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Artist Focus - 01/04/2008
Catherine Bott profiles soprano Karita Mattila. She performs vocal works by Mozart including the role of Fiordiligi in his opera Cosi fan tutte.
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Artist Focus - 01/05/2008
Catherine Bott profiles violinist Joshua Bell, who is featured performing Barber's Violin Concerto and music by Bernstein.
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Artist Focus - 01/07/2008
With Suzy Klein. Featuring Kronos Quartet, a group celebrated for work in expanding the range of the string quartet, and who are heard performing music by Kevin Volans.
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Artist Focus - 01/10/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Pianist Helene Grimaud begins with Brahms's Three Intermezzi.
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Artist Focus - 01/11/2007
With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Cellist Steven Isserlis begins the programme with a rarity by Faure written for cello and organ.
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Artist Focus - 02/04/2008
Catherine Bott profiles soprano Karita Mattila. She sings excerpts from operatic works, including one from Janacek's Jenufa.
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Artist Focus - 02/06/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. The programme features South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim, and includes tracks from his album African Magic.
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Artist Focus - 02/07/2008
With Suzy Klein. Featuring the Kronos Quartet, a group that have commissioned many works for string quartet. They perform music by Piazzolla.
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Artist Focus - 02/10/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Pianist Helene Grimaud begins with Chopin's Barcarolle, Op 60.
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Artist Focus - 03/03/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring conductor Sakari Oramo, who leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the CBSO Youth Chorus in John Foulds' Three Mantras from Avatara.
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Artist Focus - 03/04/2008
Catherine Bott profiles soprano Karita Mattila, who in this programme sings music by Schubert and Schumann.
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Artist Focus - 03/06/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. The programme features South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim, and includes tracks from his album Cape Town Revisited.
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Artist Focus - 03/07/2008
With Suzy Klein. Featuring Kronos Quartet, a group which has collaborated with many different composers from around the world, and who are heard performing music by Terry Riley.
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Artist Focus - 03/10/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Pianist Helene Grimaud begins the programme as soloist in Arvo Part's Credo.
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Artist Focus - 03/12/2007
With Ian Skelly. Baroque violinist Rachel Podger performs the eighth of Vivaldi's La Stravaganza Violin Concertos, Op 4.
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Artist Focus - 04/03/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is conductor Sakari Oramo, who directs the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Uuno Klami's Karelian Rhapsody.
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Artist Focus - 04/06/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. The programme features South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim, and includes tracks from his album Desert Flowers.
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Artist Focus - 04/10/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Pianist Helene Grimaud begins with the Etudes-Tableaux by Rachmaninov.
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Artist Focus - 04/12/2007
With Ian Skelly. Baroque violinist Rachel Podger is joined by fortepianist Gary Cooper to perform Mozart's Sonata in B flat for Violin and Keyboard, K378.
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Artist Focus - 05/02/2008
Presented by Petroc Trelawny, the programme marks the Halle Orchestra's 150th birthday, and includes a historic recording of Berlioz conducted by Hamilton Harty.
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Artist Focus - 05/03/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is conductor Sakari Oramo, who leads the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra performing Bartok's Romanian Folkdances.
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Artist Focus - 05/05/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring pianist Mikhail Pletnev, with recordings of Rachmaninov's Etudes-Tableaux in E flat minor, G minor, C sharp minor and E flat minor.
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Artist Focus - 05/06/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. The programme features South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim, and includes tracks from his album Mindif.
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Artist Focus - 05/11/2007
With Tom Service. This week's featured artist is soprano Renee Fleming. We hear her perform works by Mozart and Handel, including Porgi Amor from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
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Artist Focus - 06/02/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. Marking the Halle Orchestra's 150th birthday, this programme celebrates the orchestra's relationship with John Barbirolli and includes music by Elgar.
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Artist Focus - 06/03/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is conductor Sakari Oramo, who leads performances of contemporary music beginning with Magnus Lindberg's Chorale.
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Artist Focus - 06/05/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is pianist Mikhail Pletnev, who performs Tchaikovsky's Meditation, Mazurque pour danser and Polacca de concert from 18 Pieces, Op 72.
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Artist Focus - 06/11/2007
With Tom Service. This week's featured artist is American soprano Renee Fleming. We hear her perform music from the opera stage, including Song to the Moon from Dvorak's Rusalka.
