Presented by Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Schumann Papillons , Op 2 Wilhelm Kempff (piano) Mozart Symphony No 13 in F, K112 Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
8.00-9.00: Monteverdi Dixit Dominus (first setting) The King's Consort and Choir/Robert King Dvorak American Suite, Op 98b RLPO/Libor Pesek For full details visit www.bbc. co.uk/radio3/morningon3 on the day of transmission PHONE: [number removed]
(calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) email: morningon3@bbc.co.uk Address: Morning on 3, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
Andrew McGregor plays new CD releases.
9.30 Building a Library As part of the Get Carter! weekend, Stephen Plaistow surveys the available recordings of the music of Elliott Carter.
10.15 A round-up of recent reissues.
10.50 David Fanning reviews new recordings of unusual piano repertoire, including music by Smetana, Suk and Hans Gal , and a disc of music for left hand alone.
11.20 Andrew McGregor talks harpsichords and fortepianos with Andreas Staier , and finds out about his love of Scarlatti. Bach, Mozart and Haydn, about the 50th-birthday Staier Edition, and about why Hamburg was so special in 1734.
11.55 The Listening Booth Your chance to request some of the latest CD releases from the list on the programme website .
12.30 Disc of the Week: Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor Nikolaj Znaider, Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Zubin Mehta www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) email: cdreview@bbc.co.uk Text: [number removed] (standard rate) Disc details are posted on the website and on CEEFAX, BBC1, page 651
This year's annual Composer Weekend focuses on the great American composer Elliott Carter. Introduced from London's
Barbican by John Tusa.
Michael Collins (clarinet), John Constable (harpsichord), Ian Brown (piano),
London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen Colin Matthews Two Tributes
Elliott Carter Clarinet Concerto
1.45 Twenty Minutes: Publish and Be Damned? Sarah Walker investigates the changing world of music publishing. Do emerging composers face walking the same routes as their predecessors, or are new technologies and an ever harsher marketplace altering the new-music business?
2.05 Elliott Carter Double Concerto
This evening's concert from this Composer Weekend is broadcast in Elliott Carter at the Barbican at 8pm on BBC4
Live from St Giles Cripplegate in the Barbican, London. Presented by John Tusa. Arditti Quartet
Elliott Carter String Quartet No 5 Bartok String Quartet No 4
5.05 Interval: Notes on Poetry - Hart Crane In the first of a series of talks on American poets associated with Elliott Carter , Mark Lawson reflects on the tragic work and life of Hart Crane.
5.15 Elliott Carter String Quartet No 1
See also Elliott Carter at the Barbican Live at 8pm on BBC4
Ronnie Scott 's
1/4. George Melly looks at the famous London jazz club's early days in Soho's Gerrard Street. With music from Zoot Sims , Peter King , Tubby Hayes , and Scott himself. Producer Alan Hall
RT DIRECT: Ronnie Scott 's Forty-Five (2 CDs), featuring tracks by Herbie Hancock , Diana Krall , Charles Mingus. Oscar Peterson and many others, is available on CD for
£14.99 including p&p. To order, send a cheque, payable to Selections, to: [address removed] or phone: [number removed] (national rate) quoting [number removed], or visit selections.com/rtdirect
A Mozart Celebration
Margaret Juntwait presents 60 years of starry Mozart performances from the New York Met's treasure-trove of archive recordings. With highlights from every Mozart opera staged at the Met, in the order in which they were composed: Idomeneo, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Le
Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni , Cosi Fan Tutte, La Clemenza di Tito, Die Zauberflote. The great singers include Renee Fleming , Nicolai Gedda , Ezio Pinza, Leontyne Price, Frederica von Stade and Richard Tucker , with conductors ranging from Karl Bohm to Bruno Walter. The Met's current music director James Levine offers his own insights into Mozart's genius throughout the evening, in conversation with Ara Guzelimian. RT DIRECT: Mozart's Complete Works (170 CDs): E99
(ref [number removed]); and Mozart The Masterworks (40 CDs): E35 (ref [number removed]). Prices include p&p. To order either set please send a cheque, payable to Selections, to:
[address removed], or phone: [number removed] (national rate), or visit www.selections.com/rtdirect, quoting the appropriate reference number.
Ian McMillan explores the art of the memoir - with a special commission written by Sukhdev Sandhu - and talks to poet Geoffrey Hill about his new collection, Without Title. Producer ArianeKoek
Julian Anderson 's series of eight miniatures exploring different sides of relationship, Poetry Nearing Silence, performed by the Nash Ensemble , conductor Lionel Friend , at the group's 40th anniversary concert in 2005.
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2/5. Featuring the music of James Dillon , with a rare complete performance of his Book of Elements played by Noriko Kawai. From Norway, the Cikada Quartet play his third String Quartet. Plus Giacinto Scelsi 's Three Latin Prayers performed by the New London Chamber Choir. Presented by Sarah Walker and Ivan Hewett.
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