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With soprano Karita Mattila, who sings the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte.
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Featuring Joshua Bell, who performs Barber's Violin Concerto and music by Bernstein.
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With Suzy Klein. Featuring Kronos Quartet, who are heard performing music by Kevin Volans.
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Pianist Helene Grimaud begins with Brahms's Three Intermezzi. Presented by Petroc Trelawny
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Cellist Steven Isserlis begins the programme with a rarity by Faure for cello and organ.
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Featuring soprano Karita Mattila, who sings an excerprt from Janacek's Jenufa.
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Featuring pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim. With music from his album African Magic.
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With Suzy Klein. Featuring Kronos Quartet, who perform music by Piazzolla.
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Pianist Helene Grimaud begins the programme with Chopin's Barcarolle, Op 60.
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Featuring conductor Sakari Oramo, who conducts John Foulds' Three Mantras from Avatara.
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Featuring soprano Karita Mattila who sings music by Schubert and Schumann.
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Featuring pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim. With music from his album Cape Town Revisited
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With Suzy Klein. Featuring Kronos Quartet, who are heard performing music by Terry Riley.
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Pianist Helene Grimaud begins as soloist in Arvo Part's Credo. With Petroc Trelawny.
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Baroque violinist Rachel Podger plays the 8th of Vivaldi's La Stravaganza Violin Concertos
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With conductor Sakari Oramo, who directs a performance of Uuno Klami's Karelian Rhapsody.
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Featuring pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim. With tracks from his album Desert Flowers.
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Pianist Helene Grimaud begins with the Etudes-Tableaux by Rachmaninov.
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Baroque violinist Rachel Podger and pianist Gary Cooper perform Mozart's Sonata in B flat.
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Marking the Halle's 150th birthday, the programme includes a historic recording of Berlioz
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Featuring conductor Sakari Oramo, who leads a performance of Bartok's Romanian Folkdances.
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Featuring pianist Mikhail Pletnev, with recordings of Rachmaninov's Etudes-Tableaux.
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Featuring pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim. With tracks from his album Mindif.
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With Tom Service. The featured artist is soprano Renee Fleming.
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A programme marking the Halle Orchestra's 150th birthday, including music by Elgar.
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Featuring conductor Sakari Oramo, who leads a performance of Magnus Lindberg's Chorale.
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Featuring pianist Mikhail Pletnev, who performs excerpts from Tchaikovsky's 18 Pieces.
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With Tom Service. The featured artist is American soprano Renee Fleming.
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Harpsichordist and conductor William Christie performs music for harpsichord by Rameau.
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Featuring performances marking the Halle Orchestra's 150th birthday.
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With pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, who performs Bach's Concerto in D minor.
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Featuring pianist Mikhail Pletnev, who performs Chopin's Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor.
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Featuring tenor Ian Partridge, who is heard in Monteverdi's sacred concerto Exulta Filia.
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With Tom Service. The featured artist is American soprano Renee Fleming.
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The programme includes a recording by Les Arts Florissants of music by Charpentier.
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Featuring pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, who plays Beethoven's Appasionata.
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Featuring Mikhail Pletnev, with a performance of Scriabin's Piano Sonata No 10 in C, Op 70
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The featured artist is tenor Ian Partridge, who is heard in part of Berlioz's Les Troyens.
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With Tom Service. The featured artist is American soprano Renee Fleming.
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The programme includes an excerpt from Handel's oratorio Theodora.
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Featuring Pianist/conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. The programme includes Strauss's Don Juan.
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Featuring organist Simon Preston, who is heard in music including Bach's Organ Sonata No 6
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Featuring tenor Ian Partridge, who is heard in Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge.
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The programme includes an excerpt from Mozart's opera Die Zauberflote.
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A profile of violinist Thomas Zehetmair, with music by Beethoven and Elliott Carter.
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Featuring the work of Vladimir Ashkenazy, who performs Chopin's Ballade No 4 in F minor.
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Featuring organist Simon Preston, who is heard in Dupre's Entree, Meditation, Sortie.
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Featuring tenor Ian Partridge, who is heard in clips from Handel's Alexander's Feast.
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The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers perform Bach's Jauchzet, frohlocket!
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Featuring cellist and conductor Heinrich Schiff, who performs Bach's Cello Suite No 1.
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A profile of violinist Thomas Zehetmair. Including Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor.
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Featuring organist Simon Preston, who performs Handel's Concerto in B flat for organ.
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The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers perform Carver's O bone Jesu.
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Featuring cellist Heinrich Schiff, who performs Lutoslawski's Cello Concerto.
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Profiling violinist Thomas Zehetmair, who features in Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No 2.
