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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:

West Side Story Dance at the Gym; Something's coming; Officer Krupke; A boy like that/ I have a love; America; Tonight Quintet (Lawrence/Kert/Rivera/Roll/Dale/Chorus/Max Goberman)
Chichester Psalms (John Bogart/Camerata Singers/New York Philharmonic/Bernstein)

10.00 am CD Masters

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

To include:

Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat, Op.44 (Julliard String Quartet/Bernstein)
Wagner: Gotterdammerung - Final Scene (Eileen Farrell/NYPO/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:

West Side Story Dance at the Gym; Something's coming; Officer Krupke; A boy like that/ I have a love; America; Tonight Quintet (Lawrence/Kert/Rivera/Roll/Dale/Chorus/Max Goberman)
Chichester Psalms (John Bogart/Camerata Singers/New York Philharmonic/Bernstein)

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

Bernstein's First Symphony from the complete cycle recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin and, from the BBC Archives, two legendary studio recordings that Bernstein himself made with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the 1980s

Bernstein: Symphony No.1 'Jeremiah' (1942)
Michelle De Young (mezzo)
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma', Op.36
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

Bernstein: Songfest (1977)
Clamma Dale (soprano)
Sarah Walker (mezzo)
Cynthia Buchan (mezzo)
Kenneth Woollam (tenor)
Thomas Allan (baritone)
Paul Hudson (bass)
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

7.30pm Performance on 3

Sarah Fox (soprano)
Julian Ovendon (baritone)
BBC Singers
National Chamber Choir
Ulster Orchestra
conducted by Charles Hazlewood

Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes from Fancy Free (1944)
Chichester Psalms (1965)
West Side Story (1957): Concert Suite No.1
On The Waterfront (1954)

(Live from the Waterfront Hall, Belfast on BBC Radio 3 & for deferred transmission on BBC FOUR Television on Friday 14 October 2005, as part of a special Leonard Bernstein Evening to mark the fifteenth anniversary of Bernstein's death.)