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Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Dvorak
Nocturne in B, Op 40 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
7.12 Bach
Partita No 5 in G
(BWV 829)
Glenn Gould (piano)
7.44 Shostakovich
Ballet Suite No 3
Scottish National
Orchestra, conductor
Neeme Jarvi
8.05 Mendelssohn, transcr Liszt
Wedding March (A
Midsummer Night's Dream) Georges Cziffra (piano)
8.25 Puccini
Un bel di (Madama Butterfly)
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano)
Rome Opera House Orchestra, conductor
Gabriele Santini
8.32 Quartet Collection: Haydn
String Quartet in F, Op 74 No 2
Dartington Quartet Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Piano:
Glenn Gould
Piano:
Georges Cziffra
Conductor:
Gabriele Santini

Kappellmeister in Dresden (1843-1848)
Barry Millington explores
Wagner's short-lived career as a court musician, ending with the revolution of 1848 and exile.
Cantata: Der Tag erscheint Bamberg Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor
Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Trauermusik
BBC SO, conductor John Pritchard
An Webers Grabe
Bamberg Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Das Liebesmahl der
Apostel
Westminster Choir
New York Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Pierre Boulez
Discs

Contributors

Conductor:
Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Conductor:
John Pritchard
Conductor:
Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Conductor:
Das Liebesmahl
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez

with Susan Sharpe. Every item in this morning's programme has an alternative. You choose which gets played.
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Producer Chris de Souza Discs Request for future programmes to: Midweek Choice, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA or telephone [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.

from Southwell
Minster
Introit: Richard de Castre's
Prayer to Jesus (Terry) Responses: McCree
Psalm 78 (Goss, Barnby)
First Lesson: Jeremiah 20, w 7-end
Canticles: Collegium
Magdalenae Oxoniense (Leighton)
Second Lesson: John 8, w 12-20
Anthem: Thee will I love
(Howells)
Organ Voluntary: Rhapsody No 3 in C sharp minor (Howells)
Rector Chori Paul Hale
Assistant Organist Philip Rushforth

Contributors

Organist:
Philip Rushforth

Natalie Wheen with arts news, interviews and music, including
Schubert Overture in F for piano duet (D675)
6.03 Delibes Les fleurs me paraissent plus belles (Lakme)
6.30 Falla En el Generalife
(Nights in the Gardens of Spain)
7.03 Weill Pride (The Seven Deadly Sins)
Producer Edward Blakeman
FAIREST ISLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Unknown:
Delibes Les
Producer:
Edward Blakeman

from the Royal Festival Hall,
London.
Antonio Meneses (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Handel, arr Elgar Overture in D minor
Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor
8.10 Interval
When his Second
Symphony was premiered, Elgar made his famous comment about the audience: "What is the matter with them....? They sit there like a lot of stuffed pigs." To discuss the piece and its significance in the composer's output, biographers Jerrold Northrop Moore and Michael Kennedy are joined by lecturer Robert Meikle and Stephen Banfield , Elgar Professor of Music at
Birmingham University. Rpt
8.30 Elgar Symphony No 2 Sponsored by Land Rover

Contributors

Cello:
Antonio Meneses
Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Unknown:
Jerrold Northrop Moore
Unknown:
Michael Kennedy
Unknown:
Robert Meikle
Unknown:
Stephen Banfield

Lisa Jardine investigates the new edition of the Arden Shakespeare - billed as state-of-the-art and definitive - with editor
David Scott Kastan. Plus the first-night verdict on a new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni at English National Opera.
Producer Louise Swan

Contributors

Unknown:
Lisa Jardine
Unknown:
Arden Shakespeare
Editor:
David Scott Kastan.
Unknown:
Don Giovanni
Producer:
Louise Swan

Jill Anderson presents unusual chamber music performed by the Fibonacci Sequence.

Saint-Saens Septet in E flat, Op 65

Nielsen Serenato in vano

Damase Trio for flute, cello and harp

Martinu La revue de cuisine

(Repeated tomorrow 12 noon)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jill Anderson
Musicians:
Fibonacci Sequence

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