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This is a list of Private Passions episodes from 1995 to 1999. It does not include repeated episodes or compilations.

1995[edit]

Date Guest Composer Title Performer / Label
15 Apr 1995 Elvis Costello Britten Corpus Christi carol (from album 'Grace')
William Byrd Ye Sacred Muses (rec. 1960)
Mozart Parto, ma tu ben mio' (from La clemenza di Tito)
Henry Purcell Fantasia a 4 No. 5 in B-flat Z736
Schubert Piano Sonata movement (incomplete) D571
Stravinsky March royale (from 'L'Histoire du Soldat')
Sigurd von Koch [fi; sv] The Wild Swans
Kurt Weill My Ship (from 'Miles Ahead')
22 Apr 1995 Germaine Greer Brahms Gesang aus Fingal (4 Songs, Op.17 No.4)
John Cage Organ Music
François Couperin L'evaporee (Pieces de clavecin Book 3 5th ordre)
Handel Heart, the seat of soft delight (from Acis and Galatea)
Johann Ritter Von Herbeck Pueri concinite
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller Is that all there is?
Mahler Der Tambourg'sell (from Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Schubert Der blinde Knabe D833
Tomás Luis de Victoria Tenebrae responsories
29 Apr 1995 Simon Russell Beale Bach Kyrie from Mass in B minor
Duparc Chanson triste
Gerald Finzi The Salutation' from Dies natalis
Monteverdi Quia fecit mihi magna (from Magnificat, Vespers, 1610)
Rachmaninov Cello Sonata (3rd mvmt)
Ravel Le jardin feerique (6eme tableau) from Ma Mere l'Oye
Richard Strauss Finale from 'Elektra'
6 May 1995 Denis Healey Puccini In questa reggia (from Turandot)
Mozart Lachrimosa (from Requiem)
Richard Strauss Trio from Act III of Der Rosenkavalier
Bach Gigue from Partita No. 1 in B-flat BWV 825
Beethoven Finale of Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor)
Rossini Nacqui all'affanno...Non piu mesta (from La Cenerentola)
Schubert The Shepherd on the Rock
Beethoven String Quartet Op.130 (5th mvmt, Cavatina)
13 May 1995 Harriet Walter Bach Trio Sonata (2nd mvmt) from 'The Musical Offering'
Beethoven Symphony No.5 (1st movmt)
Chopin Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.1
Elgar Cello Concerto (2nd mvmt)
Monteverdi Beatus vir
Francis Poulenc Domine Deus (from Gloria)
Sergei Prokofiev Death of Tybalt (from Romeo and Juliet)
20 May 1995 Terry Waite Chopin Ballade No.1 in G minor
Elgar Chanson de matin, Op.15 No.2
Elgar The Dream of Gerontius Part II (Prelude, and 'I went to sleep')
Gurney Sleep
J. M. Nicholas Great is he, the Lord eternal arr. B. Davies
Antonio Carlos Jobim and Gene Lees Quiet Night of Quiet Stars
Malcolm Boyle Thou, O God, are praised in Sion
Penderecki Utrenya (from Part II: The Resurrection of Christ)
Peter Melville Smith Fanfare
27 May 1995 P. D. James Bach Gloria, In terra Pax (from Mass in B minor)
Gabriel Fauré Agnus Dei and Libera Me (from Requiem)
Gerald Finzi His Golden Locks (from Farewell to Arms)
Orlando Gibbons Psalm 145
Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox Killing me softly with his song
Handel Dopo notte (from Ariodante)
Mozart Soave o sia il vento (from Cosi fan tutte)
Schubert An die Musik
3 Jun 1995 Adam Mars-Jones Bach Chorale Prelude: O Mensch, bewein dein Sunde gross
Don Van Vliet Hair Pie: Bake 2 (from Trout Mask Replica)
Carlo Gesualdo Dolcissima mia vita
Godowsky Study No.27 (on Chopin's Op.25 No.2)
Pärt Mein Weg hat Gipfel und Wellentaler
Francis Poulenc Sicilienne & Carillon (from Suite Francaise)
Max Reger Chorale Prelude: Wachet Auf, Op.67 No.41
Schubert Lebenssturme, D947
10 Jun 1995 John Nettles Beethoven Symphony No.6 (Pastoral) Finale
Joseph Canteloube Bailero (from 'Songs of the Auvergne')
Joan Baez All in Green (from album 'Love Song')
John Ireland The Island Spell
Traditional March The Cornish Troubadour (arr. K. polmear)
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A K622 (2nd movement)
Shakespeare and Martin Harris Under the Greenwood Tree
William Walton Charge and Battle Music (from Henry V film score)
17 Jun 1995 Toyah Willcox Beethoven Symphony No.7 in A (2nd movement)
Elgar Enigma Variations (no.9, Nimrod)
Holst Mars (from The Planets)
Kate Bush no details
Keith Tippett and Andy Sheppard No.32 from '66 Shades of Lipstick'
Mozart Serenade for 13 wind instruments in B-flat, K. 361 (2nd mvmt) (from soundtrack of film Amadeus)
Stravinsky 2 Dances from 'The Firebird', 1910
24 Jun 1995 John Mortimer Brahms Symphony No.4 in E minor (3rd movement)
Irving Berlin Let's face the music and dance
Johann Strauss II How sad it is (from Die Fledermaus)
Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E-flat, K. 364 (finale)
Puccini "E lucevan le stelle" (Tosca, act 3)
Richard Strauss Beim Schlafengehen
Rossini Una voce poco fa (from The Barber of Seville, Act I)
Verdi Dies irae (from Requiem)
1 Jul 1995 Chad Varah Bach Concerto for oboe, violin and strings in C minor, BWV 1060 (2nd mvmt, Adagio)
William Byrd Agnus Dei (from Mass for 4 voices)
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in A minor, Kk54
Percy Grainger Brigg Fair (arr. for tenor and chorus)
Handel Date serta (from motet 'Silete Venti' for soprano and orchestra
Handel Dixit Dominus (Psalm 110) HWV 232
Erik Satie Gymnopedie No.1 (orch. Debussy)
Jean Sibelius Flickan kom ifran sin (The maiden's tryst) from 5 Songs, Op.37
Tchaikovsky Concerto for piano and orchestra no.2 (2nd mvmt)
8 Jul 1995 Simon Jenkins Beethoven Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92 (4th mvmt)
Dolly Parton I will always love you
Scott Joplin Elite Syncopations, arr. J.C. Starkey
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat, K. 595 (2nd mvmt)
Rossini Cujus animam gementem, from Stabat mater
Erik Satie La belle excentrique
Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965
Verdi excerpt from Rigoletto
15 Jul 1995 Bernice Rubens Richard Strauss Beim Schlafengehen (from 4 Letzte Lieder)
Schubert String Quintet in C major, D956 (2nd mvmt)
Charles Ives General William Booth Enters into Heaven (excerpt)
Antonín Dvořák Cello Concerto in B minor, 3rd mvmt
Mozart Mi tradi quell'alma ingrata, from Act II of 'Don Giovanni'
Mozart String Quartet in C major, K365 (Dissonance), 2nd mvmt
22 Jul 1995 Alastair Morton Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor (1st mvmt)
John Matshikiza excerpt from 'King Kong'
John Rutter For the beauty of the earth, anthem
Spencer Williams Basin Street Blues
Stravinsky Disappearance of the Palace and Kaschkei's Enchantments (from Sc 2 of 'The Firebird'
Verdi Ah! Veglia, o donna, from Act 1 Sc 2 of 'Rigoletto'
Verdi Vedi come il buon vegliardo
29 Jul 1995 Patricia Hodge Ennio Morricone Gabriel's Oboe (No.2 from film score 'The Mission')
Leonard Bernstein excerpt from Symphony no.3 ('Kaddish')
Chopin Polonaise for piano in A-flat major, Op. 53 ("Eroica")
Gabriel Fauré Libera me (from Requiem, Op.48)
Mahler Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor (4th mvmt, Adagietto)
Kurt Weill Girl of the moment (from 'Lady in the Dark')
Widor Toccata (from Symphony for organ No.5 in F minor)
5 Aug 1995 Jeremy Isaacs Beethoven O namenlose Freude (duet) from Fidelio (1814 version), Act II no.15
Haydn Kyrie from Mass in D minor (Missa in angustiis)
Leoš Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen (Act I, Prelude)
Mozart Symphony No.38 in D, K504 (Prague), 1st mvmt
Rossini Pourquoi ta presence, from William Tell, Act IV
Schubert Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960 (1st mvmt)
12 Aug 1995 Irene Thomas Captain Arthur C. Green Sunset (bugle call)
Britten Moonlight', No.3 of 4 Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes'
Gounod Avant de quitter (Cavatina) from Act II of 'Faust'
J. H. Hewitt All quiet along the Potomac tonight
Julia Ward Howe Battle Hymn of the Republic
Orazio Vecchi Fa una canzona (madrigal)
Robert Schumann Berg und Burgen schaun herunter, No.7 of 'Liederkreis', Op.24
Traditional music of Wales Bugeilio'r gwenith gwyn (Watching the white wheat)
Verdi Tacea la notte placida, from Act I sc 2 of 'Il Trovatore'
Verdi Tuba mirum, from Requiem
Wagner Liebestod from Act III of 'Tristan und Isolde'
26 Aug 1995 Albert Roux Bach Gigue from Suite for cello No.3 in C (BWV1009)
Max Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26 (2nd mvmt)
Louiguy La vie en rose
Massenet Si tu veux, Mignonne
Mozart Requiem aeternam (from Requiem in D minor, K626)
Puccini Nessun dorma (from Turandot, Act III, sc 1)
Reynaldo Hahn Offrande
Camille Saint-Saëns Danse macabre (symphonic poem)
Wesley Wilson Gimme a Pigfoot
2 Sep 1995 Leopold David de Rothschild Hubert Parry An Ode on the Nativity
Mozart Menuetto and Trio from Serenade in D major, K203
Bach Prelude and fugue in A major (from Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Bk 2)
Francesco Cavalli La Calisto
Handel Concerto grosso in B minor, Op.6 No.12 (3rd mvmt)
Meyerbeer Rare flower
Mozart Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 18 in B-flat major, K. 456 (2nd mvmt)
Gilbert and Sullivan The sun, whose rays are all ablaze' (from The Mikado, Act II)
9 Sep 1995 Ian Hislop Anonymous work Ayo visto lo mappamundi (15th-century Neapolitan barzeletta)
Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major ("Romantic") 4th mvmt
Emilio de' Cavalieri O che nuovo miracolo (ballo from 6th Florentine Intermedio, 1589)
Mickey Newbury An American Trilogy (Dixie/John Brown/All my trials)
Mozart Overture to 'Le nozze de Figaro', K492
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Hodie Christus natus est: motet for 4 voices
Henry Purcell Crown the altar, deck the shrine, from 'Celebrate this festival' (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1693)
Tchaikovsky Serenade for string orchestra in C, Op.48 (2nd mvmt, Waltz)
William Walton Spitfire Music/Battle in the Air (from The Battle of Britain Suite)
16 Sep 1995 Dennis Marks Debussy Arabesque No.1 in E major
Leoš Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen (Act III, final scene)
Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (No.4 of 5 Ruckert-Lieder for voice and orchestra)
Monteverdi Laetatus sum, from Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610)
Schubert Trio for piano and strings in E-flat major (Notturno), D. 897
Michael Tippett Interlude and 2nd mvmt from Concerto for violin, viola, cello and orchestra
23 Sep 1995 Sir Edwin Nixon Leonard Bernstein America (from West Side Story)
Brahms Academic Festival Overture, Op.80
Chopin Polonaise in A (Military), Op.40 No.1
Monteverdi Deus in adjutorium meum intende (Intonation), and Domine ad adjuvandum, from Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610)
Mozart Credo from Mass in C minor, K427
Richard Strauss Wiegenlied, Op.41 No.1, for voice and orchestra
Verdi Orfanella il tetto umile...Figlia! A ta nome (duet from Simon Boccanegra, Act I)
30 Sep 1995 David Hockney Béla Bartók Quartet No.2 (2nd mvmt Allegro molto capriccioso)
Mozart Bald prangt, den Morgen zu verkunden (from The Magic Flute)
Ravel Five o clock Foxtrot (from L'enfant et les sortileges)
Richard Strauss Falcon Aria from Act II of Die Frau ohne Schatten
Stravinsky Song of the Nightingale (from Le Rossignol)
Wagner Prelude to Tristan and Isolde
7 Oct 1995 Bamber Gascoigne Berlioz Absence (from les nuits d'ete)
Babuji dheere chalna
Verdi E grave il sacrifizio (from La traviata)
Mozart Finale of Act III, The Marriage of Figaro
Saverio Mercadante Overture: La testa di bronzo
Stravinsky Petrushka's Room (from Petrushka)
Britten The splendour falls (from Serenade, Op.31)
14 Oct 1995 David Pountney Antonín Dvořák Kate and the Devil (Finale of Act I)
George Gershwin Just another Rhumba
Leoš Janáček String Quartet No.1 (Kreutzer Sonata) 1st mvmt
Maxwell Davies Resurrection (from Revivalist Rally)
Henry Purcell Dance of Fairies/Sing while we trip it/See, even Night herself is here (from The Fairy Queen, Act II)
Schubert Sonata in A minor D784 (2nd mvmt Andante)
Shostakovich Can-can.Ophelia's Ditty/Lullaby (from Hamlet)
21 Oct 1995 Dudley Moore Bach Fugue in B minor BWV 544
Beethoven Symphony No.3 (Eroica), 2nd mvmt
Chopin Ballade No.1 Op.23
Mahler In diesem Wetter (from Kindertotenlieder)
Massenet Meditation (from Thais)
Mozart Domine Jesu (from Requiem K626)
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor (2nd mvmt)
