Edward Seckerson with a selection of music and arts news for Saturday morning.
6.25 Glinka Grand Sextet in E flat
Capricorn
7.10 Chopin Ballade No 3 in A flat, Op 47
Claudio Arrau (piano)
8.40 Sibelius Karelia Suite
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
Editor Edwina Wolstencroft

With Andrew McGregor , who introduces some of the month's newest releases. David Huckvale reviews new orchestral releases, including works by Tchaikovsky and Respighi and a disc of Stokowski's Wagner arrangements.
10.00 Conductor Neville Marriner , who has just celebrated his 75th birthday, looks back over his prolific recording career.
Radio 3 Disc of the Week:
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G
Alfred Brendel , Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Simon Rattle
11.00 Building a Library
Patrick O'Connor recommends a version of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier.
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 philosopher Jonathan Ree , whose latest book, I See a Voice, challenges conventional perceptions of hearing and deafness. The sound of the human voice is a central theme running through his musical choices, which include songs by Schubert, Wolf and the 18th-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; excerpts from operas by Mozart and Janacek; chamber music by Schubert and Reicha; and an amusing partsong by the prewar
Berlin group the Comedian Harmonists. Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

Introduced by Stephanie Hughes. Angela Hewitt (piano)
Bach Goldberg Variations Repeated from Monday

Humphrey Carpenter introduces music requested by listeners. This week's choices include:
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 4 in G
London Philharmonic, conductor Adrian Boult
Brahms Violin Sonata No 1 in G, Op 78
Arthur Grumiaux ,
Gyorgy Sebok (piano)
Pizzetti Requiem Mass
Westminster Cathedral Choir, director James O'Donnell Producer Christina Pritchard WRITE TO: Listeners ' Choice, BBC Birmingham, B5 7QQ PHONE: [number removed]
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Michael White picks some highlights from Radio 3's schedule over the last week.
Producer Svend Brown

With Geoffrey Smith. Producer Felix Carey
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SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Russell Davies presents a history of jazz, from its earliest stirrings to the end of the millennium.
16: Rhythm Is Our Business. Russell Davies reaches the early thirties, a time when the big bands were just starting to gravitate towards swing. It was in 1932 that Duke Ellington recorded It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing, but it was
Fletcher Henderson 's Honeysuckle Rose, recorded in the same year, that definitively displayed the pantherish, forward-leaning quality of the new guitar and string bass rhythm section on which swing was built. Other key figures who helped the idea of swing to take off were Jimmy Lunceford and Benny Moten , in whose Kansas City Orchestra featured a young pianist called Count Basie.
Producer David Perry. Repeated Friday 11.30pm

Live from the Met: Giulio Cesare
In one of Handel's most successful and dramatic operas, set in Egypt in 48BC,
Cleopatra tries to wrest the throne from her brother Ptolemy and win the love of Julius Caesar. Giulio Cesare 's score places importance upon the solo arias. The role of Cleopatra is one of the composer's greatest creations for the female voice. Her aria, Se Pieta di Me Non Sento in the second act. in which she displays her desire for revenge and her longings for the love of Julius Caesar , is charged with emotion. This marks the end of the current season of Live from the Met relays.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, conductor John Nelson
Act
7.50 New York Stories
Continuing the series in which novelists, essayists and playwrights who have moved to New York present portraits of the city through fiction and non-fiction. Irish novelist
Colum McCann finds a metaphor for the big city in the small space of the handball court.
8.20 Act 2
9.10 The Met Opera Quiz
Martin Bernheimer puts listeners' questions to Alison Ames , Steven Blier and Brian Zeger.
9.35 Act 3
Texaco sponsors the Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network, which is broadcast on Radio 3 through the EBU.

A series in which former Radio 3 controller John Drummond takes a critical look at the state of opera in Britain since 1945.
3: The Creative Elements. A look at opera from the point of view of a composer (Harrison Birtwistle), a director (David Pountney ), and a conductor (Paul Daniel ).

In the second of two special features on the recording industry, Robert Sandall and Mark Russell visit
Sheffield to trace the ten-year history of one of Britain's most innovative and creative labels, Warp Records - home of such maverick artists as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

Tonight's concert features Sex Mob, recorded at last week's Cheltenham
Festival. Sex Mob cut their teeth at
Knitting Factory, the New York club synonymous with musical innovation and experimentation. Their aim is to "bring the sexy thing back into instrumental music", and with their unique take on tunes like Goldfinger or Macarena their method is to lull the audience with a glimpse of the familiar before stretching out in deeply twisted and funky interpretations. Sex Mob are Steven Bernstein on slide trumpet, Briggan Krauss on alto sax, Tony Scherr on acoustic bass, and Kenny Wollesen on drums.
This week's landmark recording is Arthur Blythe 's Lenox Avenue
Breakdown. Twenty years after the release of this innovative album, saxophonist Arthur Blythe reflects on a session that marked a breakthrough for him as leader. Plus a feature on young British quartet Denys Baptiste on the eve of the release of Be Here
Now, their debut album.
Producers Lyn Champion and Steve Shepherd E-MAIL: [address removed] PHONE: [number removed] for more information