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20070712To begin, Jiri Belohlavek conducts the Czech Philharmonia Orchestra in Smetana's Vltava.

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20070917Adrian Boult conducts the London Phil in Holst's ballet music from The Perfect Fool.

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20070918Bernard Haitink leads the LPO in Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.

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20070919Georg Solti conducts the LPO and organist Ralph Downes in Walton's Coronation Te Deum.

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20070920Klaus Tennstedt conducts the LPO in the Rhine Journey from Wagner's Gotterdammerung.

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20070924Soprano Felicity Lott performs English music, with excerpts from Britten's Peter Grimes.

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20070925Soprano Felicity Lott performs in the closing scene of Strauss's opera Capriccio.

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20070926Soprano Felicity Lott performs French music, including songs by Poulenc and Faure.

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20070927Soprano Felicity Lott sings arias from Mozart operas, including The Marriage of Figaro.

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20071001Pianist Helene Grimaud begins with Brahms's Three Intermezzi. Presented by Petroc Trelawny

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20071002Pianist Helene Grimaud begins the programme with Chopin's Barcarolle, Op 60.

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20071003Pianist Helene Grimaud begins as soloist in Arvo Part's Credo. With Petroc Trelawny.

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20071004Pianist Helene Grimaud begins with the Etudes-Tableaux by Rachmaninov.

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20071022The Brodsky Quartet are joined by Anne Sofie von Otter for Respighi's Il Tramonto.

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20071023The Brodsky Quartet begin with Shostakovich's String Quartet No 7. With Petroc Trelawny.

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20071024Petroc Trelawny begins with the Brodsky Quartet's recording of Britten's 3 Divertimenti.

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20071025The Brodsky Quartet perform a Quartet by Tunde Jegede, inspired by the music of Beethoven.

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20071029Cellist Steven Isserlis begins with a work by Strauss, his Romance for cello and orchestra

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20071030Cellist Steven Isserlis collaborates with his friend Stephen Hough in music by Liszt.

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20071031Cellist Steven Isserlis performs Thrinos, a solo work written for him by John Tavener.

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20071101Cellist Steven Isserlis begins the programme with a rarity by Faure for cello and organ.

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20071105With Tom Service. The featured artist is soprano Renee Fleming.

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20071106With Tom Service. The featured artist is American soprano Renee Fleming.

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20071107With Tom Service. The featured artist is American soprano Renee Fleming.

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20071108With Tom Service. The featured artist is American soprano Renee Fleming.

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20071112Conductor Richard Hickox and the BBC Philharmonic perform Percy Grainger's English Dance.

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20071113Conductor Richard Hickox and Collegium Musicum 90 perform Hummel's offertory Alma virgo.

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20071114Richard Hickox conducts Sinfonia 21 in Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances.

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20071115Richard Hickox conducts Yvonne Kenny and the LSO in Per pieta from Mozart's Cosi fan tutte

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20071119Pianist Imogen Cooper performs Schubert's 3 Klavierstucke, D946.

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20071120Pianist Imogen Cooper performs Ravel's Alborada del gracioso.

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20071121Pianist Imogen Cooper features in Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor.

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20071122Pianist Imogen Cooper is the featured artist in Schubert's Des Baches Wiegenlied.

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20071126Baritone Matthias Goerne performs Beethoven's song-cycle An die ferne Geliebte.

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20071127Matthias Goerne is the featured artist. With an excerpt from Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony.

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20071128Matthias Goerne is the featured artist. With arias from Bach's Mass in B minor.

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20071129Baritone Matthias Goerne sings some of Hans Eisler's Hollywood songs.

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20071203Baroque violinist Rachel Podger plays the 8th of Vivaldi's La Stravaganza Violin Concertos

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20071204Baroque violinist Rachel Podger and pianist Gary Cooper perform Mozart's Sonata in B flat.

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20071210The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers perform Bach's Jauchzet, frohlocket!

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20071211The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers perform Carver's O bone Jesu.

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20071212The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers perform Palestrina's Assumpta est Maria.

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20071217Featuring conductor Marin Alsop and including her recording of Bernstein's Divertimento.

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20071218Featuring conductor Marin Alsop and including Gershwin's Blue Monday.

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20071219Marin Alsop conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Bartok's Dance Suite.

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20071220Marin Alsop returns to American music with her recording of the Barber Violin Concerto.

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20080107Harpsichordist and conductor William Christie performs music for harpsichord by Rameau.

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20080108The programme includes a recording by Les Arts Florissants of music by Charpentier.

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20080109The programme includes an excerpt from Handel's oratorio Theodora.

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20080110The programme includes an excerpt from Mozart's opera Die Zauberflote.

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20080114Violinist Nigel Kennedy is the featured artist. Including Bach's Violin Concerto No 2 in E

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20080115Violinist Nigel Kennedy is the featured artist. Including Bartok's Tempo di ciaconna.

