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Cherubini Trois pas redoubles et Marche London Gabrieli Brass
Ensemble/
Christopher Larkin Requiem in C minor Robert Shaw Chorale NBC Symphony Orchestra/
Arturo Toscanini (Mono)
with Susan Sharpe.
Bach English Suite No 1 inA(BWV806)
Andras Schiff (piano)
10.22 Part De Profundis Hilliard Ensemble
10.30 Lemba Scherzo and Trio (Symphony in C sharp minor)
Scottish National
Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi
10.40
Schumann Noveletten , Op 21 Nos 1 and Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
10.50 Debussy
La Damoiselle élue
Maria Ewing (soprano) Brigitte Balleys (mezzo) London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Claudio Abbado
11.10 Francaix Cinq
Portraits de jeunes filles The Composer (piano) U.25 Humperdinck
Erlost, befreit, fur alle ZeW; Vater! Mutter! (Hansel und Gretel)
Anne-Sofie von Otter (mezzo) Barbara Bonney and Hanna Schwarz (sopranos) Andreas Schmidt (bar) Boys' Choir
Bavarian RSO/Jeffrey Tate
11.32 Bruckner Adagio (String Quartet in F) Alberni Quartet
11.45 Wagner Overture: Der Fliegende Hollander Chicago SO/Georg Soiti
I First in the I autumn series, live from Studio One, Pebble Mill.
Philip Martin (piano)
Beethoven Bagatelles , Op 119
Liszt Sonata in B minor ●Complimentary tickets available from [number removed]
with Anthony Burton.
Building a Library
Schubert's Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished) with Jonathan Swain.
Julian Budden reviews new recordings of Cilea's L'Arlesiana, Rossini's Il Turco in Italia and Puccini's La Fanciulla del West.
Peter Barker presents the first of three programmes looking back over 70 years of the BBC and the ensembles it founded.
Delibes Prelude and Mazurka (Coppelia) BBC Wireless SO/ Percy Pitt Gounod
In Vain do I Call (Faust) Heddle Nash (tenor)
BBC SO/Thomas Beecham Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 4 BBC SO/The Composer
Wagner A Faust Overture BBC SO/Arturo Toscanini Producer Sile O'Modhrain
live from Chester Cathedral. Introit: Save us, 0 Lord (Bairstow): Responses:
Ayleward; Office Hymn: Father most holy
(Plainsong): Psalms: 82, 83, 84, 85 (MacFarren, Cross, Woods, Hopkins);
Readings: I Kings 8, vv 1-30 (RSV): Acts 9, vv 19b-31: Canticles: Andrews in G; Anthem: Seek him that maketh the seven stars
(Elgar); Hymn: Come ye faithful raise the anthem
(Neander); Organ Voluntary: Final
(Symphony No 6) (Vierne) Master of the Choristers and Organist
Roger Fisher. Assistant Organist Graham Eccles.
with Natalie Wheen , whose guest this evening is the American composer John Adams.
Producer Edward Blakeman
A live relay of Puccini's opera in one of the performances marking
Luciano Pavarotti 's ' eagerly awaited return to : the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Sung in Italian.
Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra conductor Zubin Mehta Act I
8.15 In Restauro
The fight to save Italy's heritage. David Willey , BBC correspondent in Rome, visits some of the historic sites in Italy which are causing concern.
8.40 Act 2
9.25 A Night in Rome Is the vita still dolce in Rome? Brucejohnson and Gaia Servadio spend a night out in the city.
9.50 Act 3
Tonight Radio 3's new late-night arts programme includes first-night reviews of Medea, starring Diana Rigg at the Almeida Theatre, and Nicholas Hytner 's new production of Verdi's The Force of Destiny at the English National Opera.
Lisa Jardine interviews the novelist
Jeanette Winterson , and tonight's studio discussion includes the writer Michele Roberts. Producer John Goudie
The first in a series featuring the six quartets by Bartok and Beethoven's six quartets Op 18 played by the Endellion Quartet
Beethoven Quartet in D, Op 18 No
Bartok Quartet No 2 (Reported tomorrow at 12 noon)