New Curiosity Shop: The Hawking Phenomenon

with Chris de Souza , including at approximately
7.00 Mendelssohn
Andante and Rondo Capriccioso , Op 14
Annette Servadei (piano)
7.40 Arne Organ
Concerto No 1 in C
Roger Bevan Williams (organ)
Cantilena, director
Adrian Shepherd
8.00 Hoist St Paul's Suite
Academy of St Martin, conductor Neville Marriner
8.30 Pfitzner Cello Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 1 Gerhard Mantel (cello) Erika Frieser (piano) Discs

Toccata No 2 (Book 2) Stefano Innocenti (organ) Frescobaldi published his AriaMusicali while he was working in Florence at the court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Secular songs such as these must have been a source of court recreation.
Nigel Rogers (tenor) David Thomas (bass)
London Baroque, director Charles Medlam

conductor Edward Downes
Kathryn Stott (piano)
Wagner Overture: Die Meistersinger von Nilrnberg
Beethoven Piano
Concerto No 1 in C
Myaskovsky Symphony No 5 in D

Frank Peter Zimmermann
(violin)
Janacek Violin Sonata
Alexander Lonquich (piano) Mozart Violin Concerto
No 2 in D (K211)
Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra, conductor Jorg Faerber
Prokofiev, arr Heifetz March (The Love for Three Oranges)
Alexander Lonquich (piano) Discs

First of a series of five programmes of rrencn chamber music. Not by Les Six, but other composers whose work was often heard in the Paris of the 1920s.
1: Vincent d'lndy (1851-1931)
Sextet, Op 92 Quatuor Prat
Jean Dupony (viola)
Francois Michel (cello) Discs

If play is interrupted,
Radio 3 will revert to a music schedule
England v Australia
Ball-by-ball commentary on the first day's play after lunch in the sixth Cornhill Test at The Oval by Brian Johnston , Jonathan Agnew , Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Neville Oliver.
With expert comment from Trevor Bailey and Vic Marks.
Scorer Bill Frindall.
(Morning coverage on Radio 5) Including

Peter Baxter discusses some issues of the cricket season with Nick Cook ,
Graeme Fowler and Mark Nicholas
.
Producer Peter Baxter

A selection of music on disc.

from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Maxim Vengerov (violin)
The first of two Proms this evening sees the return of an outstanding Russian violinist, and another of this season's commissions.

Koechlin Les Bandar-log

Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1 in D

7.40 The Hawthorn Goddess
The composer Nicholas Sackman based his new orchestral work, premiered tonight, on a novel by Glyn Hughes about an 18th century village girl who tries to preserve her rural community in the face of industrialisation.
Helen Garrison finds out why the story became the inspiration for the music.

8.00 Nicholas Sackman Hawthorn (BBC commission: first performance)
Debussy La Mer

James Wayland Joyce never achieved fame. Like his father before him he became a vicar, married and had a large family. But his letters home, preserved by his descendents, give a vivid account of travel in the 1830s.
Selected and introduced by David Wheeler.
Reader Ralph Fiennes.

(Part two tomorrow at 9.35pm)

Morte di Lucretia
Les Arts Florissants director William Christie
Handel Mi palpita il cor Emma Kirkby (soprano) The Academy of Ancient
Music, director Christopher Hogwood. Discs

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

A late-night feast of Jazz from the internationally acclaimed Wynton Marsalis Septet: Wynton Marsalis (trumpet) Walter Blanding (soprano and tenor saxophones) Wessell Anderson (alto saxophone) Wycliffe Gordon (trombone) Eric Reed (piano) Reginald Veal (bass) Herlin Riley (drums)

(Simultaneous Broadcast with BBC1 television)

Coplas del pastor enamorado; La espera
Montserrat Caballe
(soprano)
Miguel Zanetti (piano) Doce Canciones espanolas (excerpts)
Teresa Berganza (soprano) Felix Lavilla (piano)
Cuatro madrigales amatorios
Pilar Lorengar (soprano) Felix Lavilla (piano) Tres Villancicos
Christopher Trakas (baritone)
Simon Wynberg (guitar) Cancion delgrumete; Cantigo de las esposa; Esta nina
Patricia Rozario (soprano) Mark Troop (piano)
Cuarto canciones sefardies
Victoria de los Angeles (sop) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Canco del Teuladi; Trovadoresca
Sandra Browne (soprano) Michael Isador (piano)
(Starting next Monday at 9.00am. Rodrigo and Falla are Radio 3's Composers of the Week)

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