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With Martin Handley.
6.10 Mercadante Decimino 1 Philharmonia Soloists, conductor Pietro Spada
6.40 Prokofiev A Summer Day
Tampere PO, conductor Leonard Grin
7.00 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves New York Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Leonard Bernstein
7.20 JC Bach Duet in G, Op 15
Christopher Hogwood and Christophe Rousset (square pianos)
8.00 Strauss Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur
8.45 Janacek The Lord's Prayer
Choir of Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge, conductor Geoffrey Webber
Full details of Momingon 3'smusic are posted atwww.bbc. co.uk/radio3/playlists a few days before transmission

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Handley.
Conductor:
Pietro Spada
Conductor:
Leonard Grin
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Unknown:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Christophe Rousset
Conductor:
Kurt Masur
Conductor:
Geoffrey Webber

Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's CD releases.
9.30 Building a Library: Patrick 0' Connor recommends a recording of Donizetti's opera L 'Elisird'Amorefrom among those currently available.
10.15 A look at some recent reissues.
10.30 Lowri Blake reviews new releases of string chamber music, including
Bartok's 44 Duos for two violins, and a recent issue by the Brodsky Quartet.
11.00 An interview with the bass
John Tomlinson , whose recordings range from WagnertoBirtwistle.
11.30 Disc of the Week: Berio Naturale
Kim Kashkashian (viola),
Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion) 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:
Lowri Blake
Bass:
John Tomlinson
Unknown:
Berio Naturale
Viola:
Kim Kashkashian
Viola:
Robyn Schulkowsky
Producers:
Mark Lowther
Producers:
Andrew Lyle

Michael Berkeley 's guest is novelist and playwright Nigel Williams , author of the bestselling The Wimbledon Poisoner and Fortysomething. His musical choices include Bach, a Mozart piano concerto, a song by Muddy Waters and This Is the Record of John by Orlando Gibbons. Repeated tomorrow 3pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Nigel Williams
Unknown:
Orlando Gibbons.

Humphrey Carpenter introduces listeners' requests, including:
Fucik Liebesflammen Czech PO, conductor Vaclav Neumann
Walton Variations on a theme of Hindemith Cleveland Orchestra, conductor George Szell
Handel Coronation Anthem: Zadok the Priest, HWV258 ChoirofWestminster Abbey, conductor Simon Preston
Honegger Cello Concerto
Mstislav Rostropovich , LSO, conductor Kent Nagano Producer Anthony Sellors. ADDRESS: Listeners' Choice, BBC Birmingham. B5 7QQ. PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: listeners.choice@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Introduces:
Humphrey Carpenter
Conductor:
Vaclav Neumann
Conductor:
George Szell
Conductor:
Simon Preston
Unknown:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Producer:
Anthony Sellors.

Bassist Ron Carter was on tour recently with drummer Billy Cobham and pianist Kenny Barron. Sarah Cropper caught up with him. Plus new CDs and the UK Gig Guide, introduced by Stacey Kent.
Producer Keith Loxam. ADDRESS: Jazz Line-Up,
Room 220, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow. G12 8DG. E-MAIL: jazzlineup@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Bassist:
Ron Carter
Unknown:
Billy Cobham
Pianist:
Kenny Barron.
Pianist:
Sarah Cropper
Introduced By:
Stacey Kent.
Producer:
Keith Loxam.
Unknown:
Queen Margaret Drive

Better Get It in Your Soul
Brian Priestley 's six-part profile of the great American composer, bandleader and bassist Charles Mingus. 2:
Celia Mingus and drummer Max Roach recall the founding of the Debut record label with Mingus in New York, and saxophonist
Jackie McLean talks about his work on the 1956 album Pithecanthropus Erectus.

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Priestley
Bassist:
Charles Mingus.
Bassist:
Celia Mingus
Unknown:
Max Roach
Talks:
Jackie McLean

Trovatore Verdi 's drama of mistaken identity, chivalry and revenge contains some of his best tunes and most stirring choruses.
Elijah Moshinsky 's new production is introduced by lain Burnside.
Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Carlo Rizzi Acts 1 and 2 8.15 Twenty Minutes: Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
Janet Suzman reads from Jan Morris 's latest book on herfavourite city.
8.35 Acts 3 and 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Trovatore Verdi
Unknown:
Elijah Moshinsky
Unknown:
Janet Suzman
Unknown:
Jan Morris
Leonora:
Veronica Villarroel (soprano)
Manrico:
Jose Cura (tenor)
Azucena:
Yvonne Naef (mezzo)
Count di Luna:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
Ferrando:
Tomas Tomasson(bass)
Ines:
Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (soprano)
Ruiz:
Edgaras Montvidas (tenor)
Old gypsy:
Thomas Barnard (bass)
Messenger:
Douglas Telfer (tenor)

Ian McMillan hosts the Saturday night word cabaret, which tonight features new work from poet and novelist Jackie Kay. And a look at the Black Mountain writers of North Carolina, whose avant-garde experiments afterthe Second World War influenced the Beats, Pop Art and early rock.

Contributors

Presenter:
Ian McMillan

Sarah Walker presents a Young Composers' Workshop concert given by the BBC Philharmonic and its composer/conductor James MacMillan in Manchester. Mahir Cetlz Left
Ian Dickson
Polyphony Larry Goves Something like a Sense of Detachment
Ricardo Martinez Leal A Dream: Lancelot's Hand
John Croft Inventions de I'Autre Lucy Mulgan Ruapeho
Plus a performance of James MacMillan 's Parthenogenesis, a setting of Michael Symmons Roberts 's text inspired by the story of a German woman who miraculously gave birth after an Allied air raid in 1944. Merryn Gamba (soprano), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone),
Cliona Cassidy (speaker) and the New Ensemble are directed at the Royal Northern College of Music by the Composer.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Walker
Conductor:
James MacMillan
Unknown:
Ian Dickson
Unknown:
Larry Goves
Unknown:
Ricardo Martinez Leal
Unknown:
John Croft
Unknown:
James MacMillan
Unknown:
Michael Symmons Roberts
Soprano:
Merryn Gamba
Baritone:
David Wilson-Johnson
Baritone:
Cliona Cassidy

With Jonathan Swain.

Beethoven Piano Trio in G, Op 1 No 2
Milhaud Suite de Concert: La Creation du Monde, Op 81b
Beethoven String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131

2.30 Palestrina Lamentationen zum Karsamstag

2.55 Bruckner Symphony No 9 in D minor

3.50 Rachmaninov Suite No 2 for two pianos, Op 17

4.15 Dauvergne Ballet

4.30 Tchaikovsky Waltz (Serenade in C, Op 48)

4.40 Wassenaer Concerto No 4 in G

4.50 Philippe Verdelot Sint Dicte Grates Christo

5.05 Fasch Sonata in D minor

5.15 Goossens Concertino for double string orchestra

5.30 Saint-Saens Havanaise

5.40 Mozart Sonata in F, K533/494 (arr Grieg for two pianos)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Palestrina Lamentationen
Unknown:
Tchaikovsky Waltz
Unknown:
Philippe Verdelot

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