Chris de Souza with music, news, weather and arts news, including:
7.00 Sullivan Overture:
The Sorcerer
Scottish CO/Alexander Faris
7.50 Schubert, arr Newbould Scherzo
(Symphony No 8) Academy of St
Martin/Neville Marriner
8.00 Peter Maxwell
Davies Sonata , Op I Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)
Roland Pontinen (piano)
8.40 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 3 in Eflat Gary Graffman (piano) Philadelphia Orchestra/
Eugene Ormandy. Records
Saint-Saens' Years at the Madeleine
3: "/ didn't ask for a church, I asked for a temple. The Madeleine was conceived by Napoleon as a tribute to his grand army, a link between church and state. How much did this rub off on its music? Presented by Richard Langham Smith in conversation with musicologist Jean-Michael Nectoux and Francois-
Henri Houbart , organist at the Madeleine.
Ave verum: Lyon Madrigal Choir/Alain Chabrier Paul Coueffe (organ) Benediction nuptiale Daniel Roth (organ) Psalm XVIII
National Orchestra and Choir of the He de
France/Jacques Mercier Fantaisie in Eflat
Francois-Henri Houbert (organ). Records
presented by Susan Sharpe. Bantock
The Pierrot of the Minute Bournemouth Sinfonietta/ Norman Del Mar
10.18 Haydn String Quartet in F, Op 3 No 5 (Serenade) Janacek Quartet
10.35 Bach Cantata No 151:
Siisser Trost , mein Jesus Kommt
Sebastian Henig (treble)
Paul Esswood (countertenor) Kurt Equiluz (tenor)
Max van Egmond (bass) Hanover Boys' Choir
10.50 Korngold Violin Concerto in D
Itzhak Perlman (violin) Pittsburgh SO/ Andre Previn
11.15
Rachmaninov Fantaisie - Tableaux, Op 5
Ingryd Thorson and Julian Thurber (pianos)
11.40 Khachaturian
Spartacus: Ballet Suite No 3 Scottish National
Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi Records
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Christian Blackshaw
(piano)
Mendelssohn Variations sèrieuses, Op 54
Schubert Sonata in G
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Parry Symphonic poem: From Death to life
London Philharmonic/ Matthias Bamert
Stanford Irish Rhapsody No
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) Ulster Orchestra/ Vernon Handley Records
live from Portsmouth
Cathedral.
Introit: Set me as a seal
(Walton); Responses
(Radcliffe); Office Hymn: Most Holy Lord and God of Heaven (Plainsong); Psalms: 52, 53, 54
(Battishill, Lucas, Goss); First Lesson: Jeremiah 10 (RSV); Canticles: The Salisbury Service
(Shephard); Second
Lesson: Luke 9, vv 28-36; Anthem: Thee will I love, My God and King
(Howells); Hymn: God Is
Love (Dome Alley); Organ Voluntary: Finale from Sonata No 1 (Guilmant).
Organist and Master of the Choristers Adrian Lucas.
Assistant Organist David Thome.
Music, news and arts events with Edward Greenfield , whose guest is the soprano Catherine Bott Producer Ray Abbot
conductor
Nicholas Kraemer
Clare Finnimore (viola)
Monteverdi Toccata (Orfeo) John Woolrich
Ulysses Awakes
Telemann Suite:
Don Quixote
Handel Concerto Grosso in C (Alexander's Feast)
Bach Orchestral Suite No
3 in D (BWV 1068)
The American writer Edward Swift tells the third of five nightly stories of his childhood in the Texan Big Thicket.
Baptism in the Big Thicket
with James Wood (percussion)
Xenakis Rebonds Psappha
James Wood Rogosanti
Xenakis Persephassa
The second of four programmes.
Mark Tucker (tenor)
David Roblou (h'chord)
Albinoni Lontananza crudel
Handel Suite No 4 in E minor
Albinoni Del chiaro rio
Michele Roberts presents tonight's art magazine, featuring reviews and cultural debate. Producer Paul Quinn
(violin)
Gordon Back (piano) The talented Russian violinist, who settled in London two years ago, gives his first recital on Radio 3.
Bach Chaconne (Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV 1004) Prokofiev Sonata No 2, Op 94a Brahms
Scherzo (FAE Sonata)
Brahms, arr Kreisler
Hungarian Dance in F minor
Except in Scotland. As broadcast this afternoon on R5