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20080116Violinist Nigel Kennedy is the featured artist. Including Chausson's Poeme, Op 25.

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20080117Violinist Nigel Kennedy is the featured artist. Including Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins

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20080121The Nash Ensemble perform a selection of music including the Sextet by Francis Poulenc.

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20080122Featuring the Nash Ensemble, who play Mark-Anthony Turnage's An Invention on 'Solitude'.

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20080123A live recording of the Nash Ensemble playing Beethoven's Clarinet Trio at Wigmore Hall.

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20080124Featuring the Nash Ensemble, who play Malcolm Arnold's Trio for flute, viola and bassoon.

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20080128Featuring the pianist Stephen Hough playing Schoenberg's 6 Kleine Klavierstucke.

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20080129Featuring pianist Stephen Hough's recording of Schumann's Spanische Liebeslieder, Op 18.

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20080130Featuring pianist Stephen Hough's recording of Beethoven's Sonata in A minor, Op 23.

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20080131Featuring pianist Stephen Hough playing Suk's Ballade and Serenade with Steven Isserlis.

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20080205Marking the Halle's 150th birthday, the programme includes a historic recording of Berlioz

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20080206A programme marking the Halle Orchestra's 150th birthday, including music by Elgar.

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20080207Featuring performances marking the Halle Orchestra's 150th birthday.

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20080211Featuring cellist and conductor Heinrich Schiff, who performs Bach's Cello Suite No 1.

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20080212Featuring cellist Heinrich Schiff, who performs Lutoslawski's Cello Concerto.

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20080214Featuring Heinrich Schiff, who conducts the Northern Sinfonia in Schubert's Overture in C.

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20080218A profile of mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, which includes her perfoming Ravel's Scheherezade

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20080219A profile of mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, who performs Dido's Lament and works by Mozart.

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20080220A profile of mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, who performs Berlioz's Beatrice et Benedict.

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20080221A profile of mezzo-soprano Susan Graham with Berg's Seven Early Songs and Handel arias.

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20080225The featured artist is pianist Peter Donohoe and the programme includes music by Brahms.

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20080226The featured artist is pianist Peter Donohoe, who performs Kevin Volans's Piano Concerto.

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20080227With pianist Peter Donohoe playing music by composers including Chopin.

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20080228Pianist Peter Donohoe plays music by Debussy and Rachmaninov.

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20080303Featuring conductor Sakari Oramo, who conducts John Foulds' Three Mantras from Avatara.

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20080304With conductor Sakari Oramo, who directs a performance of Uuno Klami's Karelian Rhapsody.

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20080305Featuring conductor Sakari Oramo, who leads a performance of Bartok's Romanian Folkdances.

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20080306Featuring conductor Sakari Oramo, who leads a performance of Magnus Lindberg's Chorale.

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20080310A profile of violinist Thomas Zehetmair, with music by Beethoven and Elliott Carter.

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20080311A profile of violinist Thomas Zehetmair. Including Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor.

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20080312Profiling violinist Thomas Zehetmair, who features in Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No 2.

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20080313Profiling violinist Thomas Zehetmair, with a recording of Ysaye's Sonata No 4.

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20080317Tenor Mark Padmore is the featured artist. He performs Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte.

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20080318Featuring tenor Mark Padmore, who sings Handel's Thus when the sun from's watery bed.

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20080319Featuring Mark Padmore, who sings the title role in an excerpt from Rameau's Zoroastre.

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20080320Featuring Mark Padmore singing Bach's Welt, deine Lust ist Last... Mein Verlangen ist.

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20080325Featuring pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, who gives a performance of Liszt's Mephisto Waltz No 1

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20080326Featuring pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, who gives a performance of Haydn's Sonata in D.

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20080327Featuring pianist Leif Ove Andsnes performing a selection of Grieg's Lyric Pieces.

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20080331Featuring soprano Karita Mattila, who sings music including Sibelius's Luonnotar.

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20080401With soprano Karita Mattila, who sings the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte.

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20080402Featuring soprano Karita Mattila, who sings an excerprt from Janacek's Jenufa.

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20080403Featuring soprano Karita Mattila who sings music by Schubert and Schumann.

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20080407With pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, who performs Bach's Concerto in D minor.

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20080408Featuring pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, who plays Beethoven's Appasionata.

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20080409Featuring Pianist/conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. The programme includes Strauss's Don Juan.

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20080410Featuring the work of Vladimir Ashkenazy, who performs Chopin's Ballade No 4 in F minor.

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20080414The Choir of King's College, Cambridge perform music by composers including Handel.

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20080415The Choir of King's College, Cambridge perform music by composers including Purcell.

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20080416The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, who perform music by composers including Vivaldi.

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20080417The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, perform music by composers including Rachmaninov.

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20080421Featuring soprano Natalie Dessay, who performs Handel's duet Ah, nella sorte umane.

