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| Afternoon On 3 | ...Featuring music by MICHAEL BERKELEY, who was composer-in-association with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales during Richard's tenure, as well as mezzo-soprano Pamela Helen Stephen, Hickox's widow.... |
| Afternoon Performance | ...MICHAEL BERKELEY: Gethsemane Fragments... |
| And The Band Played On | ...A six-part series in which former Radio 3 controller John Drummond takes a searching look at the state of orchestral provision in Britain. 5: `Toward a Wider Repertoire'. John Drummond looks at ways in which orchestras can increase the range of music they play, in conversation with the composer and festival director MICHAEL BERKELEY, conductor Martyn Brabbins and the artistic director of the LONDON Sinfonietta, GillIan Moore ... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...With political journalist Anthony Howard, historian Lisa Jardine, composer MICHAEL BERKELEY, singer Tom Robinson and rural writer Richard Mabey, Sean Street explores the archive of a potent emotional state - nostalgia.... |
| Artists' Question Time | ...Natalie Wheen is in the chair for 45 minutes of diverting conversation as a panel of musical celebrities tackles questions from a studio audience in Cheltenham Town Hall. Panellists are pianist Joanna MacGregor, oboist Nicholas Daniel and composer and broadcaster MICHAEL BERKELEY ... |
| Bbc Proms 2005 | ...MICHAEL BERKELEY: Concerto for Orchestra (BBC commission, world premiere)... |
| Bbc Proms 2008 | ...Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a first half inspired by the sun and nature, with Sibelius's Night Ride and Sunrise followed by two world premieres: MICHAEL BERKELEY's Slow Dawn on the rising of the sun and Stuart McRae's Gaudete a 'life narrative' based on the epilogue from a collection of Poems by Ted Hughes and sung by Susanna Andersson.... |
| British Composer Awards 2006 | ...The featured piece is MICHAEL BERKELEY's Concerto for Orchestra, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Richard Hickox ... |
| Enigma Variations Celebrate Their 100th Birthday, The | ...MICHAEL BERKELEY and Anthony Payne discuss the significance of Elgar's `Enigma Variations' 100 years on and assess their place in musical history.... |
| Going Dutch - Private Passions | ...MICHAEL BERKELEY meets Amsterdam-based poet and writer Anna Enquist, who chooses music by Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms, Stravinsky, Britten and Dutch composer Robert Heppener.... |
| Hear And Now | ...MICHAEL BERKELEY: Double Guitar Concerto (WP)... |
| Interval Conversation | ...Next in series: MICHAEL BERKELEY TALKS TO ROBERT PONSONBY... |
| Kaleidoscope | Cast and Crew |
| Made In Britain | ...MICHAEL BERKELEY: Farewell... |
| Messiaen In His Century | ...MICHAEL BERKELEY, George Benjamin, Peter Hill and Bayan Northcott discuss the importance of Messiaen and his music.... |
| Music Machine | ...Tommy Pearson looks at some of the ways in which this year's Proms concerts have featured young musicians. He talks to members of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and to composer MICHAEL BERKELEY, whose piece `The Garden of Earthly Delights' was written specially for them and premiered at the Proms.... |
| Not What It Used To Be | ...With political journalist Anthony Howard, historian Lisa Jardine, composer MICHAEL BERKELEY, singer Tom Robinson and rural writer Richard Mabey, Sean Street explores the archive of a potent emotion - nostalgia.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...Donald Macleod travels to one of the Cotswolds' most picturesque locations for the first of three concerts from this year's Tetbury Festival. Period group The King's Consort perform vocal and instrumental works from the Baroque, plus a newly commissioned work from MICHAEL BERKELEY inspired by the ecstatic love duets found in Monteverdi, Purcell and Handel.... |
| Pre-hear | ...MICHAEL BERKELEY.... |
| Private Passions | ...MICHAEL BERKELEY is joined by the painter Martin Fuller, whose work is currently enjoying a retrospective at the art gallery and museum in his home town of Leamington Spa. His musical choices include songs by Duke Ellington, Oscar Brown and Charles Mingus, as well as a late Beethoven string quartet and an excerpt from Verdi's Requiem.... |
| Prom Interval | ...Previous in series: MICHAEL BERKELEY, MARK ELDER, NICHOLAS MAW... |
| Singing Will Never Be Done, The | ...MICHAEL BERKELEY investigates the rich sources of inspiration for `The Mask of Time'. The work represents a final statement of Tippett's views on man's place in the universe and reaffirms his belief in the power of music to transcend suffering and inspire hope for the future.... |
| Tippett's Symphonies | ...Composer David Matthews and conductors Andrew Davis and David Atherton talk to MICHAEL BERKELEY about Tippett's symphonic output.... |
| Torque And Velocity | ...The Takacs Quartet play this piece written for them by MICHAEL BERKELEY ... |
| Vote With Your Ears | ...Tonight, MICHAEL BERKELEY's Tristessa (double concerto for viola, cor anglais and orchestra) performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Celia Craig and Steven Burnard, conducted by Richard Hickox.... |