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With Humphrey Carpenter , including Mozart Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat, K595
Emil Gilels , Vienna Philharmonic , conductor Karl Bohm
7.00 Suppe Overture: Light Cavalry BBC Philharmonic, conductor Edward Downes
7.25 Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor Libor Pesek
8.00 Praetorius Jubiliret Frohlich
Musica Fiata , director Roland Wilson
8.15 Brahms Academic Festival
Overture Dinu Lipatti (piano)
8.40 Bach Concerto in A minor, BWV1065
Bob van Asperen ,
Bernhard Klapprott , Carsten Lohff and Marcelo Bussi (harpsichords), Melante Amsterdam
Producer Mark Rowlinson

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter
Unknown:
Emil Gilels
Conductor:
Vienna Philharmonic
Conductor:
Karl Bohm
Conductor:
Edward Downes
Conductor:
Libor Pesek
Conductor:
Praetorius Jubiliret Frohlich
Conductor:
Musica Fiata
Director:
Roland Wilson
Unknown:
Bob van Asperen
Unknown:
Bernhard Klapprott
Unknown:
Carsten Lohff
Harpsichords:
Marcelo Bussi
Harpsichords:
Melante Amsterdam
Producer:
Mark Rowlinson

With Andrew McGregor , who plays some of the month's newest releases.
David Mellor reviews recordings of orchestral music by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Mahler.
10.00 Paul McCreesh is known for making recordings that set the music in specific liturgical, social and political contexts. He discusses his latest reconstruction, a Lutheran
Epiphany mass that features the music of Bach as it might have been heard in Leipzig during the 1740s. Radio 3 Disc of the Week:
Mozart String Quartet in A, K464 The Lindsays
11.00 Building a Library
Geoffrey Smith recommends a version of Gilbert and Sullivan's The
Mikado, followed by music by Lehar and Sondheim.
Producers Clive Portbury and Susan Kenyon WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview E-MAIL: cdreview@bbc.co.uk
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Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Unknown:
David Mellor
Unknown:
Paul McCreesh
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Producers:
Clive Portbury
Producers:
Susan Kenyon

Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is actor Clive Swift , best known to TV viewers for his role as Hyacinth Bucket's long-suffering husband
Richard in Keeping Up Appearances. He is equally renowned for many distinguished stage appearances with the Royal Shakespeare
Company and other major British companies, and for his roles in TV dramas from classic serials to
Heartbeat and Peak Practice. His musical choices range from brass bands to Berlioz, seasoned with a gourmet feast as prepared by Strauss. Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Clive Swift
Producer:
Wendy Thompson

The History of Deutsche Grammophon The last of six programmes in which Stephen Johnson celebrates the centenary of the Deutsche Grammophon record label.
Decline - and Fall? By 1979, DG's financial position was fragile: despite a fine catalogue, sales figures were poor. Salvation arrived in the shape of the CD - which curiously had the same diameter as Emile Berliner 's pioneering discs nearly a century earlier. With music by Brahms, Uadov and Ravel.
Producers Lyndon Jones and Martin Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Johnson
Unknown:
Emile Berliner
Producers:
Lyndon Jones
Producers:
Martin Smith

A Portrait of Jaco Pastorius
A series of programmes in which Charles Shaar Murray tells the remarkable story of bass player Jaco Pastorius. 3: A Remark You Made
Pastorius makes it to the big time.
Hired by Weather Report, his unique sound and stage presence result in a series of gold albums and sell-out world tours. But then his rapid rise to fame starts to take its toll on his personal life and his sanity. With contributions from Joe Zawinul ,
Pat Metheny , Wayne Shorter , Mike Stern and members of the Pastorius family. Repeated Friday 11.30pm
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Contributors

Unknown:
Jaco Pastorius
Unknown:
Charles Shaar Murray
Unknown:
Jaco Pastorius.
Unknown:
Joe Zawinul
Unknown:
Pat Metheny
Unknown:
Wayne Shorter
Unknown:
Mike Stern

Marco Polo
The UK premiere of Tan Dun 's opera within an opera, to a libretto by Paul Griffiths. It is an epic physical, spiritual and musical journey during which
Marco Polo explores exotic lands and travels from Italy to China and beyond. Tan Dun 's vivid score draws on sounds from the world of Peking opera and fuses them with western ones.
Introduced by Geoffrey Baskerville.
Royal Scottish Academy Chamber Chorus,
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the Composer

