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Music, news and weather with Chris de Souza , including at approximately
7.00 Strauss
Dance of the Seven Veils
(Salome)
Scottish National
Orchestra, conductor
Neeme Jarvi
7.40 Grieg Piano Pieces, Opl
Geir Henning Braaten (piano)
8.00 Vivaldi Sonata in C
(RV82)
Tragicomedia
8.45 Ravel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Detroit Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Paul Paray Discs

Capriccio sopra Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol,
La Stefano Innocenti (organ) Mass for the Feast of S
Andrea Corsini as it may have been celebrated in about 1630, including
Frescobaldi's Missa sopra I'aria di Fiorenza.
David Thomas
(bass/celebrant)
Taverner Choir and Players, conductor Andrew Parrott
Canzona No 6
(La Pesenti)
Stefano Innocenti (organ)

conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Weber Clarinet Concerto
No 2 in E flat
Hindemlth Symphony: Die Harmonie der Welt

LIVE from the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. Robert Holl (baritone) Andras Schiff (piano)
Schubert Erlafsee; Die Sternennachte; Beim Winde ; Gondelfahrer; Der Schiffer
Janacek On an Overgrown Path (Book 1)
12.05 Festival Report Robert Dawson-Scott reports on the events and people causing a stir in this year's festival at the fringe. Schubert Memnon; Der
Zwerg; Der Winterabend
12.25 Janacek
In the Mists
Schubert
Die Einsamkeit

Second of a series of programmes of French chamber music. Not by Les Six, but other composers whose work was often heard in the Paris of the 1920s.
2: Gabriel Pierne
(1863-1937)
Variations Libres et
Finale
Netherlands Harp Ensemble. Discs

If play Is Interrupted,
Radio 3 will revert to a music schedule
England v Australia
Ball-by-ball commentary on the second 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
3.45-4.00 Minor Counties
Review with Ralph Dellor. Producer Peter Baxter

A selection of music on disc.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
Mendelssohn Overture: Ruy Bias
Sibelius Symphony No 6 in D minor

8.10 If Pigs Could Fly
"Winston the pig fell into Zita's life when he dropped onto my uncle's head and killed him dead. 'It's your uncle', she shouted. 'He's finally kicked buckets." Rory McLean's trip to Budapest is waylaid; he must stop off in Potsdam to console Zita...
Read by David Horovitch
(First broadcast on Radio 4)

8.30 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor
Kodaly Suite: Hary Janos

The final set of readings from James Wayland Joyce, who never achieved fame but whose letters home, preserved by his descendants, give a vivid account of travel in the 1830s.
Selected and introduced by David Wheeler.
Reader Ralph Fiennes.

La Deliverance de
Thesee (The Deliverance of Theseus), the last of Darius Milhaud 's three Operas-minutes, presented by Roderick Swanston.
Hippolytus rebuffs his stepmother Phaedra's advances, with disasterous (bar)(tenor) (sop) (mezzo)
Chorus and Capella Cracoviensis. conductor Karl Anton Rickenbacker Discs

(clarinet)
Malcolm Martineau (piano) in a programme of 20th century clarinet works. Lutoslawski Dance Preludes
Joan Tower Fantasy
( ...those harbor lights) Michael Berkeley "Flighting"
Arnold Sonatina

with Lee Montague.
Ibn Battuta (1304-1369) was the greatest medieval Arab travel writer. His celebrated book The Rihlah offers lively and tantalising glimpses of the rich and poor in the vast Islamic world of his time.
Compiled by Michael Butt.

Another chance to catch a late-night session recorded by the Ixion Ensemble. including Andrew Toovey 's Shining Forth and Michael Finnisey 's In
Stille Nacht , together with music by the supreme individualist. Bemd Alois
Zimmermann Introduced by Philip Tagney.

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