With Humphrey Carpenter , including Handel Rodrigo : Suite in B flat Parley of Instruments, director Peter Holman
6.42 Bax In the Faery Hills Ulster
Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson
7.48 Mozart Rondo in D, K382 English Chamber Orchestra, director Murray Perahia (piano)
8.03 Suppe Overture: Beautiful Galatea Montreal SO, conductor Charles Dutoit
8.24 Chopin Grand Valse Brillante , Op 18
Murray Perahia (piano)
8.46 Strauss, an Emerson Festmusik der Stadt Wien Locke Brass Consort, director James Stobart
Producer Paul Hindmarsh
With Andrew McGregor , who introduces some of the month's newest releases. Michael White reviews new recordings of orchestral music by Bartok, Britten, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Gershwin.
10.00 Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu are cornering the market in operatic lovers. They discuss their Verdi duets album and future projects. Radio 3 Disc of the Week:
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker (excerpt) Kirov Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev
11.00 Building a Library
Brian Kay recommends a version of Handel's Messiah.
Producers Clive Portbury and Susan Kenyon WEBSITE: vww.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview E-MAIL: cdreview@bbc.co.uk
DISC DETAILS: call [number removed] or consult CEEFAX on BBC1, page 651
Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is Armando lannucci, star of BBC2's Friday and Saturday Night Armistice and the recent satirical documentary Clinton: His Stuggle with Dirt. His musical passions include a Bach sonata for solo violin, Nielsen's
Symphony No 5, Berg's elegiac Violin Concerto and music by Tippett, John Adams and the composer who calls himself PDQ Bach.
Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm
Donald Macleod introduces a performance by members of the Nash Ensemble of Messiaen's searing masterpiece composed in a prisoner-of-war camp.
Antony Pay (clarinet), Leo Phillips (violin), Paul Watkins (cello), Ian Brown (piano) Messlaen Quartet for the End of Time Repeated from Monday
Michael White picks some highlights from Radio 3's schedule over the last week.
Producer Svend Brown
Camerata Scotland
A four-part series showcasing some of the world's best young orchestras. In this second programme, Kirsteen McCue introduces a concert given in August by the chamber orchestra of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland. The concert was recorded on the orchestra's home turf - at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. Camerata Scotland, conductor William Conway
Shostakovich, arr Barshal Symphony for Strings and Wind, Op 73a James MacMillan Tryst Producer David McGuinness
Natalie Wheen presents the second of four masterciasses. For this programme, Radio 3 travelled to Baden earlier in the autumn to record the celebrated French soprano Regine Crespin passing on her lifetime's experience to a younger generation of aspiring singers. Her masterclass was to students from European Union Opera, who are really put through their paces by this most exacting of perfectionists as they try to come to terms with the elusive art form that is French song.
With Geoffrey Smith.
Producer Derek Drescher Discs
ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests. BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London, W1A 4WW
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Billy Strayhorn 's reputation is merely that of Duke Ellington's amanuensis - his writing and arranging partner - but this does not do justice to one of the great jazz composers and arrangers. He was an extraordinarily complex man who created songs such as Take the A Train, Chelsea Bridge and Lush Life. He was the other half of Ellington's musical self but in contrast to Ellington - who was immodest, ostentatiously heterosexual and egocentric -
Strayhorn was shy, gay and self-effacing. In the first of three programmes, his biographer David Hajdu explores his life and music, from his early career in Pittsburgh to the climax of his first period with Ellington.
Producer Dave Batchelor
Live from the Met: Carmen
In Bizet's opera, based on the novel by Prosper
Merimee, a young soldier called Don Jose is manipulated by a beautiful and wilful gypsy girl who involves him in a life of crime and inflames his murderous jealousy. The opera is set in the streets and taverns of Seville and the hills of Andalusia, and its strongly coloured background of bullfighting, smuggling, knife-fighting and flamenco dancing still makes it one of the most popular operas ever written.
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor David Robertson
Act
7.25 New York Stories
Throughout the century, the bright lights of New York have attracted some of the world's finest writers, and our own time is no exception. In a nine-part interval series of specially commisioned works for Radio 3, novelists, essayists and playwrights who have moved to New York present portraits of the city through fiction and non-fiction.
Part 2.
7.55 Act 2
8.30 The Met Opera Quiz
William Livingstone puts listeners' questions to Cori Ellison , George Jellinek and Brian Zeger.
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9.00 Acts 3 and 4 BROADCAST GUIDE: For a free copy of the Met Broadcast Guide, send an 14 x 25cm sae to [address removed]
Concluding the series in which
Michael Rosen introduces the latest reviews, performances and interviews from the world of poetry. This week, he talks to Australian poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe . Producer Fiona McLean
Kate Gould (cello), Viv McLean (piano)
Martlnu Variations on a Theme of Rossini
Brahms Cello Sonata No 2 in F, Op 99
Tonight, a concert given in July at the Barbican Centre, London, by the McCoy Tyner Latin All Stars. With a career spanning 40 years, pianist McCoy Tyner remains one of the most distinctive forces in jazz thanks to his powerful improvisations. He is most acclaimed for his crucial contribution to John Coltrane 's seminal sixties quartet but went on to become a distinguished leader, receiving critical and popular acclaim for albums such as Inception, The
Real McCoy and Soliloquy. His power and creativity are inspirational, and he appears here with soloists Steve Turre (trombone), Gary Bartz (sax),
Claudio Roditti (trumpet), Aaron Scott (drums) and Avery Sharp (bass), plus some of New York's best Latin percussionists - Johnny Martin (timbales) and Giovanni Hildago (congas).
Producers Lyn Champion and Steve Shepherd
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Bach Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 - Caterine Calvi and Elisabeth Scholl (sopranos), Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Werner van Mechelen (baritone), La Petite Bande Chorus and Orchestra, director Sigiswald Kuijken
3.30 Liszt Annees de Pelerinage (Switzerland) - Matti Raekallio (piano)
4.30 Debussy Jeux Saarbrucken - Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Hans Zender
5.05 Haydn Trio in A, Op 71 No 1 - Ensemble of the Classic Era
5.30 Donizetti Grande Offertorio - Aart Bergwerff (organ)
5.40 Aarre Merikanto Largo Misterioso - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leif Segerstam
5.50 Durante Concerto No 7 in C - Concerto Koln
