This is a list of Private Passions episodes from 2005 to 2009. It does not include repeated episodes or compilations.
| Date | Guest | Composer | Title | Performer, label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Jan 2005 | DBC Pierre | Ludwig van Beethoven, arr. William Finnegan | Moonlight Sonata | |
| Benjamin Britten | Finale (Tarantella) (from Diversions for Piano (Left Hand) and Orchestra. Op. 21) | |||
| Frederick Delius | "I Stand As on Some Mighty Eagle's Beak" (Songs of Farewell No. 2) | |||
| Harri Wessman | "Water Under Snow is Weary" | |||
| Gustav Holst | Prelude, Song of the Fishermen (from Japanese Suite, Op. 33) | |||
| Jazz Jamaica | Theme from Exodus (from the album Double Barrel) | |||
| Juventino Rosas | "Sobre Las Olas" (Over the Waves) | |||
| Franz Schubert | "Die Junge Nonne" | |||
| Dmitri Shostakovich | Prelude No. 24 (from 24 Preludes, Op. 34) | |||
| Richard Wagner | Schmerzen (No. 4 of The Wesendonk-Lieder) | |||
| 16 Jan 2005 | Jon Snow | Johann Sebastian Bach | "Herr, Unser Herrscher, Dessen Ruhn" (from St John Passion | |
| Beethoven | Kyrie (from Missa Solemnis, Op. 123) | |||
| Herbert Howells | Magnificat (Collegium Regale) | |||
| Mozart | Quoniam (from Mass in C minor, K. 427) | |||
| Francis Poulenc | "Allegro Giocoso" (from Organ Concerto) | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | "The Philosophers" (from Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution ) | |||
| Henry Purcell arr. Rees-Williams | "When I am laid in earth" | |||
| Gioachino Rossini | Kyrie (from Petite Messe Solennelle) | |||
| Robert Schumann | Études Symphoniques, Op. 13 (Theme and Variation 1) | |||
| 23 Jan 2005 | Shena Mackay | Billie Holiday | "It's Easy to Blame the Weather" | |
| Harrison Birtwistle | Tenebrae (from 3 Settings of Celan) | |||
| Frédéric Chopin | Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4 | |||
| Germaine Tailleferre | Violin Sonata No. 1 (First Movement) | |||
| Mabel Mercer | "If Love Were All" (Noël Coward) | |||
| Darius Milhaud | Le Bœuf sur le toit | |||
| Mozart | Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Rondo) | |||
| Ornette Coleman | "Lonely Woman" (from The Shape of Jazz to Come album) | |||
| Henry Purcell | "Thrice Happy Lovers", and "The Plaint" (from The Fairy-Queen , act 5) | |||
| 30 Jan 2005 | William Hague | Bach | Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043 (2nd movement, Largo ma non tanto) | |
| Chopin | Prelude in C minor, Op. 28, No. 20 | |||
| Traditional arr. Eva Cassidy | "Wade in the Water" | |||
| Gene Harris with the Ray Brown Trio | "Cry Me a River" | |||
| Mozart | Piano Sonata in C minor, K. 457 (3rd Movement, Allegro assai) | |||
| Rachmaninov | Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 (1st Movement. Allegro ma non tanto) | . | ||
| Walkin' Jim Stoltz | "Wild Wind" | |||
| 6 Feb 2005 | William Pye [1] | Anouar Brahem | "Aube Rouge A Grozny" (from the album Astrakan Café) | |
| Hector Berlioz | "Royal Hunt and Storm" (from The Trojans , act 4) | |||
| Berlioz | Trio for 2 Flutes and Harp (L'Enfance du Christ, part 3) | |||
| Johannes Brahms | Andante con Moto (2nd movement from the Piano Trio in C, Op. 87) | |||
| Cesária Évora | "Corregem Irmon" | |||
| Christoph Willibald Gluck | "The Dance of the Blessed Spirits" (middle section only) (from Orfeo ed Euridice , act 2) | |||
| Leoš Janáček | Andante (1st movement from Mladi) | |||
| 13 Feb 2005 | Josceline Dimbleby [2] | Albinoni | Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op. 9/2 (2nd movement – Adagio) | |
| Henri Duparc | Chanson triste | |||
| Jerome Kern | "Bill" (from Show Boat ) | |||
| Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller | "I'm a Woman" | |||
| Claudio Monteverdi | "Pur ti miro" (from L'incoronazione di Poppea , act 3) | |||
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | "Cujus Animam" (from Stabat Mater) | |||
| Henry Purcell | "The Plaint" (from The Fairy-Queen , act 5) | |||
| Richard Strauss | Cäcilie, Op. 27/2 | |||
| Elmer Schoebel, Ernie Erdman, Billy Meyers, Gus Kahn | "Nobody's Sweetheart" | |||
| 20 Feb 2005 | Alfred Latham-Koenig [3] | Bach | Allemande (from The Partita No. 1 in B Flat, BWV 825) | |
| Debussy | Intermede (from The Violin Sonata) | |||
| Duparc | "La Vie Antérieure" | |||
| Messiaen | Louange À l'Immortalité De Jésus (last movement of Quartet for the End of Time) | |||
| Francis Poulenc | Cantilena (from The Flute Sonata) | |||
| Francis Poulenc | "Hotel" | |||
| Reynaldo Hahn | "Paysage" | |||
| Schubert | Pause (from Die Schöne Müllerin) | |||
| Shostakovich | Prelude & Fugue No. 1 | |||
| 27 Feb 2005 | Noreena Hertz | Abderrahmane Amrani | "Ya Rayah" | |
| Anonymous work | Sankanda + Bach: Lasset Uns den Nicht Zerteilen | |||
| Archilei Or Cavalieri | "Dalle Più Alte Sfere" (from Intermedi Per "La Pellegrina") | |||
| Leonard Cohen | "Suzanne" | |||
| Mozart | "Requiem Aeternam" (from Requiem in D minor, K. 626) | |||
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | "Stabat Mater" (Opening Duet) | |||
| Pete Townshend | "Behind Blue Eyes" | |||
| Rachmaninov | Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 (1st movement - Allegro moderato - Opening) | |||
| 3 Apr 2005 | Anne Stevenson | Bach | Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major, BWV 848 (from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I) | |
| Beethoven | Sonata in A-flat, Op. 110 (3rd movement – Arioso dolente) | |||
| Chopin | Preludes in C-sharp minor, Op. 28/10; and F major, Op. 28/23 | |||
| Messiaen | Abîme des Oiseaux (opening) (from Quartet For The End Of Time) | |||
| Messiaen | Louange À L'Immortalité De Jésus (from Quartet for the End of Time) | |||
| Schubert | Piano Quintet in A, D. 667 - "The Trout" (4th movement - Theme & Variations) | |||
| Robert Schumann | Fürchtenmachen + Kind im Einschlummern (from Kinderszenen, Op. 15) | |||
| Bach | Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011 (4th movement - Sarabande) | |||
| 10 Apr 2005 | Anna Ford | Bach | Variation 14 from The Goldberg Variations | |
| George and Ira Gershwin | "Nice Work If You Can Get It" | |||
| Handel | "Art Thou Troubled" (from Rodelina) | |||
| Kate & Anna McGarrigle | "Heart Like A Wheel" | |||
| Mozart | Sonata in D major for 2 Pianos, K. 448 (1st movement) | |||
| Schubert | Quintet in C major, D956 (Adagio, excerpt) | |||
| Francisco Tárrega | Adelita | |||
| Traditional music | "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" (the South African National Anthem) | |||
| Traditional music | "Sur Ma Vie" | |||
| Bach | Concerto in D minor for 2 Violins (1st movement) | |||
| 17 Apr 2005 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | Francisco Peraza | "Medio Registro Alto Del Primer Tono" | |
| Ravel | "Chanson Hébraïque" (from Chants Populaires) | |||
| Ravel | Sonatine (2nd movement - Mouvement De Menuet) | |||
| S. S. Wesley | "Blessed Be the God and Father" | |||
| The Ramones | "Beat On The Brat" | |||
| Michael Tippett | String Quartet No. 2 (4th movement - Allegro Appassionato) | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Easter (from Five Mystical Songs) | |||
| Kurt Weill | "Lied des Lotterieagenten" (from Der Silbersee ) | |||
| 24 Apr 2005 | Thea Sharrock | Bach | Sonata in G minor for Viola da gamba and Continuo, BWV 1029 (2nd movement: Adagio) | |
| Curtis Mayfield | "Move On Up" | |||
| Wilinksi | "Ain't Nobody" | |||
| Hugh Masekela | "Stimela" (The Coal Train) | |||
| Joni Mitchell | "Both Sides Now" | |||
| Mozart | Clarinet Quintet in A, K581 (2nd movement; Larghetto) | |||
| Plaid | "Eyen" (from the album Doublefigure) | |||
| Mozart | Flute Concerto in G, K313 (1st movement; Allegro Maestoso) | |||
| 1 May 2005 | Gordon Baldwin | Britten | Spring Symphony (Introduction: "Shine Out") | |
| John Adams | Shaker Loops ("A Final Shaking") | |||
| Philip Cashian | "...In The Still Hours" | |||
| Tigran Tahmizyan | "A Cool Wind Is Blowing" | |||
| Traditional music | "Raga Ahir Bhairav" | |||
| Traditional Japanese | Honshirabe | |||
| 8 May 2005 | Deborah Moggach | Bach | Schlummert Ein (from Cantata - Ich Habe Genug, BWV 82) | |
| George Gershwin | "My Man's Gone Now" (from Porgy And Bess , act 1, scene 2) | |||
| Haydn | L'Introduzione - Maestoso ed Adagio (from The Seven Last Words) | |||
| Karen Dalton | "It Hurts Me Too" | |||
| Mozart | Lachrimosa (from Requiem in D minor, K. 626) | |||
| Sheryl Crow and Jeff Trott | The Book | |||
| Shostakovich | String Quartet No. 6 in G, Op. 101 (1st movement - Allegretto) | |||
| 15 May 2005 | Ashley Page [4] | Beethoven | Piano Trio in B-flat, Op. 97 ("The Archduke", first movement, opening) | |
| Brian Eno | "Baby's On Fire" | |||
| King Crimson | "Easy Money" | |||
| Kurt Weill | Overture (from The Threepenny Opera , act 1) | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | Piano Concerto No. 5 (4nd movement, Larghetto) | |||
| Arnold Schoenberg | Heimweh (Nostalgia from Part 3 of Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21) | |||
| Stravinsky | "Petrushka's Cell" (from Petrushka) | |||
| Tchaikovsky | The Nutcracker (Transformation music from act 1) | |||
| 22 May 2005 | Esbjörn Svensson | Arvo Pärt | Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten | |
| Bach | Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor - Prelude | |||
| Béla Bartók | Piano Concerto No. 2 - Second Movement | |||
| Luis Bacalov - Cam Srl Esterno Mediterraneo | Il Postino Theme from the film soundtrack Il Postino | |||
| Radka Toneff and Steve Dobrogosz | "Nature Boy" | |||
| Esbjorn Svensson and Dan Berglund and Magnus Öström | "A Picture Of Doris Travelling With Boris" | |||
| Traditional music | "Wayfaring Stranger" | |||
| 29 May 2005 | Humphrey Burton | Leonard Bernstein | "The Great Lover Displays Himself" (1st of 3 Dance Episodes from On The Town) | |
| George Gershwin | "One Of These Mornings...Oh Dere's Somebody Knockin at the Door" (Porgy And Bess, II, IV) | |||
| Joseph Kosma arr. R. Sund | "Les Feuilles Mortes" | |||
| Milhaud | Scaramouche (Third movement, Brazileira) | |||
| Mozart | Piano Concerto in D minor, K. 466 | |||
| Francis Poulenc | C (the first of Deux Pomes De Louis Aragon) | |||
| Schubert | Auf Der Bruck, D853 | |||
| Verdi | Requiem (end of The Libera Me) | |||
| Wagner | Götterdämmerung (end of act 2) | |||
| William Walton | Tango-Pasadoble (from Façade) | |||
| 12 Jun 2005 | Sir Nicholas Grimshaw | Bach | The Goldberg Variations (Variations 1 & 2) | |
| Britten | Peter Grimes (Look!, The Storm Cone, act 1, acene 1) | |||
| Antonín Dvořák | Piano Quintet in A major Op. 81 (Scherzo: Furiant Molto Vivace) | |||
| Haydn | The Creation (from Part 1, Recitative: Im Anfange; and Aria With Chorus: Nun Schwanden) | |||
| Ibrahim Ferrer | Silencio (Rafael Hernandez) | |||
| Robert Schumann | Piano Quintet in E Flat, Op. 44 (part of 1st movement, Allegro Brilliante) | |||
| Thomas Adès | "These Premises Are Alarmed" | |||
| Bach | Violin Concerto in E, BWV 1042 (2nd movement, Adagio) | |||
| 19 Jun 2005 | Nigel Tully [5] | Bach | Ricercar No. 1 From The Musical Offering | |
| Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique (A Witches' Sabbath 5th movement, extract) | |||
| Bruckner | Symphony No. 7 in E major, Adagio 2nd movement (extract) | |||
| Charlie Parker | "A Night in Tunisia" | |||
| John Coltrane | Giant Steps | |||
| Miles Davis | "All Blues" (from Kind Of Blue) | |||
| Mose Allison | "The Seventh Son" (Willie Dixon) | |||
| Tim Garland | "Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) | |||
| 26 Jun 2005 | Emily Young | Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 (from the 3rd movement: "Holy Song of Thanksgiving to the Godhead from a Convalescent") | |
| Brian Eno | "Bell Studies For the Clock of the Long Now" | |||
| Clare Hudman | "Where The Sun Will Never Go Down" | |||
| Carlo Gesualdo | Tenebrae for Good Friday (In Monte Oliveti, Responsorium 1) | |||
| Chjami Aghjalesi | Introitu | |||
| Michael Nyman | The Upside-Down Violin (Part 3) | |||
| Traditional Roumanian Folk Song | "Ballada Miorita" (Ballad of the Little Ewe Lamb) | |||
| Schubert | Sonata in B Flat, D960 | |||
| Shaggy | "Oh Carolina" (radio version) | |||
| Simon Jeffes | "Rosasolis" | |||
| 3 Jul 2005 | Fergal Keane | Georges Bizet | "Au fond du temple saint" ( The Pearl Fishers , act 1) | |
| Chopin | Nocturne in E minor, Op. 72, No. 1 | |||
| Handel | "Let the Bright Seraphim" (from Samson) | |||
| John Field | Nocturne No. 1 in E-flat major | |||
| Michael O'Suilleabhain | "The Plains of Boyle" (from the album The Dolphin's Way) | |||
| Giacomo Puccini | "Ah! Manon mi tradisce" ( Manon Lescaut , act 2) | |||
| Solomon Linda | "Mbube" | |||
| The Voice Squad | "The Parting Glass" | |||
| Turlough O'Carolon | Carolan's Concerto | |||
| 10 Jul 2005 | Stephen Venables | Bach | "Et Expecto Resurrectionem" (from The Credo, Mass in B minor) | |
| Brahms | Trio in E Flat for Violin, Horn and Piano, Op. 40 (Scherzo) | |||
| Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill | "Surabaya Jonny" (from Happy End ) | |||
| Dudley Moore | "And The Same To You" and "Colonel Bogey" (from Beyond The Fringe ) | |||
| Elgar | Symphony No 1 In A Flat, Op. 55 (from The Finale) | |||
| Gabriel Fauré | Cantique de Jean Racine | |||
| Mozart | "Deh Vieni" (from The Marriage of Figaro, act 4) | |||
| Jean-Philippe Rameau | "Les Tendres plaintes" (from Suite in D minor, from Pièces De Clavecin ) | |||
| Richard Strauss | Elektra (The Final Dance) | |||
| Robert Schumann | "Die Alten, Bösen Lieder" (last song from Dichterliebe, Op. 48) | |||
| 17 Jul 2005 | Don Paterson | Antonio Carlos Jobim | "Inutil Paisagem" | |
| Béla Bartók | String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7 | |||
| Boards Of Canada | Bocuma (from the album Music Has the Right to Children) | |||
| Don Paterson | The Book Of Shadows | |||
| Donal Lunny | Denis Doody's Polka/Tolka Polka | |||
| Durufle | Introit (from The Requiem, Op. 9) | |||
| Fennesz | "Chateau Rouge" (from the album Venice) | |||
| John Abercrombie | Paramour (from the album Characters) | |||
| Robert Wyatt | "Sea Song" (from the album Rock Bottom ) | |||
| Erik Satie | Nocturne No. 4 (from 5 Nocturnes) | |||
| Savath and Savalas | "Ultimo Tren" (from the album Apropa'T) | |||
| Kurt Weill | "Lost in the Stars" (from Lost in the Stars , from album Fairytales by Radka Toneff and Steve Dobrogosz) | |||
