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With Edward Seckerson.
Warlock An Old Song
6.30 Dyson Poco Andante (Violin Concerto)
7.00 Franck Prelude , Choral and Fugue
8.00 Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor
(lstmvt)
8.40 Berlioz D'Amour I'Ardente Flamme
(The Damnation of Faust)
Full details of Morning on 3's music are posted at vww.bbc.co.uk/radio3/factsheetsafewdays before transmission

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Seckerson.
Unknown:
Franck Prelude
Unknown:
Ardente Flamme

Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's newest releases.
9.30 Building a Library: Lucie Skeaping recommends a recording of Corelli's Concerti Grossi , Op 6.
10.30 Martin Cotton reviews some new releases of orchestral music, including Bruckner's Symphony No 3, Sibelius's
Symphonies Nos 6 and 7, Nigel Kennedy 's Bach, Pinchas Zukerman 's Beethoven, and Karel Ancerl 's Beethoven and Martlnu.
11.00 An interview with conductor
Kent Nagano about his career and recent recordings, including Bernstein's The White House Cantata and Mahler's
Symphony No 3.
11.30 Radio 3 's Disc of the Week:
Handel Theodora Susan Gritton (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo), Robin Blaze
(countertenor), Paul Agnew and Angus Smith (tenors), Neal Davies (baritone),
Gabrieli Consort and Players, conductor Paul McCreesh
Producers Andrew Lyle and Mark Lowther
WEB SITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview E-MAIL: cdreview@bbc.co.uk
DISC DETAILS: call the Radio 3 Information Line on [number removed] or consult CEEFAX, BBC1, page 651

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Unknown:
Concerti Grossi
Unknown:
Nigel Kennedy
Unknown:
Pinchas Zukerman
Unknown:
Karel Ancerl
Conductor:
Kent Nagano
Soprano:
Susan Gritton
Soprano:
Susan Bickley
Unknown:
Robin Blaze
Unknown:
Paul Agnew
Tenors:
Angus Smith
Tenors:
Neal Davies
Baritone:
Gabrieli Consort
Conductor:
Paul McCreesh
Producers:
Andrew Lyle
Producers:
Mark Lowther

Michael Berkeley 's guest is the exhibitions secretary at the Royal Academy of Arts, Norman Rosenthal , whose current exhibition, Apocalypse, has aroused enormous public and critical interest. Norman Rosenthal 's musical choices include works by Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Messiaen, Boulez, Henze and Kurt Weill. Executive producer Wendy Thompson Rptd tomorrow 6.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Norman Rosenthal
Unknown:
Norman Rosenthal
Unknown:
Kurt Weill.
Producer:
Wendy Thompson

Humphrey Carpenter introduces this week's selection of listeners' requests, including: Loeffler A Pagan Poem, Op 14
Robert Hunter (piano), William Kosinski (cor anglais), Leopold Stokowski SO, conductor Leopold Stokowski
Bartok Sonata for two pianos and percussion Bela and Ditta Bartok (pianos),
Henry J Baker and Edward J Rubsam (percussion) Carver O Bone Jesu
Taverner Choir, conductor Andrew Parrott

Contributors

Introduces:
Humphrey Carpenter
Piano:
Robert Hunter
Piano:
William Kosinski
Conductor:
Leopold Stokowski
Conductor:
Bartok Sonata
Conductor:
Ditta Bartok
Pianos:
Henry J Baker
Pianos:
Edward J Rubsam
Conductor:
Andrew Parrott

Stacey Kent presents Lalo Schifrin conducting the BBC Big Band in his Little Jazz Suite. Plus what's on in the UK jazz scene this week.
Producer: Keith Loxam.
ADDRESS: [Address Removed] E-MAIL: [Address Removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Stacey Kent
Unknown:
Lalo Schifrin
Producer:
Keith Loxam.
Unknown:
Queen Margaret Drive

John Lewis. Geoffrey Smith presents the first of a four-part profile of John Lewis , pianist and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet for some 40 years. Producer Derek Drescher

Contributors

Unknown:
John Lewis.
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Pianist:
John Lewis
Producer:
Derek Drescher

