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Music includes:

7.00-8.00:
F.D. Weber Variations in F - John Wallace (trumpet), Philharmonia

A. Scarlatti La Dove a Mergellina - Nancy Argenta (soprano), Chandos Baroque Players

8.00-9.00:
Rossini Overture: The Italian Girl in Algiers - BBC Northern SO, conductor Pierre Monteux

Anon Villancicos (excerpts) - Hesperion XXI, director Jordi Savall

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Contributors

Presenter:
Martin Handley

Presented by Andrew McGregor.
9.30 Building a Library Nicholas Anderson explores available recordings of Bach's
Brandenburg concertos, including recent versions on SACD and DVD.
10.15 Andrew McGregor has been watching
DVDs of violinists Nathan Milstein and Ivry Gitlis.
10.45 Hilary Finch reviews DVDs of Mozart operas, including Cosi Fan Tutte and Don Giovanni from Glyndebourne and Salzburg.
11.45 Disc of the Week: Debussy, arr Colin Matthews Préludes Halle Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder
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Contributors

Presented By:
Andrew McGregor
Unknown:
Nicholas Anderson
Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Violinists:
Nathan Milstein
Violinists:
Ivry Gitlis.
Unknown:
Hilary Finch
Unknown:
Don Giovanni
Unknown:
Colin Matthews
Conductor:
Halle Orchestra
Conductor:
Mark Elder

Innocent sweethearts at the Juilliard School of Music, two talented musicians part after graduation and go on to play on very different platforms. Margaret Leng Tan graces international concert venues while James Graseck busks for commuters on New York station platforms. Three decades later they rekindle their love affair.
Judith Kampfner followed their story over two years, with music from Margaret and James's records and archives. Producer Judith Kampfner

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Leng Tan
Unknown:
James Graseck
Unknown:
Judith Kampfner
Producer:
Judith Kampfner

Concerts That Changed Jazz
2/4. In 1946 at the LA Philharmonic Hall, the first concert to feature the new boppers like Charlie Parker was so radically powerful that none of the swing generation musicians would follow him on stage. It was the point at which the jazz mantle was publicly handed on to the new generation.

Contributors

Unknown:
Charlie Parker

Orfeo ed Euridice
Presented by Margaret Juntwait. This season's final live broadcast from the Met, is Gluck's version of the famous myth of Orpheus descending into the underworld to rescue his wife Euridice by taming the furies through the power of music.
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor James Levine
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Contributors

Presented By:
Margaret Juntwait.
Conductor:
James Levine
Conducted By:
Arnold Ostman
Euridice:
Maija Kovalevska (soprano)
Orfeo:
David Daniels (countertenor)
Amor:
Heidi Grant Murphy (soprano)

My Glass Body
In the curtain-raiser to a new wave of drama broadcasting on the first Saturday of each month, writer Anna Furse contemplates the astonishing and brutally painful ride on the infertility rollercoaster as she takes the listener on a poetic journey inside and outside the protagonist's body. This powerful radio debut is a collaboration with an award-winning team and features music by Graeme Miller and the voices of Barbara Flynn , Jack Klaff and Becky Hindley. Producer Karen Rose

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Furse
Music By:
Graeme Miller
Unknown:
Barbara Flynn
Unknown:
Jack Klaff
Unknown:
Becky Hindley.
Producer:
Karen Rose

Sarah Mohr-Pietsch presents Geoffrey Poole 's new BBC Commission, conceived as "a concerto for vocalities" and written in homage to Berio. Geoff Poole The Colour of My Song (first broadcast) Julian Warburton (percussion), Sioned Williams (harp), BBC Singers, conductor James Morgan
Berio Cries of London (revised for 8 solo voices) BBC Singers, conductor James Morgan
Laborintus II Sarah Eyden and Nicole Tibbels (sopranos), Heather Cairncross (mezzo), Omar Ebrahim (narrator), Voicelab Pulse , Sound Intermedia, London Sinfonietta, conductor Diego Masson

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Mohr-Pietsch
Unknown:
Geoffrey Poole
Unknown:
Geoff Poole
Unknown:
Julian Warburton
Conductor:
James Morgan
Conductor:
James Morgan
Unknown:
Sarah Eyden
Sopranos:
Nicole Tibbels
Sopranos:
Heather Cairncross
Narrator:
Omar Ebrahim
Narrator:
Voicelab Pulse
Conductor:
Diego Masson

With Susan Sharpe. Haydn Piano Trio in E flat, H XV 29
Schnlttke Piano Trio Smetana Piano Trio in G minor, Op 15 Dvorak Piano Trio in E minor, Op 90 (4th mvt) Kungsbacka Piano Trio 2.17 Anon, early 17th-century Hanacpachap Cussicuinin 2.21 Bach Prelude and Fugue in G minor,
BWV535 2.29 Bizet Symphony in C 3.04 Brahms Six Songs
3.25 Mercadante Flute Concerto No 2 in minor 3.45 Ravel Daphnis et Chloe: Suite No 2 4.02 Messiaen 0 Sacrum Convivium 4.07 Stravinsky Three Pieces 4.15 Weber
Grand Duo Concertant, Op 48 4.32 Bernstein Glitter and Be Gay (Candide) 4.38 Anon Bailero 4.42 Telemann
Viola da Gamba Sonata in A minor 4.52 Faure Nocturne in E minor, Op 1075.00 Rossini Overture: William Tell
5.12 Bartok Violin Concerto No 15.35 Lassus Gratia Sola Dei 5.42 Mozart Symphony No 29 in A. K201 6.06 FiSrster Sonata (La Sidon) 6.13 Mozart Exsultate, Jubilate, K165
6.28 Berwald Fantasia on two Swedish Folksongs
6.37 Kuhlau Trylleharpen 6.49 Domenico da Piacenza La Fia Guilmin 6.50 Debussy Hommage a Haydn
6.53 Haydn Two Marches in E flat, H VIII 4 and 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
Hanacpachap Cussicuinin
Unknown:
Ravel Daphnis
Unknown:
Anon Bailero
Unknown:
William Tell
Unknown:
Kuhlau Trylleharpen

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