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With Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Telemann Suite in A, TWV55:a8 Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble Bruch Swedish Dances, Op 64
Wuppertal SO, conductor George Hanson
8.00-9.00: Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Orchestra of the 18th Century, conductor Frans Bruggen Mozart Symphony No 21 in A, K134 Prague Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Handley.
Conductor:
George Hanson
Conductor:
Frans Bruggen
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras

Rob Cowan presents some of his favourite recordings, together with regularfeatures, including The Innocent Ear, and a Bargain HunterCD recommendation. Plus music from the vintage artist featured on this week's CD Masters, and the recording of Handel's Ode for St Cecilia's Day recommended on yesterday's CD Review. Music also includes:
Mendelssohn Scherzo in G minor
LSO, conductor Claudio Abbado
Pergolesi Stabat Mater Dolorosa (Stabat Mater) Mirella Freni (soprano), Teresa Berganza (mezzo),
Soloists of the Naples Scarlatti Orchestra, conductor Ettore Gracis (conductor)
Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 54 No 1 Ysaye Quartet
Beethoven 10 Variations in B flat on La Stessa, la Stessissima, Wo073 Gianluca Cascioli (piano)
Alexander Raskatov , after Tchaikovsky The Seasons Digest
Kremerata Baltica, director Gidon Kremer Email your comments to: cowancollection@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan
Unknown:
Stabat Mater
Soprano:
Teresa Berganza
Conductor:
Ettore Gracis
Piano:
Gianluca Cascioli
Piano:
Alexander Raskatov
Director:
Gidon Kremer

Michael Berkeley 's guest today is the biologist Robin Dunbar of the University of Liverpool. His choice of music includes medieval French plainsong, a Bach organ fugue, Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez and traditional music from Scotland and India.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Robin Dunbar

Long Live Fair Oriana
Lucie Skeaping introduces a sequence of Elizabethan motets, sacred songs and madrigals by Byrd, Sheppard, Tallis, Morley and Bateson, performed by the Cardinall's Musick directed by Andrew Carwood and I Fagiolini directed by Robert Hollingworth. Including excerpts from Thomas Morley 's great compilation of madrigals of 1601, The Triumphs of Oriana.

Contributors

Directed By:
Andrew Carwood
Directed By:
Robert Hollingworth.
Unknown:
Thomas Morley

Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert given last month atWigmore Hall in London. Itamar Golan (piano), Skampa Quartet
Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2 (Razumovsky)
Shostakovich Piano Quintet, Op 5 7

Contributors

Introduces:
Stephanie Hughes

More listeners' requests from the postbag, including the Accentus Chamber Choir's recording of Barber's Agnus Dei , Haydn's Symphony No 21 in A from the Academy of Ancient Music, and music from Purcell's Ode forSt Cecilia's Day . And from the BBC archives, pianist Viktoria Postnikova performing Chopin and Rachmaninovin a recital from 1967.
ADDRESS: Three for All, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ Phone: [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Agnus Dei

Presented by Paul Guinery in conversation with the BBC Singers' associate composer Edward Cowie. Recorded at St Giles Cripplegate in London.

English Guitar Quartet, BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury.

Cowie, Lyre-Bird Motet
Byrd, Sing Joyfully unto God
Tippett, Plebs Angelica
Cowie, Guitar Quartet (Kandinsky)
Goehr, Imitations of Baudelaire, Op 4
Messiaen, O Sacrum Convivium
Cowie, Hest Bank (Gesangbuch)
Britten, The World Is Charged with the Grandeur of God (AMDG)
Purcell, The Fairy Queen: Suite No 1 (arr. for guitar quartet)
Cowie, Voice of Homo (Gaia)

Contributors

Presentery:
Paul Guinery
Composer/Interviewee:
Edward Cowie
Composer:
William Byrd
Composer:
Sir Michael Tippett
Composer:
Alexander Goehr
Composer:
Olivier Messiaen
Composer:
Benjamin Britten
Composer:
Henry Purcell
Musicians:
English Guitar Quartet
Singers:
BBC Singers
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury

By Tim Jackson.

Based on the true story of scientist George Price, this play explores the moral confusion arising from a discovery that overturned his life - of a genetic basis for human behaviour, which appears to include altruism.

Contributors

Writer:
Tim Jackson
Director:
Janet Whitaker
George Price:
James Laurenson
Bill Hamilton:
Paul Rhys
Rev Daniel O'Brian:
Niall Buggy
PC Jack Dawson:
Ben Crowe
Angel:
Jo McInnes
Gino:
Vincenzo Nicoli
DJ:
Stephen Critchlow

2: Hannah Arendt. In April 1961 the Nazi Adolf Eichmann was put on trial in Israel, charged with crimes against humanity. Covering the trial for the New Yorkerwas
Hannah Arendt. Jonathan Ree follows her footsteps in Jerusalem to learn about this turning point in her life as a political thinker. Producer David Edmonds

Contributors

Unknown:
Hannah Arendt.
Unknown:
Hannah Arendt.
Unknown:
Jonathan Ree
Producer:
David Edmonds

With Susan Sharpe.
Schmidt Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln
2.55 Bach Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV1067 3.15 Dohnanyl
Symphonic Minutes, Op 36 3.30 Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 3.45 Erkel Duo Brillant 4.00 Fesch Concerto in G minor,
Op 5 No 2 4.10 Anon CorMio Volonturioso
4.15 S Rossi Queste Lagrime Amare
4.20 Bloch Meditation and Processional
4.25 Grainger, arr Sculthorpe Beautiful
Fresh Rower 4.30 Chan Ka Nin Suite: Four
Seasons 4.40 Vivaldi Concerto Grosso in F, RV56 7 (L 'Estro Armonico)
4.50 Verhuist, arr Stumpff Gruss aus der Fernen, Op 7 5.00 Dessane Ouverture
5.05 Sibelius 0 Precious Finland, Op 23
No 9; The Broken Voice, Op 18 No 7; Three Songs for American Schools
5.15 Jamefert Korsholma
5.30 CPE Bach Concerto in E flat for harpsichord and piano, Wq47
5.50 Bertaii Sonata Prima a 3 5.55 Bach
Violin Sonata No I in G minor, BWV1001 (Fugue) 6.05 CFE Homeman Overture: Aladdin 6.15 Mozart Piano Sonata in C,
K545 (arr Grieg for two pianos) 6.25 Faure/ Messager, orch Washbum Messe Basse
6.35 Ravel Piano Concerto in G

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
Jamefert Korsholma
Unknown:
Washbum Messe Basse

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