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I The first of four LIVE programmes celebrating the music of William Byrd , known in his day as "our Phoenix", and Claudio Monteverdi -
Toracolo della musica".
Each programme ends with a liturgical reconstruction of a service as it might have been celebrated at the time.
Byrd In Nomine a 5; Ah, Silly Soul; In Nomine a 5 Michael Chance
(countertenor) Fretwork
Pavana Bray
Christopher Wilson (lute) Dowland The King of Denmark's Galiard; M Bucton his Galiard; The Earle of Essex Galiard
Fretwork
Byrd The Bells
Trevor Pinnock (spinet)
7.30 Mass of Thanksgiving. 21 November 1631 was a day of public rejoicing in Venice, marking the end of the plague. This programme attempts to re-create the Mass of Thanksgiving held at St Mark's that day, with vocal music by Monteverdi and Rovetta, and instrumental music by Fantini, Scaranl, Usper and Marinl.
Joseph Cornwell (tenor) Richard Wistreich (bass)
Taverner Consort , Choir and Players/Andrew Parrott Producer Kate Bolton Discs

with guest presenter Patricia Routledge.
Smetana Overture: The
Bartered Bride
Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra/Rudolf Kempe
9.13 Vivaldi Stabat Mater
(first part)
James Bowman (countertenor) Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
9.20 Dellus
Prelude: Irmelin
London Philharmonic
Orchestra/Vernon Handley
9.26
Humperdlnck Hansel and Gretel, Act 2 sc2and3 Barbara Hendricks and Barbara Bonney (sopranos)
Anne-Sofie von Otter (mezzo) Bavarian Radio Orchestra, conductor Jeffrey Tate
9.38 Composer of the Week preview:
Rodrlgo Invocacione Danza
John Williams (guitar)
9.48 Durufle Requiem (Introit and Kyrie) King's College Choir
English Chamber Orchestra/ Stephen Cleobury
9.56 Haydn Symphony No 96 in D (Miracle)
Philharmonia Hungarica, conductor Antal Dorati
10.19 Elgar The Snow
Worcester Cathedral Choir, conductor Donald Hunt
10.25 Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Karajan
10.45 Quitter Come Away, Death, Op 6 No 1
Benjamin Luxon (baritone) David Willison (piano)
10.48 Walton
Suite: Henry V
Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra/Andre Previn
11.05 Artist of the Week preview:
Yuri Bashmet (viola)
Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70 Mikhail Muntyan (piano)
11.15 Donizetti
Fountain Scene (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Joan Sutherland (soprano) Paris Conservatoire
Orchestra/Nello Santi
11.29 Bizet Symphony in C French National Radio
Orchestra/Thomas Beecham Producer Adam Gatehouse

John Amis presents a musical portrait of Sir
William Walton , this time more of a self-portrait, as the composer himself tells of life with the Sitwells, the Façade rumpus, the Tertis muddle and the Belshazzar affair.

Fourth of a series of programmes of French chamber music. Not by Les Six, but by other composers whose music was often heard in the Paris of the 1920s.
4: Florent Schmttt (1870-1958)
Lied et Scherzo
The Sylvan Winds. Discs

If play is Interrupted, Radio 3 will revert to a music schedule
England v Australia
Commentary on the fourth day's play in the Sixth Cornhill Test at The Oval by Brian Johnston, Jonathan Agnew, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Neville Oliver.
Including
3.45-4.00 At the Bookstall Producer Peter Baxter
(Morning coverage on Radio 5)
6.10* Evening Sequence
A selection of music on disc.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conductor Andrew Davis
Thomas Allen (baritone) Kathryn Stott (piano) Jean Rigby (mezzo)
Andrew Davis conducts his BBC forces in an all-British programme, including a rare performance of an Elgar choral work which includes many quotations from his other works.
Delius Sea Drift
Ireland Piano Concerto in E flat
8.25 Elgar and the Mind Organist
Kenneth Shenton reveals the hitherto unpublished correspondence between Elgar and William Wolstenholme, the blind organist and composer.
Readers Philip Anthony and Steve Hodson.
8.45 Elgar The Music Makers

Michael Hastings's play about the controversial marriage of T.S. Eliot and Vivien Haigh-Wood. First staged at the Royal Court in 1984, it tells a story that moves from inspirational love to obsessional guilt.
Music: Malcolm McKee Director Sue Wilson

Daniel Adni (piano)
Reger Sonatinas : in E minor, Op 89 No 1; in D, Op89No2
Schumann Humoreske in B flat, Op 20

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