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Artist Focus - 07/01/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. Harpsichordist and conductor William Christie is the featured artist and the programme includes music for solo harpsichord by Rameau.
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Artist Focus - 07/02/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. The programme marks 150 years of the Halle with performances under three previous music directors – James Loughran, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Kent Nagano.
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Artist Focus - 07/04/2008
With Suzy Klein. Featuring pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, who last year celebrated his 70th birthday, and who performs Bach's Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052.
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Artist Focus - 07/05/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is pianist Mikhail Pletnev, who performs Chopin's Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor, Op 31.
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Artist Focus - 07/07/2008
Featuring tenor Ian Partridge, who is heard in Monteverdi's sacred concerto Exulta Filia and a Schubert song from the BBC archives. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
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Artist Focus - 07/11/2007
With Tom Service. This week's featured artist is American soprano Renee Fleming. She once considered following a jazz career and we hear her perform with jazz pianist Fred Hersch.
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Artist Focus - 08/01/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. Harpsichordist and conductor William Christie is the featured artist and the programme includes a recording by Les Arts Florissants of music by Charpentier.
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Artist Focus - 08/04/2008
With Suzy Klein. Featuring the work of pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, in a programme that includes Beethoven's Sonata No 23 in F minor (Appassionata).
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Artist Focus - 08/05/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring the work of Mikhail Pletnev, with a performance of Scriabin's Piano Sonata No 10 in C, Op 70.
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Artist Focus - 08/07/2008
The featured artist is tenor Ian Partridge, who is heard in an excerpt from Berlioz's Les Troyens, as well as a Schubert song from the BBC archives. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
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Artist Focus - 08/11/2007
With Tom Service. This week's featured artist is American soprano Renee Fleming. We hear her as the Marschallin in an award-winning recording of Richard Strauss' Rosenkavalier.
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Artist Focus - 09/01/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. Harpsichordist and conductor William Christie is the featured artist and the programme includes an excerpt from Handel's oratorio Theodora.
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Artist Focus - 09/04/2008
With Suzy Klein. Featuring the work of pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy in a programme that includes Richard Strauss's Don Juan.
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Artist Focus - 09/06/2008
The featured artist is organist Simon Preston, who is heard in music including Bach's Organ Sonata No 6 in G.
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Artist Focus - 09/07/2008
Featuring tenor Ian Partridge, who is heard in songs from Vaughan Williams' setting of poetry by AE Houseman, On Wenlock Edge, and a Schubert song from the BBC archives.
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Artist Focus - 10/01/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. Harpsichordist and conductor William Christie is the featured artist and the programme includes an excerpt from Mozart's opera Die Zauberflote.
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Artist Focus - 10/03/2008
Catherine Bott profiles violinist and leader of his own string quartet, Thomas Zehetmair, in a programme that includes Beethoven's Romance in F and music by Elliott Carter.
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Artist Focus - 10/04/2008
With Suzy Klein. Featuring the work of pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy in a programme that includes Chopin's Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52.
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Artist Focus - 10/06/2008
The featured artist is organist Simon Preston, who is heard in music including Marcel Dupre's Entree, Meditation, Sortie for organ.
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Artist Focus - 10/07/2008
Featuring tenor Ian Partridge, who is heard in clips from Handel's Alexander's Feast, as well as a selection of Schubert songs from the BBC archives. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
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Artist Focus - 10/12/2007
Petroc Trelawny presents The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers, who perform Bach's Jauchzet, frohlocket! from Weihnachts-Oratorium with the Symphony of Harmony and Invention.
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Artist Focus - 11/02/2008
With Catherine Bott. The featured artist is cellist and conductor Heinrich Schiff, who performs Bach's Cello Suite No 1 in G, BWV 1007.
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Artist Focus - 11/03/2008
Catherine Bott profiles Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair in a programme that includes Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041.
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Artist Focus - 11/06/2008
The featured artist is Simon Preston, who is heard in music including Handel's Concerto in B flat for organ, for which he is joined by the English Concert under Trevor Pinnock.
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Artist Focus - 11/12/2007
Petroc Trelawny presents The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers, who perform Carver's O bone Jesu.
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Artist Focus - 12/02/2008
With Catherine Bott. The featured artist is cellist Heinrich Schiff, who performs Lutoslawski's Cello Concerto with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer.
