with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 Vaughan Williams , arr Greaves Fantasia on Greensleeves
7.11 J C Bach
Sinfonia Concertante in C
(T289 No 4)
7.46 Hindemith Kleine
Kammermusik, Op 24 No 2
8.05 Liszt Concert Study
No 2: Gnomereigen (S145)
8.20 Corelli Concerto grosso in B flat, Op 6 No 5
8.32 Beethoven Symphony No 8 in F
Producer Andrew McGregor Discs

(1792-1868)
The Operas of 1813 Clive Bennett presents excerpts from // Signor Bruschino , Tancredi and L'ltaliana in Algeri performed by, among others, Marilyn Home , Lucia Valentini Terrani ,
Francisco Araiza and Della Jones . Discs Revised

with Edward Blakeman.
This week: Russian bookends - with volumes of piano, clarinet and orchestral music in mint condition! Including
Glinka Overture: Russian and Ludmilla
10.10 Robin Orr
Lyric Piece No 1
Faure Barcarolle in F sharp minor, Op 66
Chabrier Feuillet d'album
10.20 Artist of the Week:
Thea King (clarinet)
Julius Rietz Clarinet Concerto
11.05 Martinu
Overture (1953)
Kodaly Dances from Marosszek
11.30 Symphonic Steppes: Shostakovich
Symphony No 3
Producer Edward Blakeman

The first of four programmes in which Geoffrey Baskerville explores the colourful world of the operatic impresario. Today he meets some of the characters responsible for the making and breaking of 19th-century Italian opera. With music by Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi and Bellini.
Producer Simon Lord
D/scs

from St John 's,
Smith Square.
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte; Jeux d'eau;
Oiseaux tristes and Alborado del gracioso (Miroirs)
Liszt Ballade No 2 in B minor
Verdi, arr Liszt Rigoletto - Paraphrase de concert
Repeated next Sunday 6.00pm

Radio Q and A 2.05 Word
Games 2.15 Storybox 2.25 Let's Move 2.45 First Steps in Drama
SYMPHONIC STEPPES

Lenin Symphony
N Malishevsky (narrator) Vocal soloists,
Russian Republic Chamber Chorus USSR Radio SO, conductor
Alexander Gauk Discs

Hans van Nieuwkoop (organ) Sweelinck Variations on Allein Gott ; Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr; Ballo del Granduca ; Fantasia; Psalm 16: Ik heb den Herr lief ; Ricercare

In the last of the series,
Charles Alexander surveys the work of John Scofield ,
Kevin Eubanks ,
Frank Gambale and other leading contemporary jazz guitarists. A Gleneagle production
Repeated Thursday at 10.15pm

Tommy and the Lindsays Two violins, a viola and a cello - the string quartet. But why has this combination spawned such a wealth of hits? Tommy Pearson joins the Lindsay Quartet in Sheffield to find out.
Producer Chris Wines

with Andrew Green.
5.15 Dvorak Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op 46 No 8
6.03 Bach Gebt mir meinen
Jesum wieder (St Matthew Passion)
6.30 Prokofiev Piano
Concerto No 1
Producer Andrew Mussett

The Tempest
To tie in with BBCtv's
Shakespeare season, a concert performance of Sibelius's incidental music that weaves in extracts from
Shakespeare's play, placing the atmospheric and imaginative music within its dramatic context.
Tallis Chamber Choir, director Richard Williams
Gothenburg SO/Neeme Jarvi Given earlier this month in the Barbican Hall, London, and sponsored by Enskilda Corporate

As part of the Shakespeare season, Michael Kustow explores the bard's status as the most popular playwright in the world.
1: Universal Shakespeare? International directors talk about Shakespeare's universal appeal:
Peter Brook discusses his work in Paris with multinational casts, Peter Stein shows how Shakespeare has transformed German drama, and Alan Sinfield outlines the imperial basis of his worldwide reputation. Next programme tomorrow
9.20pm

Two Baroque trio sonatas from the virtuoso collection
Harmonia Artificiosa-Ariosa .
Partita No 3 in A; Partita No 7 in C minor
Purcell Quartet

(bom 14 November 1914, died 7 September 1994) As a tribute to the opera librettist, broadcaster, man of letters and co-founder with Britten and Pears of the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, a repeat of his last radio talk - Hardy's Heath. Readers William Simons and Polly James. Rpt
SYMPHONIC STEPPES

Symphony No 2 (October)
Yurlov Russian Choir Moscow PO/Kirill Kondrashin Discs

with Robert Sandall and Mark Russell.
Producer Philip Tagney

Chris de Souza presents the second concert from this season's Radio 3 early music invitation series at the Royal College of Music in London. Paul McCreesh directs the Gabrieli Consort in a programme of sacred music by Cristobal de Morales, including the Mass Mille Regretz.
Repeated tomorrow 12 noon

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