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Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Bizet Jeux d'Enfants French
National Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon Mozart Ach, ich fuhl's (Die Zauberflote) Dorothea Rbschmann (soprano), Mahler
Chamber Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado Telemann Concerto in D for trumpet, two oboes and orchestra Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet),
Linda Strommen and Thomas Tempell (oboes), Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, conductor Hugh Wolff
8.30-10.00: Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70 Antonio Meneses (cello), Gerard Wyss (piano)
Lully Dances from the Cassel Manuscript
La Simphonie du Marais, director Hugo Reyne Haydn Piano Concerto in G, H XVIII 4 Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, director Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

Contributors

Conductor:
Jean Martinon
Soprano:
Dorothea Rbschmann
Unknown:
Sergei Nakariakov
Unknown:
Linda Strommen
Oboes:
Thomas Tempell
Conductor:
Hugh Wolff
Cello:
Antonio Meneses
Piano:
Gerard Wyss
Director:
Hugo Reyne
Piano:
Leif Ove Andsnes

Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Hoist Fugal Concerto William Bennett (flute), Peter Graeme (oboe), English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Imogen Hoist
10.09 Debussy La Plus Oue Lente
Henryk Szeryng (violin), Charles Reiner (piano)
10.14 Franck Choral No 3 in A minor Jean Langlais (organ)
10.29 Handel Saul (excerpt)
RIAS Chamber Choir, Concerto Kbln, director Rene Jacobs (harpsichord)
11.00 Ponce Violin Concerto Henryk Szeryng , Polish Radio National SO, conductor Jan Krenz
11.31 Debussy Cinq Poemes de Charles Baudelaire Marcelle Bunlet (soprano), Olivier Messiaen (piano)
11.55 Mossolov Iron Foundry
RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin, conductor Victor de Sabata

Contributors

Presented By:
Jonathan Swain.
Flute:
William Bennett
Oboe:
Peter Graeme
Conductor:
Imogen Hoist
Violin:
Charles Reiner
Unknown:
Jean Langlais
Unknown:
Handel Saul
Harpsichord:
Rene Jacobs
Unknown:
Henryk Szeryng
Conductor:
Jan Krenz
Soprano:
Marcelle Bunlet
Soprano:
Olivier Messiaen
Conductor:
Victor de Sabata
High Priest:
Michael Slattery (tenor)
Merab:
Emma Bell (soprano)
David:
Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor)
Michal:
Rosemary Joshua (soprano)
Abner:
Flnnur Bjarnason (tenor)

4/5. By the 1970s, Elizabeth Maconchy had become established as a very influential presence in British music, not only enriching a wide range of musical forms with her compositions, but also making major contributions to such organisations as the Society for the Promotion of New Music. Today Donald Macleod , in conversation with Maconchy's daughter, the composer Nicola LeFanu , looks at this important period.
Maconchy Ariadne Heather Harper (soprano), English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Raymond Leppard
Oboe Quartet London Oboe Quartet Colloquy Ingrid Culliford (flute), Dominic Saunders (piano)
Siren's Song Ionian Singers, conductor Timothy Salter Repeated at 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth MacOnchy
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Nicola Lefanu
Conductor:
Raymond Leppard
Piano:
Dominic Saunders
Conductor:
Timothy Salter

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
The Brodsky Quartet contrast Puccini's romantic elegy with the intense and gritty sound-world of Janacek's second quartet. With Fiona Talkington. Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor, 0703 Puccini Crisantemi
Janacek Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters)
2.00 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Presented by Fiona Talkington.
Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber
Conductor Bernard Haitink
Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade , Op 35 Conductor Neeme Jarvi
Shostakovich String Quartet No 7 Op 108 Philharmonia Quartet, Berlin
Gubaidulina Offertorium: Concerto for violin and orchestra Gidon Kremer , conductor Simon Rattle
Brahms Symphony No 2 in D Conductor Bernard Haitink

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington.
Presented By:
Fiona Talkington.
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink
Conductor:
Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade
Conductor:
Gidon Kremer
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink

Tom Service introduces a concert given on Tuesday at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Joanna MacGregor (piano), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conductor Richard Seal
Elgar Introduction and Allegro
Hugh Wood Piano Concerto
Walton Symphony No 1

Contributors

Piano:
Joanna MacGregor
Piano:
Allegro Hugh Wood

The medieval Book of Hours contained texts, prayers, psalms, and illuminated manuscripts to accompany the daily ritual of Christian worship. Matthew Sweet brings together the curators of a new exhibition dedicated to a masterful
15th-century Book of Hours and the writer Kevin Jackson , who has created a modern literary version, to compare notes on this most traditional of book forms. Plus a review of 300, a new film about the epic Battle of Thermopylae between the Spartans and the Persians. Producer Fiona McLean

Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Sweet
Unknown:
Kevin Jackson
Producer:
Fiona McLean

4/4. Presented by Tom Service . A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Wayne Marshall begins tonight's programme by directing Gershwin's I Got Rhythm from the piano.

Contributors

Presented By:
Tom Service
Unknown:
Wayne Marshall

Presented by John Shea.
Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor Valentin Gheorghiu (piano). Cluj-Napoca Symphony Orchestra, conductor Emil Simon Cello Concerto in A minor Alexandra Gutu
(cello), Romanian Radio CO, conductor Horia Andreescu
2.01 Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K581
2.35 Beethoven Christus am Olberge
3.23 Karlowicz Violin Concerto in A 3.53 Sibelius Five Esquisses, Op 114 4.02 Handel Return, 0 God of Hosts (Samson) 4.11 Ravel Introduction and Allegro
4.22 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F, BWV1047
4.34 Grleq Andante con Moto in C minor
4.45 Schildt Ach Gott, vom Himmel sich'darein
4.52 Handel Overture: Agrippina
5.00 Waqenaar Frithjof 's Meerfahrt'
5.12 Poulenc Motets por un Temps de Pénitence
5.21 Haydn Piano Sonata in D, H XVI 33
5.35 Khachaturian Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
5.45 Monteverdi Ch'io Non T'ami, CorMio
5.53 Brahms Cello Sonata No I in E minor, Op 38
6.18 Vllla-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No 9
6.27 Roussel Suite No 2: Bacchus et Arianne
6.47 Franck Choral No 3 in A minor

Contributors

Presented By:
John Shea.
Piano:
Valentin Gheorghiu
Cello:
Emil Simon
Cello:
Alexandra Gutu
Conductor:
Horia Andreescu
Unknown:
Beethoven Christus
Unknown:
Bach Brandenburg
Unknown:
Waqenaar Frithjof
Unknown:
Khachaturian Adagio

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