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With Edward Seckerson.
Byrd Three French Corantos
6.20 Dukas Symphony in C
7.00 Stravinsky Octet
7.25 Beethoven Symphony No 8 in F
8.00 Goodwin Battle of Britain (633 Squadron)
8.50 Walton Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
Full details of Momingon 3s music are posted at www.bbc. co.uk/radio3/playlists a few days before transmission

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Seckerson.

Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's newest releases.
9.30 Building Library: Hilary Rnch surveys the available recordings of Wolf's Italian Songbook, comparing
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau with the likes of Felicity Lott and Peter Schreier , Barbara Bonney and Hakan Hagegard , and Dawn Upshaw and Olaf Bar.
10.30 David Huckvale reviews some recent recordings of film music by Prokofiev, Malcolm Arnold , Georges Auric and Jerome Moross.
11.00 Graham Southern of Universal
Music, Alun Taylor of Sony Classical and critic Stephen Pettitt examine the record companies' policies on reissued recordings.
11.30 Radio 3 's Disc of the Week:
Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 111 Mikhail Pletnev
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:
Hilary Rnch
Unknown:
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Unknown:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Unknown:
Felicity Lott
Unknown:
Peter Schreier
Unknown:
Barbara Bonney
Unknown:
Hakan Hagegard
Unknown:
Dawn Upshaw
Unknown:
Olaf Bar.
Unknown:
David Huckvale
Unknown:
Malcolm Arnold
Unknown:
Georges Auric
Unknown:
Jerome Moross.
Music:
Alun Taylor
Unknown:
Stephen Pettitt
Unknown:
Mikhail Pletnev
Producers:
Andrew Lyle
Producers:
Mark Lowther

Today Michael Berkeley meets the artist Albert Irvin , whose large-scale, abstract paintings are among the most compelling and distinctive produced in Britain today. He has always taken a keen interest in music and the performing arts and his choices today range from Irving Berlin and Louis Armstrong to Beethoven's
Hammerklavier sonata, Shostakovich's first cello concerto, Mahler's Symphony No 1, and works by Morton Feldman , Boulez and Barry Guy.
Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow at 3pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Artist:
Albert Irvin
Artist:
Louis Armstrong
Unknown:
Morton Feldman
Unknown:
Barry Guy.
Producer:
Wendy Thompson

Humphrey Carpenter introduces this week's selection of listeners' requests, including: Mosolov Iron Foundry
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly Sibelius Symphony No 2
Berlin PO, conductor Herbert von Karajan Distler Organ Partita: WachetAuf, Ruft Uns die Stimme, Op 8 No 2 Rudolf Innig (organ)
Producer Christina Pritchard. ADDRESS: Listeners'
Choice. BBC Birmingham. B5 7QQ. PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: listeners.choice@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Introduces:
Humphrey Carpenter
Conductor:
Riccardo Chailly
Unknown:
Rudolf Innig
Producer:
Christina Pritchard.

This week Claire Martin chats to vocalist
Ian Shaw about his new release Soho
Stories, recorded in New York, and Brian Morton reviews new CDs. Plus gig news from the UK Jazz Clubs.
Producer: Keith Loxam.
ADDRESS: JazzLine-Up, Room 220. Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive. Glasgow. G12 8DG E-MAIL: jazzlmeup@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Claire Martin
Unknown:
Ian Shaw
Unknown:
Brian Morton
Producer:
Keith Loxam.

The Unknown Satchmo
To mark the true centenary of Louis
Armstrong's birth Michael Pointon reviews fresh musical discoveries and biographical research that have thrown new light on Satchmo's musical career. 1: Newly restored gems and little-known aspects of Louis's early life.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Pointon

Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail
Mozart's Turkish comedy takes a witty look at the clash of cultures between east and west. Despite the traditional happy ending the opera also explores the more serious themes of cruelty, slavery and the position of women in 18th-century society. Introduced by Petroc Trelawny .
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conductor Charles Mackerras Act 1

Contributors

Introduced By:
Petroc Trelawny
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Konstanze:
Christine Schafer (soprano)
Blonde:
Inger Dam-Jensen (soprano)
Belmonte:
Kurt Streit (tenor)
Pedrillo:
Peter Stein (tenor)
Osmin:
Kurt Rydl (bass)
Pasha Selim:
Oliver Tobias (speaker)

Philipp Blom chronicles the extraordinary life of Angelo Soliman, who rose from black slave boy to move in the highest circles in Mozart's Vienna.

8.05 Act 2

9.05 Interval: Abduction and Enlightenment
Richard Lawrence investigates how some of the more progressive ideas around in Vienna in the 1780s found their way into Mozart's opera.

9.30 Act 3

Contributors

Speaker (The Museum Moor):
Philipp Blom
Speaker (Abduction and Enlightenment):
Richard Lawrence

The series in which Simon Dove and Duncan Fraser explore the intimate relationship between dance and music. 3: Let's Start at the Very Beginning
Student composers and choreographers struggling to put music and dance together.

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Dove
Unknown:
Duncan Fraser

Two of the UK's leading contemporary music ensembles-[rout] and IXION -come into the BBC studios to record a programme combining acoustic and electronic music. Presented by Sarah Walker. [rout]
Paul Newland no[w]here; mujou
Sam Hayden dB(iv-v-vi); retaliation Paul Whitty Love; on[off] Ian Vine blood on red
Joe Cutler [passacaglia]
IXION, director Michael Finnissy (piano) Magnus Lindberg Ablauf
Michael Finnissy Casual Nudity (premiered at Brighton 2001)
Paul Whitty .can't.remember.how.it.starts. (revised version)
Geoff Harman Joyrider
Bryn Harrison The Ground Andrew Toovey White Rre II

Contributors

Presented By:
Sarah Walker.
Unknown:
Paul Newland
Unknown:
Sam Hayden
Unknown:
Paul Whitty
Unknown:
Ian Vine
Unknown:
Joe Cutler
Piano:
Michael Finnissy
Piano:
Magnus Lindberg Ablauf
Piano:
Michael Finnissy
Unknown:
Paul Whitty
Unknown:
Geoff Harman Joyrider
Unknown:
Bryn Harrison
Unknown:
Andrew Toovey White

With Jill Anderson. Mozart Symphony
No 34 in C, K338 Carl Ruggles Sun-Treader Brahms Symphony No 1 in C minor
2.25 Schubert String Quartet in D minor,
0810 (Death and the Maiden) 3.10 Chopin Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58
3.40 J Strauss (son) Waltz: Wienerblut
3.55 Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor
4.05 Joseph Lauber Sonata Fantasia in unaparte 4.20 Sibelius Valse Triste ,
Op 44 No 1 4.30 Forqueray LaD'Aubone (sarabanda) 4.45 Avison Concerto Grosso No 2 in G 5.00 Frederik Pacius Violin
Concerto 5.25 Tchaikovsky Dumka , Op 59
5.35 Dvorak Silent Woods 5.45 Lars-Erik
Larsson Pastoral Suite, Op 19 I

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Anderson.
Unknown:
Carl Ruggles
Unknown:
Sibelius Valse Triste
Violin:
Frederik Pacius
Unknown:
Tchaikovsky Dumka

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