Programme Index

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With Andrew McGregor.

Haydn Piano Sonata in D, H XVI 24

6.17 Jongen Symphonie concertante

7.05 Bach Concerto in A for oboe d'amore, BWV 1055

7.41 Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor

8.05 Sullivan The Lost Chord

8.35 Hindemith Cello Concerto

(Discs)

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew McGregor

With Piers Burton-Page.

Falla Pedrelliana (Homenajes)

10.09 Trad, arr Britten Ca' the yowes

10.14 Ibert Cinq pieces en trio

10.23 Sarasate Zigeunerweisen

10.33 Telemann Overture - Suite in A minor

11.00 Trad, arr Britten The Sally Gardens

11.07 Maurice Webster Four Pieces for violins

11.18 Artist of the Week: Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
Bach, transcr Leonhardt Keyboard Suite in D minor (after Violin Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001)

11.32 Rachmaninov Four songs

11.43 Rimsky-Korsakov Piano Concerto

Contributors

Presenter:
Piers Burton-Page

With Gerard McBurney. Come buy, come buy
The Composer (voice/piano) Reflections on a Theme of William Walton
Guidhall String Ensemble Andante in Memory of Harold Arlen (Saxophone Sonata)
John Harle (saxophone) John Lenehan (piano)
Five Sonnets after Louise
Labe
Teresa Cahill (soprano) Nash Ensemble , conductor Lionel Friend
Rosemary's Waltz (Rim music: Tender is the Night) Ensemble/David Snell
Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerard McBurney.
Unknown:
William Walton
Unknown:
John Harle
Piano:
John Lenehan
Conductor:
Nash Ensemble
Conductor:
Lionel Friend

With Fiona Talkington.
1.00 Opera Matinee: Ottone in Villa
The first British performance of Vivaldi's first opera, given at London's Royal College of Music by the student ensemble La
Serenissima in a special edition of Youth Orchestras of the World. Ottone, emperor of Rome, prefers relaxation at his villa with his mistress to politics. He's reckoned without her talents as a mistress of sexual politics who is capable of a few undiplomatic affairs of her own!
La Serenissima, directors Adrian Chandler and Giulia Nuti
4.15 Kun Woo Paik
(piano)
Debussy Children's Corner Hindemtth Suite: 1922
Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington.
Directors:
Adrian Chandler
Directors:
Giulia Nuti
Ottone:
Sally Bruce-Payne(mezzo)
Cleonilla:
Margaret Kelly-Cook(sop)
Caio:
Helen Parker(sop)
Tullia:
Nicki Kennedy(sop)
Decio:
Mark Wilde(tenor)

Music and Science Fiction
Sue Nelson takes a look at some of the songs inspired by the bizarre side of space travel. There are dancing Martians, killer tomatoes and a vocal rendition of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds from Star Trek's Mr Spock. It is a music tradition carried on by Babylon Zoo's number one hit Spaceman.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr Spock.

From Bath city centre, Chris de Souza is joined by violinist Yuri Zhislin - who plays music by Bach and Paganini - and introduces music associated with Bath and interviews people connected with the festival.

Also including:
Thomas Linley (son) Overture: Duenna
5.35 Chilcot Suite No 1 in G minor
6.03 Moeran, arr Britten The shooting of his dear
6.35 Moeran Sinfonietta

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Violinist:
Yuri Zhislin
Producer:
Gwawr Owen

Conductor Matthias Bamert Emma Johnson (clarinet) Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622
Strauss Romanze (first broadcast)
Takemrtsu Requiem for strings
Haydn Symphony No 44 in E minor (Trauer)

Contributors

Conductor:
Matthias Bamert
Clarinet:
Emma Johnson
Unknown:
Strauss Romanze
Unknown:
Takemrtsu Requiem

Chris de Souza introduces the third of four programmes recorded last month at the Radio 3 Early Music Young Artists'
Showcase in the Royal Academy of Music. This week, the trio Charivari Agreable play music for viola da gamba, lute and keyboard instruments by Francois Couperin and Marin Marais.
Producer Lindsay Kemp

Contributors

Introduces:
Chris de Souza
Unknown:
Charivari Agreable
Unknown:
Francois Couperin
Producer:
Lindsay Kemp

With Humphrey Carpenter.
Tonight, a report direct from the premiere of a new work by Mark-Anthony Turnage , one of Britain's leading young composers. Inspired by paintings by Francis Bacon and Heather Beets and a poem by Langston Hughes , Blood on the Floor explores a world of urban alienation and drug abuse. Humphrey Carpenter also investigates The Golden
Age of Northumbria, one of the flagship exhibitions of Visual Arts UK 96, which reassesses the achievements of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom.
Producer Edwina Wolstencroft

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter.
Unknown:
Mark-Anthony Turnage
Unknown:
Francis Bacon
Unknown:
Heather Beets
Unknown:
Langston Hughes
Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter
Producer:
Edwina Wolstencroft

Concluding the week of programmes marking the 70th anniversary of the birth of trumpeter Miles Davis. Tonight, Ian Carr examines Davis's activities in the 60s, when he formed a new group and took his music in a radically new direction on the albums
ESP, In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew.

Contributors

Unknown:
Miles Davis.
Unknown:
Ian Carr

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