With Edward Seckerson.
Gliere Harp Concerto
Rachel Masters, City of London
Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
7.15 Haydn Symphony No 65 in A Philharmonia Hungarica, conductor Antal Dorati
7.45 Albeniz, arr Godowsky Tango,
Op 165 No 2 Shura Cherkassky (piano)
8.40 Harty With the Wild Geese Ulster Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson Producer Edwina Wolstencroft
With Andrew McGregor , who introduces some of this month's new releases.
Peter Paul Nash reviews new CDs of chamber music by Beethoven, Brahms, Britten and Messiaen.
10.00 An interview with pianist Graham Johnson.
Radio 3 Disc of of the Week:
Handel Rodrigo (excerpt)
II Complesso Barocco, director Alan Curtis
11.00 Building a Library lain Burnside recommends a version of Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor. Producers Clive Portbury and Andrew Lyle WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview DISC DETAILS: call [number removed]0300 or consult CEEFAX on BBC1, page 651
Michael Berkeley 's guest is the food and wine writer Paul Levy , who is also the European arts correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. As a great opera lover, he chooses excerpts from operas by Tchaikovsky and Mozart but his wide-ranging musical enthusiasms also extend from a Bach cantata, a Schumann song and the first movement of Berg's Violin Concerto to Bryan Ferry singing
These Foolish Things and a 1937 recording by the Andrews Sisters. Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm
Stephanie Hughes presents another concert in the BBC Wigmore Hall camber series. The Prazak Quartet.
Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 20 No 4 Suk Meditation on an Old Czech
Hymn (St Wenceslas)
Smetana String Quartet No 1 in E minor (From My Life) Repeated from Monday
With Humphrey Carpenter, including:
Schumann, arr Liszt Widmung - Evgeny Kissin (piano)
Lutoslawski Five Melodies for String Orchestra - Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, conductor Juha Kangas
Vaughan Williams Violin Concerto in D minor (Concerto Accademico) - London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson
Purcell Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary - King's Consort, director Robert King
Sessions From My Diary (1937-40) - Barry David Salwen (piano)
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Michael White selects the highlights of the past week on Radio 3. Producer Lindsay Pell
Geoffrey Smith presents more listeners' requests for jazz favourites. Producer Felix Carey
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SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Russell Davies continues his history of jazz.
28: Parker's Mood
Despite his self-destructive habits and early death, the great alto saxophonist Charlie Parker was to have a more profound influence on the history of jazz than anyone since Louis Armstrong 20 years earlier. Producer David Perry
Repeated Friday 11.30pm
1999 Cheltenham Festival
The BBC Symphony Orchestra, performing in Cheltenham
Town Hall, contrasts the clean classical lines of the 18th century in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto - played on the instrument for which it was originally intended, the basset clarinet - with the late 20th century, represented by Mark-Anthony Turnage 's jazzy, rhythmic Momentum, and with Elgar's lyrical Symphony No 2.
Michael Collins (basset clarinet), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Mark-Anthony Turnage Momentum Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622
8.10 Gossip from Giggleswick
Of Edward Elgar 's friends, Charles William Buck , a Yorkshire doctor, was one of his closest and most influential. For 50 years he shared the composer's disappointments and rejoiced in his triumphs. Using the rich legacy of their correspondence, Kenneth Shenton explores a friendship which thrived as much on their mutual love of the great outdoors as it did on their love of music, with composer and doctor both revelling in gossip from Giggleswick. Repeat
8.30 Elgar Symphony No 2 in E flat
Novelist Colm Toibin opens a window on the world through books. Writing from other countries takes us to the heart of other cultures and shows the forces which shape other people's lives. This evening's programme explores Russian poets writing in the shadow of Pushkin; the 14th-century Persian poet whose book can be found in your hotel room; the Belgian novelist who questions his country's very identity; and why people do not read books in Cambodia.
Producer Miriam Newman
Skies Now Are Skies
Martyn Hill (tenor), Coull Quartet Repeat
Robert Sandall and Mark Russell present a unique mix of musical styles. Producer Philip Tagney
With Jez Nelson. A graduate of Berklee College, saxophonist
Joe Lovano hit New York in the mid-70s to work with the likes of Lonnie
Liston Smith, Woody Herman, Paul Motian and John Scofield. He has recorded seven albums for Blue Note since his acclaimed 1990 debut album Landmarks. He was recorded at Ronnie Scott 's club in London with a heavyweight rhythm section of Iris Muhammed on drums and Cameron
Brown on bass.
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With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 La Scala Philharmonic, conductor
Riccardo Chailly Varese lonisation
Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Stravinsky Scherzo a la Russe; Firebird (1945 version)
2.20 Tobias Sonatina No 1 in A flat
Vardo Rumessen (piano)
2.30 CPE Bach flute Concerto No 3 in A Robert Aitken , CBC Vancouver
Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi
2.50 Brahms Immer Leiser Wird
Mein Schlummer, Op 105 No 2
Urszula Kryger (mezzo), Katarzyna Jankowska (piano)
2.54 Franco Tanodl Knot
Joze Haluza (violin),
Varazdin Chamber Orchestra
3.00 Mahler Symphony No 3
Larissa Diadkova (contralto), Elburg City Boys Choir, Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Edo de Waart
4.45 Hindemith Harp Sonata Rita Constanzi
5.00 Bottesini Grand Duo Concertante
Franco Petracchi (double bass), I Virtuosi di Santa Cecilia/Salvatore Accardo (violin)
5.10 Reicha Trio, Op 82 Jozef Illes ,
Jaroslan Snobl and Jan Budzak (horns)
5.25 Bartok Five Songs, Op 16 Lucienne van Deyck (mezzo),
Belgian Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Fernand Terby
5.40 Eccles Sonata for Double Bass,
Continuo and Strings Joel Quarrington (double bass), Toronto Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Timothy Vernon
5.50 Verdi Patria Oppressa
(Macbeth) Hungarian Radio Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Tamas Pal
