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with Catriona Young.
7.05 Dvorak Romance in F minor, Op 11
7.15 Poulenc Timor et tremor (Quatre motets pour un temps de penitence)
7.40 Mozart Divertimento in B flat (K186)
8.05 Bach Kommt , ihr
Tochter (St Matthew Passion)
8.20 Chopin
Etudes, Op 10 Nos 1-4
8.30 Quartet Collection:
Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 77 No 1
Producer Andrew Lyle Discs
FAIREST ISLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Catriona Young.
Unknown:
Bach Kommt
Producer:
Andrew Lyle Discs

(1543-1623) and (C1505-1585)
Presented by John Milsom. Tallis Salve intemerata virgo Tallis Scholars, director
Peter Phillips
Byrd Rejoice unto the Lord Michael Chance
(countertenor) Fretwork
Tallis Gloria (Missa Puer natus est nobis)
Clerkes of Oxenford, conductor David Wulstan
Byrd Magnificat (Great Service)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conductor Stephen Cleobury
Tallis Spem in alium
Tallis Scholars, director
Peter Phillips Rpt

Contributors

Presented By:
John Milsom.
Director:
Peter Phillips
Director:
Byrd Rejoice
Unknown:
Tallis Gloria
Conductor:
David Wulstan
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury
Conductor:
Tallis Spem
Director:
Peter Phillips Rpt

from Cardiff, with Michael McCarthy.
Mozart Overture: Die
Entfuhrung aus dem Sera/7
10.05 Artist of the Week:
Christian Lindberg (trombone)
Weber Romance
10.15
Sibelius Lemminkainen and the Maidens of Saari
10.35 Bach Cantata No
126: Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort
10.50 Beethoven Piano
Sonata in A flat, Op 26
11.10 Ives The Circus Band
11.15 Gordon Jacob
Trombone Concerto
11.35 Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet Producer Gwawr Owen

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael McCarthy.
Unknown:
Christian Lindberg
Unknown:
Sibelius Lemminkainen
Unknown:
Gordon Jacob
Producer:
Gwawr Owen

Josephine Barstow talks to Rodney Milnes about the role of Queen Elizabeth I in Britten's opera Gloriana. Musical illustrations are from the recording she made with Charles Mackerras
.

Contributors

Talks:
Josephine Barstow
Unknown:
Rodney Milnes
Unknown:
Queen Elizabeth I
Unknown:
Charles MacKerras

In the sixth of eight programmes, pianist and composer Stan Tracey tells Geoffrey Smith why he largely gave up free jazz in the mid-70s and how his octet was formed in response to the first of a series of commissions which included the Bracknell
Connection. In 1978, a new drummer joined the band - his son, Clark Terry.
Repeated Thursday 10.15pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Stan Tracey
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Clark Terry.

Live from the Coliseum, London.
Alfred Schnittke's opera to a text by Victor Yerofeyev, based on his own novella, in its British premiere production by English National Opera. This allegorical black comedy tells how a man, called simply "I", and his wife have an idiot lodger imposed upon them as punishment for some unspecified crime. The idiot creates mayhem, having sex with both the man and the woman, and finally leaves "I" insane and the wife murdered. Presented by Chris de Souza. Sung in English.
English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra/Richard Armstrong
Act 1

8.30 Victor Yerofeyev
The librettist of "Life with an Idiot" and author of the novel "Russian
Beauty" talks to Professor Anthony Briggs.

8.50 Act 2

Contributors

Composer:
Alfred Schnlttke
Text:
Victor Yerofeyev
Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Singers/musicians:
English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor:
Richard Armstrong
Subject (interval):
Victor Yerofeyev
Interviewer (interval):
Anthony Briggs
I:
David Barrell (baritone)
Wife:
Louisa Kennedy-Richardson (soprano)
Idiot:
Alasdair Elliott (tenor)
Guard:
David Gwynne (bass)
Marcel Proust:
Quentin Hayes (baritone)

Four tales from the BBC's annual collection of radio stories, which is published this month.
1: Gewurztraminer by James Hamilton-Paterson .
Read by Nicholas Le Prevost. Producer Janet Whitaker
Next programme tomorrow 9.25pm

Contributors

Unknown:
James Hamilton-Paterson
Read By:
Nicholas Le Prevost.
Producer:
Janet Whitaker

Meurig Bowen introduces the first of five programmes for Passion Week in which the Hilliard Ensemble performs carols from the Fayrfax manuscript of C1500, written to commemorate Christ's
Passion. Derek Jacobi reads contemporary religious lyrics. Anon Ay, my dear son
Rogers Covey-Crump and John Potter (tenors)
Gordon Jones (baritone) A Magenta Music International production. Next programme tomorrow 10.35pm

Contributors

Introduces:
Meurig Bowen
Unknown:
Derek Jacobi
Tenors:
John Potter
Baritone:
Gordon Jones

Utrecht 94
Andrew Manze introduces another concert from last year's Early Music Festival. Andreas Staier is the fortepianist in Beethoven's Sonata in E flat, Op 7 and Dussek's Sonata in A flat
(C221) (The Return to Paris). Repeated tomorrow at 12 noon

Contributors

Introduces:
Andrew Manze
Unknown:
Andreas Staier

BBC Radio 3

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