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The Afternoon on Three

on BBC Radio 3

With Fiona Talkington.
1.00pm Wandering Minstrels In the last of three programmes exploring the Savoy operas, Geoffrey Smith traces the influences of Wagner, Verdi, English folk songs and Italian patter songs on numbers in The Pirates of Penzance, lolanthe, The
Gondoliers, The Yeomen of the Guard, Ruddigore and The Mikado.
2.00 Celebrity Recital
David Golub (piano), Mark Kaplan (violin), Colin Carr (cello)
Haydn Piano Trio in C, H XV 27 Ravel Piano Trio in A minor
Schubert Piano Trio in B flat, D898 Repeat
3.30 Twentieth-Century Strings Saxophonist John Harle joins the string ensemble Opus 20 in a concert celebrating British music for strings, conductor Scott Stroman.
Colin Matthews Divertimento for double string quartet, Op 21a Richard Rodney Bennett Concerto for alto saxophone and strings Nicholas Maw Life Studies

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington.
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Piano:
David Golub
Piano:
Mark Kaplan
Violin:
Colin Carr
Unknown:
John Harle
Conductor:
Scott Stroman.
Conductor:
Colin Matthews Divertimento
Unknown:
Richard Rodney Bennett

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