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Music and news with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Biber Battalia a 10 Vienna Concentus Musicus, conductor Nikolaus
Harnoncourt
7.15 Glazunov Stenka Razin
Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
7.32 Bliss Conversations
Nash Ensemble , conductor
Lionel Friend
8.05 Dupre Esquisse in E minor, Op 41 No 2 John Scott (organ)
8.32 Hildegard of Bingen Vos flores rosarum
Sequentia
8.45 Ireland Legend Eric Parkin (piano)
London Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson , Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Conductor:
Nash Ensemble
Conductor:
Lionel Friend
Conductor:
Dupre Esquisse
Unknown:
John Scott
Piano:
Eric Parkin
Conductor:
Bryden Thomson

with Piers Burton-Page . Rock into Water
10.15 and 11.50 Psalms by Bruckner, performed by Artists of the Week:
Corydon Singers conductor Matthew Best alongside more variations on La Folia, and Prokofiev's Piano Sonata
No 7, played by Barbara Nissman
10.25 Rachmaninov
Symphony No 1 in D minor BBC Philharmonic, conductor En Shao

Contributors

Unknown:
Piers Burton-Page
Played By:
Barbara Nissman

Mahler's Liebst du um
Schõnheit?, and Strauss Wiegenlied are among the best-known of Lieder.
But what about
Clara Schumann 's Liebst du um
Schdnheit? and Max Reger 's Wiegenlied? In the second of two programmes,
Richard Wigmore presents eight German poems, each in one familiar and one unfamiliar setting.

Contributors

Unknown:
Strauss Wiegenlied
Unknown:
Clara Schumann
Unknown:
Max Reger
Unknown:
Richard Wigmore

Natasha Lemos charts some of the changes in Greek traditional music over the last 70 years.
Recordings by virtuosi of the 1920s and 30s, such as the clarinettist Nikos
Tsaras, and the Cretan lyraplayer Andreas Rodinos , are compared to some of their modern counterparts, and to the sound of the folk-violin, the high-pitched pipiza and the single-reed bagpipe called tsambouna. Producer John Thomley

Contributors

Unknown:
Natasha Lemos
Unknown:
Andreas Rodinos
Producer:
John Thomley

I Tonight's edition, 7 introduced by Richard Baker , comes from the Classical Music Show at the Business Design
Centre, London. Among his guests is Evelyn Glennie. Producer Ray Abbott

Contributors

Introduced By:
Richard Baker
Unknown:
Evelyn Glennie.
Producer:
Ray Abbott

BBC Philharmonic in the second of their concerts at the Royal
Northern College of Music this season, conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier , with Alexei Lubimov (piano)
Debussy Prélude d
Vapres-midi d'un faune Mozart Piano Concerto
No 24 in C minor (K491) David Matthews A Vision and a Journey (BBC commission - first performance)
Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements

Contributors

Conducted By:
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Piano:
Alexei Lubimov
Unknown:
David Matthews
Unknown:
Stravinsky Symphony

Emma Kirkby and Evelyn Tubb (sopranos)
Anthony Rooley (lute)
Henry Lawes This Mossy Bank
William Lawes 'Tis Not, Boy Henry Lawes Dialogue on a Kiss
Blow When Artists Hit on Lucky Thoughts;
Clarona, Lay Aside Your Lute; Ah Heaven! What Is'tlHear?
Purcell Two Daughters of This Aged Stream; Dear Pretty Youth; Oh,
Solitude!; Love, Thou Art Best

Contributors

Unknown:
Emma Kirkby
Sopranos:
Evelyn Tubb
Sopranos:
Anthony Rooley
Unknown:
Henry Lawes
Unknown:
Henry Lawes

Some Thoughts on Christopher Smart and His Poetry
Christopher Smart wrote some of the finest poetry of the 18th century. His Song to David is a visionary religious masterpiece, some of it composed in the asylums and debtors' prisons where he spent much of his life.
The novelist Paul Bailey reflects on the tragic life and work of this neglected poet.
Reader Nigel Carrington. Producer David Perry

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Bailey
Reader:
Nigel Carrington.
Producer:
David Perry

Voices from a distant age inhabit Barry Guy 's After the Rain, written for the City of London Sinfonia, and influenced by a Max Ernst painting.
It is framed by Bird Gong Game I and II, performed by Gemini, and featuring saxophonist Evan Parker and singer Maggie Nicols , directed by the composer. Introduced by Sarah Walker.

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Guy
Unknown:
Max Ernst
Unknown:
Evan Parker
Singer:
Maggie Nicols
Introduced By:
Sarah Walker.

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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