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Presented by Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Hoist A Fugal Overture Biber Sonata Representativa
8.00-9.00: Monteverdi Cantate Domino a 2 Copland Suite: The Tender Land Phoenix For full details visit www.bbc. co.uk/radio3/morningon3 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

Presented By:
Martin Handley.

Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's classical music CD releases.
9.30 Building a Library Revisited:
Ahead of tonight's Proms performance (at 7.30pm), Geoffrey Smith surveys the available recordings of Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore.
10.15 A round-up of recent reissues.
10.50 Simon Heighes reviews new releases of Baroque music, including Handel's opera Rodelinda, and Monteverdi discs from
La Venexiana and soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr.
11.20 Conductor Kurt Masur talks to
Andrew McGregor about life as a musician in the former German Democratic Republic and his love of the music of Mendelssohn and Shostakovich.
11.55 The Listening Booth Your chance to request some of the latest CD releases from the list on the programme website .
12.25 Disc of the Week: Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20 Ensemble Explorations 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:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Simon Heighes
Soprano:
Maria Cristina Kiehr.
Conductor:
Kurt Masur
Unknown:
Andrew McGregor

Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music
Lucie Skeaping introduces a concert given earlier this year at St John's, Smith Square,
London, by Europa Galante , directed by violinist Fabio Biondi. With music by Geminiani, Barsanti and d'Alai, as well as Telemann's Burlesque de Quixotte and a concerto grosso by Corelli.

Contributors

Unknown:
Europa Galante
Violinist:
Fabio Biondi.

Staying On
1/2. Michael Pointon celebrates the South African jazz musicians who eschewed the prospect of international fame and plied their trade in their home country. This programme features some rare archives of South African jazz and jazz-related music, including one piece recorded as early as 1931. Producer David Perry

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Pointon
Producer:
David Perry

New series 1/9. The Cabaret Experience. In what might, in some circles, be regarded as a scandalous waste of electricity, Kit and the Widow return for another series of all that is good, nutritious and wholesome from the world of cabaret, with scant regard for the well-being of listeners and pets alike. Guests include comedian Joan Rivers , chanteuse Izzy van Randwyck , and debutant Dominic Tighe. Producer Lyndon Jones

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Rivers
Unknown:
Izzy van Randwyck
Unknown:
Dominic Tighe.
Producer:
Lyndon Jones

HMS Pinafore
Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
A feast of sparkling music from Gilbert and Sullivan. Their ever-popular satire about the sea-captain's daughter who falls in love with a common sailor is preceded by an overture from another operetta and conductor
Charles Mackerras 's Pineapple Poll ballet suite, based on Gilbert's ballad The Bumboat Woman's Story and assembled using a variety of Sullivan's tunes from the operettas. Presented by Petroc Trelawny .
Maida Vale Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
Sullivan Overture: The Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan, arr Mackerras Suite: Pineapple Poll
8.05 Twenty Minutes: Blow the Man Down Tim Healey attends the recent Falmouth Sea
Shanty Festival to find out more about the history and evolution of these salty working songs.
8.25 Sullivan HMS Pinafore Rptd on Tuesday at 2pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Presented By:
Petroc Trelawny
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Unknown:
Tim Healey
Sir Joseph Porter:
Richard Suart (baritone)
Captain Corcoran:
Neal Davies (bass)
Ralph Rackstraw:
Timothy Robinson (tenor)
Josephine:
Sally Matthews (soprano)
Little Buttercup:
Felicity Palmer (mezzo)
Dick Deadeye:
Peter Sidhorn (baritone)
Bill Bobstay (Boatswain's Mate):
Owen Gilhooly (baritone)
Bob Becket (Carpenter's Mate):
Stephen Richardson (bass)
Cousin Hebe:
Wendy Dawn Thompson (mezzo)
Narrator:
Tim Brooke-Taylor

By Dennis Kelly. Paul collects ants. Vinnie wants to be a war reporter. Louise watches the world go by from her flat as she looks after her sick mother, and Ade remembers his son and the bullet that killed him. When a child crawls along a balcony, untended, each of them watches, caught up in their own obsessions. Producer Pam Marshall

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Kelly.
Producer:
Pam Marshall
Paul:
Adam Godley
Vinnie:
Bryan Dick
Ade:
Jude Akuwudike
Sarah:
Gillian Wright
Louise:
Carolyn Tomkinson

Alwynne Pritchard reports from the Indaba Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa. This year's theme is Re-imagining Africa, with music including Justinian Tamusuza from Uganda, some cutting-edge electronica, and the Bow Project, which celebrates Xhosa bow music with new compositions for mouth bow and string quartet.

Contributors

Unknown:
Justinian Tamusuza

With John Shea. Mahler Symphony No 7 2.26 Fruhllnq
Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op 40 2.53 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor 3.27 Strauss Also sprach
Zarathustra 4.00 Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia aus Shakespeares Hamlet, Op 67 4.08 Dellus, ed Fenby La Calinda (Koanga) 4.13 Humperdinck Dream Scene
(Hansel und Gretel) 4.20 Larsson Pastoral Suite, Op 19
4.34 G Gabriell Domine , Dominus Noster 4.38 Nauss
Praeludium Terti Toni (Die spielende Muse) 4.52 Chausson Trois Chansons de Shakespeare, Op 28 5.00 Auber
Overture: Marco Spado 5.10 Godard Oh! Ne T'éveille Pas Encor (Jocelyn) A Thomas Adieu ! Mignon (Mignon)
5.20 Chambonnieres Pièces de Clavecin du Premier Livre
5.34 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in F minor, RV297 (Winter) (The Four Seasons) 5.42 Britten Sinfonia da Requiem,
Op 20 6.04 Juon Cello Sonata No 2, Op 54 6.23 Pilkington Rest, Sweet Nymphs 6.27 Rubinstein Melody in F
Op 3 No 1 Gershwin, transcr Grainger The Man I Love
6.35 Mozart String Quartet in D, K499 (Hoffmeister)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Shea.
Unknown:
Gabriell Domine
Unknown:
Marco Spado
Unknown:
Thomas Adieu
Unknown:
Britten Sinfonia

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