| 24 Jul 2005 | Christopher Hampton | Bach | Concerto for Four Harpsichords, BWV 1065 (After Vivaldi) (1st movement) | |
| Bob Dylan | "One More Cup of Coffee" | |||
| Brahms | Sextet in B Flat, Op. 18 (opening of 1st movement - Allegro Ma Non Troppo) | |||
| Juan Bautista Deambroggio | Bandoneon Arrabalero | |||
| George Gershwin | "Summertime" | |||
| Haydn | "Im Anfang Schuf Gott Himmel Und Erde" (from The Creation) | |||
| Mozart | "Konstanze! Konstanze!" + "O wie ängstlich" (from Die Entführung aus dem Serail, act 1) | |||
| Philip Glass | Secret Agent (Theme music from the film) | |||
| Puccini | "O soave fanciulla" (from La bohème, act 1) | |||
| 31 Jul 2005 | Miranda Richardson | Malcolm Arnold | English Dance No. 1 - Andantino (From English Dances Set 1, Op. 27) | |
| Bach | Gigue (from Suite No. 1 in G, BWV 1007) | |||
| Britten | Sanctus (from War Requiem, Op. 66) | |||
| Leonello Casucci and Irving Caesar and Spencer Williams and Roger Graham | "Just A Gigolo"/"I Ain't Got Nobody" | |||
| Dead Can Dance | How Fortunate The Man With None (Opening) | |||
| Debussy | Pelléas et Mélisande (opening of act 1) | |||
| Michael Ondaatje | "Sweet Like A Crow" | |||
| Cristóbal de Morales | "Parce Mihi Domine" (opening) | |||
| Traditional music | "Bitter Withy" | |||
| Traditional music | "My Lord What a Morning" | |||
| 7 Aug 2005 | Ruth Lea | Bach | "Erbarme, Dich, Mein Gott" (from The St Matthew Passion, Part 2) | |
| Béla Bartók | "Door Five" (from Duke Bluebeard's Castle) | |||
| Brahms | Opening of Denn Alles Fleisch, Es ist Wie Gras (from The German Requiem) | |||
| Britten | "The Storm" (No 4 from Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes) | John Dowland | ||
| "Flow, My Tears" | ||||
| Mozart | March and Chorus (Die Zauberflöte act 2, scene 8, final part) | |||
| Richard Strauss | "Frühling" (No. 1 from The Four Last Songs) | |||
| Tchaikovsky | Symphony No. 6 (2nd Movement (in 5/4)) | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Antiphon (No. 5 from The Mystical Songs) | |||
| 14 Aug 2005 | Alwyn Lishman [6] | Schubert | Impromptu in G Flat, D. 899/3 | |
| Bach | Fugue in E Flat, BWV 552 - St Anne | |||
| Boellmann | "Prière À Notre Dame" (from Suite Gothique) | |||
| Arvo Pärt | Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten | |||
| Philip Godfrey | "When I Am Dead, My Dearest" | |||
| Rameau | "La Poule" (from Suite in G) | |||
| Domenico Scarlatti | Sonata in E Flat, K. 193 | |||
| 21 Aug 2005 | Katharine Kent | Armstrong & Herman | "Thank You" | |
| Camille Saint-Saëns | Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 - (last movement - Maestoso) | |||
| Rodgers and Hammerstein | "You'll Never Walk Alone" (from Carousel ) | |||
| Bach | "Et incarnatus est" + "Crucifixus" (from Mass in B minor, BWV 232) | |||
| Chopin | Grande Valse Brillante in E Flat, Op. 18 | |||
| Gabriel Fauré | "In Paradisum" (from Requiem , Op. 48) | |||
| Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen | "Over the Rainbow" | |||
| Mozart | "Ave Verum Corpus", K. 618 | |||
| 28 Aug 2005 | John Wheatley | Edgard Varèse | "Poème électronique" (conclusion) | |
| Alexander Scriabin | "Giubiloso, Extatique" (from Preparation for the Final Mystery, Part 2) Real. Nemtin | |||
| Anne Dudley | "Born On a Sunday" (from The Seduction of Claude Debussy) | |||
| Vyacheslav Artyomov | "Sanctus Dominus" (from Requiem) | |||
| Britten | "Tell Me The Truth About Love" (from Four Cabaret Songs) | |||
| Messiaen | Turangalîla Symphony (10th movement - Final) | |||
| Dominic Muldowney | Saxophone Concerto (3rd movement – Danses macabres) | |||
| 4 Sep 2005 | Neil Jordan | Traditional arr. Percy Grainger | "Londonderry Air" ("Danny Boy") | |
| Heitor Villa-Lobos | Prelude No. 2 | |||
| Britten | Cello Suite No. 1, Op. 72 - 1st movement (Canto Primo) | |||
| Antonio Carlos Jobim | "Desafinado" | |||
| Gustav Mahler | Symphony No. 9 (opening of 4th movement - Adagio) | |||
| Thelonious Monk | "Straight No Chaser" | |||
| Arvo Pärt | Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten | |||
| Schubert | Nacht und Traüme, D. 827 | |||
| 11 Sep 2005 | Robin Guthrie | Andrew Guthrie | "A Warm Summer's Dub" | |
| Bach Arr. Allwood | "Die mit Tränen säen" (Prelude in B-flat minor from The 48, Book 1) | |||
| Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 (excerpt from 3rd movement: "A Convalescent's Hymn of Thanksgiving to God, in The Lydian mode") | |||
| Britten | Cantata Academica (Part 1, Numbers 1 & 2: Corale and Alla Rovescio) | |||
| Haydn | Symphony No. 88 in G (Finale: Allegro Con Spirito) | |||
| Lennox Berkeley | Trio For Horn, Violin and Piano, Op. 44 (1st Movement: Allegro) | |||
| Billy Meyers and Jack Pettis | "Bugle Call Rag" | |||
| Schubert | "Der Leiermann" (from Die Winterreise) | |||
| Wagner | Das Rheingold (Prelude) | |||
| 18 Sep 2005 | Sir Ernest Hall [7] | Thomas Adès | "Darknesse Visible" | |
| Alban Berg | Ostinato (from Lulu Suite) | |||
| Busoni | Cortège (No. 2 of Two Studies for Doktor Faust) | |||
| Chopin | Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 (4th movement - Presto) | |||
| Cole Porter | "What Is This Thing Called Love?" | |||
| Ligeti | "L'Escalier du Diable" (from Études, Book II) | |||
| William Walton | Symphony No. 1 (2nd movement - Presto, Con Malizia) | |||
| 25 Sep 2005 | Henry Goodman | Georges Bizet | "Au fond du temple saint" (from The Pearl Fishers , act 1) | |
| Jacques Brel | "Madeleine" | |||
| John Kander and Fred Ebb | "We Both Reached For The Gun" (from Chicago) | |||
| Lee Hyla and Allen Ginsberg | "Howl" | |||
| Oi Va Voi | "Gypsy" (from the CD Laughter Through Tears) | |||
| Richard Strauss | "Mir anvertraut" ( Die Frau ohne Schatten , act 3) | |||
| Arnold Schoenberg | "Verklaerte Nacht" | |||
| Verdi | "Niun mi tema" (end of Otello, act 4) | |||
| Wynton Marsalis | Premature Autopsies (From Cd The Majesty Of The Blues) | |||
| John Kander and Fred Ebb | "All I Care About" (from Chicago) | |||
| 2 Oct 2005 | Sheila Hancock | Beethoven | Quartet in B-flat, Op. 130 (5th movement – Cavatina) | |
| Britten | Elegy (from Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31) | |||
| Elgar | Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84 (Opening of 2nd movement - Adagio) | |||
| Rachmaninov | Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 (Conclusion Of 3rd movement - Finale) | |||
| Ravel | Piano Concerto in G (2nd movement - Adagio Assai) | |||
| Stephen Sondheim | "Ladies in Their Sensitivities" (from Sweeney Todd) | |||
| Tchaikovsky | Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 (Conclusion of 3rd Movement) | |||
| Vincent Youmans | "Tea for Two" | |||
| 9 Oct 2005 | Mark Lawson | John Adams | "News Has A Kind of Mystery" (from Nixon In China, act 1, scene 1) | |
| Bach | Und von der sechsten Stunde an + Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden (from St Matthew Passion) | |||
| Aaron Copland | The Dodger (from Old American Songs, Set I) | |||
| Morton Feldman | "Snow Falls" (from Three Voices) | |||
| Haydn | Quartet in F minor, Op. 20/5 (3rd movement - Adagio) | |||
| Messiaen | "Plusieurs Oiseaux des Arbres de Vie" (from Éclairs Sur L'Au-Delà...) | |||
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | "O Quam Tristis" (from Stabat Mater) | |||
| Robert Schumann | Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129 (opening of 1st movement - Nicht Zu Schnell) | |||
| Stephen Sondheim | "Ah! But Underneath" (from Follies) | |||
| 16 Oct 2005 | Frank Johnson | Bach | "Konnen Tranen Meiner Wangen" (St Matthew Passion) | |
| Béla Bartók | Music For Strings, Percussion and Celeste (1st movement, Andante Tranquillo) | |||
| Gluck | "Unis Des La Plus Tender Enfance" (from Iphigenie En Tauride) | |||
| Monteverdi | L'Incoronazione di Poppea act 2, scene 2 | |||
| Mozart | "Quartet Andro Ramingo E Solo" (Idomeneo, act 3, scene 3) | |||
| Stravinsky | Scenes de Ballet (excerpt) | |||
| Verdi | Il Lacerato Spirito Orchestral Postlude Only (from Simon Boccanegra Prologue) | |||
| Wagner | "Immer ist Undank Loges Lohn!" (from Das Rheingold Scene 2) | |||
| 23 Oct 2005 | David Gentleman | Albinoni | Concerto in D minor, Op. 9, No. 2 (II. Adagio) | |
| Bach | Sonata in B minor, BWV 1030 (III. Presto) | |||
| Billie Holiday | "Miss Brown To You" (Robin, Whiting, Rainger) | |||
| Britten | "Dawn" (The First Sea Interlude from Peter Grimes) | |||
| Mozart | "Ah guarda, sorella" (duet from Così fan tutte act 1, Scene 2) | |||
| Ravel | Concerto in G major (II. Adagio Assai) | |||
| Richard Strauss | Arabella (duet from act 2, "Und du wirst mein Gebieter sein") | |||
| Domenico Scarlatti | Sonata in D minor, Kk9 (The Pastoral) | |||
| Schubert | String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D. 887 (II. Andante Un Poco Moto) | |||
| 30 Oct 2005 | Diana Quick | Arvo Pärt | "Für Alina" | |
| Baaba Maal | "Njilou" | |||
| Bach | "Schlummert Ein, Ihr Matten Augen" (from Ich Habe Genug, BWV 82) | |||
| Erroll Garner | "Misty" | |||
| Marvin Gaye | "I've Got My Music" | |||
| James MacMillan | "I Would Like to Try To Remove the Pain from This World" (from Busqueda) | |||
| Jonathan Harvey | "Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco" | |||
| Schubert | Quartet in D minor, D. 810 - Death and the Maiden | |||
| Verdi | "Dio! Mi Potevi Scagliar" (from Otello, act 3) | |||
| 6 Nov 2005 | Chris Patten | Anonymous Work | "Veni Creator Spiritus" | |
| Beethoven | "Mir ist so wunderbar" (from Fidelio , act 1) | |||
| Cesária Évora | Petit Pays | |||
| Handel | "Pompe vano di morte" + "Dove sei" (from Rodelinda, act 1, scene 6) | |||
| Haydn | Benedictus (from Nelson Mass, Hob. Xxii:11) | |||
| Haydn | Cello Concerto in C, Hob. Viib:1 (2nd movement - Adagio) | |||
| Hoagy Carmichael | "Riverboat Shuffle" | |||
| William Shield | "When William At Eve" (from Rosina) | |||
| 13 Nov 2005 | Patrick Leigh Fermor | Traditional arr. Britten | "The Salley Gardens" | |
| Michael Berkeley | Variations on Greek Folk Songs | |||
| Berlioz | "The Young Capulets Leaving the Ball" (Romeo et Juliette, Part 2) | |||
| François Couperin | "La Tromba" | |||
| Debussy | "Gigues" (from Images) | |||
| Irving Berlin | "Let's Face the Music and Dance" | |||
| Mozart | "Vedrai carina" (from Don Giovanni act 2, scene 1) | |||
| Schubert | Quintet in A, D667 The Trout (Variations 4th Movement) | |||
| Tomás Luis De Victoria | Responsorium Ix: Seniores Populi (from The Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday) | |||
| Mozart | Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat, K364 (Presto Finale) | |||
| 20 Nov 2005 | Branford Marsalis | Billie Holiday | "Stormy Blues" | |
| Brahms | Wie Lieblich Sind Deine Wohnungen, Herr Zebaoth | |||
| John Coltrane | Pursuance Part 3 from A Love Supreme | |||
| Mahler | "Ich Bin der Welt Abhanden Gekommen" | |||
| Messiaen | "Regard de la Vierge" from Vingt Regards sur L'Enfant - Jesus | |||
| Sidney Bechet | "China Boy" | |||
| Stravinsky | "Birth Of Apollo" from Apollon Musagète | |||
| 27 Nov 2005 | Sally Potter | Bach | Aria (from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988) | |
| Beethoven | Diabelli Variations, Op. 120 (Variation 2 – Poco Allegro) | |||
| Henry Cowell | Anger Dance | |||
| Lewis Allan | "Strange Fruit" | |||
| Lindsay Cooper | "Elegy" | |||
| Carlos Paredes | "Valsa" | |||
| Astor Piazzolla | Libertango | |||
| Osvaldo Pugliese | "La Yumba" | |||
| Sapo Perapaskero arr. Golijov | "Turceasca" | |||
| Schubert | Erlkönig, D. 328 | |||
| Traditional music | "De-Ar Fi Lumea De Hartie" (opening) | |||
| 11 Dec 2005 | Raymond Baxter | Bach | "Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme" (opening Chorus of the Cantata, BWV 140) | |
| Bizet | "Au fond du temple saint" (from Les pêcheurs de perles , act 1) | |||
| Norman Tucker | "Tuba Tune" | |||
| Hubert Parry | "I Was Glad" | |||
| Quintette du Hot Club de France (Bernie, Pinkard, Carsey) | "Sweet Georgia Brown" | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Fantasia on Greensleeves | |||
| William Walton | Spitfire Prelude & Fugue (from The First of the Few) | |||
| Date | Guest | Composer | Title | Performer, label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Jan 2006 | Prunella Scales | Berlioz | Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9 | |
| Antonín Dvořák | Sonatina in G, Op. 100 (1st movement - Allegro Risoluto) | |||
| Handel | "Dopo Notte" (from Ariodante, act 3, scene 9) | |||
| J. J. Johnson and Leo Parker | "Wee Dot" | |||
| Oscar Straus | "Je Ne Suis Pas Ce Que l'On Pense" (from Les Trois Valses) | |||
| Schubert | Wohin? (from Die Schöne Müllerin, D. 795) | |||
| Stanford | Beati Quorum Via | |||
| Wagner Arr. Wright | Prelude to Lohengrin, act 3 | |||
| Wilbye | "Adieu Sweet Amarillis" | |||
| 15 Jan 2006 | Paul Griffiths | Debussy | "Clair De Lune" (Fêtes Galantes, First Set, No. 3) | |
| Guillaume Dufay | "Agnus Dei" (Mass Se La Face Ay Pale) | |||
| Giraut de Bornelh | "Reis Glorios" | |||
| Kurtág | "Farewell" | |||
| Kurtág | In Memoriam Joannis Pilinszky (Kafka Fragments, Part IV, No. 6) | |||
| Ligeti | "Bittersweet" (from With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles, No. 6) | |||
| Ligeti | Parrot (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles, No. 7) | |||
| Mozart | "S'altro che lacrime per lui non tenti" ( La clemenza di Tito , act 2, scene 12) | |||
| Luigi Nono | Tarde (España En El Corazon, No. 1) | |||
| Stravinsky | "When Daisies Pied" (Three Songs From William Shakespeare, No. 3) | |||
| 22 Jan 2006 | Michael Symmons Roberts | Gavin Bryars | "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" | |
| James MacMillan | Veni Veni Emmanuel (Transition: Sequence II and Coda: Easter) | |||
| John Adams | "Harmonium" | |||
| Jonathan Cape | Reading: Food For Risen Bodies Vi (from Corpus,) | |||
| Jonathan Cape | Reading: The Frequency (From Corpus) | |||
| Marc Brown and Nina Miranda | "Underwater Love" | |||
| Messiaen | "Force et Agilite des Corps Glorieux" (from Les Corps Glorieux) | |||
| Mozart | "Ruhe Sanft, Mein Holdes Leben" (from Zaide) | |||
| Rautavaara | Cantus Articus (Concerto For Birds and Orchestra) (3rd movement Swans Migrating) | |||
| 5 Feb 2006 | Rebecca Front | Britten | "This Little Babe" from Ceremony of Carols | |
| Brahms | 3rd Movement from Symphony No. 3 in F major | |||
| George Gershwin | 3rd movement from Piano Concerto in F major | |||
| Henry Purcell | "Dido's Lament" from Dido & Aeneas | |||
| Mahler | 2nd movement from Symphony No 2 'Resurrection' | |||
