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With Sarah Walker. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Mendelssohn String Symphony No 6 in E flat Telemann Trio Sonata in E flat
(Essercizii Musici )
8.00-9.00: Strauss Horn Concerto No 2
Bax Tintagel

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Walker.
Unknown:
Essercizii Musici

With Rob Cowan. Regular features include The Innocent Ear and a Bargain Hunter CD recommendation. Plus part of the recording of Handel's Saul recommended in yesterday's CD Review. Music also includes:
Vivaldi Overture: L 'Olimpiade Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, conductor Thomas Hengelbrock Silvestre Revueltas Sensemaya
Los Angeles PO, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen Mozart Symphony No 31 in D, K297 (Paris) Dresden Staatskapelle/Otmar Suitner Glinka Kamarinskaya NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini Takemitsu My Way of Life
Dwayne Croft (baritone), Saito Kinen Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 (excerpts) Los Angeles PO, conductor Erich Leinsdorf Email your comments to: cowancollection@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Thomas Hengelbrock
Conductor:
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Unknown:
Suitner Glinka Kamarinskaya
Conductor:
Arturo Toscanini
Baritone:
Dwayne Croft
Baritone:
Saito Kinen
Conductor:
Seiji Ozawa
Conductor:
Prokofiev Romeo
Conductor:
Erich Leinsdorf

Michael Berkeley 's guest is American novelist Daniel Mason , whose novel The Piano Tuner has been set as an opera by Nigel Osborne. Mason's choices include works by Bach, Clementi, Haydn, Mahler and Dvorak.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Daniel Mason
Unknown:
Nigel Osborne.

Biber's Rosary Sonatas
Andrew Manze introduces a selection from
Biber's 15 violin sonatas. He explores the different ways in which they can be realised, and considers the symbolism behind the music. Sonata No 1 (The Annunciation)
Sonata No 4 (The Presentation in the Temple) Andrew Manze (violin), Richard Eggar (organ) Sonata No 6 (The Agony in the Garden) Sonata No 9 (The Carrying of the Cross) Sonata No 10 (The Crucifixion)
Monica Huggett (violin), Emilia Benjamin (viola da gamba), Matthew Halls (organ), Richard Sweeney (theorbo)
Sonata No 11 (The Resurrection)
Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin), David Roblou (organ), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo), Richard Tunnicliffe (violone)

Contributors

Introduces:
Andrew Manze
Violin:
Andrew Manze
Violin:
Richard Eggar
Violin:
Monica Huggett
Violin:
Emilia Benjamin
Unknown:
Matthew Halls
Unknown:
Richard Sweeney
Violin:
David Roblou
Unknown:
Paula Chateauneuf
Unknown:
Richard Tunnicliffe

Stephanie Hughes presents a recital given by Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen , recorded at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. Hindemith Piano Sonata No 1
Busoni Fantasia after JS Bach
Bach/Busoni Komm. Gott Schopfer , BWV667; Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV645; Nun freut euch, lieben Christen, BWV734; Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV659
Rodion Shchedrin Questions (eleven pieces for piano) (first performance)
Prokofiev Cinderella (excerpts)

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes
Pianist:
Olli Mustonen
Unknown:
Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Unknown:
Gott Schopfer
Unknown:
Rodion Shchedrin

3/4. Conductor Marin Alsop goes for a spin in Fred Converse's Model T Ford and takes to the skies with William Walton and Samuel Barber , and Marc Blitzstein 's Airborne Symphony.
Plus the world's first electronic instruments: the theremin, ondes martenot and the trautonium. Producer David Gallagher
Good Vibrations: the Story of the Theremin, narrated by Bill Bailey , is broadcast on Radio 4 on Thursday at 11.30am

Contributors

Conductor:
Marin Alsop
Unknown:
William Walton
Unknown:
Samuel Barber
Unknown:
Marc Blitzstein
Producer:
David Gallagher
Unknown:
Bill Bailey

Brian Kay plays more listeners' requests, one of which recalls a life-changing performance of Beethoven's Fidelio for Russian soldiers at the end of the Second World War in Berlin.
Plus ragtime from Paul Hindemith , Liszt's transcription of Schubert's Standchen, and a complete performance of Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Pritchard. Send in your requests by PHONE: [number removed] Email via www.bbc.co.uk/radio3
Address: Three for All. BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Kay
Unknown:
Paul Hindemith
Conducted By:
John Pritchard.

Listen Up!
Presented by Chris de Souza.
Melvyn Tan (piano), Manchester Camerata, conductor Douglas Boyd

Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466
Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish)

Contributors

Presented By:
Chris de Souza.
Piano:
Melvyn Tan
Conductor:
Douglas Boyd

By Howard Barker.
A monastery in 1450: a young scribe, the finest calligrapher of his generation, is passionately committed to his art. Then a printing press from Germany arrives in his scriptorium.
Producer Peter Kavanagh

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Barker.
Producer:
Peter Kavanagh
Hoik:
Chris Moran
Slee:
Nell Dudgeon
Mother:
Lesley Manville
Tram:
John Wood
November:
Anton Lesser
Hergood/Clerk:
Damian Lynch
Light:
Declan Wilson
Toonelhuis:
John Rowe
Signor/Confessor:
Vincenzo Nlcoll

Presented by Louise Fryer.

Mozart Requiem in D minor, K626

1.45 Beethoven Piano Sonata in G, Op 31 No 1

2.10 Corelli Sonata da Chiesa in C, Op 1 No 7

2.15 Sweelinck Fantasia

2.25 Soriano Dixit Dominus

2.30 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks

2.55 C.P.E. Bach Flute Concerto in D minor

3.20 Mozart, arr Danzi Duos from Die Zauberflote

3.30 Beethoven Variations on a Russian Dance, WoO71

3.40 Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)

4.10 Somerro Akkmon Min Vei

4.15 Stenhammar Fantasia in B minor, Op 11 No 3

4.20 Humperdinck Overture: Hansel and Gretel

4.25 Verdi Ella Giamai M'amo.... Dormiro Sol nel Manto Mio Regal (Don Carlos)

4.35 Liszt Mazeppa (Etudes d'Execution Transcendante)

4.45 Kraus Symphony in C

5.00 Kunzen Overture: Erik Ejegod

5.05 Gounod Meditation sur le Premiere Prelude de Bach (Ave Maria)

5.10 Kerll Magnificat Septimi Toni

5.15 Durante Concerto per Quartetto No 6 in A

5.25 Cavalli Infelice, Che Ascolto?; Regina, Egeo, Amici (Giasone)

5.30 Haydn Piano Trio in A. Hob XV 18

5.50 Liszt Csardas Obstine

5.55 Brahms, arr Dvorak Hungarian Dances Nos 17-21

6.10 Goldmark String Quartet in B flat, Op 8

6.35 Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Fryer

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