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Artist Focus - 12/03/2008
Catherine Bott profiles Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair, who features as soloist in a recording of Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No 2.
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Artist Focus - 12/06/2008
The featured artist is organist Simon Preston, who is heard in music including William Walton's Crown Imperial, arranged for organ by Herbert Murrill.
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Artist Focus - 12/11/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Conductor Richard Hickox and the BBC Philharmonic begin with Percy Grainger's English Dance.
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Artist Focus - 12/12/2007
Petroc Trelawny presents The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers, who perform Palestrina's Motet, Assumpta est Maria.
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Artist Focus - 13/03/2008
Catherine Bott profiles Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair in a programme that includes the Sonata No 4 for solo violin by Ysaye.
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Artist Focus - 13/05/2008
Presented by Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is celebrated organist, Gillian Weir, who is heard performing Messiaen's Meditations sur le mystere de la Sainte-Trinite.
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Artist Focus - 13/11/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Conductor Richard Hickox and members of Collegium Musicum 90 perform Hummel's offertory Alma virgo.
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Artist Focus - 14/01/2008
With Martin Handley. Violinist Nigel Kennedy is the featured artist. Including Bach's Violin Concerto No 2 in E, BWV 1042, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Artist Focus - 14/02/2008
With Catherine Bott. The featured artist is cellist and conductor Heinrich Schiff, who conducts the Northern Sinfonia playing Schubert's Overture in C (In the Italian Style).
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Artist Focus - 14/04/2008
With Catherine Bott. Featuring the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, who perform music by composers including Handel.
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Artist Focus - 14/05/2008
Presented by Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is organist Gillian Weir, who performs Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544, in a recording from the Thomaskirche, Leipzig.
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Artist Focus - 14/07/2008
Featuring French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who is heard in performances of French music, including part of Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus.
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Artist Focus - 14/11/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Richard Hickox conducts Sinfonia 21 in the first suite of Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances.
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Artist Focus - 15/01/2008
With Martin Handley. Violinist Nigel Kennedy is the featured artist. Including Bartok's Tempo di ciaconna, from his Sonata for Solo Violin.
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Artist Focus - 15/04/2008
With Catherine Bott. Featuring the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, who perform music by composers including Purcell.
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Artist Focus - 15/05/2008
Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Featuring organist Gillian Weir, who performs Liszt's St Francis of Paola walking on the waves in a recording from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
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Artist Focus - 15/07/2008
Featuring French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who is heard in German music including Berg's Piano Sonata, and in part of his new CD of Bach's The Art of Fugue.
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Artist Focus - 15/11/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Richard Hickox conducts soprano Yvonne Kenny and the LSO in Per pieta from Mozart's Cosi fan tutte.
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Artist Focus - 16/01/2008
With Martin Handley. Violinist Nigel Kennedy is the featured artist. Including Chausson's Poeme, Op 25, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Okko Kamu.
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Artist Focus - 16/04/2008
With Catherine Bott. Featuring the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, who perform music by composers including Vivaldi.
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Artist Focus - 16/06/2008
Presented by Martin Handley. The featured artist is German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, who is heard performing Bach's Cantata Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn with Dorothea Roschmann.
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Artist Focus - 16/07/2008
Featuring French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who plays in and directs Mozart's Piano Concerto No 6.
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Artist Focus - 17/01/2008
With Martin Handley. Violinist Nigel Kennedy is the featured artist. Including Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Violins, with Daniel Stabrawa and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Artist Focus - 17/03/2008
Tenor Mark Padmore is the featured artist in a programme that includes Beethoven's song-cycle An die ferne Geliebte, with Graham Johnson accompanying on piano.
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Artist Focus - 17/04/2008
With Catherine Bott. Featuring the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, who perform music by composers including Rachmaninov.
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Artist Focus - 17/06/2008
With Martin Handley. Featuring German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, who is heard in Brahms's Four Serious Songs and, displaying his lighter side, in music by Duke Ellington.
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Artist Focus - 17/07/2008
Featuring French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who is heard in music by Ligeti, a composer with whom he has collaborated closely throughout his career.
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Artist Focus - 17/09/2007
With Geoffrey Smith. To celebrate the orchestra's 75th anniversary, Adrian Boult conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Holst's ballet music from The Perfect Fool.
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Artist Focus - 17/12/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring American conductor Marin Alsop, who was a pupil of Leonard Bernstein. Including her recording of Bernstein's Divertimento.
