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Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor, including at approximately
7.05 Rachmaninov Prelude in E flat, Op 23 No 6 Peter Donohoe (piano)
7.08 Haydn Divertimento (Cassation) in F (H II 20) Haydn Sinfonietta of Vienna, director Manfred Huss
7.32 Foss Three American Pieces
Itzhak Perlman (violin) Boston Symphony Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa
8.05 Purcell Portfolio:
Purcell A selection of songs
8.22 Vivaldi Concerto in C for two trumpets (RV537) Mark Bennett and Michael
Harrison (trumpets)
English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
8.40 Beethoven Piano
Sonata in F minor, Op 2 No
Murray Perahia (piano)
Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Piano:
Peter Donohoe
Unknown:
Haydn Sinfonietta
Director:
Manfred Huss
Violin:
Itzhak Perlman
Unknown:
Mark Bennett
Director:
Trevor Pinnock
Piano:
Murray Perahia

Simon Heighes explores some of the music Handel wrote for the Anglican church.
Coronation Anthem: Zadok the Priest
Quiristers of Winchester College
Choir of New College, Oxford
King's Consort, conductor Robert King
Utrecht Te Deum
Soloists
Choir of Christ Church
Cathedral, Oxford
Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Simon Preston
Chandos Anthem No 5:
I will magnify Thee
Lynne Dawson (soprano) Ian Partridge (tenor) Sixteen Choir and Orchestra, conductor Harry Christophers

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Heighes
Conductor:
Simon Preston
Soprano:
Lynne Dawson
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Conductor:
Harry Christophers

With Chris de Souza.

Mozart meets Handel once again, and there's more from the tenor Anthony Roden and the late Geoffrey Parsons.

10.00 Artist of the Week: Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Handel, arr Mozart O Thou that tellest (Messiah) - Birgit Finnila (contralto), Austrian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra

10.05 Mozart Symphony No 18 in F - Prague Chamber Orchestra/Charles Mackerras

10.25 David Lumsdaine Metamorphosis at Mullet Creek - John Turner (recorder)

10.30 Grainger Love Verses; Near Woodstock Town: The Immovable Do - BBC Singers,
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Bo Holten

10.45 Benjamin Frankel Symphony No 3 - Queensland Symphony Orchestra, conductor Werner Andreas Albert

11.05 Janacek Taras Bulba - Australian Youth Orchestra/Charles Mackerras

11.30 Douglas Lilburn Three songs - Tracey Chadwell (soprano) Pamela Lidiard (piano)

11.35 Roy Agnew Sonata Legend - Larry Sitsky (piano)

11.45 Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice (excerpts) - Maureen Forrester (alto), Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Tenor:
Anthony Roden
Guest:
Geoffrey Parsons
Conductor:
Charles Mackerras

BBC Philharmonic conductor
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Timothy Hugh (cello) Wagner Overture: Die
Meistersinger von Niirnberg Brahms Symphony No 3 in Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor
Concert sponsored by British Gas EandP

Contributors

Conductor:
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Cello:
Timothy Hugh

Music and news from
Glasgow with Geoffrey Baskerville , including
Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla
6.03 Chopin Nocturne in E flat, Op 55 No 2
6.30 Martlnu The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca Producer Simon Lord

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Baskerville
Producer:
Simon Lord

BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Nicholas Cleobury Sibelius Finlandia
Debussy La Mer Boulez Rituel - in memoriam Bruno Maderna
Sibelius Symphony No 7 See also tomorrow 8.00pm

Contributors

Conductor:
Nicholas Cleobury
Conductor:
Sibelius Finlandia
Conductor:
Debussy La Mer
Conductor:
Boulez Rituel
Unknown:
Bruno Maderna

A game of two halves:
American writer Richard Ford reveals why his acclaimed novel The Sportswriter demanded a sequel, and Humphrey Carpenter tips some winners in the expanding world of sports writing in Britain.
Producer John Goudie

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Ford
Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter
Producer:
John Goudie

Jonathan Freeman-Attwood introduces the final concert recorded at this year's Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music in London. This week, Al Ayre Espanol make their UK debut under director Eduardo Lopez Banzo in a programme of vocal and instrumental music from 18th-century Spain.
Repeated tomorrow 12 noon

Contributors

Introduces:
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
Director:
Eduardo Lopez

BBC Radio 3

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