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With Rob Cowan. including an excerpt from yesterday's Chopin recommendation on CD Review. Other music includes:
Delibes, arr Dragon The Maids of Cadiz
Hollywood Bowl SO, conductor Carmen Dragon Mendelssohn Sechs Lieder , Op 41 Saxon Vocal Ensemble, conductor Matthias Jung
Haydn Symphony No 92 in G Hague Residentie Orchestra/Willem van
Otterloo Beethoven The Kiss, Dear Maid, Thy Lip Has Left, Wo0153 No 9; Sally in Our Alley, Op 108 No 25 Robert White (tenor), Ani Kavafian (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Samuel Sanders (piano) Haas String Quartet No 2, Op 7 (From the Monkey Mountains) Pavel Haas Quartet
Vivaldi Concerto in B flat for two violins, RV530 (La Cetra) Malcolm Latchem (violin), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, director lona Brown (violin) Schubert Gesang der Geister Ober den Wassern, D484 Stuttgart Gachinger Kantorei, Stuttgart RSO, conductor Helmut Rilling
Gould Ballet: Interplay (American Concertette) Cor de Groot (piano), Hague Residentie
Orchestra, conductor Willem van Otterloo

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Carmen Dragon
Conductor:
Mendelssohn Sechs Lieder
Conductor:
Matthias Jung
Unknown:
Otterloo Beethoven
Tenor:
Robert White
Tenor:
Ani Kavafian
Cello:
Samuel Sanders
Unknown:
Pavel Haas
Violin:
Malcolm Latchem
Unknown:
St Martin
Conductor:
Helmut Rilling

Michael Berkeley 's guest today is one of Britain's leading judges. Sir Robert Carnwath , a former chairman of the Law Commission, has been a Lord Justice of Appeal since 2002. A keen music-lover who plays chamber music in his spare time, his choices today range from a solo violin sonata by Ysaye and a Mozart string duo, to Schumann songs, excerpts from Haydn's
Creation and Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, and the closing part of Britten's War Requiem.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Sir Robert Carnwath

Accademia Bizantina from Sanssouci
Italian Baroque string music from the sumptuous surroundings of the Orangery in the Palace at Potsdam performed by one of the great period instrument ensembles of today. Presented by Lucie Skeaping.
Happy 60th birthday Radio 3: page 16

Contributors

Unknown:
Accademia Bizantina
Presented By:
Lucie Skeaping.

Stephanie Hughes introduces Mahler's Eighth Symphony, known as the Symphony of a Thousand because of the huge number of performers required. With texts from the 9th-century Latin hymn Veni Creator Spiritus and Part 2 of Goethe's Faust, a distinguished array of soloists, choirs and the Sibelius Academy Orchestra join the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.

Mahler Symphony No 8 (Symphony of Thousand)

Soile Isokoski, Anna-Kristiina Kaappola, Ricarda Merbeth and Lilli Paasikivi (sopranos), Hilke Andersen (contralto), Mika Pohjonen (tenor), Tommi Hakala (baritone), Ain Anger (bass), Cantores Minores, Finnish Philharmonic Chorus, Tapiola Chamber Chorus, Sibelius Academy Orchestra, Helsinki PO, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

(Recorded last month at the Helsinki Festival)

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes
Soprano:
Soile Isokoski
Soprano:
Anna-Kristiina Kaappola
Soprano:
Ricarda Merbeth
Soprano:
Lilli Paasikivi
Contralto:
Hilke Andersen
Tenor:
Mika Pohjonen
Baritone:
Tommi Hakala
Bass:
Ain Anger
Singers:
Cantores Minores
Singers:
Finnish Philharmonic Chorus
Singers:
Tapiola Chamber Chorus
Musicians:
Sibelius Academy Orchestra
Musicians:
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Brian Kay presents more listeners' requests; among them, Beethoven's Quintet for Piano and Wind, played by the great German pianist Walter Gieseking with the Philharmonia Wind Quartet, and John Rutter 's Toccata in 7 for organ, so-called because of its unusual time signature.
And this month's theme of music inspired by jazz closes with Shostakovich's witty Jazz Suite No 1. ADDRESS: for All. BBC Wales, CF5 2Y0
Phone: [number removed] email via www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Kay
Pianist:
Walter Gieseking
Pianist:
John Rutter

Tom Service travels to New York to talk to Steve Reich , celebrating his 70th birthday, and to assess how his legacy influences popular and classical music. DJ Spooky looks at the composer's effect on Urban DJ culture, and Service is joined by composer and journalist Kyle Gann on a taxi ride to find out what New York's Uptown and Downtown music is. Producer Jeremy Evans

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Reich
Unknown:
Kyle Gann
Producer:
Jeremy Evans

To celebrate 80 years of Choral Evensong, Aled Jones and former producer Barry Rose air vintage broadcasts, including a 1950s performance by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, under Boris Ord , and a rare performance of Sebastian Forbes 's Magnificat from Christ Church, Oxford. With a look at what happens when things go amiss.

Contributors

Unknown:
Aled Jones
Producer:
Barry Rose
Unknown:
Boris Ord
Unknown:
Sebastian Forbes

Terence Rattigan 's classic play, set in Bath and London in 1805, explores the passionate affair between Nelson and Emma Hamilton.
Adaptor/Director David Timson Producer Nicolas Soames

Contributors

Unknown:
Terence Rattigan
Unknown:
Emma Hamilton.
Director:
David Timson
Producer:
Nicolas Soames
Nelson:
Kenneth Branagh
Emma:
Janet McTeer
Lady Nelson:
Amanda Root
Lord Minto:
John Shrapnel
George Matcham (junior):
Steven France
Capt Hardy:
Gerard Horan
Lord Barham:
Stephen Thorne
George Matcham (senior):
Anthony Jackson
Katherine Matcham:
Patience Tomlinson
Capt Blackwood:
Roger May
Rev William Nelson:
Roy Spencer
Betsy/Francesca:
Alison Pettitt
Emily:
Tilly Gaunt

With Louise Fryer . Mozart Mass in C, K257; Requiem in D minor, K626 2.14 Eckhard Piano Sonata in F minor, Op 1 No 3 2.35 Sibelius Symphony No 2 3.20 Dvorak Piano Trio No 3 in F minor, Op 65 4.00 Schubert Die Liebe,
D210:MeeresStille,D216:AndieEntfernte,D765:Aufdem See, D543; Gestes Gruss, D142 4.13 Galuppi Keyboard Sonata No 1 in B flat Bree Pas Redouble 4.21 Handel Quartet in G, Op 5 No 4 4.34 Sweelinck Psalm 23 4.42 Alpaerts
Avondmuziek 4.52 Bach Fantasia in A minor, BWV922
5.00 Herbert March of the Toys (Babes in Toyland)
5.04 Roussel Three Pieces, Op 49 5.13 Trad Armenian Caucasian Suite; Requiem Melody: You Are the Only Holy One: Trisagion: Open for Us. Lord; Holy Liturgy Melody
5.37 Jarzebski Concerti a 2 5.50 Durante String Concerto No 6 in A 6.00 Durufle Quatre Motets sur des themes
Grégoriens, Op 10 6.08 Ibert Trio 6.24 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue 6.41 Glazunov Saxophone Concerto in E flat
6.54 Strauss Der Rosenkavalier (excerpt)

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Fryer

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