Contributors

Unknown:
Tan Dun
Unknown:
Paul Griffiths.
Unknown:
Marco Polo
Unknown:
Tan Dun
Introduced By:
Geoffrey Baskerville.
Polo:
Thomas Young(tenor)
Marco:
Laura Tucker(mezzo)
Water:
Susan Botti(soprano)
Kublai Khan:
Dong Jian-Gong(bass)
Rustichello:
Lian Qiang Xu(singer)
Dante:
Stephen Bryant(baritone)
Sheherazade:
Emily Golden(mezzo)

Three new plays by Andrew Rissik re-telling the story of events leading up to and following the fall of Troy, broadcast over this weekend.
With Paul Scofield as Hermes.

A second son is about to be born to the Trojan king Priam and his wife Hekabe. But the gods foretell only dissension and disaster if the child is permitted to live.
(The Death of Achilles, Andrew Rissik's second play, is broadcast tomorrow at 7.30pm)
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Contributors

Writer:
Andrew Rissik
Music:
Nick Russell Pavier
Music:
David Chilton
Director:
Jeremy Mortimer
Achilles:
Toby Stephens
Aegisthos:
James Hayes
Agamemnon:
Oliver Cotton
Anakreon:
Ian Hogg
Andromache:
Emma Fielding
Elektra:
Cassandra Sperry
Hekabe:
Deborah Findlay
Hektor:
Michael Maloney
Helen:
Geraldine Somerville
Hermes:
Paul Scofield
Klytemnestra:
Lindsay Duncan
Menelaos:
James Laurenson
Nikanor:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Oenone:
Abigail Docherty
Orestes:
Jean-Marc Perret
Paris:
Michael Sheen
Parmenion:
Saeed Jaffrey
Patroklos:
David Harewood
Priam:
Julian Glover
Thetis:
Eleanor Bron
Singer:
Mia Soteriou

Introduced by Nicola Heywood Thomas. Crusefl Clarinet Quartet in C minor, Op 4 Hilary Tann From the Song of the Amergin for Flute, Viola and Harp
Rebecca Clarke Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale for Clarinet and Viola
Ravel Introduction and Allegro for
Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet Repeat

Contributors

Introduced By:
Nicola Heywood Thomas.
Unknown:
Hilary Tann
Harp:
Rebecca Clarke

Michael Rosen introduces the latest reviews, performances and interviews from the world of poetry. This week, an interview with Scottish poet
Jackie Kay about her new collection. Off Colour: and recommendations for the book of the year. Producer Fiona McLean

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Rosen
Unknown:
Jackie Kay
Producer:
Fiona McLean

Tonight, a recording of Joseph Bowie 's big band at this summer's New York Jazz Festival, featuring guest appearances from saxophonists John Stubblefield and Oliver Lake. This week's feature looks at the avant-garde jazz of the late sixties. With the help of radical reedsman Archie Shepp and clarinettist Don Byron , James Maycock examines the part the music played in raising political consciousness and expressing black solidarity.
Producers Lyn Champion and Steve Shepherd

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Bowie
Unknown:
John Stubblefield
Unknown:
Oliver Lake.
Unknown:
Archie Shepp
Clarinettist:
Don Byron
Clarinettist:
James Maycock
Clarinettist:
Steve Shepherd

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Petersen Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 1 No 3 Mozart String Quartet in B flat, K589 Schubert String Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden)
2.10 Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G Quebec CO/Raffi Armenian
2.50 Lukas Foss Percussion
Concerto Robert Schulz , New
England Conservatoire Festival
Orchestra, conductor William Drury
3.35 Handel Concerto Grosso in A, Op 6 No 11
Tasmanian Symphony Chamber
Players, conductor Barbara Jane Gilby
4.10 Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor
Richard Raymond
4.40 Leonardo Leo Cello Concerto
No 6 in D minor Werner Matzke , Concerto Koln
5.10 Beethoven Piano Sonata in A flat. Op 110 llze Graubina
5.45 Bach Concerto in F minor,
BWV1056 Angela Hewitt (piano).
CBC Vancouver SO/Mario Bemardi

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Lukas Foss Percussion
Unknown:
Robert Schulz
Conductor:
William Drury
Conductor:
Barbara Jane Gilby
Unknown:
Richard Raymond
Cello:
Leonardo Leo
Unknown:
Werner Matzke
Piano:
Angela Hewitt

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