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With Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Mozart Horn Quintet in E flat, K407 Monteverdi Dixit Dominus 2
8.00-9.00: Joplin Magnetic Rag
Bach Orchestral Suite No 4 in D, BWV1069

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Handley.
Unknown:
Monteverdi Dixit Dominus

Rob Cowan introduces surprises and treasures from his record collection. Plus a chance to hear one of the Robert Simpson symphonies discussed in yesterday's CD Review. Music includes: Ketelbey 'Appy Ampstead
New Symphony Orchestra of London, conductor Robert Sharpies
Philippe de Monte Super Flumina Babylonis The Sixteen, director Harry Christophers
Cassado Sonata in the Old Spanish Style Yuli Turovsky (cello), I Musici de Montreal
Beethoven Piano Sonata in G minor, Op 49 No 1
Maria Grinberg
Vorisek Symphony in D, Op 24 English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
Karaindrou The Weeping Meadow; Dance; The Phrygian Land (Elegy of the Uprooting) ERT Choir, Camerata Orchestra, conductor Alexandros Myrat
Martin Concerto for seven wind instruments, timpani and percussion Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon Ravel Tzigane
Isaac Stern (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
Mozart Adagio in C for cor anglais and strings, K580a Ensemble 360
Verdi Una Suora Mi Lasciaste (La Forza del Destino) Jan Peerce (tenor), Leonard Warren (baritone), RCA Victor Orchestra, conductor Jean Morel

Contributors

Introduces:
Rob Cowan
Unknown:
Robert Simpson
Conductor:
Robert Sharpies
Cello:
Yuli Turovsky
Unknown:
Maria Grinberg
Unknown:
Vorisek Symphony
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Conductor:
Alexandros Myrat
Conductor:
Jean Martinon
Conductor:
Ravel Tzigane
Violin:
Isaac Stern
Conductor:
Eugene Ormandy
Conductor:
Mozart Adagio
Tenor:
Jan Peerce
Tenor:
Leonard Warren
Conductor:
Jean Morel

Today's guest is publisher David Campbell , saviour of the once-defunct Everyman's Library imprint, which marks its centenary this year by donating a set of the great classics of literature, history and philosophy to every secondary school in the country. He is particularly fond of the music of Schubert. Other choices include
Stravinsky's Renard, a Monteverdi madrigal,
Cecilia Bartoli singing Berlioz, and music from
Scotland and India. Presented by Michael Berkeley.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Campbell
Unknown:
Cecilia Bartoli
Presented By:
Michael Berkeley.

The Orpheus of Utrecht and his Garden of Delights Catherine Bott visits Utrecht to trace the life, work and legacy of the blind 17th-century composer, carillonneur and recorder player
Jacob van Eyck , now best remembered for his collection of pieces for recorder Der Flyten Lust-hof (The Flute's Garden of Delight).

Contributors

Unknown:
Catherine Bott
Unknown:
Jacob van Eyck

An all-Mozart concert given this summer as part of the Menuhin Festival in the Swiss town of Gstaad. Introduced by Stephanie Hughes.
Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, conductor Rene Jacobs
Mozart Overture: Don Giovanni ; Symphony No 38 in D, K504 (Prague); Misera, Dove Son !, K369; Basta, Vincesti.... Ah Non Lasciarmi , K486a; Symphony No 41 in C, K551 (Jupiter)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Stephanie Hughes.
Soprano:
Rosemary Joshua
Conductor:
Rene Jacobs
Unknown:
Don Giovanni
Unknown:
Dove Son
Unknown:
Non Lasciarmi

Listeners' requests, introduced by Brian Kay , who continues this month's theme of musical portraits by playing Constant Lambert's jazzy Rio Grande and Smetana's evocation of the Czech countryside From Bohemia's Woods and Fields (Ma Vlast). And Bryn Terfel sings Finzi's charming Shakespeare setting Let Us Garlands Bring, accompanied by Malcolm Martineau. ADDRESS: 3 for All, BBC Wales, CF52YO
Phone: [number removed] email via www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

Contributors

Introduced By:
Brian Kay
Accompanied By:
Malcolm Martineau.

