Piers Burton-Page presents the first edition of Radio 3's morning programme of music, news, weather, and headlines from the arts world, including:
7.42* Haydn Piano Trio in G (H XV 25)
8.42* Bach
Partita No 2 in C minor
(BWV 826)
The Court of Frederick the Great
Hasse Overture; Aria: Se mai turbo il tub riposo (Cleofide)
Emma Kirkby (soprano) Cappella Coloniensis/ William Christie
Weiss Prelude and Allemande
(Suite in D minor)
Konrad Junghanel (lute) Quantz Concerto in E minor: Neil McLaren (flute) Cambridge Baroque Camerata/
Jonathan Hellyer Jones
Franz Benda Sonata in F
Jorg Baumann (cello)
Klaus Stoll (double bass) Johann Gottlieb Graun
Concerto in D
Siegfried Pank (viola da gamba)
Academy for Old Music Producer Patrick Lambert
Records
BBC Welsh SO/
Richard Armstrong Dvorak Overture;
Prelude, Act 3; Dance of Hell (The Devil and Kate) Martinu Symphony No 1
The third of six programmes from this year's festival, live from the Pittville Pump Room. Chilingirian Quartet:
Levon Chilingirian and Mark Butler (violin)
Louise Williams (viola) Philip de Groote (cello)
Haydn Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 (The Lark)
Bartok Quartet No 3
Architect Christopher
Bishop visits the Pump Room and the Gustav
Hoist Museum, two of the architectural features of the Pittville Estate, and talks to Judith Bumpus about frustrated plans to develop the Regency spa.
12.00 Tavener
The Hidden Treasure
Haydn Quartet in Bflat, Op 71 No 1
Stephen Kovacevich (piano) The last concert of the season, live from St John 's, Smith Square, London. Schubert Moments musicaux (D 780)
Beethoven Sonata in A, Op101
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conductor Edward Downes Jean-Philippe Collard (piano) Weber Overture: Oberon
Hoist Suite: Beni Mora , Op 29
Ravel Piano Concerto in G Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances, Op 45
The first of two programmes. Pierne Variations Libres et Finale
Pieter Ode (flute)
Joke Willing-Brethouwer
(harp); Peter Thoma (violin) Joke Vermeulen (viola) Henk Lambooy (cello) Koechlin Primavera
Philippe Racine (flute) Xenia Schindler (harp)
Robert Zimansky (violin) Monika Clemann (viola) Curdin Coray (cello) Records
Francis Grier plays the organ of St Saviour's
Church, St Albans, and talks to Ian Carson.
Komm, heiliger Geist
(BWV 651); Allein Gott in der HoV sei Ehr' (BWV 662); Sonata No 6 in G (BWV 530); 0
Lamm Gottes unschuldig (BWV 656); Komm,
Gott Schopfer , heiliger Geist (BWV 667)
Natalie Wheen presents the first edition of Radio 3's new evening programme of music, previews, news and weather.
Producer Edward Blakeman
Rossini's extravaganza for the coronation of King Charles X in Rheims in 1825, live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in a new production by John Cox. (sop) (sop) (tenor) (mezzo) (sop) (bar) (bar) (tenor) (bass) (bar) (sop) (bar) (tenor) (bass) (tenor)
Royal Opera Chorus director Terry Edwards Orchestra of the Royal
Opera House/Carlo Rizzi Parti
8.20 An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman....
Philip Brady discusses some non-musical variations of Rossini's theme.
8.45 Part 2
9.35 ...and a Glaswegian Italian
Armando Iannucci dissects the European animal.
10.00 Part 3
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David Wheeler introduces the second of his two selections from the letters of James Wayland Joyce. which give a vivid account of travel in the 1830s.
Reader Ralph Fiennes.
Roger Chase and Ian Brown play an arrangement for viola and piano of Beethoven's Serenade for string trio, Op 8.
Weber Overture: Der
Freischutz; Mass No 1 in E flat (Freischutz); Flute Sonata No 3 in D