Weelkes When David Heard
28 Oct 1995 Elizabeth Esteve-Coll Trad. Sicilian Peasant Songs Bella Ciao
Trad. Spanish arr. G. Tarrago El Rossinyol
Mozart Quintet for piano and wind, K452 (Larghetto)
Britten Sanctus from War Requiem
Camille Saint-Saëns Softly awakes my heart (from Samson and Delilah)
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in D major, Kk490
Shostakovich Violin Concerto (1st mvmt: Nocturne)
4 Nov 1995 Fiona Shaw Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor (1st mvmt)
Britten Adam lay i-bounden (from A Ceremony of Carols)
Honegger Joan of Arc at the Stake (scene 7 and part of 8)
John Field Nocturne No.7 in C major
John Tavener The Protecting Veil (opening mvmt)
Mozart Mi tradi quell'alma ingrate (from Act II of Don Giovanni)
Mozart Opening chorus of Requiem
11 Nov 1995 Noel Annan Bach Sanctus (from Mass in B minor)
Mozart Concerto for flute and harp K299 (2nd mvmt)
Henry Purcell Chaconne (from The Fairy Queen)
Henry Purcell Halcyon Days (from The Tempest)
Schubert Im Fruhling
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin (final scene)
Kurt Weill Surabaya Jonny (from Happy End)
18 Nov 1995 Jonathan Miller Bach Erbarme dich (from St Matthew Passion)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4 (1st mvmt)
Leoš Janáček Introduction to 'The Cunning Little Vixen'
Monteverdi final duet from The Coronation of Poppea
Mozart Sull'aria' and 'Che soave zeffiretto' (from the Marriage of Figaro)
Schubert Adagio in E-flat D. 897 (Notturno)
Spencer Williams Tishomingo Blues (rec.1947)
Traditional music Rag bilaskhani todi
25 Nov 1995 Charles Rosen Bach Prelude and fugue in C minor, BWV 871 (from 'The 48' Book 2)
Vincenzo Bellini O rendetemi la speme (from I Puritani)
Elliott Carter Double Concerto
Chopin Waltz in C sharp minor, Op.64/2
John Browne Stabat mater
Mozart Di scrivermi ogni giorno (Cosi fan tutte)
Wagner Immolation Scene (from Götterdämmerung)
Anton Webern Eingang (from 5 Songs on poems by Stefan George, Op.4)
2 Dec 1995 Julian Barnes Berlioz Villanelle (from Les nuits d'ete)
Georges Brassens Le 22 septembre
Noël Coward Don't let's be beastly to the Germans
Gounod Credo (from St Cecilia Mass)
Mozart Sonata in E-flat, K. 282 (1st mvmt)
Ravel Blues (from Violin Sonata)
Erik Satie Gnossienne No.4
Jean Sibelius Symphony No.4 (1st mvmt)
9 Dec 1995 Marjorie Wallace Annie Fortescue Harrison In the Gloaming
Chopin Waltz in A Flat, Op.69/1
Elgar As torrents in spring
Gabriel Fauré In paradisum (from Requiem)
Gounod Repentir
Mahler Adagietto (from Symphony No.5)
Meredith Willson Till there was You (from The Music Man)
Puccini recondite armonia (from Tosca)
Verdi Dinale from La Traviata, Act III
16 Dec 1995 John Bird Bach Prelude in C sharp major (from The 48, Book 1)
Beethoven Sonata in A, Op.101 (2nd mvmt)
Boulez Eclat
Debussy Etude pour les octaves
Haydn Quartet in B-flat, Op. 76/4 (1st mvmt)
Arnold Schoenberg 3 Pieces for chamber orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg Herzgewachse
Robert Schumann Sphinxes; Papillons (from Carnaval)
Stravinsky Variations – Aldous Huxley in memoriam
23 Dec 1995 Barry Humphries Chabrier L'ile heureuse
Jean-Michel Damase Variations on the Wedding March
Frederick Delius they are not long, the weeping and the laughter (Songs of Sunset)
Percy Grainger On Arrival Platform Humlet
Ernst Krenek The Farewell Song (from Jonny spielt auf)
Mompou Damunt de tu nomes les flors
Edgard Varèse Octandre
Heitor Villa-Lobos Samba Classico

1996[edit]

Date Guest Composer Title Performer / Label
13 Jan 1996 Ken Russell Brahms Symphony No.3 (2nd mvmt)
Elgar Symphony No.2 in E flat (3rd mvmt – Presto)
Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer Skylark
John Adams Grand Pianola Music Part II; On the Dominant Divide
Milhaud Saudades do Brasil (No.4 Copacabana; No.5 Ipanema, No.6 Gavea)
Sergei Prokofiev Waltz from War and Peace Symphonic Suite
Stan Kenton Lover (from Kenton in Hi-Fi)
20 Jan 1996 David Hare Bach Goldberg Variations, Nos. 4–8
Beethoven Symphony No.7 in A (2nd movement)
Berlioz La morte de Cleopatre
Mike Figgis Ben and Sara (theme) (from original soundtrack for 'Leaving Las Vegas')
Miles Davis Diner au Motel (from album Ascenseur pour l'echafaud)
Ravel Tzigane
Stanley Myers Theme from 'Heading Home'
27 Jan 1996 Sian Phillips Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Fac ut ardeat cor meum (from Stabat mater)
Schubert Impromptu No.3 in G flat, Op.90, D899
Leonard Bernstein Glitter and be gay (from Candide)
George Gershwin Bess, you is my woman now (from Porgy and Bess)
Mozart Porgi amor (from The Marriage of Figaro)
Mozart Piano Concerto No.19 in F, K459 (1st mvmt)
3 Feb 1996 Sir Isaiah Berlin Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.5 (1st mvmt, Allegro)
Beethoven String Quartet No.13 in B flat, Op.130 (5th mvmt, Adagio molto espressivo)
Vincenzo Bellini Casta diva (from Norma)
Mozart Act II finale from The Marriage of Figaro
Schubert Piano Sonata in A, D959
10 Feb 1996 Professor Steve Jones Richard Strauss Du geht er hin, der aufgeblasene schlechte Kerl (from Der Rosenkavalier, Act I)
Steve Reich Tehillim for voice and ensemble (Part II: fast)
Bach Chaconne (from Partita for violin No.2
Beethoven String Quartet No.16 in F, Op.135 (2nd movement)
Monteverdi Sonata sopra Sancta Maria (from Vespro della Beata Vergine)
Henry Purcell In the midst of life (from Funeral Music for Queen Mary)
The Ramblers Dance Band Agyanka Dabre
17 Feb 1996 Patricia Routledge Bach Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537, Op.86
Antonín Dvořák 2nd mvmt (Lento) from 'American' String Quartet No.12 in F, Op.96
Gluck Che faro senza Euridice & Dance of the Blessed Spirits (from Orfeo ed Euridice)
Lennox Berkeley The Lord is my shepherd, Op.91 No.1
Shostakovich Suite: The Adventures of Korzinkina, Op.59
Tchaikovsky Variations on a rococo theme for cello and orchestra, Op.33 (Vars IV-VII)
24 Feb 1996 Sir Magdi Yacoub Mozart Fantasia in C K 395
Bach Ich habe genug (from Cantata No. 82)
Mozart Lacrimosa (from Requiem)
Handel Let the bright seraphim (from Samson)
César Franck Panis angelicus
Bach Prelude No.1 in C (from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier Te Deum
Bob Marley Three little birds
Bach 2nd mvmt from Concerto for 2 violins, BWV 1043
2 Mar 1996 James MacMillan Bach Fugue 21 in B flat (Well tempered Clavier, Book 1)
Beethoven O namenlose Freude (duet from Act II of Fidelio)
William Byrd Mass for 4 voices (Kyrie)
John Casken Vaganza (3rd mvmt)
Messiaen Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorem
Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K581 (1st mvmt)
Traditional music MacCrimmon's Lament
Ustvolskaya Composition No.3 (Benedictus qui venit)
Wagner Prelude & Opening Scene of Götterdämmerung
9 Mar 1996 Michael Ignatieff Bach Italian' Concerto in F, BWV 971 (3rd mvmt, Presto)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4 in G (2nd mvmt, Andante con moto)
George Gershwin Summertime (from Porgy and Bess)
Hoagy Carmichael Stardust
Mahler 4th mvmt (Urlicht) from Symphony No.2 in C minor (Resurrection)
Arnold Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht
Schubert Trout Quintet in A major (3rd mvmt – Scherzo)
16 Mar 1996 John Peel Gregorio Allegri Miserere
Max Bruch Violin Concerto in G minor, Op.26 (2nd mvmt)
Conlon Nancarrow Study for Player-Piano No.21
George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Louis Moreau Gottschalk Ojos Criollos, Danse cubaine
Neil Young Rockin' in the Free World
Camille Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.22 (3rd mvmt – Presto)
23 Mar 1996 Colin Davis Beethoven Fugue from Credo (Missa solemnis, Op.123)
Berlioz Les Troyens (Act III finale)
Britten Act I sc 2 from Peter Grimes
Bruckner Symphony No.6 in A major (2nd mvmt)
Mozart String Trio in E flat, K563 (2nd mvmt, Adagio)
Michael Tippett Act II, sc 3 from The Midsummer Marriage
30 Mar 1996 Carl Davis Monteverdi Messenger's Aria (from Orfeo)
Schubert Moment Musical in F minot D.780/3
Mozart Quintet in G minor, K.516 (3rd movt – Adagio ma non troppo)
Paul McCartney and Carl Davis The world you're coming into (from Liverpool Oratorio)
Richard Strauss Wiegenlied Op.41/1
Bach Overture – 1st part (from Suite No. 3 in D)
Leonard Bernstein Danzon (3rd Dance Variation from Fancy Free)
Carl Davis Pride and Prejudice – Opening Titles
Puccini Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (from La Rondine)
William Walton Spitfire Music (from Battle of Britain Suite)
6 Apr 1996 Sir David Attenborough Britten The Pagodas (from The Prince of the Pagodas Act 2 Scene 2)
Duke Ellington Stompy Jones
Handel And the Glory of the Lord (Messiah)
Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Monteverdi 1st Versicle and Response (Vespers of 1610)
Mozart Soave o si'il vento (Gentle be the breeze) 0 from Act 1 of Cosi fan Tutte
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in G Major Longo 209
Thomas Tomkins When David Heard
13 Apr 1996 Jilly Cooper Beethoven Quintet in E flat (1st movt – Allegro)
Brahms Hungarian Dance No.3 in F arr. Joachim
Britten Sentimental Sarabande (from Simple Symphony, Op 4)
Chopin Andantino (from Fantasia on Polish airs, Op. 13)
Gilbert and Sullivan Now, Marco dear (from The Gondoliers)
Mozart Ah! taci, ingiusto core (from Don Giovanni)
Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben (closing section)
Richard Strauss Night and Sunrise (from Ein Alpensinfonie)
20 Apr 1996 Juliet Stevenson Schubert Arpeggione Sonata, D.821 (1st movt – allegro moderato)
Richard Strauss Beim Schlafengehen (from Four Last Songs)
Bach Und von der sechsten Stunde + Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden (from St Matthew Passion)
Britten Scene 8 (from The Turn of the Screw Act I)
James MacMillan Sanctus (from Busqueda)
Leonard Cohen Famous Blue Raincoat
Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin I can't make you love me
27 Apr 1996 Simon Callow Bizet and Oscar Hammerstein II De cards don'lie'/'Dat ol'Boy (Carmen Jones)
Cole Porter In the still of the night
John White Waltz from incidental music to Les Enfants du Paradis
Kevin Malpass Music from "Shades"
Mahler Symphony no 8 – final section of part 2
Mozart Adagio (Serenade in B flat K 361)
Sergei Prokofiev 2nd mvmt from Violin Concerto no 2 in G minor
Camille Saint-Saëns Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix' (Samson and Delilah)
4 May 1996 Ernst Gombrich Mozart Laudate Dominum (from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K 339)
Mozart Quartet in B flat major, K 458 (3rd movt – Adagio)
Haydn Qui tollis peccata mundi (from the Nelson Mass)
Schubert Sonata in G major, D 894 (3rd movt – Menuetto)
Beethoven Sonata No 8 in G major, Op. 30/3 (last movt – Allegro Vivace)
Bach Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 (2nd mvt – Adagio)
Beethoven Quartet No 13 in B flat major, Op. 130 (3rd movt – Andante con moto, ma non troppo)
11 May 1996 Joanna Trollope Britten Dawn (from Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes)
Gabriel Fauré In Paradisum (from Requiem)
George Gershwin Summertime (from Porgy and Bess)
Górecki Symphony No. 3 (opening of 3rd movt)
Mozart Laudamus Te (rom Mass in C minor, K427)
Rodgers and Hart Manhattan
Telemann Concerto in D for three trumpets (1st + 2nd movts)
Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
18 May 1996 Oz Clarke Bach O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross (from St Matthew Passion)
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller King Creole
Puccini Che gelida manina (from La Bohème)
Henry Purcell When I am laid in earth (from Dido and Aeneas)
Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger Thanks for the Memory (from The Mitford Girls)
Stephen Sondheim There was a Barber and his Wife (from Sweeney Todd)
Stephen Oliver The Battle of Pelennor Fields (from The Lord of the Rings)
Tom Waits The Piano has been drinking (not me)
Traditional music She moved through the fair
25 May 1996 Anthony Storr Bach Menuets I & II from Partita no 1 in B flat
Chopin Nouvelles Etudes nos 1 & 2
Duparc L'invitation au voyage
Handel Organ Concerto in B flat major op 4 no 2 Allegro (2nd movt)
Haydn Adagio from Quartet in F minor
