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Presented by Martin Handley.
7.00-8.00: Handel Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened, HWV259
Chopin Scherzo No 1 in B minor, Op 20
8.00-9.00: Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Lyudmila Schumann Konzertstuck in F, Op 86

Contributors

Presented By:
Martin Handley.
Unknown:
Lyudmila Schumann Konzertstuck

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

Michael Berkeley talks to the prize-winning garden designer Christopher Bradley-Hole , whose musical interests encompass Rodrigo de Ceballos , Vivaldi, Beethoven, Arvo Part and Erik Satie.

Contributors

Talks:
Michael Berkeley
Designer:
Christopher Bradley-Hole
Unknown:
Rodrigo de Ceballos
Unknown:
Erik Satie.

Lucrezia Borgia and Josquin des Pres
If ever a woman had bad press it was Lucrezia Borgia. David Fallows , in conversation with Catherine Bott , shows us another side to this enigmatic woman, a patron of the arts and music lover, and possibly even a performer.

Contributors

Unknown:
Lucrezia Borgia
Unknown:
Lucrezia Borgia.
Unknown:
David Fallows
Unknown:
Catherine Bott

Angela Hewitt joins the Australian Chamber
Orchestra in this eclectic programme of works from the Barogue and beyond, given earlier this month at California's La Jolla Festival.
Angela Hewitt (piano), Cho-Liang Lin , Helena Rathbone and Satu Vanska (violins), Australian Chamber Orchestra, director Richard Tognetti (violin)
Brahms, arr Angerer 0 Gott, du frommer Gott (Chorale Preludes, Op 122)
Bach Keyboard Concerto in D, BWVI054; Keyboard Concerto in G minor, BWV1058
Vivaldi Concerto in B minor for four violins, RV580 (L'Estro Armonico)
Ravel, arr Tognetti String Quartet in F Carl Vine Smith 's Alchemy

Contributors

Unknown:
Angela Hewitt
Piano:
Angela Hewitt
Piano:
Cho-Liang Lin
Piano:
Helena Rathbone
Violin:
Richard Tognetti
Unknown:
Carl Vine Smith

4/4. All or Nothing. In 1964 Legge quit EMI, tried to disband the Philharmonia and then lived the last 15 years of his life in self-imposed exile.
Presented by Humphrey Burton with contributions from Legge's widow Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and music from Der Rosenkavalier and Don Giovanni.

Contributors

Presented By:
Humphrey Burton
Unknown:
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Unknown:
Don Giovanni.

This week's requests include Stravinsky's neoclassical suite Pulcinella, a Handel organ concerto, and part of Roxanna Panufnik 's
Westminster Mass, plus a selection of this month's musical souvenirs. Presented by Brian Kay.
ADDRESS:3 for All, BBC Wales, CF5 2YQ Phone: [number removed] email via www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

Contributors

Unknown:
Roxanna Panufnik
Presented By:
Brian Kay.

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
From the Royal Albert Hall , London. Sex and Siberia, murder and melodrama, blood and black humour are all in Shostakovich's powerful opera, which prompted Stalin to launch a brutal clampdown on experimental art. Presented by Stephanie Hughes.
Other roles sung by members of the Mariinsky Theatre Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre (Kirov Opera), conductor Valery Gergiev Acts 1 and 2 8.10 Interval Talk: Nikolai Leskov - the Russian Storyteller
Shostakovich based his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk on a story by Nikolai Leskov. Philip Bullock explores Leskov's life and work.
8.40 Acts 3 and 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Hall
Presented By:
Stephanie Hughes.
Conductor:
Valery Gergiev
Unknown:
Nikolai Leskov
Story By:
Nikolai Leskov.
Story By:
Philip Bullock
Katerina Ismailova:
Larissa Goqolevskaia (soprano)
Boris Ismailov:
Vladimir Oqnovenko (bass)
Sergei:
Vlktor Lutsuk (tenor)
Zinovy Ismailov:
Yevqeni Akimov (tenor)
Shabby peasant:
Vasily Gorshkov (tenor)
Aksinya:
Tatlana Kravtsova (soprano)

Shostakovich: a Journey into Light
Presenter Stephen Johnson discusses how
Shostakovich's music helped him in his battle against clinical depression and travels to Moscow and St Petersburg to find out why his music speaks to a deeper human spirit. Producer Jeremy Evans

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephen Johnson
Presenter:
St Petersburg
Producer:
Jeremy Evans

With Jonathan Swain. A concert of Hungarian choral works performed by the BBC Singers under Bob Chilcott.
1.52 Bax Symphony No 6 in C 2.27 Enna Sketch Book
2.43 Trad, arr Mykola Leontovych OiSyvaia Tai
Zozulenka 2.47 Beethoven Violin Concerto in D 3.27
Mehul Symphony No 1 in G minor 3.54 Kreisler Preludium and A llegro 4.01 Rathaus Prelude andCigue in A, Op 44
4.09 Telemann Sonata Polonaise in A minor, TWV 42 8
4.17 Dvorak Prague Waltzes 4.25 Thomas 0 Vin Dissipe la Tristesse; Comme une Pale Fleur (Hamlet) 4.33 Stanley Organ Concerto in C minor 4.44 D Scarlatti Allegro
(Harpsichord Sonata in G, Kkl05) 4.50 Vaet Postquam
Consumati Essent Dies 5.00 Geminiani Concerto Grosso, Op 3 No 2 5.08 Lassus Dulces Exuviae; Musica Dei donum
5.17 Kodaly Viennese Clock; Entrance of the Emperor and His Courtiers (Hary Janos ) 5.23 Saar Moment Musical; Prelude in B flat minor, Op 47 No 15.30 Kuula Chanson Sans Paroles 5.35 Handel Alpestre Monte. HWV815.46 Oskar Morawetz Divertimento 5.58 Gorecki Two Songs, Op 33 6.02 Bartok Three Hungarian Folk Songs 6.06
Haydn Trio in B flat, H XV 8 6.25 Srul Irvinq Gllck Suite Hébraïque No 5 6.40 Beethoven Choral Fantasia, Op 80

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Bob Chilcott.
Unknown:
Kreisler Preludium
Unknown:
Vin Dissipe
Harpsichord:
Scarlatti Allegro
Unknown:
Musica Dei
Unknown:
Hary Janos
Unknown:
Kuula Chanson
Unknown:
Handel Alpestre Monte.
Unknown:
Oskar Morawetz Divertimento

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