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12.00 am Composer of the Week

Humphrey Burton presents a week of programmes in the company of Jamie Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Barbara Cook, Lauren Bacall, Ruth Mitchell, Patricia Routledge, Sono Osato, Sid Ramin, Richard Wilbur, Dennis Quilley, Seymour Lipkin, Harold Prince and Jerome Robbins

Featuring:

The Lark French Choruses - Spring Song, Court Song, Soldier's Song (The Sixteen/
Nicola Jenkin/Harry Christophers)
The Lark Latin Choruses - Prelude, Benedictus, Sanctus, Requiem, Gloria (The Sixteen/
Nigel Short/Christophers)
On the Waterfront Theme Tune/song(Eve Boswell)
CandideThe best of all possible worlds; Glitter and be gay; What's the use; Make our Garden Grow (Adrian/Rounsevile/Cook/Petina/Chapman/Roland/Mesrobian
/Samuel Krachmalnick)
Candide Auto-da-fe (Adolph Green/LSO & Chorus/Bernstein)

10.00 am CD Masters

Jonathan Swain presents a week of programmes featuring Bernstein the performer, as Artist of the Week

To include:

Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town), Op.40 (NYPO/Bernstein)
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G (1929-31) (Columbia Symphony Orchestra/Bernstein)
Mahler: Ruckert-Lieder (1901-2) (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Bernstein)

12.00 pm Composer of the Week

Humphrey Burton presents a week of programmes in the company of Jamie Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Barbara Cook, Lauren Bacall, Ruth Mitchell, Patricia Routledge, Sono Osato, Sid Ramin, Richard Wilbur, Dennis Quilley, Seymour Lipkin, Harold Prince and Jerome Robbins

Featuring:

The Lark French Choruses - Spring Song, Court Song, Soldier's Song (The Sixteen/
Nicola Jenkin/Harry Christophers)
The Lark Latin Choruses - Prelude, Benedictus, Sanctus, Requiem, Gloria (The Sixteen/
Nigel Short/Christophers)
On the Waterfront Theme Tune/song(Eve Boswell)
CandideThe best of all possible worlds; Glitter and be gay; What's the use; Make our Garden Grow (Adrian/Rounsevile/Cook/Petina/Chapman/Roland/Mesrobian
/Samuel Krachmalnick)
Candide Auto-da-fe (Adolph Green/LSO & Chorus/Bernstein)

(Repeat of midnight edition)

2.00 pm Afternoon Performance

Tommy Pearson presents a series of programmes featuring the BBC Orchestras and BBC Singers in performances of Bernstein's own music and key works that he premiered or championed, including the music of Mahler, Messiaen, Shostakovich, Copland and Britten,including excerpts from the complete cycle of Bernstein's symphonies performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin

The BBC Symphony Orchestra in works by Barber, Sibelius and Shostakovich (all championed by Bernstein) alongside two works from their Bernstein Collection, recorded for Chandos under Leonard Slatkin

Barber: Adagio, Op.11
Andrew Davis (conductor)

Bernstein: Missa Brevis (1988)
Simon Baker (counter-tenor)
BBC Singers
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

Sibelius: Symphony No.5, Op.82
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (condunctor)

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No.2, Op.102
Paul Lewis (piano)
Kazuski Ono (conductor)

Bernstein: Symphony No.3 'Kaddish' (1963)
Jamie Bernstein (speaker)
School Schola
BBC Symphony Chorus
Leonard Slatkin

7.30 pm Performance on 3

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Anne Akiko Meyers (violin)
conducted by Ilan Volkov

Bernstein: Facsimile, choreographic essay (1946)
Gershwin: An American in Paris (1928)
Bernstein: Serenade, after Plato: Symposium (1954)
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from 'West Side Story' (1957/62)

(Recorded at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 26 May 2005)