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Including the second in a sequence of late Haydn masses.
7.03 Fayrfax Aeternae laudis lilium
7.15 Franck Pièce heroique
7.25 Elgar Serenade for Strings
7.38 Stanford Nonet in F,
Op 95
8.15 Haydn Mass in C (Missa in tempore belli) (H XXII 9)
Producer Piers Burton-Page

Contributors

Producer:
Piers Burton-Page

Arne Symphony No 2 in F - Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd

9.23 Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto - Jonathan Small (oboe) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley

9.41 Artist of the Week: Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

Strauss Waltz Sequence (Der Rosenkavalier) - BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra

9.56 Lilly Suite: Le Manage force - New York Kammermusiker Double Reed Ensemble, conductor Ilonna Pederson

10.05 Grainger Shallow Brown - John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) Ambrosian Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn

10.12 Prokofiev Symphony No 1 (Classical) - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra/Andre Previn

10.26 Howells Finzi's Rest; Walton's Toy - John McCabe (piano)

10.34 Monteverdi Magnificat a 7 (1610) - Soloists Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner

10.52 Liszt Hungarian March No 15 (Rakoczi March) - Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, conductor Janos Rolla

11.00 Mozart Rondo in D (K382) - Alfred Brendel (piano) Academy of St Martin, conductor Neville Marriner

11.11 Composer of the Week: Bruch Jubilate - Cheryl Studer (soprano) LSO/Ion Marin

11.16 Ibert Louisville Concert - Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Charles Dutoit

11.34 Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, Op 45 - St Petersburg PO/Mariss Jansons

(Discs)

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Kay
Producer:
Edward Blakeman

Introduced by Julius Drake. Felicity Palmer (mezzo)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Julius Drake (piano)
Mendelssohn Winterlied ;
Reiselied; Nachtlied; Neue
Liebe;
Venezianisches Gondellied ; Auf Flugeln des Gesanges Schumann
Liederkreis, Op 39
3.15 Interval
Circa 1900: reminiscences of musicians, artists and writers in France at the turn of the century.
3: Sheridan Russell remembers Maurice
Maeterlinck.
3.25 Faure Chant d'automne; La Rançon; Hymne; Poeme d'unjour; Au bord de l'eau; Ici-bas;
Les Berceaux; Melisande's
Song; Mirages; Arpège; Accompagnement; Soir; Fleurs d'or

Contributors

Introduced By:
Julius Drake.
Baritone:
Stephen Varcoe
Piano:
Julius Drake
Piano:
Mendelssohn Winterlied
Unknown:
Venezianisches Gondellied
Unknown:
Gesanges Schumann
Unknown:
Sheridan Russell

The weekly arts review returns.
Humphrey Carpenter investigates the role and craft of the book reviewer as the London
Review of Books celebrates its 15th birthday, and he looks back at the week's highlights.
Producer Neil Trevithick

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter
Producer:
Neil Trevithick

The third in a major new series of plays commissioned for Radio 3.
Award-winning writer John Purser 's new play is set in Oxford in 1850. When the University commissions a science museum, Oxford takes unkindly to a temple to the Theory of Evolution, the revolutionary design is dangerous, and the Irish craftsmen turn rebellious
... yet out of adversity a thing of beauty is born.
Director Jeremy Howe

Contributors

Unknown:
John Purser
Director:
Jeremy Howe
John Ruskin:
Michael Pennington
James O'Shea:
Sean McGinley
Danny O'Shea:
Dermot Crowley
Woodward:
Mark Lambert
Nuala:
Brid Brennan
Whellan:
Meredith Davies
Effie Ruskin:
Cara Kelly
John Everett Millais:
Lyndam Gregory
Thomas Huxley:
Neville Jason
Bishop Wilberforce:
Colin Pinney
Vice Admiral Fitzroy:
Don McCorkindale
Gypsy:
Tina Gray

A programme of quartets, including a studio session from the Rascher
Saxophone Quartet playing XAS by Xenakis, Far Away by Elena Firsova and Music for Saxophones by Tristan Keuris. And from a new CD, vocal quartet the Hilliard Ensemble are joined by saxophonist Jan Garbarek for a new slant on ancient music.

Contributors

Unknown:
Elena Firsova
Unknown:
Tristan Keuris.
Unknown:
Jan Garbarek

Monteverdi's lavish
Vespers music of 1610 was probably written for the ducal chapel of the Gonzaga in Mantua.
Brian Wright and Philip Pickett discuss the wide diversity of styles which are included, from grand choral and instrumental pieces to expressive virtuoso solos. Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610)
Catherine Bott (soprano) Tessa Bonner (soprano) Christopher Robson (countertenor)
Andrew King (tenor)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Michael George (baritone) Simon Grant (bass)
Peter Harvey (cantor)
Mark Rowlinson (celebrant) New London Consort, director Philip Pickett Producer Susan Kenyon Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Pickett
Unknown:
Monteverdi Vespro
Soprano:
Catherine Bott
Soprano:
Tessa Bonner
Soprano:
Christopher Robson
Tenor:
John Mark Ainsley
Baritone:
Michael George
Bass:
Simon Grant
Bass:
Peter Harvey
Unknown:
Mark Rowlinson
Director:
Philip Pickett
Producer:
Susan Kenyon

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