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With Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Bach Violin Sonata No 3 in E, BWV1016 Andrew Manze , Richard Egarr (harpsichord) Haydn Symphony No 6 in D (Le Matin) The English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
8.00-9.00: Britten Soirées Musicales, Op 9 Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Okko Kamu Faure Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 15 Pascal Roge , Members of the Ysaye Quartet

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Handley.
Unknown:
Andrew Manze
Harpsichord:
Richard Egarr
Director:
Trevor Pinnock
Unknown:
Pascal Roge

With Rob Cowan. Regularfeatures include The Innocent Ear and a Bargain Hunter CD recommendation. Plus the recording of Sibelius's Violin Concerto recommended on yesterday's CDReview. Music also includes: Rossini Overture: Bianca e Falliero
Academy of St Martin in the Reids, conductor Neville Marriner
Handel Oppress 'd with Never-Ceasing Grief (Belshazzar)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Munich Chamber Orchestra, conductor Hans Stadlmair
Liszt Rakoczy March Boston Pops Orchestra, conductor Arthur Fiedler Debussy Petite Suite
Robert and Gaby Casadesus (piano)
Tchaikovsky Symphonic Entr'acte and Sleep; Finale (Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty, Act 2) Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Gluck 0 del Mio Dolce Ardor (Paride ed Elena) Suzanne Danco (soprano), Guido Agosti (piano)
Email your comments to: cowancollection@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Baritone:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Baritone:
Gaby Casadesus
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin
Soprano:
Suzanne Danco
Piano:
Guido Agosti

Michael Berkeley 's guest today is the Canadian-born writer Ross King , author of two books on Italian Renaissance art and architecture. His musical passions range from Renaissance polyphony to Bach, Handel and Erich Korngold.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Ross King
Unknown:
Erich Korngold.

Pianist Paul Lewisjoins the Leopold Trio in a programme of Viennese classics, recorded last December at the Wigmore Hall. Paul Lewis (piano), Leopold Trio
Mozart Piano Quartet in E flat, K493 Schubert String Trio in B flat, D581
Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor, K4 78

Contributors

Pianist:
Paul Lewisjoins
Unknown:
Wigmore Hall.
Piano:
Paul Lewis

2/6. The Sea! The Sea! David Attenborough shares more of the collection of CDs he takes with him on his travels around the world. He focuses on the sea -from the thrill of embarking evoked by Walton in Portsmouth Point to the sound of whale song and the wonders of the deep. Producer Anthony Sellors

Contributors

Unknown:
David Attenborough
Producer:
Anthony Sellors

Louise Fryer presents this week's listener requests, including Stephen Kovacevich in a dazzling BBC archive performance of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2 (Tempest), music from
Rameau's Les Indes Galantes, and Peter Pears and Janet Baker in a recording of Britten's canticle Abraham and Isaac.
Plus suggestions from listeners fortheir favourite travel music.
Send your requests by PHONE: [number removed] Email via www.bbc.co.uk/radio3
Address: Three for All. BBC Wales, CF5 2YQ

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Fryer
Unknown:
Stephen Kovacevich
Unknown:
Peter Pears
Unknown:
Janet Baker

With Tom Service.
Austrian conductor, chansonnier and double bass player HK Gruber talks about his work, and Simon Broughton reports from the most remote music festival in the world, held annually in the Sahara Desert. Plus a reassessment of the work of Luigi Dallapiccola, one of the most important Italian composers of the 20th Century.

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Service
Speaker:
HK Gruber
Reporter:
Simon Broughton
Producer:
Paul Frankl

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Lisa Milne (soprano), conductor Joseph Swenson
Louise Fryer introduces Mahler's Fourth
Symphony, a nostalgic look at the classical symphony with all its energy directed towards the finale, a child's vision of heaven, using a text from the collection of recreated German folk poetry, Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Recorded last night at St David's Hall, Cardiff. Mahler Symphony No 4

Contributors

Soprano:
Lisa Milne
Conductor:
Joseph Swenson
Introduces:
Louise Fryer
Unknown:
Des Knaben

By William Shakespeare
In a world of sexual harassment and unwed mothers - and the inability of the law to deal with either - the Duke hands over his powers to his puritan deputy.

Contributors

Composer:
Helen Chadwick
Director:
Claire Grove
Duke:
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Escalus:
Clive Swift
Angelo:
Anton Lesser
Isabella:
Nadine Marshall
Mistress Overdone:
Claire Benedict
Pompey:
Ewan Bailey
Lucio:
Lloyd Hutchinson
Claudio:
Jude Akuwudike
Provost:
Colin McFarlane
Mariana:
Adjoa Andoh

1/5. Paris. Donald Macleod examines the way Poulenc's life and music was dominated by the city he loved.

Polka; La Baigneuse de Trouville (Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel)
Ensemble Erwartung, conductor Bernard Desgraupes
Rag-Mazurka (Les Biches)
Orchestre de Paris, conductor Semyon Bychkov
Le Bal Masque
Jean-Christope Benoit (baritone), Maryse Charpentier (piano), Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Soloists, conductor Georges Pretre
Figure Humaine
Accentus Chamber Choir, conductor Laurence Equilbey
La Souris
Gilles Cachemaille (baritone), Pascal Roge (piano)

(Repeated from Monday)

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod
Musicians:
Ensemble Erwartung
Conductor:
Bernard Desgraupes
Musicians:
Orchestre de Paris
Conductor:
Semyon Bychkov
Baritone:
Jean-Christope Benoit
Pianist:
Maryse Charpentier
Musicians:
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Soloists
Conductor:
Georges Pretre
Singers:
Accentus Chamber Choir
Conductor:
Laurence Equilbey
Baritone:
Gilles Cachemaille
Pianist:
Pascal Roge

With Susan Sharpe.
Vasks Messa Sisask Gloria Patri
(excerpts) Tormis StJohn 's Day Songs
2.00 Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral) 3.10 Mahler Lieder eines
Fahrenden Gesellen 3.25 Schubert Piano
Quintet in A, 0667 4.05 Francaix Le Gai Paris 4.15 Arnic Overture: Comic Opera,
4.20 Weyse Scherzo in B flat
4.25 A Scarlatti Jam Sole Clarior
4.35 Couperin Rondeau (Soeur Monique)
4.40 Cesti Amor, Attendi a Te (Orontea)
4.45 Casella Sicilienne and Burlesque
4.55Witte Waltz in D minor, Op 7 No 10
5.00 Andriessen Premier Choral
5.05 Part Magnificat 5.15 Wagner 0 Du Mein Holder Abendstern (Tannhauser)
5.20 Liszt Transcendental Study No 11 in D flat (Harmonies du Soir) 5.30 Falla Homenaje (Le Tombeau de Claude
Debussy) 5.35 Sibelius Autumn Evening, Op 38 No 1 5.40 Chaminade Automne,
Op 35 No 2 5.45 Haydn Symphony No 22 in E flat (Philosopher) 6.05 Ferrabosco
Pavan and Fantasie 6.10 Marais Deuxième
Suite in G (Pieces en Trio) 6.35 Guilmant Organ Sonata No 1 in D minor, Op 42

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.

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