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With Edward Seckerson.
6.14 Strauss, transcr Grainger Fantasy on the Final Love Duet from Der Rosenkavalier
Geoffrey Saba (piano)
6.41 Hoist Egdon Heath
LSO, conductor Richard Hickox
7.12 Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras:
No 9 New World Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
7.25 Roussel Symphony No 3 French National Orchestra, conductor Charles Munch
8.15 Orff Schulwerk (excerpts) Directed by the Composer
8.38 Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Hamlet New York Stadium Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leopold Stokowski

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Seckerson.
Piano:
Geoffrey Saba
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Conductor:
Charles Munch
Conductor:
Leopold Stokowski

Autumn (The Seasons)
9.14 Vaughan Williams Linden Lea
Quitter Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Op 3
9.20 Boyce Symphony No 4 in F
9.27 Rebelo Panis Angelicus
9.32 Milhaud Suite: Scaramouche
9.41 Britten/Berkeley MontJuic Suite of Catalan Dances
9.54 Debussy Lisle Joyeuse
10.01 John Stafford Smith Blest Pair of Sirens
10.05 Parry Blest Pair of Sirens
10.18 Chopin Allegro de Concert in A, Op 46
10.30 Bach, arr Grainger March; 0 Mensch Bewein' Dein ' Sunde Gross
10.37 Beethoven Sextet in E flat for two horns and strings, Op 81b
10.54 Strauss Final Trio (Der Rosenkavalier)
11.08 Bach, reconstr Rifkin Oboe Concerto in D minor
11.21 J Strauss (son) Tales from the Vienna Woods
11.33 Schubert Ballet Music (Rosamunde)
11.40 Scarlatti Piano Sonatas in F minor: Kk466;Kk467
11.50 Korngold Violin Concerto Producer Fiona Shelmerdine

Contributors

Unknown:
John Stafford
Unknown:
Chopin Allegro
Producer:
Fiona Shelmerdine

As HeinerGoebbels's Max Black opens,
Ivan Hewett discusses the explosion of work emerging on the outer edges of music theatre. Plus a report on how the Madrid Opera House is faring two years after its reopening. Producer Jessica Isaacs

Contributors

Unknown:
Max Black
Unknown:
Ivan Hewett
Producer:
Jessica Isaacs

A recital given in the Wigmore Hall, London, earlierthis month by celebrated American mezzo Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson and pianist Julius Drake.
Brahms No 8 Lieder, Op 5 7
Schumann Four Songs (Lieder und
Gesange aus Wilhelm Meister , Op 98); Frauenliebe und -leben, Op 42

Contributors

Unknown:
Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson
Pianist:
Julius Drake.
Unknown:
Wilhelm Meister

Natalie Wheen introduces music first performed in 1909. Stravinsky Scherzo Fantastique
Ravel Scarbo (Gaspard de la Nuit)
Vaughan Williams Bredon Hill (On Wenlock Edge)
Schoenberg Three Piano Pieces, Op 11 Strauss Elektra (excerpt)
Uadov The Enchanted Lake
Producer Edward Blakeman
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Contributors

Introduces:
Natalie Wheen
Producer:
Edward Blakeman

John Hope Franklin. Kevin Jackson talks to John Hope Franklin , one of America's foremost historians, known particularly for his writing and lecturing on African-
American history, about the events and changes he has witnessed and their effect on American culture. Producer Richard Bannerman

Contributors

Unknown:
John Hope Franklin.
Talks:
Kevin Jackson
Unknown:
John Hope Franklin
Producer:
Richard Bannerman

7.30 As a prelude to the third day of Radio 3's celebration of the Catalan capital, Sean Rafferty talks to the stars, chorus, stagehands and singers who worked in the old Liceu opera house before it was destroyed by fire in January 1994. The early 19th-century theatre has been rebuilt in all its former glory, with the addition of modern backstage facilities. Guests include Montserrat Caballe and Jose Carreras.

Contributors

Talks:
Sean Rafferty

From the Gran Teatre del Liceu. Puccini's classic final opera performed at
Barcelona's newly rebuilt opera house.
Choir of Palau de la Musica, Gran Teatre del Liceu Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Bertrand de Billy Act
8.45 Interval Christopher Gunness takes a tour around the newly rebuilt theatre.
9.00 Act 2
9.55 Interval Christopher Gunness investigates the political background to the rebuilding of the Liceu opera house.
10.05 Act 3

Contributors

Conductor:
Bertrand de Billy
Unknown:
Christopher Gunness
Unknown:
Christopher Gunness
Turandot:
Sharon Sweet (soprano)
Liu:
Maria Bayo (soprano)
Calaf:
Jan Blinkhof (tenor)
Timur:
Stefano Palatchi (bass)
Ping:
Angel Odena (baritone)
Pang:
Arrtoni Comas (tenor)
Pong:
Jose Ruiz (tenor)
Emperor:
Alfredo Hellbron (tenor)
Mandari:
Lluis Sintes (baritone)

Lluisa Cunille's play is at the cutting edge of Catalan drama. The park, the train station and the doctor's waiting room are all anonymous locations where strangers are thrown together. How can one man enterthe lives of so many, then leave them as mysteriously as he arrived?
Director Kate Valentine

Contributors

Director:
Kate Valentine
The Man:
John Stahl
The Old Man:
Russell Hunter
The Watchmaker:
Gerda Stephenson
The Young Man:
Stuart Wilkinson
Doctor:
Stuart Wilkinson
The Traveller:
Colin Gouriey
The Woman:
Anne-Marie Timoney

With Jonathan Swain.

Martinu The Romance of the Dandelions; The Opening of the Web; Polkas and Etudes (Book 2)

1.45 Mozart String Quartet in B flat, K458 (Hunt)

2.10 Mahler Symphony No 2 (Resurrection)

3.45 Saint-Saens Oboe Sonata in D, Op 166

3.55 Murthel Concerto in D minor

4.30 Erkel Duo Brillant

5.00 Wagner Sach's Monologue (Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg)

5.10 Kraus Symphony in C minor

5.35 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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