| Mozart | 2nd Movement from Concerto For Flute, Harp and Orchestra K299 | |||
| 12 Feb 2006 | James May | Britten | "The Old Lute" from Songs From the Chinese Op. 58 | |
| Bach | "Corrente and Double" from Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002 | |||
| Chopin | Prelude No. 24 in D minor | |||
| François Couperin | Les Baricades Mistérieuses | |||
| John Dunstable | "Quam Pulcra Es" | |||
| Lennox Berkeley | "Allegro Moderato" from Sonatina for Flute and Piano | |||
| Messiaen | "Amen de la Création" from Visions de L'Amen | |||
| N/A | Top Gear Theme Tune | |||
| Bach | Toccato in G minor, BWV 915 | |||
| 19 Feb 2006 | Alexander McCall Smith | Anonymous Work 14th-century English | "De Spineto Nata Rosa" | |
| Arvo Pärt | Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten | |||
| John Walter Bratton and Jimmy Kennedy | "The Teddy Bears' Picnic" | |||
| Foday Musa Suso | Tilliboyo (Sunset) | |||
| Mozart | "Soave sia il vento" ( Così fan tutte , act 1) | |||
| Peter Maxwell Davies | "Lullabye For Lucy" | |||
| Philip Glass | "To The Sea" (Part IV of Itaipu) | |||
| Thomas Morley | "In Nets Of Golden Wires" | |||
| 26 Feb 2006 | Dr. Tim Brain | Bach | "Et Expecto" (from Mass in B minor, BWV 232) | |
| Elgar | "Profiscere, Anima Christiana" + "Go In The Name of Angels and Archangels" (from The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38) | |||
| Gerald Finzi | Aria (from Farewell To Arms, Op. 9) | |||
| Orlando Gibbons | "This Is The Record Of John" | |||
| Handel | "For Unto Us A Child Is Born" (from Messiah) | |||
| Monteverdi | Pur Ti Miro, Pur Ti Stringo (from L'Incoronazione Di Poppea) | |||
| Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina | Matin Responsary | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Clun (from On Wenlock Edge) | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Symphony No. 8 in D minor (4th movement - Toccata) | |||
| 5 Mar 2006 | Zubin Varla | Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg | "Over the Rainbow" | |
| Bach | Suite No. 4 in E Flat, BWV 1010 (4th movement - Sarabande) | |||
| Chopin | Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. 27/1 | |||
| Joe Zawinul | "74 Miles Away" | |||
| Mahler | Symphony No. 9 (extract from 4th movement - Adagio) | |||
| Robert Schumann | "Schöne Wieger Meiner Leiden" (from Liederkreis, Op. 24) | |||
| Shostakovich | Symphony No. 5, Op. 47 (opening of 3rd movement - Largo) | |||
| 12 Mar 2006 | Sir Alan Budd | Bach | Crucifixus + Et resurrexit (from Mass in B minor, BWV 232) | |
| Beethoven | Sonata in F, Op. 24 - "Spring" (3rd movement – Scherzo) | |||
| Leoš Janáček | Mĺadí (1st movement - Allegro) | |||
| Kenneth Leighton | "God's Grandeur" | |||
| Mozart | Trio in E Flat, K. 498 - "Kegelstatt" (1st movement - Andante) | |||
| Francis Poulenc | "O Magnum Mysterium" (from Quatre Motets Pour le Temps de Noël) | |||
| S. S. Wesley | "Ye Are The Blessed of the Lord" | |||
| Schubert | "Auf Dem Flusse" (from Winterreise, D. 911) | |||
| Tomás Luis De Victoria | "Ascendens Christus" | |||
| 19 Mar 2006 | Chick Corea | Alexander Scriabin | Prelude No. 2 in C-sharp minor | |
| Art Tatum | "Get Happy" | |||
| Béla Bartók | 1st movement from Concerto For Orchestra | |||
| Chick Corea | The Three Ghouls - Parts 1 & 2 | |||
| Duke Ellington | "In a Sentimental Mood" | |||
| Mozart | 1st movement from Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 | |||
| Paco De Lucia | Zyryab | |||
| 26 Mar 2006 | David Rothenberg | Alan Hovhaness | "And God Created Great Whales" | |
| Bach arr. Coleman | "Bach Prelude" from Tone Dialling | |||
| Dave Holland | "Conference of the Birds" | |||
| David Rothenberg | Trio Menura | |||
| David Rothenberg | "White-Crested Laugh" | |||
| Felix Mendelssohn | Scherzo from Trio No. 2 in C minor | |||
| Messiaen | First movement from Quartet For the End of Time | |||
| Ram Saran Nepali | "The Butterflies of Jumla" | |||
| Takemitsu | "Mystere" from Visions | |||
| Vivaldi | 1st Movement from Flute Concerto No. 3 in D major Il Cardellino | |||
| 2 Apr 2006 | William 'Bill' Gaskill | Beethoven | Quartet in B-flat, Op. 130 (4th movement – Alla danza tedesca) | |
| Ben Jonson | "The Triumph" | |||
| Berlioz | "Villanelle" (from Les Nuits d'Été, Op. 7) | |||
| Big Bill Broonzy | "Willie Mae" | |||
| Haydn | Sonata in D, Hob. XVi/42 (1st movement - Andante Con Espressione) | |||
| Leoš Janáček | Quartet No. 1 - "Kreutzer Sonata" (1st movement - Adagio. Con Moto) | |||
| Mozart | Piano Concerto in D minor, K. 466 (opening of 2nd movement - Romance) | |||
| Stravinsky | Les Noces (2nd Tableau) | |||
| Kurt Weill | "Seeräuberjenny" (from Die Dreigroschenoper ) | |||
| 9 Apr 2006 | Joe Boyd | Harry Akst and Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young | Dinah | |
| Bach | Partita No. 1 in B Flat, BWV 825 (1st movement - Prelude) | |||
| Esteban Celedonio Flores | "Mano A Mano" | |||
| Toots Hibbert | "Six and Seven Books of Moses" | |||
| Skip James | "I'm So Glad" | |||
| L. Boyer | "Les Goelands" | |||
| Tony Jackson and Abe Olman and Ed Rose | "Some Sweet Day" | |||
| Traditional music | "Saviour Pass Me Not" | |||
| Traditional arr. Johansson | Brudmarsch Efter Larshoga Jonke | |||
| Walter Donaldson | "Hallo Was Machst Du Heut, Daisy?" | |||
| 16 Apr 2006 | Peter Maxwell Davies | Bach | 2-Part Invention No. 7 in E minor, BWV 778 | |
| Béla Bartók | String Quartet No. 5 (II. Adagio Molto) | |||
| Lesley Sarony | "I Lift Up My Finger and I Say 'Tweet Tweet'" | |||
| Monteverdi | Magnificat | |||
| Petrassi | Kyrie (from Goffredo Petrassi: Orchestral Works) | |||
| Sally Beamish | Cello Concerto, River (I. March Watercolour) | |||
| Schola Melurgica Della Badia Di Grottoferrata and Padre Lorenzo Tardo | "Inno Cherubico" | |||
| Traditional music | Italian Folk Music | |||
| 30 Apr 2006 | Kate Mosse | Bach | Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B, BWV 1051 (3rd movement - Allegro) | |
| Debussy | "La Cathédrale Engloutie" (from Preludes, Book 1) | |||
| Shostakovich | Symphony No. 5, Op. 47 (2nd movement - Allegretto) | |||
| The Doors Arr. Jaz Coleman | "Spanish Caravan" | |||
| Traditional Persian | "The Candle and the Moth" | |||
| Wagner | Prelude to Parsifal, act 1 (Opening) | |||
| William Walton | "Thus In Babylon, the Mighty City" (from Belshazzar's Feast) | |||
| 7 May 2006 | Brad Mehldau | Vincenzo Bellini | "Casta Diva" from Norma act 1 | |
| Gabriel Fauré | "Après Un Rêve" (Op. 7, No. 1) | |||
| John Lennon and Paul McCartney | "She's Leaving Home" | |||
| Messiaen | "Par Lui Tout a Été Fait" from Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant - Jésus | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | 1st movement from Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83 | |||
| Schnittke | Psalm No. 12 from Psalms Of Repentance | |||
| 4 Jun 2006 | Patrick Malahide | Anonymous work | "Veni Creator Spiritus" | |
| Bach | Toccata in D minor, BWV 565 | |||
| Max Bruch | Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 (3rd movement - Allegro Energico) | |||
| Chopin | Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 | |||
| Liam O'Flynn | "An Droichead" | |||
| Mozart | "Dies Irae" (from Requiem in D minor, K. 626) | |||
| Shostakovich | Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 107 (1st movement - Allegretto) | |||
| Traditional Arr. Liam O'Flynn | "The Drunken Landlady", Mckenna's Reels | |||
| 11 Jun 2006 | Howard Barker | Béla Bartók | 2 Popular Rumanian Dances (Stamping Dance and Buciumeana) | |
| Béla Bartók | Piano Concerto No 1 (III. Allegro Molto) | |||
| Béla Bartók | String Quartet No. 2 (III. Lento) | |||
| Ligeti | Mysteries of the Macabre | |||
| Shostakovich | Symphony No 14 (The Lorelei) | |||
| Stockhausen | Klavierstuck No. IX | |||
| Stockhausen | Momente | |||
| 18 Jun 2006 | Suzi Quatro | Beethoven | 2nd movement from Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor "Pathetique" | |
| Bob Dylan | "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" | |||
| Dory Previn | "Mythical Kings & Iguanas" | |||
| Maceo Pinkard and Doris Tauber and William Tracey (songwriter) | "Them There Eyes" | |||
| Mozart | 2nd movement (Adagio) from Clarinet Concerto In A K622 | |||
| Rachmaninov | Prelude in C-sharp minor | |||
| Stevie Wonder | "All in Love is Fair" | |||
| Suzi Quatro | Free the Butterfly | |||
| 25 Jun 2006 | Annabel Arden [8] [9] | Bach | 4th movement (Sarabande) from Partita No. 1 B-flat major BWV 825 | |
| Beethoven | Diabelli Variation No. 14 | |||
| Georges Aperghis | Récitations for Voice Nos 11 and 14 | |||
| Jay Arden | "Bayo's Way" | |||
| Jimmy Durante and Eddie Jackson | "You Got To Start Every Day With A Song" | |||
| Rachmaninov | Prelude To The Miserly Knight | |||
| Shostakovich | "Happiness" from Jewish Folk Poetry | |||
| Skip James | "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" | |||
| Vladimir Martynov | Part 1 from Come In! for 2 Violins and String Orchestra 'Silencio' | |||
| 9 Jul 2006 | Mark Rowan-Hull [10] | Bach | Ach Herr, Lass Dein Lieb Engelein (St John Passion, The Last Chorale) | |
| Britten | Colloquy and Soliloquy (The Turn of the Screw act 2, scene 1) | |||
| Charles Ives | The Unanswered Question | |||
| Leoš Janáček | "The Barn Owl Has Yet to Fly Away. . ." (from On an Overgrown Path) | |||
| Messiaen | "Dieu Parmi Nous" (from La Nativite Du Siegneur) | |||
| Messiaen | "Le Baiser de L'Enfant Jesus" (from the Vingt Regards Sur l'Enfant Jesus) | |||
| Miles Davis | "Generique" (from the Louis Malle film Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud) | |||
| Queen | "Don't Stop Me Now" (Freddie Mercury) | |||
| 16 Jul 2006 | Alexander Armstrong | Bach | Erbarme Dich (from St Matthew Passion, BWV 244) | |
| Beethoven | Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92 (3rd movement – Presto) | |||
| Britten | Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27 (conclusion) | |||
| Percy French | The Emigrant's Letter | |||
| Richard Strauss | Till Eulenspiegel, Op. 28 (conclusion) | |||
| Stanford | "Nunc Dimittis" in G, Op. 81 | |||
| Tommy Edmondson | "Doctor Angus" | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | "The Cloud-Capp'd Towers" (from Three Shakespeare Songs) | |||
| 30 Jul 2006 | Graham Williams [11] | Béla Bartók | The Miraculous Mandarin Suite | |
| Eino Tamberg | Violin Concerto, Op. 64 | |||
| George Lewis with Ken Collyer's Jazzmen | "If I Ever Cease to Love" | |||
| Górecki | Symphony No. 3 (II. Lento e Largo, excerpt) | |||
| Jonathan Harvey | Bhakti (Movement 4) | |||
| Mahler | Symphony No. 3 | |||
| Jean Sibelius | Nocturne (Belshazzar's Feast Suite, Op. 51) | |||
| 13 Aug 2006 | John Amis | Berlioz | Air: Ah, Quand Viendra L'Instant Des Supremes Adieux (From Les Troyens, act 5, scene 1) (From Les Troyens) | |
| Britten | The Turn of the Screw (act 2, scene 3, Miss Jessel) | |||
| Donald Swann | "Bilbo's Last Song" | |||
| Percy Grainger | The Warriors | |||
| Mozart | String Quintet in C, K515 (III. Andante, excerpt) | |||
| Puccini | "In Quelle Trine Morbide" (Manon Lescaut, act 2) (from Manon Lescaut) | |||
| Michael Tippett | End of Mother's Aria and Spiritual ("Steal Away") from A Child of Our Time (Part 1) | |||
| Vincent Youmans | "Tea for Two" (from Tea for Two) | |||
| Mozart | Symphony No. 41 in C, K551 (Jupiter) (II. Andante Cantabile, Excerpt) | |||
| 20 Aug 2006 | Christopher Bradley-Hole [12] | Arvo Pärt | Summa | |
| Beethoven | Violin Sonata in F, Op. 24, Spring (4th movement: Rondo) | |||
| Guido Haazen and Traditional | Sanctus Chorale (from the Missa Luba) | |||
| Monteverdi | Psalm 126: Nisi Dominus (from The Vespers of 1610) | |||
| Rodolfo y Su Tipica | La Cologiala (The College Girl) | |||
| Rodrigo de Ceballos | Motet: Hortus Conclusus | |||
| Erik Satie | Gnossienne No 5 | |||
| Vivaldi | Concerto in D For Lute and 2 Violins (3rd Movement: Allegro) | |||
| 3 Sep 2006 | Sara Paretsky | Bob Dylan | "Tombstone Blues" | |
| Britten | "In a Garden Shady" (from Hymn to St. Cecilia) | |||
| Hugo Wolf | "In Den Schatten Meiner Locken" | |||
| Mozart | "Non mi dir, bell'idol mio" (from Don Giovanni , act 2, scene 4) | |||
| Nancy Griffith | "Wouldn't That Be Fine" | |||
| Schubert | String Quartet in D minor, D810 Death and the Maiden (II, Andante Con Moto) | |||
| The Austin Lounge Lizards | "Jesus Loves Me" | |||
| Mozart | String Quartet in C, K465, The Dissonance (I, Adagio - Allegro) | |||
| 10 Sep 2006 | Maureen Lipman | Leonard Bernstein | "Glitter and Be Gay" (from Candide) | |
| Max Bruch | Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 26 (Adagio 2nd Movement) | |||
| Bunny Berigan | "I Can't Get Started" [Ira Gershwin/Vernon Duke] | |||
| George Gershwin | "Rhapsody in Blue" | |||
| Messiaen | "Amen De La Création" from Visions De L'Amen | |||
| Mozart | "Der Holle Nacht" (from The Magic Flute) | |||
| Astor Piazzolla | Tango Rapsodia: Adiós Nonino | Orch. Bacalov and Luis Bacalov | ||
| Rossini | "Una Voce Poco Fa" (from The Barber of Seville) | |||
| 17 Sep 2006 | James Fleming | Bach | Suite No. 6 in D, BWV 1012 (1st movement - Prelude) | |
| Johann Strauss I | "Radetzky March" | |||
| Tom Lehrer | "The Vatican Rag" | |||
| Camille Saint-Saëns | Le Carnaval Des Animaux (First Five Movements) | |||
| Schubert | Sonata in B Flat, D. 960 (3rd movement - Scherzo - Allegro Vivace Con Delicatezza) | |||
| Shostakovich | Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 (5th movement - Finale) | |||
| Alexander Scriabin | Prelude For the Left Hand | |||
| Traditional music | The Cape Breton Fiddler's Welcome To Shetland | |||
| 24 Sep 2006 | Sir Robert Carnwath | Richard Blackford | Somalia - Flying Bird, Cold Aluminium (From Voices Of Exile) | |
| Britten | "Let Us Sleep Now" (conclusion of War Requiem, Op. 66) | |||
| Donizetti | "Sconsiliato! In Queste Porte Chi Ti Guida?" (from Lucia di Lammermoor, act 2) | |||
| Haydn | "Und Gott Schuf ... Mit Würd' Und Hoheit Angetan" (from The Creation) | |||
| Mozart | Duo in G, K. 423 (2nd movement - Adagio) | |||
| Robert Schumann | "Wenn Ich Deine Augen Seh" + "Ich Will Meine Seele Tauchen" + "Ich Grolle Nicht" | |||
| Serrat | "Paraules de Amor" | |||
| Eugène Ysaÿe | Sonata in A minor, Op. 27/2 (1st movement - Obsession) | |||
| 1 Oct 2006 | Kirsty Gunn [13] [14] | Gregorio Allegri | Miserere | |
| Beethoven | Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat, Op. 73 – "Emperor" | |||
| Chopin | Prelude in E minor, Op. 28/4 | |||
| Debussy | Syrinx | |||
