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Geoffrey Smith plays the best recordings from the past season of CD Review, including Building a LibraryWinners.
Corelli, arr Geminiani Concerto Grosso in D minor (La Folia) Academy of Ancient Music, director Andrew Manze
9.10 Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras
No 5 Juliane Banse (soprano),
The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic
9.25 Haydn Piano Concerto in F, H XVIII 3 Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, director Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
9.40 Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms Czech Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Karel Ancerl
10.05 Bach Cello Suite No linG, BWV1007 Torleif Thedeen
10.35 Chopin Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor, Op 39 Martha Argerich (piano)
10.40 Schubert Schwanengesang , 0957 (excerpts) Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Aribert Reimann (piano
11.20 Verdi Gualtier Malde !; Caro Nome (Rigoletto) Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Milan Verdi Grand Symphony Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
11.40 lbert Divertissement
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon
Producer Mark Lowther
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Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Director:
Andrew Manze
Soprano:
Juliane Banse
Piano:
Leif Ove Andsnes
Conductor:
Karel Ancerl
Piano:
Martha Argerich
Piano:
Schubert Schwanengesang
Unknown:
Brigitte Fassbaender
Piano:
Aribert Reimann
Piano:
Verdi Gualtier Malde
Soprano:
Angela Gheorghiu
Conductor:
Riccardo Chailly
Conductor:
Jean Martinon
Producer:
Mark Lowther

Today Michael Berkeley talks to
Lucy Irvine , the former "wild child" who wrote the bestsellers Castaway and Faraway, both accounts of times she spent on remote islands. Her musical choices range from a Satie piano piece and a pavan by Byrd to works by Bach, Boccherini, Shostakovich, and Bruckner's fourth symphony. Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow at 3pm

Contributors

Talks:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Lucy Irvine
Producer:
Wendy Thompson

Humphrey Carpenter introduces this week's selection of listeners' requests, including: De Beriot Scene de Ballet, Op 100 Carl Taschke (violin),
Leipzig Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Herbert Kegel
Beethoven Violin Sonata in F, Op 24 (Spring) ItzhakPerlman,
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Janacek Sinfonietta Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle
Producer Christina Pritchard. ADDRESS: Listeners'
Choice, BBC Birmingham, B5 7QQ. PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: listeners.choice@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Introduces:
Humphrey Carpenter
Violin:
Carl Taschke
Conductor:
Herbert Kegel
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Producer:
Christina Pritchard.

Stacey Kent introduces a solo piano set from Huw Warren recorded at this year's Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
Producer Keith Loxam.
ADDRESS: JazzLine-Up, Room 220, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow, G12 8DG E-MAIL: jazzlineup@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Introduces:
Stacey Kent
Unknown:
Huw Warren
Producer:
Keith Loxam.
Unknown:
Queen Margaret Drive

Another chance to hear the series in which Brian Morton explores the strange relationship between jazz, the creative process and mind-altering substances. 4: Ascension. Did jazz musicians play better when they were stoned or straight? Is jazz unfairly linked with drugs? How did rock and roll's arrival change things? (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Morton

Legends: Luciano Pavarotti
Another chance to hear Michael White 's 65th birthday tribute, last year, to the great Italian tenor. Including his classic performances of Donizetti's La Fille du Regimentand Bellini 's I Puritani. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Luciano Pavarotti
Unknown:
Michael White
Unknown:
Regimentand Bellini

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Penny Gore presents the first of many works this season exploring the theme of music inspired by countryside. Possibly the greatest tribute Handel ever paid to the land of his adoption, his sympathy with English music, life and landscape, is brought together with texts by John Milton and Charles Jennens in this glorious oratorio from the pastoral tradition.

Tristan Hambleton (treble), Sophie Daneman (soprano), Paul Agnew (tenor), Anton Scharinger (bass), Les Arts Florissants, conductor William Christie

Handel L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (part 1)

8.30 Twenty Minutes: Office Politics
Peggy Reynolds, John Carey and Nigel Smith discuss the forces that united and divided the 17th-century poets Milton (whose poems Handel sets in this evening's Prom), Marvell and Dryden.

8.50 Handel L'Allegro (parts 2 and 3)

(Repeated Tuesday at 2pm)
(Proms tickets and CD offer: page 42)

Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore
Treble:
Tristan Hambleton
Soprano:
Sophie Daneman
Tenor:
Paul Agnew
Bass:
Anton Scharinger
Musicians:
Les Arts Florissants
Conductor:
William Christie
Speaker (Twenty Minutes):
Peggy Reynolds
Speaker (Twenty Minutes):
John Carey
Speaker (Twenty Minutes):
Nigel Smith

4: The Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie visited Tibet 12 years ago. Her visit had an enormous impact on her. This summer she has bicycled to Samye Ling, near
Lockerbie in Scotland, the first Tibetan centre in the West, founded in 1967. But can another country find a real home in Dumfriesshire?

Contributors

Unknown:
Kathleen Jamie

With Louise Fryer.
Debussy Images (Set 2) Mozart Sonata in B flat, K333 Debussy Preludes (Book I)
2.20 Hoist Oriental Suite: Beni Mora ,
Op 29 No 1 2.35 Spohr String Sextet in C, Op 140 3.05 Pantillon Oratorio: Clameurs du Monde 4.00 Schumann Fugue in G minor on BACH, Op 60 No 3
4.15 Butterworth Rhapsody: A Shropshire Lad 4.30 Devienne Trio No 2 for three flutes 4.50 Sullivan Overture: lolanthe
5.00 Telemann Domenica (Pyrmonter
Kurwoche) 5.15 Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV542 (Great) 5.30 Mllhaud Three Psalms of David, Op 339
5.45 Weber Overture: Der Freischutz

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Fryer.
Unknown:
Beni Mora
Unknown:
Bach Fantasia

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