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| Afternoon On 3 | ...Another chance to hear Proms favourites Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra return to the Royal Albert Hall in the first of two concerts. The orchestra brings young Israeli and Arab musicians together every summer to work and perform Vienese classics by Haydn, Schoenberg and Brahms. Introduced by MARTIN HANDLEY.... |
| Afternoon Performance | ...MARTIN HANDLEY introduces the first of five programmes this week focusing on the BBC performing groups' highlights of 2004. Today, a chance to hear something from the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Cage Uncaged weekend in January, and Dvorak from the Philharmonic.... |
| Art Of Light Music, The | ...MARTIN HANDLEY discusses the art of light music with Claire Martin and the BBC Concert Orchestra.... |
| Artist Focus | ...With MARTIN HANDLEY. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Pianist Murray Perahia begins the programme with Schubert's Impromptu No 3 in G flat, D899.... |
| Bach Christmas, A | Cast and Crew |
| Bbc Proms 2005 | ...The concert begins with Delhi-born composer Param Vir's 1994 orchestral work based on the story of Milarepa, the 11th-century Tibetan saint. Presented by MARTIN HANDLEY.... |
| Bbc Proms 2006 Live | ...Presented by MARTIN HANDLEY live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.... |
| Bbc Proms 2006 | ...Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, MARTIN HANDLEY presents a whistle-stop tour of most of Mozart's major operas with a superb cast of soloists and a conductor with a flair for this music. Sir Roger Norrington delights in Mozart's unerring sense of character, and an ability to put those characters into his music.... |
| Bbc Proms 2007 | ...Presented by MARTIN HANDLEY, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.... |
| Bbc Proms 2008 | ...Presented by MARTIN HANDLEY, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.... |
| Bbc Proms Chamber Music 2006 Live | ...Presented by MARTIN HANDLEY live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.... |
| Bbc Proms | ...MARTIN HANDLEY presents a Prom which brings together works from opposite ends of Mendelssohn's life - his early first symphony, written when he was only 15, and his lyrical Violin Concerto. The soloist is the exciting German violinist Isabelle Faust, making her Proms debut.... |
| Breakfast | ...Sunday - MARTIN HANDLEY... |
| British Symphony Series - Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) | ...MARTIN HANDLEY introduces the BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales and BBC Singers.... |
| Giovanni's House | ...MARTIN HANDLEY explores the importance of the famous Italian music publishing firm Casa Ricordi. Throughout most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of Italian opera was directly tied to the fortunes of this single family publishing house, based in Milan.... |
| Interval | ...MARTIN HANDLEY explores the themes of Candide with its director and Christopher Bigsby, Professor of American Studies at UEA.... |
| La Stupenda - Joan Sutherland | ...MARTIN HANDLEY hosts an evening celebrating the artistry of Australian soprano Joan Sutherland, who turns 80 this month.... |
| Made In Britain | ...MARTIN HANDLEY looks at some of the modernist composers with a 'friendly face'.... |
| Music Feature | ...MARTIN HANDLEY explores the importance of the famous Italian music publishing firm Casa Ricordi. Throughout most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of Italian opera was directly tied to the fortunes of this single family publishing house, based in Milan.... |
| Music Matters | ...Tom Service finds out about two exciting recent musical developments in South Africa. He talks to Pauline Malefane and Mark Dornford-May, star and director of a new film of Bizet's Carmen set in Pauline's home township of Khayelitsha, Cape Town. And at OSCA, the opera course at the University of Natal in Durban, MARTIN HANDLEY hears that "black singers are the singers of the future", in the amazing voices of the people of KwaZulu-Natal.... |
| New Song, A | ...MARTIN HANDLEY presents the The BBC Singers and The BBC Philharmonic.... |
| Opera In Action | ...MARTIN HANDLEY embarks on an exploration of opera from the conductor's perspective, beginning with a look at first nights.... |
| Opera On 3 | ...Presented by MARTIN HANDLEY.... |
| Performance On 3, Part 2 | ...Live from London's Barbican, presented by MARTIN HANDLEY.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...Presented by MARTIN HANDLEY.... |
| Proms Plus | ...Conductor Gianandrea Noseda and Richard Wigley, general manager of the BBC Philharmonic join MARTIN HANDLEY to talk about their Italian-themed Prom.... |
| Proms Talk | ...MARTIN HANDLEY meets performers from tonight's concert, catches up on events backstage, looks forward to the coming week of Proms and explores what's new for this year.... |
| Richard Bonynge - The Complete Magpie | ...Conductor Richard Bonynge gives MARTIN HANDLEY a guided tour around his collection of musical memorabilia, including original manuscript scores, composers' letters and portraits of singers.... |
| Sage, The | ...The Sage centre aspires to be an international performance space to be compared with Symphony Hall in BIRMINGHAM or the Musikverein in Vienna, a focus of diverse musical activity and education for the region as well as a symbol of regeneration for Gateshead. MARTIN HANDLEY finds out who will be using the Sage, and what they will be doing.... |
| Twenty Minutes | ...Proms Talk: MARTIN HANDLEY meets performers from tonight's concert, catches up on events backstage, looks forward to the coming week of Proms and explores what's new for this year.... |