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Artist Focus - 18/02/2008
With Tom Service. A profile of American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, well-known for her interpretations of French music. Plus a performance of Ravel's Sheherazade.
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Artist Focus - 18/03/2008
The featured artist is tenor Mark Padmore, who sings Handel's Thus when the sun from's watery bed, from the oratorio Samson, with The English Concert directed by Andrew Manze.
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Artist Focus - 18/06/2008
Presented by Martin Handley. The featured artist is German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, who is heard performing operatic arias by Mozart and Beethoven.
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Artist Focus - 18/09/2007
With Geoffrey Smith. To celebrate the orchestra's 75th anniversary, Bernard Haitink conducts the LPO in Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
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Artist Focus - 18/12/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring conductor Marin Alsop, who is known for her interpretations of American music. Including Gershwin's Blue Monday.
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Artist Focus - 19/02/2008
Tom Service profiles American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, and includes her version of Dido's Lament from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, plus opera arias by Mozart.
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Artist Focus - 19/03/2008
Featuring Mark Padmore, who sings the title role in an excerpt from Act 3 of Rameau's Zoroastre with soprano Gaelle Mechaly and Les Arts Florissants directed by William Christie.
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Artist Focus - 19/05/2008
Tom Service profiles clarinettist Sabine Meyer, who is heard performing Lutoslawski's Dance Preludes accompanied by pianist Alfons Kontarsky.
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Artist Focus - 19/06/2008
With Martin Handley. The featured performer is German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, known for his lieder interpretations, and who is heard performing Schumann's Dichterliebe.
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Artist Focus - 19/09/2007
With Geoffrey Smith. Georg Solti conducts the LPO, the choirs of Salisbury, Winchester and Chichester Cathedrals, and organist Ralph Downes in Walton's Coronation Te Deum.
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Artist Focus - 19/11/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. Pianist Imogen Cooper is the featured artist and the programme includes Schubert's 3 Kalvierstucke, D946.
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Artist Focus - 19/12/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. Marin Alsop became principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 2002, and this programme features their recording of Bartok's Dance Suite.
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Artist Focus - 20/02/2008
Tom Service profiles mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, and returns to French repertoire with excerpts from Berlioz's Beatrice et Benedict and Damnation of Faust.
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Artist Focus - 20/03/2008
Featuring tenor Mark Padmore singing Bach's Welt, deine Lust ist Last... Mein Verlangen ist from Cantata No 161, with the English Baroque Soloists under John Eliot Gardiner.
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Artist Focus - 20/05/2008
With Tom Service. Featuring clarinettist Sabine Meyer, with recordings of Weber's Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor with the orchestra of the Staatskapelle Dresden.
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Artist Focus - 20/09/2007
With Geoffrey Smith. To celebrate the orchestra's 75th anniversary, Klaus Tennstedt conducts the LPO in Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Wagner's Gotterdammerung.
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Artist Focus - 20/11/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. The spotlight is on featured artist pianist Imogen Cooper, and the music includes Ravel's Alborada del gracioso and La Vallee des cloches from Mirroirs.
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Artist Focus - 20/12/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. Marin Alsop returns to American music, and her recording of the Barber Violin Concerto with soloist James Buswell.
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Artist Focus - 21/01/2008
With Tom Service. The Nash Ensemble are the featured artists and the programme includes the Sextet by Francis Poulenc.
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Artist Focus - 21/02/2008
Tom Service concludes his profile of mezzo-soprano Susan Graham with Berg's Seven Early Songs and opera arias by Handel.
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Artist Focus - 21/04/2008
Tom Service introduces this week's featured artist, soprano Natalie Dessay, who performs Handel's duet Ah, nella sorte umane with fellow soprano Veronique Gens.
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Artist Focus - 21/05/2008
With Tom Service. Featuring clarinettist Sabine Meyer, with a recording of Brahms's Clarinet Trio in A minor with cellist Heinrich Schiff and pianist Rudolf Buchbinder.
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Artist Focus - 21/07/2008
The featured artist is Olivier Latry, organist of Notre Dame, Paris, who is heard in music by Cesar Franck.
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Artist Focus - 21/11/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. Pianist Imogen Cooper features in Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields and conductor Neville Marriner.
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Artist Focus - 22/01/2008
With Tom Service. The Nash Ensemble are the featured artists and the programme includes Mark-Anthony Turnage's An Invention on 'Solitude'.
