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With Alceste and its successor Paride ed Elena,
Gluck's reforms of Italian opera leapt ahead - simpler forms, more drama, and a quest for "beautiful simplicity". Presented by Gwen Hughes. Discs
with Susan Sharpe.
J Strauss (son) Waltz: Morgenblatter
Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
10.10 Lennox Berkeley Missa brevis
Choir of the Collegiate Church of St Mary,
Warwick/Simon Lole
10.30 Quartet Collection: Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 50 No 6 (Frog) Salomon Quartet
11.00 Reisslger Concertino in E flat
Dieter Klocker (clarinet)
Berlin Radio SO, conductor Jesus Lopez-Cobos
11.15 Elgar They gather the wreaths (Caractacus) Judith Howarth (soprano)
Arthur Davies (tenor)
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor
Richard Hickox
11.25 Nyman The Piano Concerto
Kathryn Stott (piano) Royal Liverpool PO/ The Composer
Producer Chris de Souza Discs REQUESTS: Midweek Choice, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House. London W1A 1AA or telephone [number removed]
Repeated from yesterday
11.30pm
from the Wigmore Hall, London.
Mari Kodama (piano) Ravel Le Tombeau de
Couperin
Prokofiev Piano Sonata No
7, Op 83
Together: An Assembly for Schools 2.20 Time and Tune: Music Course 2 -
Sea Thunder 2>40 Drama Workshop
Presented by Richard Osborne.
Building a Library
A Wilhelm Furtwangler survey.
Revised repeat from Saturday
9.00am
from St Mary's Episcopal
Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Introit: Doctor Bonus amicus
Dei Andreas (Victoria) Responses (Smith)
Office Hymn: Jesus calls us! O'er the tumult
(St Andrew)
Psalms 147-50 (Marsh, Stanford, Walmisley, Stanford)
First Lesson:
Isaiah 47 w 1-6
Magnificat: Praetorius (Quinti toni)
Second Lesson: Matthew 4 w 18-22
Nunc dimittis (Victoria)
Anthem: The Spirit of the Lord (Elgar)
Hymn: Ye watchers and ye holy ones (Lasst uns erfreuen) Organ Voluntary:
Incantation pour un jour Saint (Langlais)
Organist and Master of the choristers
Timothy Byram-Wigfield Assistant organist Peter Backhouse
Tommy Pearson visits Newark and Sherwood
College to get the lowdown on how modern technology aids craftspeople in the making of musical instruments.
Music, arts news and interviews presented by Natalie Wheen , including
5.15 Chopin
Scherzo in C sharp minor, Op 39
6.03 Ravel Boléro
6.30 Beethoven Rondino for wind (Wo025)
7.03 Gershwin, arr Cohn Three Preludes
Producer Gwen Hughes
conductor
Alexander Lazarev
Robert Cohen (cello)
Vaughan Williams Suite: The Wasps
Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor: Enigma Variations
A series of 15-minute plays set in bed, with real-life couples cast as couples. Episode 3, with Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter.
An uncomfortable stay at theatrical digs.
Next programme, with Judi Dench and Michael Williams , tomorrow
9.20pm
In the second programme from this year's festival
Stephen Pratt introduces a performance of Jonathan Harvey 's visionary IRCAM commission, Bhakti, for chamber ensemble with computer-generated electronic tape.
Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
(Canada), conductor Lorraine Vaillancourt
Jonathan Harvey (sound diffusion)
See also 10.45pm
Pepe Romero (guitar) Sanz, arr Romero Spanish Suite
Turina Sonata in D
Rodrigo
Invocation and Dance
Which comes first - the music or the dance, composer or choreographer?
Night Waves visits the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival where
Siobhan Davies premieres three new dances with specially written scores. Producer Robyn Read
Rodney Slatford introduces the second of two programmes performed by the Medici Quartet. Glazunov
Prelude and Fugue
Gliere String Quartet No 1 Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