Katya Kabanova
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Trevor Nunn 's production of Janacek's three-act opera Katya Kabanova.
Based on AlexanderOstrovsky's play The Thunderstorm, the opera explores themes of female desire and guilt through the life and death of its heroine Katya in a moving story of one woman's struggle for freedom.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conductor Simone Young Janacek Katya Kabanova

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Nunn
Unknown:
Katya Kabanova.
Conductor:
Simone Young
Conductor:
Janacek Katya Kabanova
Katya Kabanova:
Amanda Roocroft (soprano)
Boris Grigorjevic:
Robert Dean Smith (tenor)
Marfa Ignatevna Kabanova:
Josephine Barstow (soprano)
VanaKudrjas:
Timothy Robinson (tenor)
Glasa:
Jennifer Higgins (mezzo)
Savel Prokofjevic Dikoj:
Gwynne Howell (bass)
Feklusa:
Kare McCarney (mezzo)
Tichon Ivanyc Kabanov:
John Horton Murray (tenor)
Varvara:
Marianna Tarasova (mezzo)
Kuligin:
Quentin Hayes (baritone)
Zena:
Renata Skarelyte (mezzo)
Chodec:
George Freebum (tenor)

A tribute to Hugh Wood (born 1932).
Geraldine McGreevy (soprano),
Daniel Norman (tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Wood Scenes from "Comus"; Symphony

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Wood
Soprano:
Geraldine McGreevy
Soprano:
Daniel Norman
Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Conductor:
Wood Scenes

rAn exciting new series of bold, distinctive voices brings ten award-winning writers of the next generation to Radio 3, starting with Feed Me
By Mark Ravenhill.
Ravenhill 's first original play for radio pitches its characters into a world of bewildering cultural choices.
Musical contribution by Bessa Berberi

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Ravenhill.
Unknown:
Bessa Berberi
Peter:
David Slbley
Jan:
Nicola Redmond
Sally:
Kate Ashfield
Paul:
Charlie Condou

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall talk to
New York-based pianist Uri Caine about his recent work, which includes radical reworkings of Mahler and Bach involving vocalist David Moss and poet Sadiq Bey.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Russell
Unknown:
Robert Sandall
Pianist:
Uri Caine
Unknown:
David Moss
Unknown:
Sadiq Bey.

Fire at Keaton 's Bar& Grill
A performance of Roy Nathanson 's latest project given at the Royal Festival Hall earlier this week as part of the London Jazz Festival. Fire at Keaton's Bar& Grill is an exciting and ambitious multimedia work of music theatre, which tells the story of a typical bar and the characters that inhabit it. Debbie Harry and Elvis Costello head a cast of supporting singers and musicians in music ranging from intimate ballads to tango andjazz funk.
Producers Steve Shepherd and Kathryn Willgress

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Nathanson
Unknown:
Debbie Harry
Unknown:
Elvis Costello
Producers:
Steve Shepherd
Producers:
Kathryn Willgress

With Susan Sharpe.
Tchaikovsky Meditation in D, Op 72 No 5
Brahms Piano Sonata No 2 in F sharp minor, Op 2 Tchaikovsky Theme and Variations in F, Op 19 No 6; Russian Scherzo in B flat, Op 1 No 1 Mendelssohn Spinnerlied (Lieder ohne Worte Book 6, Op 6 7) 2.05
Sibelius Valse Triste 2.15 Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E 3.20 Bach Violin Partita No 3 in E,
BWV1006 3.40 Corelli Sonata in B minor for two violins and guitar 3.55 Mozart Piano Sonata in F, K332 4.10 Abel Flute
Concerto in C, Op 6 No 14.20 Vivaldi Sinfonia in B minor, RV169 (Al Santo
Sepolcro) 4.30 Brahms Theme and Variations (Sextet in B flat, Op 18 4.40 Miguel Yuste Estudio Melodico 4.50 Hasse Overture: Arminio 5.00 Carlo Soliva La Testa di
Bronzo (excerpt) 5.10 Svendsen Romance
5.20 Beethoven Overture: Leonore No 3
5.35 Vivaldi Concerto in A minor for two violins, Op 3 No 8 (L 'Estro Armonico)
5.50 Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Lyudmila

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
Sibelius Valse Triste
Unknown:
Corelli Sonata
Unknown:
Vivaldi Sinfonia
Unknown:
Miguel Yuste
Unknown:
Estudio Melodico

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