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Music, news, weather and arts news presented this week by Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.00 Vivaldi
Concerto in C (RV559) King's Consort, conductor Robert King
7.50 Smetana Symphonic poem: Richard III
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik
8.00 Mendelssohn
Symphony for Strings No 2 in D
London Festival Orchestra, conductor Ross Pople
8.30 Haydn Symphony No 80 in D minor
Australian Chamber
Orchestra, conductor
Charles Mackerras. Discs

Throughout the week, Paul Guinery presents a chronological survey of the Broadway, concert and film music of George Gershwin , the first composer to successfully straddle these very different genres. This morning's programme features the Song Book recordings by Ella Fitzgerald , to mark her recent 75th birthday. 1: 1920-1926
Sweet and Low (Tip Toes) The Composer (piano) The Real American
Folksong (Ladies First) Ella Fitzgerald (vocals) Nelson Riddle and his
Orchestra
Swanee (Capitol Revue) Al Jolson (vocals) with band Lullaby
Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly Boy Wanted (A
Dangerous Maid)
Ella Fitzgerald (vocals) Nelson Riddle and his
Orchestra
Oh, Lady, Be Good! (Lady, Be Good!)
Fred Astaire (vocals)
Oscar Peterson Sextet
Hang On to Me (Lady, Be Good!)
Fred and Adele Astaire (vocals) The Composer (piano) Three Preludes
The Composer (piano) Rhapsody in Blue
The Composer (piano) Paul Whiteman and his
Concert Orchestra
Fascinating Rhythm (Lady, Be Good!)
Ella Fitzgerald (vocals) Nelson Riddle. Discs Producer John Evans

Artist of the Week:
Trevor Pinnock
Overture in B flat
English Concert
10.29 Cantata: Erscheine, Gott, in deinem Tempel James Bowman
(countertenor)
Music's Re-creation
10.31 Overture No 5 in E flat
Alan Cuckston (harpsichord)
10.43 Cantata: Das mdssige
Gluck Martin Klietmann (tenor) Collegium Musicum 90, director Simon Standage
10.52 Sonata prima in A Wilbert Hazelzet (flute) Trio Sonnerie
11.16 Cantata: Packe dich, geldhmter Drache Julianne Baird (soprano) Music's Re-creation
11.29 Sonata in E minor for two violins
Collegium Musicum 90, director Simon Standage
11.42 Concert in E flat
(Tafelmusik)
Musica Antiqua Koln , director Reinhard Goebel

Lyndon Jenkins examines the recorded legacy of the brilliant Spanish conductor Ataulfo Argenta , who died tragically young in 1958. Producer Patrick Lambert

A fifth programme of music for the church, court and tavern by Purcell and his contemporaries.
Country and Town
A musical celebration of country and town life in Purcell's England. Discs

England v Australia
Ball-by-ball commentary on the final day's play in the First Cornhill Test at Old
Trafford by Brian Johnston, Jonathan Agnew, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Neville Oliver. With expert comment from Trevor Bailey and David Lloyd. Scorer Bill Frindall. (Morning coverage on Radio 5)

A selection of music on disc.

conductor
LIVE Libor Pesek.
From the Royal Festival Hall, London.
Smetana Vysehrad ; Vltava; Sarka; Blanik (Ma Vlast)
8.25 Westwards or Eastwards Ho?
For historian Nicholas Till , the Glagolitic Mass, set in a modernised form of the Old Church Slavonic language, encapsulates the dilemmas that Janacek faced in the 1920s and his countrymen now face again. IRpt)
8.45 Janacek
Glagolitic Mass Soloists:
Helen Field (soprano)
Ameral Gunson (mezzo)
John Horton Murray (tenor) Roger Roloff (baritone)
Brighton Festival Chorus John Birch (organ)

A five-part daily diary of everyday anxieties by pianist David Owen Norris.
1: Please Don't Play the Piano Producer Elizabeth Burke

A selection from Dvorak's
Opus 72 played by Peter Noke and Helen Krizos
(piano duet). Disc

Paul Barritt (violin)
Catherine Edwards (piano) Schnittke Prelude in memoriam
Dmitri Shostakovich
Takemitsu
From far beyond the chrysanthemums and November fog
Casken A belle Pavine
Lutoslawski Partita

Robert Sandall and Mark
Russell present a selection of music mixing styles and influences.
Producer Sarah Devonald

For all his genius, Dowland was not an isolated musician in the world of the English Renaissance. In the third of four programmes, the Consort of Musicke under director
Anthony Rooley explore his cultural circle, including songs by Wilbye, Campion, Tomkins and Ward.