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Presented by Martin Handley.
7.00-8.00: Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E, RV269 (Spring) (The Four Seasons)
Bartok Romanian Folk Dances
8.00-9.00: Bernstein Three Dance Episodes (On the Town) Handel Te Deum in D (Caroline)

Contributors

Presented By:
Martin Handley.

With Rob Cowan whose regular features include The Innocent Ear, and his recommendation for a Bargain Hunter CD. There's also a chance to hear an extract from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, as recommended on yesterday's CD Review. Music includes:
Waldteufel Polka: Minuit
Strasbourg PO, conductor Theodor Guschlbauer Bruhns Praeludium No I in G minor
Gillian Weir (organ)
Haydn Berenice , Che Fai ? HXXIVa 10
Arleen Auger (soprano), Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra, conductor Christopher Hogwood Guillaume Dufay Flos Florum Pro Musica Antiqua, conductor Stafford Cape
Handel Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op 6 No 4 Bavarian RSO, conductor Carl Schuricht
Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor
Moura Lympany , LPO, conductor Jean Martinon Canteloube L'Antoine; Je N'ai Pas dAmie; La Caille (Chants dAuvergne, Set 2)
Madeleine Grey (soprano), unnamed orchestra conducted Elie Cohen
Bartok Two Portraits, Op 5
Vienna PO, conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi Bach, arr Reger Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 Speidel-Trenkner Piano Duo

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan
Conductor:
Theodor Guschlbauer
Unknown:
Gillian Weir
Unknown:
Haydn Berenice
Unknown:
Che Fai
Soprano:
Arleen Auger
Conductor:
Christopher Hogwood
Conductor:
Stafford Cape
Conductor:
Carl Schuricht
Unknown:
Moura Lympany
Conductor:
Jean Martinon
Soprano:
Madeleine Grey
Unknown:
Elie Cohen

Michael Berkeley 's guest today is the young writer and stage director David Farr , currently artistic director of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. Music of all kinds is a great passion, and his choices today range from early Portuguese,
Mexican, Romanian and klezmer music to Bach, Beethoven and Bessie Smith.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Director:
David Farr
Director:
Bessie Smith.

Songs from the Labyrinth - Dowland and Sting
Lucie Skeaping introduces a special concert from St Luke's in London in which singer/songwriter Sting, lute-player Edin Karamazov and singers Stile Antico explore the life and music of the Elizabethan composerjohn Dowland.

Contributors

Introduces:
Lucie Skeaping
Unknown:
Edin Karamazov
Singers:
Stile Antico

Bartok String Quartets
Bartok's string quartets trace his development as a composer and span his entire career.
Stephanie Hughes presents a recital of Bartok's last monumental quartets given as part of the Wigmore Hall's Bartok festival in June this year. Belcea Quartet
Bartok String Quartets: No 4; No 5; No 6

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes

Loyd Grossman visits Eynsford in Kent where Peter Warlock lived in the 1920s. He lived a riotous lifestyle there until he died in suspicious circumstances at the age of 36. The current resident, Sally Coston shows Grossman around. Vice-president of the Peter Warlock Society
Malcolm Rudland talks about Warlock's music.
Producer Jeremy Evans

Contributors

Unknown:
Loyd Grossman
Unknown:
Peter Warlock
Unknown:
Sally Coston
Unknown:
Peter Warlock
Talks:
Malcolm Rudland
Producer:
Jeremy Evans

Brian Kay unzips another postbag of requests from Radio 3's listeners. This month's theme of musical portraits opens with Trittico Botticelliano , Respighi's depiction in sound of three Botticelli paintings. Plus a chance to hear Grainger's thrilling magnum opus, The Warriors.
ADDRESS: 3 for All, BBC Wales, CF5 2YQ Phone: [number removed] email via www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Kay
Unknown:
Trittico Botticelliano

Tom Service interviews Deborah Warner , whose new production of Poulenc's La Voix Humaine is due to be performed by Opera North. Plus Stephen Walsh on the second volume of his biography of Stravinsky. And can orchestral playing replace paintballing as a bonding game? Producer Jeremy Evans

Contributors

Unknown:
Deborah Warner
Unknown:
Stephen Walsh
Producer:
Jeremy Evans

Listen Up!
Aled Jones introduces a performance of Elgar's epic oratorio given last week at Symphony Hall on the centenary of the work's premiere in Birmingham's City Hall.
Lisa Milne (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers
(mezzo), Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), James Rutherford (baritone), City of Birmingham Choir, City of Birmingham Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sakari Oramo Elgar The Kingdom

Contributors

Introduces:
Aled Jones
Soprano:
Lisa Milne
Soprano:
Catherine Wyn-Rogers
Tenor:
Anthony Dean Griffey
Tenor:
James Rutherford
Conductor:
Sakari Oramo

By Ryan Craig. The life of an idealistic young black school teacher is turned upside down by an unexpected and appalling accusation. She sets off on a chaotic odyssey from her east London flat to a bizarre encounter in Oxford
Circus with a man she has met over the internet.
Music by David Pickvance : Producer/Director Steven Canny

Contributors

Unknown:
Ryan Craig.
Music By:
David Pickvance
Director:
Steven Canny
Tessa:
Ayesha Antoine
Russ:
Nick Sayce
Sparks:
John Cummins
Sadie:
Ella Smith
Fran:
Sophie Roberts
Tony:
Delroy Brown
Luke:
Carl Prekopp
Linda:
Claire Louise Cordwell
Norris:
Philip Fox

With Jonathan Swain. Dvorak In Nature's Realm, Op 63 (excerpt) Janacek Wolves ' Traces; Czech Madrigals:
Brigand Songs; Elegy on the Death of My Daughter Olga Martinu The Romance from the Dandelion Meadows
Klaudia Kidon (soprano), Lars Pedersen (tenor), Danish National Choir, conductor Stephen Layton
2.12 Schubert Piano Trio in B flat, DB98 2.49 Crusell
Clarinet Concerto No 1 in E flat 3.12 Wlren Violin Sonatina
3.23 JCF Bach Pygmallion 3.56 Piccinini Toccata/
Chiaccona 4.02 Vivaldi Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera, RV630
4.09 Respighi Poema Autunnale 4.24 Mozart Vier Kontra Tame, K267 4.30 Faure Suite: Dolly 4.44 Elgar To Her beneath Whose Steadfast Star 4.50 Abel Symphony in C, Op 10 No 4 5.00 Dvorak Overture: Othello 5.16
Zelenka Sinfonia in A minor 5.25 Whitehead The Lord Is My Shepherd
5.31 Sibelius Andante Festivo 5.37 Roman Clavichord Suite No 11 in F minor 5.46 Telemann Sonata in F minor
5.53 Haydn Symphony No 22 in E flat (Philosopher)
6.14 Nielsen Flute Concerto 6.33 Bach Toccata in D,
BWV912 6.45 Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Janacek Wolves
Unknown:
Olga Martinu
Soprano:
Lars Pedersen
Conductor:
Stephen Layton
Unknown:
Vivaldi Nulla
Unknown:
Mozart Vier Kontra
Unknown:
Zelenka Sinfonia
Unknown:
Bach Toccata
Unknown:
Strauss Till Eulenspiegels

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