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Glazunov Concert Waltz
No 2 in F
Bamberg SO/Neeme Jarvi
7.10 Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival
Overture: Montreal SO/ Charles Dutoit
7.30am News
7.35 Glinka Overture:
Ruslan and Ludmila
Leningrad PO/Mravinsky
7.39 Rachmaninov
Five Pieces, Op 3
The Composer (piano)
7.58 Tchaikovsky 0 Maria, Maria (Mazepa): Dmitri Hvorostovsky (bar)
Rotterdam PO/Gergiev
8.04 Stravinsky The Song of the Nightingale French NO/Boulez. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Dutoit
Unknown:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky

The American composer and conductor died ten years ago today.
A sequence of music by him, and his friends, teachers and heroes:
Respighi Three Botticelli Pictures
Academy of St Martin/ Neville Marriner
9.54 Palestrina Motet:
Assumpta est
Maria Tallis Scholars/Phillips
10.04 Grieg Peer Gynt, Suite No 2, Op 55 Berlin PO/Karajan
10.23 Piston Suite:
The Incredible Flutist
Eastman-Rochester
Orchestra/Hanson
10.40
Sibelius Luonnatar , Op 70
Elisabeth Soderstrom (sop) Philharmonia/Ashkenazy
10.50 Handel Violin
Sonata in A, Op 1 No 3 Simon Standage (violin) Anthony Pleeth (cello)
Trevor Pinnock (h'chord)
10.57 Hanson Symphony No 3: Eastman-Rochester
Orch/The Composer
Records. Producer Chris Marshall

Contributors

Unknown:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Maria Tallis
Unknown:
Sibelius Luonnatar
Unknown:
Elisabeth Soderstrom
Cello:
Anthony Pleeth
Cello:
Trevor Pinnock
Producer:
Chris Marshall

Maldwyn Davies (tenor) lain Ledingham (piano)
Beethoven An die feme Geliebte, Op 98
Schumann Die Beiden
Grenadiere, Op 49 No 1; Dein Angesicht , Op 127 No 2; Lehn deine Wang , Op 142 No 2; Die
Lotosblume, Op 25 No 7; Es Leuchtet meine Liebe,
Op 127 No 3; Was will die einsame Träne; Du bist wie eine Blume (Op 25 Nos 21 and 24); Abends am Strand, Op 45 No 3; Belsatzar, Op 57
Britten Six Holderlin
Fragments, Op 61

Contributors

Tenor:
Maldwyn Davies
Piano:
Lain Ledingham
Unknown:
Dein Angesicht
Unknown:
Lehn Deine Wang

Paul Tortelier is recalled in Lyndon Jenkin 's second programme. Works include:
Mozart Oboe Quartet in F (K 370)
Schumann Piano Quintet in Eflat, Op 44
Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor
Philharmonia/Sargent With the voice of Paul Tortelier. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Tortelier
Unknown:
Lyndon Jenkin
Unknown:
Schumann Piano Quintet
Unknown:
Paul Tortelier.

Czech writer Josef Skvorecky talks to
Christopher Bigsby about a career which has led him to Canada, where he has lived for many years in exile from his homeland - which now, under the presidency of Vaclav Havel , welcomes him back as the guardian of Czech literature.
Producer Nicki Paxman

Contributors

Talks:
Josef Skvorecky
Unknown:
Christopher Bigsby
Unknown:
Vaclav Havel
Producer:
Nicki Paxman

conductor
Yuri Temirkanov
Mikhail Rudy (piano) live from the Royal Festival Hall.
Slonimsky Concerto Buffo
Prokofiev Piano
Concerto No 2
8.20 The Fourth
Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor
Sheherazade draws strongly on the moods and subjects of The Arabian Nights. Andrew Sachs reads the story of Sinbad's adventures on the Island of Cannibals ...
Translator N J Darwood (R)

Contributors

Conductor:
Yuri Temirkanov
Piano:
Mikhail Rudy
Unknown:
Andrew Sachs

The Newsvendor
A very black comedy by Geoffrey Parkinson. In purgatorial lodgings, Mr Hazlett nourishes his obsessions: model soldiers, his mother's death, and now the planning of a murder. with Jenny Howe Elizabeth Kelly
and Auriol Smith. Director Alison Hindell

Contributors

Comedy By:
Geoffrey Parkinson.
Unknown:
Jenny Howe
Unknown:
Elizabeth Kelly
Unknown:
Auriol Smith.
Director:
Alison Hindell
Mr Hazlett:
Charles Kay
Newsvendor:
James Grout
Mrs Willetts:
Ann Jameson
Cemetery Keeper:
Garard Green
Father (old):
Frederick Treves
Father (young):
Simon Treves

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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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