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With Andrew McGregor.
Beethoven Quartet Collection:
Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op 59 No 1 (Rasumovsky) Lindsay Quartet
6.47 MacCunn The Ship o' the Rend BBC Scottish SO, conductor Martyn Brabbins
7.05 Vivaldi Flute Concerto in G minor, RV439 (La Notte)
Patrick Gallois , Orpheus CO
7.41 Tchaikovsky Overture: Hamlet German SO, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
8.05 Alain Litanies
Christopher Herrick (organ)
8.31 Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)
German Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy Editor Andrew Lyle

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor.
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins
Unknown:
Patrick Gallois
Conductor:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Unknown:
Christopher Herrick
Conductor:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Editor:
Andrew Lyle

Catriona Young begins a brief season of Strauss concertos.
Tchaikovsky Marche Slave
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
9.11 Bach Sonata in E minor,
BWV1034
Bart Kuijken (flute), Wieland Kuijken
(cello), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
9.27 Strauss Violin Concerto
Xue-Wei,
LPO, conductor Jane Glover Producer Tony Cheevers Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Catriona Young
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Flute:
Bart Kuijken
Flute:
Wieland Kuijken
Cello:
Gustav Leonhardt
Conductor:
Jane Glover
Producer:
Tony Cheevers

With Chris Wines , who includes late
Mozart piano concertos and a tribute to the Beatles.
Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Brass of Aquitaine and London, director Richard Harvey
10.04 Mostel Beatles Suite
Aki Takahashi (piano)
10.15 Schumann Five Folk Songs, Op 102
Ulrich Heinen (cello), Frank Wibaut (piano)
10.33 Bach Preludes and Fugues: in E flat minor ("Well-tempered Clavier", Bk 1); in G ("48", Bk 2)
Richard Eggar (harpsichord)
10.48 Artist of the Week:
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 in A,
K488
ECO, conductor Jeffrey Tate
11.16 Maw Life Studies Nos 1, 6 and 7 Divertimenti, conductor Nicholas Cleobury
11.33 Copland Organ Symphony
E Power Biggs (organ), New York PO, conductor Leonard Bernstein
11.56 Lennon/McCartney, arr Monk-Feldman Michelle
Aki Takahashi (piano) Producer Chris Wines

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Wines
Director:
Richard Harvey
Piano:
Aki Takahashi
Cello:
Ulrich Heinen
Piano:
Frank Wibaut
Piano:
Bach Preludes
Harpsichord:
Richard Eggar
Piano:
Mitsuko Uchida
Conductor:
Jeffrey Tate
Conductor:
Nicholas Cleobury
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Unknown:
Feldman Michelle
Piano:
Aki Takahashi

(1822-1890)
Vintage and Nouveau
Richard Langham Smith explores old and new recordings and approaches to Franck's music.
Warlock, arr Tomlinson The Old Codger
Franck Symphonic Variations Alfred Cortot (piano),
LSO, conductor Landon Ronald
Redemption (Part 1)
Beatrice Uria-Monzon (mezzo),
David Holt (narrator), Orfeon Donostiarra Chorus, Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
Repeated next Monday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Langham Smith
Piano:
Alfred Cortot
Unknown:
Beatrice Uria-Monzon
Narrator:
David Holt
Narrator:
Orfeon Donostiarra
Conductor:
Michel Plasson

Listeners recall a moment from the Third Programme or Radio 3 that had a lasting significance for them. Today, George Steiner recalls student days in Oxford. Dressed to the nines, he and his friends passed their evenings with a radio tuned to the Third Programme. Producer Virginia Crompton
Next programme tomorrow 3.35pm

Contributors

Unknown:
George Steiner

Boje Skovhus
Two programmes in which the young
Danish baritone sings settings of texts by Heinrich Heine. In the first, lain
Burnside introduces songs by Brahms, Zemlinsky and the late-Romantic Danish composer Lange Muller. Repeated from last Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Heinrich Heine.
Unknown:
Lange Muller.

