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With Edward Seckerson. Telemann Concerto in E minor for recorder and flute
6.40 C Stamitz Symphony in D (La Chasse)
7.00 Gliere Overture on Slavonic Themes
7.35 Poulenc Concerto for two pianos
8.00 Bernstein Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
8.45 Reger Variations and Fugue on a theme by Mozart (Fugue)
Full details of Momingon 3 music are posted at www.bbc. co.uk/radio3/playlists a few days before transmission

Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's newest releases.
9.30 Buildinga Library: William Mival surveys current recordings of Brahms's Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 25.
10.30 Stephen Johnson reviews some recent recordings of orchestral music, including Vaughan Williams 's first thoughts for his London symphony, and Hoist's Planets with an added extra.
11.00 An interview with soprano
Lynne Dawson about her first solo disc of English songs with pianist Malcolm Martineau.
11.30 Radio 3's Disc of the Week: Strauss
An Alpine Symphony (excerpt) Vienna PO, conductor Christian Thielemann
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:
William Mival
Unknown:
Stephen Johnson
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Soprano:
Lynne Dawson
Pianist:
Malcolm Martineau.
Conductor:
Christian Thielemann
Producers:
Andrew Lyle
Producers:
Mark Lowther

Michael Berkeley talks to the American-born novelist Douglas Kennedy , who shot to international fame with The Big Picture and The Job and has just published his fourth novel, The Pursuit of Happiness. A keen music-lover, his choices today include a mass by Thomas Tallis , Angela Hewitt playing Bach, the catalogue aria from Don Giovanni , and works by Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Webern and Frank Zappa. Executive producerWendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow at 3pm

Contributors

Talks:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Douglas Kennedy
Unknown:
Thomas Tallis
Unknown:
Angela Hewitt
Unknown:
Don Giovanni
Unknown:
Frank Zappa.

Humphrey Carpenter introduces this week's selection of listeners' requests, including: Stanford Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G Christopher Glynn (organ),
Choir of New College, Oxford, director Edward Higginbottom
Thomas Canning Fantasy on a Hymn Tune by Justin Morgan Houston Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Leopold Stokowski Arnold Symphony No 5
CBSO, conducted by the Composer
Producer Christina Pritchard. ADDRESS: Listeners'
Choice, BBC Birmingham, B5 7QQ. PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: listeners.choice@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Introduces:
Humphrey Carpenter
Unknown:
Christopher Glynn
Director:
Edward Higginbottom
Director:
Thomas Canning
Conductor:
Leopold Stokowski
Producer:
Christina Pritchard.

Today's programme features vibraphonist Joe Locke in conversation with Claire Martin during his recent tour. Producer: Keith Loxam.
ADDRESS: JazzLine-Up, Room 220. Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive. Glasgow, G12 8DG E-MAIL: jazzlineup@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Joe Locke
Unknown:
Claire Martin
Producer:
Keith Loxam.

The Unknown Satchmo
To mark the true centenary of Louis
Armstrong's birth Michael Pointon reviews fresh information on Satchmo's career.
4: Neglected collaborations with Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington, and an under-documented late trip to Australia.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Pointon
Unknown:
Dizzy Gillespie

A Midsummer Night's Dream
A revival of Peter Hall 's acclaimed
Glyndebourne production of Benjamin Britten 's adaptation of Shakespeare's play. Presented by Martin Handley , who talks to Peter Hall about his production and about the differences between directing the opera and play versions of the Dream.
Trinity Boys Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor David Atherton Parti
8.15 Twenty Minutes
From Ovid to Sondheim the dark wood has been a place of mysterious transformation. Richard Foster discovers how A Midsummer
Night's Dream fits into this long tradition.
8.35 Part 2
The fall and rise of countertenors: page 25

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hall
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Presented By:
Martin Handley
Unknown:
Peter Hall
Conductor:
David Atherton
Unknown:
Richard Foster
Tytania:
Usa Larsson (soprano)
Oberon:
Michael Chance (countertenor)
Puck:
Jack Uman (spoken)
Bottom:
Peter Rose (bass)
Helena:
Madeline Bender (soprano)
Demetrius:
William Dazeley (baritone)
Hermia:
Ann Taylor (mezzo)
Lysander:
Gordon Gletz (tenor)
Flute:
Barry Banks (tenor)
Snout:
Christopher Saunders (tenor)
Snug:
Geoffrey Moses (bass)
Starveling:
Henry Newman (baritone)
Quince:
Henry Waddington (bass)
Hippolyta:
Jean Rigby(mezzo)
Theseus:
Matthew Best (bass-Baritone)
Cobweb:
Joel Robinson (treble)
Mustardseed:
Jonathan Musgrave (treble)
Peaseblossom:
Alan MacHacek (treble)
Moth:
Thomas Chapman (treble)

Last of the series in which Simon Dove and Duncan Fraser explore the intimate relationship between dance and music. 6:The Show Must...
Conductor Andrea Quinn (New York City Ballet), dancer Jonathan Cope (Royal Ballet) and master drummer, dancer and storyteller Peter Badejo explore what happens with live music in dance performance.

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Dove
Unknown:
Duncan Fraser
Conductor:
Andrea Quinn
Unknown:
Jonathan Cope
Unknown:
Peter Badejo

A concert given by Apartment House, reflecting some of the activities of the International Society of Contemporary Music. Introduced by Verity Sharp , who talks to ISCM's UK chairman Chris Fox and to Apartment House director
Anton Lukoszevieze. And to mark Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim 's 70th birthday, a performance of his violin concerto given last Wednesday in Oslo by Arve Tellefsen with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Christian Eggen . Michael Malerhof Splitting2
Harald Muenz "schweigenderest" Cecille Ore Calliope
Rebecca Saunders Molly 's Song3: Shades of Crimson Geir Johnson Talking/Singing Harald Muenz BeethovEnBloc Richard Ayres No 34

Contributors

Introduced By:
Verity Sharp
Unknown:
Chris Fox
Director:
Anton Lukoszevieze.
Unknown:
Arne Nordheim
Unknown:
Arve Tellefsen
Conducted By:
Christian Eggen
Conducted By:
Michael Malerhof Splitting2
Conducted By:
Harald Muenz
Unknown:
Rebecca Saunders Molly
Unknown:
Crimson Geir Johnson
Unknown:
Harald Muenz Beethovenbloc
Unknown:
Richard Ayres

With Jonathan Swain.

Beethoven String Quartets: in E minor, Op 59 No 2; in E flat, Op 74 (Harp)

2.15 Karlowicz Ten Songs, Op3

2.30 C.F. Abel Flute Concerto in E minor, Op 6 No 2

2.50 Sasnauskas Requiem

3.25 Sibelius Violin Concerto

4.0 R Kajanus Finnish Rhapsody No 1

4.10 Rameau Suite in G

4.30 Wassanaer Concerto No 2 in B flat (Sei Concerti Armonici)

4.40 Strauss Love scene (Feuersnot)

4.50 Musorgsky Softly the Spirit Flew

5.00 Beethoven Overture: King Stephen

5.15 Glinka Memories of a Summer Night in Madrid (Spanish Overture No 2)

5.30 Schreker Valse Lente

5.40 Poulenc Mass in G

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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