| Antonín Dvořák | Romantic Piece, Op. 75/1 | |||
| Morton Feldman | Rothko Chapel | |||
| Handel | "Where'er You Walk" (from Semele, act 2) | |||
| Mccrimmon | "Lament for the Children" | |||
| Wagner | "Wotan's Farewell" (from Die Walküre, act 3, scene 3) | |||
| 8 Oct 2006 | David Farr | Abe Schwartz | "Rusishe Sher" | |
| Bach | "Erbarme Dich Mein Gott" | |||
| Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 (Finale: Allegro appassionato) | |||
| Bessie Smith | "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair" | |||
| Charles Mingus | "Ysabel's Table Dance" | |||
| Estevao Lopes Morago | "Jesu Redemptor" | |||
| John Coltrane | "Alabama" | |||
| Monteverdi | Versiculus and Responsorium | |||
| Silvestre Revueltas | "Cancion De Cuna" (Berceuse) | |||
| Taraf de Haïdouks | "Rind De Hore" | |||
| 15 Oct 2006 | Joan Bakewell | Britten | Now The Great Bear and Pleiades (Peter Grimes act 1, scene 2) | |
| Britten | Royaute | |||
| Dolly Parton | "The Beautiful Lie" | |||
| Leoš Janáček | String Quartet No. 2 (Intimate Letters) | |||
| Jonathan Harvey | "I Love The Lord" | |||
| Mozart | Symphony No. 25 in G minor | |||
| Rodgers and Hammerstein | "Oklahoma!" (from Oklahoma! act 2) | |||
| Robert Schumann | Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 (Finale: Allegro Vivace) | |||
| 22 Oct 2006 | David Campbell [15] | Anonymous work Gaelic | Puirt-A-Beul | |
| Berlioz | Zaïde | |||
| John Clerk of Penicuik | "Leo Scotiae Irritatus" | |||
| Monteverdi | Amor ("Lamento Della Ninfa") | |||
| Rameau | "Entrée des Habitants de la Forêt" (from Hippolyte et Aricie, Prologue, Scene 1) | |||
| Schubert | Gretchen Am Spinnrade, D. 118 | |||
| Schubert | Sonata in B Flat, D. 960 (3rd movement - Scherzo) | |||
| Stravinsky | Renard | |||
| Traditional Indian | Unnamed Solo for Murali | |||
| 29 Oct 2006 | Colm Tóibín | Bach | Gigue (from The Cello Suite No. 6 in D) | |
| Bizet | "Au fond du temple saint" (from The Pearl Fishers, act 1) | |||
| Gabriel Fauré | "Claire De Lune" | |||
| Frederick May | String Quartet in C minor | |||
| Gluck | "What Is Life?" | |||
| Schubert | "Litanie auf das Fest Allerseelen", D343 | |||
| Jean Sibelius | Illalle (Evening) | |||
| Wagner | Die Walkure | |||
| 5 Nov 2006 | Simon Heffer | George Butterworth | "Coming Up from Richmond" (from Love Blows As the Wind Blows) | |
| George Dyson | "Sweet Thames Run Softly" | |||
| George Lloyd | Symphony No 4 | |||
| Holst | Prelude from Hammersmith - A Prelude and Scherzo for Orchestra, Op. 52 | |||
| Hubert Parry | Symphonic Variations (Variations 18 To 22) | |||
| Ravel | Le Tombeau de Couperin: Prelude | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Symphony No. 6 in E minor (1st Movement, Allegro) | |||
| Wagner | "Lass Ich, Liebste, Dich Hier" (from the Prelude to Götterdämmerung) | |||
| 12 Nov 2006 | Tori Amos | Bach | Two Part Inventions, No. 1 in C major | |
| Beethoven | 1st movement from Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor "Pathetique" | |||
| John Lennon and Paul McCartney | "Eleanor Rigby" | |||
| Joaquín Rodrigo Arr. Gil Evans | "Concierto De Aranjuez" From Sketches Of Spain | Miles Davis | ||
| Sergei Prokofiev | 1st movement from Sonata No. 4, C minor | |||
| Rachmaninov | Etude-Tableaux Op. 33, No. 8 in G minor | |||
| Tori Amos | "Cornflake Girl" | |||
| Tori Amos | "Gold Dust" | |||
| 19 Nov 2006 | Stephin Merritt | Ela Lamblin | "Cosmo Genesis" | |
| Guy Klucevsek | "Sweet Chinoiserie" | |||
| Max Matthews | "Bicycle Built for Two" | |||
| N/A | "Orpheus Zither" | |||
| Robert Johnson | "Where the Bee Sucks" | |||
| Stephin Merritt | "It's Hard to Be the Emperor" | |||
| Victor Herbert | "Ah Sweet Mysteries of Life" | |||
| 26 Nov 2006 | David Gordon [16] | William Byrd | Fantasia A 4 | |
| Leoš Janáček | String Quartet No. 2 Intimate Letters (Final Movement) | |||
| Johann Strauss II arr. Arnold Schoenberg | "Roses From the South" | |||
| Messiaen | Danse de la Fureur, Pour les Sept Trompettes [6th Movement Quartet for the End of Time] | |||
| Mussorgsky | Khovanshchina Prelude: Dawn Over the River Moscow | |||
| Arnold Schoenberg | String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 | |||
| 3 Dec 2006 | Neil Kinnock | Max Bruch | Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 (Finale - Allegro Energico) | |
| Bruckner | Symphony No. 4 in E Flat - Romantic (opening of 1st movement - Bewegt, Nicht Zu Schnell) | |||
| Donizetti | "Una furtiva lagrima" (from L'elisir d'Amore, act 2) | |||
| Johann Nepomuk Hummel | Trumpet Concerto in E (2nd movement - Andante) | |||
| Puccini | "Recondita Armonia" (from Tosca, act 1) | |||
| Shostakovich | Romance (from The Gadfly) | |||
| Verdi | "If You Want A Faithful Lover" (from Rigoletto, act 3) | |||
| Wagner Arr. Fletcher | "Roman War Song" (from Rienzi) | |||
| 10 Dec 2006 | Felicity Kendal | Bob Marley and The Wailers | "Jammin" | |
| Britten | Variation V "In The Bleak Midwinter" from A Boy Was Born | |||
| Elgar | 3rd movement (Adagio) from Cello Concerto | |||
| Miles Davis | "Miles Ahead" | |||
| Mozart | 2nd Movement from Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Kv467 | |||
| Puccini | "Vogliatemi Bene" from Madame Butterfly | |||
| Tommaso Albinoni | 3rd movement from Oboe Concerto in D minor | |||
| Zakir Hussain | ||||
| 24 Dec 2006 | Paul Woodmansterne [17] | Bach | "Lass, Fürstin, Lass Noch Einen Strahl" (Mourning Ode, BWV 198, First Movement) | |
| Beethoven | Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 55 ("Eroica") (Marcia funebre, 2nd movement) | |||
| John Gardner | "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day" | |||
| Haydn | Cello Concerto in C (2nd Movement Adagio) | |||
| Orlando Gibbons | "What Is Our Life?" | |||
| Schubert | "Der Lindenbaum" (Winterreise No. 5) | |||
| 31 Dec 2006 | Sandi Toksvig | Andrew Lloyd Webber | "Unexpected Song" | |
| Leonard Bernstein | "I Want To Be In America" (West Side Story) | |||
| Bizet | Carmen (Overture) | |||
| Charles Strouse And Martin Charnin | "It's the Hard-Knock Life" (Annie) | |||
| Haydn | "The Heavens Are Telling" (The Creation) | |||
| Johann Strauss II | "The Blue Danube": Concert Waltz, Op. 314 | |||
| Mozart | "O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn" ( The Magic Flute , act 1) | |||
| Carl Orff | "O Fortuna" (from Carmina Burana) | |||
| Puccini | "O Mio Babbino Caro" (Gianni Schicchi) | |||
| Date | Guest | Composer | Title | Performer, label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Jan 2007 | Dr. Miriam Stoppard | Britten | "Dawn" (No. 1 from The Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes) | |
| Cole Porter | "I've Got You Under My Skin" | |||
| Debussy | Pelléas et Mélisande (act 3, scene 1; Melisande Lets Down Her Hair) | |||
| George Gershwin | "Summertime" | |||
| Pink Floyd | "Wish You Were Here" | |||
| Puccini | "Ch'Ella Mi Creda" ( La fanciulla del West , act 3) | |||
| Jean Sibelius | Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | "The Lark Ascending" | |||
| 14 Jan 2007 | Charlie Higson | Cesária Évora | "Papa Joachim Paris" | |
| John Barry | "Bond Below Disco Volante" from Thunderball | |||
| Messiaen | "Chant D'Amour 1" from Turangalila Symphonie | |||
| Philip Glass | Opening from Glassworks | |||
| Taraf De Haidouks | "Rind De Hore" | |||
| Traditional music | Bats'I Son Martomail (True Song Of The Church Keeper) | |||
| Wagner | Tristan und Isolde - "Liebestod" ("Mild und leise eie er lächelt") | |||
| 21 Jan 2007 | Colin Wilson | Alban Berg | act 3, scenes 4 and 5 from Wozzeck | |
| Britten | "Assign Your Prettiness to Me" from Peter Grimes act 3 | |||
| Haydn | 1st movement from String Quartet in G major | |||
| Howard Hanson | 1st Movement From Symphony No 2 (excerpt) | |||
| Louis Ganne | "Overture" from Les Saltimbanqes | |||
| Malcolm Arnold | "Allegretto", No. 3 of the Four Scottish Dances | |||
| Francis Poulenc | "L'Embarquement pour Cythère" | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | 1st Movement from Symphony No. 5 | |||
| 4 Mar 2007 | Alex Jennings | Bach | "Schlummert Ein" (from Ich Habe Genug, BWV 82) | |
| Bart Howard | "Fly Me to the Moon" | |||
| Britten | "The Piano" (from The Turn of the Screw, act 2) | |||
| Duke Ellington | "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue" | |||
| Malcolm Arnold | Concerto for Two Pianos (2nd Movement - Andante Con Moto) | |||
| Marvin Gaye | "Mercy, Mercy Me" | |||
| Stravinsky | Contento Forse Vivere - Con Queste Paroline (from Pulcinella) | |||
| William Walton | "This Day Is Called the Feast of Crispian" (from Henry V) | |||
| 11 Mar 2007 | William Dalrymple | Camille Dalmais | "Pâle Septembre" | |
| Gillebert de Berneville | "De Moi Doleros Vos Chant" | |||
| John Tavener | "Svyati" | |||
| Lata Mangeshkar and Mohd Rafi | Mohabbat Ki Jhooti Kahani | |||
| Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | "Tracery" | |||
| Stevie Wishart | Azeruz | |||
| The Sabri Brothers | Ya Sahib-Ul-Jamal | |||
| Tomás Luis de Victoria | Sanctus & Benedictus from Requiem | |||
| 18 Mar 2007 | Audra McDonald | Astor Piazzolla | Concierto Para Quinteto | |
| Rodgers and Hart | "I Wish I Were in Love Again" from Babes In Arms | Audra McDonald | ||
| Chopin | Ballade No 1 in G minor, Op. 23 | |||
| Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler | Happy Days/Get Happy | |||
| John Adams | Hymning Slews Part II from Shaker Loops | |||
| Francis Poulenc | "Cavatine": 2nd Movement from Sonata For Cello and Piano | |||
| Puccini | "Senza Mama" from Suor Angelica | |||
| 25 Mar 2007 | Annalena McAfee | C. P. E. Bach | "Freye Fantasie" | |
| Federico Mompou | "Aureana Do Sil" | |||
| Leoš Janáček | "The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away" (from On an Overgrown Path Series I) | |||
| Judith Weir | "Arise! Arise!" | |||
| Mahler | Fourth Movement Urlicht (from Symphony No. 2 in C minor Resurrection) | |||
| Mike Dekle | "No Trash In My Trailer" | |||
| Seán Ó Riada and Ceoltóirí Chualann | "Marcshlua Ui Neill" | |||
| Traditional music | N/A | |||
| Traditional music | "Sliabh Geal gCua" | |||
| 1 Apr 2007 | Clemency Burton-Hill | Angélique Kidjo | Malaïka | |
| Bach | 2nd Movement from Concerto for two Violins in D minor | |||
| Beethoven | Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 70, No. 1 ("Ghost"), 1st movement | |||
| Leonard Bernstein | "Somewhere" from West Side Story | |||
| Durufle | "Ubi Caritas" from Four Motets Op. 10 | |||
| Miles Davis | "Flamenco Sketches" | |||
| Mozart | "Soave Sia Il Vento" from Cosi Fan Tutte | |||
| Verdi | "Libera Me" from Requiem | |||
| Mozart | 1st Movement from Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major K. 467 | |||
| 8 Apr 2007 | Victoria Hislop | Anonymous work | "Agapi Kai Alithia" | |
| Bach | Double Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 (1st Movement - Vivace) | |||
| Bruckner | Symphony No. 3 in D minor (3rd movement - Scherzo - Ziemlich Schnell) | |||
| Jimmy Page and Robert Plant | "Stairway To Heaven" | |||
| Felix Mendelssohn | Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (2nd Movement - Andante) | |||
| Paco De Lucia | "Rio De La Miel" | |||
| Paul Desmond | "Take Five" | |||
| Reuter and Peter Bischof | "Where Do You Go" (exc.) | |||
| 15 Apr 2007 | David Rintoul | Aly Bain and Willie Hunter and Violet Tulloch | Love of the Islands | |
| Béla Bartók | Allegro Molto (4th Movement, from Music For Strings, Percussion and Celesta) | |||
| Charles Mingus | "Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul" | |||
| Dominic Muldowney | Remembrance (from music for the National Theastre's production of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past ) | |||
| Michael Marra | "Frida Kahlo's Visit to the Taybridge Bar" | |||
| Monteverdi | "Pur Ti Miro" (L'Incoronazione Di Poppea, act 3, scene 8) | |||
| Jean Sibelius | Symphony No. 5 in E Flat, Op. 82 (3rd Movement) | |||
| 22 Apr 2007 | Martin Rowson | Bach | "Kommt, Ihr Töchter, Helft Mir Klagen" (Opening Chorus. Part 1 of the St Matthew Passion) | |
| Chopin | "Marche Funèbre" (Orch Leopold Stokowski) | |||
| Flanders and Swann | "The Armadillo" | |||
| Kurt Weill | "September Song" | |||
| Mussorgsky | "The Great Gate of Kiev" (from Pictures from an Exhibition) | |||
| Henry Purcell | March (from The Funeral Music For Queen Mary) | |||
| Rodgers and Hammerstein | "Do-Re-Mi" (from The Sound Of Music) | |||
| Syd Barrett | "Dark Globe" | |||
| 29 Apr 2007 | Vernon Bogdanor | Bach | Prelude from Partita No. 1 in B-flat major BWV 825 | |
| Beethoven | 2nd movement from Sonata in F-sharp major, Op. 78 | |||
| Bruckner | Coda To Slow movement - Symphony No 8 in C minor | |||
| Frederick Delius | "I Stand As on Some Mighty Eagle's Beak" (Songs Of Farewell) | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | 1st movement from Symphony No. 6 in E Flat | |||
| Schubert | 2nd movement from Unfinished Sonata No. 15 in C major D840 'Reliquie' | |||
| Shostakovich | Prelude and Fugue in A major, No. 7 | |||
| Wagner | "Gesegnet sei, du reiner, durch das Reine!" from act 3 Parsifal | |||
| 6 May 2007 | Kenneth Cranham | Britten | "Hymn To St Cecilia" (exc.) | |
| Britten | "Western Union Boy's Song" (from Paul Bunyan, act 1, scene 1) | |||
| Doris Akers | "Lead Me, Guide Me" | |||
| Jimmy Yancey | "Mournful Blues" | |||
| Kate McGarrigle | (Talk to Me Of) Mendocino | |||
| Mississippi John Hurt | "Richland Woman Blues" | |||
| Mozart | Clarinet Quintet, K. 581 (2nd Movement - Larghetto) | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | "Montagues and Capulets" (opening) (from Romeo and Juliet) | |||
| Sam Mayo | "Things Are Worse in Russia" | |||
| W. C. Handy | "St Louis Blues" | |||
| 13 May 2007 | Mark Ravenhill | Beethoven | "Prisoners' Chorus" – Fidelio (finale, act 1) | |
| Brecht and Hanns Eisler | Hollywood Elegie Nr 7' From 'Hollywood Songbook' | |||
| Britten | Interlude IV "Passacaglia" from Peter Grimes | |||
| John Adams | "I Am the Wife of Mae Tse-Tung" from Nixon In China | |||
| Jacques Offenbach | "You've Gone Too Far" from Orpheus In The Underworld | |||
| Stephen Sondheim | "I Never Do Anything Twice" from Side By Side By Sondheim | |||
| Verdi | "Ah! Più non ragiono!" (act 3 - Rigoletto) | |||
| 20 May 2007 | James Lovelock | Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh | "Witchcraft" | |
| Leoš Janáček | String Quartet No 1 The Kreutzer Sonata (I. Adagio - Con Moto) | |||
| Mozart | Clarinet Concerto in A, Kv 622 (III. Rondo: Allegro) | |||