Liszt Unstern-Sinistre
Mozart 4th mvt Allegro from String quintet in C
Schubert Abschied (Schwanengesang D957)
1 Jun 1996 Joe Melia Beethoven String Quartet in E flat major Op. 127 (3rd mvt – Scherzando vivace)
Britten Elegy (from Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings)
Liszt Les Preludes
Frank Loesser Overture and Racetrack Trio (from Guys and Dolls)
Richard Strauss Moonlight Music (from the last scene of Capriccio)
Verdi Falstaff (opening of Act II)
Wagner Hagen summons the Gibichung (from Götterdämmerung Act II)
Bert Williams and Will Vodery and Jean C. Havez The Darktown Poker Club
8 Jun 1996 Carmen Callil Stephen Foster Ah! may the red rose live alway
Richard Strauss Beim Schlafengehen (from Four Last Songs)
Schubert String Quintet in C, D.956 (2nd movt – Adagio)
Vincenzo Bellini Prendi: l'anel ti dono (from La Sonnambula)
Denham Harrison and Richard Elton Give me a Ticket to Heaven
Jerome Kern Can't help loving that man
Traditional music Tantum Ergo
Verdi Dio, che nell'alma infondere amor (from Don Carlo)
15 Jun 1996 Oliver Knussen Berlioz Ride to the Abyss (from The Damnation of Faust)
Britten Apparition of the Spirit (from Curlew River)
Busoni Berceuse Elegiaque (opening)
Elliott Carter A celebration of some 100 x 150 notes
Mussorgsky Opening of Act II of Boris Godunov
Pérotin Viderunt Omnes (opening)
Ravel Valses Nobles et sentimentales (conclusion)
Arnold Schoenberg Orchestral Interlude from Gurrelieder
Stravinsky Four Russian Peasant Songs
Stravinsky Movements for piano and orchestra No.4
Tchaikovsky Pas d'Action (from The Sleeping Beauty)
22 Jun 1996 Ian McEwan Britten Near the Black Mountains there I dwelt (Curlew River)
Jonnie Johnson and Keith Richards Tanqueray
Mozart Adagio ma non troppo (from Quintet for strings in G minor)
Henry Purcell Funeral Sentence – "Man that is born of a woman"
Bach Goldberg Variations – variation 11
Wynton Marsalis Hesitation
Lennox Berkeley Sonatina – 2nd mvt
Bach 3 part invention in C minor
Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
29 Jun 1996 Sir Robin Knox-Johnston Julian Slade We said we wouldn't look back from Salad Days
Handel Allegro and Hornpipe from Water Music Suite in D major
Rodgers and Hammerstein Everything's up to date in Kansas city (from Oklahoma)
Grieg Excerpt from first movement of Piano Concerto
Tchaikovsky Fantasy overture "Romeo and Juliet"
Jean Sibelius Finlandia
Benny Goodman Sing, sing, sing
Acker Bilk Stranger on the Shore
Gilbert and Sullivan Where is the plaintiff followed by chorus Comes a broken lover from Trial by Jury
6 Jul 1996 David Sylvester Harrison Birtwistle Tenebrae (Three Settings of Celan for soprano and 5 instruments)
Guillaume De Machaut Gloria (Messe de Notre Dame)
Henry Purcell Hark, each Tree (Ode on St Cecilia's Day 1692)
Beethoven Mir ist so wunderbar (Quartet from Fidelio Act 1)
Chopin Prelude in E minor
Bach Recit: "Die Welt, das Sundenhaus" & Aria: "Wie jammern mich doch die verkehrten Herzen" (Cantata no 170 "Vergnugte Ruh, Beliebte Seelenlust")
Bach Fugue from "The Musical Offering"
14 Sep 1996 Marina Warner Lewis Allan Strange Fruit
Antonín Dvořák Cello Concerto (1st movt)
John Adams Night Chorus (from The Death of Klinghoffer)
John Woolrich The Turkish Mouse
Monteverdi Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (conclusion)
Ravel Le Jardin Féerique (from Ma mère l'oye)
Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade
Stravinsky Airs by a stream (from L'Histoire du Soldat)
21 Sep 1996 Nigel Rees John Gay Virgins are like the Fair Flower (from The Beggar's Opera)
Haydn Kyrie (from the Nelson Mass)
Felix Mendelssohn Overture – Ruy Blas
Mozart Piano Concerto in D minor K.466 (2nd mvt – Romance)
Rachmaninov Prelude in C♯ minor arr. Wood
Alexander Scriabin Etude in C♯ minor Op. 2 No.1
Tchaikovsky Gremin's Aria (from Eugene Onegin, Act III Scene 2)
28 Sep 1996 Tessa Blackstone Wagner Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Stravinsky The Tresses (Tableau 1 from Les Noces)
Mozart Voi che sapete (from Le Nozze di Figaro)
Tchaikovsky Waltz (from The Sleeping Beauty), Act 1)
Beethoven Symphony No. 8 in F, Op 93 (4th movt – Allegro vivace)
Jerome Kern Pick yourself up
Mahler Der Abschied (Das Lied von der Erde)
Mozart Violin Concerto no. 3 in G, K.216 (3rd movt – Rondo, allegro)
5 Oct 1996 Craig Raine Mussorgsky Ballet of the chicks in their shells (from Pictures at an Exhibition) arr. Yamashita
Bizet Beat out dat rhythm on a drum
Handel Ev'ry valley shall be exalted (from Messiah)
Haydn Kyrie (from Missa in tempore belli)
Charles Ives Memories (Very Pleasant: Rather Sad)
Mahler Wenn dein Mütterlein (from Kindertotenlieder)
Puccini Tosca (conclusion of Act 2)
Shel Silverstein Sylvia's Mother
Stravinsky Royal March (from The Soldier's Tale)
Tchaikovsky Chinese Dance (from The Nutcracker)
12 Oct 1996 George Melly Cole Porter Let's do it
Gilbert and Sullivan Take a pair of sparkling eyes (from The Gondoliers)
Edward Heyman and Robert Sour and Frank Eyton and Johnny Green Body and Soul
Max Miller Here's a funny thing (from Max at the Met)
Ottorino Respighi Prologue (from The Birds)
Erik Satie Airs à faire fuir
Sidney Bechet Egyptian Fantasy
Stravinsky Danse Sacrale (from The Rite of Spring)
William Walton Popular Song (from Façade Suite)
19 Oct 1996 Paul Bailey Bach Nun komm', der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 arr.Busoni
Trad. Arr. Maurice Jacobson Ca' the yowes arr. Jacobson
Alban Berg Interlude – Invention on a key (D minor) (from Wozzeck)
Brahms Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 (1st movt. – Vivace ma non troppo)
Leoš Janáček S Bohem, rodný kraju (from The Diary of one who disappeared)
Mozart Porgi amor (from Le Nozze di Figaro)
Schubert Der Leiermann (from Die Winterreise)
Verdi Dio, che nell' alma infondere amor (from Don Carlos)
26 Oct 1996 Hermione Lee Bach Courante (from Cello Suite No. 3 BWV 1009)
Beethoven Quartet in B flat, Op 130 (5th mvt – Cavatina)
Britten Parade + Départ (from Les illuminations)
Haydn Et Resurrexit (from Theresienmesse)
Leoš Janáček Quartet No. 2 – Intimate Letters (2nd movt – Adagio)
Mozart Cosa mi narri + Sull'aria (from Le Nozze di Figaro)
Schubert Sonata in A, D.959 (2nd mvt – Andantino)
Verdi Falstaff (beginning of Act I, Scene 2)
2 Nov 1996 Genista McIntosh Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Sonata & Die liederliche Gesellschaft von allerley Humor (drunken part writing) – 1st 2 mvmts from Battalia à 10
Mozart Laudamus te (Mass in C minor)
Sergei Prokofiev 1st mvmt – Piano Concerto no 1 in D flat op 10
Puccini Signore, ascolta ... (Act 1, Turandot)
Rodgers and Hart Ten Cents a Dance
Rossini Kyrie (Petite Messe Solennelle)
Stravinsky (O God, protect dear Tom ...) I go, I go to him (end of Act 1, The Rake's Progress)
Guy Woolfenden Come unto these yellow sands (The Tempest)
9 Nov 1996 Cleo Laine Carroll Coates Love comes and goes
Gabriel Fauré En Sourdine
George Gershwin Soon
Robert Herrick and Edward Purcell Passing by
Horace Silver Ecaroh
John Dankworth Sinners Rue
John Rutter What sweeter music
Eddie Sauter Pan
Stephen Sondheim Not a day goes by (Symphonic Sondheim)
Vivaldi Spring – 1st mvmt
16 Nov 1996 Dr. Oliver Sacks Schubert Der Müller und der Bach (Die Schöne Müllerin)
Stravinsky Infernal Dance & Berceuse (Firebird Suite)
Mozart Part of final scene (Don Giovanni)
Bach Final chorus (St John Passion)
Chopin Mazurka: op 7 no 1 in B flat
Mozart Andante – 2nd mvmt (Sinfonia Concertante in E flat for violin, viola and orchestra K 364)
23 Nov 1996 Sir John Drummond Alban Berg Die Nachtigall (from Seven Early Songs)
Bortnyansky Songs of the Cherubim No 7 (conclusion)
Chopin Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op. 58
Haydn Symphony No 49 in F minor – "La Passione"
Jerome Kern The Way you look Tonight
Francis Poulenc La Reine des Mouettes (from Métamorphoses)
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind
Stravinsky Les Noces (Second tableau)
Verdi Macbeth/Banquo duet (from Macbeth, Act I, Scene I)
30 Nov 1996 Eleanor Bron Béla Bartók Bluebeard's Castle (Doors 4 & 5)
Chopin Etude in A flat op 25 no 1
César Franck Piano quintet (3rd movement)
Gerry Mulligan Utter Chaos
Francis Poulenc Villageoises (Petites Pièces enfantines)
Ottorino Respighi Pines of Rome (mvmts 1) I pini di Villa Borghese
Schubert Im Frühling
7 Dec 1996 Malcolm Bradbury Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4 (1st mvt – Allegro)
Leonard Bernstein The best of all possible worlds (from Candide)
Joseph Canteloube Baïlèro (from Chants d'Auvergne)
Aaron Copland Simple Gifts
Antonín Dvořák Serenade for strings (1st mvt – Moderato)
Michael Nyman The Disposition of the Linen (from The Draughtsman's Contract)
Mozart Oboe Concerto in C K.314 (1st mvt – Allegro aperto)
Reicha Clarinet Quintet Op 107 (2nd mvt – Andante siciliano)
14 Dec 1996 Alan Hollinghurst Thomas Adès Maid's Champagne Aria (Powder Her Face)
Leoš Janáček 3rd movement, String Quartet no 2 "Intimate Letters"
Mahler Symphony no 3 – 1st movement opening
Mozart "E Susanna non vien! ... Dove sono i bei momenti" : (The Marriage of Figaro, act 3)
Robert Schumann Movements from 'Carnival' – 'Papillons', 'Lettres dansantes', 'Chiarina, 'Chopin', 'Estrella'
Ralph Vaughan Williams Scene 3 – Minuet of the Sons of Job and Their Wives – Job (A Masque for Dancing)
Wagner O sink hernieder' (Tristan and Isolde Act 2)
21 Dec 1996 Sir Claus Moser Monteverdi Deus in adjutorium (fromVespers)
Schubert Gute Nacht (from Winterreise)
Schubert Moment Musical No 3 in F minor, D 780
Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K 488 (2nd mvt – Adagio)
Beethoven Quartet in C, Op 59/3 (4th mvt – Allegro molto)
Mozart Riconosci in quest'amplesso (from Le Nozze di Figaro, Act 3)
Wagner Wotan's Farewell (from Die Walküre)
Beethoven Fuga – Allegro ma non troppo (from Sonata in A flat, Op 110)
28 Dec 1996 Dame Edna Everage Henry Bishop Home sweet home
Carl Davis Why do we love Australia (from The Last Night of the Poms)
Charles Williams The Dream of Olwen
Percy Grainger The Gum-suckers' March (from In a Nutshell)
John Antill A Rain Dance (from Corroboree)
Aram Khachaturian Sabre Dance
Lehár Girls were made to love and kiss (from Paganini)
May Brahe Bless this house
Henry Purcell Nymphs and Shepherds
Rutland Boughton Faery Song (from The Immortal Hour)
William Garret James Bush Night Song

1997[edit]

Date Guest Composer Title Performer / Label
4 Jan 1997 David Malouf Richard Strauss Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings (end)
Schubert Wandrers Nachtlied II
Bach Fugue No.24 in B minor, BWV 869 (from The Well-Tempered Clavier)
Chopin Waltz No. 10 in B minor, Op.69 No.2
Haydn Andante from String Quartet in F minor, Op.77 No.2
Mozart Tutto e tranquillo e placido – Gente, gente, all'armi
5 Apr 1997 Roger Scruton Bach Double Concerto in D minor. BWV 1043 (1st mvt – Vivace)
Samuel Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Alban Berg Violin Concerto (conclusion)
Brahms Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op 91/2
Leoš Janáček Sinfonietta (conclusion)
Schubert Symphony no.9 in C (Trio from the scherzo)
Tomás Luis de Victoria Caligaverunt oculi mei – Si est dolor – O vos omnes (from Tenebrae Responsories)
Wagner Brunnhilde pleads with Wotan (from Die Walkure)
12 Apr 1997 John Tusa Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov USSR National Anthem (part)
Beethoven Quartet (Rasumovsky) op 59 no 3 – Finale
Antonín Dvořák Piano Quintet in A op 81
Schubert Liebesbotschaft (Love's Message) – from Schwanengesang
Schubert Piano Sonata in B flat opus post. D 960 3rd mvt Scherzo (Allegro vivace con delicatezza)
Robert Schumann Toccata op 7
Verdi Di quella pira – (II Trovatore, Act III)
Verdi Rodrigo's (Marchese di Posa) death scene from Don Carlos (Act 4 Scene 2)
19 Apr 1997 Lord Armstrong Bach Jesu, meine freude BWV 227 (Gute Nacht....)
William Byrd Justorum animae
Handel Fugue in C minor (op 3 no 6)
Felix Mendelssohn Piano trio in C minor (Finale – Allegro appassionato)
Mozart Quintet for piano and wind K452 (2nd mvt)
Richard Strauss Capriccio – Moonlight music from last scene
Ralph Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony – Scherzo: The Waves
