With Penny Gore. News, weather and music including
Bernstein Symphonic Dances from 'West Side Story"
New York Philharmonic, conducted by the Composer
7.05 Corrette Concerto comique No 25 (Les Sauvages et la Furstenberg)
Musica Antiqua Koln , director Reinhard Goebel
7.32 Barber Summer Music
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
8.05 McCunn Overture: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor Grant Llewellyn
8.17 Granados Violin Sonata
Lavard Skou Larsen (violin), Andreas Frohlich (piano)
8.32 Brahms Two Motets, Op 29 (Es ist das Heil uns kommen her; Schaffe in mir, Gott)
Choir of La Chapelle Royale, Ghent Collegium Vocale, director Philippe Herreweghe
Bach Suite in E minor, BWV 996
John Williams (guitar)
9.15 Koechlin Douglas Fairbanks ; Lilian Harvey ; Greta Garbo (Seven Stars' Symphony)
German Symphony Orchestra, conductor James Judd
9.28 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C,
Op 2 No 3
Daniel Barenboim (piano) Discs
With Mary Miller , including
Graham Fitkin Loud for six pianos Piano Circus
10.18 Nielsen Maskarade (excerpts) Soloists, Danish Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor John Frandsen
10.35 Bach Concerto in the Italian
Style, BWV 971
David Roblou (harpsichord)
10.50 Stravinsky Ballet: Jeu de cartes BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vanska
11.10 Artist of the Week:
Pablo Casals (cello)
Schubert String Quintet in C, D956 Sandor Vegh and Sandor Zoldy (violins), Georges Janzer (viola), Paul Szabo (cello)
Compositions flowed quickly from
Dupre, who wrote nearly 100 works, whereas Durufle constantly strove for perfection and finished only 14 pieces. Presented by Tim Thome , and including an archive broadcast of Dupre talking about his symphony written for Henry Wood.
Dupre Prelude and Fugue in F minor, Op 7 No 2
Daniel Roth (organ)
Durufle Prelude, Recitative and Variations, Op 3
Syrinx: Martin Parry (flute), Roger Chase (violin), John Lenehan (piano)
Dupre Symphony in G minor for organ and orchestra
Michael Murray (organ),
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Jahja Ling
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Concert Hall
From the Wigmore Hall, London.
Alexander Baillie (cello), Kathryn Stott (piano)
Schubert Sonata in A minor, D821
(Arpeggione)
Bridge Cello Sonata in D minor TICKETS: phone (0171) [number removed]
2.00 Midweek Choice:
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A new, regular two-hour slot offers twice the chance to hear your request - ring in with it by lunchtime to hear it today. With Susan Sharpe , and including
Clementi Sonata in B flat, Op 24 No 2
Balazs Szokolay (piano)
Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV 1043
David and Igor Oistrakh (violins), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Eugene Goossens
Dvorak Piano Trio in G minor, Op 26 Fontenay Trio
Producer Susan Kenyon Discs WRITTEN REQUESTS:
Midweek Choice, BBC Radio 3. Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
Fax: (0171) [number removed]
E-MAIL: midweek.choice@bbc.co.uk
4.00 Choral Evensong
From Canterbury Cathedral. Introit: Ave Maria (Bruckner)
Responses (Leighton)
Psalms 98, 99, 100, 101 (Walmisley, Cross, Whitlock, Attwood) First Lesson: Judges 7 Canticles: Howells in G
Second Lesson: Luke 11, w 14-28
Anthem: Give unto the Lord (Elgar)
Hymn: You living Christ (Palace Green) Organ Voluntary: Sonata in C, 1st mvt (Whitlock)
Organist and master of the choristers David Flood. Assistant organist Michael Harris.
Performing Arts Schools
Tommy Pearson visits the Bhavan
Institute for Indian Art and Culture in London.
With Anthony Burton , including Britten Hymn to St Cecilia The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers
6.13 Mozart Piano Sonata in D, K284
Christian Zacharias (piano)
6.30 Martinu Oboe Concerto
Heinz Holliger (oboe). Academy of St Martin, conductor Neville Marriner Producer Patrick Lambert
Conductor Grant Llewellyn , John Lill (piano)
Alun Hoddinott Lanteme des morts
Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor
Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)
Four investigations into the current identity of the English. 3: Threadbare England
Visions of England from the political left: what's happened to the common decencies of George Orwell 's
England? And what remains after the privatisation of our civic culture? Patrick Wright tries to make a call from a red telephone box.
Final programme tomorrow 9.15pm
Keith Puddy (clarinet), Hugh Bean (violin), Lionel Handy (cello),
Shelagh Sutherland (piano) Hindemith Quartet
David Attenborough talks to Iain Burnside about the kind of songs he takes to keep him company on his travels to the remotest corners of the earth.
A big story breaks and needs a picture - but what makes a French newspaper editor choose a picture his English colleague bins? Richard Coles discusses the values of international photojournalism as the World Press Photo exhibition arrives in Britain.
Plus, a first-night review of The Invisible Woman, Paul Godfrey 's comedy of manners inspired by the writings of Terence. Producer Helen Garrison
Exploring Weber's works through the comments of composers who have both loved and learnt from his music.
"If I'd never got to know Weber's music, I believe I'd never have become a musician."
(Richard Wagner )
Wagner's recollections introduce choral works and highlights from Der Freischutz, Preciosa and Euryanthe, plus a special new of the highly unusual cantata Der Erste Ton (The Birth of Sound). Repeated from last Wednesday
Steve Voce explores the baritone saxophone with Bames and Bames (Alan and John).
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Simon Standage and Agate Sapiocha (violins), II Tempo Ensemble. Including Purcell Suite: The Fairy
Queen, Z629 Locke Incidental music: The Tempest Corelli Concerto Grosso, Op 6 No 8 (Christmas Concerto)
Locatelli Concerto Grosso in C minor,
Op 1 No 2
2.30 CO of Europe/Nikolaus
Harnoncourt Schubert Gesang der
Geister iiber den Wassern; Mass No 5 in A flat, D678 with vocal soloists and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir
3.30 Goldner Quartet Webem
Langsamer Satz Butterley String Quartet No 4
Radulescu String Quartet No 6
Beethoven String Quartet in B flat, Op 130
5.00 Sequence
