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With Richard Osborne.
Handel Water Music (excerpts)
Tafelmusik, director Jeanne Lamon
7.25 Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished)
Bavarian RSO/Cario Maria Giulini
7.55 Ravel La Valse
Martha Argerich and Alexandre Rabinovitch (pianos)
8.08 Rodrigo Ballet: Pavana real (Act 3) Mexico State SO/Enrique Batiz
8.26 Schumann Violin Concerto in D minor
Joshua Bell (violin), Cleveland
Orchestra/Christoph von Dohnanyi

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Osborne.
Director:
Jeanne Lamon
Unknown:
Maria Giulini
Pianos:
Alexandre Rabinovitch

Edward Greenfield compares available recordings of Saint-Saens s Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ). Roderick Swanston reviews new releases of music by Bach, including The Musical Offering from Ensemble Sonnerie, The Art of Fugue performed by pianist Joanna MacGregor , the Schubler,
Leipzig and Kirnberger chorales from organist Christopher Herrick , and a disc of violin concertos played by Viktoria Mullova.
Revised repeat tomorrow at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Greenfield
Unknown:
Roderick Swanston
Pianist:
Joanna MacGregor
Organist:
Christopher Herrick
Played By:
Viktoria Mullova.

Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
Viktoria Mullova (violin), Mullova Ensemble
10.30 Bach Three Leipzig chorales:
0 Lamm Gottes unschuldig, BWV 656; An Wasserflussen Babylon, BWV 653; Herr Jesu Christ , dich zu uns wend.
BWV 655
Christopher Herrick (organ)
10.47 Bach Ricercar a 6 (The Musical Offering)
Wilbert Hazelzet (flute),
Monica Huggett (violin), Paul Goodwin (oboe da caccia), Pavlo Beznosiuk (tenor viola), Frances Eustace (bassoon),
Sarah Cunningham (viola da gamba)
10.56 Bach Concerto in D, BWV 1064
Winifried Rademacher,
Elisabeth Kufferath and Christine Pichlmeier
(violins), Cologne Chamber Orchestra, conductor Helmut Muller-Bruhl

Contributors

Unknown:
Lamm Gottes
Unknown:
Herr Jesu Christ
Unknown:
Christopher Herrick
Unknown:
Bach Ricercar
Flute:
Wilbert Hazelzet
Flute:
Monica Huggett
Violin:
Paul Goodwin
Tenor:
Pavlo Beznosiuk
Viola:
Frances Eustace
Viola:
Sarah Cunningham
Unknown:
Elisabeth Kufferath
Violins:
Christine Pichlmeier
Conductor:
Helmut Muller-Bruhl

Patrick O'Connor revisits some classic opera recordings from the 1930s, including Puccini's Tosca with Maria
Caniglia (soprano) and Beniamino Gigli (tenor), Verdi's Rigoletto with Riccardo Stracciari (baritone) and Mercedes Capsir (soprano), a Toscanini performance of Mozart's Die
Zauberflote at the 1937 Salzburg Festival, and an extended excerpt from Bellini's Norma with Gina Cigna (soprano) and Ebe Stignani (mezzo). Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert Discs
E-MAIL: record.review@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick O'Connor
Tenor:
Beniamino Gigli
Baritone:
Riccardo Stracciari
Unknown:
Ebe Stignani
Producers:
Clive Portbury
Producers:
Patrick Lambert

The weekend's hosts - Jamie Bernstein-Thomas
, Humphrey Burton , Geoffrey Smith and Robert Ziegler - introduce orchestral concerts, chamber music, features and jazz, and sample the delights of the Tanglewood campus, which every year attracts major international artists, students, and audiences of thousands.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jamie Bernstein-Thomas
Unknown:
Humphrey Burton
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Robert Ziegler

The Boston Symphony Orchestra's recorded history is one of the world's largest and richest. Stretching back to 1917, it reflects the cosmopolitan diversity of its unparalleled succession of great music directors. Humphrey Burton surveys the orchestra's achievements on disc, including excerpts from
Wagner Lohengrin
Conductor Karl Muck
Copland El salon Mexico
Conductor Serge Koussevitzky Debussy Nocturnes
Conductor Pierre Monteux
Berlioz Romeo et Juliette
Conductor Charles Munch
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Conductor Erich Leinsdorf
Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Schubert Symphony No 9 in C (Great) Conductor William Steinberg Mahler Symphony No 8
(Symphony of a Thousand) Conductor Seiji Ozawa Discs