Peter Warlock Sleep
26 Apr 1997 Adam Phillips Boulez ...explosante-fixe...
Bob Dylan Tangled up in Blue
Arnold Bax Nonet
Billy Myles Have you ever loved a woman
Leoš Janáček Con moto (1st mvt – Quartet no 1 Kreutzer)
Lucinda Williams Lines around your eyes
Robert Schumann Fantasiestuck op 12 (Des Abends)
Wagner Prelude to Das Rheingold
Anton Webern 5 pieces for orchestra op 10
3 May 1997 Siobhan Davies Bach Contrapunctus I (from The Art of Fugue)
Gavin Bryars Three Elegies for Nine Clarinets (No.2)
Gerald Barry Flamboys (conclusion)
Handel Se m'ami, oh caro (from Aci, Galatea e Polifemo)
Kevin Volans Third Dance (from White Man Sleeps)
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in B minor
Steve Reich Clapping Music
Stravinsky Les Noces (conclusion)
10 May 1997 Sir Roy Strong Elgar Symphony No 1
Johann Strauss Jr. Klänge der Heimat – Czardas (from Die Fledermaus)
Thomas Morley It was a lover and his lass
Sergei Prokofiev Love Scene (from Romeo and Juliet Act 1)
Puccini Closing Quartet (from La Bohème Act III)
Henry Purcell Fairest Isle (from King Arthur)
Richard Strauss Countess's Reverie (from last act of Capriccio)
Tchaikovsky Journey Sequence (from Act II of Nutcracker)
17 May 1997 Paul Daniel Bach Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben (from St Matthew Passion)
Beethoven Sonata in A flat Op 110 (1st mvt)
Alban Berg Act II, Scene 3 (from Wozzeck)
David Bowie Fame (from the Stage album)
Monteverdi Possente Spirto (from L'Orfeo)
Rodgers and Hammerstein June is bustin' out all over
Schubert Heimliches Lieben
24 May 1997 Peter Shaffer Felix Mendelssohn Octet Op.20 (conclusion of 1st mvt) arr. Toscanin
Shakespeare Deposition Scene (from Richard II)
Mozart Piano Concerto in G, K 453 (3rd mvt – Allegretto)
Verdi Si, pel ciel (from Otello)
Rossini Zitto, zitto: piano, piano (from Cenerentola – Act I)Luigi Alva (Don Ramiro)/Renato Capecchi
Britten Since she whom I loved (from Holy Sonnets of John Donne)
Handel Eternal source of light Divine (from Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne)
Marc Wilkinson Chant of Resurrection – Final Lament (from The Royal Hunt of the Sun)
Mozart Kyrie (from Mass in C minor, K427)
31 May 1997 Richard Eyre Bach Suite no 1 in G, BWV 1007 (1st & 2nd mvts -Prelude & Allemande)
Chuck Berry School Day
Sam Coslow and Arthur Johnston My Old Flame
Miles Davis So What (from Kind of Blue)
Mozart Fantasia in C minor
Arnold Schoenberg Verklãrte Nacht (conclusion)
Jean Sibelius Symphony No.5 (3rd mvt – conclusion)
Verdi Sanctus (from Requiem)
7 Jun 1997 Michael Grade Beethoven Missa Solemnis (Benedictus – part)
Billy Strayhorn Chelsea Bridge
Max Bruch Kol Nidre
Richard Strauss Traum durch die Dämmerung
Jean Sibelius Vivacissimo (3rd mvt – Symphony no.2)
Stephen Sondheim The Worst Pies in London (Sweeney Todd)
Wagner Siegfried (end of final scene)
14 Jun 1997 Baroness Warnock Bach Sonata in C, BWV 1033 (1st & 2nd mvts – Andante & Allegro)
Beethoven Sonata in D minor, Op 31/2 (last mvt – Allegretto)
Felice and Boudleaux Bryant Bye Bye Love
William Boyce Symphony No 8 in D minor (last mvt – Tempo di Gavotta)
Henry Purcell Rejoice in the Lord alway
Schubert Quartet Movement in C minor, D.703
Traditional music Mary Hamilton
Jan Dismas Zelenka Second Lamentation for Maundy Thursday
21 Jun 1997 George Walden Béla Bartók The Miraculous Mandarin (opening)
Ralph Burns and Milton (Shorty) Rogers Keen and Peachy
Mussorgsky Prelude to Khovanshchina, Act I
Henry Purcell Man that is born of woman (from Funeral Music for Queen Mary)
Schubert Sonata in A, D 959 (2nd mvt – andantino)
Sonny Bono The Beat goes on
Stravinsky The Soldier's Tale (exc. from part I)
Wagner Träume (from Wesendonck-Lieder)
28 Jun 1997 Sheila Colvin[1] Antonio Carlos Jobim A Felicidade
Britten Fanfare + Villes (from Les Illuminations)
Oliver Knussen Coursing
Schubert Pause (from Die Schöne Müllerin, D795)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64 (3rd mvt – Waltz)
Verdi Falstaff – Act 1, Scene 2
Kurt Weill Seeräuber-Jenny (from Die Dreigroschenoper)
5 Jul 1997 Denis Quilley Britten Hymn and Sonnet (from Serenade
George Butterworth Loveliest of trees (from A Shropshire Lad)
Debussy String Quartet (2nd mvt – scherzo)
Haydn Symphony No 88 in G (finale – Allegro con spirito)
Lehár Dein ist mein ganzes Herz from The Land of Smiles)
Lehár Freunde das Leben ist Lebenswirth (from Giuditta)
Francis Poulenc Nocturne No 1
Rodgers and Hammerstein What's the use of wonderin' (from Carousel)
Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke Here's that rainy day
12 Jul 1997 Lord Harewood Beethoven Slow movement (Symphony no 9)
Britten Sunday Morning (3rd Sea Interlude – opening of Act II, Peter Grimes)
Leoš Janáček Prelude to Katya Kabanova
Sergei Prokofiev Death of Prince Andrei (Scene XII War & Peace)
Arnold Schoenberg Nun sag ich dir zum ersten Mal (Gurrelieder pt 1)
Schubert Ungeduld (no 7 of Die Schöne Müllerin) with orchestrated accompaniment
Verdi Ah! Dite alla giovine' (La Traviata Act III)
Wagner Opening of Act II (The Valkyrie)
13 Sep 1997 Douglas Adams Bach Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903
Berlioz The Shepherd's Farewell (from L'Enfance du Christ)
Britten Rejoice in the Lamb (conclusion)
Gary Brooker and Keith Reid Holding on
Ligeti Éjszaka (night)
Mozart Non so piu (from Le Nozze di Figaro)
Randy Newman Glory Train (from Faust)
Robbie McIntosh Gone Dancing
20 Sep 1997 Dame Felicity Lott Schubert An die Leier, D 737
Richard Strauss Capriccio (conclusion of Scene 7)
Bach Have mercy, Lord (from St Matthew Passion)
Brahms Der Abend, Op 64/2
Handel Va Tacito (from Giulio Cesare)
Jacques Brel La Chanson des Vieux Amants
John Rutter The Lord bless you and keep you
Mozart Serenade in B flat, K 361 (3rd mvt – Adagio)
27 Sep 1997 Sir Georg Solti Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra (Giuoco delle coppie -mvmt II)
Beethoven Fidelio (Quartet – Act I)
Mozart The Marriage of Figaro (Sextet – Act III)
Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier (Trio – Act III)
Verdi Falstaff (final scene)
Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Pogner's monologue from Act I)
4 Oct 1997 Ian Craft[2][3] Richard Strauss Love Duet (... Der Richtiger) (from Arabella Act II)
Robert Simpson Symphony No 6 (conclusion)
Shostakovich Symphony No 8 (3rd mvt – Allegro non troppo)
Bach Partita No 1 in B minor, BWV 1002 (4th mvt – Tempo di Borea)
Beethoven Fidelio Overture
John Blow Venus!...Adonis!... (from Venus and Adonis Act I)
Bruckner Os justi meditabitur
11 Oct 1997 Andrew Motion Bach Suite No 6 in D, BWV 1012 (1st mvt – Prélude)
Beethoven Sonata in B flat, Op 106 – Hammerklavier (3rd mvt)
Bob Dylan Love minus Zero
Britten Sonnet (from Serenade)
Gluck Ballet des Ombres Heureuses (from Orphée et Euridice)
Haydn Und Gott schuf grosse Walfische (from The Creation)
Laurie Anderson Let X = X (from album 'Big Science')
Steve Reich Three Movements (2nd mvt)
18 Oct 1997 Timothy Garton Ash Anonymous work Bogurodzica
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D, Op 61 (last mvt)
Britten Dirge (from Serenade)
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K 364 (last mvt)
Peter Fischer Apfelböck oder die Lilie auf dem Felde
Schubert Erlkönig
Bedřich Smetana Vltava (from Ma Vlast)
25 Oct 1997 Deborah McMillan[4][5] Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Prelude, Aria & Variations "The Annunciation' (The Five Joyful Mysteries)
Blossom Dearie Et tu Bruce
Mozart Lacrimosa (Requiem)
Francis Poulenc Concerto for two pianos & orchestra – 1st mvt.
Francis Poulenc O magnum mysterium (Quartre Motets pour le Temps de Noel)
Sammy Fain and Jerry Seelen I hear the music now
Arnold Schoenberg Orchestral Prelude (Gurrelieder)
Schubert La Pastorella
1 Nov 1997 Edmund White Brahms Sonata in F minor, Op. 120/1 (2nd mvt)
Britten Cello Symphony, Op 68 (2nd mvt)
Gabriel Fauré Berceuse (from Dolly Suite, Op 56)
María Grever and Stanley Adams What a difference a day makes
Haydn Symphony No. 45 in F♯ minor – Farewell (4th mvt)
Leoš Janáček Sonata 1. x. 1905 (1st mvt)
Monteverdi Tornate, o cari baci (from 7th book of madrigals)
Puccini Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (from La Rondine, Act 1)
8 Nov 1997 Robert Ponsonby[6] Albéniz Triana (Iberia no V)
Beethoven Variation no 24 'Andante' (33 variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli op 120)
Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes op 52 nos. 1–6
Leoš Janáček 4th mvt (Mladi)
Mozart Quartet: Non ti fidar, o misera (Act 1, Don Giovanni)
Schubert Abendbilder
Stravinsky Pas de Deux (Divertimento – Le Baiser de la Fée)
Verdi End of Act I, Scene 1 (Falstaff)
15 Nov 1997 A N Wilson Shostakovich 2nd mvt Allegro (Symphony no. 10)
Charles Villiers Stanford Irish Rhapsody No. 4 in A minor, Op. 141
Richard Strauss September (Four Last Songs)
Béla Bartók 3rd mvt (Viola Concerto
Beethoven 1st mvt Allegretto (Quartet in F op 135)
Bruckner Locus Iste
Haydn Quoniam Tu solus sanctus – Gloria (Nelson Mass)
Mozart 3rd mvt Allegretto (Piano Sonata in C K330)
22 Nov 1997 György Ligeti Beethoven Sonata in C minor, Op 11 (2nd mvt)
Claude Vivier Lonely Child
Conlon Nancarrow Study no 3a
Traditional music Gënding: Dhenggung Turulare
Traditional music Piéré
Traditional music Whistle Ensemble
29 Nov 1997 Maureen Duffy Trad. Arr. Harry Burleigh Deep River (pub. Maecenas Music) arr. Burleigh
Harold Adamson and Jimmy McHugh You're a Sweetheart
William Byrd Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis
Handel Non to basto, consorte + Io t'abbraccio (from Rodelinda)
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622 (2nd mvt – Adagio)
Henry Purcell Sound the Trumpet (from Come ye Sons of Art)
Henry Purcell Symphony (from Come ye Sons of Art)
Trad. Arr. Dolly Collins Six Dukes
6 Dec 1997 Eduardo Paolozzi Astor Piazzolla Songe d'une nuit d'été
Britten Opening – Prelude The Emperor (The Prince of the Pagodas)
Count Basie and S. Martin Miss Thing – part 1
Honegger Pacific 231
Charles Ives Central Park in the Dark
Cole Porter and Louis Henneve and Leon Palex Vous faites partie de moi (I've got you under my skin)
Stravinsky 1st part of Bedlam Scene (final act, The Rake's Progress)
Traditional Japanese n/a
13 Dec 1997 Judith Weir Trad. Arr. Copper The Sweet Primeroses arr. Copper
Bach Gloria (from Mass in F. BWV 233)
Brahms Sextet No 1 in Bb, Op 18 (2nd mvt)
Britten Carol (from Sacred and Profane)
Kevin Volans White Man Sleeps (1st mvt)
Carl Loewe Herr Oluf
Stravinsky Oedipus Rex (exc from Act II)
Traditional music Dzil Duet (from Accra, Ghana)
20 Dec 1997 Frederic Raphael Antonio Carlos Jobim Desafinado
Bach Goldberg Variations (Theme and Variations 1–3)
Beethoven Violin Concerto (exc from 1st mvt)
Haydn Cello Concerto No 2 in D (3rd mvt)
Marguerite Monnot and Georges Moustaki Milord
Mozart Piano Sonata in C minor, K 457 (1st mvt)
