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Donizetti
"A Prodigious Madness" 1: Delirium of Success, 1827-1830
Extracts from L'Esule di Roma, Il Castello &
Kenilworth and Anna Bolena , with casts including Joan Sutherland and Jerry Hadley.
Jonathan Adams reads from Donizetti's letters. Producer Adam Gatehouse

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Bolena
Unknown:
Joan Sutherland
Unknown:
Jerry Hadley.
Unknown:
Jonathan Adams
Producer:
Adam Gatehouse

Sibelius Matinconia , Op 20
10.11 Granados, arr Cassado
Intermezzo (Goyescas) Rohan de Saram (cello) Yitkin Seow (piano)
10.16
Padilla Deus in adjutorium Mirabifia testimonia
10.28
Bravo Verseestinluctum (a4)
10.31 Padilla
Verse est in luctum (a 5) Circumdederunt me dolores
Salve Regina
Yorkshire Bach Choir conductor Peter Seymour
10.48 Rachmaninov
Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19
Rohan de Saram (cello) Yitkin Seow (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sibelius Matinconia
Cello:
Rohan de Saram
Piano:
Yitkin Seow
Piano:
Padilla Deus
Unknown:
Bravo Verseestinluctum
Conductor:
Peter Seymour
Piano:
Yitkin Seow

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Natalie Wheen presents Radio 3's evening programme of music, news of events in the arts world, weather and travel.
Her guest is the American pianist Joshua Rifkin , specialist in ragtime, the tango and Bach.
Producer Edward Blakeman

Contributors

Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Pianist:
Joshua Rifkin
Producer:
Edward Blakeman

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

John Wallace (trumpet)
Hanover Band conductor Roy Goodman

In this concert the Hanover Band presents music from its favourite period - the early 19th century. Indeed three of the works date from a single year - 1803.

Cherubini Overture: Anacreon

Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E

Weber, orch Berlioz Invitation to the Dance

8.15 Beyond Beethoven's Tenth
The pianist Stephen Pruslin, who was once obliged to manufacture the opening measures of Beethoven's Tenth for the play of that name, reflects on suggestions about what the master might have done had he completed a tenth symphony and, equally, on what it is that might bring symphonic cycles to a close.

8.35 Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)

Contributors

Trumpeter:
John Wallace
Musicians:
Hanover Band
Conductor:
Roy Goodman
Speaker (Beyond Beethoven's Tenth):
Stephen Pruslin

The biologist
Lewis Wolpert explores in six programmes the personal and creative aspects of doing science.
3: Scaling the Heights.
From his vantage point as director of one of the world's largest and most innovative biotechnology labs, Professor Leroy Hood of the California Institute of Technology contemplates the traditional divide between pure science and technology, the increasing problem of fraud, and the importance of mountaineering.
Producer Alison Richards

Contributors

Unknown:
Lewis Wolpert
Unknown:
Professor Leroy Hood
Producer:
Alison Richards

Alyn Shipton introduces the first half of a concert given by the last of the great Harlem stride pianists at St George's, Brandon Hill , Bristol, earlier this year. Ralph Sutton includes Ain't
Misbehavin', Honeysuckle Rose and Viper's Drag by Fats Waller and Sophisticated Lady by Duke Ellington.

Contributors

Introduces:
Alyn Shipton
Unknown:
Brandon Hill
Unknown:
Ralph Sutton
Unknown:
Fats Waller

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