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The Afternoon on Three

on BBC Radio 3

With Fiona Talkington.
1.00 Proms Chamber Music 1996
From Creation and re-creation to "last things" and intimations of the beyond.
Joanna MacGregor (piano), Madeleine Mitchell (violin), David Campbell (clarinet) and Christopher van Kampen (cello) play Bach's unfinished final fugue and Messiaen's visionary quartet - an affirmation of ultimate hope composed during his imprisonment in a concentration camp during World War II. Direct from the Britten Theatre,
Royal College of Music, introduced by Susan Sharpe.
Bach Contrapunctus XIV (The Art of Fugue, BWV1080)
Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time Producer Edward Blakeman
2.10 Dolly Suite
Faure Dolly Suite, Op 56
Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos) Disc
2.30 BBC Proms 1996
Around the World in 80 Minutes
A special afternoon Prom for children of all ages. Presenter
Tony Robinson takes the listener on a lightning musical tour which, like Jules Verne 's globetrotter, travels through five continents from London and back.
The musical journey will be skilfully guided by orchestra and chorus, and a huge variety of sights and sounds will be experienced on the way.
New London Children's Choir, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp Parti
3.10 During the Interval ... a gathering of grown-up people will be talking for a long time about a very intellectual subject - or a spaceship could land on the Royal Albert Hall , halting the second half of this afternoon's Prom until it has collected some music from history. With comedians Dan Gaster , Will Ing and Ben Silburn.
3.30 Part 2
4.30 New series
Class of 86: a British Jazz Decade
It's now ten years since Britain enjoyed what was called the jazz boom, revival - even the new jazz age. Record companies began to open their chequebooks and saxophonists started making the news - and the fashion pages.
A New Generation
In the first of four programmes, John Fordham investigates what turned musicians on to jazz in the first place - and how they found themselves under the eye of the "jazz police". Producer John Goudie

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington.
Piano:
Joanna MacGregor
Piano:
Madeleine Mitchell
Violin:
David Campbell
Introduced By:
Susan Sharpe.
Producer:
Edward Blakeman
Presenter:
Tony Robinson
Unknown:
Jules Verne
Unknown:
Albert Hall
Unknown:
Dan Gaster
Unknown:
Ben Silburn.
Unknown:
John Fordham
Producer:
John Goudie

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