Robert Schumann Piano Concerto, Op 54 (2nd mvt)
27 Dec 1997 Manfred Stürmer (A.K.A John Sessions) Stravinsky Dance of the Earth (end of Pt 1 – The Rite of Spring
Brahms Denn es gehet dem Menschen (No 1 of 4 Ernste Gesänge op 121)
Mahler fragment from 1st mvmt Allegro maestoso (Symphony no 2 in C minor – 'Resurrection')
Ned Washington & Leigh Harline Give a little whistle
Beethoven Prestissimo (end of 3rd mvmt – Sonata no 21 in C op 53 'Waldstein')
Brahms Andante 3rd mvmt (Sonata in E flat op 120 no 2)
Arnold Schoenberg Sterne jubeln (from part 1 of Gurrelieder)
Richard Strauss closing moments of Salome
Anton Webern 2nd of 5 Pieces for orchestra op 10

1998[edit]

Date Guest Composer Title Performer / Label
3 Jan 1998 Susannah Clapp[7] Béla Bartók Bluebeard's Castle (opening)
Beethoven Sonata in F, Op.24, "Spring" (1st mvt – Allegro)
Moxy Früvous The King of Spain
Robert Schumann Romance Op.94/2
Verdi Volta la terrea (from Un Ballo in Maschera, Act I)
Kurt Weill Alabama Song (from Mahagonny)
10 Jan 1998 John Fortune Bunny O'Riley Dream Land
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in A major, Kirkpatrick 208
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in E major, Kirkpatrick 381
Haydn String Quartet in B flat, Op.76/4, "Sunrise" (3rd mvt – Minuet)
Charles Ives The Unanswered Question
Mugsy Spanier Relaxin' at the Touro
Alexander Scriabin Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op.20 (2nd mvt – Andante)
17 Jan 1998 Louis de Bernières Girolamo Frescobaldi Aria con variazione detta la Frescobalda arr. Segovia
Armando Rodrigues and Affonso Correia Leite Cançao de Alcipe (from the film 'Bocage')
Bach 1st mvmt Allegro (Brandenburg Concerto no 4 BWV 1049)
Max Bruch Andante-Allegro (Finale of Concerto for 2 pianos)
Chopin Prelude no 4 in E minor
Gounod Sanctus (Messe Solennelle)
Mikis Theodorakis Apagoghi
Traditional music Cieliot Lindo
Victor Valencia Mis Dolencias ('Music from the Andes')
24 Jan 1998 Robert Gottlieb Bizet Allegro vivace (mvmt IV, Symphony in C)
George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin A Foggy Day
Umberto Giordano Finale Act IV (Andrea Chénier)
W. C. Handy St Louis Blues
Meyerbeer O Paradiso (L'Africana)
Cole Porter Ridin' High (from Red, Hot & Blue)
Tchaikovsky Adagio – from No 8 Pas d'action (Sleeping Beauty)
31 Jan 1998 Sir Roger Norrington Bach Ich habe genug (opening aria of Cantata BWV 82)
Beethoven Allegro con brio (1st mvt – String Quartet in F minor)
Alban Berg Violin Concerto
Berlioz Dido's Farewell (Act V, Les Troyens)
William Byrd Justorum animae
Henry Purcell Chaconne (Dance for Chinese Man & Woman)
Heinrich Schütz Final chorus from St Matthew Passion
7 Feb 1998 Jeremy Sams Handel Oh Thou that tellest .. (Messiah) arr. Cedric Dent
Chabrier A la musique
Charles Trenet L'Ame des Poètes
Jonathan Dove Barbarina Alone (Figures in the Garden)
Lennox Berkeley Prelude no 4 (6 Preludes)
Ravel end of L'enfant et les Sortilèges
Schubert Im Frühling
Stephen Sondheim Move On (Sunday in the Park with George)
Hugo Wolf Wire haben beide... (Italienisches Liederbuch)
14 Feb 1998 Claire Tomalin Schubert Octet in F, D.803 (2nd mvt – Adagio – opening)
Duparc L'invitation au voyage
Beethoven Sonata in C minor, Op.111 (2nd mvt – Arietta – conclusion)
Tchaikovsky Waltz scene (from Eugene Onegin, Act II, Scene 1)
Robert Schumann Zwielicht (from Liederkreis, Op.39)
Bach Goldberg Variations (Theme and variations 1–2)
Beethoven Quartet in E minor, Op.59/2 (3rd mvt – Allegretto)
21 Feb 1998 Lord Winston Richard Strauss Dance of the Seven Veils (from Salome)
Schubert Piano Trio in B flat, D.898 (3rd mvt – Scherzo)
Rossini Sextet (from La Cenerentola, Act III)
Bach Jauchzet, frohlocket (from Christmas Oratorio)
Carlo Grossi Cantata Ebraica in dialogo
Trad. Arr. Michael Alpert and Alan Bern Bukovina 212 (pub. Ja/Nein Musikverlag)
Wagner Vassal's Drinking Song (from Götterdämmerung)
28 Feb 1998 Edward Said Bach Canon at the Ninth (from Goldberg Variations)
Alban Berg Wozzeck (Act I, Scene 1)
Berlioz Les Troyens (final scene of Act II)
Chopin Impromptu in F sharp, Op.36
Messiaen Amen des Anges, des Saints, du Chant des Oiseaux (from Visions de l'Amen)
Robert Schumann Widmung (from Myrten, Op.25)
Wagner Das Rheingold (Prelude)
7 Mar 1998 James Bernard Britten Variation of the King of the South (from The Prince of the Pagodas)
Debussy Syrinx
George Gershwin Embraceable You
Lennox Berkeley Serenade for Strings, Op.12 (1st mvt – Vivace)
Liszt Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este (from Années de Pélerinage)
Nellie Lutcher Hurry on down
Rachmaninov Dnes spasenie (from Vespers, Op.37)
Josef Suk Love Song, Op.7/1 (conclusion)
Verdi Love Duet (from Otello, Act I)
14 Mar 1998 John Sessions Beethoven Molto adagio 'A Convalescent's Hymn of Thanksgiving to God, in the Lydian mode' (3rd mvt – Quartet in A minor, Op.132)
Brahms Close of 2nd mvt Andante moderato (Symphony no 4 in E minor)
Mose Allison Warhorse
Puccini part of Act II scene 2 (Turandot)
Schubert Im Abendrot
Shostakovich Andante (2nd mvt – Piano Concerto no 2 in F)
Stravinsky Overture (Pulcinella)
Wagner Prelude (Die Walküre)
21 Mar 1998 Anthony Minghella Puccini E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)
Irene Higginbotham and Ervin Drake and Dan Fisher Good Morning Heartache
Prince Nothing compares 2 U (from album: I do not want what I haven't got)
Egberto Gismonti Palhaco (Editions Gismoni SUISA)
Bach Prelude & fugue in C minor (Bk 1 Well-Tempered Clavier)
Vivaldi Stabat Mater
Van Morrison This weight (from album: The Healing Game)
Bach Prelude (Suite no 1 in G for solo cello)
28 Mar 1998 Ruth Padel Bach Double Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 (2nd mvt – Largo)
Beethoven Quartet in A minor, Op.132 (1st mvt – Assai sostenuto – Allegro)
Cole Porter Night and Day
Razaf and Belledna Kitchen Man (pub. Feldman & Co.)
Ruth Padel Indian Red
Theodorakis Arnisi
Traditional music The Bold Irish Boy
Verdi La Traviata (conclusion of Act I)
4 Apr 1998 Allan Gurganus Charles Dibdin Tom Bowling (pub. Boosey) arr. Britten
Laura Nyro I never meant to hurt you
Mahler In diesem Wetter (from Kindertotenlieder)
Traditional Arr. Willis Patterson My Lord, what a morning
Gurganus Plays Well with Others (exc.)
Doris Tauber and Maceo Pinkard andWilliam Tracey Them there eyes
Bach Aria (from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988)
Brahms Intermezzo, Op.118/2
Duruflé Sanctus (from Requiem, Op.9)
Gurganus Plays Well with Others (exc.)
11 Apr 1998 Lady Antonia Fraser William Byrd Kyrie (from Mass for Four Voices)
Donizetti Ohimè! sorge il tremendo fantasma ("Mad Scene" from Lucia di Lammermoor Act II)
Gluck Adieu, conservez dans votre âme (from Iphigénie en Aulide)
Leoš Janáček The Vixen's Dream (from The Cunning Little Vixen, Act I)
Mozart "E Susanna non vien!... Dove sono" (from The Marriage of Figaro)
Verdi Ascolta! Le porte dell'asil s'apron già...Dio, che nell'alma infondere ("Brotherhood duet" from Don Carlos, Act II)
Wagner Siegmund's spring song (from Die Walküre, Act I)
18 Apr 1998 Sir Ian McKellen Chopin Polonaise in C minor op 40 no 2
Elgar and Anthony Payne part of 1st mvt, Allegro molto maestoso (Symphony no 3)
Frank Loesser My Time of Day/I've Never been in love before (Guys and Dolls)
Grieg Prelude (Act 1), Wedding Scene (Peer Gynt)
Holst 1st mvt (A Moorside Suite)
Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim Rose's Turn (Gypsy)
Stephen Sondheim Being Alive (Company)
25 Apr 1998 Guy Woolfenden Britten Elegy (Serenade for tenor, horn and strings op 31)
Percy Grainger Harkstow Grange (2nd mvt, A Lincolnshire Posy)
Henry Purcell Hear my prayer
Stephen Sondheim Another hundred people (Company)
Michael Tippett Adagio cantabile (Concerto for double string orchestra)
Verdi Tutto nel mondo è burla (last scene, Falstaff)
William Walton Andante comodo (1st mvt – Viola Concerto)
2 May 1998 Barbara Trapido Alessandro Scarlatti Già il sole dal Gange (L'Honesta Negli Amori)
Bach Aria & Variations 1 – 5 (Goldberg Variations)
Britten Dirge (Serenade op 31)
Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)
Haydn Benedictus (Mariazellermesse 'Missa Cellensis')
Leopold Mozart Marche (1st mvt Cassatio in G 'The Toy Symphony')
Henry Purcell Come Ye Sons of Art (2nd mvt of Ode on the Birthday of Queen Mary, 1694)
Traditional music Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
9 May 1998 Alan Borg[8] Ligeti A Long Sad Tale (from Nonsense Madrigals)
Thomas Linley the younger Arise! ye spirits of the storm (from Music for The Tempest)
Henry Purcell March (from Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary)
Wagner Quintet (from Die Meistersinger, Act III)
Handel Scherza infida (from Ariodante)
Beethoven Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67 (1st mvt – Allegro con brio)
Bach Partita No. 1 in B flat, BWV 825 (1st mvt – Praeludium)
Beethoven Grosse Fuge, Op.133 (conclusion)
16 May 1998 Bernard MacLaverty Anonymous work Esposa e Mare de Deu (La Festa o Misteri D'Elx)
Britten Agnus Dei (Missa Brevis in D)
Leoš Janáček Allegretto (Sinfonietta)
Mahler Wenn dein Mütterlein tritt zur Tür herein (Kindertotenlieder)
Messiaen End of final mvt (Turangalila-Symphonie)
Mozart Il mio tesoro (Don Giovanni)
Henry Purcell Tis women makes us love
Schubert no 2 Andantino (Moments musicaux)
Shostakovich 2nd mvt Allegro (Symphony no 10 in E minor)
23 May 1998 Frances Partridge Richard Strauss Metamorphosen (conclusion)
Schubert Piano Trio in E flat, D.929 (2nd mvt)
Bach Double Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 (2nd mvt – Largo ma non tanto)
Beethoven Quartet in C sharp minor,
Handel O sleep, why dost thou leave me (from Semele)
Monteverdi Zefiro torna
Mozart Piano Concerto in B flat, K 238 (1st mvt)
Charles Trenet and Raoul Breton Boum!
30 May 1998 William Boyd Brahms Horn Trio in E flat, Op.40 (1st mvt – Andante – poco più animato)
Brahms Kanon 13 (from 13 Kanonen, Op.113)
Frederick Delius Violin Sonata No.3 (1st mvt – Slow)
Gabriel Fauré Piano Quartet No.1 in C minor, Op.15 (3rd mvt – Adagio)
Joseph Schwantner Percussion Concerto (1st mvt – Con forza)
Sergei Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C, Op.119 (2nd mvt)
Stephen Sondheim Pretty Women (from Sweeney Todd)
6 Jun 1998 Binjamin Wilkomirski Beethoven Violin Concerto in D: Op.61 (2nd mvt – Larghetto)
Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115 (1st mvt – Allegro)
Mahler Symphony No.1 (2nd mvt – Kräftig – exc.)
Mozart In diesen heil'gen Hallen (from Die Zauberflöte)
Trad. Arr. Giora Feidman Tatei Freilach
Trad. arr. Jacques Lasry A Jewish Child of Poland
13 Jun 1998 Deborah Bull Bach Chaconne (5th mvt, Partita no 2 in D BWV 1004)
Vittorio Monti Czardas
Mozart Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore)
Francis Poulenc Andante con moto (2nd mvt, Piano Concerto)
Sparre Olsen Old Village Songs from Lom (nos. 1,4,5,6)
