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Presented by Louise Fryer.
7.00 8.00 : Britten/Lennox Berkeley Suite: Mont Juic , Op 9 Handel Suite No 3 in D minor, HWV428
8.00 9.00 : Franck, transcr Hough Choral No 3 in A minor Mozart Flute Concerto in G, K313

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Fryer.
Unknown:
Mont Juic

With Rob Cowan.
Including the recording of Brahms's Clarinet Trio, Op 114, recommended on yesterday's CD Review. The programme includes: Mozart March No 1 in C, K408
Vienna PO, conductor Istvan Kertesz
Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
Bach Trio Sonata No 6 in G, BWV530 Peter Hurford (organ)
Traditional Russian Song of the Volga Boatmen Boris Gmiria (bass), orchestra conducted by Vassily Nebolsin Kalinka Soviet Ensemble conducted by Vladimir Alexandrov
Delius Brigg Fair Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
Granados El Fandango de Candil (Goyescas) Aldo Ciccolini (piano)
Lully Dies Irae Valencia Vocal Ensemble, Jean-Francois Paillard Chamber Orchestra, conductor Jean-Francois Paillard
Gustav Charpentier Depuis le Jour (Louise)
Janine Micheau (soprano), Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conductor Roger Desormiere Roussel Symphony No 3
Lamoureux Orchestra, conductor Charles Munch Sgambati Serenata Napoletana Emanuel Feuermann (cello), Theo van der Pas (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Rob Cowan

Made in Britain: Music and Canterbury
6/8. As the pilgrims of Chaucer's tales made their way to Canterbury, music came up a great deal in their conversation. And Canterbury was itself a focus for music of a quite different kind. Catherine Bott presents a programme of music of the Church and music of the people.

Contributors

Unknown:
Catherine Bott

Pianist Stephen Hough plays Berg, Schubert, Granados, Albeniz, Debussy, Ravel and Moszkowski, in a recital from the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank.
Presented by Stephanie Hughes.

Contributors

Pianist:
Stephen Hough
Unknown:
Elizabeth Hall
Presented By:
Stephanie Hughes.

1/2. Patron Saint of Music. Christopher Cook re-examines the ancient story of St Cecilia, whose feast day is on Tuesday. He discovers a lost mystical tradition behind the established image, and introduces works written in her honour by Purcell, Scarlatti, Marenzio, Handel, Draghi and Charpentier.

Contributors

Music:
Christopher Cook

This week's requests include Vaughan Williams's Charterhouse Suite. Plus a quintet for flute, harp and strings by the French composer Jean-Michael Damase , and for the theme of the month featuring music for children, Prokofiev's Winter Bonfire, about an expedition to the country for a group of Soviet children.
PHONE: [number removed]0300 (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) email via www.bbc.co.uk/radio3 Address: 3 for All. BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YO

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Damase

An extended interview with the American composer Steve Reich , one of the pioneers of American minimalism, who is 70 next year. Tom Service talks to him about two recent works -
You Are Variations and Cello Counterpoint - and about science, Judaism and technology. Producers Paul Frank ! and Tony Cheevers

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Reich
Producers:
Paul Frank
Producers:
Tony Cheevers

In the last of Radio 3's birthday tributes to Charles Mackerras, an all-Janacek programme from Manchester in 1998. And the conductor explains to Donald Macleod why, throughout his career, he has championed the work of the Czech composer.

Christine Brewer (soprano), Ameral Gunson (mezzo), Peter Bronder (tenor), Geoffrey Moses (bass), City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, BBC Philharmonic, conductor Charles Mackerras

Janacek Sinfonietta

Janacek, arr Jilek Suite: The Cunning Little Vixen

Janacek Glagolitic Mass

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod
Guest/Conductor:
Charles Mackerras
Singers:
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
Musicians:
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Soprano:
Christine Brewer
Mezzo:
Ameral Gunson
Tenor:
Peter Bronder
Bass:
Geoffrey Moses

By William Shakespeare. Richard Eyre 's production rocks between the extremes of nature and society, male and female, blood and water, war and peace, light and darkness, the absence of children and the presence of children.
Music by Dominic Muldowney ; Director Richard Eyre
The Taming of the Shrew is on BBC1 tomorrow night at 8.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
William Shakespeare.
Unknown:
Richard Eyre
Music By:
Dominic Muldowney
Director:
Richard Eyre
Macbeth:
Ken Stott
Lady Macbeth/third witch:
Phyllis Logan
Macduff:
Tom Mannion
Banquo:
Liam Brennan
Duncan:
Hugh Ross
Malcolm:
Alan Cox
Lennox:
Paul Higgins
Ross:
Alastair Galbraith
Porter:
Kenny Ireland
Old man:
Graham Crowden
Doctor:
Ken Drury
Seyton:
Lainstuart Robertson
First witch/Lady MacDuff:
Tracy Wiles
Second witch/Gentlewoman:
Kathleen McGoldrick
Sergeant/Second murderer:
William McBain
First murderer/Siward:
Gavin Muir
Fleance/Young Siward:
Stuart Wilkinson
Servant/Lords:
Alex Ferns
Lady MacDuff's son:
Ben MacLeod

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Mezzo Antico 4.20
Monteverdi Gloria (Mass forseven voices) 4.33 Palmgren Overture: Cinderella 4.37 Salzedo Tango 4.40 Chopin Etude in E. Op 10 No3 3 4.44 Mokranjac Eighth Song-Wreath (Songs from Kosovo) 4.50 Dvorak Overture: Carnaval

Contributors

Unknown:
Monteverdi Gloria

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