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Artist Focus - 22/04/2008
With Tom Service. The featured artist is soprano Natalie Dessay and the programme includes, among others, her performance in the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.
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Artist Focus - 22/05/2008
With Tom Service. Featuring clarinettist Sabine Meyer, with a recording of Copland's Clarinet Concerto with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ingo Metzmacher.
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Artist Focus - 22/10/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. The Brodsky Quartet are joined by Anne Sofie von Otter for Respighi's Il Tramonto.
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Artist Focus - 22/11/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. Pianist Imogen Cooper is the featured artist in Schubert's Des Baches Wiegenlied from Die Schöne Müllerin, with baritone Wolfgang Holzmair.
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Artist Focus - 23/01/2008
With Jonathan Swain. Featuring a live recording of the Nash Ensemble playing Beethoven's Clarinet Trio at Wigmore Hall in 2005.
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Artist Focus - 23/04/2008
With Tom Service. The featured artist is soprano Natalie Dessay and the programme includes her performance as Konstanze in Mozart's opera Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail.
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Artist Focus - 23/06/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artists are the choir Polyphony, heard performing Britten's AMDG with director Stephen Layton.
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Artist Focus - 23/10/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. The Brodsky Quartet perform Shostakovich's Quartet No 7.
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Artist Focus - 24/01/2008
With Jonathan Swain. The final programme on the Nash Ensemble features music by one of their collaborators, Malcolm Arnold, and includes his Trio for flute, viola and bassoon.
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Artist Focus - 24/04/2008
With Tom Service. The featured artist is soprano Natalie Dessay, who sings the role of a nightingale in works by Stravinsky and Saint-Saens.
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Artist Focus - 24/06/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artists are the choir Polyphony, who perform Walton's Coronation Te Deum, with The Wallace Collection and director Stephen Layton.
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Artist Focus - 24/07/2008
With further recordings of featured artist Olivier Latry, organist of Notre Dame, Paris, renowned for his performances of the works of Olivier Messiaen.
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Artist Focus - 24/09/2007
With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Soprano Felicity Lott performs a feast of English music including excerpts from Britten's Peter Grimes.
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Artist Focus - 24/10/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. This programme includes the Brodsky Quartet's recording of Britten's 3 Divertimenti.
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Artist Focus - 25/02/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is the pianist Peter Donohoe and the programme includes music by Brahms.
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Artist Focus - 25/03/2008
With Catherine Bott. This week's featured artist is pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, who gives a performance of Liszt's Mephisto Waltz No 1.
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Artist Focus - 25/06/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artists are the choir Polyphony, who perform Poulenc's Quatre Motets pour un temps de penitence, with their director Stephen Layton.
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Artist Focus - 25/09/2007
With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Soprano Felicity Lott performs in the closing scene of Strauss's opera Capriccio.
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Artist Focus - 25/10/2007
With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. The Brodsky Quartet perform a Quartet by Tunde Jegede inspired by the music of Beethoven.
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Artist Focus - 26/02/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is the pianist Peter Donohoe, who performs works including a piano concerto by Kevin Volans.
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Artist Focus - 26/03/2008
With Catherine Bott. The featured artist is pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the programme includes a performance of Haydn's Sonata in D, H XVI 37.
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Artist Focus - 26/05/2008
With Suzy Klein. Featuring Jordi Savall, who directs Hesperion XXI and La Capella Reial de Catalunya in the invitatory antiphon Regem cui, part of his 'Route to the Orient' project.
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Artist Focus - 26/06/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artists are the choir Polyphony, who perform John Tavener's Butterfly Dreams, under director Stephen Layton.
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Artist Focus - 26/09/2007
With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Soprano Felicity Lott performs French music, including songs by Poulenc and Faure.
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Artist Focus - 26/11/2007
With Martin Handley. Baritone Matthias Goerne is the featured artist. In this programme he performs Beethoven's song-cycle An die ferne Geliebte with pianist Alfred Brendel.
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Artist Focus - 27/02/2008
Petroc Trelawny introduces performances by the pianist Peter Donohoe, who plays music by composers including Chopin.
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Artist Focus - 27/03/2008
The featured artist is pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the programme includes a selection of Grieg's Lyric Pieces performed on Grieg's own piano at his house in Troldhaugen in Norway.