Willie Nelson Crazy
20 Jun 1998 Blake Morrison Blake Morrison The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper (exc.)
Gavin Bryars Cello Concerto (Farewell to Philosophy) (2nd mvt – Più mosso)
John Lennon and Paul McCartney Fixing a Hole (from Sgt Pepper)
Mahler Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen (from Kindertotenlieder)
Miles Davis Spanish Key (opening)
Mozart Rex Tremendae (from Requiem, K.626)
Philip Glass North Star
Rodgers and Hammerstein Cock-Eyed Optimist (from South Pacific)
Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D.667 – "Trout" (3rd mvt – Scherzo)
Stevie Wonder Living for the City
27 Jun 1998 Sir Anthony Caro Traditional music Early one morning
Stravinsky Here I stand (from The Rake's Progress, Act I)
Mozart Piano Concerto in D minor, K.466 (2nd mvt – Romance)
Schubert String Quintet in C, D.956 (conclusion of 2nd mvt – Adagio)
Brahms Denn wir habe hie (exc. from Ein Deutsches Requiem)
Haydn Symphony No.104 in D – "London" (Finale – spiritoso)
Mozart Là ci darem la mano (from Don Giovanni, Act I)
Schubert Die liebe Farbe (from Die schöne Müllerin, D.795)
4 Jul 1998 Chris Smith (?) Antonín Dvořák Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104 (exc. from 1st mvt)
George Gershwin Summertime (from Porgy and Bess)
Machaut Gloria (from Messe de Nostre Dame)
Mahler Der Abschied (conclusion) (from Das Lied von der Erde)
Puccini Mimi's Farewell (from La Bohème, Act III)
Schubert String Quintet in C, D.956 (1st mvt exposition)
Jean Sibelius Symphony No.2 (exc. from 3rd mvt)
Kurt Weill Ballad of Mack the Knife (from Die Dreigroschenoper)
11 Jul 1998 Amanda Holden Robert Schumann Study Op.56/4 (Espressivo) arr. Debussy
Debussy Cello Sonata (1st mvt – Prologue)
Handel Tu, preparati a morire (from Ariodante)
Heiner Goebbels Black on White (2nd mvt)
Irving Berlin You can't get a man with a gun
John Adams Violin Concerto (3rd mvt – Toccare – conclusion)
Mozart Quintet in E flat for piano and wind (2nd mvt – Larghetto)
Tchaikovsky Lensky's Aria (from Eugene Onegin)
18 Jul 1998 Professor Sir Michael Howard Brahms Violin Concerto in D, Op.77 (2nd mvt – Adagio)
Johann Strauss II Emperor Waltz
Mozart Riconosci in quest'amplesso (from Le Nozze di Figaro, Act III)
Puccini Che gelida manina (from La Bohème)
Rodgers and Hammerstein Oklahoma (from Oklahoma)
Schubert Quintet in A – "The Trout" (exc. from 1st mvt – Allegro vivace)
Charles Trenet La Mer
Verdi Sanctus (from Requiem)
25 Jul 1998 Corin Redgrave Beethoven Allegro (1st mvt, violin sonata no 5 in F "Spring")
Britten Romance (Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge)
Freddie Mercury Bohemian Rhapsody
Irving Berlin I'm beginning to miss you
Puccini Che gelida manina (Act 1, La Bohème)
Arnold Schoenberg No. 1 of Drei Kavierstücke op 11
Michael Tippett Lento cantabile (2nd mvt. String Quartet no 1)
1 Aug 1998 Lord Gowrie Thomas Adès Dolcissimo ed espressivo (The Origin of the Harp)
Alban Berg Seele, wir bist du schöner (No. 1 of 5 Orchestral Songs Op 4)
Harrison Birtwistle The second hunt & temptation (Act II, Gawain)
Brahms Nachtwache II – Ruhn sie? (no 2 of 5 Gesänge – Lieder und Romanzen op 104)
Porter Grainger and Everett Robbins T'Aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do (part)
Mozart Kyrie (Mass in C minor K 427)
Arnold Schoenberg Adagio (3rd mvmt, Piano Concerto)
Stravinsky Part I (Symphony of Psalms)
Verdi Solenne in quest'ora (La Forza del Destino)
8 Aug 1998 Richard Ingrams Bach Widerstehe doch der Sünde (exc.) (from Cantata, BWV 54)
Brahms Violin Sonata in A, Op.100 (1st mvt – Allegro amabile)
Frederick Delius Fennimore and Gerda – Intermezzo
George Gershwin Embraceable You
Mozart Quintet in D, K.593 (2nd mvt – Adagio)
Rachmaninov Prelude in G, Op.32/5
Robert Schumann Study No.5 (from Symphonic Studies, Op.posth.)
15 Aug 1998 Jenny Uglow Schubert Adagio (part 2nd mvmt, String Quintet in C D 956)
Haydn In rosy mantle appears & By Thee with bliss (Part 3, The Creation)
Francis Poulenc Laudamus te (Gloria)
Henry Purcell The earth trembled
Anonymous work Flying Bomb Kwela (Fire)
Beethoven Fugue – closing of Sonata in A flat, op 110
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill Alabama Moon (Mahagonny)
Handel Polonaise (4th mvmt, Concerto Grosso in E minor), opus 6, number 3)
29 Aug 1998 Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett Bernhard Flies Wiegenlied
Chopin Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58 (1st mvt – Allegro maestoso)
Leo Weiner Serenade, Op.3 (1st mvt – Allegretto)
Medtner Piano Concerto No.3 in E minor, Op.60 (exc. from finale)
Mozart Symphony No.34 in C, K.338 (Finale – Allegro vivace)
Puccini Dovunque al mondo (from Madama Butterfly, Act I)
Richard Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos (end of the Prologue)
5 Sep 1998 Michael Dibdin Britten Cello Symphony, Op.68 (2nd mvt – Presto inquieto)
Charles Dibdin Vaudeville (from The Ephesian Matron)
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in D, Kk.33
Guillaume Dufay Quel fronte signorille in paradiso
Mozart Quartet in G, K.387 (4th mvt – Molto Allegro)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Kyrie (from Missa Benedicta es)
Vivaldi Cum dederit (from Nisi Dominus)
Blind Willie McTell Statesboro Blues
12 Sep 1998 Alan Rusbridger Valdemar Henrique Boi-Bumbá arr. Patrick Russ
Beethoven Sonata in E, Op.109 (3rd mvt)
Billy Mayerl Punch
Finley Quaye Your love gets sweeter
George Benjamin Invention II (from Three Inventions)
J. H. Maunder Droop, sacred head (from Olivet to Calvary)
Wagner Wotan's Farewell (exc.) (from Die Walküre, Act III)
Carl Maria von Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op.34 (3rd mvt – Menuetto: Capriccio Presto)
19 Sep 1998 Bill Paterson César Franck Sonata in A (last mvt – Allegretto poco mosso) arr. Delsart
Berlioz Te Deum, Op.22 (Tibi Omnes)
John Betjeman and Jim Parker (composer) Eunice
Britten Dawn (from Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes)
Alfredo Catalani Ne andrò lontana
Schubert Quartet in D minor, D.810 – "Death and the Maiden" (1st mvt – Allegro – opening)
Traditional music Annalese Bain/Phil Cunningham's Reel/Andy Brown's Reel
Traditional music Martyrs
26 Sep 1998 Alan Titchmarsh Gregorio Allegri Miserere – opening
Bizet Au fond du temple saint (Act I, The Pearl Fishers)
Antonín Dvořák Allegro con brio (1st mvt, 8th symphony)
Elgar Opening, 1st mvmt (Cello Concerto)
John Hughes Cwm Rhondda (Mecolico)
Pat Metheny Always and Forever
Rachmaninov 1st movement (Symphony no 2)
Vivaldi Gloria in excelsis Deo (1st mvmt, Gloria in D major, RV 589)
3 Oct 1998 The Duke of Kent Bach Qui tolllis peccata mundi (Gloria, B Minor Mass)
Chopin Nocturne in C minor, Opus 48 no 1
Leoš Janáček Boris & Kát'a's farewell (from last scene Kát'a Kabanová)
Mozart Adagio (String Quartet in B flat, K 458 "The Hunt")
Schubert Nacht und Träume, D 827
Wagner end of Dawn Duet & (part of) Siegfried's Rhine Journey (from Prologue, Götterdämmerung)
10 Oct 1998 Gilbert Kaplan Aaron Copland Billy the Kid (part of complete ballet)
Charles Ives Fugue: Andante moderato (3rd mvmt, Symphony no 4)
Mahler 1st mvmt (part), Symphony no 7
Mahler End of Finale (Symphony no 2)
Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert songs)
Mahler Part of Andante, Symphony no 6
Sergei Prokofiev Alexander's Entry into Pskov (final mvmt, Alexander Nevsky op 78)
Wagner Final scene, Act III, Der Fliegende Holländer
17 Oct 1998 Tom Rosenthal Bach Prelude (Cello suite no 1 in C)
Beethoven O namenlose Freude! (Act II, Fidelio)
Berlioz Chanson d'Hylas (The Trojans)
Britten Now the Great Bear and Pleiades (Act 1 Peter Grimes)
Manuel de Falla En los jardines de la Sierra de Córdoba (mvmt 3 – Nights in the Gardens of Spain)
Leoš Janáček Gloria (Glagolitic Mass)
Richard Strauss Frühling (4 last songs)
Tchaikovsky Duet from Act I, The Queen of Spades
Verdi O si per ciel marmoreo giuro (close of Act II, Otello)
24 Oct 1998 Erich Segal Bach Prelude (Cello Suite no 1 in C)
Chopin Waltz in C sharp minor (op 64 no 2)
Gilbert and Sullivan When I was a lad (HMS Pinafore)
Gluck Che faro senza Euridice? (Act III, Orfeo ed Euridice)
John Lennon and Paul McCartney Let it be
Mozart Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes sde confessore)
Salamone Rossi Adon olam
Shostakovich Waltz (1st movement, Jazz Suite no 1)
Thomas Tallis Agnus Dei (Mass for Four Voices)
Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht Mack the Knife
31 Oct 1998 Rabbi Julia Neuberger Salomone De Rossi Ebreo Baruch haba b'shem Adonai (Les Cantiques de Salomon)
Richard Strauss How engaging, how exciting (Die Fledermaus)
Robert Schumann Ich Grolle Nicht (Dichterliebe)
Vincenzo Bellini Casta Diva (Norma)
Fromental Halévy Eleazar's Song (La Juive)
Haydn Allegretto (Sonata in G minor Hob XVI:44)
Haydn The Heavens are telling (The Creation)
Jean-Marie Leclair Allegro assai – 4th mvmt (Sonata for flute, viola da gamba & continuo in D major, op II no 8)
Irene Higginbotham and Ervin Drake and Dan Fisher Mine is the Life Song
7 Nov 1998 Christopher Bruce Barry Guy Refrain, Chorale & Antiphon (1st section: "After the Rain")
Dave Heath Celtic Air (from "The Four Elements")
Handel Act II scenes 6 & 7 ("Agrippina")
Mahler Wenn dein Mütterlein tritt zur Tür herein (Kindertotenlieder)
Arnold Schoenberg Moondrunk & Columbine (1st 2 mvmts: "Pierrot Lunaire")
Traditional music Barbara Allen
Traditional Music Arr. Incantation Sikuriadas & "Ojos Azules" (Ghost Dances)
14 Nov 1998 Russell Hoban Villoldo El Choclo
Carl Loewe Tom der Reimer, op 135
Chopin Mazurka in A minor op 67 no 4
Donald Fagen The Goodbye Look
Garbage I'm only happy when it rains
Haydn In the beginning... & there was light The first day (The Creation)
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee Freight Train
Monk Round about Midnight
Schubert Der Leiermann (Winterreise)
21 Nov 1998 Marina Mahler[9] Luigi Nono 3 voci (Prometeo Suite 1992)
Wagner part of end of Act I (Parsifal)
Bach Prelude no 4 in C sharp minor
Bach Prelude no 8 in E flat minor
Bach 2nd mvmt (Partita no 4)
28 Nov 1998 Clive Swift Gabriel Fauré Mi-a-o ('Dolly' Suite op 56) arr. Bream
Berlioz Le Repos de la Sainte Famille (L'Enfance du Christ)
Chopin Allegro maestoso (1st mvmt, Sonata in B minor op 58)
Eric Coates Calling all workers
Eric Ball Journey into Freedom
Richard Strauss The Dinner (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite op 60)
Traditional music Kol Nidrei
5 Dec 1998 Gillian Moore[10] Burt Bacharach Say a little prayer
Harrison Birtwistle Mark of Orpheus
Duke Ellington Thanks for the beautiful land on the delta (New Orleans Suite)
Ligeti Movimento preciso e meccanico (3rd mvmt, Chamber Concerto)
Henry Purcell The Frost Scene' (Act III, King Arthur)
Traditional music Tamuke (offering) for Shakuhachi
Turnage: Blood on the Floor Junior Addict
12 Dec 1998 Armando Iannucci Bach Adagio – 1st mvmt, Sonata no 1 in G minor, BWV 1001, for solo violin
Alban Berg Adagio (finale of Violin Concerto)
John Adams 3rd mvmt, 1st half 'Wild Nights' – Harmonium
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller Is that all there is?
