George Eliot : The Search for Secular Answers
Presented by Paul Guinery and, from 9.05am, Anthony Burton.
First, Paul Guinery introduces two hours of new releases.
Bach French Suite No 1 in D minor (BWV 812) - Andras Schiff (piano)
7.15 Crusell Divertimento in C, Op 9 - Simon Dent (oboe) South West German
Chamber Orchestra, conductor Vladislav Czarnecki
7.27 Strauss Suite in B flat for 13 wind instruments, Op 4 - London Winds, conductor Michael Collins
7.52 Telemann Der Tag des Gerichts (part 1) - Ann Monoyios (soprano) David Cordier (alto) Wilfried Jochens (tenor) Stephan Schreckenberger (bass) Rheinische Kantorei Das Kleine Konzert, conductor Hermann Max
8.21 Tchaikovsky The Sleeping Beauty (Act 1) - Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, conductor Valery Gergiev
9.00 News
9.05 Building a Library
Handel's Concerti Grossi, Op 3 by Nicholas Anderson. Rodney Milnes on four new operas: Beethoven's Fidelio conducted by Christoph von Dohnanyi, Prokofiev's War and Peace from St Petersburg, the first recording of Britten's Gloriana, and a rarity: Virgil Thomson's Lord Byron.
10.35 Record Release: Prokofiev The Ball (War and Peace)
Yelena Prokina, Olga Borodina, Irina Bogachova, Alexandr Gergalov, Gegam Gregorian, Yuri Marusin, Alexandr Morozov, Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev
10.57 Britten Courtly Dances (Gloriana)
Josephine Barstow, Della Jones, Yvonne Kenny, Philip Langridge, Jonathan Summers, Richard van Allan, Welsh National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
11.20 Not long before he died, the great Russian conductor Kirill Kondrashin moved to the West. Luckily, Dutch radio captured his last performances with the Concertgebouw. Karel Janovicky welcomes Philips's CD reissues as well as earlier Soviet recordings now available on the new label Russian Disc.
12.24 Prokofiev Symphony No 3 - Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Kirill Kondrashin
(Discs)
perform the third of five programmes of concertos, sonatas and arias by Vivaldi.
Discs
9 play Is Interrupted,
Radio 3 will revert to a music schedule.
England v Australia
Ball-by-ball commentary on the third day's play after lunch in the Third Cornhill Test 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
3.45 - 4.00 Your Letters
Answered
The commentators answer some of the points raised by listeners.
A selection of music on disc.
with James Naughtie. Producer David Gallagher
The original 1869 version of Musorgsky's opera, one of the greatest of the Russian School in its power of musical characterisation.
The opera is based on Pushkin's story of a regicide pursued by his guilt, and is an epic account of the Russian people during the reign of Czar Boris at the turn of the 16th century. (bass) (soprano) (mezzo) (bass) (tenor) (tenor) (baritone) (tenor) (contralto) (tenor) (tenor) (baritone)
Chorus of the Grand
Theatre, Geneva
Suisse Romande Orchestra conductor Edo de Waart
Scene 1: The Courtyard of the Novodievichy Monastery,
Scene 2: Boris's Coronation in the Cathedral in the Kremlin
Scene 3: Pimm's cell in the Chudov Monastery, Scene 4: An inn near the Lithuanian border
Scene 5: Boris's private apartments in the Kremlin Scene 6: Outside St Basil's Cathedral,
Scene 7: A room in the Kremlin
The Polish-bom pianist died last May, at the age of 100. Stephen Plaistow looks back over a remarkable career that spanned more than 90 years and included a wonderful Indian summer.
In the last few years record companies have been paying him overdue attention as a recitalist.
With contributions from
Radu Lupu , Andras Schiff , Sandor Vegh and Richard Goode.
In the last programme of the current series,
Brian Morton presents a profile of the adventurous Swiss record label Hat Art and talks to its head,
Wemer Uehlinger , and to one of its major artists, the Austrian trumpeter and composer Franz Koglmann. He also plays tracks recorded for the label by Jimmy Giuffre , Joe McPhee and the Vienna Art Orchestra.
Producer Derek Drescher
