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With Fiona Talkington.

Wagner Overture: Rule Britannia - Hong Kong PO, conductor Varujan Kojian

6.30 Rawsthome Theme and Variations - Peter Sheppard Skaerved and Christine Sohn (violins)

7.00 Bruch Kol Nidrei - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), National Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Charles Gerhardt

7.30 Taverner Eternity's Sunrise - Patricia Rozario (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, director Andrew Manze

8.00 Joplin Gladiolus Rag; A Real Slow Drag - Marcus Roberts (piano)

8.30 Hurlstone Bassoon Sonata - Peter Musson , Stephen Emmerson (piano)

Full details of Morning on 3's music are posted at [web address removed] a few days before transmission

Contributors

Presenter:
Fiona Talkington

Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's CD releases.
9.30 Buildinga Library: Michael Oliver recommends a recording of Verdi's opera Falstafffrom those currently available.
10.10 A look at some recent re-issues.
10.30 Lowri Blake reviews new chamber releases: piano trios by Mendelssohn, string quintets by Boccherini, chamber music by York Bowen , horn trios by Brahms and Ligeti and cello music by Kurtag, Kodaly and Veress.
11.00 An interview with conductor
Matthias Bamert , including news of the latest recording in the series
Contemporaries of Mozart on Chandos.
11.30 Disc of the Week: Allegri/Bal Miserere Mei Ensemble William Byrd , director Graham O'Reilly
Producers Mark Lowther and Andrew Lyie
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:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Lowri Blake
Music By:
York Bowen
Conductor:
Matthias Bamert
Unknown:
William Byrd
Director:
Graham O'Reilly
Producers:
Mark Lowther
Producers:
Andrew Lyie

Michael Berkeley 's guest today is theatre director David McVicar , whose production of Verdi's Rigolettoatthe Royal Opera House last autumn won huge critical acclaim. David McVicar has also produced operas by Handel, Mozart and Britten.
Their music features in his selection today alongside that of Ravel and Nina Simone. Repeated tomorrow 3pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Director:
David McVicar
Unknown:
David McVicar
Unknown:
Nina Simone.

Humphrey Carpenter presents this week's selection of listeners' requests, including: Moreno Torroba Concierto de Castillia
Michael Troster (guitar), Warsaw Symphony Orchestra, conductor Janusz Przybylski Skempton Lento BBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Mark Wigglesworth Eugene Goossens Oboe Concerto
Leon Goossens , Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Walter Susskind
Ravel Scheherazade Regine Crespin
(soprano), Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Ernest Ansermet
Scriabin Piano Concerto
Nikolai Demidenko , BBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Alexander Lazarev Producer Anthony Sellors. ADDRESS: Listeners' Choice. BBC Birmingham. B5 7QQ. PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: listeners.choice@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter
Guitar:
Michael Troster
Conductor:
Janusz Przybylski
Conductor:
Skempton Lento
Conductor:
Mark Wigglesworth
Oboe:
Eugene Goossens
Unknown:
Leon Goossens
Conductor:
Walter Susskind
Conductor:
Ernest Ansermet
Unknown:
Nikolai Demidenko
Conductor:
Alexander Lazarev
Producer:
Anthony Sellors.

Stacey Kent takes a look at who's around the UK Jazz scene this week and Brian Morton reviews some new CDs.
Producer Keith Loxam. ADDRESS: JazzLine-Up, Room 220. Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive. Glasgow, G12 8DG. E-MAIL: jazzlineup@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Stacey Kent
Unknown:
Brian Morton
Producer:
Keith Loxam.
Unknown:
Queen Margaret Drive.

One of Rossini's most enduring and best-loved operas, based on a play by Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais. During the interval Rodney Milnes continues his series Opera Snaps - a sideways glance at each of this season's Met operas.

Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera, conductor Yves Abel
Act 1

8.05 The Met Quiz Opera Quiz
Send questions to Met Opera Quiz, [address removed]

8.25 Opera Snaps
With Rodney Milnes.

8.35 Act 2
Broadcast Guide: For a free copy of the Met Broadcast Guide, call the BBC Information line on [number removed]

Contributors

Play By:
Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais.
Unknown:
Rodney Milnes
Conductor:
Yves Abel
Unknown:
Rodney Milnes.
Rosina:
Ruth Ann Swenson (soprano)
Count Almaviva:
Juan Diego Florez (tenor)
Figaro Dwayne:
Croft (baritone)
Dr Bartolo:
John Del Carlo (bass)
Don Basilio:
Simone Alaimo (bass)

Berlin Project. Internationally acclaimed British artist Tacita Dean has made a 45-minute sound work about herself and the city in which she now lives. Berlin Project involves air, a ladies' washroom, Zeppelins over Berlin, rain, the significance of a name. Radio Moscow late at night, steam trains, problems with legs, popular
German song, wind in the beech trees, Boots, the Charite hospital, a weekly
Polish ritual, a flight of stairs, treason, an urgent answerphone message from Mark Wallinger , Berlin v Roma at the Olympic
Stadium, being loved, sailing, a rabbit hole and reflections on the limits of knowledge.

Contributors

Artist:
Tacita Dean
Unknown:
Mark Wallinger

Sarah Walker presents music by the German composer Matthias Pintscher recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at an invitation concert last December, conducted by Zsolt Nagy. Pintscher's Funf Orchesterstucke is complemented by Herodiade Fragments - Dramatic Scene, sung by the soprano Claudia Barainsky.
A selection of Pintscher's chamber music recorded at last year's Hoxton Festival completes the programme.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Walker
Unknown:
Matthias Pintscher
Soprano:
Claudia Barainsky.

With Susan Sharpe. A recital by Jard van
Nes (mezzo soprano) with Gerard van Blerk (piano) recorded at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, on 17 March 1987. Music includes: Sibelius Svarta RosorStrauss
Du Meines Herzens Kronekein; Ruhe Meine Seele; Standchen; Morgen Debussy
Chansons de Bilitis Falla 7 Canciones
Populares Espagnola 2.10 Reger Four Tone Poems after Arnold Bocklin 2.35
Shostakovich Cello Sonata, Op 403.00 Tchaikovsky Six Pieces, Op 193.30
Mozart Symphony No 29 in A, K201 3.55 Mendelssohn Hora Est 4.20 Tartini Violin
Sonata in G minor, Op 1 No 10 (Didone
Abbandonata) 4.35 Grieg Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Op 65 No 64.50 Sarasate Zigeunerweisen , Op 20 5.00 Lisinski
Overture: Porin 5.15 Kodaly Cello Sonatina
5.25 Nicolas Gombert Benedicto Mensae
5.35 Lotti Sonata in Ffortwo oboes, bassoon and continuo (Echo-Sonate)
5.50 Dvorak Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
Sibelius Svarta Rosorstrauss
Unknown:
Ruhe Meine
Unknown:
Arnold Bocklin
Unknown:
Mendelssohn Hora
Unknown:
Sarasate Zigeunerweisen
Unknown:
Lotti Sonata

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