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The Afternoon on Three

on BBC Radio 3

Presented by Susan Sharpe.

1.00 Schnittke and Grieg
Timothy Hugh (cello) Ian Brown (piano)
Schnittke Cello Sonata
Grieg Cello Sonata in A minor, Op 36
(Rpt)

2.00 The BBC Orchestras
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Mark Elder
Eva Randova (mezzo) Stig Anderson (tenor)
Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

Fairest Isle
3.40 An Outside View
Leading performers and composers from around the world voice their opinions on British music. Today's guest is cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
Producer Susan Kenyon

3.45 An English Craftsman in Brittany
Robert Woolley plays voluntaries and verses by Locke, Blow and Purcell on the 1680 Dallam organ at Ergue-Gaberic in Brittany. (Rpt)

4.30 The Hi-de-ho Man
Besides being a singer, Cab Calloway was, from 1930, the most commercially successful black band leader in America for the next 20 years. In the second of six programmes, Alyn Shipton talks to trumpeters Doc Cheatham and Jonah Jones about Cab's residencies at the Cotton Club, his tours around America aboard his own Pullman railroad car - and about his European visit in 1934.

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe
Cello:
Grieg Timothy Hugh
Piano:
Ian Brown
Conductor:
Mark Elder
Conductor:
Eva Randova
Tenor:
Stig Anderson
Unknown:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Producer:
Susan Kenyon
Talks:
Alyn Shipton
Unknown:
Doc Cheatham
Unknown:
Jonah Jones

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