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With Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Rossini Overture: La Scala di
Seta Concerto Italiano, conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini Haydn Violin Concerto in C, H Vila No 1 Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, director Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin)
8.00-9.00: Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps LPO, conductor Adrian Boult Brahms Trio in E flat, Op 40 Marie Luise
Neunecker(horn), Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano)
Fulldetails of Morning on 3's music are posted at www.bbc. co.uk/radio3/playlists a few days before transmission PHONE: [number removed] email: morningon3@bbc.co.uk Address: Morning on 3, BBC Radio 3,
Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Handley.
Unknown:
La Scala
Conductor:
Rinaldo Alessandrini Haydn
Violin:
Elizabeth Wallfisch
Conductor:
Adrian Boult
Conductor:
Brahms Trio
Unknown:
Marie Luise
Horn:
Frank Peter Zimmermann
Violin:
Wolfgang Sawallisch

Andrew McGregor plays the latest releases.
9.30 Buildinga Library: Sarah Walker compares the currently available recordings of Schubert's Impromptus.
10.15 A roundup of recent reissues.
10.45 John Milsom reviews some recent releases of pre-Baroque music, including the Orlando Consort's recording of 16th-century Spanish and Flemish music, medieval songs for Mary Magdalen from
Joglaresa, and a disc of English lute music from Nigel North.
11.15 A conversation with conductor and founder of the Sixteen, HarryChristophers, about the choir's 25th birthday present to itself: Tallis's Spem in Alium in surround-sound on their own Coro label.
11.45 The Listening Booth: Listeners can choose from the list of new CD releases on the programme website .
12.30 Disc of the Week: Handel Giulio Cesare Soloists , Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Marc Minkowski www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview
PHONE: [number removed] email: cdreview@bbc.co.uk Text: [number removed] Disc details are posted on the website and on CEEFAX. BBC1, page 651

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Unknown:
Sarah Walker
Unknown:
John Milsom
Unknown:
Mary Magdalen
Unknown:
Nigel North.
Unknown:
Handel Giulio
Unknown:
Cesare Soloists
Conductor:
Marc Minkowski

Cristofori's Florentine Piano
Around 1700, Bartolomeo Cristofori , keeper of instruments forthe Medicis in Florence, created a harpsichord with a hammer action instead of plectra -the first piano. Catherine Bott meets Denzil Wraight , who has recreated one of Cristofori's early instruments, and Ella Sevskaya , who has recorded a recital on it.

Contributors

Unknown:
Bartolomeo Cristofori
Piano:
Catherine Bott
Unknown:
Denzil Wraight
Unknown:
Ella Sevskaya

London Jazz Festival
Live from the Royal Festival Hall foyer, Denys Baptiste introduces top UKjazz performers the Westbrook Trio - with Mike Westbrook , and saxophonist Dave O'Higgins and his band.

Contributors

Introduces:
Denys Baptiste
Unknown:
Mike Westbrook
Unknown:
Dave O'Higgins

London Jazz Festival
Live from the Free Stage in the Royal Festival Hall foyer, Geoffrey Smith presents a special show in which listeners' requests are performed by lain Ballamy, John Parricelli , Tim Harries and Ian Thomas.
ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House. London W1A 4WW Fax: [number removed]
Email: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
John Parricelli
Unknown:
Tim Harries
Unknown:
Ian Thomas.

Significant Others - Booker Ervin Jez Nelson profiles the late tenor saxophonist, who made his name with Charles Mingus and then with his own quartet. With contributions from bassist Richard Davis and critic Stanley Crouch. Producers Steve Shepherd and Joby Waldman (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Booker Ervin
Unknown:
Jez Nelson
Unknown:
Charles Mingus
Bassist:
Richard Davis
Unknown:
Stanley Crouch.
Producers:
Steve Shepherd
Producers:
Joby Waldman

Vanessa Samuel Barber 's opera, with a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti , tells a dark, gothic tale of passion and self-sacrifice. History repeats itself in the lives of Vanessa, her mother the Baroness, her niece Erika, and the young Anatol. A semi-staged performance, live from London's Barbican. Presented by Christopher Cook.
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Act
8.35 Twenty Minutes: Stop All the Clocks Pianist Simon Townley considers why the desire to halt the ravages of time has been so strong for artists from Auden to Wilde, and in music theatre from Sondheim's
A Little Night Music to Strauss's Rosenkavalier.
8.55 Acts 2 and 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Vanessa Samuel Barber
Unknown:
Gian Carlo Menotti
Presented By:
Christopher Cook.
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin
Pianist:
Simon Townley
Vanessa:
Christine Brewer (soprano)
Erika:
Susan Graham (mezzo)
Baroness:
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto)
Anatol:
William Burden (tenor)
Doctor:
Neal Davies (baritone)
Major-Domo:
Simon Birchall (bass)
Footman:
Stephen Chariesworth (baritone)

Ian McMillan 's guests include American poet CK Williams, Peter Blegvad , who presents an audio cartoon about milk, and ghazal Singer Jagjit Singh. Producer ZahidWarley

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McMillan
Unknown:
Peter Blegvad
Singer:
Jagjit Singh.

BMIC Cutting Edge
From this year's British Music Information Centre series, the Royal Northern College of Music's Brass and Wind Ensemble directed by James Gourlayjoins forces with pianist Philip Mead for a concert of works by British composers, recorded at the Warehouse in Theed Street, London. Nicholas Sackman Meld
Simon Emmerson Arenas (first performance)
Diana Burrell Gold
Geoffrey Poole Lucifer
And Sarah Walker meets Geoffrey Poole and introduces more of his works.
Poole String Quartet No 3 The Lindsays Septembral Gemini

Contributors

Directed By:
James Gourlayjoins
Pianist:
Philip Mead
Unknown:
Sarah Walker
Unknown:
Geoffrey Poole

With Susan Sharpe.
Barbara Bonney (soprano) and Wolfram Rieger (piano) perform music by Mozart,
Schumann, Liszt, Heuberger, Dostal, Zeller and Lehar. 2.10 Vieme Cello Sonata, Op27
2.30 Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor
3.05 Brahms Trio in E flat for horn, violin and piano, Op 40 3.35 Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor 4.00 Telemann Flute
Sonata in D (Essercizii Musici ) 4.10 Bach Singet dem Herrn ein Neues Lied, BWV225
4.25 Dvorak Prague Waltzes
4.30 Beethoven Piano Sonata in E minor, Op 90 4.45 Strauss Frohlicher Beschluss
4.50 Thomas The Minstrel's Adieu to His
Native Land 5.00 Frumerie The Lament
5.05 Johanson Four Songs about the Seasons 5.10 Prokofiev Piano Concerto
No 2 5.45 Gesualdo Merce Grido
Piangendo 5.50 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 13 in A minor 6.00 Debussy Gigues
(Images) 6.10 Sorkocevic Overture in G
6.15 Bach Easter Cantata: Christ Lag in Todesbanden, BWV4 6.35 Mozart
Concerto in E flat for two pianos, K365

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Soprano:
Barbara Bonney
Soprano:
Wolfram Rieger
Unknown:
Essercizii Musici
Unknown:
Frohlicher Beschluss

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