With Tommy Pearson. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Handel Nisi Dominus
Diana Montague (mezzo), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Simon Birchall (bass), Westminster Abbey
Choir and Orchestra, director Simon Preston Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
8.00-9.00: Chopin Scherzo No 4 in E, Op 54 Peter Donohoe (piano) Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances, Op 45 Moscow PO, conductor Kyrill Kondrashin
With Rob Cowan. Regularfeatures include The Innocent Ear and a Bargain Hunter CD recommendation. Plus the recommended recording of Dvorak's Seventh Symphony from yesterday's CD Review. Music also includes: Haydn Wood The Bandstand, Hyde Park
(Frescoes) RPO, conductor Barry Wordsworth Saint-Saens Septet in E flat, Op 65
Thomas Stevens (trumpet), Andre Previn
(piano), Julie Rosenfeld (violin), Ani Kavafian (violin), Toby Hoffman (viola), Carter Brey (cello), Jack Kulowitsch (double bass) Liszt Feux Follets (Etudes d'Execution
Transcendante) Georges Cziffra (piano) Gershwin Lullaby Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
Philippe le Chancelier Die, Christi Veritas Sequentia
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Michael Berkeley 's guest today is
Martin Sixsmith , former BBC foreign correspondent and until last year director of communications and press secretary at the Department of Transport. His musical choices include works by Bartok, Schoenberg, Messiaen, Shostakovich and Richard Strauss.
Follow the Lieder
Lucie Skeaping studies the early stages of the German lied from its emergence in the 14th century and through the Reformation, and looks at some of the composers who helped to develop this genre of song. With music by Oswald von Wolkenstein , Adam von Fulda , Heinrich Isaac and Ludwig Senfl .
Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert given earlierthis month at London's Barbican Hall.
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, conductor Ton Koopman
Handel Water Music: Suite No 1 in F Haydn Cello Concerto in D, H Vllb 2; Symphony No 83 in G minor (Hen)
2/4. In conversation with Tom Robinson , leading performers reflect upon the reputations of past musicians.
Joseph Szigeti. Pianist Mitsuko Uchida explains why she fell in love with the recordings of the Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti in the early 1970s. Featuring Szigeti's recordings of unaccompanied Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Prokofiev and BartOk. Producer AlanHall
Today's listeners' requests include
Rachmaninov recording his own Etudes-
Tableauxon piano rolls in the 1920s and a BBC archive tribute to soprano Jennie Tourel , who collaborated closely with Leonard Bernstein over several decades. Plus an atmospheric diversion from Arvo Part and the Serenade, Op 31, by Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar. Send your requests by PHONE: [number removed] Email via www.bbc.co.uk/radio3
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The operas of Richard Strauss are hugely popular- three Strauss operas are being staged by the Royal Opera House this year. Tom Service asks whether the composer's genius for operatic music is matched by his Characterisation and plot. Producer Paul Frankl
Wayne Shorter Quartet and the BBC Concert Orchestra
Geoffrey Smith presents the final concert from saxophonist Wayne Shorter's residency at the Barbican Centre in London earlierthis year. His quartet, which features Danilo Perez
(piano), John Patitucci (bass) and Brian Blade (drums), join conductor Robert Ziegler and the BBC Concert Orchestra in a set of Shorter originals, including Ango/a, Orbits and Highlife.
By Gregory Whitehead.
A pirate radio broadcast from the occluded heartland of the American Dream.
Persepolis was the spiritual centre of the ancient Achaemenian Empire, ruled by the Kings of Kings Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes and Antaxerxes 2,500 years ago.
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis of the British Museum finds out why this extraordinary complex of palaces is so important to modern Iranians. Producer Neil Trevithick
1/5. Scuola Grande di San Rocco
Donald Macleod begins a musical journey around some of the historic Venetian institutions. With music by Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Padovano, Caldara and Vivaldi. Rptd from Monday
Jonathan Swain marks Norway's Constitution Day holiday. Grieg Incidental music: Peer Gynt Soloists, BBC Singers, Gothenburg SO, conductor Manfred Honeck (BBC Proms 2001) 2.30 Rachmaninov Etudes-Tableaux. Op 39 (excerpts)
2.55 Muffat Toccata XI 3.05 Bach Orchestral Suite No 1 in C, BWV1066 3.25Telemann unschuld und ein gut Gewissen 3.40 Haydn Symphony No 22 in E flat
(Philosopher) 4.00 Weber Petites Pièces Faciles, Op 3
(excerpts) 4.05 Bellini Eccomi in Lieta Vesta.... Oh! Quante Volte (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) 4.15 Svendsen Romeo and Juliet, Op 18 4.30 Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat, Op 1 No (4th mvt) 4.40 Bach, arr Hethford Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring 4.40 Buxtehude Ciaccona Quemadmodum
DesideratCervus, BuxWV92 4.45 Weber Overture: Der Freischutz 5.00 Svendsen Festival Polonaise, Op 12
5.05 Somerro Akk Mon Min Vei 5.10 Saeverud Tunes and Dances from Siljustol (excerpts) 5.20 Borgstrom Music to JG Borkman 5.35 Halvorsen Passacaglia on Theme of Handel 5.40Thrane The Mountain Adventure (excerpt)
5.45 Kjerulf Sketches, Op 28 (excerpts) 5.55 Tveitt Folk Tunes from Hardanger. Op 150 (excerpts) 6.05 Grieg Six Songs. Op 25 (excerpts) 6.10 Saeverud Peer Gynt: Suite No 2 6.25 Nystedt 0 Crux 6.35 Ole Bull A Mountain
Vision, Op 45 No 3 6.40 Halvorsen Norwegian Rhapsody No 16.55 Grieg Cow Call
