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Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Elgar
Serenade in E minor for string orchestra, Op 20 Halle Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor James Judd
Corelll Concerto Grosso in C, Op 6 No 10 Alessandro Stradella Consort , director Estevan Velardi
8.30-10.00: Shostakovich Ball at the Palace
(Hamlet)
New Philharmonia Orchestra/Bernard Herrmann Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Philippa Davies , Roger Chase , Marisa Robles , Nash Ensemble
Musorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain
(original version) National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, conductor Theodore Kuchar

Contributors

Presented By:
Sandy Burnett.
Conductor:
Mark Elder
Conductor:
James Judd
Unknown:
Alessandro Stradella Consort
Director:
Estevan Velardi
Director:
Shostakovich Ball
Harp:
Philippa Davies
Harp:
Roger Chase
Harp:
Marisa Robles
Conductor:
Theodore Kuchar

With Jonathan Swain.
Saint-Saens Overture: La Princesse Jaune
Boston SO, conductor Charles Munch
10.07 Vivaldi Concerto in C, RV558
Members of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, director Leonard Bernstein
10.19 Berlioz Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans) Boston SO conductor Charles Munch
10.31 Verdi The Veil Song (Don Carlos)
Grace Bumbry (soprano), Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, conductor Georg Solti
10.36 Rachmaninov Moment Musical in [ minor, Op 16 No 4; Prelude in G minor, Op 32 No 5; Lilacs, Op 21 No 5 Benno Moiseiwitsch (piano)
10.45 Vivaldi Concerto in F, RV551
Isaac Stern , Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman (violins), NYPO, conductor Zubin Mehta
10.57 Debussy Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien Phyllis Curtin (soprano), Florence Kopleff and Catherine Akos (contraltos), New England Conservatoire Chorus, Boston Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Charles Munch (speaker)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Conductor:
Charles Munch
Director:
Leonard Bernstein
Conductor:
Charles Munch
Conductor:
Georg Solti
Unknown:
Isaac Stern
Unknown:
Pinchas Zukerman
Violins:
Itzhak Perlman
Conductor:
Zubin Mehta
Soprano:
Phyllis Curtin
Soprano:
Florence Kopleff
Contraltos:
Catherine Akos
Conductor:
Charles Munch

4/5. With Donald Macleod. 22 December, 1808 was the date of one of the most extraordinary concerts in musical history. The programme included world premieres of Beethoven's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, his Choral Fantasia and his Fourth Piano Concerto. The occasion would also be the composer's last major public performance.
Piano Concerto No 4 in G
Maurizio Pollini , Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Karl Bohm
Choral Fantasia, Op 80 Carola Hohn and Katharina Kammerloher (sopranos), Andrea Bonig (mezzo), Endrik Wottrich and Par
Lindskog (tenors), Rene Pape (baritone), Chorus of the German Staatsoper, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Maurizio Pollini
Conductor:
Karl Bohm
Unknown:
Carola Hohn
Sopranos:
Katharina Kammerloher
Sopranos:
Andrea Bonig
Unknown:
Endrik Wottrich
Tenors:
Rene Pape
Conductor:
Daniel Barenboim

3/4. Presented by Petroc Trelawny .
Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Greta Dowdeswell (piano) Sibelius Sonatine, Op 80; Romance, Op 78 No 2; Rondino, Op 81 No 2; Valse, Op 81 No 3; Mazurka, Op 81 No VAufder Heide, Op 115 No 1; Scene de
Danse, Op 116 No 1; Danse Caracteristique, Op 116 No 2; Die Glocken, Op 115 No 4
Grieg Violin Sonata No 3 in C minor, Op 45

Contributors

Presented By:
Petroc Trelawny
Violin:
Pekka Kuusisto
Violin:
Greta Dowdeswell

. Presented live from Glasgow City Halls by Martin Handley.
Martin Roscoe (piano),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Alexander Titov
Strauss Don Juan
Mozart Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466 Stravinsky Petrushka (1947 version)

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Handley.
Piano:
Martin Roscoe
Conductor:
Alexander Titov

Stephen Johnson presents the last of four programmes recorded in Glasgow's City Halls. Tonight's monumental concert is a unique musical journey through the symphonic continuity of the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Symphonies conducted by a native Finn.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leif Segerstam.
Sibelius Symphony No 5: Symphony No 6; Symphony No 7

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Johnson
Conductor:
Leif Segerstam.

Gabriel Gbadamosi 's talks to Helon Habila about his latest novel set in rural Nigeria. Plus a new exhibition that explores Canaletto's vision of London, a city he lived in for nine years in the mid-18th century, when the capital was looking magnificent. Producer Philippa Ritchie

Contributors

Unknown:
Gabriel Gbadamosi
Unknown:
Helon Habila
Producer:
Philippa Ritchie

Presented by John Shea.
Mozart Concerto in E flat for two pianos, K365 Paul Lewis and Till Feiner (pianos) Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70 BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, conductor Richard Hickox
2.05 Mozart Serenade in B flat, K361 (Gran Partita)
2.55 Rachmaninov Etudes-Tableaux , Op 39
3.20 Tchaikovsky Suite: Swan Lake 3.42 Bach Ich steh' am deiner Krippen hier, BWV469; Mein Jesu , was fur Seelenweh, BWV4B7; Selig, weram Jesum denkt,
BWV498 3.49 Telemann Suite in G (Bourlesque de Quixotte) 4.09 Falla Ritual Fire Dance 4.13 Sor
Introduction and Variations on Mozart's 0 Cara Armonia, Op 9 4.22 Bach Komm , Jesu, komm! BWV229
4.31 Geminiani Concerto Grosso in E minor, Op 3 No 6
4.40 Wingf ield Three Bulgarian Dances
4.48 Kuhlau Overture: The Magic Harp
5.00 Maklakiewicz Two Winds
5.06 C hopin Waltz in E flat, Op 18 (Grand Valse Brillante)
5.11 Schumann Marchenbilder , Op 113
5.27 Norman Piano Sextet in A minor, Op 29
5.59 Handel Sonata in B flat, Op 2 No 3
6.10 Froberqer Capriccio III , FbWv503
6.15 Dvorak Bacchanalia (Poetic Tone Pictures, Op 85)
6.20 Svendsen Romance in G, Op 26
6.29 Beethoven 32 Variations in C minor, WoOBO
6.41 Haydn String Trio in B flat, H XVI 41
6.50 Mozart, arr Grieg Piano Sonata in C, K545

Contributors

Presented By:
John Shea.
Unknown:
Paul Lewis
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Mozart Serenade
Unknown:
Rachmaninov Etudes-Tableaux
Unknown:
Bach Ich
Unknown:
Mein Jesu
Unknown:
Bach Komm
Unknown:
Schumann Marchenbilder
Unknown:
Handel Sonata
Unknown:
Froberqer Capriccio Iii
Unknown:
Dvorak Bacchanalia

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