With Louise Fryer. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Stravinsky Fireworks Fasch Lute Concerto in D minor
8.00-9.00: Debussy Hommage a S Pickwick Esq; Canope; Les Tierces Alternées; Feux d'Artifice (Preludes, Book 2)
Barriere Sonata No 10 in G for two cellos
Rob Cowan introduces some surprises and treasures from his record collection. Plus a chance to hear Nielsen's Symphony No 5 as recommended on yesterday's CD Review. The programme also includes:
Wagner Prelude, Act 3: Lohengrin
Leningrad PO, conductor Yevgeni Mravinsky Rossini Dove Son lo? (Armida) Nelly Miricioiu
(soprano), Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands RSO, conductor Claudio Scimone
Satie Deux Valses Anne Queffelec (piano) Mozart Symphony No 18 in F K180
Prague CO, conductor Charles Mackerras Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965
Christa Ludwig (mezzo), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
D Scarlatti Piano Sonatas: in B flat, Kk 190; in F Kk 107; in D, Kk430 Nina Milkina
Vivaldi Cur Sagittas , Cur Tela, RV637 Gerard Lesne (countertenor), II Seminaro Musicale
Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 50 No 6 (Frog) Juilliard Quartet
Mendelssohn, arr Liszt and Horowitz Wedding March (A Midsummer Night's Dream) Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
Today Michael Berkeley talks to the political columnist Simon Heffer , who currently writes for the Daily Mail. His musical passions include works by Hoist, Parry, Butterworth,
Vaughan Williams and George Lloyd , as well as part of the Prelude to Wagner's Gotterdammerung.
Made in Britain - Eton Choirbook
Jeremy Summerly shows Lucie Skeaping the richly illuminated 15th-century manuscript collection of sacred music owned by Eton College, discusses its importance, and plays music by the most important composers represented in it.
Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert given last month as part of the Chamber Music Season at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Violinist Christian Tetzlaff is joined by last year's winners of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo), Christian Tetzlaff and Soovin Kim (violins), Christian Poltera (cello), Colin Currie (percussion), Shai Wosner (piano)
Bartok Duos for two violins (excerpts)
Mahler Rheinlegendchen; Wo die schonen Trompeten blasen; Das irdische Leben; Urlicht (Des knaben Wunderhorn) Dave Maric Trilogy
Dvorak Piano Quartet in E flat, Op 87
Richard Baker Written on a Train
4/4. Writer Colm Tóibín's journey through
Spanish history and music concludes in the city Of Granada. Producer Simon Taylor
More listeners' requests from the 3 for All postbag and suggestions for Brian Kay 's new theme for November: celebratory music.
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Professor Stephen Hawking , who has chosen a programme of music at the Cambridge Music
Festival, talks to Tom Service about the role music plays in his life. There's a report on the increasing hold Western classical music is taking in Chinese society; and, with a festival of his own music on in Manchester, Mark-Anthony Turnage talks about jazz and classical, and his own path between modernism and tradition. Producer Jeremy Evans
Aled Jones raises the thorny issue of girl choristers with Matthew Owens of Wells
Cathedral, discusses choral commissions and organic farming with composer Cecilia McDowall and looks forward to the climax of Radio 3's Choir of the Year competition by catching up with last year's winners, the Oriel Singers.
Aled Jones talks about Radio 3's Choir of the Year competition in the November issue of BBC Origin's Music Magazine
Matthew Sweet presents highlights from Radio 3's festival this weekend in Liverpool.
8.10 Playwright Mark Ravenhill explores the public role for the artist in the future.
8.45 Complications
The vivid imaginations of playwright
Jeff Young , singer Jennifer John and composer Skyray come together to create the strange tale of the transplantation of a human soul.
9.30 Roger Philips is joined by Frank Field MP, director of the Centre for Policy Studies Ruth Lea , multi-faith leader Zia Chaudhry and neuroscientist Dr Mark Lythgoe to debate the question Who Will Decide What's Right and Wrong in the Future? Plus a report on festival fringe events such as Speed Dating with a Thinker. Producer Mohit Bakaya
1/5. A Charmed Childhood. Donald Macleod explores Mendelssohn's formative years.
Characteristic Pieces, Op 7No 7 Benjamin Frith
(piano) String Symphony No 1 in C Concerto Koln Bogy's Aria (Die beiden Padagogen)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass-baritone), Munich Radio Orchestra, conductor Heinz Wallberg Ocref in E flat, Op 20 Royal Quartet, Psophos Quartet Repeated from Monday
With Louise Fryer.
Spassov Dimana, My Love Dimano
Denev Molitva
Tchaikovsky Without Time, without Season
Rachmaninov Rejoice, O Virgin, Op 37
Mokranjac To Thee We Sing
Hristov Heruvimska; In Thy Heavenly Kingdom
Poulenc Tenebrae Factae Sunt; Tristis Est Anima Mea
Britten A Ceremony of Carols
2.06 Vladigerov Piano Concerto No 3
2.31 Weinberg Symphony No 5
3.17 Brorson Abendlied
3.21 Marais Suite No 2 in G for two viols
4.00 Scheidt Three Symphonies for two violins and continuo
4.05 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in D, RV230
4.13 Sweelinck Ick Voer AI Over Rijn
4.20 Matz Young String Players
4.34 Naujalls Caligaverunt; Ecce Vidimus Eum; In Monte Oliveti; Senjores Populi; Tua Dova
4.51 Bartok Petite Suite
5.00 Tchaikovsky Serenade in C, Op 48
5.32 Schutz Wohldenen, dieohne Wandel leben
5.36 Purcell Trio Sonata No 6 in G minor
5.44 Buxtehude Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne in C; Chorale Prelude: Herr Christ , der einig' Gottes Sohn
5.53 Koutev Dragana and the Nightingale
5.57 Auber Overture: Fra Diavolo
6.05 CPE Bach Quartet No 1 in A minor, Wq93
6.23 Wagner Brunnhildes Abschied (Gotterdammerung)
6.41 Chopin Six Mazurkas