With Martin Handley.
Nicolai Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor
6.45 JC Bach Symphonie Concertante in Eflat
7.30 Anon, 17th-century Hungarian Dance Suite: Olach Tancz
7.40 Bartok Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (Mikrokosmos, Book 6)
8.00 Saint-Saëns Suite Algérienne, Op 60
8.30 Telemann Overture in C (Water Music) Full details of Morning on 3's music are posted atwww.bbc. co.uk/radio3/playlists a few days before transmission
Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's CD releases.
9.30 Building a Library: lain Burnside recommends a recording of Walton's Belshazzar's Feast.
10.15 Peter Paul Nash compares recent recordings of Nielsen's Sixth Symphony with his Building a Librarychoice.
10.30 Anthony Burton reviews new releases of late 20th-century music. including an important recording of Pulse Shadows by Harrison Birtwistle.
11.00 An interview with Finnish soprano
Soile Isokoski , including news of her latest recording of Strauss's Four Last Songs.
11.35 Disc of the Week: Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor (excerpt) Albert Sammons (violin), New Queen's Hall Orchestra, conductor Henry Wood Producers Mark Lowther and Andrew Lyle
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Michael Berkeley 's guest is poet Simon Armitage , whose collections include
Zoom!, Kid, The Dead Sea Poems and Cloudcuckooland. He has also written for radio, TV and theatre, and recently published his first novel, Little Green Man. His choices include songs by Hugo Wolf , Nina Simone and Radiohead, and sacred music by Arvo Part, Durufle and Tavener. Repeated tomorrow 3pm
Humphrey Carpenter presents this week's selection of listeners' requests, including: Maconchy Overture: Proud Thames LPO, conductor Vernon Handley
Kaiser-Lindemann Die 12 in Bossa Nova Bacharach South American Getaway
Twelve Cellos of the Berlin PO
Bach Trio Sonata in G, BWV530 Peter Hurford (organ)
Beethoven Piano Sonata in E, Op 109 Maria JoaoPires
Arensky Egyptian Nights
USSR RSO, conductor Alexander Alexeev Poulenc Babarthe Elephant Barry Humphries (narrator),
Melbourne SO, conductor John Lanchbery Producer Anthony Sellors. ADDRESS: Listeners' Choice, BBC Birmingham, B5 7QQ. PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: listeners.choice@bbc.co.uk
Claire Martin talks to saxophonist Mark Lockheart about his new CD Imaginary Dances, and about the Scratch Band.
Producer Keith Loxam. ADDRESS: Jazz Line-Up, Room 220, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow. G12 8DG. E.MAll:jazzlineup@bbc.co.uk
With Geoffrey Smith.
Producer Felix Carey. ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London, W1A 4WW FAX: [number removed]
E-MAIL: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk
Charlie Parker. In the first of four programmes on Charlie Parker and his music, Brian Morton examines the sources of Parker's inspiration. 1: WoodsheddingonPrez
Live from the Met: Triple Bill
Three French 20th-century classics: Satie's ballet Parade, composed to a scenario by Jean Cocteau ; Poulenc's only comic opera, Les Mamelles de Tiresias, based on a play by Apollinaire; and Ravel's L 'Enfant et les Sortilèges, which shows how a naughty child learns a little human kindness afterthetoys and furniture he has abused in his tantrums come to life. Satie Ballet: Parade
Poulenc Les Mamelles de Tiresias
7.45 Interval: Colette's Magic Spells French author Colette completed her fantasy ballet libretto in just a couple of weeks, but it took Ravel a further eight years to complete the score. In their letters they discuss the work's progress towards its premiere at the Opera de Monte Carlo.
8.10 Opera Snaps With Rodney Milnes.
8.15 Ravel L'Enfant et les Sortilèges
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor James Levine
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Beethoven Septet in E flat, Op 20
A Parisian in Paradise
Paris, 1943. Two parallel worlds collide: the inner musical visions of Olivier Messiaen and the public noise of war. collaboration, resistance and impossible love. From the debris of this encounter a cycle of seven movements is born -
Creation, Stars, Agony, Desire, Angels, Judgement and Consummation.
Recreated forthe radio by Antony Pitts , including additional music performed by Bing Crosby , George Formby and Dooley Wilson , and the voices of Ekene Akalawu , Winston Churchill , CS Lewis , Kathryn Oswald , Peter Ustinov and Ellen Vince.
Sarah Walker presents a concert given earlierthis month by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Johannes Kalitzke. Plus new music on CD byToshio Hosokawa and byYounghi Pagh-Paan . Joyce Bee Tuan Koh
Tai Karen Tanaka Guardian Angel Unsuk Chin
Kala With Emma Bell (soprano), Jeremy Birchall (bass), BBC Singers Uza Um The Tree of Life
With Jonathan Swain.
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G, BWV1048 (1st mvt); Brandenburg
Concerto No 5 in D, BWV1050Strauss Metamorphosen 2.00 Schein Fontana d'lsrael, Israelis Brunlein
3.30 Rinck Variations on HerrJesu
3.40 Respighl Vetrate di Chiesa
4.10 Telemann Bassoon Sonata in F minor
4.20 Eugen d" Albert Ballade in F minor (Tiefland) 4.30 Sarasate Fantasy after Bizet's Carmen, Op 25 4.50 Verdi
Overture: La Forza del Destino 5.00 Bach
Oboe Sonata in G minor, BWV1030b
5.10 Traditional, arr Cossetto Croatian Folk Songs 5.15 Schubert Violin Sonata
No 1 in D, D384 5.30 Leo Cello Concerto in D minor 5.50 Beethoven Seven Variations on God Save the King in C, WoO 78