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7.10 Handel Concerto grosso in G, Op 3 No 3 Brandenburg Consort/ Roy Goodman
7.35 Haydn Symphony No 53 in D (L'Imperiale) La Petite Bande/
Sigiswald Kuijken
8.00 Ravel Violin Sonata
Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin)
Jacques Rouvier (piano)
8.45 Boccherini String Quintet in Bflat (G337) Ensemble 415. Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Piers Burton-Page
Unknown:
Roy Goodman
Violin:
Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Piano:
Jacques Rouvier

Palestrina
The feast of Pentecost completes the season of Eastertide, and this setting is one of Palestrina's most substantial contributions to the music of this solemn occasion.
Mass and Motet: Dutn complerentur dies Pentecostes
Christ Church Cathedral
Choir/Stephen Darlington Discs

Rachmaninov Prelude in E flat, Op 23 No 6; Etude-Tableau in Eflat minor, Op 39 No 5; Pnelude in D minor, Op 23 No 3; Etude-Tableau in D, Op 39 No 9 Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano)
10.04 Nielsen
Symphony No 5 New York PO/
Leonard Bernstein
10.38 Bach, transcr Rachmaninov
Prelude, Gavotte, Gigue
(Partita in EBWV 1006) Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano)
10.48 Stravinsky Renard
George Shirley and Loren Driscoll (tenors)
William Murphy (baritone) Donald Gramm (bass) Toni Koves (cimbalom) Columbia Chamber
Ensemble/The Composer
11.04
Rachmaninov Humoresque in G, Op 10 No
Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano)
11.09 Tchaikovsky
The Cuckoo, Op 54 No 8 Joan Rodgers (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano)
11.12 Mendelssohn, transcr Rachmaninov
Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Gordon Fergus-Thomson (piano)
11.18 Tchaikovsky
Cradle Song, Op 16 No 1 Joan Rodgers (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano)
11.23 Kreisler, transcr
Rachmaninov Liebesfreud
Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano)
11.31 Rachmaninov
The Isle of the Dead BBC Scottish SO/ Jerzy Maksymiuk

Contributors

Piano:
Gordon Fergus-Thompson
Unknown:
Leonard Bernstein
Piano:
Gordon Fergus-Thompson
Piano:
Stravinsky Renard
Piano:
George Shirley
Tenors:
Loren Driscoll
Baritone:
William Murphy
Bass:
Donald Gramm
Bass:
Toni Koves
Unknown:
Rachmaninov Humoresque
Piano:
Gordon Fergus-Thompson
Soprano:
Joan Rodgers
Piano:
Roger Vignoles
Piano:
Gordon Fergus-Thomson
Soprano:
Joan Rodgers
Piano:
Roger Vignoles
Unknown:
Rachmaninov Liebesfreud
Piano:
Gordon Fergus-Thompson
Unknown:
Jerzy Maksymiuk

Steven Isserlis (cello) Bryn Terfel (baritone) BBC Welsh Chorus
Brighton Festival Chorus conductor
Jan Latham-Koenig
Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor
Walton Belshazzar 's Feast (Given in St David's Hall, Cardiff, in association with Schroder Investment)

Contributors

Cello:
Steven Isserlis
Conductor:
Jan Latham-Koenig
Conductor:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Thomas Tallis
Unknown:
Walton Belshazzar

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

conductor Yehudi Menuhin
Arnaldo Cohen (piano)
Benno Schollum (baritone) Beethoven
Overture: Coriolan
Piano Concerto No 5 in Eflat (Emperor)
8.20 Robert Ponsonby talks about the work of the Musicians' Benevolent
Fund.
8.40 Dorati Herbst
Elgar Enigma Variations (Given in aid of the Musicians' Benevolent Fund)

Contributors

Conductor:
Yehudi Menuhin
Piano:
Arnaldo Cohen
Baritone:
Benno Schollum
Talks:
Robert Ponsonby

"Rumours spread. They had attacked the White House; they had fired the Capitol; and, most horribly, they were looting the Piggly Wiggly grocery stores."

In the second of three programmes, Gore Vidal recalls a childhood steeped in movie-going.

(Final programme tomorrow 9.30pm)

Contributors

Speaker:
Gore Vidal

BBC Radio 3

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