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With Louise Fryer. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Beethoven Duo in F, WoO2 7 No 2 Leclair Violin Sonata in D, Op 9 No 3
8.00-9.00: Arnold Brass Quintet, Op 73 Liszt Battle of the Huns
Full details of Morningon3'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: Momingon 3, BBC Radio 3. Broadcasting House, London W1A1AA

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Fryer.

Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's classical music CD releases.
9.30 Buildinga Library: Rodney Milnes makes a recommendation from the available recordings of Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
10.15 A round-up of recent reissues.
10.45 Stephen Johnson reviews new orchestral releases, including Messiaen's
Eclairs sur l'Au-delà from Simon Rattle and the Berlin PO, Bruckner's Seventh Symphony from Philippe Herreweghe andtheChamps-Elysees Orchestra, and Robert Simpson 's llth
Symphony from the City of London Sinfonia conducted by Matthew Taylor.
11.15 An interview with Martin Baker , master of music at Westminster Cathedral, who talks about the choir's recent recordings of music by Maxwell Davies , MacMillan and Victoria.
11.45 The Listening Booth: Yourchanceto request some of the latest CD releases from the list on the programme website .
12.30 Disc of the Week: All'lmprowiso - Ciaccone, Bergamasche, eunPo' di Follie
(excerpts) Lucilla Galeazzi and Marco Beasley (singers), Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinet),
L' Arpeggiata, director Christina Pluhar (harp/theorbo)
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:
Rodney Milnes
Unknown:
Stephen Johnson
Unknown:
Simon Rattle
Unknown:
Philippe Herreweghe
Unknown:
Robert Simpson
Conducted By:
Matthew Taylor.
Unknown:
Martin Baker
Music By:
Maxwell Davies
Unknown:
Lucilla Galeazzi
Singers:
Marco Beasley
Singers:
Gianluigi Trovesi
Harp:
Christina Pluhar

Rappresentatione diAnima, et di Corpo Emiliode ' Cavalieri's sacred opera is the earliest surviving play set entirely to music. Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a performance given by L'Arpeggiata, directed by Christina Pluhar , at the Utrecht Early Music Festival last month.

Contributors

Unknown:
Corpo Emiliode
Directed By:
Christina Pluhar

3/3. David Sanborn looks at the great composer, arranger and bandleader Gil Evans's work in the early 1970s with his electric big band, in which he used synthesizers and electric guitars to create the trademark sound he formerly achieved with brass. With contributions from members of the band.

Contributors

Presenter:
David Sanborn
Producer:
Joby Waldman

The Greek Passion
I Charles Mackerras conducts Covent
Garden's Olivier Award-winning production of Martinu's last major work. A group of modern Greek villagers put on a Passion play, but as the threatening presence of refugees divides the village, they find themselves gradually taken over by their roles. Manolios, cast as Jesus, and Katerina, the village's Mary Magdalen , seek to welcome and comfortthe visitors, against the will of Priest Grigoris and the village elders. Presented by Stephanie Hughes.
Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
Acts land 2
8.35 Interval: The Heroic Pessimist
Peter Mackridge talks to Piers Burton-Page about Nikos Kazantakis , on whose novel, Christ Recrucified , Martinu's opera is based.
9.00 Acts 3 and 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles MacKerras
Unknown:
Mary Magdalen
Presented By:
Stephanie Hughes.
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Talks:
Peter MacKridge
Unknown:
Piers Burton-Page
Unknown:
Nikos Kazantakis
Unknown:
Christ Recrucified
Manolios:
Christopher Ventris (tenor)
Katerina:
Marie McLaughlin (soprano)
Panait:
Douglas Nasrawi (tenor)
Grigoris:
Peter Sidhom (baritone)
Fotis:
Willard W White (bass-Baritone)
Yannakos:
Timothy Robinson (tenor)
Nikolio:
James Edwards (tenor)
Lenio:
Juanita Lascarro (soprano)

Hanif Kureishi performs a musical dramatisation of his own short story Remember This Moment, Remember Us, and Peter Blegvad returns with another eartoon. Presented by Ian McMillan. Producer Martin Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Hanif Kureishi
Unknown:
Peter Blegvad
Presented By:
Ian McMillan.
Producer:
Martin Smith

Vale of Glamorgan Festival
Sarah Walker presents a concert by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Grant Llewellyn.
David Lang FUR (first performance; Radio 3 commission) With Andrew Zolinsky (piano)
Elliott Carter Oboe Concerto With David Cowley Michael Daugherty Sunset Strip
Michael Torke Ballet: Ecstatic Orange
Plus music for solo percussion performed by Colin Currie at the Spitalfields Festival in London, including works by Roberto Maggio , David Lang , and the first performance of Be by Dai Fujikura.

Contributors

Conducted By:
Grant Llewellyn.
Conducted By:
David Lang
Piano:
Andrew Zolinsky
Oboe:
Elliott Carter
Unknown:
David Cowley
Unknown:
Michael Daugherty
Unknown:
Michael Torke
Unknown:
Colin Currie
Unknown:
Roberto Maggio
Unknown:
David Lang
Unknown:
Dai Fujikura.

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