Whatever Happened to the People's Home?

Presented by Richard Osborne.
Copland
Appalachian Spring Boston Symphony
Orchestra/The Composer
7.30 Bach French Suite
No 1 in D minor
(BWV812)
Joanna MacGregor (piano)
7.44 Stravinsky Symphony in C London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor
Michael Tilson Thomas
8.18 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D
Sarah Chang (violin) London Symphony
Orchestra/Colin Davis
9.00 Building a Library Borodin s Siring Quartet No 2 by Stephen Johnson. John Deathridge reviews new opera releases, including John Eliot
Gardiner's live recording of Cosi fan tutte.

Rossini Semiramide (Act 1, excerpt) Ambrosian Opera Chorus London Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Ion Marin
10.48 Shostakovich Lady Macbeth ofMtsensk
(Act 4, excerpt)
Bastille Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Myung-Whun Chung

Bryce Morrison has been listening to recital discs from three giants of the keyboard - Solomon, Richter and Gilels.
11.40 Chopin Mazurka in A minor, Op 68 No 2;
Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52; Berceuse in D flat, Op 57
Solomon (piano)
Producers Patrick Lambert and Clive Portbury. Discs
(Revised 2.00pm)

"The doumb man no land gettith."
Thomas Hoccleve (b 1426) was a lowly bureaucrat, self-advertiser - and poet. Among his contemporaries were some of the most gifted composers in English musical history. Producer Kate Bolton

I Radio 3's season reflecting culture in the 1930s opens with the first of five programmes in which Robert Kee talks to people for whom the period was a significant time in their lives.
This week: journalist and novelist Martha Gellhorn.
Producer Fiona McLean

The first of two concerts from the Haydn-Boccherini Festival at the Wigmore Hall, London.
Mosaïques Quartet Roel Dieltens (cello)
Boccherini String Quintet in G minor (G318)
Haydn String Quartet in D minor, Op 103
2.05 Interval reading:
Boccherini at the Spanish Court. 2.15 Boccherini Sonata in A for two cellos (G4);
String Quintet in C (G310)

David Mellor explores the recorded legacy of great artists of the past in conversation with distinguished figures from the musical world today. 8: As a boy,
Luciano Pavarotti was inspired by the historic tenors he heard on his father's 78s and the family radio. Today, he analyses the spell they still cast over him and his fellow singers and opera-lovers. Including excerpts from
Pavarotti's early recordings of Donizetti's La Fille du
Régiment and Verdi's
Requiem, and arias and songs performed by Caruso, Gigli, Lanza,
Schipa, di Stefano, del Monaco, Kraus, Bjorling and Bergonzi. as well as the complete fourth act of Verdi's Rigoletto, in a 1944 live recording by Toscanini, with Jan Peerce as the Duke.
Producer Nick Morgan
David Mellor talks to Pavarotti
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with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Tim Thome. Discs

Ivan Hewett looks at the music of the 1930s, including a revival of Gershwin's forgotten Let 'em Eat Cake. Producer Anthony Sellors
(Repeated tomorrow at 12.15pmi

LIVE Britten Death in Venice
British performers lead the cast in Colin Graham 's new production for the Met of Britten's swan-song, based on the story by Thomas Mann.
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor
David Atherton
Parti
7.50 The Opera Quiz Edward Downes puts listeners' questions to: Thor Eckert Jr. Terrence McNally and Christopher Purdy.
8.20 Part 2
(In association with the Texaco Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network and the EBU)
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Six Myths of Our Time Marina Warner gives the fifth of six talks.
Cannibal Tales: The Hunger for Conquest. From The
Tempest to Hannibal Lecter - either we eat them or they eat us.
Readers Robert Stephens and Nigel Carrington

Bach Well-Tempered
Klavier, Book 2: Preludes and Fugues Nos 1-6
Tatiana Nikolaeva (piano)

Nocturnes Nos 2 and 4 Peter Lawson (piano)
Socrate, Part 3: Death of Socrates
Jean Belliard (tenor) Billy Eidi (piano). Discs

Brian Morton reviews recent jazz albums and introduces a set by pianist and composer Andrea Vicari and her group: Mornington Lockett (saxophone), Phil Robson (guitar),
Dorian Lockett (bass) and Tristan Maillot (drums). And Alyn Shipton reports from New York and Boston, where he talked to Jeannie Bryson , Dave Brubeck ,
Johnny McGriff and Ahmad Jamal. Producer Derek Drescher