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12.00 am Composer of the Week

Humphrey Burton presents a week of programmes in the company of Jamie Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Barbara Cook, Lauren Bacall, Ruth Mitchell, Patricia Routledge, Sono Osato, Sid Ramin, Richard Wilbur, Dennis Quilley, Seymour Lipkin, Harold Prince and Jerome Robbins

Featuring:

Mass Devotions before Mass; Gloria; Word of the Lord; Sermon (Alan Titus/Lee Harper/Larry Marshall/Leonard Bernstein)
Dybbuk Witnesses of Death; Leah (New York City Ballet Orchestra/Bernstein)
1600 Pennsylvania AvenueTake care of this house (Patricia Routledge)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue President Jefferson's Sunday Luncheon Party March (David Gaines/
Ambrosian Singers/London Sinfonietta/John McGlinn)

10.00 am CD Masters

Jonathan Swain presents a week of programmes featuring Bernstein the performer, as Artist of the Week

To include:

Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture, Op.95 (NYPO/Bernstein)
Markevitch: Icare, ballet (1932) (NYPO/Bernstein)
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (1901-4) (Janet Baker/Isreal Philharmonic Orchestra/Bernstein)

12.00 pm Composer of the Week

Humphrey Burton presents a week of programmes in the company of Jamie Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Barbara Cook, Lauren Bacall, Ruth Mitchell, Patricia Routledge, Sono Osato, Sid Ramin, Richard Wilbur, Dennis Quilley, Seymour Lipkin, Harold Prince and Jerome Robbins

Featuring:

Mass Devotions before Mass; Gloria; Word of the Lord; Sermon (Alan Titus/Lee Harper/Larry Marshall/Leonard Bernstein)
Dybbuk Witnesses of Death; Leah (New York City Ballet Orchestra/Bernstein)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Take care of this house (Patricia Routledge)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue President Jefferson's Sunday Luncheon Party March (David Gaines/
Ambrosian Singers/London Sinfonietta/John McGlinn)

2.00 pm Afternoon Performance

Tommy Pearson presents a series of programmes featuring the BBC Orchestras and BBC Singers in performances of Bernstein's own music and key works that he premiered or championed, including the music of Mahler, Messiaen, Shostakovich, Copland and Britten, including excerpts from the complete cycle of Bernstein's symphonies performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin

A concert, specially recorded for Radio 3's Bernstein Season by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a Bernstein protégé, David Charles Abell

Bernstein: Dybbuk Suite No 2 (1974)
Bernstein: Concerto for Orchestra: Jubilee Games: Mixed Doubles (1989)
Hovhaness: Prayer of St. Gregory, Op.62b
Bernstein: Three Meditations from Mass (1977)
Copland: Quiet City (1939)
Bernstein: Orchestral Suite from A Quiet Place (1983/1991)
(arr Sid Ramin & Michael Tilson Thomas)

(Recorded before an invited audience in Maida Vale Studio 1 on 6th May 2005)

7.30 pm Performance on 3

Bernstein Wonderful Town (1953)

Ruth Kim Criswell
Eileen Audra McDonald
Robert Baker Thomas Hampson
Wreck Brent Barrett
Guide/First Associate
Editor/Frank Lippencott Rodney Gilfrey
Second Associate
Editor/Chick ClarkKarl Daymond
Lonigan Timothy Robinson
First Cop Robert Fardell
Second Cop/Second
Man Lynton Atkinson
Third Cop/First Man/
Cadet/Villager Michael Dore
First Woman Simone Sauphanor
Second Woman Melanie Marshall
Violet Kimberly Cobb

London Voices (Chorus Master: Simon Halsey)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
conducted by Sir Simon Rattle

(Repeat of a BBC Promenade Concert, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in August 1999)