Carl Nielsen Symphony no 5 (1st mvmt)
P. D. Q. Bach Madrigal 'My bonnie lass she smelleth' (The Triumphs of Thusnelda)
Michael Tippett How can I cherish my man' & 'Steal Away' (A Child of our Time)
19 Dec 1998 Robert Craft Stravinsky 3 Japanese Lyrics
Stravinsky Sektanskaya
Mozart Serenade in B flat, K.361 (finale)
Beethoven Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67 (1st mvt – Allegro con brio)
François Couperin Incipit Lamentatio + Quomodo sedet (from Leçons des Ténèbres)
Lassus Kyrie (from Missa Osculetur me)
Mozart Qui Tollis (from Mass in C minor, K.427)
Stravinsky Les Noces (1st tableau)
26 Dec 1998 Lady Pilar Woffington (Aka John Sessions) Hunter/Garcia Attics of my life
J. J. Cale Cocaine
Wagner End of Overture (The Flying Dutchman)
Puccini Introduction (La Fanciulla del West)
Manuel De Falla Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)
Heitor Villa-Lobos Aria (part) (Bachianas Brasileiras no 5)
Puccini End of Act II (Tosca)

1999[edit]

Date Guest Composer Title Performer / Label
2 Jan 1999 Brian Rix Gene Roland Exit Stage Left
Gilbert and Sullivan Painted Emblems + Ghosts' High Noon (from Ruddigore)
Jerome Kern Ol' Man River (from Showboat)
Mahler Symphony No.3 (opening)
Tchaikovsky Andante Cantabile, Op.11
Tommy Watt Crumpets for the Count
Walter Donaldson Makin' Whoopee
Gheorghe Zamfir Doina de Jale
9 Jan 1999 Gita Mehta Haydn (Allegro 1st mvmt) String Quartet in B flat major op.76 no.4
Jayadeva Gita Govinda (scene II)
Teré Biné Gita Mehta
Traditional music Raga Lathangi
Nina Simone Sugar in my bowl
Traditional music Raga Sindhu Bhairati
Traditional music Raga Yaman
Traditional music Raga Yaman
16 Jan 1999 John Burningham Rossini Una voce poco fa (Barber of Seville)
Schubert Erlkonig S557a arr. Liszt
Richard Strauss Night, Sunrise, The Ascent (opening – An Alpine Symphony)
Bach Prelude (3rd Suite for cello in C BWV 1009)
Consuelo Velázquez Besame mucho
Stefano Donaudy O del mio amato ben
La Rocca and Larry Shields At the jazz band ball
Mozart Deh! vieni all finestra (Act II, Don Giovanni)
Dino Olivieri and Louis Poterat "J'attendrai"
Traditional music The Coolin
23 Jan 1999 John Fuller Lutyens As I walked out one evening
John Fuller Concerto for Double Bass
Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.4 in B flat, Op.53 (1st mvt – Vivace)
Shostakovich String Quartet No.8 in C minor, Op.110 (4th mvt – Largo)
John Fuller Trio
Francis Poulenc Trio (1st mvt – Presto)
Stravinsky Violin Concerto (3rd mvt – Aria II)
Karol Szymanowski Violin Concerto No.2, Op.61 (3rd mvt – Andantino)
Bill Russo Gazelle
Britten Calypso (from Cabaret Songs)
30 Jan 1999 Tom Phillips Bach Final chorus (St Matthew Passion)
Harrison Birtwistle Part of 1st & 2nd Lullabyes (Gawain)
Brahms Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras (Ein Deutsches Requiem)
John Cage Sonata 1 (Sonatas & Interludes)
Antonín Dvořák String quartet in F op 96 (American)
Terry Riley In C
Norbert Schultze and Hans Leip Lili Marlene
Verdi End of Act III (Otello)
Wagner (Siegfried recalling the woodbird's song, just before he is killed – Act III Scene 2, Götterdämmerung)
6 Feb 1999 Sir Humphrey Maud[11] Bach Bourrées I & II (Suite no 3 in C major BWV 1009)
Benny Davis and Abner Silver Chasing Shadows rec 1935
Mozart Allegro (1st mvmt, String Quintet in G minor, KV 516)
Pärt Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Astor Piazzolla Milonga in D
Henry Purcell Fantasia no 1
Schubert Andante (2nd mvmt, sonata in A D 664)
Bessie Smith and Stuart Balcom You've been a good ole wagon – rec 1925
13 Feb 1999 Jo Shapcott John Adams Hoe-down (Mad Cow) (from Gnarly Buttons)
Bach Canon circularis per tonos (from Musical Offering, BWV 1079)
Britten Hymn to St Cecilia (first part)
Gerald Finzi Wonder (from Dies Natalis)
James MacMillan Tryst (opening)
Jo Shapcott My Life asleep
Jo Shapcott The Mad Cow talks back
Keith Jarrett My Song
Sergei Prokofiev Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op.14 (last mvt – Vivace)
Traditional music Bubaran Hudan Mas
Traditional music Torre del Viento
20 Feb 1999 Bernard Williams Bach Sarabande & Bourrée (English Suite no 1 in A major BQV 806)
Alban Berg Altenberglieder
Debussy Act II Scene 1 (Pelléas et Mélisande)
Elgar Repent and be baptized (end of Part III, The Kingdom)
Mozart Rondeau: Allegro (3rd mvmt, Duo no 1 K423)
Richard Strauss Zueignung (no 1-8 songs, op 10)
27 Feb 1999 Philip Hensher Thomas Adès Fancy Aria (from Powder her face, Act I)
Busoni Sonatina No.1
Fat Boy Slim Praise You
Nørgard Symphony No.2 (conclusion)
Arnold Schoenberg Premonitions (No.1 from Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op.16)
Stravinsky First pas de trois (from Agon)
Kurt Weill Bilbao-Song (from Happy End)
Hugo Wolf Heb' auf dein blondes Haupt (from Italian Songbook)
6 Mar 1999 Adrian Noble Bach Erbarme Dich (St Matthew Passion)
Beethoven Mir ist so wunderbar (from Fidelio)
Leonard Bernstein Psalm 23 (Chichester Psalms)
Keith Jarrett The Cologne Concert, 1975 Part I (part)
Monteverdi Lament (Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria)
Mozart Signor guardate un poco & 'Prayer trio' (Don Giovanni)
Henry Purcell Chaconne – end of Act V (The Fairy Queen)
Shaun Davey The Winter's End (adapted from score for RSC production of 'A Winter's Tale')
13 Mar 1999 Sir Jimmy Disprin (Aka John Sessions) William Walton Agincourt Song (Henry V)
Britten Billy Budd (opening)
Mozart In uomini, sin soldati sperare fedelta?You think men and soldiers will be faithful? (Act I, Cosi fan tutte)
Ralph Vaughan Williams Overture (The Wasps)
Richard Strauss part of trio – end of Act III (Der Rosenkavalier)
Flanders & Swann The Hippopotamus Song
Rodgers & Hammerstein There is nothing like a dame (South Pacific)
20 Mar 1999 Ursula Owen Wagner Liebestod (from Tristan und Isolde) arr. Caine
Richard Strauss Morgen, Op.27/4
Schubert Nacht und Traüme, D.827
Haydn Piano Trio No.18 in E, Hob.XV/28 (2nd mvt – Allegretto)
Jerome Kern The Folks who live on the Hill
Constant Lambert The Rio Grande (opening)
Messiaen Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus (from Quartet for the End of Time)
Verdi Ah! si maledetto, sospetto fatale (from Don Carlo)
27 Mar 1999 David Lodge Trad. Arr. Aretha Franklin Going Down Slow (from album: Aretha Arrives)arr. Aretha Franklin
André Previn The Five of Us (A Different Kind of Blues)
Geoffrey Burgon Young Martin in Love (Music from 'Martin Chuzzlewit')
John Lewis Django
Ravel Pavane pour une Infante défunte
Joaquín Rodrigo Concerto de Aranjuez (Sketches of Spain)
Van Morrison Slim Slow Slider (from album: Astral Weeks)
Tomás Luis de Victoria O quam gloriosum
3 Apr 1999 David Suchet Vivaldi Concerto for four guitars in B minor, RV 580 (4th mvt – Allegro)
Carl Maria von Weber Grand Duo Concertant, Op.48 (Finale – Rondo: Allegro)
Carl Orff O Fortuna (from Carmina Burana)
Antonio Salieri Piano Concerto in C (3rd mvt – Andantino)
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 1 (2nd mvt – Andante)
Mozart Soave sia il vento (from Così fan Tutte)
Camille Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3, Op.78 (conclusion)
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622 (2nd mvt – Adagio)
10 Apr 1999 Vikram Seth Carl Maria von Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op.134 (3rd mvt – Menuetto)
Bach Contrapunctus I (from The Art of Fugue)
Schubert Erster Verlust, D.226
Brian Wilson and Mike Love Fun, Fun, Fun
Vivaldi Manchester Sonata No.1 in C (3rd mvt – Largo)
N/A Nightingale and muntjac
Traditional music Raga Marwa
Alec Roth Duet between Arion and the Dolphin (from Arion and the Dolphin)
Bach Am Abend, da es kühle war (from St Matthew Passion)
Schubert Der Kreuzzug, D.932
17 Apr 1999 Jonathan Rée Britten Canticle 2 – Abraham and Isaac (conclusion)
Hans Joachim Bach and Sten Axelson Kannst du pfeifen, Johanna arranger: H. Frommermann
Leoš Janáček Osud
Mozart Ich bin die erste Sängerin (from Der Schauspieldirektor)
Reicha Quintet in A minor, Op.100/5 (2nd mvt – Andante con variazioni)
Rousseau J'ai perdu tout mon bonheur (from Le Devin du Village)
Schubert Erlkönig
Schubert Quartet in B flat, D.112 (Finale – presto)
Hugo Wolf Bei einer Trauung (from Mörike-Lieder)
24 Apr 1999 Amelia Freedman[12] Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115 (3rd mvt – Andantino)
Debussy Jeux de Vagues (from La Mer)
Gabriel Fauré Une Sainte en son auréole + Puisque l'aube grandit (from La Bonne Chanson)
Neal Hefti The Kid from Red Bank
Schubert Trio in B flat, D.898 (2nd mvt – Andante un poco mosso)
Simon Holt Eyes, to the Shadow (from Canciones)
Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim Everything's coming up Roses (from Gypsy)
Kurt Weill My Ship (from Lady in the Dark)
1 May 1999 Peter Porter Bach Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 654
Britten Since she whom I loved (from Holy Sonnets of John Donne)
Josquin Miserere mei, Deus (conclusion)
Mozart Seid uns zum zweiten Mal willkommen (from Die Zauberflöte)
Peter Porter A Brahms Intermezzo
Richard Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten (conclusion of Act I)
Schiller The Gods of Greece
Schubert Die Götter Griechenlands
Stravinsky The sun is bright (from The Rake's Progress, Act I, Scene 2)
Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No.5 (1st mvt – Preludio: Moderato – opening)
8 May 1999 Susan Hill Vincenzo Bellini Allegro polonese (close of Concertino for Oboe in E flat major)
Lennox Berkeley and Robert Herrick How love came in
Britten Storm' (Sea Interlude II, Peter Grimes)
Britten and W. H. Auden When you're feeling like expressing your affection
Elgar Where Corals Lie (no 4 of Sea Pictures op 37)
Handel Lord, I trust thee
Mozart Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja (Act I, Die Zauberflöte)
Hubert Parry I was glad
Schubert Danksagung an den Bach (Die schöne Müllerin, D 795)
Ralph Vaughan Williams and R. L. Stevenson Bright is the ring of words
Walford Davies God be in my head
15 May 1999 Sam West Bach Suite No.3 in C, BWV 1009 (4th mvt – Sarabande)
Brian Eno and David Byrne The Jezebel Spirit
Haydn Wood Roses of Picardy
Knussen When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer (from Whitman Settings, Op.25)
Felix Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op.20 (1st mvt – Allegro moderato, ma con fuoco – opening)
Mussorgsky Serenade (from Songs and Dances of Death)
Ravel Piano Trio in A minor (3rd mvt – Passacaille)
Stravinsky Mysterious Circle of young Girls + Glorification of the Chosen Victim (from The Rite Of Spring)
Thelonious Monk Raise Four
22 May 1999 Brian Sewell Vincenzo Bellini Adalgisa, Alma constanza (from Norma)
Messiaen Transports de Joie (from L'Ascension)
Mussorgsky Coronation Scene (from Boris Godunov)
Henry Purcell The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation
Richard Strauss Beim Schlafengehen (from Four Last Songs)
Schubert Ganymed, D.544
Verdi Ah, veglia, O Donna (from Rigoletto)
Wagner Lohengrin (conclusion)
29 May 1999 Kenny Werner Beethoven Adagio (1st mvmt, String Quartet op 131)
Django Bates Early Bloomer (album: Winter Truce & Homes Blaze)
Elliott Carter Fragment for String Quartet (1994)
John Kander and Fred Ebb New York New York
Keith Jarrett Landscape for future earth (Album: Facing You)
Kenny Werner Kandinsky/Back to Light (album: Paintings)
Ravel Bolero (part)
Arnold Schoenberg 4th & 5th mvts (5 Orchestral Pieces, op 16)
5 Jun 1999 Mavis Cheek[13][14] Brahms Selig sind, die da Leid tragen (opening of Ein Deutsches Requiem)
Con Conrad and Herb Magidson The Continental
Easter Mattins Bells of the Monastery & Procession (part)
Mozart Andante – 2nd mvmt, Piano Concerto no 21 in C, K 467
Puccini Te Deum' (end of Act I, Tosca)
Puccini Mimi's death scene from "Mi chiamano Mimi.."(La Bohème)
Shostakovich 1st mvmt, Symphony no 5
Stephen Sondheim Send in the Clowns (A Little Night Music)
12 Jun 1999 Tony Palmer Bob Dylan All along the Watchtower
Britten Hyde Park Aria (from Owen Wingrave)
Billy Cowie Kam Falla Mi!
Philip Glass Mrs Alexander's outburst (from Satyagraha, Act II, Scene 1)
José Pablo Moncayo Huapango (opening)
Puccini Vissi d'Arte (from Tosca)
Rachmaninov Prelude in B minor, Op.32/10
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.2 in F, Op.102 (2nd mvt – Andante)
Ralph Vaughan Williams A London Symphony (2nd mvt – Lento – conclusion)
19 Jun 1999 Lady Natasha Spender Bach Fugue (2nd mvmt, Sonata no 1 in G minor BWV 1001)
Samuel Barber Allegro vivace e leggero (2nd mvmt, Piano Sonata op 26)
Beethoven Allegro appassionato (finale, String Quartet in A minor, op 132)
Britten Joe has gone fishing (end of Act I, Peter Grimes)
Lennox Berkeley Presto (2nd mvmt, Piano Sonata op 20)
Mozart Ach, ich fühls (Die Zauberflöte)
Schubert 1st mvmt, Piano Sonata in B flat
26 Jun 1999 Leonard Ingrams Robert Schumann Märchenbilder op 113, no 3 – Rasch
Richard Strauss Verwandlung (part) & Mondlicht (closing of Daphne)
Anonymous work I will give my love an apple
Anonymous work O Waly Waly
Bach Friede über Israel (Closing chorus of Whitsun Cantata BWV 34)
Haydn Un certo ruscelletto – "Like a little brook..." (Il Mondo della Luna, Act III)
Hindemith Trauermusik
Henry Purcell Fantasia for 4 viols in C minor Z738
Ralph Vaughan Williams Evening Hymn (no 4 of Four Hymns for tenor, viola and piano)
Tomás Luis de Victoria O vos omnes (Tenebrae Responsories)
3 Jul 1999 Peter Eyre Vincenzo Bellini Qui la voce sua soave ... (I Puritani)
Chopin Ballade no 4 in F minor (part)
Elgar 1st mvmt, (opening) Piano Quintet in A minor op 84
Messiaen Ta Voix (Poèmes pour Mi)
Schubert Das Wirtshaus (Winterreise)
Verdi Dio ch nell'alma infondere (Don Carlos)
Wagner Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
10 Jul 1999 Paul Levy Bach Was willst du dich, mein Geist, entsetzen (Cantata BWV 8 'Liebster Gott, wann werd ich sterben?')