| Verdi | "Nei giardin del bello" (from Don Carlo act 1) | |||
| Wagner | "Nun achte wohl und lass mich seh'n (from Parsifal, act 1) | |||
| Mozart | "Et Incarnatus Est" (from the Mass in C minor, Kv 427) | |||
| 27 May 2007 | Liz Calder [18] | Astor Piazzolla | Adiós Nonino | |
| Chico Buarque | "Samba Do Grande Amor" | |||
| Frederick Delius | "On Hearing the First Cuckoo In Spring" | |||
| João Gilberto | "Chega de Saudade" | |||
| Kathleen Ferrier | "I Know Where I'm Going" | |||
| Shostakovich | 1st Movement from Symphony No. 5 | |||
| Heitor Villa-Lobos | "O Trenzinho Caipira" ("The Little Country Train") | |||
| Heitor Villa-Lobos | Aria From Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 | |||
| 3 Jun 2007 | David Yallop | Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 (III. Canzona di ringraziamento, Molto adagio) | |
| Elgar | Symphony No. 1 in A-flat major, Op. 55 (first movement: Andante) | |||
| George Butterworth | "The Banks Of Green Willow"/"A Shropshire Lad" | |||
| Gregorian Chant | "Panis Angelicus" | |||
| John Field | Nocturne No. 1 in E-flat major | |||
| Felix Mendelssohn | String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 12 (I. Adagio non troppo - Allegro non tardante) | |||
| 10 Jun 2007 | Gyles Brandreth | Amy Beach | 2nd movement from Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67 | |
| Charles Trenet | "Que Reste-t-il De Nos Amours?" | |||
| Gilbert And Sullivan | "Conceive Me If You Can" from Patience | |||
| Liszt | Excerpt from 1st movement of Faust Symphony | |||
| Felix Mendelssohn | "Dance of the Clowns" from A Midsummer Night's Dream | |||
| Mozart | 3rd movement from Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major K467 | |||
| N/A | "Most Potent, Grave, and Reverend Signiors..." | |||
| Sir Hubert Parry | "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" | |||
| Stephen Sondheim | "With So Little to Be Sure Of" | |||
| 17 Jun 2007 | David Harsent | Albert Ayler | "For John Coltrane" (excerpt) | |
| Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 (III. Canzona di ringraziamento, Molto adagio) | |||
| Billie Holiday | "Fine & Mellow" (1957 version) | |||
| Harrison Birtwistle | Gawain's Epilogue & Coda (from Gawain) | |||
| Britten | Dirge (from Serenade For Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31) | |||
| Elgar | Symphony No 1 in A-flat major, Op. 55 (First movement: Andante) | |||
| George Butterworth | "The Banks of Green Willow"/"A Shropshire Lad" | |||
| Gounod | Sanctus (from The St. Cecilia Mass) | |||
| Gregorian Chant | "Panis Angelicus" | |||
| James MacMillan | "The Children" (poem by William Soutar) | |||
| John Field | Nocturne No. 1 in E-flat major | |||
| Felix Mendelssohn | String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 12 (I. Adagio Non Troppo - Allegro Non Tardante) | |||
| Wagner | Siegfried Idyll (opening) | |||
| 24 Jun 2007 | Lenny Henry | Donizetti | "Ah! Mes Amis, Quel Jour de Fête" | |
| Mark Fisher and Joe Goodwin and Larry Shay and Harry B. Smith and Ted Snyder and Francis Wheeler | "When You're Smiling"/"The Sheikh of Araby" | |||
| Ginastera | "Canción Al Arbol Del Olvido", Op. 3/2 | |||
| Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller | "Jailhouse Rock" | |||
| Mozart | Sonata in A, K. 331 (1st movement - Andante Grazioso) | |||
| Patrick Cassidy | "Vide Cor Meum" (from the soundtrack of Hannibal) | |||
| Prince | "Adore" | |||
| Stevie Wonder | "Living For the City" | |||
| 1 Jul 2007 | Linda Colley | Bach | "In Deine Hände Befehl Ich Meinen Geist ... Heute Wirst du Mit Mir" | |
| Aaron Copland | "Fanfare for the Common Man" | |||
| Handel | "Where'er You Walk" (from Semele, act 2, scene 3) | |||
| Haydn | "Sailor's Song" | |||
| John Lennon and Paul McCartney | "Please Please Me" | |||
| Henry Purcell | Rondeau (from Music In Abdelazer) | |||
| Joaquín Rodrigo arr. Gil Evans | "Concierto De Aranjuez" from Sketches Of Spain | Miles Davis | ||
| Stravinsky | Firebird (Conclusion) | |||
| 8 Jul 2007 | Scott Stroman [19] | Bach | Gigue from Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 | |
| Beethoven | 2nd movement from Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 | |||
| Charles Ives | "Putnam's Camp" from 3 Places in New England | |||
| Charles Mingus | "Jelly Roll" From Mingus Ah Um | |||
| Dizzy Gillespie | "Manteca" | |||
| Duke Ellington | "Work Song" from Black, Brown, and Beige | |||
| Haydn | 2nd movement "Adagio" from Symphony No. 99 in Elat | |||
| Scott Stroman-f | "Mary's Song" | " | ||
| Stravinsky | "Pas De Deux: Apollo and Terspsichore" from Apollon Musagète | |||
| 15 Jul 2007 | Joanna David | Bach | Concerto in A, BWV 1055 (1st movement - Allegro) | |
| Samuel Barber | Adagio (opening) | |||
| Beethoven | Trio in D, Op. 70/1 – "Ghost" (1st movement – Allegro vivace e con brio) | |||
| Léo Delibes | Mazurka (From Coppelia) | |||
| Haydn | Cello Concerto in C, Hob Viib/1 (3rd movement - Allegro Molto) | |||
| Felix Mendelssohn | "Help Me, Lysander, Help Me" + Intermezzo (from A Midsummer Night's Dream) | |||
| André Messager | "J'ai Deux Amants" (from L'Amour Masque) | |||
| Robert Schumann | Romance in F Sharp, Op. 28/2 | |||
| Verdi | "Alfredo, Alfredo, di questo core" (from La Traviata, act 2, scene 2) | |||
| 2 Sep 2007 | Michele Hanson [20] [21] [22] | Bach | Double Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 (3rd movement - Allegro) | |
| Chopin | Mazurka in F-sharp minor, Op. 6/1 | |||
| Handel | "His Yoke Is Easy" (from Messiah) | |||
| Vincent Rose, Larry Stock and Al Lewis | Blueberry Hill | Fats Domino | ||
| Michael Praetorius | Bourée (from Terpsichore) | |||
| Henry Purcell | "When I Am Laid In Earth" + "With Drooping Wings" (from Dido and Aeneas) | |||
| Domenico Scarlatti | Sonata in G, K. 424 | |||
| Schubert | Quintet in C, D. 956 (2nd movement - Adagio) | |||
| Kurt Weill | "September Song" | |||
| 9 Sep 2007 | Professor Robin Wilson | Anna Russell | "Madrigal" from How To Write Your Own Gilbert & Sullivan Opera | |
| Arthur Sullivan | "Pilgrims Chorus with Lucifer" from The Golden Legend Sc. III | |||
| Bach | Toccato in F | |||
| Britten | "The Storm" from Noye's Fludde | |||
| Carlton Gamer | Organum From Canto Lxxxi | |||
| Frank Loesser | "Fugue For Tinhorns" from Guys & Dolls | |||
| Haydn | 2nd Movement "Menuet Al Rovescio" from Piano Sonata No. 24 in A (Hob XVi :26) | |||
| Henry Purcell | Chaconne (Two in One Upon a Ground) from Dioclesian act 3 | |||
| Telemann | Concerto for 3 Oboes, 3 Violins & Basso Continuo in B-flat major | |||
| Verdi | "S'Appressan Gl'Istanti" from Nabucco | |||
| Bach | "Sanctus" from B minor Mass | |||
| 16 Sep 2007 | Kiran Desai | Abida Parveen | "Kal Chaudhwin Ki Raat" | |
| Bach | Courante from the Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor | |||
| Cesária Évora | "Mae Velha" (Old Mother) | |||
| Manitas de Plata | "Ma Première Guitare" | |||
| Nikhil Banerjee | Baul Folk Tune - Gat in Medium Keharwa Taal | |||
| Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | Hamd (Praise To God) | |||
| Francisco Tárrega | Recuerdos de La Alhambra | |||
| Bach | Variation 16 (from The Goldberg Variations) | |||
| 23 Sep 2007 | Barry Fantoni | Samuel Barber | Opening section of Knoxville: Summer Of 1915 | |
| Duke Ellington | "Blood Count" | |||
| Federico Mompou | "...Pour Pénétrer Les Âmes" from Charmes | |||
| Ian Carr | "Open Country" from Northumbrian Sketches (excerpt) | |||
| Jacques Brel | "La Ville S'Endormait" | |||
| Percy Grainger | "Shallow Brown" | |||
| Rameau | "Air Gracieux" from La Naissance D'Osiris | |||
| Domenico Scarlatti | Sonata K9 | |||
| Spike Milligan | "Another Lot" | |||
| 30 Sep 2007 | Tim Hely Hutchinson | Vincenzo Bellini | "Casta Diva!" (from Norma, act 1) | |
| Donizetti | "Una furtiva lagrima" (from L'elisir d'amore, act 2) | |||
| Gluck | "Che faro senza Euridice" (from Orfeo ed Euridice, act 3) | |||
| Mozart | March (from Idomeneo, act 3, scene 7) | |||
| Schubert | "Du Bist Die Ruh", D776 | |||
| Verdi | "Va pensiero" (The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, from Nabucco, act 3, scene 2) | |||
| Mozart | "O Isis und Osiris" (from The Magic Flute, act 2) | |||
| Mozart | The last part of the finale of act 4 of The Marriage of Figaro | |||
| 7 Oct 2007 | Peter Nichols | Benny Goodman | Clarinet À La King | |
| George Gershwin | Promenade ("Walking The Dog") (from Shall We Dance?) | |||
| Handel | "For Unto Us a Child Is Born" (from Messiah) | |||
| Hoagy Carmichael | "Stardust" | |||
| Josephine Baker | "C'Est un Nid Charmant" ("There's a Small Hotel") | |||
| Kodály | "See the Gipsies" | |||
| Henry Purcell | Air: "What Flatt'ring Noise Is This?" (from The Indian Queen) | |||
| Rossini | L'Innocence Italien & Le Candour Francais (from Sins of My Old Age) | |||
| Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman | Please Hello (From Pacific Overtures) | |||
| William Walton | The Globe Theatre (From The Film Music For Henry V) | |||
| 14 Oct 2007 | Jeanette Winterson | Britten | "Since She Whom I Lov'd Hath Payd Her Last Debt" (from The Holy Sonnets of John Donne) | |
| Elgar | Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 (1st Movement) | |||
| Gluck | "What Is Life to Me Without Thee?" | |||
| Handel | "Verdi Prati" (from Alcina) | |||
| Puccini | "Vissi d'Arte" (Tosca act 1) | |||
| John Tavener | "Prayer of the Heart" | |||
| Madness arr. Thomas Adès | Cardiac Arrest | |||
| Wagner | Tristan und Isolde (act 2, scene 2) | |||
| 21 Oct 2007 | Sir John Enderby | Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major "Waldstein", first movement | |
| Glenn Miller | "In The Mood" | |||
| Mahler | "Nicht Wiedersehen" (from Des Knaben Wunderhorn) | |||
| Pietro Mascagni | Easter Hymn (from Cavalleria Rusticana) | |||
| Mozart | "Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen" (The Magic Flute, act 1) | |||
| Wagner | Prelude to the third act of Lohengrin | |||
| Mozart | Horn Concerto No 4 in E Flat, K495 (2nd Movement, Romanze: Andante Cantabile) | |||
| 28 Oct 2007 | Joyce Carol Oates | Beethoven | Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 57 ("Appassionata") (finale) | |
| Chopin | Prelude in B Flat, Op. 28, No. 21 | |||
| Gabriel Fauré | Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 117 (2nd Movement, Andante) | |||
| Hoagy Carmichael | "Stardust" | |||
| Mozart | Introit and Kyrie (from The Requiem, K626) | |||
| Thelonious Monk | "Round About Midnight" | |||
| 4 Nov 2007 | Peter Hennessy | Bach | "Et In Spiritum Sanctum" (from Mass in B minor, BWV 232) | |
| Beethoven | Quartet in F, Op. 59/1 (opening of 1st movement) | |||
| Duke Ellington | "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" | |||
| Harry Parr Davies | "Sing As We Go" | |||
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | "Lucis Creator Optime" (from Marian Vespers) | |||
| Jean Sibelius | Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 43 (opening of 1st movement) | |||
| Traditional Arr. Ottilie Patterson | "Goodtime Tonight" | |||
| Vivian Ellis | "Coronation Scot" | |||
| Wagner | Prelude to act 3 of Lohengrin | |||
| Bach | Italian Concerto, BWV 971 (1st movement – Allegro) | |||
| 11 Nov 2007 | William Crozier | Charlie Parker Septet | "Ornithology" | |
| Marc-Antoine Charpentier | "Gloria" from Messe De Minuit | |||
| music by Dermot Macmurrough (Harold R. White) and lyrics by Josephine V. Rowe | Macushla | Sydney MacEwan | ||
| Jacinto Almadén | "Que Te Quiero y Que Te Quiero" - A Malagueña | |||
| James MacMillan | Introit from Veni, Veni, Emmanuel | |||
| Jean Paul Egide Martini | "Plaisir d'Amour" | |||
| Shostakovich | 4th movement "Largo" from String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 | |||
| Wagner | Siegfried's Funeral March - Götterdämmerung (act 3, scene 2) | |||
| 18 Nov 2007 | Chris Higgins | Bach | Gavotte En Rondeau [3rd movement from Partita No 3 in E, BWV 1006] | |
| Beethoven | Cavatina (5th movement from String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 130) | |||
| Britten | Overture Majestic [from The Suite For Harp] | |||
| Jon Lord | Evening Rags and Galas (from Durham Concerto) | |||
| Felix Mendelssohn | Octet [1st movement, Allegro Moderato, Ma Con Fuoco] | |||
| Monteverdi | Piu Ti Miro [Final Duet From The Coronation Of Poppea] | |||
| Mozart | Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat, K364 [Finale, Presto] | |||
| Shostakovich | String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 [2nd Movement Allegro Molto] | |||
| Wagner | Prelude to Das Rheingold | |||
| 25 Nov 2007 | Charlie Haden | Arvo Pärt | Cantus In Memory of Benjamin Britten | |
| Bill Evans | Young And Foolish | |||
| Bud Powell | "Celia" | |||
| Charlie Parker | "Kim" | |||
| Chopin | "Etude No 6 In E Flat" (Op. 10) | |||
| Rachmaninov | "Lento" from The Bells Op. 35 (excerpt) | |||
| Ravel | Slow movement from Piano Concerto in G major | |||
| Victor Young | "The Left Hand of God" (excerpt) | |||
| 2 Dec 2007 | John Nickson [23] | Bach | Cantata No. 190 Singet Dem Herrn Ein Neues Lied | |
| Alban Berg | Wozzeck (Orchestral Epilogue in Final Scene) | |||
| Bruckner | Symphony No. 4 (4th Movement, Opening) | |||
| Elgar | Symphony No. 2 (2nd Movement, Larghetto, Excerpt) | |||
| Leoš Janáček | "The Owl Has Not Flown Away" from On the Overgrown Path | |||
| Henry Purcell | Suite from The Fairy Queen: Prelude | |||
| Rodgers and Hammerstein | "Climb Every Mountain" | |||
| Jean Sibelius | Symphony No 7 (The End) | |||
| The Beatles | "Because" (from Love Album) | |||
| Wagner | Die Walküre (end of act 1) | |||
| 9 Dec 2007 | Claire Bloom | Bach | Prelude from Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 | |
| Vincenzo Bellini | "Casta Diva" (from Norma act 1) | |||
| Mozart | "Una Donna A Quindici Anni" (from Così fan tutte , act 2) | |||
| Richard Strauss | "Die Zeit, die ist ein sonderbar' Ding" (The Marschallin's act 1 aria from Der Rosenkavalier ) | |||
| Arnold Schoenberg | "Verklärte Nacht" | |||
| Schubert | Piano Sonata in A, D959 (2nd movement, Andantino) | |||
| Tchaikovsky | The Letter Scene (from Eugene Onegin act 1) | |||
| Verdi | Otello (end of) | |||
| 23 Dec 2007 | Derren Brown | Anita Baker | "Sweet Love" | |
| Bach | "Aria Da Capo" from Goldberg Variations BWV 988 | |||
| Beethoven | 2nd movement "Adagio" from Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat, Op. 73 "Emperor" | |||
| Elgar | "Praise To His Name !/Take Me Away" from The Dream Of Gerontius | |||
