With Fiona Talkington.
1.00pm Manchester Summer Recitals
In the sixth often concerts, Rodney Slatford introduces the Manchester-based Sorrell Quartet, who perform music by the young Benjamin Britten as well as one of Mendelssohn's best-known quartets.
Britten Three Divertimenti (1936); Alia Marcia (1933)
Mendelssohn String Quartet in E minor, Op 44
2.00 Midweek Choice:
(0171) [number removed]
With Fiona Talkington. Ring in with your request by lunchtime for a chance to hear it today. Including
Telemann Suite in A minor (Overture) New London Consort, director Philip Pickett
Glazunov Five Novelettes, Op 15 Lyric Quartet
Liszt Mephisto Waltz No I (Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke)
Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)
Producer Peter Thresh Discs
WRITTEN REQUESTS:
Midweek Choice. BBC Radio 3. Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
Fax: (0171) [number removed]
E-MAIL: midweek.choice@bbc.co.uk
4.00 Choral Evensong
From the Priory Church,
Edington, Wiltshire, as part of the 1996 Festival of Music within the Liturgy.
Introit: In Manus Tuas (Byrchmore) Responses (Streeting)
Office Hymn: Cor Area (mode iii) Psalm 106 (Parry, Tranchell)
First Lesson: 2 Samuel 19, w 8b-23 Antiphon: Videte Manus Meas (mode iii) Canticles: Gray in F minor
Second Lesson: Acts 4, w 23-31 Anthem: Strengthen Ye the Weak Hands (Harris)
Hymn: Lead, Kindly Light (Alberta)
Manus Suae Fecerunt Me (Byrchmore) Organ Voluntary: Marcia from Symphony No 3 (Widor)
Conductors David Trendell , Jeremy Summerly and Peter McCrystal. Organist Peter Barley.
Repeated tomorrow 1.00am