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Collins, including at approximately
7.00 Telemann
Overture Suite in B flat
(Ouverture Burlesque) Collegium Musicum 90, conductor Simon Standage
7.50 Grainger
March: The Lads of Wamphrey
Eastman Wind Ensemble, conductor Donald
Hunsberger
8.00 Haydn
Symphony No 93 in C minor
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado
8.30 Bridge
Vignettes de Marseille Kathryn Stott (piano) Discs

presented by John Thornley. "His agility is inconceivable, the way his hands stretch, cross and leap without a single wrong note. But he demands that singers should be able to do with their throats what he can play on the clavier...." (Johann Adolph Scheibe , 1737)
Fantasia in C minor
(BWV906)
Kenneth Gilbert
(harpsichord)
Tonet ihr Pauken!
(chorus from Cantata
No 214, for the birthday of the Electress of Saxony, 1734)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, director Gustav Leonhardt
Triple Concerto in A minor
(BWV1044)
Wilbert Hazelzet (flute) Andreas Staier
(harpsichord)
Musica Antiqua , Koln, director Reinhard Goebel
(violin)
Cantata No 202:
Weichet nur, betruhte Schatten (Wedding Cantata)
Maria Zadori (soprano)
Capella Savaria, director Pal Nemeth
Discs

Walton
Suite: The Wise Virgins London Philharmonic, conductor Bryden Thomson
10.20 Avison
Concerto Grosso No 9 after Scarlatti
English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock (h'chord)
10.33 Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto
James Anderson (tuba) BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth
10.46
Hummel Octet-Partita in E flat Wind Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
11.00 Artist of the Week:
Arturo Benedetti
Michelangeli (piano) Rachmaninov Piano
Concerto No 4 in G minor
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Ettore Gracis
11.40 Gottschalk
Symphony No 1 (A Night in the Tropics)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth

The first of five programmes.
Concertos, sonatas and arias by Vivaldi. Discs

If play Is Interrupted,
Radio 3 will revert to a music schedule.
England r Australia
Ball-by-ball commentary on the first day's play after lunch in the Third Cornhill at Trent Bridge by Brian Johnston , Jonathan Agnew and Neville Oliver. With expert comment from
Trevor Bailey and David Lloyd. Scorer Bill Frindall. (Morning coverage on Radio 5) Including
3.454.00 County Talk
Simon Hughes discusses the issues of the season with Nick Cook ,
Graeme Fowler and Mark Nicholas.

A selection of music on disc.

In this concert from the festival given last July in Birmingham and London, the Rustavi Choir from
Georgia performs a sequence of songs both sacred and secular from many of the country's regions.
(A BBC/South Bank Centre/Sounds Like Birmingham co-promotion in association with BT)

In the last of three talks by poet James Kirkup about his adopted homeland,
Japan, he leaves the noise and confusion of downtown
Kyoto to visit some of the city's quiet shrines and temples.
Series producer Fiona McLean

conductor Carl Davis
Thomas Friedli (clarinet) Vivaldi
Concerto in F for violin,
2 horns, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo (RV569)
Strauss Serenade in E flat for 13 wind instruments, Op 7 Carl Davis
Concerto for clarinet, strings and timpani Stravinsky
Suite: Pulcinella

Roy Porter presents tonight's edition of the topical arts magazine, with reviews of Brian Friel 's new play Wonderful Tennessee at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and Vanessa Redgrave in the world premiere of Maybe by Mikhail Shatrov at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.
Producer Julian May

Emma Kirkby (soprano) Anthony Rooley (lute) Richard Edwards
Where grypinge griefs Thomas Campion
Come let us sound
John Dowland
In this trembling shadow John Danyel
Like as the lute delights Dowland
I saw my ladye weepe Francis Pilkington
Rest sweet Nimphs Thomas Campion When to her lute
Pilkington Musick dear sollace
Thomas Morley
I saw my ladye weeping Robert Jones
If in this flesh
Pilkington
Come all ye John Bartlett
Sweete birdes deprive us never
Discs

Except in Scotland.
As broadcast 9.00-10.00am on R5