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Sweelinck Ballo del Granduca GUSTAV LEONHARDT (organ)
7.05* J.S. Bach Cantata No 202: Weichet nur betriibte Schatten (Wedding Cantata)
EMMA KIRKBY (soprano); TAVERNER PLAYERS/ANDREW PARROTT
7.30 News
7.35 C.P.E. Bach Symphony No 2 in B flat
ENGLISH CONCERT/TREVOR PINNOCK
7.47* Philip Glass Company KRONOS QUARTET
7.54* Chopin Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
8.03* Faure Apres un reve; Mandoline
ELLY AMELING (soprano) RUDOLF JANSEN (piano)
8.06* Ravel Daphnis et Chloe: Suite No 2: ORCHESTRE DE PARIS; DANIEL BARENBOIM. Records

Contributors

Soprano:
Emma Kirkby

The first of nine programmes
Shostakovich 's Fifth Symphony Stephen Johnson compares the different approaches to the work which marked the composer's rehabilitation in Stalinist Russia, and questions whether too much political weight is sometimes placed on musical interpretation. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
(Re-broadcast on Wednesday at 2.00pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Johnson
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

Beethoven Sonata in E flat,
Op 31 No 3: CLARA HASKIL (piano)
10.55* Brahms Concerto in A minor, Op 102 ISAAC STERN (violin) YO YO MA (cello)
CHICAGO SO/CLAUDIO ABBADO
11.29* Chopin Fantaisie, Op 49 JORGE BOLET (piano)
11.43* Brahms A German Requiem
BARBARA BONNEY (soprano) ANDREAS SCHMIDT (baritone) VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS
VIENNA PO/CARLO MARIA GIULINI Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS FM only from 10.55

Contributors

Violin:
Isaac Stern

Third Cornhill Test
England v West Indies
Commentary on the third day's play from Old Trafford by BRIAN JOHNSTON
DON MOSEY and TONY COZIER.
With expert comments from
FRED TRUEMAN and ROBIN JACKMAN Scorer MALCOLM ASHTON
1.05 News
1.10 A View from the Boundary Brian Johnston 's guest is footballer Gary Lineker.
1.30-1.40*; 3.45-4.00* County Scoreboard Producer PETER BAXTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Don Mosey
Unknown:
Tony Cozier.
Unknown:
Fred Trueman
Unknown:
Robin Jackman
Unknown:
Malcolm Ashton
Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Gary Lineker.
Producer:
Peter Baxter

Third of five programmes NASH ENSEMBLE with FRANÇOIS LE ROUX (baritone) Saint-Saens Piano Trio in F, Op 18 Faure L'Horizon chimerique Poulenc Le Travail du peintre Ravel Sonata for violin and cello Poulenc Le Bal masque conducted by LIONEL FRIEND (Given on 21 November in the Wigmore Hall, London)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Lionel Friend

Michael Billington (in the Chair) talks with Christopher Cook , William Feaver and Margaret Walters The three-part TV thriller A Very British Coup, adapted by Alan Plater on Channel 4 (Sunday); Wings of Desire, a film by Wim Wenders ; Anita Desai 's novel Baumgartner's Bombay; The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley at the National Theatre; late Picasso at the Tate Gallery. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Billington
Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
William Feaver
Unknown:
Margaret Walters
Adapted By:
Alan Plater
Unknown:
Wim Wenders
Unknown:
Anita Desai
Unknown:
Thomas Middleton
Unknown:
William Rowley

Alfred Schnittke Quartet No 2 Elliott Carter Quartet No 4
9.45* Interval Reading
9.50* Kimmo Hakola Quartet (first UK performance)
Sofia Gubaidulina Quartet No 3 (BBC commission: first performance)
(Given last August as part of the 1987 Edinburgh International Festival, in association with the Scottish Post Office)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alfred Schnittke
Unknown:
Kimmo Hakola

by STEPHEN WADE
Read by Mark Wing-Davey 1884: embarked for Europe - a survivor of the Zulu Wars begins a journal.
The remembered horrors of Rorke's Drift are relieved for a time by a surprising shipboard romance.
Producer ED THOMASON

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Wade
Read By:
Mark Wing-Davey

Third of 12 programmes.
Robert Cushman presents a personal view of musicals, with songs from original cast recordings, some familiar, some less well-known. KurtWeill-
The Firebrand of Florence
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Cushman
Producer:
Jonathan James-Moore

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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