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With Tommy Pearson. Music includes:

7.00-8.00: Bach English Suite No 2 in A minor, BWV807 Angela Hewitt (piano)
Sarasate Zigeunerweisen , Op 20
Itzhak Perlman (violin), Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn

8.00-9.00: Durufle Quatre Motets surdes Themes Gregoriens, Op 10 Westminster Cathedral Choir, director James O'Donnell Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K581
Gervase de Peyer, London Melos Ensemble

Full details of Morning on 3's music are posted at [web address removed] on the day of transmission PHONE: [number removed] email: [email address removed] Address: Morning on 3, [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Pearson.
Piano:
Angela Hewitt
Piano:
Sarasate Zigeunerweisen
Violin:
Itzhak Perlman
Conductor:
Andre Previn
Director:
James O'Donnell

Andrew McGregor plays the latest releases.
9.30 Building a Library: Rob Cowan compares the currently available recordings of Dvorak's Symphony No 7 in D minor. The favoured recording is played in full tomorrow in The Cowan Collection at 9am, and the work is also featured in Performance on 3 on Tuesday at 7.30pm
10.15 A round-up of recent reissues.
10.45 Richard Wigmore reviews new vocal CDs by mezzo Magdalena Kozena , baritone
Thomas Quasthoff and soprano Karita Mattila.
11.15 An interview with the recorder player
Pamela Thorby about her new Handel CD with Richard Egarr , improvisation with jazz band the Perfect Houseplants, and the curse of the school recorder.
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: Schumann
Symphony No 3 in E flat (Rhenish) Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, conductor David Zinman 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:
Rob Cowan
Unknown:
Richard Wigmore
Baritone:
Magdalena Kozena
Baritone:
Thomas Quasthoff
Unknown:
Pamela Thorby
Unknown:
Richard Egarr
Conductor:
David Zinman

A HilliardSongbook
Andrew Manze presents a concertto celebrate the 30th birthday of the Hilliard Ensemble, recorded at London's Wigmore Hall. The group perform a programme of music by Bach, including the motets DerGeistHilft, BWV226, Jesu Meine Freude, BWV227and Singetdem Herrn, BWV225.

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Manze

Chameleon - The Herbie Hancock Story
3/4. Headhunting. Keyboard player
Herbie Hancock was a pivotal figure in the move to use electronic instruments in jazz and in the fusion of rock and funk rhythms and textures with more traditional jazz styles, beginning with his work with Miles Davis. Jez Nelson recounts how Hancock left Davis to form the esoteric
Mwandishi band and then the more commercial Headhunters quartet, which took inspiration from Sly Stone and James Brown. Contributors include Donald Byrd , Bill Laswell , Michael Brecker , Wynton Marsalis and Hancock himself. Producer Kath Willgress

Contributors

Unknown:
Herbie Hancock Story
Unknown:
Herbie Hancock
Unknown:
Miles Davis.
Unknown:
Jez Nelson
Unknown:
James Brown.
Unknown:
Donald Byrd
Unknown:
Bill Laswell
Unknown:
Michael Brecker
Unknown:
Wynton Marsalis
Producer:
Kath Willgress

Der Rosenkavalier
Strauss's "comedy for music" contains passion, farce and some of his most exquisite music. When the Marschallin sends heryoung lover Octavian to deliver a silver rose to Sophie as a declaration of love on behalf of her cousin the baron, the two youngsters fall instantly in love. John Schlesinger 's production returns to Covent Garden with a top line-up of soloists. And presenter Stephanie Hughes talks to the conductor, Charles Mackerras. and Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras

Contributors

Unknown:
John Schlesinger
Talks:
Stephanie Hughes
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras.
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Octavian:
Angellka Kirchschlager (mezzo)
Marschallin:
Felicity Lott( (soprano)
Baron Ochs:
Kurt Rydl (bass)
Major Domo I (Marschallin):
Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Major Domo II (Faninal):
Harry Nicoll (tenor)
Notary:
Alan Fairs (baritone)
Annina:
Karl Hamnoy (mezzo)
Valzacchi:
Adrian Thompson (tenor)
Italian singer:
Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Herrvon Faninal:
Eike Wilm Schulte (baritone)
Sophie:
Simone Nold (soprano)
Duenna (Marianne):
Elizabeth Gale (soprano)
Innkeeper:
Alasdair Elliott (tenor)
Police Commissioner:
Jeremy White (bass)
Milliner:
Ha Young Lee (soprano)
Animal seller:
Alan Duffield (tenor)
Noble widow:
Ann Tudor Williams (soprano)
Orphans:
Celeste Gatti (soprano)
Orphans:
Andrea Hazell
Orphans:
Anna Sollerman (mezzos)

Young American writer ZZ Packer talks to Ian McMillan and reads a new piece set in the Atlanta of her childhood. Plus a feature on Christopher Marlowe , simultaneously the subject of a new novel, a biography and a film. Producer Horatio Clare

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McMillan
Unknown:
Christopher Marlowe
Producer:
Horatio Clare

London Sinfonietta
Martyn Brabbins conducts a concert given in March that included the first performance of Two Interludes for an Opera by Jonathan Harvey , and the first UK performances of James Clarke 's Concetto Spaziale (perLucio Fontana), Georg Friedrich Haas 's Monodie, and Sphare um Sphare by Wolfgang Rihm.
Plus Jonathan Harvey 's electronic work Mortuos Plango , Vivos Voco. Presented by Ivan Hewett.
1.00 AM Through the Night
With Jonathan Swain.
Berlioz Les Nuitsd'Ete, Op 7 Elgar Symphony No 1 in A flat Alice Coote (mezzo), Halle, conductor Mark Elder (BBC Proms 2003) 2.25 Beethoven Variations on Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu , Op 121a 2.40 Buxtehude Three
Chorale-Preludes 2.50 JC Bach Meine Freundin du bist schon 3.15 Schenck Viola da Gamba Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 9 No 3 (L 'Echo du Danube) 3.30 Haydn Symphony No 8 in G (Le Soir) 3.55 Prokofiev Symphony No 1 (Classical) 4.10 Gaubert Pourun Clair Matin
(Aquarelles) 4.15 Grainger Suite: In a Nutshell (excerpts)
4.25 Horowitz Moment Exotique 4.30 Delibes Ballet Suite: Sylvia 4.45 Rossini Overture: La Gazza Ladra 5.00 Neruda Trumpet Concerto in E flat 5.05 Handel Bramo di Trionfar (Alcina) 5.10 Mozart Sonata in B flat for bassoon and cello, K292 5.25 Madetoja Suite: The Ostrobothnians
5.45Satie Trois Petites Pièces Montées Mendez Csardas 5.50 Montsalvatge Concierto Breve
6.15 Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Harvey
Unknown:
James Clarke
Unknown:
Georg Friedrich Haas
Unknown:
Wolfgang Rihm.
Unknown:
Jonathan Harvey
Unknown:
Mortuos Plango
Presented By:
Ivan Hewett.
Unknown:
Alice Coote
Conductor:
Mark Elder
Unknown:
Schneider Kakadu
Unknown:
Bach Meine Freundin
Unknown:
Mendez Csardas

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