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Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's CD releases.
9.30 Building a Library: Jeremy Summerly recommends a version of Bruckner's
Mass No 2 in E minor.
10.15 A look at some recent re-issues.
10.30 David Huckvale reviews new orchestral releases, including violin concertos by Tchaikovsky and Menotti, and the latest instalment in Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series.
11.00 An interview with viola player Kim Kashkashian , who talks about her work with the viola music of, among others, Hindemith and Berio.
11.35 Disc of the Week:
CPE Bach Sonatas and Rondos
(excerpts) Mikhail Pletnev (piano) Producers Mark Lowther and Andrew Lyle
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:
Jeremy Summerly
Unknown:
David Huckvale
Unknown:
Kim Kashkashian
Piano:
Mikhail Pletnev
Producers:
Mark Lowther
Producers:
Andrew Lyle

Michael Berkeley talks to arts consultant Christopher Hunt , whose choice of music includes pieces by Handel, by Bach and by his son JC Bach , a horn concerto and the Masonic Funeral Music by Mozart, an excerpt from Gawain's Journey by Harrison Birtwistle and the song of a blackbird. Repeated tomorrow 3pm

Contributors

Talks:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Christopher Hunt
Unknown:
Jc Bach
Unknown:
Harrison Birtwistle

Humphrey Carpenter presents this week's selection of listeners' requests, including: Steiner The Fountainhead
National PO, conductor Charles Gerhardt Uadov Three Preludes
Boris Berezowsky (piano) Brahms Alto Rhapsody
Aafje Heynis (contralto), Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Eduard van Beinum Mozart Violin Concerto No 6 in E flat, K268 Scottish CO, director Ernst Kovacic (violin) Simpson Horn Trio Richard Watkins (horn), Pauline Lowbury (violin),
Christopher Green-Arm itage (piano)
Debussy Rhapsodie Sabine Meyer(clarinet), Berlin PO, conductor Claudio Abbado
Lehmann Myself When Young (In a Persian Garden) John Tomlinson (bass), Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor David Parry
Balakirev Piano Concerto No 2 in E flat
Malcolm Binns (piano), English Northern Philharmonia, conductor David Lloyd-Jones Producer Anthony Sellors. ADDRESS: Listeners' Choice, BBC Birmingham, B5 7QQ PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: listeners.choice@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter
Conductor:
Charles Gerhardt
Piano:
Boris Berezowsky
Violin:
Ernst Kovacic
Horn:
Pauline Lowbury
Violin:
Christopher Green-Arm
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Bass:
John Tomlinson
Piano:
Malcolm Binns
Conductor:
David Lloyd-Jones
Producer:
Anthony Sellors.

Claire Martin with news of the UK Jazz scene.
Producer Keith Loxam. ADDRESS: Jazz Line-Up.
Room 220, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow, G128DG. E MAIL: jazzlineup@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Claire Martin
Producer:
Keith Loxam.
Unknown:
Queen Margaret Drive

Woody Allen New Orleans Clarinet
In the last of Woody Allen 's series on New Orleans clarinet playing the film-maker looks at the work of Barney Bigard, Alphonse Picou and Mile Barnes.

Contributors

Unknown:
Woody Allen
Unknown:
Woody Allen
Unknown:
Alphonse Picou
Unknown:
Mile Barnes.

Tchaikovsky had a special affection for Pushkin's tale of an innocent young girl callously rejected by a world-weary cynic. The score portrays not only the turmoil of Tatiana as she desperately writes to Onegin but also the cold, glittering world of 19th-century St Petersburg society.
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Jurowski Act 1
7.45 Interval: The Met Opera Quiz
Send questions to Met Opera Quiz, [address removed]
8.10 Opera Snaps With Rodney Milnes.
8.15 Acts 2 and 3
BROADCAST GUIDE: For a free copy of the Met Broadcast Guide, call the BBC Information line on [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Eugene Onegln
Conductor:
Vladimir Jurowski
Unknown:
Rodney Milnes.
Eugene Onegin:
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Tatiana:
Solvelg Kringelbom (soprano)
Olga:
Katarina Karneus (mezzo)
Lensky:
Marcello Giordani (tenor)
Prince Gremin:
Robert Lloyd (bass)

An audio field-diary investigation into the history of radio enthusiasts and short-wave hobbyists recorded and assembled by David Ellis. Ellis follows the trail of one particular operator who was a teenager in 1957 when he exchanged cards with other hams to acknowledge the reception and sending of transmissions. Music by Richard Kilgour with additional material by Jo Thomas.

Contributors

Presenter:
David Ellis
Music:
Richard Kilgour
Additional Material:
Jo Thomas
Producer:
Jeremy Mortimer

Verity Sharp presents a concert recorded at the start of the month by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre-Andre Valade , with a focus on Scottish composers: Stuart MacRae 's The Witch's Kiss, Gordon MacPherson 's Handguns -A Suite, Jennifer Martin 's Hearing Pictures, and the world premiere of a BBC commission, Edward Harper 's Elegy for
Horn, with David Rack as the soloist. Plus a concert recording of Piers Hellawell's
StringQuartet, and from a recentCD, James Dillon 's Vernal Showers, played by Irvine Arditti (violin) with the Nieuw Ensemble.

Contributors

Unknown:
Verity Sharp
Unknown:
Andre Valade
Unknown:
Stuart MacRae
Unknown:
Gordon MacPherson
Unknown:
Jennifer Martin
Unknown:
Edward Harper
Unknown:
David Rack
Unknown:
James Dillon

With Jill Anderson.

Sibelius Violin Concerto, Op 4; Mahler Symphony No 4

2.35 Leonardo Vinci Li Zite'n Galera (excerpts)

2.55 Weber Piano Sonata No 4 in E minor, Op 70

3.20 Beethoven String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131

4.00 Aarre Merlkanto Scherzo for Orchestra

4.10 Tchaikovsky Fatum - Fantasy for orchestra, Op 77

4.30 Telemann Giovedi - Pyrmonter Kurwoche

4.50 Blaz Amic Overture to the Comic Opera, Op 11

5.00 Christoph Bernhard Wohl Dem, Derden Herren Furchtet

5.10 Adam z Wagrowca Toccata in Elevazione; Ave Maris Stella; Fantasia super secundum tonum

5.20 Nicolas Gombert Media Vita in Morte Sumus

5.25 Debussy Images, Book 1

5.40 Liszt Preludes

Contributors

Presenter:
Jill Anderson

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