With Paul Guinery.
1.00 Opera Matinee: Beatrice di Tenda
Bellini's tragic opera about a wealthy widow, abandoned by her tyrannical second husband in favour of her lady-in-waiting. The opera caused a rift between the composer and his established librettist
Romani, who viewed the subject matter with distaste. Bellini, however, declared that Beatrice "was not unworthy of her sisters" - his operas La
Sonnambula and Norma. A concert performance given in Amsterdam as part of the Euroradio Opera Season.
Netherlands Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kees Bakels
3.40 A Series of Intervals
Adrian Jack yields to the minor 6th.
Next programme 10.35pm
3.45
Vladimir Ovchinnikov
A recital of Russian showpieces for the piano played at the Glories of the Keyboard festival in the Royal Northern College of Music. Manchester.
Scriabin Fantasy in B minor Medtner Sonata
Reminiscenza
Pfokofiev Sonata No 3
Stravinsky Three movements from
"Petrushka"
Performance given last
November, in association with the Broadwood Trust