With Andrew McGregor.
Beethoven Quartet Collection:
Beethoven String Quartet in C, Op 59 No 3 (Rasumovsky) Italian Quartet
6.45 Wagner Overture: Tannhauser New Queen's Hall Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth
7.05 Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
7.32 Harty Variations on a Dublin Air Ralph Holmes (violin), Ulster Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson
8.05 Boccherinl Symphony No 8 in E flat, Op 35 No 2
London Festival Orchestra, conductor Ross Pople
8.18 Strauss Aus Italien
Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
With Catriona Young.
Handel Sonata in G minor, Op 1 No 2 Michala Petri (treble recorder), George Malcolm (harpsichord)
9.07 Berlioz La Mort de Sardanapale Daniel Galvez Vallejo (tenor),
Choeur Regional Nord, Pas de Calais, Lille National Orchestra, conductor Jean-Claude Casadesus
9.13 Strauss Don Quixote Jacqueline du Pre (cello), Herbert Downes (viola), New Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult Discs
With Chris Wines.
Sweelinck Ballo del Granduca Bob Van Asperen (harpsichord)
10.05 Copland Dance Symphony Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conductor Antal Dorati
10.24 Gay The Beggar's Opera (excerpts)
The Broadside Band, director Jeremy Barlow
10.32 C P E Bach Trio Sonata in B flat, Wql58
London Baroque
10.46 Artist of the Week:
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 26 in D
(Coronation)
ECO, conductor Jeffrey Tate
11.30 Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 5 No 2
Ulrich Heinen , Frank Wibaut (piano)
Richard Langham Smith talks to Gillian Weir about Franck's organ music. Chorale No 1 in E
Gillian Weir (organ)
Symphony in D minor Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Willem Mengelberg Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm
The first of four programmes in which Patrick O'Connor talks to different protagonists of the art of bel canto about great exponents of the singing style past and present, dipping into nearly 100 years of recordings. His guest today is Richard Bonynge , whose choice includes Caruso, Callas, Caballe and his wife Joan Sutherland.
Repeat
Martin Souter (organ)
Schoenberg Variations on a Recitative, Op 40
Reger Benedictus, Op 59 No 9;
Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme, Op 73
Sonata in G, BWV1039
Jean-Pierre Rampal and Alain Marion (flutes),
Robert Veyron-Lacroix (harpsichord), Jordi Savall (viola da gamba) Disc
Listeners recall moments of lasting significance from the Third Programme or Radio 3. Today, poet Dannie Abse remembers the impact the Third Programme made on him.
Next programme Saturday 10.25pm
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Mark Wigglesworth , Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
Johann Strauss (son) Emperor Waltz Berg Violin Concerto
Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht Ravel La Valse
Tuning
Tommy Pearson investigates unconventional tunings.
From London's Tate Gallery with Natalie Wheen , a special programme including interviews with this year's winners of the Prudential Awards for the Arts. Producer Andrew Lyle
From St Giles's, Cripplegate, London, the second in a four-part series of invitation concerts devised by successive Radio 3 controllers.
2: Nicholas Kenyon (1992-)
Nicholas Kenyon has chosen a mixed programme spanning 600 years of music history and connected by the musical device of the canon.
BBC Singers,
Kevin Bowyer (organ), Hilliard Ensemble, conductor Stefan Parkman
Ockeghem Missa Prolationum (Kyrie; Gloria)
Bach Canonic Variations on "Von Himmel Hoch ", BWV769
Ockeghem Missa Prolationum (Credo)
Bach The Art of Fugue, BWV1080 (excerpts)
Brahms Missa Canonica
Machaut Ma Fin Est Mon
Commencement
A week of specially commissioned new poems from five of the best voices in poetry today.
4: The Knowing by Sharon Olds.
Sharon Olds is one of the best poets in the United States today, and her sequence of poems is both epic and domestic, recalling her life from her childhood - with a terrifying, abusive father - to her own marriage and children.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk , Peter Lawson (piano)
Walton Overture: Portsmouth Point
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No I
Copland Four Dances from "Rodeo"
George Pratt introduces the sixth of seven programmes from the 1996 York Early Music Festival, a performance recorded last July at the Church of Saint Michael-le-Belfry. Julie Kennard (soprano),
Catherine Denley (contralto), Martyn Hill (tenor),
Michael George (bass),
Yorkshire Bach Choir and Baroque Soloists, director Peter Seymour
Haydn Mass in B flat (Theresienmesse) Producer Mark Rowlinson
Repeated tomorrow 2.15pm
Acclaimed playwright Harold Pinter talks to his biographer
Michael Billington in an interview recorded at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, and Patrick Wright discusses the continuing chasm between eastern and western Europe with Croatian journalist Slavenka Drakulic. Producer Robyn Read
With Paul Kildea.
Vivace - Nationalism
"This describes the discovery that I could treat national elements in music."
String Quartet No 1 in E minor (From My Life, 4th mvt) Amadeus Quartet
Festival Overture in D
Slovak RSO, conductor Robert Stankovsky Ceska Pisen
BBC Singers,
Stephen Betteridge (piano), conductor Ronald Corp Haakon Jarl
Bavarian RSO , conductor Rafael Kubelik
Macbeth and the Witches
Frantisek Rauch (piano) Repeated from last Thursday
Steve Voce talks to festival directors
George Wein and Ernie Garside about the perils and joys of the job.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Choral Evensong from Rochester Cathedral
Repeated from yesterday 4.00pm
2.00 Prague RSO, conductor
Lutz Herbig Sibelius Finlandia Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral)
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Workshop 3.20 Let's Move 3.40 Words Alive 3.55 First
Steps in Drama 4.10 Drama Workshop 4.30 Infant History
4.40 Standard Grade English
5.00 Sequence
