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Tchaikovsky Suite: The Sleeping Beauty, Op 66 RPO/Charles Mackerras
7.25 Grasse Waves at
Play: Joshua Bell (violin) Samuel Sanders (piano)
7.30 am News
7.35 Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song, Op 25 Andras Schiff (piano)
Chicago SO/Georg Solti
7.59 Vallet Suite
Jakob Lindberg , Robert Meunier , Nigel North , Paul O'Dette (lutes)
8.09 Vivaldi Concerto in F (R V 5 74): Academy of St Martin/Neville Marriner
8.20 Saint-Saens Danse Macabre, Op 40: Orchestre de Paris/Daniel Barenboim Records. Producer Sarah Devonald

Contributors

Piano:
Andras Schiff
Unknown:
Vallet Suite
Unknown:
Jakob Lindberg
Unknown:
Robert Meunier
Unknown:
Nigel North
Unknown:
Paul O'Dette
Producer:
Sarah Devonald

Thomas Ravenscroft Three Blind Mice; The Marriage of the Frogge and the Mouse, and other pieces: Consort of Musicke/ Anthony Rooley (lute)
9.44 Johan Wagenaar Overture: Cyrano de Bergerac: Hague Residentie Orchestra/Alain Lombard
10.00 Beethoven String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131: New Budapest String Quartet
10.41 Roy Harris Symphony No 3. Chicago SO/ Koussevitsky (Mono: 1939) Records. Producer Nick Morgan

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Ravenscroft
Musicke:
Anthony Rooley
Unknown:
Johan Wagenaar
Unknown:
Roy Harris
Producer:
Nick Morgan

England v Sri Lanka Cornhill Test
Commentary from Lord's on the third day by Brian Johnston. Don Mosey and Jon Agnew. Summaries Vic Marks , David Lloyd and Gamini Goonesena.
1.05 pm News
1.10 A View from the Boundary:
Brian Johnston 's guest is actor Robin Askwith.
1.30 County Scoreboard
1.40-6.30 Commentary Producer Peter Baxter

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston.
Unknown:
Jon Agnew.
Unknown:
Vic Marks
Unknown:
David Lloyd
Unknown:
Gamini Goonesena.
Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Robin Askwith.
Producer:
Peter Baxter

Steven Isserlis (cello) Peter Evans (piano) live from the Queen's Hall. Schumann Funf Stücke im Volkston, Op 102 Britten Cello Suite No 3
11.45 Festival Report This week, a conference called Aspects of the Novel commemorated the centenary of the birth of the Scottish writer Neil Gunn. Allan Massie talks to writers who took part.
12.00 John Tavener Threenos (first perf) Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C, Op 119

Contributors

Cello:
Steven Isserlis
Piano:
Peter Evans
Unknown:
Neil Gunn.
Talks:
Allan Massie
Unknown:
John Tavener

Nine opera recordings by the Spanish soprano. 6: Giovanna d'Arco Verdi's opera about Joan of Arc, based on a play by Schiller. (Sung in Italian) (soprano) Ambrosian Opera Chorus LSO/James Levine Prologue and Act 1
2.20 Stephen Jay-Taylor talks about Caballe and the role of Giovanna.
2.25 Acts 2 and 3 Records

Contributors

Unknown:
James Levine
Talks:
Stephen Jay-Taylor
Carlo VII:
Placido Domingo (ten)
Giacomo:
Sherrill Milnes (bar)
Giovanna:
Montserrat Caballe
Delil:
Keith Erwen (tenor)
Talbot:
Robert Lloyd (bass)

Vitali Capriccio secundo, Op 7 No Corelli Sonata in D minor, Op 5 No 12 (La Folia) Biber Violin Sonata No 3 in F (1681) Telemann Paris Quartet No 6 in E minor Bach Canons on Aria Ground (Goldberg Variations, BWV 1087)

Contributors

Unknown:
Vitali Capriccio
Unknown:
Corelli Sonata

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

European Community Youth Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy

Shostakovich Symphony No 8 in C minor

8.30 Taman
A mystery tale by Mikhail Lermontov set in a Russian coastal town in the 1830s.
Read by David Horovitch in a new translation by Rose Cullen.

8.50 Debussy La Mer

Scriabin The Poem of Ecstasy

(The appearance of the ECYO has been made possible by support from Digital Equipment Ltd)

Contributors

Musicians:
European Community Youth Orchestra
Conductor:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Author (Taman):
Mikhail Lermontov
Reader (Taman):
David Horovitch
Translator (Taman):
Rose Cullen

This renowned tenor saxophonist died in June, age 64. As a tribute,
Dave Gelly introduces a recording of a concert given by the Stan Getz
Quartet in Glasgow 1989. Cole Porter You'd Be So
Nice to Come Home to
Kenny Barron Jo Anne - Julia
Mal Waldron Soul Eyes
Dizzy Gillespie Con alma Benny Carte r People Time
10.40 Memories of Stan Getz from Chick Corea,
Bud Shank , Shorty Rogers and Ronnie Scott.
10.55 Porter What Is
This Thing Called Love? Jerome Kern Yesterdays Thad Jones Yours and Mine
Barron Feijoada; Voyage Strayhorn Blood Count Getz Stan's Blues

Contributors

Introduces:
Dave Gelly
Unknown:
Stan Getz
Unknown:
Kenny Barron
Unknown:
Mal Waldron
Unknown:
Dizzy Gillespie
Unknown:
Benny Carte
Unknown:
Bud Shank
Unknown:
Shorty Rogers
Unknown:
Ronnie Scott.
Unknown:
Jerome Kern
Unknown:
Thad Jones

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