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Darius Milhaud
5: The Frenchman from
Provence
Suite Française
Monte Carlo Philharmonic
Orchestra/Georges Pretre La Cheminée du Roi René
Athena Ensemble
Le Printemps
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Elena Bashkirova (piano) Symphony No 8 in D (Rhodanienne)
French National Radio
Orchestra/The Composer Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Darius Milhaud
Piano:
Elena Bashkirova

live from the Queen's Hall. Richard Goode (piano) Mozart Sonata in F (K533/494)
Schubert
Sonata in C minor (D958)
11.50 Festival Reports
Glasgow-bom C P Taylor (1929-1981), one of the most talented and productive playwrights of his generation, is the subject of a retrospective at this year's Edinburgh Festival. Mary Brennan considers his understanding of human motives and behaviour in plays such as Walter and Good, and assesses his reputation with friends and writers.
12.10 Debussy
Voiles; Minstrels; Ondine; CoUines d' Anacapri (Preludes) Schubert
Sonata in Bflat (D960)

Contributors

Piano:
Richard Goode
Unknown:
Mary Brennan

The soprano Tracey Chadwell performs a selection of music from her multifaceted repertoire, including pieces by Holst, Poulenc and Cole Porter , and talks to Chris de Souza about the singer's life.
Pamela Lidiard (piano) Producer Michael Emery

Contributors

Soprano:
Tracey Chadwell
Unknown:
Cole Porter
Unknown:
Chris de Souza
Producer:
Michael Emery

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.

This evening's Prom has an elegiac flavour: the Berg Violin Concerto has been seen in retrospect as his personal Requiem, a final summation of his musical personality - and Mahler's Fifth is famous for the limpid beauty of its slow movement. The LSO performs under its principal conductor.

Berg Violin Concerto

8.00 Shelley's Legacy
In the fifth of six programmes celebrating the bicentenary of Shelley's birth, Tom Paulin looks at the poet's influence on Thomas Hardy and W.B. Yeats.
(Final programme next Monday)

8.20 Mahler Symphony No 5

Contributors

Violinist:
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Musicians:
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Presenter (Shelley's Legacy):
Tom Paulin

A poem for four voices written for radio by Jeremy Hooker.
In southern England during the early days of the Second World War, a young boy grows aware of the landscape and language that shape his character and determine his vocation as a poet. With Tom Durham, Jeremy Hooker ,
Christopher Robbie and Sonia Woolley. Producer Julian May

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Hooker.
Unknown:
Jeremy Hooker
Unknown:
Christopher Robbie
Unknown:
Sonia Woolley.

BBC Radio 3

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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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