto in G

4.46 Couperin, arr Bartok Les Barricades Mysterieuses; Les Fastes de la Grande et Ancienne Menestrandise; Le Moucheron

4.53 Handel Spirit Music (Alcina)

5.00 Milhaud Three Rag-Caprices, Op 78

5.07 Moniuszko Dumka

Tchaikovsky Dumka, Op 59

5.21 Bardos Winter is Gone

Kocsar Scale, Tear!

5.31 Sibelius Suite Champetre

5.38 Telemann Concerto in F minor for three violins

5.53 Mozart Piano Sonata in B flat, K333

6.12 Bartok Divertimento for Strings

6.36 Britten Lachrymae

6.49 Poulenc Litanies a la Vierge Noire

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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