Piers Burton-Page presents today's edition of the morning programme, including music by Vivaldi, Sibelius and Faure, and at
8.42* Beethoven
Overture: Leonora No 3
Suk
Over sleeping children (Lullabies)
Margaret Fingerhut (piano) Love Song
Pavel Stepan (piano)
Fairy Tale Suite (Raduz and Mahulena)
Josef Suk (violin)
Prague SO/Jiri Belohlavek Summer Impressions
Margaret Fingerhut (piano) Producer David Gallagher
Keiko Urushihara and Katsuya Matsubara (violins) Yasushi Toyoshima (viola) Yu-nosuke Yamamoto
(cello)
Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 33 No 5 (How do you do?)
Beethoven String
Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2 (Rasumovsky) fRpt)
England v Pakistan
The Fourth Comhill Test.
Commentary on the fifth and final day at Headingley.
A dip into the commentators' postbag.
including further County scores in the tea interval and a close of play summary.
(If play finishes early, Radio 3 will revert to a music schedule)
A selection of music on records including the unexpected side of Schoenberg.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Oliver Knussen
This evening's Prom offers a rare opportunity to hear Schoenberg's expressionist drama Die gluckliche Hand, which explores the struggles of a creative artist. Oliver Knussen is the true dedicatee of Elliott Carter's Three Occasions, of which he conducted the British premiere.
Stravinsky Four Studies
Colin Matthews Broken Symmetry
8.15 Prom Interval
Jonathan Harvey argues the case for a new seriousness in contemporary music.
8.35 Elliott Carter Three Occasions
Schoenberg Die gluckliche Hand
In which the biologist
Lewis Wolpert explores the personal and creative aspects of doing science. 2: Not a Company Man. Unlike many modem scientists, the molecular biologist John Cairns has spent his career fleeing from the prospect of large teams and large grants. He reflects on his passion for doing experiments and for doing them alone.
Producer Alison Richards
by Frescobaldi, Marini, Froberger, Fontana and Walther.
Duo Geminiani:
Stanley Ritchie (baroque violin)
Elizabeth Wright (harpsichord)
The Brazilian percussionist in a solo performance given in Bristol Cathedral in April as part of the building's 400th anniversary celebrations, using gongs, ceramic pots, bells, drums, a berimbau and his voice.
Introduced by Brian Morton.
Walton
A Queen's Fanfare; Five Bagatelles; Capriccio
Burlesco; Where does the uttered music go?; Viola Concerto
