American Conversations:
John Lewis
Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Chaminade Automne
Moura Lympany (piano)
7.12 Beethoven Overture:
Egmont
Vienna PO, conductor
Claudio Abbado
7.32 Bach Sarabande ;
Gigue (Partita in D minor, BWV 1004)
Nathan Milstein (violin)
8.05 Bernstein Prelude,
Fugue and Riffs
London Symphony Brass, conductor Eric Crees
8.20 Strauss Der Abend ,
Op 34 No 1
Danish National Radio
Choir, conductor
Stefan Parkman
8.32 Quartet Collection: Haydn String Quartet in E flat, Op 1 No 2 Dekany Quartet Discs
Presented by Roger Savage. 3: Sarabandes, Sacred
Rites and Solar Myths Solemn dances as they figure in mystic visions, ceremonies of enlightenment and evocation of cosmic harmony. Two scenes from Zoroastre directed by Sigiswald Kuijken: the blessing of Zoroaster by the Elemental Spirits in Act 2, and the banishing of night and welcome to the rising sun in Act 3. And from
Castor et Pollux the apotheosis of Pollux and the Fete de I'univers in Act 5
Director William Christie
Discs
Susan Sharpe was at the Radio 3 stand last Sunday at the Classical Music Fair at the Barbican in London and today plays requests from visitors and exhibitors.
Discs
Producer Chris de Souza
REQUESTS: write to Midweek Choice, Radio 3. Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA. or telephone [number removed]
BBC Symphony Orchestra Repeated from yesterday
11.30pm
from Studio 1. Patrick Gallois
(flute)
Fabrice Pierre (harp)
Bartok, transcr Arma Suite paysanne hongroise; Romanian Folkdances
Canteloube La Bergere des champs; La Delaissee; Trois Bourrees (Chants d'Auvergne)
Borne Carmen Fantasy
Together: An Assembly for Schools 2.20 Time and Tune: Music Course 2 -
Sea Thunder 2.40 Drama
Workshop
Presented by Anthony Burton.
Building a Library
Bartok's String Quartets by Stephen Johnson.
Revised repeat from Saturday
9.00am
from Chichester
Cathedral.
Introit: Terribilis est locus iste (George Malcolm ) Responses: Bertalot
Psalms 27, 28 and 29 (Hopkins, Barnby, Bairstow, Wadeley, Russell, Attwood) First Lesson: 2 Kings 18 w 1-12 (RSV)
Canticles: Naylor in A
Second Lesson: Acts 23 v
12-end (RSV)
Anthem: I will love thee, 0
Lord (Jeremiah Clarke )
Hymn: Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (Parry, arr H A
Chambers)
Organ Voluntary: Fanfare (Percy Whitlock )
Organist and Masters of the Choristers
Alan Thurlow
Assistant Organist James Thomas
Young people in the Czech Republic go to special music schools in the afternoons when they have finished their other lessons. Sarah Walker visits one of these schools and, with the help of piano teacher Hana Bartoskova , finds out what they all get up to.
Producer Christina Pritchard
Natalie Wheen presents this afternoon's programme of arts news and plays a selection of music, including
5.15 Rameau Les Indes galantes (excerpts)
6.03 Ravel Sheherazade
6.40 Saint-Saens
Africa, Op 89
7.03 Debussy Syrinx Producer Gwen Hughes
from the Brangwyn I Hall, Swansea.
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor Hans Graf
Anne Queffelec (piano) Dutilleux Métaboles
Mozart Piano Concerto No
19 in F (K459)
8.15 "Beethoven, that giant marching behind me" Jeremy J Beadle explores the extraordinary creative anxiety behind the birth of Brahms's First Symphony.
8.35 Brahms Symphony No 1 in C minor
Sponsored by B J Group pic
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Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, Op 95
Hugh Wood String Quartet No 4
The theatre planner and producer of Oh, What a Lovely War Joan Littlewood , is 80 tomorrow. In a rare interview, she discusses her career with Faynia Williams. And Lisa Jardine investigates Littlewood's legacy and gets the first-night verdict on Goldoni's comedy The Venetian Twins, starring David Troughton. Producer John Goudie
This week, a recital by the American pianist
Mark Anderson , a prize-winner at the last Leeds competition. His programme features music by Copland - the Sonata and Four Piano
Blues - together with works by C P E Bach and Chopin. Presented by Jill Anderson. Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
Listen and Read 1.20
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