Presented by Tommy Pearson. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No 2, Op 55 Bach, transcr Busoni Chaconne (Violin Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV 1004)
8.00-9.00: Wagner Good Friday Music (Parsifal, Act 3) Leigh Concertino Grieg , arr
Ellington Solveig 's Song Biber Gloria (Missa Salisburgensis)
With Rob Cowan. Including part of the recording of Vaughan Williams 's A Pastoral Symphony recommended in yesterday's CD Review. Plus: Falla Interlude and Dance No 1 (La Vida Breve) Minneapolis SO, conductor Antal Dorati
Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E minor, RV278
Giuliano Carmignola , Venice Baroque Orchestra, conductor Andrea Marcon
Verdi Offertorium (Messa da Requiem) Soloists, St Hedwig's Cathedral Choir, Berlin RIAS
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ferenc Fricsay Bach Trio Sonata in C minor, BWV526 Karl Richter (organ)
Mendelssohn It Is Enough (Elijah)
Harold Williams (baritone), BBC National Orchestra, conductor Stanford Robinson Shostakovich String Quartet No 4, Op 83 Jerusalem Quartet
Puccini Intermezzo (Manon Lescaut, Act 3) Halle Orchestra , conductor John Barbirolli Handel, arr Beecham Ballet: Love in Bath (excerpts) Use Hollweg (soprano),
RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham
Granados Andaluza (Danzas Espanolas No 5)
Cochita Supervia (soprano), Frank Marshall (piano) Rachmaninov, arr Heifetz Andante (Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19)
Jascha Heifetz (violin), Emanuel Bay (piano) Ravel Sonatine Friedrich Guida (piano) EMAIL: cowancollection@bbc.co.uk
Broadcaster Humphrey Burton shares his musical passions with Michael Berkeley. They include Mozart, Schubert, Verdi,
Poulenc, Milhaud and Gershwin.
Humphrey Burton on Bernstein: page 121
Biber's Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas
Andrew Manze explores Biber's 15 violin sonatas, and introduces musical excerpts.
Bernstein on Broadway
Tommy Pearson and Humphrey Burton introduce highlights from a concert given at the Barbican last year, featuring music from Leonard Bernstein 's most popular stage works, including West Side Story; Candide; Three Dance Episodes; On the Town; Wonderful Town and Trouble in Tahiti. With Kim Criswell (vocalist), Maida Vale Singers, LSO, conductor Marin Alsop. Humphrey Burton on Bernstein: page 121
A switchback musical ride through Jamie Bernstein 's favourite city, New York. In the first of a quarterly series of audio postcards, she reports from some of the myriad live events that have fired her excitement over the last few weeks, including a Buddhist nun gigging in Joe's Pub, a Kiezmer rapper and the silliest song ever heard on Broadway. Producer Bill Lloyd
Humphrey Burton on Bernstein: page 121
Yesterday was the 80th birthday of the great
German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , and Brian Kay celebrates with a selection of listeners' requests of the man in action. Plus Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, narrated by Sting, and John Ireland's Legend for piano and orchestra.
PHONE: [number removed]0300 email via www.bbc.co.uk/radio3 Address: 3 for All, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YO
Bernstein devoted much of his time to the pursuit and communication of knowledge.
The Grammy Foundation Leonard Bernstein
Center for Learning in California pursues his educational vision. Tom Service looks at this side of his work and legacy. Producer Paul Frankl
Humphrey Burton on Bernstein: page 121
From the BBC's Maida Vale Studios, a taste of Africa - the first in a whole evening of African programmes. With the BBC Symphony Chorus, and Orchestra, the Macusi Players and young local musicians. Presented by Fiona Talkington.
Ashley Wass (piano), Macusi Players, Hammersmith Youth Choir, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductors David Charles Abell and Grant Llewellyn
Walton Johannesberg Festival Overture
Traditional, arr Rattray Eeshe Olwa - Director Brenda Rattray
Saint-Saens Africa, Op 89Ã
Traditional See Jolly
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Symphonic Variations on an African Air, Op 63
Derek Bermel Dust Dances
JoJo Yates Ase Fua
For further information about the Africa season visit [web address removed] and follow the link to Africa 05
A comic and outlandish look at dictatorship, in Nigerian Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka 's play - a loose adaptation of Alfred Jarry 's Ubu Roi.
Drumming and musical director Tunji Oyelana
Tobias Sturmer (trumpet/bugle) Director Pauline Harris
After nearly 15 years of relative peace and stability, the citizens of the independent republic of Somaliland insist it is a model African nation - yet the international community has yet to recognise its existence. Shaheera Asante tells the story of Somaliland through the eyes of its people and of the Somali expat community in Wales, many of whom devote themselves to helping their relatives in nurturing the fledgling state.
1/5. Humphrey Burton introduces highlights of Leonard Bernstein 's music for Broadway. For full listing see tomorrow's repeat at 12 noon
Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Leonardo Leo Miserere Mei Deus; Francesco Scarlatti Miserere Mei Deus
1.40 Franck 11 Miniatures
2.00 Saint-Saens Symphony No 3 C minor (Organ)
2.35 Brahms Trio in E flat for violin, viola and piano, Op 40
3.05 Holland Agatha, or the Arrival of the Master
4.00 Abel Flute Sonata in G, Op 6 No 6
4.15 Herbert Panamericana
4.20 Halvorsen Norwegian Rhapsody No 1 in A minor
4.30 C.P.E. Bach Quartet for flute, viola and continuo in D, Wq94
5.00 Rathaus Prelude and Gigue in A, Op 44
5.10 Chopin Polonaise in E flat minor, Op 26 No 2
5.25 Wert Qual Musico Gentil
5.35 Froberger Lamento sopra la Morte Ferdinandi III
5.55 Hellendaal Concerto Grosso in F, Op 3 No 3
6.05 Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488
6.40 Milhaud Le Globe-Trotter, Op 358
