Presented by Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Chopin Variations on La Ci Darem la Mano, Op 2 Mozart String Quartet in D minor, K173
8.00-9.00: Brahms Klavierstuck , Op 118 No 2 Tchaikovsky Serenade in C for strings, Op 48 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 some of this month's classical music CD releases.
9.30 Building a Library Roderick Swanston recommends the best of the currently available recordings of Grieg's Holberg Suite.
10.15 A round-up of recent reissues.
10.50 William Mival reviews new contemporary music recordings, including Philip Glass's Symphony No 6 (Plutonian Odes),
Henryk Gorecki 's Symphony No 3, and John Cage piano works performed by Martine Joste.
11.20 Andrew McGregor talks to pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja about late Schubert, miniature
Brahms, her life in the former Soviet Union and her duo partnership with Sviatoslav Richter.
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:
Koechlin Chant Funebre a la Mémoire des
Jeunes Femmes Défuntes, Op 37 Stuttgart Radio Vocal Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Heinz Holliger 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
Lucie Skeaping presents Musica Antiqua London, directed by Philip Thorby , with music and conversation from the Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich.
Claire Martin talks to composer and drummer
Clark Tracey , whose latest album brings together a band of fresh and innovative British musicians.
Plus new CD releases.
Producer Keith Loxam
Geoffrey Smith plays listeners' jazz requests. ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
Fax: [number removed] email: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk
Can You Sing Me a Song - the Stan Getz Story 4/4. After the pop triumph of bossa nova in the 1960s, saxophonist Stan Getz continued to make music his own way, despite flirting with electronic music and a younger sartorial style. His last years saw an increased emotional intensity in his performances and a general recognition of his status as one of the great jazz musicians. Producer Dave Batchelor
RT DIRECT: A Stan Getz 4-CD set The Sound is available for E16.99 including p&p. To order please send a cheque, payable to Selections, to: [address removed], or phone: [number removed] (national rate), or visit www.selections.com/rtdirect. Quote ref: [number removed].
Mazeppa
Valery Gergiev conducts the Met's first homegrown production of Tchaikovsky's dark and thrilling masterpiece.
Presented from New York by Margaret Juntwait.
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev Act1
7.35 Interval: Tchaikovsky the Songwriter Brian Zeger talks about this aspect of Tchaikovsky's work, with specially recorded examples by mezzo Olga Borodina.
8.00 Act 2
9.15 Interval: The Met Opera Quiz
Steven Blier puts listeners'questions to
Ken Benson , Speight Jenkins and Suzanne Martinucci. Send questions to Met Opera Quiz, FDR Station, PO Box 805, New York, NY 10150, USA, or via bbc.co.uk/radio3
9.40 Act 3
RT DIRECT: A Kirov Opera production of Tchaikovsky's
Mazeppa (3CDs), conducted by Valery Gergiev , is available for E30 including p&p. To order please send a cheque, payable to Selections, to: [address removed], or phone: [number removed] (national rate), or visit www.selections.com/rtdirect. Quote ref: [number removed]. RPS/Radio 3 Listeners' Award: page 119
A tragic memory, a fantastic dream and a decisive moment. Half a lifetime ago an anonymous source was a little forward with the truth. Not long from now an old BBC voice will ask questions about the very small, very mad world. Meanwhile, an author struggles to finish the beginning of her story. Featuring John Crook , Christopher Gunness , and Sally Phillips. Written, composed and produced by Antony Pitts and Gary Watt.
If Festival 2006
Alwynne Pritchard presents a concert from this year's If Festival in London, a showcase for interactive electronics. Featuring new works by John Croft and Peter Wiegold for cellist Matthew Barley , and a major work by Philippe Manoury , one of the leading authorities on electronic music. His piece, En Echo, is sung by soprano Donatienne Michel-Dansac . All the works feature live electronic transformations of acoustic sounds.
With John Shea.
BBC Proms 2005: Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini
Gothenburg SO, conductor Gustavo Dudamel Sibelius Symphony No 2 New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conductor James Judd 2.09 Mozart Piano Sonata in B flat, K333 2.27 JE Bach Passion Oratorio 4.01 Abel Flute Concerto, Op 6 No 2 4.17 Corelli Violin Sonata in E minor, Op 5 No 8 4.26 Corelli/Geminiani Concerto
Grosso No 3 in B minor 4.34 Scheidt Christe , Qui Lux Es et Dies 4.46 Gombert Dicite to 4.49 A Gabriell Sento un Rumor 4.53 Forster Trio Sonata in 8 flat 5.00 Lipovsek The Minstrel 5.25 Haydn Divertimento in E flat, H II 21
(Eine Abendmusik ) 5.41 Hesse Introduction, Theme and Variations in A, Op 47 5.53 Eisner Overture: Leszek the White 6.01 Noskowski White Mist Patches 6.04 Poulenc Capriccio (Le Ba) Masquer 6.10 Dvorak Scherzo
Capriccioso, Op 66 6.23 Ponchielli Capriccio for oboe and piano 6.34 Kuula The Son of the Slave, Op 14