| Richard Strauss | "Morgen!" Op. 27, No. 4 | |||
| Thomas Tallis | "Spem In Alium" | |||
| Bach | Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1 in G major | |||
| Date | Guest | Composer | Title | Performer, label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Jan 2008 | Christopher Nupen | Bach | Chaconne (from Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004) (Excerpt) | |
| Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 | |||
| Elgar | Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 (2nd Movement, Scherzo) | |||
| Leoncavallo | "Vesti La Giubba" (from I Pagliacci) | |||
| Puccini | "Tre Sbirri" (Te Deum) (from Tosca, act 1) | |||
| Schubert | "Im Abendrot" | |||
| Traditional arr. Manuel De Falla | Polo (No 7 from The Popular Spanish Songs) | |||
| Verdi | "Bella figlia dell'amore" (from Rigoletto, act 2) | |||
| Wagner | "Du Bist Der Lenz..." (from Die Walküre, act 1) | |||
| 20 Jan 2008 | Katie Melua | Beethoven | 1st movement from Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, "Moonlight" | |
| Chopin | Nocturne No. 16 in E-flat major (Op. 55, No. 2) | |||
| Ella Fitzgerald | "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" | |||
| Joni Mitchell | "A Case Of You" | |||
| Katie Melua | "Mary Pickford" (excerpt) | |||
| Paul Simon | Homeward Bound | |||
| Ravel | 2nd movement from Piano Concerto in G major | |||
| Tchaikovsky | "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from The Nutcracker Suite | |||
| Traditional music | "David In The Lions Den" | |||
| 27 Jan 2008 | Bryan Appleyard | Bach | Dona Nobis Pacem (Mass in B minor) | |
| Beethoven | Quartet in B-flat, Op. 130 (4th movement, Alla danza tedesca) | |||
| Bob Dylan | "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" | |||
| Chopin | Nocturne in C minor (1837) | |||
| Gram Parsons | "She" | |||
| Mozart | Symphony No 41 'Jupiter' (4th Movement, Molto Allegro) | |||
| Schubert | Litanei Auf Das Fest Allerseelen, D343 | |||
| Schubert | String Quartet in D minor (Death and the Maiden) (3rd Movement, Scherzo) | |||
| Thomas Tallis | Salvator Mundi | |||
| 2 Mar 2008 | Frank Tallis [24] [25] | Carlo Gesualdo | Responsorium 1 (from Feria Quinta - In Coena Domini) | |
| Mahler | "Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen" | |||
| Miles Davis | Nuit Sur Les Champs-Élysées (From The Film Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud) | |||
| Mozart | Adagio K356 | |||
| Rachmaninov | "How Beautiful It Is Here", Op. 21, No. 7 | |||
| Takemitsu | Waltz (from the film score for The Face of Another) | |||
| Walter Leigh | Andante (from the Concertino for Harpsichord and String Orchestra) | |||
| Zemlinsky | "Friede, Mien Herz" (Molto Adagio, 7th Movement from The Lyric Symphony, Op. 18) | |||
| 9 Mar 2008 | Edward Gillespie (MD Cheltenham racecourse) | Bach | 5th movement "Gavotte" from Cello Suite No. 6 in D major | |
| Charles Villiers Stanford | Te Deum in B Flat | |||
| Edvard Grieg | 1st movement Präludium from Holberg Suite Op. 40 | |||
| Jerry Orbach | "She Likes Basketball" from Promises, Promises | |||
| Herbert Howells | 2nd Movement from In Gloucestershire (String Quartet No. 3) | |||
| Josef Locke | Galway Bay | |||
| Carl Rütti | 4th movement "Wer Bist Du" from Till Earthly Passions Turn | |||
| Percy Grainger | Tribute to Foster (based on a melody of Stephen Foster) | |||
| 16 Mar 2008 | Ian McKeever | Antony Hegarty | "What Can I Do?" | |
| Keith Jarrett | "Hymn" | |||
| John Coltrane | "Alabama" | |||
| Messiaen | Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine (2nd movement) | |||
| N/A | Closing Bells from The Russian Orthodox Liturgy | |||
| Richard Strauss | "Frühling" (from Four Last Songs) | |||
| Wayne Shorter | "Atlantis" | |||
| Karol Szymanowski | "Fac Me Tecum Pie Flere" (from Stabat Mater, Op. 53) | |||
| 23 Mar 2008 | Vanessa Redgrave | Beethoven | Sonata in C minor, Op. 8 – "Pathétique" (1st movement) | |
| Britten | "It Seemed That Out Of Battle I Escaped" + "Let Us Sleep Now" (from War Requiem, Op. 66) | |||
| Mozart | Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat, K. 297b (3rd movement - Andantino Con Variazioni) | |||
| Paolo Conte | "Via Con Me" | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Fantasia On Greensleeves | |||
| Stefan Wolpe | Piece of Embittered Music (from Zemach Suite) | |||
| 30 Mar 2008 | Paul Old [26] | Aaron Copland | 7th movement from Appalachian Spring | |
| Gavin Bryars | Music from "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" | |||
| Gluck | Music from 1st act of Orfeo ed Euridice | |||
| John Cage | Sonata No. 16 from Sonatas and Interludes For Prepared Piano | |||
| Leonard Cohen | Hallelujah | |||
| Maria Delmarbonet | Tonada De Treball. De Llaurar | |||
| Maxwell Davies | Music from Hymnos For Clarinet & Piano | |||
| Nina Simone | "Ne me quitte pas" | |||
| Steve Reich | Music From Octet | |||
| 6 Apr 2008 | Edward Fox | Bach | Prelude and Fugue No. 22 in B-flat minor BWV 867 | |
| Beethoven | 3rd movement from Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2 "Der Sturm" | |||
| Brahms | Slow movement from Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat, Op. 83 | |||
| Chopin | Berceuse in D-flat major, Op. 57 | |||
| Hugo Wolf | "Nachtzauber" from Eichendorff-Lieder | |||
| Schubert | Fantasy in C For Violin and Piano D934 | |||
| 13 Apr 2008 | Simon Baron-Cohen | Aretha Franklin | "I Say A Little Prayer" | |
| Bach | 4th movement 'Sarabande' from Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 | |||
| Beethoven | Adagio from Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor "Pathetique" | |||
| Belsen | German Concentration Camp Service & Interviews After Liberation | |||
| Chopin | Prelude No. 4 in E minor (Op. 28) | |||
| Eva Cassidy | "Ain't No Sunshine" | |||
| Mozart | "Lacrimosa" from Requiem | |||
| Carlos Santana | Smooth | |||
| Traditional music | Reb Dovid'L | The Klezmer Swingers | ||
| 20 Apr 2008 | PJ Harvey | Arvo Pärt | Fratres | |
| Howe Gelb | "Dear Diary" | |||
| Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds | "From Her To Eternity" | |||
| Nina Simone | "You'll Never Walk Alone" | |||
| PJ Harvey | "The Devil" | |||
| Traditional music | "Songs of the Volga Boatmen" | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis | |||
| 27 Apr 2008 | Colin Low | Robert Schumann | Kreisleriana, Op. 16 (1st movement - Agitatissimo) | |
| Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler | Get Happy | |||
| Leopold Godowsky | Study No. 43 in C-sharp minor (after Chopin's Study Op. 25/12) | |||
| Percy Grainger | The Warriors (Conclusion) | |||
| Messiaen | "L'Alouette Calandrelle" (from Catalogue d'Oiseaux) | |||
| Quilter | "O Mistress Mine" | |||
| Robert Schumann | Mondnacht (from Liederkreis, Op. 39) | |||
| Wagner | Die Walküre (conclusion of act 1) | |||
| Peter Warlock | "Rest, Sweet Nymphs" | |||
| Hugo Wolf | Mühvoll Komm'Ich Und Beladen (From Spanish Songbook) | |||
| 4 May 2008 | Brian Foster [27] | Bach | Goldberg Variations (No. 30 Quodlibet & Aria Da Capo) | |
| Brahms | Violin Concerto (3rd Movement) | |||
| Max Bruch | Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 (1st movement (opening)) | |||
| Mozart | "Soave sia il vento" ( Così fan tutte act 1, scene 2) | |||
| Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina | Missa Papae Marcelli (Kyrie, Opening) | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | Violin Sonata No. 2 in D, Op. 94 (4th Movement Allegro Molto) | |||
| Shostakovich | Piano Trio No. 2 (2nd Movement, Scherzo) | |||
| Mozart | Violin Sonata in E-flat major, K. 380 (3rd Movement: Rondeau, Allegro) | |||
| 11 May 2008 | Colin Salmon | Béla Bartók | "Round Dance" from Five Pieces For Children Sz 42 | |
| Billy Strayhorn | "Lush Life" | |||
| Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson | "Perpetual Motion" 4th movement from Black/Folksong Suite For Solo Cello | |||
| Duke Ellington | "Isfahan" (from The Far East Suite) | |||
| Jaheim | "Fabulous" | |||
| Leonard Salzedo | "Prelude" from Divertimento for 3 Trumpets and 3 Trombones | |||
| Miles Davis | "The Pan Piper" (from Sketches of Spain) | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | "Introduction" from Romeo and Juliet | |||
| Richard Strauss | Morgen' Op. 27, No. 4 | |||
| Ronald Binge | Cornet Carillon | |||
| 25 May 2008 | Terry Burns | Bach | "Ach, Schlage Doch Bald, Sel'Ge Stunde" (from Christus, der ist mein Leben, BWV 95) | |
| Beethoven | Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (1st movement – Allegro con brio) | |||
| Debussy | String Quartet (2nd movement - Scherzo) | |||
| Monteverdi | Vespro Della Beata Vergine (Opening) | |||
| Mozart | "Vostre dunque saran queste carte" (from Le nozze di Figaro , act 2) | |||
| Henry Purcell | "One Charming Night" (from The Fairy-Queen , act 2) | |||
| Stravinsky | Final Hymn (from Firebird Suite - 1945) | |||
| Stravinsky | Augurs Of Spring + Mock Abduction (from The Rite of Spring) | |||
| Bach | Partita No. 3 in E, BWV 1006 (3rd movement - Gavotte En Rondeau) | |||
| 1 Jun 2008 | Maria Chevska [28] | Alban Berg | "Lied Der Lulu" from Lulu Suite | |
| Krzysztof Komeda | "Sleep Safe and Warm" | |||
| Mahler | "Farewell" from The Song of The Earth | |||
| Arnold Schoenberg | No 2 of the Three Piano Pieces (Op. 11) | |||
| Shostakovich | Last movement "Allegro" from String Quartet No. 9 | |||
| Sofia Gubaidulina | "In Croce" (for Cello and Accordion) | |||
| Bach | 2nd Movement from Concerto for Two Violins | |||
| 8 Jun 2008 | Philip Stott | Bach | "Alles Nur Nach Gottes Willen" (Opening Chorus from Cantata BWV 72) | |
| Beethoven | Symphony No. 4 in B-flat, Op. 60 (4th movement – Allegro ma non troppo) | |||
| Fanny Mendelssohn | String Quartet in E Flat (1st movement - Adagio Ma Non Troppo) | |||
| Haydn | Kyrie (from Missa in Angustiis -"Nelson Mass") | |||
| Haydn | Quartet in C, Op. 20/6 (4th movement - Fugue) | |||
| Mozart | Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat, K. 364 (2nd movement - Andante) | |||
| Camille Saint-Saëns | Piano Quartet in E (Finale - Allegro Con Fuoco) | |||
| 15 Jun 2008 | Robert Fisk | Brahms | Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op. 102 (1st Movement) | |
| Britten | "Dies Irae" (from The War Requiem) | |||
| Cecil Coles | Lament (from The Scottish Highlands) | |||
| Handel | Organ Concerto in F, Op. 4, No. 5 (2nd Movement) | |||
| John Williams | Theme from Schindler's List | |||
| Reading - Robert Fisk | The Age of the Warrior (Fourth Estate) P240 | |||
| Shostakovich | Symphony No. 7 in C, Op. 60 (The Leningrad) | |||
| 22 Jun 2008 | Rowan Williams | Bach | Concerto in D minor for Oboe and Violin, BWV 1060 | |
| Britten | "O All Ye Works of the Lord" (from The Burning Fiery Furnace) | |||
| William Byrd | "Christ Rising Again from the Dead" | |||
| John Dowland | "Lachrimae Pavan" | |||
| Mozart | Opening of the finale of act 1 of The Magic Flute | |||
| Reading - Rowan Williams | Pavana Dolorosa (from Tenebrae) | |||
| Reading - Rowan Williams | "Wir Setzen Uns" | |||
| Bach | "Wir Setzen Uns Mit Tränen Nieder" (Final Chorus The St Matthew Passion) | |||
| Robert Schumann | Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 (Intermezzo Andante Grazioso) | |||
| Traditional Welsh Folksong | Y Deryn Pur (The Pure Bird) | |||
| 29 Jun 2008 | Matt Frei | Beethoven | Final movement from Symphony No. 9 in D minor (excerpt) | |
| Mahler | 1st movement from Symphony No. 5 (excerpt) | |||
| Mozart | 1st movement from Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in G major, K. 313 | |||
| Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina | "Exulatate Deo" | |||
| Puccini | "O soave fanciulla" from La bohème act 1 | |||
| Verdi | "Già nella notte densa..." from Otello act 1, scene 3 | |||
| 20 Jul 2008 | Margaret Hodge | Beethoven | Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58 (2nd movement, Andante con moto) | |
| Vincenzo Bellini | Casta Diva (From Norma) | |||
| Britten | "Now The Great Bear and Pleiedes" (Peter Grimes, act 1, scene 2) | |||
| Chopin | Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 in E Flat | |||
| Debussy | Sonata For Flute, Viola and Harp (Finale) | |||
| Ed McCurdy | "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" | |||
| Arnold Schoenberg | "Verklärte Nacht" (The End) | |||
| Wagner | Overture to Tannhäuser | |||
| 17 Aug 2008 | Ffion Hague | Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg | "Over the Rainbow" | |
| Bach | 1st movement from Concerto for Two Violins | |||
| Bruckner | "Christus Factus Est" (Motet) | |||
| Gabriel Fauré | Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 | |||
| Jerry Gray | "A String of Pearls" | |||
| Mozart | 2nd movement from Clarinet Concerto K622 | |||
| Traditional music | "Suo-Gân" | |||
| 24 Aug 2008 | Richard Fortey | Béla Bartók | Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste (Adagio) | |
| Britten | Rejoice in the Lamb Festival Cantata, Op. 30 (Chorus: For I Am Under The Same Accusation) | |||
| Leoš Janáček | The Cunning Little Vixen | |||
| Messiaen | "Regard Des Hauteurs" (Vingt Regards sur L'Enfant Jésus) | |||
| Miles Davis | "Two Bass Hit" (Lewis/Gillespie) | |||
| Ravel | Dawn from Daphnis and Chloe | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Romance for Harmonica and Orchestra | |||
| 7 Sep 2008 | Judy Collins | Aaron Copland | Lincoln Portrait (excerpt) | |
| Francesco Landini | "Lasso ! Di Donna" | |||
| Joni Mitchell | "Both Sides Now" | |||
| Judy Collins | "Since You've Asked" | |||
| Kenny White | Symphony in 16 Bars | |||
| Ned Rorem | "Early in The Morning" (Robert Hillier) | |||
| Ned Rorem | "I Am Rose2 (Gertrude Stein) | |||
| Rachmaninov | 1st movement from Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 | |||
| Stephen Sondheim | "Pretty Women" from Sweeney Todd | |||
| 14 Sep 2008 | Alex Ross | Bob Dylan | "Simple Twist of Fate" (from Blood On the Tracks ) | |
| Brahms | Intermezzo in E Flat, Op. 117, No. 1 | |||
| John Adams | "I Am Old and I Cannot Sleep" (from Nixon In China) | |||
| Ligeti | Lacrimosa (from The Requiem) | |||
| Percy Grainger | "Shallow Brown" | |||
| Henry Purcell | "Thy Hand Belinda...When I Am Laid In Earth" (from Dido and Aeneas) | |||
| Richard Strauss | "Ach, Ich Habe Deinen Mund Geküsst" (from Salome) | |||
| 21 Sep 2008 | Dominic West | Arvo Pärt | Spiegel Im Spiegel (Mirror in the Mirror) | |
| Claudio Villa | Stornelli Amorisi | |||