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20080422With soprano Natalie Dessay performing the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.

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20080423Featuring Natalie Dessay, who plays Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail.

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20080424Featuring Natalie Dessay, who sings in works by Stravinsky and Saint-Saens.

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20080428Featuring American violinist Joshua Bell, who performs Debussy's Violin Sonata.

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20080429Featuring American violinist Joshua Bell, who performs Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1.

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20080430Featuring Joshua Bell, who performs John Corigliano's music for the film The Red Violin.

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20080501Featuring Joshua Bell, who performs Barber's Violin Concerto and music by Bernstein.

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20080505Featuring pianist Mikhail Pletnev, with recordings of Rachmaninov's Etudes-Tableaux.

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20080506Featuring pianist Mikhail Pletnev, who performs excerpts from Tchaikovsky's 18 Pieces.

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20080507Featuring pianist Mikhail Pletnev, who performs Chopin's Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor.

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20080508Featuring Mikhail Pletnev, with a performance of Scriabin's Piano Sonata No 10 in C, Op 70

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20080513Featuring celebrated organist Gillian Weir, who is heard performing a work by Messiaen.

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20080514Featuring organist Gillian Weir, who performs Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544

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20080515Featuring Organist Gillian Weir, who performs Liszt's St Francis of Paola.

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20080519A profile of clarinettist Sabine Meyer, who performs Lutoslawski's Dance Preludes.

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20080520Clarinettist Sabine Meyer performs Weber's Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor.

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20080521Featuring clarinettist Sabine Meyer, with a recording of Brahms's Clarinet Trio in A minor

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20080522Featuring clarinettist Sabine Meyer, with a recording of Copland's Clarinet Concerto.

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20080526Featuring Jordi Savall, whose ensembles perform the invitatory antiphon Regem cui.

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20080527Featuring Jordi Savall, who performs Bach's Sonata in G for viola da gamba and keyboard.

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20080528Featuring Jordi Savall, who directs Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

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20080529Featuring Jordi Savall, who directs pieces he wrote mourning the death of Caravaggio.

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20080602Featuring pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim. With music from his album African Magic.

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20080603Featuring pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim. With music from his album Cape Town Revisited

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20080604Featuring pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim. With tracks from his album Desert Flowers.

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20080605Featuring pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim. With tracks from his album Mindif.

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20080609Featuring organist Simon Preston, who is heard in music including Bach's Organ Sonata No 6

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20080610Featuring organist Simon Preston, who is heard in Dupre's Entree, Meditation, Sortie.

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20080611Featuring organist Simon Preston, who performs Handel's Concerto in B flat for organ.

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20080612Featuring organist Simon Preston, who performs William Walton's Crown Imperial.

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20080616Presented by Martin Handley. The featured artist is German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, who is famous particularly for his interpretations of Bach. The programme includes a performance of Bach's Cantata: Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, BWV 152, in which Quasthoff is joined by soprano Dorothea Roschmann.

Featuring bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, with Bach's Cantata Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn.

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20080617Featuring bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, who is heard in Brahms's Four Serious Songs.

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20080618Featuring bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, with operatic arias by Mozart and Beethoven.

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20080619Featuring bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, in Schumann's famous song-cycle Dichterliebe.

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20080623The featured artists are the choir Polyphony, who are heard performing Britten's AMDG.

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20080624Featuring the choir Polyphony, who perform Walton's Coronation Te Deum.

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20080625Featuring the choir Polyphony, who sing Poulenc's Quatre Motets pour un temps de penitence

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20080626Featuring the choir Polyphony, who perform John Tavener's Butterfly Dreams.

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20080630With Suzy Klein. Featuring the Kronos Quartet, who are heard performing music by Golijov.

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20080701With Suzy Klein. Featuring Kronos Quartet, who are heard performing music by Kevin Volans.

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20080702With Suzy Klein. Featuring Kronos Quartet, who perform music by Piazzolla.

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20080703With Suzy Klein. Featuring Kronos Quartet, who are heard performing music by Terry Riley.

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20080707Featuring tenor Ian Partridge, who is heard in Monteverdi's sacred concerto Exulta Filia.

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20080708The featured artist is tenor Ian Partridge, who is heard in part of Berlioz's Les Troyens.

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20080709Featuring tenor Ian Partridge, who is heard in Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge.

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20080710Featuring tenor Ian Partridge, who is heard in clips from Handel's Alexander's Feast.

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20080714Featuring pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, in Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus.

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20080715Featuring pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, heard in music including Berg's Piano Sonata.

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20080716Featuring pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No 6.

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20080717Featuring French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who is heard in music by Ligeti.

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20080721The featured artist is organist Olivier Latry, who is heard in music by Cesar Franck.

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20080724Featuring Olivier Latry, organist of Notre Dame, Paris, famous for performing Messiaen.

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