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With Sandy Burnett.
Arnold, arr Philip Lane Suite from Trapeze
6.15 Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op 5 No 1
7.25 Stravinsky Ebony Concerto
7.42 Handel Concerto Grosso in A, HWV329
8.40 Schumann Konzertstuck in F, Op 86 Full detailsof Momingon 3's music are posted atwwwbbc. co.uk/radio3/playlists a few days before transmission

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandy Burnett.
Unknown:
Schumann Konzertstuck

Andrew McGregor plays new CD releases.
9.30 Building Library: Geoffrey Smith recommends a recording of Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore.
10.15 A look at some recent re-issues.
10.30 Ivan Hewett reviews new releases of 20th-century music, including
Pierre Boulez conducting his Pli selon Pli and the latest album from the Kronos Quartet.
11.00 An interview with Stefan Winter about his Winter and Winter label, which ranges from Brahms on period instruments to travelogues in sound.
11.30 Disc of the Week: Homo Fugit Velut Umbra. 17th-century consort music by Stefano Landi , performed by L'Arpeggiata, director Christina Pluhar 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:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Ivan Hewett
Unknown:
Pierre Boulez
Unknown:
Stefan Winter
Music By:
Stefano Landi
Director:
Christina Pluhar

Michael Berkeley 's guest is the director general of Cancer Research UK,
Paul Nurse , who last year was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for his ground-breaking research into the causes of cancer. His musical choices range from medieval Spanish songs, through Handel, Beethoven, Schubert and Shostakovich to Brahms's German Requiemand operas by Benjamin Britten and Philip Glass. Repeated tomorrow 3pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Paul Nurse
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten

Humphrey Carpenter introduces listeners' requests, including:
Strauss Moonlight Music (Capriccio) Vienna PO/Christoph Eschenbach Francaix Concertino
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano),
Montreal SO, conductor Charles Dutoit Mendelssohn Lauda Sion , Op 73 Gulbenkian Choir and Orchestra, conductor Michel Corboz
ADDRESS: Listeners' Choice, BBC Birmingham. B5 7QQ. PHONE: [number removed]
E-MAIL: listeners.choice@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Introduces:
Humphrey Carpenter
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Conductor:
Mendelssohn Lauda Sion
Conductor:
Michel Corboz

Hammond organ ace Joey DeFranceso chats to Sarah Cropper on his recent visit to the UK. Plus set from newly formed Anorak, with material written by lain Ballamy recorded at this year's
Cheltenham International Jazz Festival. ADDRESS: JazzLine-Up, Room 220, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow, G12 8DG E-MAIL: jazzlineup@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Joey Defranceso
Unknown:
Sarah Cropper
Unknown:
Queen Margaret Drive

Chanson Irresponsable: the Music of Mike and Kate Westbrook. Linton
Chiswick focuses this week on Mike and Kate Westbrook 's trio with saxophonist
Chris Biscoe.theirground-breaking Dance Band and the 1988 recording London
Bridge Is Broken Down. With contributions from Mike and Kate Westbrook , Art Lange , Paul Nieman , Chris Biscoe and others.

Contributors

Unknown:
Kate Westbrook.
Unknown:
Kate Westbrook
Unknown:
Kate Westbrook
Unknown:
Art Lange
Unknown:
Paul Nieman
Unknown:
Chris Biscoe

Gluck's masterpiece, which took Paris by storm in 1774, revolves around the cruel dilemma of Agamemnon, who is ordered by the gods to sacrifice his only daughter, the innocent Iphigenie. She is torn between acceptance of her fate and her love forthe hero Achille. Presented by Donald Macleod , who also talks to members of the cast and to the director, ChristofLoy.
Glyndebourne Chorus, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Ivor Botton Parti
8.45 Twenty Minutes: Sacrifice
Philosopher AC Grayling explores the role played by the idea of sacrifice in myth, religion and life: from literal sacrifice to its metaphorical place in views about value and what is ultimately worthwhile.
9.05 Part 2

Contributors

Presented By:
Donald MacLeod
Conductor:
Ivor Botton
Agamemnon:
Gerald Finley (baritone)
Calchas:
Clive Bayley (bass)
Iphigenie:
Veronica Cangemi (soprano)
Clitemnestre:
Katarina Kameus (mezzo)
Achille:
Jonas Degerfeldt (tenor)
Patrocle:
Riccardo Simonetti (baritone)
Areas:
Charbel Matter (bass)
Diane:
Marie Amet (soprano)

Ian McMillan presents the Booker Prize-winning South African writer JM Coetzee reading a new story, Eros and Psyche, about relationships between men and gods. And American radio producer
Gregory Whitehead introduces the first in a series of audio-cartoons with a language theme.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McMillan
Unknown:
Jm Coetzee
Introduces:
Gregory Whitehead

Sarah Walker introduces highlights from New Music in Oxford, featuring a concert by Studio New Music, one of Russia's most active contemporary ensembles, whose main aim is to integrate Russian music into contemporary inter-European musical and cultural developments. And ZGA, a band from Riga renowned for its use of noise instruments, in a session entitled Strange and Beautiful Noise. Music includes:
Galina Ustvolskaya Symphony No 5
Alexey Sioumak Letters without Words Vladimir Tamopolski Chevengur
Dmitry Kourliandsky Innermost Man Alexander Vustin Chevengur 's Songs Alia Kesselman Islands of Silence
Nikolai Korndorf Get Out

Contributors

Introduces:
Sarah Walker
Unknown:
Galina Ustvolskaya
Unknown:
Vladimir Tamopolski Chevengur
Unknown:
Dmitry Kourliandsky
Unknown:
Alexander Vustin Chevengur

With Jill Anderson. Handel Concerto
Grosso in D, Op 6 No 5 Vivaldi Nisi
Dominus, RV608; Recorder Concerto in C, RV444; Cantata: Cessate Omai
Cessate, RV684 Handel Water Music
Suite No 2 in D, HWV349; Caesar's aria: Va Tacito e Nascosto (Giulio Cesare in Egitto); Ombra Mai Fu (Serse)
2.15 Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits
(Orfeo ed Euridice) 2.20 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G2.55 Dvorak Serenade in D minor, Op 44 3.20 Mozart Violin Sonata in G, K301 3.40 Respighi Rossiniana4.10 Carlos Salzedo
Variations surun Thème dans le Style
Ancien, Op 304.20 Lassus Motet: Gratia Sola Dei 4.30 Byrd Alman 4.40 Gertrude van den Bergh Rondeau, Op 34.50 Berlioz Overture: Le Corsaire 5.00
Schickhard Flute Sonata in C 5.10
Brahms Fest und Gedenkspruche, Op 109
5.20 Haydn Symphony No 2 7 in G 5.35 Telemann Sonata Polonaise in A minor for violin, viola and continuo
5.45 Milhaud, arrT Kaln Scaramouche

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Anderson.
Unknown:
Gertrude van Den Bergh

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