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Featuring organist Simon Preston, who performs William Walton's Crown Imperial.
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Conductor Richard Hickox and the BBC Philharmonic perform Percy Grainger's English Dance.
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The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers perform Palestrina's Assumpta est Maria.
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Profiling violinist Thomas Zehetmair, with a recording of Ysaye's Sonata No 4.
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Featuring celebrated organist Gillian Weir, who is heard performing a work by Messiaen.
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Conductor Richard Hickox and Collegium Musicum 90 perform Hummel's offertory Alma virgo.
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Violinist Nigel Kennedy is the featured artist. Including Bach's Violin Concerto No 2 in E
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Featuring Heinrich Schiff, who conducts the Northern Sinfonia in Schubert's Overture in C.
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The Choir of King's College, Cambridge perform music by composers including Handel.
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Featuring organist Gillian Weir, who performs Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544
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Featuring pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, in Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus.
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Richard Hickox conducts Sinfonia 21 in Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances.
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Violinist Nigel Kennedy is the featured artist. Including Bartok's Tempo di ciaconna.
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The Choir of King's College, Cambridge perform music by composers including Purcell.
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Featuring Organist Gillian Weir, who performs Liszt's St Francis of Paola.
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Featuring pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, heard in music including Berg's Piano Sonata.
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Richard Hickox conducts Yvonne Kenny and the LSO in Per pieta from Mozart's Cosi fan tutte
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Violinist Nigel Kennedy is the featured artist. Including Chausson's Poeme, Op 25.
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The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, who perform music by composers including Vivaldi.
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Featuring bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, with Bach's Cantata Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn.
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Featuring pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No 6.
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Violinist Nigel Kennedy is the featured artist. Including Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins
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Tenor Mark Padmore is the featured artist. He performs Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte.
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The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, perform music by composers including Rachmaninov.
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Featuring bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, who is heard in Brahms's Four Serious Songs.
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Featuring French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who is heard in music by Ligeti.
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Adrian Boult conducts the London Phil in Holst's ballet music from The Perfect Fool.
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Featuring conductor Marin Alsop and including her recording of Bernstein's Divertimento.
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A profile of mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, which includes her perfoming Ravel's Scheherezade
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Featuring tenor Mark Padmore, who sings Handel's Thus when the sun from's watery bed.
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Featuring bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, with operatic arias by Mozart and Beethoven.
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Bernard Haitink leads the LPO in Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
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Featuring conductor Marin Alsop and including Gershwin's Blue Monday.
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A profile of mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, who performs Dido's Lament and works by Mozart.
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Featuring Mark Padmore, who sings the title role in an excerpt from Rameau's Zoroastre.
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A profile of clarinettist Sabine Meyer, who performs Lutoslawski's Dance Preludes.
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Featuring bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, in Schumann's famous song-cycle Dichterliebe.
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Georg Solti conducts the LPO and organist Ralph Downes in Walton's Coronation Te Deum.
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Pianist Imogen Cooper performs Schubert's 3 Klavierstucke, D946.
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Marin Alsop conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Bartok's Dance Suite.
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A profile of mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, who performs Berlioz's Beatrice et Benedict.
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Featuring Mark Padmore singing Bach's Welt, deine Lust ist Last... Mein Verlangen ist.
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Clarinettist Sabine Meyer performs Weber's Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor.
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Klaus Tennstedt conducts the LPO in the Rhine Journey from Wagner's Gotterdammerung.
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Pianist Imogen Cooper performs Ravel's Alborada del gracioso.
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Marin Alsop returns to American music with her recording of the Barber Violin Concerto.
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The Nash Ensemble perform a selection of music including the Sextet by Francis Poulenc.
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A profile of mezzo-soprano Susan Graham with Berg's Seven Early Songs and Handel arias.
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Featuring soprano Natalie Dessay, who performs Handel's duet Ah, nella sorte umane.
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Featuring clarinettist Sabine Meyer, with a recording of Brahms's Clarinet Trio in A minor
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The featured artist is organist Olivier Latry, who is heard in music by Cesar Franck.
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Pianist Imogen Cooper features in Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor.
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Featuring the Nash Ensemble, who play Mark-Anthony Turnage's An Invention on 'Solitude'.
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With soprano Natalie Dessay performing the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.
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Featuring clarinettist Sabine Meyer, with a recording of Copland's Clarinet Concerto.
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The Brodsky Quartet are joined by Anne Sofie von Otter for Respighi's Il Tramonto.
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Pianist Imogen Cooper is the featured artist in Schubert's Des Baches Wiegenlied.
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A live recording of the Nash Ensemble playing Beethoven's Clarinet Trio at Wigmore Hall.