| Handel | "Zadok The Priest" | |||
| Jake Thackray | "Sister Josephine" | |||
| Mozart | "Laudate Dominum" from Vespers K339 | |||
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | "Stabat Mater" | |||
| Schubert | "Der Leiermann" from Winterreise D911 | |||
| West African Rhythm Brothers | "Sing The Blues" | |||
| Young Holt Unlimited | "Ain't There Something Money Can't Buy" | |||
| 28 Sep 2008 | Jennifer Worth | Archangelsky | "Lord, Hear My Prayer" | |
| Bach | Prelude and Fugue in G (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2) | |||
| Chopin | Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 1 | |||
| Antonín Dvořák | Sonatina in G, Op. 100 (II. Larghetto) | |||
| Édith Piaf | "C'Est Merveilleux" (Contet/Monnot) | |||
| Traditional Hebridean Folksong Arr. Marjory Kennedy-Fraser | "Skye Fisher's Song" | |||
| Herbert Howells | "King David" | |||
| Traditional Paraguayan | Pájaro Campana (The Bell Bird) | |||
| Verdi | "Chi Fai?... Amami Alfredo!" (from La traviata , act 2, scene 1) | |||
| Vivaldi | Gloria In Excelsis Deo (From The Gloria) | |||
| 5 Oct 2008 | John Burnside | Bach | Partita No. 2 in C minor | |
| Fernanda de Utrera | "Mi Mal No Tiene Cura" | |||
| Handel | "De Torrente" (from Dixit Dominus) | |||
| John Sheppard | Media Vita | |||
| Miles Davis | "Time After Time" (Hyman/Lauper) | |||
| Nikhil Banerjee | Raga Bhimpalasri (excerpt) | |||
| Michael Tippett | Fantasia Concertante On a Theme of Corelli (excerpt) | |||
| 12 Oct 2008 | Nick Clegg | Chopin | Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor (2nd movement, Larghetto) | |
| Chopin | Waltz in A minor, Op. posth. | |||
| Mozart | Laudate Dominum (from The Vesperae Solennes De Confessore, K339) | |||
| Richard Strauss | Beim Schlafengehen (No. 3 from Four Last Songs) | |||
| Schubert | Erlkönig | |||
| Schubert | Impromptu E-flat minor | |||
| 19 Oct 2008 | Peter Kosminsky | Beethoven | Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 ("Pastoral") 1st movement, The Awakening of Pleasant Feelings on Arriving in the Countryside | |
| Max Bruch | "Kol Nidrei", Op. 47 | |||
| Elgar | Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 (1st Movement, Adagio - Moderato) | |||
| Jocelyn Pook | Oppenheimer (from Flood) | |||
| Mike Westbrook | "I See Thy Form" | |||
| Mozart | Requiem, K626 (Lacrimosa) | |||
| Philip Glass | The Photographer (act 1: A Gentleman's Honor) | |||
| 26 Oct 2008 | Marcia Schofield | Arvo Pärt | Tabula Rasa (excerpt) | |
| Bach | 3rd movement "Aria" from Suite No. 5 in G minor, BWV 1070 | |||
| Béla Bartók | Bluebeard's Castle - Door 4 - The Garden | |||
| Glenn Gould | "The Idea Of North" from Solitude Trilogy | |||
| John Adams | On The Transmigration Of Souls (excerpt) | |||
| John Tavener | Part III from The Protecting Veil | |||
| Alexander Scriabin | Prometheus (excerpt) | |||
| Tom Waits | "What's He Building?" | |||
| 2 Nov 2008 | Richard Alston | Bach | "Aus Liebe Will Mein Heiland Sterben" (St Matthew Passion, Part 2) | |
| Britten | "Billy's Ballad" (from Billy Budd, act 4 [original 4-act version]) | |||
| Cole Porter | "After You Who?" | |||
| Frank Sinatra | "In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Mann/Hilliard) | |||
| Handel | "O Lord Whose Mercies Numberless" (from Saul, act 1, scene 5) | |||
| Madeleine Peyroux | "This Is Heaven To Me" | |||
| Henry Purcell | "Thou Knowest Lord the Secrets of Our Hearts" | |||
| Camille Saint-Saëns | Piano Concerto No. 5 (3rd Movement, Molto Allegro) | |||
| Traditional Sufi Qawwali | Maulah Ali Maulah Ali (Manqabat In Raga Bhairvi) | |||
| 9 Nov 2008 | David Almond | Béla Bartók | Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Door 5) | |
| Aaron Copland | "Fanfare for the Common Man" | |||
| Handel | Verdi Prati (Alcina, act 2, scene 11) | |||
| Tod Machover | "I Dreamt a Dream" | |||
| Monteverdi | Possente Spirto (L'Orfeo act 3) | |||
| Mozart | "Soave sia il vento" ( Così fan tutte , act 1) | |||
| Puccini | "One Fine Day" (from the film First Love) ( Madame Butterfly act 2) | |||
| Traditional Japanese Noh Music | Nakairiraigyo | |||
| 16 Nov 2008 | Terence Blanchard | Debussy | Prélude À L'Après-Midi d'un Faune | |
| Freddie Hubbard | "The Intrepid Fox" (excerpt) | |||
| George Gershwin | "A Foggy Day" | |||
| Prince | "The Sacrifice Of Victor" | |||
| Richard Strauss | "Orest ! Orest ! Es Rührt Sich Niemand !" from Elektra | |||
| Stravinsky | Music From Part I of The Rite Of Spring | |||
| Terence Blanchard | "Ghost Of Congo Square" (excerpt) | |||
| Weather Report | "Madagascar" | |||
| 23 Nov 2008 | Rick Wakeman | Albert Franz Doppler | Music From Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise Op. 26 | |
| Arvo Pärt | "Summa" | |||
| David Bowie | "Life On Mars" (excerpt) | |||
| Debussy | "Le Vent dans La Plaine" from Preludes Book 1 | |||
| Ivan Rebroff | "Song of the Volga Boatman" | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | Music from Ivan The Terrible | |||
| Shostakovich | 4th movement from Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings in C minor | |||
| Bedřich Smetana | 4th movement from Quartet No. 1 in E minor | |||
| 30 Nov 2008 | Paul Rhys | Bach | "Wir Setzen uns mit Tränen Nieder" (Final Chorus from the St Matthew Passion) | |
| Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 (first movement, excerpt) | |||
| David Bowie | "Life On Mars?" (from Hunky Dory) | |||
| Kurt Weill | "That's Him" (from One Touch of Venus ) | |||
| Mahler | Abschied (from Das Lied Von Der Erde (excerpt)) | |||
| Puccini | "Soave fanciulla" (duet from the end of act 1 of La bohème ) | |||
| Henry Purcell | "What Power Art Thou" (King Arthur, act 3) | |||
| Ravel | Piano Trio in A minor (1st movement, opening) | |||
| Schubert | String Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden) (1st Movement, Excerpt) | |||
| Traditional music | "Ar Hyd Y Nos" ("All Through the Night") | |||
| 7 Dec 2008 | Janice Galloway | Bach | Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, BWV 1043 (1st movement: Vivace) | |
| Britten | Balulalow and Deo Gracias! (from A Ceremony of Carols) | |||
| Britten | "Dirge: This Ae Night" (from Serenade For Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31) | |||
| Britten | "The Bird-Scarer's Song" | |||
| Chopin | Study in G Flat, Op. 10, No. 5: 2Black Keys" | |||
| Clara Schumann | Variations of a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20: Variation V | |||
| Handel | "Lascia Ch'Io Pianga" (from Rinaldo) | |||
| Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller | "Hound Dog" | |||
| Mozart | "A cenar tteco" (from Don Giovanni , act 2, scene 5, finale) | |||
| Henry Purcell | "Music For a While" (from Oedipus) | |||
| Robert Schumann | "Chiarina" (from Carnaval, Op. 9) | |||
| Robert Schumann | Widmung (No. 1 from Myrthen, Op. 25) | |||
| 14 Dec 2008 | Jan Pieńkowski | Chopin | Polonaise in A major, Op. 40, No. 1 "Military" | |
| John Lennon and Paul McCartney | "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" | |||
| Polish Tune | "Infant Holy, Infant Lowly" | |||
| Rachmaninov | Vocalise Op. 34, No. 14 | |||
| Traditional Sunday Vespers | The Magnificat | |||
| Tadeusz Sygietyński and S. R. Dobrowolskiolski | Warszawski Dzień | |||
| Tchaikovsky | Chinese Dance From 'The Nutcracker Suite' | |||
| Tchaikovsky | Mazurka from Eugene Onegin (act 2) | |||
| Verdi | "Rivedrai le foreste imbalsamate" from Aida, act 3 | |||
| 28 Dec 2008 | Sue Perkins | Britten | "Dies Irae" (from The Sinfonia Da Requiem) | |
| Britten | Interlude and Balulalow (from A Ceremony Of Carols, Op. 28) | |||
| Britten | Sunday Morning and The Storm (from The 4 Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes) | |||
| Mozart | "Ach ich fühls..." (Pamina's aria from The Magic Flute, act 2) | |||
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | Stabat Mater and Quando Corpus (from The Stabat Mater) | |||
| Stravinsky | Finale from The Firebird Suite | |||
| Date | Guest | Composer | Title | Performer, label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Jan 2009 | Jonathan Dimbleby | Bach | Music from Part II of The St John Passion BWV 245 | |
| Beethoven | 3rd movement 'Scherzo' from Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 | |||
| Britten | "The Birth Of Nicholas" from St Nicholas | |||
| Mozart | 1st movement from Piano Sonata in A major K331 | |||
| N/A | Chanson Amhorique Classique Accomp On Masenqo | |||
| Verdi | "Ave Maria" from Otello | |||
| 11 Jan 2009 | Kate O'Mara | Bach | Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F (1st movement, Allegro) | |
| Antonín Dvořák | "Silent Woods" | |||
| George Butterworth | "The Banks of Green Willow" (Idyll for Small Orchestra) | |||
| George Gershwin | "Lullaby" | |||
| Percy Grainger | Rustic Dance (from Youthful Suite) | |||
| Jan Dismas Zelenka | Fanfare in D major | |||
| Marguerite Monnot and Georges Moustaki | Milord | |||
| Shostakovich | Waltz (from Jazz Suite No. 2) | |||
| 18 Jan 2009 | Carol Drinkwater | Bach | 2nd movement from Concerto For 2 Violins BWV 1043 | |
| Federico García Lorca | "La Casada Infiel" | |||
| Mahler | "Youth" from Das Lied Von Der Erde | |||
| Miles Davis | "Generique" from Ascenseur pour L'Échafaud | |||
| Nina Simone | "Ne Me Quitte Pas (If You Go Away)" | |||
| Oscar Peterson | "Laura" | |||
| The Doors | "Riders On the Storm" from The Doors Concerto | |||
| Bach | Prelude & Allemande from Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 | |||
| 25 Jan 2009 | Tariq Ali | Baba Bulleh Shah | "Kee Jaana Mein Kaum Buleya" (from Kalam) | |
| Billie Holiday | "Strange Fruit" | |||
| Gluck | "Che faro senza Euridice" (from Orfeo ed Euridice, act 3) | |||
| Hans Eisler and Bertolt Brecht | "Song of the Stimulating Impact of Cash" | |||
| Schubert | Symphony No. 9 in C, D944 (The "Great") (1st movement, Opening) | |||
| Shostakovich | Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65 (3rd Movement, Allegro Non Troppo) | |||
| Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin (Tatiana's Rejection of Onegin at the End of the opera) | |||
| 8 Mar 2009 | Clive Stafford Smith | Bach arr. Münchinger | "Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring" (from Cantata No 147) | |
| Luther "Houserocker" Johnson | "Little Car Blues" | |||
| Peter Gabriel | Biko | |||
| Rossini | "Largo al factotum" (from The Barber of Seville , act 1, scene 1) | |||
| The Proclaimers | "Sunshine on Leith" | |||
| Thomas Tallis | "Spem In Alium" | |||
| Traditional music | "Jesus Dropped the Charges" | |||
| 15 Mar 2009 | Jane Asher | Beethoven | Symphony No. 5 (finale: Allegro) | |
| Donizetti | "Spargi d'amore pianto" (from Lucia Di Lammermoor, act 2) | |||
| Gilbert And Sullivan | "When I Was A Lad I Served A Term" (H.M.S. Pinafore, act 1) | |||
| Mozart | "Deh vieni non tardar" (from The Marriage of Figaro , act 4) | |||
| Tchaikovsky | Symphony No 4 (Finale: Allegro Con Fuoco) | |||
| Mozart | Overture to Don Giovanni | |||
| Mozart | "Lacrimosa" (from The Requiem, K626) | |||
| 22 Mar 2009 | Terence Davies | Bernard Herrmann | Psycho - Opening Titles | |
| Bruckner | Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Conclusion of 3rd movement) | |||
| Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown | "Singin' in the Rain" | |||
| Rodgers and Hart | "Ten Cents A Dance" | |||
| Schubert | Nacht und Träume, D. 827 | |||
| Shostakovich | Symphony No. 10 (opening of 1st movement) | |||
| Jean Sibelius | Symphony No. 5 (opening of 3rd movement) | |||
| Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim | "You Gotta Have A Gimmick" | |||
| Traditional music | "Blow The Wind Southerly" | |||
| 29 Mar 2009 | Anthony Horowitz | Beethoven | Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92 (2nd movement – Allegretto) | |
| Britten | Malo (from The Turn of the Screw, act 1, scene 6) | |||
| Chopin | Prelude in E minor, Op. 28/4 | |||
| Chopin | Study in C, Op. 10/1 | |||
| Philip Glass | Satyagraha (conclusion of act 3 excerpt) | |||
| Maurice Jarre | Lawrence of Arabia – Overture | |||
| Mozart | "Bisogna aver coraggio...Protegga il giusto cielo" (from Don Giovanni , act 1) | |||
| Puccini | "Tre Sbirri, Una Carrozza...Presto, Seguila" (from Tosca, act 1) | |||
| Rodgers and Hammerstein | "If I Loved You" | |||
| 5 Apr 2009 | Marianne Faithfull | Bach | "Prelude" from Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor | |
| Beethoven | 3rd movement from Sonata for Violin and Piano, No. 9, Op. 47 "Kreutzer" | |||
| Leonard Bernstein | "Jet Song" from West Side Story | |||
| Bob Dylan | "She Belongs to Me" | |||
| John Coltrane | "My Favorite Things" (excerpt) | |||
| Marianne Faithfull | "Hold On Hold On" (excerpt) | |||
| Mozart | "Mi tradi quell' alma ingrata" from Don Giovanni act 2 | |||
| Schubert | 2nd movvement from Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat, D929 | |||
| 26 Apr 2009 | William Fiennes | Bach | Prelude No. 3 in C-sharp major (from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II) | |
| Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 (excerpt 3rd movement, "Heiliger Dankgesang") | |||
| Bob Dylan | "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" (from the album Blood On the Tracks) | |||
| Anton Bruckner | Ave Maria | |||
| Messiaen | "Louange à l'Immoralité de Jésus" (from The Quartet for the End of Time) | |||
| Radiohead | Kid A | |||
| Schubert | Piano Sonata in B Flat, D960 (2nd movement: Andante Sostenuto) | |||
| Shostakovich | Prelude No. 5 in D major (from 24 Preludes and Fugues) | |||
| 3 May 2009 | Michael Pennington | Alaric Jans | "O Mistress Mine" | |
| Bach | Chaconne (excerpt) (from Partita No. 2 in D minor | |||
| Britten | Elegy (from The Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31) | |||
| Joan Armatrading | "Willow" | |||
| Rachmaninov | "Lord, Now Lettest Thou Thy Servant Depart In Peace" (from The Vespers) | |||
| Richard Strauss | Morgen | |||
| Stravinsky | Sacrificial Dance (from The Rite Of Spring) | |||
| Tim Hardin | "Hang On to a Dream" (recorded live at the 1973 Reading Festival) | |||
| 10 May 2009 | Mendelssohn special (John Sessions) | Fanny Mendelssohn | Italien | |
| Felix Mendelssohn | A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 - Overture (opening) | |||
| Felix Mendelssohn | Elijah, Op. 70 (conclusion) | |||
| Felix Mendelssohn | Elijah, Op. 70 (opening chorus) | |||
| Felix Mendelssohn | Octet in E Flat, Op. 20 (opening of 1st movement) | |||