Listen Up!
Another special edition, in which Aled Jones introduces a recent concert of choral music given at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
Orla Boylan (soprano), Anna Burford (mezzo),
Stefan Margita (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Halle Choir and Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder Kodaly Psalmus Hungaricus
Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral)

Contributors

Introduces:
Aled Jones
Soprano:
Orla Boylan
Tenor:
Stefan Margita
Tenor:
Neal Davies
Bass:
Halle Choir
Conductor:
Mark Elder

Early 1980s: when Otis is taken to the closed ward of a London mental hospital he's desperate to return to his Queen Penelope and his
Kingdom. The staff diagnose him as delusional, but fellow patients Larry and Harry plot to reach this "Kingdom" first - and take Otis's queen for their own. By Fred D'Aguiar.
Producer Carol Bayne

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred D'Aguiar.
Producer:
Carol Bayne
Otis:
Mo Sesay
Gary:
Don Guet
Deirdre:
Daniela Nardini
April:
Alex Treqear
Harry:
Stephen Critchlow
Larry:
Carl Prekopp
Penelope:
Janice Acquah

Hot-tempered Renaissance poet and writer George Buchanan was the shocking political thinker who contributed to the downfall of Mary Queen of Scots, and the religious dissident who barely escaped the Inquisition. If he's almost completely forgotten now it's because he wrote in the language of educated Europe - Latin.
Robert Crawford, using his own translations of Buchanan's poetry, introduces us to him.

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Crawford

With Louise Fryer. Josquin des Prez Vive le Roy
Gombert Kyrie (Missa sur Tous Regrets - Coronation Mass): Benedictio Mensae Escobar Clamabat A utem
Mulier Gombert Felix Austriae Domus (Coronation Motet for King Ferdinand) Josquin des Prez Mille Regretz Morales Agnus Dei (Mille Regretz) Eseobedeo Gloria (Missa Philipus Rex Hispaniae) Lobo Versa est Luctum
1.53 Schumann Symphony No 2 in C 2.32 Mendelssohn String Quartet in D, Op 44 No 12.59 Bach Lute Partita in C minor, BWV997 3.22 FSrster Sonata 3.29 Handel
Cantata Delirio Amoroso, Da Quel Giorno Fatale, HWV99
4.02 Gershwin The Man I Love 4.05 Haydn Keyboard
Trio in G, H XV 25 (Gypsy Rondo) 4.21 Mozart Symphony No 16 in C, K128 4.34 Dukas Villanelle 4.42 Duparc L'lnvitation au Voyage 4.47 Stainov A Bright Sun Has Risen 4.52 Bouloqne Ballet music: LAmant Anonyme
5.00 Brahms, orch Dvorak Hungarian Dances: No 20 in E minor; No 17 in F sharp minor 5.06 Gluck, arr Salzedo Gavotte (lphigénie en Aulide) 5.10 Chopin Etude in E, Op 10 No 3 5.15 Vremsak They're Leaving Early; Leaves Are Falling; That's Then 5.20 Bartok, arr Arthur Winner Romanian Folk Dances, Sz56 5.27 Brahms, arr Duczmal Sextet in B flat, Op 18 6.05 Purcell Pavan in G minor, Z752
6.10 Britten Choral Dances (Gloriana) 6.17 Weyse
Symphony No 6 in C minor 6.44 Weber Invitation to the Dance 6.54 Grieq Norwegian Dance No 1, Op 35

Contributors

Unknown:
Gombert Kyrie
Unknown:
Felix Austriae Domus
Unknown:
Prez Mille Regretz
Unknown:
Morales Agnus Dei
Unknown:
Eseobedeo Gloria
Unknown:
Lobo Versa
Unknown:
Bach Lute Partita
Unknown:
Purcell Pavan

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