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7.05 Hildegard of Bingen Columba aspexit
Emma Kirkby (soprano) Gothic Voices, director
Christopher Page
7.32 Bartok Romanian Folk
Dances (Sz68)
St Paul Chamber Orchestra, conductor Hugh Wolff
7.39 Mozart
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
(K525)
Amadeus Quartet
8.05 Mendelssohn
Overture: A Midsummer
Night's Dream
London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor
Claudio Abbado
8.25 Beethoven
Five variations on "Rule
Britannia" in D (Wo079)
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)
8.32 Quartet Collection: Haydn String Quartet in F, Op 17 No 2
Tatrai Quartet Discs
The Operas of 1816 Excerpts from The Barber of Seville, La Gazetta and Otello, performed by, among others, Montserrat Caballe, Francisco Araiza and Leo Nucci.
Discs Revised
with Edward Blakeman , including
Balakirev Overture on Themes of Russian Songs BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth
10.05 Robin Orr
Lyric Piece No 2 Faure
Barcarolle in E flat, Op 70 Chabrier Ballabile
Roy Howat (piano)
10.20 Artist of the Week:
Thea King (clarinet)
Britten Concerto movement
English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth
11.00 Benjamin Frankel Clarinet Quintet
Thea King (clarinet) Britten Quartet
11.25 Symphonic Steppes: Knipper Symphony No 4 Oleg Biktomirov (tenor)
Boris Shumilov (baritone)
Russian Academic Chamber
Chorus
Moscow Symphony
Orchestra, conductor
Veronika Dudarova
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 from yesterday
11.30pm
SYMPHONIC STEPPES
Symphony No 5
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor
Yevgeni Mravinsky Discs
Playtime 2.15 Time to Move 2.35 Listen!
SYMPHONIC STEPPES
Second of four programmes of music by composers of the Confederation of Independent States.
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor
Tadaaki Otaka
Alexander Shchetinsky
Glossolalie Roman Ledenyov
Symphony
Arve Tellefsen (violin) Harvard Gimse (piano)
Brahms Scherzo in C minor
(FAE Sonata) Grieg
Sonata No 3 in C minor
Rpt
Tommy and the Lindsays I want to write something that's really unusual for a string quartet - what'll be new?
Composer Judith Weir and the Lindsay String Quartet ponder the options.
from Cardiff with Nicola
Heywood-Thomas, including a horn concerto by Mozart, songs and arias by Kurt Weill and Lilly and a fantasy by Sweelinck played by Glenn Gould. Producer Peter Thresh
from Studio One,
Pebble Mill.
Mitsuko Shirai (mezzo) Hartmut Höll (piano) Liszt Es muss ein
Wunderbares sein: Nimm einen Strahl der Sonne;
Blume und Duft; Ihr
Glocken von Marling: Die Lorelei; Vergiftet sind meine Lieder, Freudvoll und leidvoll; Der du von dem
Himmel bist; Die drei
Zigeuner
8.10 The Crushed Juice of an Orange
For Robert Schumann. poetry was an inferior art, music was the superior. "A poem," he said, "must be crushed and have its juices expressed like an orange." Nicholas Marston considers
Schumann's views on music and text.
8.30 Schumann
Der Nussbaum; Es fiel ein
Reif: Stille Tranen;
Melancholie; Geisternahe:
Widmung Wolf
An eine Aolsharfe; Der Gartner: Sonne der
Schlummerlosen: In dem
Schatten meiner Locken:
Fruhling ubers Jahr
2: Shakespeare Our Ally Michael Kustow looks at the political uses of Shakespeare, particularly under tyranny.
With Dragan Klaic, theatre critic in exile from the former Yugoslavia; Ion
Caramitrou whose Hamlet helped defeat Ceaucescu; and Janet Suzman who directed a white Desdemona opposite a black Othello during the apartheid regime in South Africa.
Next programme tomorrow
9.30pm
conductor En Shao with Jonathan Williams
(horn)
Strauss Horn Concerto No
2 in E flat
Schubert Symphony No 2 in Bflat
Maggie Smith stars in Edward Albee 's Pulitzer
Prize-winning play Three Tall Women. Christopher Cook reviews the opening night and takes a look at what this year's London Film
Festival has to offer - from a silent John Ford to the noisy New Wave. Producer Paul Quinn
SYMPHONIC STEPPES
Symphony No 1 Myaskovsky
Symphony No 21
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Fyodor Glushchenko
Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
German Stories -
Bucherregal
