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with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 Francois Couperin La Couperin - Davitt Moroney (harpsichord)
7.15 Respighi Il Tramonto - Carol Madalin (mezzo) English CO, conductor Alfredo Bonavera
7.49 Busoni Concertino - Paul Meyer (clarinet), English CO/David Zinman
8.05 Albeniz Cordoba (Cantos de Espana) - Julian Bream (guitar)
8.26 Schubert Trinklieder (D 183 and D267) - John Mark Ainsley and Jamie MacDougall (tenors) Simon Keenlyside (baritone) Michael George (bass) Graham Johnson (piano)
8.35 Mendelssohn Violin Sonata in F - Maxim Vengerov (violin) Alexander Markovich (piano)
(Discs)
Presented by Adrian Edwards.
From The Red Petticoat of 1912 to Very Warm for May from 1939, Kern composed the music for some of the most popular musical comedies of the day, including Sunny,
Sally, The Cat and the Fiddle and Music in the Air. Though now seldom performed, these shows are a treasure trove of songs like Who?, Look for the Silver Lining, I've Told Every Little Star and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Singers include Kiri Te
Kanawa, Brent Barrett, Judy Kaye, Jeanne Lehman and George Dvorsky. (Discs)
with Susan Sharpe.
Puccini Preludio Sinfonico
Berlin Radio SO/Chailly
10.10 Myaskovsky Piano Sonata No 1
Murray McLachlan (piano)
10.40 Schubert Der
Leiermann (Winterreise) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone)
Gerald Moore (piano)
10.45
Dallapiccola Piccola musica notturna
English Chamber Orchestra/
Frederick Prausnitz
10.50 Lalande Miserere
Gillian Fisher (soprano)
Jane Coe (cello), Choir of New College, Oxford
King's Consort/Edward Higginbottom
11.15 Shostakovich
Preludes and Fugues, Op 87: Nos 14 and 15 Tatiana Nikolaeva (piano)
11.30 Havergal Brian Symphony No 9
Royal Liverpool PO/Groves Producer Chris de Souza. Discs
REQUESTS: Midweek Choice, BBC
Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA. Phone [number removed]
from the Wigmore Hall, London.
Featuring performances by younger artists.
Bach Italian Concerto (BWV971)
Liszt Paysage; Mazeppa (Etudes d'execution transcendante)
Steven Osborne (piano)
Stravinsky Three Pieces for solo clarinet
Weber Grand duo concertant
Fiona Cross (clarinet) Kathryn Page (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Thomas Wilson
Symphony No 3
Schumann Symphony No 1 in B flat (Spring)
(Revised repeat from Sat 9.00am)
from Durham
Cathedral.
Introit: Christe qui lux es et dies (Byrd)
Responses: Byrd
Psalms 6, 7, 8 (Crotch, Cooke, Lawes); First
Lesson (NEB): Joshua 3; German Magnificat
(Schutz); Second Lesson (NEB): Luke 8, v40-end Nunc Dimittis: Victoria
(Tone 3) (1600); Anthem: Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden (Bach)
Hymn: The duteous day now closeth (Innsbruck)
Organ Voluntary: Fugue in E flat (BWV 552) (Bach)
Master of the Choristers and Organist James Lancelot ; Assistant
Organist Keith Wright
Bass viol Andrew Fowler
Stuart Maconie looks at the importance of simplicity in solo performances. The great jazz trumpeter Miles Davis was one of the first musicians to let the music breathe, and some of today's performers like Julian Joseph and Ian Carr also say the silences in music are as important as the notes.
with Natalie Wheen.
5.15 Paul Schoenfield Dog Heaven (Four Parables)
6.03 Samuel Barber Dover Beach, Op 3
6.35 Balakirev Tamara
7.05 Poulenc Promenades for piano (excerpts) Producer Gwen Hughes
BBC Singers, conductor Bo Holten
Martin Jones (piano)
This concert recorded last year to mark the 150th anniversary of Grieg's birth includes motets, partsongs and piano music (including Percy Grainger 's three-minute version of the Piano Concerto) and the first modern performance of a real curiosity: a cantata Grieg wrote in 1873 for a Bergen piano factory. Producer Michael Emery
Humorist Ivor Cutler concocts a lyrical kirmash of songs, stories and poems with renowned linguist Dylan Edwards and phonetic thinker Alison O'Kill.
The second of six concerts recorded at St George's, Brandon Hill , Bristol, featuring young contemporary composers and up-and-coming artists. This week Chris de Souza talks to
Elena Firsova.
Ashildur Haraldsdottir (flute) Nigel Clayton (piano) Dutllleux Sonatine
Elena Firsova Spring Sonata; Starry Flute Prokofiev
Sonata in D, Op 94
With the publication of Richard Hoggart 's latest book, Valentine Cunningham chairs a discussion on Townscape with Figures: Famham, Portrait of an English Town.
Producer Erika Whght
The last of the series featuring Mendelssohn's Op 44 string quartets. Audubon Quartet
Mendelssohn String
Quartet in E flat, Op 44 No
Webem Langsamer Satz (1905)
Wolf Italian Serenade Producer John Thomley