Beethoven Andante & Vivace (1st mvmt, Sonata no 4 in C major for cello & piano Op 102 no 1)
Alban Berg Violin Concerto (1st mvmt)
Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin and Sholom Secunda Bei mir bist du schoen ("shayn")
Maschwitz and Jack Strachey These Foolish Things (album: These Foolish Things)
Mozart In diesen heil'gen Hallen (Act II, Magic Flute)
Robert Schumann Die Beiden Grenadiere
Tchaikovsky Prince Gremin's aria in praise of Tatyana (Act II, Eugene Onegin)
17 Jul 1999 Nichola McAuliffe Britten Moonlight (from Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes)
Philip Glass Dance V (from In the Upper Room)
Mozart Il mio Tesoro (from Don Giovanni)
Arnold Schoenberg Heimfahrt + O alter Duft (from Pierrot Lunaire)
Traditional music El Soldado Ricante
Traditional music Tuvan throat singing
Ralph Vaughan Williams Silent Noon (from The House of Life)
Wagner Rienzi Overture
24 Jul 1999 Dr. Anthony Stevens Cole Porter Experiment
Debussy String Quartet no 1 in G minor op 10 (1st mvmt, Animé et très décidé)
Elgar The Swimmer (Sea Pictures op 37)
Handel From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony (Ode for St Cecilia's Day)
Kamilieris Last evening in the taverna (Hasapiko – Butcher's Dance)
Francis Poulenc Hommage à Schubert (Improvisations no 12)
Henry Purcell Sound the Trumpet (Come Ye Sons of Art)
Schubert Wohin? (Die schöne Müllerin)
Stanford The little Admiral (4th of Songs of the Fleet)
William Walton En Famille (Façade)
31 Jul 1999 Lord Neill Bach Menuets I & II + Gigue (from Partita in B flat, BWV825)
Beethoven Septet in E flat, Op.20 (2nd mvt – Adagio Cantabile)
Britten Peter Grimes (conclusion of Act I, Scene 1)
Haydn Symphony No.102 in B flat (Finale – Presto)
Leoš Janáček Katya Kabanova (conclusion of Act II)
Liszt Gnomenreigen
Montsalvatge Divertimento No.2 – Habañera
Mozart O voto tremendo (from Idomeneo)
Robert Schumann Im wunderschönen Monat Mai + Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen (from Dichterliebe)
7 Aug 1999 Stephen Bayley Beethoven Triple Concerto in C, Op.56 (1st mvt – Allegro – first part)
Brahms Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras (from A German Requiem) (first part)
Handel Ombra mai fu (from Xerxes)
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Gimmie Shelter (pub ABKCO Music)
Puccini Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malìa (from Madama Butterfly)
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in E, Kk.380
Schubert An die Musik
Ned Washington and Victor Young A Hundred Years from Today
Kurt Weill September Song (from Knickerbocker Holiday)
14 Aug 1999 Django Bates Bob Dylan Just like a Woman (from the album Songs of the Poets)
Farmers Market Nell in the sky with Farmers (from the album Musik fra Hybridene)
Charles Ives Three Quarter-tone Pieces for Two Pianos (No.1 – Largo)
Keith Jarrett Blossom (from the album Belonging)
Fritz Kreisler Caprice Viennois
Lester Young Lester leaps in (from the album Bird is Free)
Miles Davis Sivad (exc.) (from the album Live-Evil)
N/A Romanian folk music
Conlon Nancarrow Study for Player Piano No.40A
21 Aug 1999 Sophie Ryder[15][16] Debussy Golliwog's Cakewalk (Children's Corner)
Trad. Mexican La Iguana
Bach Sicilienne (2nd mvmt, Sonata in E flat major BWV 1031 for flute & harpsichord)
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in B minor (L 449/Kp 27)
Liszt Valse oubliée no 1 in A minor
Morton Feldman Why patterns? (part)
A. Marly and H. Zaret The Partisan (from album: Songs from a Room)
Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse "Feeling Good"
Antonio Carlos Jobim and Gene Lees Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
Bach Herr, unser Herrscher (end of opening chorus, St John Passion)
28 Aug 1999 Robert David MacDonald Schubert Nacht und Träume
Richard Strauss Recognition scene (from Elektra) (pub. Boosey)
Bach Bist du bei mir
Vincenzo Bellini Mira O Norma (from Norma)
Liszt Le Triumphe Funèbre de Tasso (conclusion)
Sergei Prokofiev Lullaby (from On Guard for Peace)
Ambroise Thomas Connais-tu le pays (from Mignon)
Verdi Chi i bei di m'adduce ancora
4 Sep 1999 Rainer Hersch Handel The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba arr. Hersch
Handel Why do the Nations? (from The Messiah: A Soulful Celebration) arr. Mervyn Warren
Schubert Abschied + Die Taubenpost (from Schwanengesang)
Richard Strauss Metamorphosen (conclusion)
Arnold Schoenberg Musette (from Suite, Op.25)
John Philip Sousa The Stars and Stripes Forever arr. Horowitz
Charles-Valentin Alkan Comme le Vent, Op.39/1 (from 12 Studies in minor keys)
Bach Concerto in A, BWV 1055 (3rd mvt – Allegro ma non tanto)
Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell "A Lover's Concerto"
11 Sep 1999 Jonathan Coe Debussy Interlude. Tempo di Minuetto (2nd mvmt, Sonata for flute, viola & harp)
Herbert Howells Merry Eye
Kenny Wheeler Consolation (Part VI, The Sweet Time Suite)
Miklós Rózsa Lento cantabile (2nd mvmt, Concerto for violin & orchestra op 24)
Francis Poulenc Déploration (3rd mvmt, Oboe Sonata)
Robert Wyatt Sea Song
18 Sep 1999 John Humphrys Bach Sarabande (from Suite No.1 in G, BWV 1007)
Beethoven String Quartet in C♯ minor, Op.131: (1st mvt – Adagio non troppo)
Billy Strayhorn Take the A Train
Elgar Cello Concerto, Op.85 (3rd mvt – Adagio)
Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Weary Blues
Gabriel Fauré Sanctus (from Requiem, Op.48)
Joseph Parry Myfanwy
Paul Simon The Sound of Silence
Rodgers and Hart Manhattan
25 Sep 1999 Keith Swanwick[17] Julia Eboly untitled piano composition
Elgar Symphony No. 2 in E flat, Op.63 (3rd mvt – Rondo: Presto)
John Lennon and Paul McCartney Ticket to Ride
Ligeti Musica Ricercata (1st mvt)
Miles Davis Flamenco Sketches (from Kind of Blue)
Schubert Frühlingstraum (from Winterreise, D.911)
John Philip Sousa The Stars and Stripes for Ever
Timbalada Cadè O Timbau?
2 Oct 1999 William Lyne[18] Haydn 4th mvmt from String Quartet in B flat p 76 no 4)
Schubert Die Taubenpost
Verdi Duet, Act I "Dinne... alcun là von vedisti?" (Simon Boccanegra)
Handel Scene 5 (part) – Act III, Saul
Johann Strauss II Spiel ich die Unschuld vom Lande (Die Fledermaus)
Reynaldo Hahn Tyndaris
François Couperin Les Barricades mysterieuses (Livre de clavecin Book 2, Ordre 6)
Reynaldo Hahn L'heure exquise (from Chansons grises)
Schubert Andante con moto (Piano trio in E flat D 929)
9 Oct 1999 John Carey Gregorio Allegri Miserere
Bach Bourrées 1 and 2 (from Suite No.4 in E flat, BWV 1010)
Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat, Op.97 – "Archduke" (4th mvt – Allegro moderato – presto)
Gilbert and Sullivan If you're anxious for to shine (from Patience)
Haydn The Heavens are Telling (from The Creation)
Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64 (Finale – Allegro molto vivace)
Verdi Ah, fors'é lui (from La Traviata)
Carl Maria von Weber Clarinet Concerto No.2 in E flat, Op.74
16 Oct 1999 Sidonie Goossens Alban Berg 7 Early Songs – No 6 Liebesode
Britten Nocturne for tenor, seven sol instruments and strings – 3rd movement "Encinctur'd with a twine of leaves" (with harp obbligato)
Britten Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Frederick Delius Brigg Fair
Elgar Symphony No 1 3rd movt
Sergei Prokofiev Prelude, Op 12 No 7 (originally for piano)
Ravel Introduction and Allegro
Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
23 Oct 1999 Al Alvarez Al Alvarez Ann Dancing
Beethoven Sonata in C minor, Op.111 (2nd mvt – Arietta)
Harry Ruby There's a girl in the heart of Wheeling, West Virginia
Leoš Janáček The barn owl has not flown away (from On an Overgrown Path)
Mozart Di scrivermi ogni giorno (from Così fan tutte)
Pérotin Viderunt omnes (opening)
S. Silverstein Everybody's Makin' It Big But Me
Schubert Notturno in E flat major, D897 (opening)
Jean Sibelius Symphony No.4 in A minor, Op.63 (opening of last mvt – Allegro)
30 Oct 1999 Jim Crace Mahler Symphony No.5 – Funeral March arr. Caine
Benedict Mason Lighthouses of England and Wales (opening)
Jim Crace Being Dead (opening)
John Adams The Day Chorus (from The Death of Klinghoffer, Act II)
Julian Argüelles Qaanaaq (from the album Skull View)
Louis Sclavis Moi c'est S'Mariano (from the album Clarinettes)
Youssou N'Dour and Jean-Philippe Rykiel Tourista (from the album The Guide (Wommat))
Paganini Sonata in A, Op.3/1
Francis Poulenc Sonata for Two Clarinets (3rd mvt – Vif)
Schubert Impromptu in F minor, D.935/1
6 Nov 1999 Robin JH Simon Handel All we like sheep (Messiah)
William Byrd Ave verum corpus
Henry Purcell Dear pretty youth (Act IV, The Tempest)
Schubert Der Erlkönig
Puccini E gelida manina (La Bohème)
Verdi E scherzo, od è follia (It is a joke, or madness) (Un Ballo in Maschera)
Chopin Fantasie-Impromptu in C sharp minor op 66
Mozart Notte e giorno faticar (Act I, Don Giovanni)
Caradog Roberts I bob un sy'n ffyddlon (tune: Rachie)
Rossini Largo al factotum (Act I, Il barbiere di Siviglia)
13 Nov 1999 Anthony Sampson Trad. Arr. Solomon Linda Mbube arr. Linda
Bach Suite No.2 in D minor, BWV 1008 (1st mvt – Prélude)
Beethoven Variations on 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen', Op.66
Berlioz Harold in Italy (1st mvt – Harold in the Mountains – first part)
Bizet Minuetto (from L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2)
Hugh Masekela and Cedric Samson Thank you Madiba (pub. Kayden Music/Warner Chappell)
Mozart Final reconciliation scene (from Le Nozze di Figaro)
Puccini Gratias agimus Tibi (from Messa di Gloria)
Verdi Finale (from Falstaff, Act III)
20 Nov 1999 Gaia Servado[19] Berlioz Appearance of the Ghost of Hector (from Les Troyens, Act II)
Debussy Interlude (Descent into the vaults) (from Pelléas et Mélisande)
Mozart Sento, o Dio (from Così fan Tutte)
Brahms Symphony No.2 in D, Op.73 (2nd mvt – Adagio non troppo)
Mozart Symphony No.40 in G minor. K.550 (2nd mvt – Andante) (first part)
Mussorgsky Chorus of Priestesses (from Salammbô)
Rossini William Tell
Verdi É tardi (from La Traviata)
27 Nov 1999 John Morgan Vincenzo Bellini Mira, O Norma (from Norma)
Brahms Piano Trio No.3 in C minor, Op.101 (1st mvt – Allegro energico)
Handel To Thee, Thou glorious Son (from Theodora)
Haydn Benedictus (from Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo – "Little Organ Mass")
Francis Poulenc Reine des Mouettes (from Métamorphoses)
Schubert Sonata in A, D.664 (2nd mvt – Andante)
Robert Schumann Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (from Dichterliebe, Op.48)
Wagner Wotan's Farewell (opening) (from Die Walküre)
4 Dec 1999 Jeremy Dixon[20] Robert Schumann Die alten bosen Lieder (from Dichterliebe, Op.48)
Richard Strauss Ja, ist Sie da?... (from Der Rosenkavalier) (pub. Boosey)
Alan Price Poor People (from O Lucky Man!)
Bach Goldberg Variations (Variation 25)
Brahms Intermezzo in B flat minor, Op.117/2
Britten The Children (from Who are these children, Op.84) (pub. Faber)
Haydn String Quartet in D, Op.33/6 (2nd mvt – Andante)
Conlon Nancarrow Study No.21 (Canon – X) (pub. Schott)
11 Dec 1999 Victoria Glendinning Britten One ever hangs where shelled roads part... (Agnus Dei – Part V, War Requiem)
Chopin Etude in E major op 10 no 3
Cole Porter True Love (from 'High Society')
Handel O Lovely Peace (Judas Maccabeus)
John Lennon and Paul McCartney The Long and Winding Road
Mahler end of Finale (1st Symphony)
Mozart Deh vieni, non tardar (Come, do not delay..) – Act IV, The Marriage of Figaro
John Tavener The Protecting Veil (opening)
18 Dec 1999 Simon Schama Lonnie Carter and Little Walter Sittin' on top of the World
Leoš Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen
Juan Luis Guerra Ojalá que llueva café
Puccini Dunque è proprio finita (from La Bohème, Act III)
Rodgers and Hart Manhattan
Schubert Impromptu in G flat, D.899/3
Schubert Quintet in C, D.956 (3rd mvt – Scherzo – first part)
Verdi L'onore! Ladri (from Falstaff, Act I, Part 1)
Vivaldi Flute Concerto in G minor, RV 439 – La Notte (3rd mvt – Largo: Il Sonno)
25 Dec 1999 Don Maguire (Aka John Sessions) Philip Glass Dance no 2 for Organ (part)
John Cage Fifty six marches (3rd mvmt – 'A dip in the lake' for cello & toy instruments)
Lou Reed I'll be your mirror
Laurie Anderson O Superman (part)
Charles Ives Prelude: Maestoso (1st mvmt, 4th symphony)
J Livingston & R Evans Theme from 'Bonanza'
Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring (part)

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