Listings
Presented by Suzy Klein. At 8.30 a Poem for Today, featuring Katrina Porteous reading her poem Shanky, and a Haydn piano sonata.
Contributors
Presented By:
Suzy
Klein.
Unknown:
Katrina
Porteous
With Andrew McGregor.
9.30 Building a Library Graham Sadler recommends a recording of Rebel's Les Elemens, written in 1737.
10.30 Valery Gergiev talks about the challenges of recording Shostakovich's The Nose at the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, and Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand in St Paul's Cathedral, London.
11.45 Disc of the Week
Eccles The Judgement of Paris Soloists, Early Opera Company, director Christian Curnyn bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview email: cdreview@bbc.co.uk Disc details are posted on the website and on CEEFAX, BBC1. page 651
Contributors
Unknown:
Andrew
McGregor.
Unknown:
Graham
Sadler
Talks:
Valery
Gergiev
Director:
Christian
Curnyn
Tom Service talks to conductor Colin Davis about his 50 years with the London Symphony Orchestra. Producer Juan Carlos Jaramillo
Contributors
Conductor:
Colin
Davis
Producer:
Juan Carlos
Jaramillo
Lucie Skeaping explores the Balet Comique de la Royne - an allegorical spectacle given in October 1581 at the Paris court of Catherine de' Medici. With a recorded performance by Swiss-based group Ensemble Elyma and their director Gabriel Garrido. Producer Chris wines
Contributors
Director:
Gabriel
Garrido.
Another chance to hear Monday's recital from
London's Wigmore Hall, introduced by Louise Fryer. Boris Giltburg (piano)
Beethoven Piano Sonata in F minor, Op 57
(Appassionata)
Brahms Three Intermezzos: Op 117 No 2 in B flat minor Op 118 No 2 in A, Op 119 No 2 in E minor Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 2, Op 14
Contributors
Introduced By:
Louise
Fryer.
Piano:
Boris
Giltburg
Lucy Duran introduces a session by Senegalese singer and hoddu player Malick Pathe Sow , plus an interview with Kronos Quartet violinist David Harrington about their new album, Floodplain. Producer Felix Carey
Contributors
Introduces:
Lucy
Duran
Unknown:
Malick Pathe
Sow
Violinist:
David
Harrington
Producer:
Felix
Carey
In the 1950s trumpeter Booker Little was arguably one of jazz's brightest hopes, forging a new compositional and playing style that offered a strikingly original way forward from bebop. Tom Perchard joins Alyn Shipton to pick the highlights from Little's recorded catalogue. Producer Alyn Shipton
Contributors
Unknown:
Booker
Little
Unknown:
Alyn
Shipton
Producer:
Alyn
Shipton
Geoffrey Smith introduces a selection of listeners' requests.
ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA
Fax: [number removed] email: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk
Contributors
Introduces:
Geoffrey
Smith
In Strauss's high drama, first performed in Dresden in 1909, Elektra seeks to avenge the murder of her father King Agamemnon by her mother Clytemnestra. Presented by Andrew McGregor.
Strauss Elektra
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conductor Mark Elder
RT DIRECT: Richard Strauss Elektra (2 CDs) featuring Eva Marton , Cheryl Studer , Marjana Lipovsek and the Bavarian
Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch is available for £12.99 including p&p. Send cheque, payable to Selections, to: [address removed], or phone [number removed] (national rate) quoting B46-AH410
Contributors
Presented By:
Andrew
McGregor.
Conductor:
Mark
Elder
Unknown:
Richard
Strauss
Unknown:
Eva
Marton
Unknown:
Cheryl
Studer
Unknown:
Marjana
Lipovsek
Conducted By:
Wolfgang
Sawallisch
Elektra:
Susan
Bullock (soprano)
Chrysothemis:
Anne
Schwanewilms (soprano)
Clytemnestra:
Jane
Henschel (mezzo)
Orestes:
Johan
Reuter (baritone)
Overseer:
Miriam
Murphy (soprano)
First maid:
Frances
McCafferty (mezzo)
Second maid:
Monika-Evelin
Liiv (mezzo)
Third maid:
Kathleen
Wilkinson (mezzo)
Fourth maid:
Elizabeth
Woollett (soprano)
Fifth maid:
Eri
Nakamura (soprano)
Confidante:
Louise
Armit (mezzo)
Trainbearer:
Dervla
Ramsay (mezzo)
Young servant:
Alfie
Boe (tenor)
Old servant:
Jeremy
White (bass)
Orestes's tutor:
Vuyani
Mlinde (bass)
Aegisthus:
Frank Van
Aken (tenor)
Coverage of the Song Prize final from St David 's Hall, Cardiff, presented by Fiona Talkington with commentary from Catherine Bott.
Contributors
Unknown:
St
David
Presented By:
Fiona
Talkington
Unknown:
Catherine
Bott.
Ivan Hewett explores the mainly Polish theme of this year's Canterbury Sounds New Festival.
Marta Ptaszynska Space Model for percussion and tape Nicholas Reed (percussion)
Samantha Fernando Frozen Reflections (after Szymanowski's Piano Etude No 3)
Aurora Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Collon
Aqata Zubel Obciazenie Dopuszczalne (Loading Limit) for percussion and computer Nicholas Reed (percussion) Liqeti Chamber Concerto Lutoslawski Chain 1
Aurora Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Collon
Contributors
Unknown:
Ivan
Hewett
Unknown:
Marta
Ptaszynska
Unknown:
Samantha
Fernando
Conductor:
Nicholas
Collon
South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim joins Alyn Shipton to discuss his recorded catalogue.
Contributors
Pianist:
Abdullah
Ibrahim
Unknown:
Alyn
Shipton
Ortiz Passamezzo antico; Ruggiero Romanesca;
Passamezzo moderno Hume A Souldiers March; Harke, harke; A Souldiers Resolution Marais Prelude; Muzettes I and 2; La sautillante 1.24 Sanz Jacaras ; Canarios
1.30 Marais Couplets des Folies d'espagne 1.43 Jordi Savall Variations on Cuelz Old Britain 1.47 Mozart
Symphony No 25 in G minor, K183 2.12 Brahms Cello Sonata No I in E minor, Op 38 2.36 Beethoven Piano Sonata in F minor, Op 7 (Appassionata) 3.00 Korngold Violin Concerto 3.28 Pekiel Missa pulcherrima 3.59 Rossini String Sonata No 5 in E flat 4.14 Debussy
Estampes 4.29 Sorkocevic, arr Matusic Symphony in No 3 in D 4.37 Auber Overture: Marco Spada 4.47 Buffardin Flute Concerto in E minor 5.00 Schubert
Overture in D In the Italian Style, D590 5.09 Grainger Four Folk Songs 5.20 Saint-Sains Scherzo in B, Op 87
5.31 Mozart Concerto Divertimento in E flat, K113 5.46 Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat, Op 47 6.13 Handel Return, 0 God of Hosts (Samson) 6.22 CPE Bach Flute Concerto in D minor, H426 6.45 Suk Fantastic scherzo
Contributors
Unknown:
Sanz
Jacaras
Unknown:
Jordi
Savall
Unknown:
Pekiel
Missa
Unknown:
Marco
Spada