Edward Seckerson presents music for Saturday morning.
Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 33 No 5 (How Do You Do?) Coull Quartet
6.30 Bach English Suite No 4 in F, BWV809 Andras Schiff (piano)
7.29 Schubert Symphony No 3 in D Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado
8.15 Vivaldi Trio Sonata in C, RV82
Parley of Instruments, Paul O'Dette (lute), director Roy Goodman
8.42 Pearsall Lay a Garland Oxford Camerata, conductor Jeremy Summerly Producer Vanessa Nuttall
With Andrew McGregor , who introduces some of the month's newest releases. Geoffrey Smith reviews new releases of Latin
American and jazz piano music, including numbers by Scott Joplin , Zez Confrey , Ernesto Lecuona and Astor Piazzolla.
10.00 Soprano Barbara Bonney discusses her new recording of Strauss lieder including the Four Last Songs. Radio 3 disc of the Week:
Brahms Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108 Maxim Vengerov ,
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
11.00 Building a Library
Chris de Souza recommends a version of Poulenc's Concerto for
Organ, Strings and Timpani.
Producers Clive Portbury and Susan Kenyon WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview E-MAIL: [address removed]
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Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is Indian novelist Vikram Seth , author of the acclaimed bestseller
A Suitable Boy. The hero of Seth's latest novel, An Equal Music, is a member of a string quartet, and the author himself has written the libretto for Alec Roth 's opera Arion and the Dolphin, a short excerpt from which features in his Private
Passions selection. His fascinating and varied choices also include songs by Schubert and the Beach
Boys, instrumental works by Vivaldi, Bach and Weber, and a duet between a nightingale and a muntjac recorded in a Warwickshire wood.
Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm
Thomas Allen (baritone),
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Haydn Sailor's Song; Recollection; She Never Told Her Love; Piercing
Eyes; Content (Original Canzonettas) Beethoven An die Feme Geliebte , Op 98
Wolf Harfenspieler Lieder ; Anakreons Grab (Goethe Lieder); Fussreise; Der Gartner; Abschied (Morike Lieder) Repeated from Monday
Humphrey Carpenter introduces music requested by listeners. This week's choices include:
Telemann Overture in C (Water Music) Musica Antiqua Koln , director Reinhard Goebel
Maxwell Davies Lullabye for Lucy BBC Singers, conductor Simon Joly Liszt La Campanella (Grand Etudes de Paganini)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Producer Christina Pritchard
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Michael White picks some highlights from Radio 3's schedule over the last week.
Producer Svend Brown
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of jazz tracks requested by listeners around the country.
Producer Derek Drescher Discs
ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3. Broadcasting House, London, W1A 4WW
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SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Russell Davies presents a history of jazz, from its earliest stirrings to the end of the millennium.
15: The Rise of the Jazz Singers. The most significant vocalists in early jazz were Louis Armstrong and the great Bessie Smith , and their influence on singing styles in general was profound: even the young Bing Crosby investigated genuine jazz phrasing. At the same time, Duke
Ellington's vocalist Adelaide Hall was bringing some of the sophistication of Broadway to jazz singing. Producer David Perry
Repeated Friday 11.30pm
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
A series in which former Radio 3 controller John Drummond takes a critical look at the state of opera in Britain since 1945.
2: Beyond London. Conversations with the key figures involved in the establishment and consolidation of Britain's regional opera companies in Cardiff, Glasgow and Leeds.
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a unique mix of musical styles and influences. In the first of two special features on the recording industry, they visit Red Snapper in a London studio to investigate the process of recording their new album. Producer Philip Tagney
Tonight, a concert recorded in London featuring an adventurous set of modern standards from prodigious keyboard player Geoff Keezer and the rest of his innovative trio - Gary Husband on drums and James
Genus on bass. By the age of 18, Keezer had released his first LP and become one of the last of Art
Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Keezer's eclectic interests, spanning classical, jazz and world music, shine through this recording, which also showcases his formidable talents as a composer.
This week's feature profiles
Randy Weston , one of the first contemporary jazz musicians to take jazz back to its African roots. After extended stays in Nigeria in the early sixities the pianist-composer lived in Morocco for five years and has been exploring the music and spiritual values of the African continent ever since.
Producers Lyn Champion and Steve Shepherd E-MAIL: [address removed]
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Italian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Roberto Abbado
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Busoni Suite: Turandot
Stravinsky Ballet music: The Firebird
2.40 Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues (selection)
3.05 Handel Flondante (Act 2, excerpts)
3.35 Beethoven Violin Sonata in G, Op 30 No 3
4.05 Dohnanyi Ruralia Hungarica
4.35 Weiss Suite No 21 in G minor
5.05 Schubert Variations in E minor,
D802
5.15 Frescobaldi Canzona Quinta e Seconda detta la Bernardina
5.30 Schoeck, arr Delfs Suite: Penthesilea