| Felix Mendelssohn | Overture - The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), Op. 26 (Opening) | |||
| Felix Mendelssohn | Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 25 (2nd movement - Andante - excerpt) | |||
| Felix Mendelssohn | Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 - Scottish (Opening of 1st movement) | |||
| 17 May 2009 | Fleur Adcock | Bessie Smith | "Nobody Knows You When You'te Down and Out" | |
| Britten | "Dirge" (from Serenade For Tenor, Horn and Strings) | |||
| Gabriel Fauré | "In Paradisum" (from The Requiem, Op. 48) | |||
| Gace Brulé | "A la Doucour de la Bele Seson" | |||
| Gillian Whitehead | Hinetekakara | |||
| Leoš Janáček | Sinfonietta (1st movement, Allegretto: Fanfare) | |||
| Kurt Weill | "Mack the Knife" (from The Threepenny Opera ) (recorded 28 September 1955) | |||
| Monteverdi | "Nisi Dominus" (from The Vespers of 1610) | |||
| Henry Purcell | "Nymphs and Shepherds" | |||
| 24 May 2009 | James Le Fanu | Bach | Sonata for Violin and Keyboard, No. 2 in A major, BWV 1015 (2nd movement, Allegro assai) | |
| Beethoven | Symphony No. 1 in C, Op. 21 (4th movement) | |||
| William Byrd | "Agnus Dei" (from The Mass For Four Voices) | |||
| César Franck | Violin Sonata in A (4th movement, Allegretto Poco Mosso) | |||
| Haydn | The Creation (Duet and Chorus, By Thee with Bliss) | |||
| Janis Joplin | "Cry Baby" | |||
| Robert Schumann | Wanderlied (No. 12 from Gedichte Op. 35) | |||
| Shostakovich | String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 (2nd movement, Allegro Molto) | |||
| 7 Jun 2009 | Jasper Conran | Bessie Smith | "You Gotta Give Me Some" | |
| Cat Stevens | "Morning Has Broken" | |||
| Chopin | Waltz in G-flat major, Op. 70, No. 1 | |||
| Elizabeth Welch | "Stormy Weather" | |||
| Ella Fitzgerald | "Undecided" | |||
| Handel | "Comfort Ye My People" (from Messiah) | |||
| Handel | "Where'er You Walk" (Semele, act 2, scene 3) | |||
| Mozart | Laudate Dominum (from Vesperae Solennes De Confessore, K339) | |||
| Schubert | Impromptu in A Flat, D899 No. 4 | |||
| Traditional music | "Blow The Wind Southerly" | |||
| 14 Jun 2009 | Penelope Wilton | Blossom Dearie | "I'm Hip" | |
| Brahms | Symphony No. 3 in F major (3rd movement, Poco allegretto) | |||
| Debussy | Quartet in G minor (3rd movement, Andantino, Doucement Expressif)) | |||
| Antonín Dvořák | Cello Concerto (1st movement, Allegro, excerpt) | |||
| Ella Fitzgerald | "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" | |||
| Kurt Weill | "Speak Low" (from One Touch of Venus ) | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | Symphony No. 1 in D, Op. 25 (Classical) (first movement, Allegro) | |||
| 21 Jun 2009 | Michael Portillo | Manuel De Falla | "El Amor Brujo" (The Dance of the Game of Love: The Last Section) | |
| Puccini | The end of act 1 of Tosca | |||
| Richard Strauss | "Frühling" (first of the Four Last Songs) | |||
| Schubert | String Quartet in A minor, D804 (3rd movement: Menuetto, Allegretto) | |||
| Shostakovich | Symphony No. 13 Babi Yar (excerpt from 4th movement Fears, Beginning "Eta Stala Sevodnya Dalyokim…") | |||
| Jean Sibelius | Symphony 4 in A minor, Op. 63 (Last movement, Allegro) | |||
| Wagner | Part of Wotan's Lament from Die Walküre, act 2, scene 2 | |||
| 28 Jun 2009 | Amit Chaudhuri | Beethoven | Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 13 ("Pathétique") (1st movement, excerpt) | |
| Bijoya Chaudhuri | "Esho Nipabane" (Tagore) | |||
| Joni Mitchell | Hejira | |||
| Joaquín Rodrigo arr. Gil Evans | "Concierto De Aranjuez" from Sketches of Spain | Miles Davis | ||
| Subinoy Roy | "Bahe Nirantara Ananta" (Tagore) | |||
| Traditional music | "Raga Kalavati" | |||
| William Bolcom | "The Lamb & the Shepherd" (Songs of Innocence and Experience) | |||
| 5 Jul 2009 | Jeremy Northam | Bach | Prelude and Fugue in F (Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1) | |
| Earl Hines and Billy Taylor | "Sweet Lorraine" | |||
| George and Ira Gershwin | "How Long Has This Been Going On?" | |||
| Leoš Janáček | The Cunning Little Vixen | |||
| Keith Jarrett | "Time on My Hands" | |||
| Mahler | Symphony No. 5 (2nd movement: Stürmisch Bewegt, Excerpt) | |||
| Puccini | "Dunque è proprio finita" ( La bohème , love duet from the end of act 3) | |||
| Schubert | Piano Trio in B-flat, D898 [1st movement, Allegro Moderato] | |||
| Victor Young and Ned Washington | "My Foolish Heart" | |||
| 12 Jul 2009 | Richard Hudson | Bach | Concerto in G minor, BWV 975 (1st movement - Allegro) | |
| Mozart | "Canzonetta sull'aria" (from Le nozze di Figaro , act 3) | |||
| Cole Porter | "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" | |||
| Jimmy Somerville and Richard Coles | "So Cold the Night" | |||
| Tchaikovsky | Pas De Deux - Intrada (from The Nutcracker, act 2, Op. 71) | |||
| Traditional arr. George Fenton | "Nkosi Sikeleli Afrika" | |||
| Vivaldi | "Cessate, Omai Cessate...Ah, Ch'Infelice Sempre" (from Cessate, Omai Cessate, Rv 684) | |||
| Judith Weir | Second act of the Chao Family Orphan (from A Night at the Chinese Opera, act 2) | |||
| 19 Jul 2009 | Sarah Dunant | Bach | Prelude from Cello Suite in C, BWV 1009 | |
| Dark City Sisters | "Sekusile" | |||
| Leonard Cohen | "Ain't No Cure for Love" | |||
| Lucinda Williams | "Righteously" | |||
| Michelle Shocked | "Anchorage" | |||
| Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina | Lesson One (Lamentations of Jeremiah) | |||
| Schubert | Piano Sonata in B Flat, D960 (II. Andante Sostenuto) | |||
| Van Morrison | "In the Garden" [Van Morrison]/"You Send Me" [Sam Cooke] | |||
| 6 Sep 2009 | Anthony Bolton | Anthony Bolton | "A Kiss for the Baby" (from A Garland Of Carols) | |
| Britten | Elegy (from The Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings) | |||
| Joni Mitchell | "The Silky Veils Of Ardor" (from Don Juan's Reckless Daughter) | |||
| Mahler | Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) (excerpt from the 5th movement) | |||
| Mozart | "Soave sia il vento" (from Così fan tutte , act 1, scene 2) | |||
| Richard Strauss | Part of the presentation of the Silver Rose ( Der Rosenkavalier , act 2) | |||
| Thomas Adès | What Was Before... (from The Tempest, the love duet from act 2, scene 4) | |||
| 13 Sep 2009 | Imogen Stubbs | Britten | Corpus Christi Carol | |
| Brahms | Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 (II. Adagio) | |||
| Gene Kelly | "Singin' in the Rain" | |||
| Georges Delerue | "Ashton's Son" (main theme music from the film A Summer Story) | |||
| George Gershwin | "Oh Lord I'm On My Way" from Porgy and Bess | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | Juliet's Death (from Romeo and Juliet act 4) | |||
| Henry Purcell | "An Evening Hymn" | |||
| Shaun Davey | The Relief of Derry Symphony (excerpt from 4th movement, The Hymn To Peace) | |||
| Tchaikovsky | June (Barcarolle) from The Seasons | |||
| 20 Sep 2009 | Mark Haddon | Traditional arr. Britten | "Tom Bowling" | |
| Autechre | "Plyphon" (from the album Quaristice) | |||
| David Raksin | "Laura" | |||
| Elliott Carter | Oboe Quartet (opening) | |||
| Kate Rusby | "My Young Man" | |||
| Mozart | Piano Sonata in C, K. 545, "Sonata Facile" (1st Movement, Allegro) | |||
| Sonic Youth | "Kool Thing" (from the album Goo) | |||
| Steve Reich | "Pulse" (from Music for 18 Musicians) | |||
| 27 Sep 2009 | Hanan al-Shaykh | Albinoni | Adagio in G minor | |
| Anouar Brahem | "Parfum De Gitane" | |||
| Bach | 3rd movement "Allegro" from Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minorm BWV 1052 | |||
| Billie Holiday | "Strange Fruit". Rec. 1956 | |||
| Fairuz | "Wa Habibi" | |||
| Jimmy Lunceford | "Rhythm Is Our Business" | |||
| Philip Glass | "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" from Mishima | |||
| Schubert | "Der Zwerg" | |||
| 4 Oct 2009 | Christopher Wynn Parry [29] | Anonymous work | Sanctus (from the Ivrea Codex) | |
| Bach | Partita No. 1 in B Flat, BWV 825 (5th & 6th movements - Menuets I and II & Gigue) | |||
| William Byrd | "Agnus Dei" (from Mass for Five Voices) | |||
| Handel | "La Réjouissance" (from Music for the Royal Fireworks) | |||
| Monteverdi | "Nisi Dominus" (from Messa E Salmi) | |||
| Mozart | Serenade in B Flat, K. 361 (4th movement - Menuetto. Allegretto - Trio I and II) | |||
| Stravinsky | Apollon Musagète (Coda and Apothéose) | |||
| 11 Oct 2009 | Paul McKenna | Bizet | 4th movement from Symphony in C | |
| Donny Hathaway | "A Song For You" | |||
| Max Steiner | "A Summer Place" | |||
| Mozart | Overture To The Marriage of Figaro | |||
| Pat Metheny | "To the End of the World" | |||
| Rossini | "Finale" from William Tell Overture | |||
| Wagner | Prelude to Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg | |||
| 18 Oct 2009 | Ian Rankin | Alan Stivell | Ys (Excerpt - Var On Folk Theme Gwerz Kér-Ys) | |
| Bach | Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major, BWV 846 from The Well Tempered Clavier | |||
| Coleman Hawkins | "Love Song" from Apache | |||
| Michael Nyman | "Gliding" from Water Dances | |||
| Mozart | 1st movement from Piano Sonata in C (Kv309) | |||
| Vivaldi | 1st movement 'Largo' from Cello Sonata No. 1 in B-flat major | |||
| Vladimir Cosma | "Promenade Sentimentale" from the soundtrack of Diva | |||
| Mozart | Requiem Aeternam (From Requiem in D minor K. 626) | |||
| 25 Oct 2009 | Stewart Copeland | Steve Cropper, Booker T. Jones, Lewie Steinberg, Al Jackson Jr. | Green Onions | Booker T. & the M.G.'s |
| Desmond Dekker | "Israelites" | |||
| John Adams | "Loops and Verses" from Shaker Loops | |||
| Moondog | "Bird's Lament" | |||
| Paul Simon | "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" | |||
| Ravel | Prélude From Le Tombeau De Couperin | |||
| Stewart Copeland | Gene Pool (excerpt) | |||
| Wagner | Overture To Tannhäuser | |||
| 1 Nov 2009 | John Stefanidis [30] | Beethoven | Fugue from 3rd movement of Sonata No. 31 in A-flat, Op. 110 | |
| Brahms | 3rd movement from Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 | |||
| Korngold | "Glück, Das Mir Verblieb" (Marietta's Song) from Die Tote Stadt | |||
| Mozart | "Vorrei Spiegarvi, Oh Dio!" K418 | |||
| Ravi Shankar | "Gat In Fast Ek Taal" | |||
| Rossini | Bel Raggio Lusinghier' from Semiramide act 1 | |||
| Tchaikovsky | "Polonaise" from act 3, scene 1, of Eugene Onegin | |||
| 8 Nov 2009 | Vincent Cable | Anton Pann | "Tatal Nostru" | |
| Vincenzo Bellini | "Ah! Per Sempre Io Ti Perdei" (from I Puritani, act 1) | |||
| Geoffrey Bowyer | "Requiem Aeternam" (from Pilgrim's Requiem) | |||
| Mozart | "Dalla sua pace" (from Don Giovanni , act 1) | |||
| Richard Strauss | "Beim Schlafengehen" (from The Four Last Songs) | |||
| Verdi | Ingemisco (from The Requiem) | |||
| Mozart | "O Isis und Osiris" (from Die Zauberflöte , act 2) | |||
| Mozart | Romance (2nd movement from the Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466) | |||
| 15 Nov 2009 | Jason Rebello | Al Jarreau | "Not Like This" | |
| Béla Bartók | 1st movement from Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Sz 106 | |||
| Beethoven | 3rd movement from Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat, Op. 110 | |||
| Duruflé | Agnus Dei from Requiem Op. 9 | |||
| Jason Rebello | Cramp Twins | |||
| Keith Jarrett | "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" | |||
| Ravel | "Ondine" from Gaspard de la Nuit | |||
| 22 Nov 2009 | Deborah Warner | Alban Berg | Wozzeck : act III, scenes 2–3 transition | |
| Handel | "He Shall Feed His Flock" from Messiah | |||
| Irish Tune arr. Britten | "The Salley Gardens" | |||
| Lewis Carroll | The Door Led Right Into A Kitchen From Alice In Wonderland | |||
| Mozart | Opening from act 1, Don Giovanni | |||
| Henry Purcell | Overture & "When I Am Laid In Earth" from Dido & Aeneas | |||
| Schubert | Impromptu No. 3 in G Flat (Op. 90 D899) | |||
| Traditional music | "Once in Royal David's City" | |||
| 29 Nov 2009 | Bill Bailey | Bach | Prelude and Fugue In B Flat, BWV 866 (from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I) | |
| Beethoven | Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 10/1 (1st movement – Allegro molto e con brio) | |||
| Debussy | Arabesque No. 1 | |||
| Grieg | Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 (opening of 1st movement - Allegro Molto Moderato) | |||
| Mozart | "Dies Irae" (from Requiem, K. 626) | |||
| Jean Sibelius | Intermezzo (from Karelia Suite, Op. 11) | |||
| William Walton | "Praise Ye the God of Gold" (from Belshazzar's Feast) | |||
| Mozart | Piano Concerto in D, K. 537 - Coronation (opening of 1st movement - Allegro) | |||
| 6 Dec 2009 | M. J. Cole | John Adams | Short Ride in a Fast Machine | |
| Michael Andrews | "Carpathian Ridge" from Donnie Darko soundtrack | |||
| M. J. Cole | "Sincere" (excerpt) | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | Toccata Op. 11 | |||
| Rachmaninov | Prelude in C-sharp minor (Op. 3, No. 2) | |||
| Radiohead | Nude | |||
| Ravel | 2nd movement from String Quartet in F | |||
| Sting | "Bring On the Night"/"When The World Is Running Down" (Live) | |||
| Tchaikovsky | 3rd movement from Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 | |||
| 13 Dec 2009 | Sam Taylor-Wood | Beethoven | 1st movement from Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 | |
| Gluck | "Ah! Se Intorno A Quest'Urna Funesta" from Orfeo ed Euridice | |||
| John Lennon | "Love" | |||
| Michael Nyman | "The Heart Asks Pleasure First" from The Piano | |||
| Mozart | Introitus from Requiem in D minor, K. 626 | |||
| Nina Simone | "Wild Is the Wind" | |||
| Ravi Shankar | "Prabhãti" | |||
| Ry Cooder | Paris, Texas | |||
| 27 Dec 2009 | Michael Morpurgo | Bach | Chorus: Jauchzet, frohlocket! Auf, preiset die Tage (The Christmas Oratorio) | |
| Beethoven | Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 ("Pastoral") (3rd movement – Peasants' Merrymaking) | |||
| Elgar | "Nimrod" (Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 - Enigma) | |||
| Handel | "Where'er You Walk" (Semele, act 2, scene 3) | |||
| Mozart | Piano Sonata in A K331 (1st movement: Andante Grazioso - Theme Only) | |||
| Henry Purcell | "Sound The Trumpet" (Come Ye Sons o Art Away) | |||
| Henry Purcell | "Fairest Isle" (King Arthur) | |||
| Thomas Tallis | Spem in Alium (excerpt) | |||
| Vivaldi | Concerto in D for Lute, Strings and Continuo, Rv93 (1st movement - Allegro) | |||
| Beethoven | Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 (1st movement, excerpt) | |||