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With Martin Handley.
JC Bach Sinfonia No 1 in E flat
Consortium Classicum
6.30 Strauss Tanzsuite
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
7.00 Vivaldi Sopranino Recorder
Concerto in C, RV444 Michala Petri ,
I Solisti Veneti , conductor Claudio Scimone
8.00 Zemlinsky Overture: Sarema Danish National Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Thomas Dausgaard
8.10 Schubert Impromptu in G flat, D899 No 3 Artur Rubinstein (piano)
8.45 Copland Prairie Journal (Music for Radio) St Louis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Full details of Momingon 3 's music are posted at www.bbc. co.uk/radio3/playlists a few days before transmission EMAIL: morningon3@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Handley.
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Michala Petri
Conductor:
Solisti Veneti
Conductor:
Claudio Scimone
Conductor:
Thomas Dausgaard
Piano:
Artur Rubinstein
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin

With Andrew McGregor , who plays some of this month's newest releases.
9.30 Building a Library: Jeremy Summerly compares the currently available recordings of Poulenc's Mass in G.
10.15 A roundup of recent CD reissues.
10.30 Colin Lawson reviews some recent recordings of chamber music, including two of Schubert's Octet in D, D803.
11.00 An interview with pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard , including news of his recent release of the complete Beethoven piano concertos.
11.30 Disc of the Week:
Ninna Nanna: Berceuse and Lullabies
1500-2002 (excerpts)
Montserrat Figueras (soprano),
Hesperion XXI, director Jordi Savall www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview EMAIL: cdreview@bbc.co.uk
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Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Unknown:
Jeremy Summerly
Unknown:
Colin Lawson
Pianist:
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Director:
Jordi Savall

Michael Berkeley 's guest is South African writer Andre Brink. After studies in Paris in the 1960s he repudiated his country's apartheid policies, and his many novels confrontthe realities and dilemmas of life in present-day South Africa. His musical passions include Haydn, Mozart,
Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, a Croatian folk song and a chanson by Frangoise Hardy. Repeated tomorrow 3pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Andre Brink.
Unknown:
Frangoise Hardy.

Humphrey Carpenter introduces a selection of listeners' requests, including: Gorb Hymns Uproarious
Benjamin Luxon and Sheila Amit (narrators), London Belmont Ensemble, conductor Peter Gilbert-Dyson Respighi Church Windows
Philharmonia, conductor Geoffrey Simon Meyerbeer Qui in Manu Dei Requiescit Margaret Feaviour (soprano), Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor),
BBC Singers, conductor Simon Joly
ADDRESS: Listeners' Choice. New Broadcasting House, Manchester M60 1SJ Phone: [number removed]
Email: listeners.choice@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Introduces:
Humphrey Carpenter
Unknown:
Benjamin Luxon
Narrators:
Sheila Amit
Conductor:
Peter Gilbert-Dyson
Conductor:
Geoffrey Simon
Conductor:
Meyerbeer Qui
Unknown:
Manu Dei Requiescit
Soprano:
Margaret Feaviour
Tenor:
Andrew Murgatroyd
Conductor:
Simon Joly

Pianist Brian Kellock and his Handful of Keys play the music of Fats Waller. Kellock gives stride piano a 21st-centurytwist in a concert recorded in Henry's Cellar Bar in Edinburgh. Introduced by Claire Martin.

Contributors

Pianist:
Brian Kellock
Unknown:
Fats Waller.
Introduced By:
Claire Martin.

Significant Others - Booker Little
Jez Nelson continues his occasional series aboutjazz musicians who deserve greater recognition. Having performed with Max Roach and John Coltrane , trumpeter
Booker Little worked with saxophonist Eric Dolphy , with whom he was credited as being one of the innovators of the post-bop sound. Sadly, Booker died at the age of 23.

Contributors

Unknown:
Booker Little
Unknown:
Jez Nelson
Unknown:
Max Roach
Unknown:
John Coltrane
Unknown:
Booker Little
Unknown:
Eric Dolphy

Faust
Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna join an all-star cast in Gounod's reworking of the DrFaustus story. The philosopher's pact with the Devil wreaks havoc all round in a tale of seduction and murder.
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Bertrand de Billy Prologue; Act 1
7.25 Twenty Minutes: Letters from the New World Outerness: a Story or Two
Irish writer Colum McCann , now a resident of New York, thinks about what it is that makes America different from Ireland.
7.45 Act 2
8.40 Twenty Minutes: The Cloisters Tim Marlow visits the part of the Metropolitan Museum of New York devotedto medieval acquisitions, including five cloisters and an apse transported stone by stone from Europe.
9.00 Opera Snaps Rodney Milnes takes a sideways glance at this evening's opera.
9.05 Act 3; Epilogue

Contributors

Unknown:
Angela Gheorghiu
Unknown:
Roberto Alagna
Conductor:
Bertrand de Billy
Unknown:
Colum McCann
Unknown:
Tim Marlow
Unknown:
Rodney Milnes
Marguerite:
Angela Gheorghlu Soprano)
Sifibel:
Katarina Kameus (mezzo)
Faust:
Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Valentin:
Dwayne Croft (baritone)
Mephistopheles:
James Morris (bass)
Marthe:
Catherine Cook (mezzo)
Wagner:
Alfred Walker (bass-Baritone)

Ian McMillan meets the editor of and some of the contributors to Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, which has published a collection of its essays exploring the byways of English. And Welsh author Emyr Humphreys , now in his eighties, reads his most recent story.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McMillan
Unknown:
Emyr Humphreys

Italian Triptych: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alwynne Pritchard introduces the last of three programmes of modern Italian music, conducted by Emilio Pomarico. Luca Lombardi Praeludium
Fabio Vacchi Dai Calanchi di Sabbiuno
Niccolo Castiglioni Morceaux Lyriques Luciano Berio Chemins IV
Salvatore Sciarrino Quattro Intermezzi Franco Donatoni Tema
Plus a performance by the Arditti Quartet: Berio Glosse; String Quartet No 1

Contributors

Conducted By:
Emilio Pomarico.

With Jonathan Swain.
Mahler Symphony No 6 3.20 BST Debussy En Blanc et Noir 3.35 Vieuxtemps Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor 4.05 Mozart
Violin Sonata in G, K301 4.20Satie, orch Milhaud Jack-in-the-Box 4.25 Rachmaninov
Prelude in F sharp minor, Op 23 No 1
4.30 Rimsky-Korsakov The Three Wonders (The Tale of Tsar Saltan) 4.40 Pachelbel Canon and Gigue in D 4.45 Pergolesi
Violin Concerto in B flat 5.00 Svendsen
Norwegian Artists' Carnival, Op 14
5.05Jamefett Berceuse 5.10 Bach Komm, Jesu, Komm, BWV229 5.15 Hellendaal Cello Sonata No 7, Op 5 5.30 Albert Lortzing Heiterkeit und Frohlichkeit
(DerWildschutz) 5.35 Mozart Symphony No 35 in D, K385 (Haffner)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.

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