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With Martin Handley.

Weber Clarinet Concertino in E flat, Op 26

6.30 Haydn Symphony No 45 in F sharp minor (Farewell)

7.00 Beethoven Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 7

7.40 Ravel Violin Sonata

8.00 Handel, arr Mackerras Music for the Royal Fireworks

8.40 Locatelli Violin Concerto in A, Op 3 Noll

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

Contributors

Presenter:
Martin Handley

Andrew McGregor plays new CD releases.
9.30 Building a Library: David Owen
Norris compares recordings of Rhapsody on a theme ofPaganini by Rachmaninov.
10.15 A roundup of some recent re-issues.
10.30 Piers Burton-Page reviews recent song discs, including music by Bantock, Schumann and Hugo Wolf.
11.00 An interview with award-winning baroque violinist Rachel Podger.
11.30 Disc of the Week: Vivaldi
L 'Olimpiade (excerpt) Soloists, Concerto Italiano, director Rinaldo Alessandrini www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview EMAIL: 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:
David Owen
Unknown:
Hugo Wolf.
Violinist:
Rachel Podger.
Director:
Rinaldo Alessandrini

Michael Berkeley 's guest today is writer
Sue Townsend , creator of the diarist Adrian Mole. Her other writings include the plays Bazaar and Rummage and The Great Celestial Cow, and the novels The Queen and I and Ghost Children. She has just published a new novel, Number Ten, a wry look at British political life. Her musical choices include a Bach cello suite, the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, Brahms's German Requiem, and songs by Edith Piaf , JackTeagarden and Shandileer. Repeated tomorrow 3pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Sue Townsend
Unknown:
Adrian Mole.
Songs By:
Edith Piaf

Humphrey Carpenter introduces listeners' requests, including:
Poulenc Babarthe Elephant Barry Humphries (narrator),
Melbourne SO, conductor John Lanchberry
Ligeti Romanian Concerto Berlin PO, conductor Jonathan Nott
Weinberger Variations and Fugue on an Old English Tune London Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Constant Lambert
ADDRESS: Listeners ' Choice, New Broadcasting House, Manchester M60 1SJ PHONE: [number removed]
EMAIL: listeners.choice@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Introduces:
Humphrey Carpenter
Narrator:
Barry Humphries
Conductor:
John Lanchberry
Conductor:
Ligeti Romanian Concerto Berlin
Conductor:
Jonathan Nott

Robert Crumb 's Sweet Shellac
American cartoonist Robert Crumb with a final selection from his collection of 78s of jazz and popular music from the 1920s and 30s. 4: Some rare examples of music recorded by African-American string bands in the 1920s and 30s.

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Crumb
Unknown:
Robert Crumb

Dialogues des Carmelites
Poulenc's opera tells the story of Blanche, a young aristocrat who joins the Carmelite convent at Compiegne at the height of the French Revolution. When the convent is attacked and desecrated, the nuns take the vow of martyrdom. The opera is both tranquil and lyrical, and atestamentto Poulenc's strong religious faith.
Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera, conductor James Conlan
Act
7.55 Twenty Minutes: Met Quiz
Steven Blier puts listeners' questions to William Fulton , Bill Lutes and Terrence McNally. Send questions to:
Met Opera Quiz, FOR Station, PO Box 805, New York, NY 10150, USA.
8.15 Opera Snaps With Rod ney M Ines.
8.20 Act 2

Contributors

Conductor:
James Conlan
Unknown:
Steven Blier
Unknown:
William Fulton
Unknown:
Bill Lutes
Unknown:
Terrence McNally.
Blanche de le Force:
Patricia Racette (soprano)
Mme Lidoine:
Christine Goerke (soprano)
Constance Heidi:
Grant Murphy (soprano)
Mere Marie:
Stephanie Blythe (mezzo)
First Prioress:
Felicity Palmer (mezzo)
Chevalier de la Force:
Matthew Polenzani (tenor)
Marquis de la Force:
James Courtney (bass)
Soeur Mathilde:
Diane Curry (mezzo)
Mere Jeanne:
Sheila Nadler (mezzo)
Chaplain:
Jonathan Welch (tenor)
Thierry:
Bernard Fitch (tenor)
Javelinot:
Andrew Gangestad (bass)
Commissioner 1:
Ronald Naldi (tenor)
Commissioner 2:
Thomas Hammons (bass)
Jailer:
Jeffrey Wells (bass)

Ian McMillan devotes this edition to some of the new works that The Verb has commissioned since its first edition.
These include Eros and Psyche, a short story written and read by JM Coetzee;
God's Blood, a drama for radio by Guillermo Arriaga; Jackie Kay's double monologue
The Silence; sonnets from Alice Oswald 's sequence; and an example of the eartoon. Plus a new poem by Michael Symmons Roberts, commissioned to mark the time of the arrival of the Magi.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McMillan
Unknown:
Guillermo Arriaga
Unknown:
Jackie Kay
Unknown:
Alice Oswald
Unknown:
Michael Symmons

The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre-Andre Valade , and Dutch ensemble HetTrio perform works by Jonathan Harvey in a portrait of the British composer, first heard in 2001. Presented by Sarah Walker. Jonathan Harvey Tranquil Abiding;
Nataranja; White As Jasmine (With soprano Anu Komsi ); TheRiot; Timepieces (With second conductor Matthew Rose )
Also, Jonathan Harvey introduces music by a favourite fellow composer:
James Wood Mountain Language John Kenny (alphorn), Colin Currie
(cowbells), the Composer (computer)
And a CD recording of his chamber music: Jonathan Harvey Wheel of Emptiness ICtUS

Contributors

Conducted By:
Pierre-Andre Valade
Unknown:
Jonathan Harvey
Presented By:
Sarah Walker.
Soprano:
Anu Komsi
Conductor:
Matthew Rose
Introduces:
Jonathan Harvey
Unknown:
Colin Currie
Music:
Jonathan Harvey Wheel

With John Shea.
Haydn Violin Sonata in G, H XV32
Debussy Violin Sonata Schubert Violin Sonata in A, D5 74; Fantasy in C for violin and piano, D934 2.10 Mozart Cantata: Davidde Penitente , K469 3.00 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115
3.35 Liszt Piano Concerto No I in E flat
4.00 Salomone Rossi Cor Mio Deh Non
Languire 4.05 Franz Berwald Fantasia on two Swedish folk songs 4.15 Sarrier Symphony 4.30 Strauss Dance of the Seven Veils (Salome) 4.40 Rosenmuller Sinfonia Quinta 4.50 Jurriaan Andriessen Sonnet No 43 5.00 Joseph Jongen Sonata Eroica for organ, Op 94 5.20
Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118; Gretchen im Zwinger , D564 5.30 Heino Eller Three Pieces (Five Pieces for strings)
5.45 Faure Dolly Suite, Op 56

Contributors

Unknown:
John Shea.
Unknown:
Davidde Penitente
Unknown:
Salomone Rossi Cor Mio
Unknown:
Franz Berwald Fantasia
Unknown:
Strauss Dance
Unknown:
Joseph Jongen Sonata
Unknown:
Schubert Gretchen
Unknown:
Gretchen Im Zwinger
Unknown:
Heino Eller

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