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Artist Focus - 27/05/2008
Presented by Suzy Klein. The featured artist is Jordi Savall, who is joined by harpsichordist Ton Koopman in Bach's Sonata in G for viola da gamba and keyboard, BWV1027.
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Artist Focus - 27/09/2007
With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Soprano Felicity Lott sings arias by Mozart, including from The Marriage of Figaro and Cosi fan tutte.
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Artist Focus - 27/11/2007
With Martin Handley. Baritone Matthias Goerne is the featured artist. This programme includes an excerpt from Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony.
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Artist Focus - 28/01/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring the pianist, composer and writer Stephen Hough. Including his recording of Schoenberg's 6 Kleine Klavierstucke, Op 19.
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Artist Focus - 28/02/2008
Petroc Trelawny introduces performances by pianist Peter Donohoe, who plays music by Debussy and Rachmaninov.
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Artist Focus - 28/04/2008
Catherine Bott profiles American violinist Joshua Bell in a programme that features his recording of Debussy's Violin Sonata, with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
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Artist Focus - 28/05/2008
Presented by Suzy Klein. Featuring Jordi Savall, who directs Les Concerts des Nations in Mozart's serenade Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
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Artist Focus - 28/11/2007
With Martin Handley. Baritone Matthias Goerne is the featured artist. Including arias from Bach's Mass in B minor and St John Passion.
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Artist Focus - 29/01/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring pianist, composer and writer Stephen Hough's recording of Schumann's Spanische Liebeslieder, Op 18.
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Artist Focus - 29/04/2008
Catherine Bott profiles American violinist Joshua Bell in a programme that features his performance of Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1.
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Artist Focus - 29/05/2008
Presented by Suzy Klein. The featured artist is Jordi Savall, who directs Hesperion XXI and Le Concert des Nations in pieces he wrote mourning the death of the artist Caravaggio.
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Artist Focus - 29/10/2007
With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Cellist Steven Isserlis begins with an early work by Strauss, his Romance for cello and orchestra.
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Artist Focus - 29/11/2007
With Martin Handley. Baritone Matthias Goerne is the featured artist. Including some of Hans Eisler's Hollywood songs.
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Artist Focus - 30/01/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring pianist, composer and writer Stephen Hough's recording of Beethoven's Sonata in A minor, Op 23, with violinist Robert Mann.
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Artist Focus - 30/04/2008
Catherine Bott profiles violinist Joshua Bell, who is heard performing John Corigliano's music for the film The Red Violin.
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Artist Focus - 30/06/2008
With Suzy Klein. The featured artsist are the celebrated group Kronos Quartet, who are heard performing music by Golijov.
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Artist Focus - 30/10/2007
With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Cellist Steven Isserlis collaborates with his friend Stephen Hough in music by Liszt.
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Artist Focus - 31/01/2008
With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring pianist, composer and writer Stephen Hough playing Suk's Ballade and Serenade, Op 3, with cellist Steven Isserlis.
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Artist Focus - 31/03/2008
With Catherine Bott. The featured artist is soprano Karita Mattila, who sings music from her native Scandinavia, including Sibelius's Luonnotar.
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Artist Focus - 31/10/2007
With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Cellist Steven Isserlis performs Thrinos, a solo work written for him by John Tavener.
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Artist Focus - Proms Artist Focus (Angelika Kirchschlager)
Recordings by Austrian mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager, who features in the Proms 2008 season
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Artist Focus - Proms Artist Focus (Berlin Philharmonic)
Recordings by Proms performers The Berlin Philharmonic
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Artist Focus - Proms Artist Focus (I Fagiolini)
Featuring recordings by the British solo-voice ensemble who specialise in Renaissance and contemporary music
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Artist Focus - Proms Artist Focus (Julia Fischer)
A series of recordings by German violinist Julia Fischer, who features in the Proms 2008 season
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Artist Focus - Proms Artist Focus (Lang Lang)
Recordings by the Chinese pianist Lang Lang, who features in the Proms 2008 season
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Artist Focus - Proms Artist Focus (Paul Hillier)
Recordings by Paul Hillier, conductor, singer and founder of the Hilliard Ensemble, who feature in the Proms 2008 season.
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Artist Focus - Proms Artist Focus (Roger Norrington)
Recordings of music conducted by Roger Norrington, who appears in the 2008 Last Night of the Proms
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