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7.05 Handel Concerto
Grosso in F, Op 3 No 4 Academy of St Martin, conductor Neville Marriner
7.23 Mozart Ave Verum
Corpus (K618)
Schutz Choir and Consort/ Roger Norrington
7.35 Mendelssohn Violin Sonata in F minor, Op 4 Schlomo Mintz (violin) Paul Ostrovsky (piano)
8.05 Dvorak Slavonic
Dance in D, Op 46 No 6
Czech PO/Vaclav Neumann
8.27 Canteloube
Pastorale; Lou Coucut (Chants d'Auvergne)
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) ECO/Jeffrey Tate
8.49 Copland Three Latin American Dances
New York Virtuosi, conductor Kenneth Klein Producer Andrew Lyle. Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Roger Norrington
Violin:
Schlomo Mintz
Piano:
Paul Ostrovsky
Unknown:
Lou Coucut
Soprano:
Kiri Te Kanawa
Conductor:
Kenneth Klein
Producer:
Andrew Lyle.

(1756-91)
Mozart's minor-key works have rarity value, drama and passion that give them a special place in his output. During this week Fiona Talkington explores the music, beginning today with works in one of Mozart's most personal keys,
G minor. The programme includes excerpts from Zaide, La finta giardiniera and Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail; a chorus from
Davidde penitente and the Symphony No 25 in G minor (Kl83)
Producer Nigel Wilkinson. Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington
Producer:
Nigel Wilkinson.

This week, Piers Burton -Page presents Handel's Coronation Anthems, piano pieces written by 21-yearolds such as Chopin and Weber, string quartets from one of the greatest pre-war ensembles and orchestral music from concerts in the Netherlands.
10.00 Brahms Scherzo in E flat minor, Op 4
David Owen Norris (piano)
10.10 William Bolcom
Commedia Rotterdam PO/Hugh Wolff
10.22 Handel Coronation Anthem No 2: Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Academy of St Martin/ David Willcocks
10.32 Britten
Holiday Diary, Op 5
David Owen Norris (piano)
10.45 Artists of the Week Busch Quartet
Mozart String Quartet in E flat (K428)
11.10 Ives Symphony No 2 Rotterdam PO/Hugh Wolff

Contributors

Unknown:
Piers Burton
Unknown:
Brahms Scherzo
Piano:
David Owen Norris
Piano:
William Bolcom
Piano:
Commedia Rotterdam

One of the stars of the Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts and of Norman Granz 's record labels was pianist
Oscar Peterson. Mel Hill tells how Granz lifted Peterson from obscurity through a New York debut in 1949.

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Granz
Pianist:
Oscar Peterson.
Pianist:
Mel Hill

Andrew Green presents this afternoon's edition with a selection of music including
5.15 Wolf
Er ist's (Morike Lieder)
6.04 Clementi Gradus ad
Parnassum No 15
6.37 Sibelius
Symphony No 7 in C
7.04 Telemann
Canon-Sonata No 5 in C Producer Andrew Mussett

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Green
Unknown:
Clementi Gradus
Producer:
Andrew Mussett

To coincide with the publication of a major new biography, Radio 3 presents an evening of highlights from the 1993 Bernstein
Day. Chris de Souza introduces a selection, plus a few new items.
Looking for
Lenny Humphrey Burton , author of the new biography, visits the Bernstein Archive in New
York and talks to the archivist Karen Bernstein , the composer's niece.
8.20 Fancy Free
Bernstein's own recording of his first ballet score is introduced by Humphrey Burton in conversation with the composer's sister.
9.00 Enigma Variations
In 1982, Bernstein came to London to work with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. With them he made this controversial recording of Elgar's Enigma Variations.
9.45 Bernstein on the Box
Humphrey Burton recalls his years working with Bernstein as producer and director of many of his television programmes.
9.55 What Is Jazz?
This essay on America's indigenous music is a recording of an illustrated talk Bernstein gave on the American Omnibus arts television programme, in the 1950s.
Producer Christopher Marshall

Contributors

Unknown:
Lenny Humphrey Burton
Unknown:
Karen Bernstein
Introduced By:
Humphrey Burton
Unknown:
Humphrey Burton
Producer:
Christopher Marshall

Royal Colkge Concerts
Introduced by Chris de Souza. Andreas Staier (harpsichord) Bach Partita No 4 in D
(BWV828)
Scarlatti Sonatas: in E minor (Kk263); in E (Kk264); in D minor (Kk213);inD(Kk214); in C (Kk460 and 461)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Chris de Souza.
Harpsichord:
Andreas Staier

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