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7.00 Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings, Op 47
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, conductor
Christopher Seaman
7.40 Haydn Symphony No 96 in D (Miracle) Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado
8.00 Sarasate
Chanson russe, Op 49 Ruggiero Ricci (violin)
Graeme McNaught (piano)
8.40 Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No 2
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) St Paul Chamber Orchestra, conductor Hugh Wolff Discs
"A genius! A genius!" (Mahler)
Presented by Peter Franklin. Piano Quintet, Op 15 Ilona Prunyi (piano) Danubius Quartet
Die Tote Stadt: Act 2, sc 2 Carol Neblett (soprano) Rene Kollo (tenor)
Hermann Prey (baritone) Bavarian Radio Chorus
Munich Radio Orchestra, conductor Erich Leinsdorf
Discs
Bridge: Suite for String Orchestra - Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor Norman Del Mar
10.22 Holst: Suite No 1 for Winds - Cleveland Symphonic Winds, conductor Frederick Fennell
10.33 Robert Walker: My Dog Has Fleas - BBC Philharmonic, conductor Eigar Howarth
10.43 Artist of the Week: James Bowman (countertenor)
Alan Ridout
Three Sonnets of Cecil Day
Lewis Tina Grunberg (violin) Lionel Handy (cello)
10.51 Elgar: Dream Children - Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor Norman Del Mar
11.00 Ireland: Four Preludes - Eric Parkin (piano)
11.13 Walton: Symphony No 1 - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Takuo Yuasa
Ensemble Bouzignac Johann Kaspar Kerll
Missa non sine quare
Rosenmiiller Christus ist mein Leben
Sinfonia in D Confitebor
Beatus vir
perform the last of five programmes of concertos, sonatas and arias by Vivaldi. Discs
If play Is interrupted,
Radio 3 will revert to a music schedule.
England v Australia
Ball-by-ball commentary on the final 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)
A selection of music on disc.
The Nash Ensemble returns to the Cheltenham Festival to launch five elements of this year's event: the first ever cycle of Beethoven's trios performed in their entirety; music by composer in residence
Michael Berkeley and by his late father Sir Lennox
Berkeley; a survey of Debussy's music 75 years after his death; and music by the anglophile
Jean Frangaix , starting with the first British performance of a work given its world premiere last October. Nash Ensemble:
Philippa Davies (flute) Marcia Crayford (violin) Roger Chase (viola)
Christopher van Kampen (cello)
Skaila Kanga (harp)
Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Beethoven Six Landler for string trio (WoO 15)
Serenade in D for flute, violin and viola, Op 25
8.25 Michael Berkeley with the first of three reminiscences about his father, Sir Lennox Berkeley.
8.30 Michael Berkeley
Nocturne for flute, harp and string trio Lennox Berkeley
String Trio, Op 19
Francalx Quintet No 2 for flute, harp and string trio (first UK performance) (Given last Sunday in the Pittville Pump Room in association with Cheltenham Ladtes' College and the Cheltenham College)
The second of four stories by Saki, read during the week by Peter Howell. The Storytelkr
When an aunt fails to amuse the children in her care, a stranger succeeds with a very different kind of story.
In this concert from the festival given last July in Birmingham and London, monks from Wutai Shan in China perform sacred instrumental suites and hymns dedicated to the Buddha.
(A BBC/South Bank Centre/Sounds Like Birmingham co-promotion in association with BT)
The Last Castrato The extraordinary recordings of the castrato Alessandro Moreschi , recorded in the Vatican in 1902 and 1904. Discs
Humphrey Carpenter reviews the opening night of Shakespeare's play
Much Ado about Nothing at the Queen's Theatre, London.
Producer Judith Bumpus
Jonathan Swain presents seven programmes tracing the parallel development of symphony and symphonic poem.
4: Germany in the 1880s Brahms
Symphony No 3 in F London Philharmonic, conductor Eugen Jochum
Strauss Don Juan Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra conducted by The Composer (Mono. 1944 recording)
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