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With Rob Cowan. Regular features include The Innocent Ear and a Bargain Hunter
CD recommendation. Plus the recording of Britten's A Ceremony of Carols recommended in yesterday's CD Review. Music also includes: Verdi Overture: La Forza del Destino
Munich PO, conductor Sergiu Celibidache Pisendel Concerto in D Freiburg Baroque
Orchestra, conductor Gottfried von der Goltz
Prokofiev Tales of an Old Grandmother, Op 31 Gyorgy Sandor (piano)
Handel Glory to God in the Highest: Rejoice Greatly, 0 Daughter of Zion (Messiah)
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Taverner Choir and Players, conductor Andrew Parrott Peter Sculthorpe Earth Cry
William Barton (didjeridoo), Queensland Orchestra, conductor Michael Christie
Dvorak Prague Waltzes Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer
Email your comments to: cowancollection@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Sergiu Celibidache
Piano:
Gyorgy Sandor
Soprano:
Emma Kirkby
Soprano:
Taverner Choir
Conductor:
Andrew Parrott
Unknown:
William Barton
Conductor:
Michael Christie
Conductor:
Ivan Fischer

Michael Berkeley 's guest is Robert McCrum , literary editor of The Observer. His musical passion is American musicals, and his choices include songs by Jerome Kern , Cole Porter , George Gershwin and Frank Loesser , as well as music by Britten, Rossini, Milhaud and Colin Matthews.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Robert McCrum
Songs By:
Jerome Kern
Songs By:
Cole Porter
Songs By:
George Gershwin
Songs By:
Frank Loesser
Songs By:
Colin Matthews.

Scarlatti Weekend: My Favourite Scarlatti
In a live and interactive show from Studio 3 in Manchester, Catherine Bott offers listeners the opportunity to request a performance of their favourite piece of music by a member of the Scarlatti family of composers.
Send your requests to: The Early Music Show. Room 1115. BBC New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester M60 1SJ or email: early.music@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Catherine Bott

Olivier Latry
Olivier Latry, organist at Notre Dame in Paris, in a recital given on the organ at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, earlier this year. Presented by Stephanie Hughes.
Bach, arr Dupre Cantata No 29: Wir danken dir, Gott (Sinfonia)
Franck Prelude , Fugue and Variation in B minor, Op 18
Widor Marche du Veilleur de Nuit (Bach's Memento)
Liszt Variations on Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen
Vieme Symphony No 3 in Fsharp minor (Final) Messiaen L 'Apparition du Christ Ressuscite a Marie-Madeleine (Livre du Saint Sacrement) Olivier Latry Improvisation on BACH and a Lutheran Chorale Tune

Contributors

Presented By:
Stephanie Hughes.
Unknown:
Franck Prelude

Joseph Szigeti
Using recordings of Bach, Mozart, Brahms,
Prokofiev and Bartok, pianist Mitsuko Uchida explains to Tom Robinson why, in her opinion, no-one can compete with the Hungarian
Joseph Szigeti 's intelligence and humanity as a violinist.
Producer Alan Hall

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Szigeti
Pianist:
Mitsuko Uchida
Unknown:
Tom Robinson
Unknown:
Joseph Szigeti
Producer:
Alan Hall

More from the postbag of listeners' requests, including horn virtuoso David Pyatt in recital, Dvorak's Slavonic Dances in piano duet form, and a vintage recording of Vaughan Williams's Flos Campi featuring William Primrose , arguably the founder of modern viola playing. Plus more listeners' suggestions of the greatest recordings of composers conducting their own works.
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:
David Pyatt
Unknown:
Flos Campi
Unknown:
William Primrose

Tom Service talks to pianist Maria Joao Pires about the spirituality of her performances, and examines the letters of Benjamin Britten written between 1946 and 1951. Producer Jeremy Evans

Contributors

Pianist:
Maria Joao Pires
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Producer:
Jeremy Evans

Petroc Trelawny presents a concert recorded yesterday in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Wayne Marshall (organ),
BBC Philharmonic, conductors James MacMillan and Gianandrea Noseda
James MacMillan A Scotch Bestiary (first European performance)
Prokofiev Ballet: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)

Contributors

Conductors:
James MacMillan
Conductors:
Gianandrea Noseda
Unknown:
James MacMillan

By John Vanbrugh.
"What cloying meat is love when matrimony's the sauce to it?"
A gloriously outspoken 18th-century comedy of sex, marriage, debauchery and revenge.

Contributors

Writer:
John Vanbrugh.
Adapter:
Jim Poyser
Director:
Pauline Harris
Sir John Brute:
Dave Hill
Lady Fanciful:
Josie Lawrence
Constant:
Tom Mannion
Lady Brute:
Saskia Reeves
Heartfree:
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Belinda:
Sarah Smart
Claudette:
Tonia Chauvet
Rasor:
David Crellin
Colonel Bully:
David Crellin
Lord Rake:
Alexander Delamere
Justice:
Alexander Delamere

With John Shea.
Franck Redemption 2.00 Beethoven 32 Variations in C minor, Wo080 2.10 Dvorak Piano Trio No 3 in F minor, Op 65 2.50 Haydn Cello Concerto in D, H Vllb 2
3.20 Mozart Sonata in D for two pianos, K381
3.30 Nowowiejski Missa pro Pace. Op 49 No 3
4.05 Grieg, arr anon Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt)
4.10 Pisendel Sonata in C minor for two oboes
4.15 Bach Viola da Gamba Sonata No 3 in G minor, BWV1029 4.30 Glinka Ruslan 's Aria (Ruslan and Lyudmila) 4.40 Moniuszko Nioly 's Song 4.45 Grieg Triumphal March (Sigurd Jorsalfar) 5.00 Rangstrom Violin Suite No 2 5.10 Faure, transcr and arr Littera Pavane , Op 50 5.15 Franck Cantabile in B 5.20
Mengelberg Salve Regina 5.35 Hellendaal Cello Sonata in D. Op 5 No 2 5.45 Sweelinck Cantate Domino
Canticum Novum 5.50 Jefvan Hoof Overture: Wiiiem de Zwijger 5.55 Franck Preludes pour I' Ave Maris Stella
6.00 Upinskl Overture in D 6.10 Brahms Geistliches Lied, Op 30 6.15 Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068 6.35 Boieldleu Harp Concerto in C

Contributors

Unknown:
John Shea.
Unknown:
Nowowiejski Missa
Unknown:
Glinka Ruslan
Unknown:
Moniuszko Nioly
Unknown:
Littera Pavane
Unknown:
Mengelberg Salve Regina
Unknown:
Franck Preludes
Unknown:
Maris Stella

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