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With Sarah Walker. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Ravel Daphnis and Chloe:
Suite No 2 Chicago SO, conductor Daniel Barenboim Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor, D537 Mitsuko Uchida
8.00-9.00: Kodaly Theatre Overture
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier Bizet Me Voila Seule.... Comme Autrefois (The Pearl Fishers)
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Royal Opera House Orchestra, conductor Jeffrey Tate
Full details of Morning on 3 's music are posted at www.bbc. co.uk/radio3/playlists on the day of transmission
PHONE: [number removed] email: momingon3@bbc.co.uk Address: Morning on 3. BBC Radio 3,
Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Walker.
Unknown:
Ravel Daphnis
Conductor:
Daniel Barenboim Schubert
Unknown:
Mitsuko Uchida
Soprano:
Kiri Te Kanawa
Conductor:
Jeffrey Tate

Andrew McGregor plays the latest releases.
9.30 Building a Library: David Nice compares the currently available recordings of Kodaly's HaryJanos.
10.15 A round-up of recent reissues.
10.45 Hilary Finch reviews recent opera and vocal releases, including a Hungarian rarity -Erkel's Bank Ban - and Swedish songs from mezzo Anne Sofie von Otter.
11.15 An interview with pianist
Evgeny Kissin , who discusses his recent recording of Brahms sonatas and reflects on the legacy of his Soviet schooling.
11.45 The Listening Booth: Listeners may choose from the list of new CD releases on the programme website .
12.30 Disc of the Week: Arias from
Baroque zarzuelas, including works by Nebra, Soler, Boccherini and Hita, with Mario Bayo (soprano) and Les Talens
Lyriques, conductor Christophe Rousset. www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview
PHONE: [number removed] email: cdreview@bbc.co.uk
Text: 07 [number removed] Disc details are posted on the website and on CEEFAX, BBC1. page 651

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Unknown:
Hilary Finch
Pianist:
Evgeny Kissin
Conductor:
Christophe Rousset.

Catherine Bott introduces a concert by Concordia, director Mark Levy (viol), recorded at York's National Centre for Early Music, with instrumental pieces from the musicians to the courts of Charles I and II and Symphony Songs by Henry Purcell , sung by Rebecca Outram (soprano),
Charles Daniels (tenor) and Peter Harvey (baritone).

Contributors

Introduces:
Catherine Bott
Director:
Mark Levy
Songs By:
Henry Purcell
Sung By:
Rebecca Outram
Soprano:
Charles Daniels
Soprano:
Peter Harvey

Oscar's Odyssey
1/3. Another chance to hear
John Dankworth 's profile of the great jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. With comments from admirer Andre Previn. Producer David Perry

Contributors

Unknown:
John Dankworth
Pianist:
Oscar Peterson.
Unknown:
Andre Previn.
Producer:
David Perry

La Traviata
A A star cast perform one of Verdi's greatest masterpieces, the heart-wrenchingtragedy of the tart with a heart of gold - based on a real-life story. The courtesan Violetta, who is mortally ill, renounces her chance of true love, because her reputation will taint her beau's sister. Presented by John Shea.
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev Act
7.05 Interval: Letter from the New World
Though born in the USA, novelist Claire Messud has three passports and feels she is "passing" as an American with a cobbled-together identity.
7.30 Act 2
8.35 The Met Opera Quiz Thor Eckert puts listeners' questions to Martin Bernheimer , Henry Fogel and Christopher Purdy.
Send questions to Met Opera Quiz, FDR Station, PO Box 805, New York, NY10150orviawww.bbc.co.uk/radio3.
8.55 Opera Snaps By creating an art work about a courtesan, Verdi was bound to upset "decent" society. Alexandra Wilson looks at the double standards of his day.
9.05 Act 3

Contributors

Presented By:
John Shea.
Conductor:
Valery Gergiev
Unknown:
Claire Messud
Unknown:
Thor Eckert
Unknown:
Martin Bernheimer
Unknown:
Henry Fogel
Unknown:
Christopher Purdy.
Unknown:
Alexandra Wilson
Violetta valery:
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Alfredo Germont, her lover:
Ramon Vargas (tenor)
Giorgio Germont, his father:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
Flora, Violetta's friend:
Edyta Kulczak (mezzo)
Baron Douphol, Violetta's protector:
Michael Devlin (baritone)
Annina, Violetta's maid:
Diane Elias (mezzo)
Doctor Grenvil:
Vaclovas Daunoras (bass)

Ian McMillan presents new performance from Jean Binta Breeze and a look at Come
Out Eli, a play that uses transcripts of interviews with witnesses to tell the story of a London Siege. Producer Julian May

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McMillan
Unknown:
Jean Binta Breeze

Brahms's Beard
Is our appreciation of Brahms's music affected by the image of the composer and his Olympian beard? Composer Hugh Wood , sculptor Manfred Sihle-Wissel , author
Michael Musgrave , image consultant Pat Henshaw , Frank Dobson MP, Phil Olsen of the World Beard Championship and Keith Flettof the Beard Liberation Front, among others, give theirthoughts. With excerpts from Brahms's Clarinet Quintet and musical decoration by Steven Faux. Producer Alan Hall

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Wood
Unknown:
Manfred Sihle-Wissel
Unknown:
Michael Musgrave
Unknown:
Pat Henshaw
Unknown:
Frank Dobson
Unknown:
Phil Olsen
Unknown:
Keith Flettof
Unknown:
Steven Faux.
Producer:
Alan Hall

British Concertos
Sarah Walker introduces new British music.
Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Craig Ogden (guitar), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Alasdair Nicolson Ghosts at the Water's
Edge
Nigel Osbome Oboe Concerto
William Attwood Colour Down the Side
Giles Swayne Mancanza Guitar Concerto Plus a 50th-birthday tribute to composer JohnWoolrich, played by the Orchestra of St John 's, Smith Square, conducted by John Lubbock. And Robert Worby talks to composer Gavin Bryars.

Contributors

Introduces:
Sarah Walker
Oboe:
Nicholas Daniel
Oboe:
Craig Ogden
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Alasdair Nicolson Ghosts
Unknown:
William Attwood
Guitar:
Giles Swayne Mancanza
Unknown:
St John
Conducted By:
John Lubbock.
Conducted By:
Robert Worby
Unknown:
Gavin Bryars.

With John Shea. Beethoven Overture: The
Creatures of Prometheus Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Rachmaninov
Symphony No 2 in E minor Stephen Hough (piano), Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer 2.45Clerambault L 'Isle de Delos 3.10 Bach Violin Concerto in E, BWV1042 3.25 Telemann Bassoon
Sonata in F minor 3.35 Mozart Symphony No 36 in C, K425 (Linz) 4.10 Jarnefelt Berceuse 4.15 Kapp The North Coast
4.20 Mortelmans Lyrical Poem 4.30 Gigout Toccata 4.35 Schubert Impromptu in B flat, D935 4.45 Wagenaar Frithjof 's Voyage, Op 5 5.00 Brahms Academic Festival
Overture 5.10 Fiocco Recorder Sonata in G minor 5.20 Ravel Pavane pour une
Infante Défunte 5.30 Turina Circulo , Op 91
5.45 Bach Violin Sonata in E minor,
BWV1023 6.00 Strauss Piano Sonata, Op 5 6.25 Liszt Prometheus
6.40 Mozart Trio in E flat for clarinet, viola and piano, K498 (Kegelstatt)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Shea.
Piano:
Stephen Hough
Conductor:
Ivan Fischer
Unknown:
Wagenaar Frithjof
Unknown:
Turina Circulo
Unknown:
Liszt Prometheus

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