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With Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Geminiani Concerto Grosso No 12 in D minor (La Follia) (after Corelli, Op 5) Academy of Ancient Music, director Andrew Manze
Britten Rejoice in the Lamb Choirof King's
College, Cambridge, conductor Philip Ledger
8.00-9.00: Villa-Lobos A Prole do Bebe, Book 1 Nelson Freire (piano) Mozart Bassoon
Concerto in B flat, K191 Gwydion Brooke , RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham
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: morningon3@bbc.co.uk Address: Morning on 3, BBC Radio 3. Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Handley.
Director:
Andrew Manze
Director:
Britten Rejoice
Conductor:
Philip Ledger
Unknown:
Gwydion Brooke
Conductor:
Thomas Beecham

New series Each week during the summer, a guest presenter draws up a personal playlist. Today Jude Kelly chooses music from operas she's directed, and a rich variety of singing voices- Lynne Dawson in Mozart,
Sharon Small in Kurt Weill , Paul Robeson in Musorgsky, Willard White in Gershwin and Janet Baker in Elgar's Sea Pictures. Other music includes a movement from Copland's Violin Sonata; Berg's Violin Concerto; and excerpts from
Bernstein's On the Town, Winton Marsalis 's All Rise, and Donizetti's L'Elisird'Amore.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jude Kelly
Unknown:
Lynne Dawson
Unknown:
Sharon Small
Unknown:
Kurt Weill
Unknown:
Paul Robeson
Unknown:
Willard White
Unknown:
Janet Baker
Unknown:
Winton Marsalis

Catherine Bott and fellow soprano
Emma Kirkby explore English lute song, which reached its peak in the first half of the 17th century in the music of composers such as Ferrabosco, Johnson, Dowland, RobertJones, and the Lawes brothers. With Jakob Lindberg (lute).

Contributors

Unknown:
Catherine Bott
Soprano:
Emma Kirkby
Unknown:
Jakob Lindberg

Lullaby of Birdland: The George Shearing Story New series 1/4. With his autobiography newly published, the 85-year-oldjazz veteran George Shearing sits at the piano with Alyn Shiptonto talk about his career. He recalls his life as a blind pianist in pre-war Britain, playing with violinist Stephane Grappelli , recording and broadcasting as a soloist, and meeting such star visitors to this country as Fats Waller and ArtTatum. Producers AlynShipton and Phil Critchlow

Contributors

Unknown:
George Shearing
Unknown:
Alyn Shiptonto
Violinist:
Stephane Grappelli
Unknown:
Fats Waller
Unknown:
Phil Critchlow

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Martin Handley presents an evening of popular classics, including two overtures selected by public vote.

Jonathan Lematu (bass-baritone), Louis Lortie (piano), Halle, conductor Mark Elder

Mozart Overture: The Marriage of Figaro; Non Piu Andrai (The Marriage of Figaro); Madamina, il Catalogo e Questo (Don Giovanni)

Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)

Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

8.00 Twenty Minutes: Proms Talk
Martin Handley meets tonight's performers, brings news from backstage, looks at the coming week, and explores what's new this season.

8.20 Rossini Overture: William Tell

Gounod Le Veau d'Or (Faust); Vous Qui Faites l'Endormie (Faust)

Boito Son lo Spirito Che Nega (Mefistofele)

Tchaikovsky Overture: 1812

(Repeated Tue 2pm)

(Programme notes, composer and artist profiles and "now playing" information for each main evening Prom are available on LiveText via Dab radio and Freeview)
Pull-out guide to the Proms: see centre pages
Alan Titchmarsh's classical roots: page 31

Contributors

Presenter:
Martin Handley
Bass-Baritone:
Jonathan Lematu
Pianist:
Louis Lortie
Musicians:
Halle Orchestra
Conductor:
Mark Elder

Ian McMillan presents the last in a series of new commissions in which writers look again at the Greek myths. And, 50 years after it was written, McMillan celebrates Philip Larkin 's poem Churchgoing. Plus a new piece by Ken Campbell. Producer Martin Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McMillan
Unknown:
Philip Larkin
Unknown:
Ken Campbell.
Producer:
Martin Smith

A portrait of a British call shop, where people from all over the world gather to make long-distance phone calls, and where overheard conversations give a fleeting and poignant insight into immigrant life in Britain. Mixed with new works "overheard" from Kapka Kassabova, Imtiaz Dharker, Choman Hardi, Yang Lian, Malika Booker and Dorothea Smartt.

Contributors

Unknown:
Imtiaz Dharker
Unknown:
Choman Hardi
Unknown:
Yang Lian
Unknown:
Malika Booker
Unknown:
Dorothea Smartt
Producer:
Emma Wallace

Summer Festivals: Cheltenham Festival
3/5. A concert given at Cheltenham Town Hall by the London Sinfonietta, conductor Pierre-Andre Valade
. Presented by Alwynne Pritchard. Birtwistle Ritual Fragment
Tansy Davies Iris (first performance) With Simon Haram (saxophone) Ligeti Melodien
M Berkeley Double Guitar Concerto (first performance) With the Katona Twins (guitars) Zoltan Jeney Heraclitian Fragments (first UK performance)
Birtwistle Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum

Contributors

Conductor:
Pierre-Andre Valade
Presented By:
Alwynne Pritchard.
Unknown:
Simon Haram
Unknown:
Ligeti Melodien
Guitars:
Zoltan Jeney Heraclitian

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