Contributors

Directors:
Humphrey Burton
Conductor:
Karl Muck
Conductor:
Serge Koussevitzky
Conductor:
Pierre Monteux
Conductor:
Berlioz Romeo
Conductor:
Charles Munch
Conductor:
Erich Leinsdorf
Conductor:
William Steinberg
Conductor:
Seiji Ozawa

The summer school at Tanglewood encourages student musicians to go beyond good technique and allow the music into their performance. Robert Ziegler visits masterclasses and talks to musicians and coaches including
Joel Krosnick and Joel Smimoff of the Juilliard Quartet, soprano
Phyllis Curtin , conductor Robert Spano and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Ziegler
Unknown:
Joel Krosnick
Unknown:
Joel Smimoff
Soprano:
Phyllis Curtin
Conductor:
Robert Spano

Geoffrey Smith introduces records chosen by some of the musicians taking part in the concerts at
Tanglewood, including Andre Previn ,
William Bolcom , Leon Fleisher and Peter Serkin , who asked for tracks by Art Tatum , Jimmy Yancey , Mel Tormé and Buell Neidlinger. Discs
ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests. BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Fax: (0171) [number removed]

Contributors

Introduces:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Andre Previn
Unknown:
William Bolcom
Unknown:
Leon Fleisher
Unknown:
Peter Serkin
Unknown:
Art Tatum
Unknown:
Jimmy Yancey
Unknown:
Buell Neidlinger.

Humphrey Burton goes behind the scenes of this year's anniversary production of Britten's Peter Grimes , meets the architect of the Seiji Ozawa Hall, and investigates what distinguishes Tanglewood from the other music festivals in the USA.

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Burton
Unknown:
Peter Grimes
Unknown:
Seiji Ozawa

Gilbert Kalish (piano), Benita Valente (soprano), Boston Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players, conductor Richard Westerfield
Stravinsky Ragtime
Falla Psyche for voice, flute, harp and string trio
Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor;
C'est l'extase langoureuse; II pleure dans mon coeur; Cheveaux de bois
(Ariettes oubliees)
Falla Suite: El corregidor y la molinera

Contributors

Piano:
Gilbert Kalish
Piano:
Benita Valente
Conductor:
Richard Westerfield

Conductor Seiji Ozawa , John Browning (piano). Yesterday's main evening concert, featuring one of the peaks of the orchestral repertoire. After the concerto, Brian Bell - hom player and music producer at WGBH Boston - presents a whistle-stop tour of the Alpine Symphony.
William Bolcom Fanfare: MCMXC
Tanglewood
Barber Piano Concerto
Strauss An Alpine Symphony

Contributors

Conductor:
Seiji Ozawa
Piano:
John Browning
Unknown:
William Bolcom

Pianist John Lewis is joined in Lenox Town Hall by Marc Johnson (bass) and Albert "Tootie" Heath (drums). In 1957, John Lewis helped to found the innovative Lenox School of Jazz, the first of its kind in the world. The faculty included Dizzy Gillespie , Gunther Schuller ,
Milt Jackson , Jimmy Giuffre , George Russell and Oscar Peterson. In the interval, Geoffrey Smith talks to John Lewis and others about the formation of the school and about the considerable impact it had on the teaching of jazz, although it ran for only four summers.

Contributors

Pianist:
John Lewis
Unknown:
Lenox Town Hall
Bass:
Marc Johnson
Bass:
Albert "tootie" Heath
Unknown:
John Lewis
Unknown:
Dizzy Gillespie
Unknown:
Gunther Schuller
Unknown:
Milt Jackson
Unknown:
Jimmy Giuffre
Unknown:
George Russell
Unknown:
Oscar Peterson.
Talks:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
John Lewis

With Donald Macleod.
1.10 Swedish Radio Jazz Group
3.30 Saar Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Manfred Honeck Weber
Overture: Oberon Schumann Piano
Concerto in A minor Dan Grigore
(piano) Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish)
5.00 Sequence

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Conductor:
Manfred Honeck Weber
Piano:
Dan Grigore

BBC Radio 3

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