Although the violin is still considered to be something of a rarity in the field of jazz, it has made a contribution to every generation, from the days of minstrels to the 1990s. Russell Davies reflects on the history of the jazzin' violin.

The thirties saw the emergence of the Hot Club of France, featuring Stephane Grappelli.

Contributors

Presenter:
Russell Davies

With Andrew Green.
Schubert Die
Forelle Elly Ameling (soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
6.03 Bax PaeanLondon Philharmonic, conductor Bryden Thomson
6.30 Bach Prelude and Fugue in G,
BWV860 ("Well-tempered Clavier", Bk 1) Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
6.45 Arnold Flute Concerto No 2
Richard Adeney , Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor Ronald Thomas Producer Patrick Lambert
E-MAIL: intune@bh.bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Green.
Soprano:
Forelle Elly Ameling
Piano:
Rudolf Jansen
Conductor:
Bryden Thomson
Piano:
Sviatoslav Richter
Unknown:
Richard Adeney
Conductor:
Ronald Thomas
Producer:
Patrick Lambert

The second of three concerts this week recorded in the Royal Festival Hall, London, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. This programme recorded yesterday evening includes the mighty oratorio Belshazzar's Feast.
Margaret Feaviour (soprano), Thomas Allen (baritone), BBC Symphony Chorus, Philharmonia Chorus,
BBC Symphony Orchestra. conductor Andrew Davis
Walton Johannesburg Festival Overture Sohal Lila (BBC commission) Walton Belshazzar 's Feast Final concert Friday 7.30pm

Contributors

Soprano:
Margaret Feaviour
Baritone:
Thomas Allen
Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Unknown:
Walton Belshazzar

A week of specially commissioned new poems from five of the best voices in poetry today.
1: Three by Peter Reading.
Like Radio 3. Peter Reading is 50 this year. His poem is an elegy for those who have died since then, particularly the poets George Macbeth and Gavin Ewart.
Producer Tim Dee

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Reading.
Unknown:
George MacBeth
Unknown:
Gavin Ewart.
Producer:
Tim Dee

Penny Gore introduces a recital by pianist Steven Osborne.
Bach Partita No 1 in B flat, BWV825
Beethoven Sonata in D, Op 10 No 3 Producer Nigel Wilkinson
Repeated tomorrow 2.35pm

Contributors

Introduces:
Penny Gore
Pianist:
Steven Osborne.
Producer:
Nigel Wilkinson

Neil Gaiman's radio adaptation of his own award-winning graphic novel, with original music by Dave McKean translated from his own visual images in the novel. It is 999AD, the last day of the last month of the year. On the mountain top, the villagers wait for the end of the world. In London, 1,000 years later, a film-maker waits for his own world to end.
Other parts, ensemble playing and improvisation supplied by Colleen Prendergast, Robert Harper, Kim Wall, Alice Arnold, David Timson and Stephen Critchlow
Director Anne Edyvean

Contributors

Author/adapted by:
Neil Gaiman
Original music by:
Dave McKean
Director [credit]:
Anne Edyvean
Director [character]:
Warren Mitchell
Julia:
Elaine Pyke
Ianna:
Souad Faress
Other parts, ensemble playing and improvisation:
Colleen Prendergast
Other parts, ensemble playing and improvisation:
Robert Harper
Other parts, ensemble playing and improvisation:
Kim Wall
Other parts, ensemble playing and improvisation:
Alice Arnold
Other parts, ensemble playing and improvisation:
David Timson
Other parts, ensemble playing and improvisation:
Stephen Critchlow

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Copenhagen Early Music
Festival Musica Petropolitana play Italian Baroque instrumental music
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Box 3.15 Something to
Think About 3.30 The Song Tree 3.45 Stories and Rhymes 3.55 Together Stories 4.10 Singing Together 4.30 Hopscotch 4.45 Scottish Resources 7-9
5.00 Sequence

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.

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