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With Edward Seckerson, including:

6.06 Liszt Orpheus - Vienna PO, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli

6.19 Chopin Ballade No 3 in A flat, Op 47 - Evgeny Kissin (piano)

7.12 Kodaly Dances of Marosszek - Budapest Festival Orchestra/Ivan Fischer

7.37 Copland Symphonic Ode - San Francisco SO/Michael Tilson Thomas

8.13 Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso, Op 66 - Cleveland Orch/Christoph von Dohnanyi

8.26 Ireland A Downland Suite - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox

Contributors

Presenter:
Edward Seckerson
Producer:
Felix Carey

With Andrew McGregor , who plays some of this month's newest releases.
9.30 Building a Library Chris de Souza recommends a version of Britten's
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge.
10.35 David Fanning reviews new releases of piano concertos, including works by Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Bruch and Scriabin.
11.00 An interview with guitarist Craig Ogden , whose latest CD includes music from Louis de Berniere's novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
11.35 Radio 3 Disc of the Week:
Stravinsky The Rake's Progress
Monteverdi Choir, London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor John Eliot Gardiner Producers Clive Portbury and Andrew Lyle

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Unknown:
David Fanning
Guitarist:
Craig Ogden
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Producers:
Clive Portbury
Producers:
Andrew Lyle
Tom Rakewell:
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Anne Trulove:
Deborah York (soprano)
Nick Shadow:
Bryn Terfelf Baritone)
Baba the Turk:
Anne Sofie Von Otter (mezzo)
Mother Goose:
Anne Howells Mezzo)

Michael Berkeley 's guest today celebrates her 100th birthday this week. Sidonie Goossens enjoyed a unique career as principal harpist with the BBC Symphony j Orchestra, of which she was a founder member. She played under most of the great conductors of the 20th century. Her choices today reflect the extraordinary career of this much loved performer. Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Sidonie Goossens
Producer:
Wendy Thompson

The BBC Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concert series given by Wolfgang Holzmair
(baritone) and Imogen Cooper (piano). Mendelssohn Das Waldschloss
Franz Jagdlied : Abends Mendelssohn Pagenlied
Schumann Liederkreis , Op 39
Wolf Der Musikant ; LieberAlles: Die Nacht; Heimweh; Verschwiegene Liebe ; Seemans Abschied(R)

Contributors

Baritone:
Wolfgang Holzmair
Baritone:
Imogen Cooper
Piano:
Mendelssohn Das Waldschloss
Piano:
Franz Jagdlied
Piano:
Abends Mendelssohn Pagenlied
Piano:
Schumann Liederkreis
Unknown:
Wolf Der Musikant
Unknown:
Verschwiegene Liebe

With Humphrey Carpenter , including:
Schumann Piano Sonata No 1 in F sharp minor, Op 11 Maurizio Pollini Schnlttke Es Gesah aberZwischenzwolf.... Inger Blom
(mezzo), Malmo SO, conductor
Leif Segerstam Liszt Mephistopheles (A Faust Symphony) Boston SO, conductor Leonard Bernstein Producer Rosie Boulton

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter
Conductor:
Leif Segerstam Liszt
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Producer:
Rosie Boulton

Russell Davies presents a continuing history of jazz. 42: Miles Davis : from Cool to Rock. Miles Davies became increasingly frustrated as the fifties progressed that his work was virtually unknown to the majority of young blacks with whom he wished to communicate. There followed his controversial project to fuse jazz and rOCk. Producer David Perry

Contributors

Unknown:
Russell Davies
Unknown:
Miles Davis
Unknown:
Miles Davies
Producer:
David Perry

Israeli novelist and cultural critic Amos Oz delivers the second of this year's Sounding the Century lectures. He talks about the way his childhood in Jerusalem made him an expert in "comparative fanaticism about the links between different kinds of fanaticism; and about how the origins of fanaticism often lie in family life. The lecture is introduced by Sarah Dunant , who chairs a dicussion with the audience in the Purcell Room, London.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sarah Dunant

Sean Rafferty continues Radio 3's four-day celebration of the Catalan capital with a programme about the new Auditori concert hall. Barcelona has desperately needed a new venue since the fire at the Liceu, and the burden of the city's concert life has until now fallen on the beautiful Palau de la Musica. Architects and musicians talk about the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra's controversial new home.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

From L'Auditori, Barcelona.
Maria Luisa Cantos (piano), David B Thompson , Judith Thompson , David Rosell and David Bonet (horns), Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, conductor Franz-Paul Decker
Schumann Konzertstuck in F, Op 86;
Introduction and Allegro in D minor, Op 134 Joaquin Nin-Culmell Piano Concerto
8.55 Twenty Minutes Stephanie Hughes takes a closer look at L'Auditori. the brand new complex by leading Spanish architect Rafael Moneo , which contains not only the symphony hall used fortonight's concert but also two chamber halls, a conservatoire and a music museum.
9.15 DebussyPre/ude a 1 'Apres-Midi d'un Faune; La Mer

Contributors

Piano:
Maria Luisa Cantos
Piano:
David B Thompson
Piano:
Judith Thompson
Piano:
David Rosell
Horns:
David Bonet
Conductor:
Franz-Paul Decker
Conductor:
Schumann Konzertstuck
Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes
Unknown:
Rafael Moneo

Spaniards used to say that to get a Catalan word you simply cut a good Spanish word in half. But after being banned from schools and the media under Franco the Catalan language is once again at the heart of the region's reinvention. Richard Coles talks to writers and artists about the cultural life of the Spanish region of Catalunya.

Contributors

Talks:
Richard Coles

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall hunt out electronica, free improv and techno in the clubs, studios and record shops of Barcelona. They talk to maverick avant-pop combo Superelvis and composer of music for rubber bands Alfredo Costa Monteiro , and catch up on the events of Sonar, the city's annual festival of electronic music and multimedia. Plus music from ex-pat residents Pan Sonic and trumpeter Mark Cunningham. Producer Philip Tagney

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Russell
Unknown:
Robert Sandall
Unknown:
Alfredo Costa Monteiro
Unknown:
Mark Cunningham.
Producer:
Philip Tagney

Jez Nelson introduces a rare live performance from alto saxophonist Vaughan Hawthorne-Nelson and his quartet recorded earlierthis month in London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. The line-up features South African pianist
Bhek Mseleku , Mark Mondesir on drums and Jeremy Brown on bass. Producer Steve Shepherd

Contributors

Introduces:
Jez Nelson
Unknown:
Vaughan Hawthorne-Nelson
Unknown:
Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Pianist:
Bhek Mseleku
Pianist:
Mark Mondesir
Pianist:
Jeremy Brown
Producer:
Steve Shepherd

With Jonathan Swain.
1.00 A recital of Schubert lieder 2.10 Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's
Dream 2.35 Beethoven Quintet in E flat, Op 16 3.05 Buxtehude Psalm 98: Singet dem Herrn ein Neues Lied 3.15 JCF Bach Sinfonia in D minor3.25 Bach Three-Part
Inventions, BWV787-801 3.50 Gaultier Lute Pieces in D minor 4.10 Eigar Cello
Concerto in E minor 4.40 Chopin Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise Brillante , Op 22 5.00 Krasa Overture for chamber orchestra 5.05 Hans Huber Cello Sonata in B flat, Op 130 5.30 Cavalli Salve Regina
5.45 Mozart Divertimento in D. K136

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Grand Polonaise Brillante
Cello:
Hans Huber
Unknown:
Cavalli Salve Regina
Unknown:
Mozart Divertimento

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