Countdown to Logs

with Anthony Burton.
Weber Overture: Oberon
Halle Orchestra, conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
7.14 Schiitz Hutet euch, dass eure Herzen nicht beschweret werden; Gib unsern Fursten und aller.
Obrigkeit; Lobet den Herm, alle Heiden (Symphoniae Sacrae, Op 10)
Emma Kirkby and Suzie Le Blanc (sopranos) James Bowman
(countertenor)
Nigel Rogers (tenor)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Richard Wistreich (bass) Purcell Quartet
7.30 Bartok Piano
Concerto No 3
Jeno Jando (piano)
Budapest SO/Andras Ligeti
7.55 Buxtehude Sonata in A minor, Op 1 No 3
John Holloway (violin)
Jaap ter Linden (viola da gamba)
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (h'chord)
8.08 Franck
Symphony in D minor
Vienna Philharmonic/Giulini

Vivaldi's Gloria in D
(RV589) by George Pratt. Jeremy J Beadle on new releases of 20th-century
English orchestral and vocal music.

Britten Les Illuminations
Felicity Lott (soprano) ECO/Steuart Bedford
10.39 Elgar Symphonic Study: Falstaff
CBSO/Simon Rattle

The American countertenor
Russell Oberlin popularised early music through his performances in the 50s and 60s. Lyrichord has just reissued some of his recordings, and Tess Knighton has been listening to them.
Producers Patrick Lambert and Clive Portbury Discs
3.00pm

Goliards are often thought of as wandering vagabonds, but in' fact many of them were esteemed scholars and ecclesiastics, who wrote and sang Latin verse. Christopher Page takes a closer look at their work. Producer Kate Bolton
FAIREST ISLE

4: Hampton Court Palace Jeremy Musson walks around
Sir Christopher Wren 's Fountain Court and the redesigned Royal
Apartments, in conversation with Dr Simon Thurley.
Series producer Ed Thomason

The German baritone
Wolfgang Holzmair sings all three of Schubert's great song cycles in performances recorded last year.
1: Die Schöne Mullerin
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Recorded last November in the Wigmore Hall, London.
Next Saturday Schwanengesang

Dvorak Slavonic Rhapsody in G minor, Op 45 No 2 BBC Concert Orchestra/ Nicholas Cleobury Rpt

Roderick Swanston asks nine leading practitioners of early music to put away their treatises and reveal the personal element in their music-making. 2: Since the lutenist
Anthony Rooley founded the Consort of Musicke in 1969, they have led the way in bringing back to life the highly refined vocal music cultivated in the 16th and 17th centuries by Italian and English nobles. But he arrived at this via skiffle, flamenco and Vedic scriptures, and in performance he invokes the mythical, powers of Orpheus. With lute music by Dalza, Gallot le Vieux and Bach, traditional music from Iraq, Japan and India, and songs and madrigals including: Benedetto Pallavlcino
Crudelissima doglia
Dowland Dear if you change;
Come away sweet love William Lawes
Amaryllis tear thy hair John Weldon
The Appointed Hour
John Ward If Heaven's Just
Wrath
Monteverdi Misero Alceo ; Rimanti in pace; Si ch'io vorrei morire
A Scarlatti Cor mio, deh non languire
Greene Beauty -An Ode (aria) Eccles The Judgement of Paris (aria)
Rodgers and Hart My Funny Valentine
Producer Nick Morgan Discs See also tomorrow 1.15pm

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs
ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3, London W1A 4WW. FAX: [number removed]

Presented by Ivan Hewett. Operatic fantasies, paraphrases and transcriptions - who did them and why; and should the Performing Rights
Society retain its monopoly? Producer Fiona Shelmerdine Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm

Donizetti L'Elisir d'Amore
In Donizetti's lyrical opera, Nemorino seeks to win the love of Adina, but his path is dogged by magic potions and unforeseen inheritances.
Presented by Peter Allen. Sung in Italian.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, conductor Edoardo Muller
Act
7.40 The Opera Quiz
Edward Downes 's guests this week include George Jellinek.
8.10 Act 2
Texaco supports the Metropolitan Opera Radio Network which is broadcast on R3 through the EBU.

Bill Barlow encounters the paradoxes of army life in the company of Spike Milligan , Michael Mason and Donald Nicholl and discovers "a world like no other". With archive recordings of the Goons, Peter Ustinov ,
Laurence Olivier , and musicians of the Guards Division.
Readers: John Baddeley and David Jarvis.
Producer Piers Plowright

Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19
Hannah Roberts (cello) Simon Parkin (piano) Rpt

The Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and composer, once described by Miles Davis as "the world's most impressive musician", was recorded in concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall last
October with his own group and his British big band, including saxophonists Peter King , Chris Biscoe and Julian Arguelles , trumpeters Guy Barker ,
Henry Lowther and Claude Deppa , trombonists Pete Beachill and Richard
Edwards, and the Mondesir brothers (bass and drums). The concert is introduced by Alyn Shipton , who talks to Guy Barker during the interval about life on the road with Hermeto Pascoal.
Producer Derek Drescher