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Featuring Natalie Dessay, who plays Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail.
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The featured artists are the choir Polyphony, who are heard performing Britten's AMDG.
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The Brodsky Quartet begin with Shostakovich's String Quartet No 7. With Petroc Trelawny.
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Featuring the Nash Ensemble, who play Malcolm Arnold's Trio for flute, viola and bassoon.
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Featuring Natalie Dessay, who sings in works by Stravinsky and Saint-Saens.
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Featuring the choir Polyphony, who perform Walton's Coronation Te Deum.
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Featuring Olivier Latry, organist of Notre Dame, Paris, famous for performing Messiaen.
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Soprano Felicity Lott performs English music, with excerpts from Britten's Peter Grimes.
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Petroc Trelawny begins with the Brodsky Quartet's recording of Britten's 3 Divertimenti.
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The featured artist is pianist Peter Donohoe and the programme includes music by Brahms.
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Featuring pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, who gives a performance of Liszt's Mephisto Waltz No 1
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Featuring the choir Polyphony, who sing Poulenc's Quatre Motets pour un temps de penitence
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Soprano Felicity Lott performs in the closing scene of Strauss's opera Capriccio.
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The Brodsky Quartet perform a Quartet by Tunde Jegede, inspired by the music of Beethoven.
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The featured artist is pianist Peter Donohoe, who performs Kevin Volans's Piano Concerto.
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Featuring pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, who gives a performance of Haydn's Sonata in D.
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Featuring Jordi Savall, whose ensembles perform the invitatory antiphon Regem cui.
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Featuring the choir Polyphony, who perform John Tavener's Butterfly Dreams.
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Soprano Felicity Lott performs French music, including songs by Poulenc and Faure.
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Baritone Matthias Goerne performs Beethoven's song-cycle An die ferne Geliebte.
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With pianist Peter Donohoe playing music by composers including Chopin.
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Featuring pianist Leif Ove Andsnes performing a selection of Grieg's Lyric Pieces.
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Featuring Jordi Savall, who performs Bach's Sonata in G for viola da gamba and keyboard.
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Soprano Felicity Lott sings arias from Mozart operas, including The Marriage of Figaro.
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Matthias Goerne is the featured artist. With an excerpt from Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony.
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Featuring the pianist Stephen Hough playing Schoenberg's 6 Kleine Klavierstucke.
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Pianist Peter Donohoe plays music by Debussy and Rachmaninov.
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Featuring American violinist Joshua Bell, who performs Debussy's Violin Sonata.
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Featuring Jordi Savall, who directs Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
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Matthias Goerne is the featured artist. With arias from Bach's Mass in B minor.
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Featuring pianist Stephen Hough's recording of Schumann's Spanische Liebeslieder, Op 18.
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Featuring American violinist Joshua Bell, who performs Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1.
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Featuring Jordi Savall, who directs pieces he wrote mourning the death of Caravaggio.
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Cellist Steven Isserlis begins with a work by Strauss, his Romance for cello and orchestra
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Baritone Matthias Goerne sings some of Hans Eisler's Hollywood songs.
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Featuring pianist Stephen Hough's recording of Beethoven's Sonata in A minor, Op 23.
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Featuring Joshua Bell, who performs John Corigliano's music for the film The Red Violin.
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With Suzy Klein. Featuring the Kronos Quartet, who are heard performing music by Golijov.
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Cellist Steven Isserlis collaborates with his friend Stephen Hough in music by Liszt.
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Featuring pianist Stephen Hough playing Suk's Ballade and Serenade with Steven Isserlis.
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Featuring soprano Karita Mattila, who sings music including Sibelius's Luonnotar.
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Cellist Steven Isserlis performs Thrinos, a solo work written for him by John Tavener.
Proms Artist Focus (Angelika Kirchschlager)
Recordings by mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager, who features in the Proms 2008 season
Proms Artist Focus (Berlin Philharmonic)
Recordings by Proms performers The Berlin Philharmonic
Proms Artist Focus (I Fagiolini)
Recordings by the solo-voice ensemble who specialise in Renaissance and contemporary music
Proms Artist Focus (Julia Fischer)
Recordings by German violinist Julia Fischer, who features in the Proms 2008 season
Proms Artist Focus (Lang Lang)
Recordings by the Chinese pianist Lang Lang, who features in the Proms 2008 season
Proms Artist Focus (Paul Hillier)
Recordings by Paul Hillier, conductor, singer and founder of the Hilliard Ensemble
Proms Artist Focus (Roger Norrington)
Music conducted by Roger Norrington, who appears in the 2008 Last Night of the Proms