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Adam Overture: La poupée de Nuremberg
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted bV RICHARD BONYNGE
7.10* Offenbach Doll's Song (The Tales of Hoffmann) MADY MESPLÉ (soprano)
PARIS NATIONAL OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN-PIERRE MARTY
7.16* Debussy Suite: Children's Corner: ARTURO BENEDETTI MICHELANGELI (piano)
7.32* Stravinsky Suite: Petrushka: COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER: records
Haydn Symphony No 15, In D PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
8.24* Mozart Un' aura amorosa (Cosi fan tutte)
STUART BURROWS (tenor)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD
8.28* Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet before parting (Romeo and Juliet): ROTTERDAM
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EDO DE WAART
8.37* Faur6 Suite: Pellets et M61isande: SUISSE ROMANDS ORCHESTRA, conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET : records
The pinnacle of the Flemish school of composers which dominated Europe for 150 years, Lassus produced an enormous number of works (over 2,000) which are equally remarkable for their diversity. Unlike his contemporaries Palestrina and Victoria, Lassus was the complete cosmopolitan of 16th-century music ready to adapt himself to various styles and languages; and today's programme contrasts some of his French and Italian songs with settings of Lessons from the Book of Job: records
from Birmingham
BRUNO GIURANNA (viola)
DAVID LUMSDEN (harpsichord)
Bach French Suite No 1, in D minor, for harpsichord
Stravinsky Elegy (1944). for viola
Hindemith Sonata. Op 25 No 1. for viola
Reger Suite in g minor, Op 131d No 1. for viola
Handel Suite in g minor, Vol I No 7, for harpsichord BBC Birmingham
BRIAN BURROWS (tenor)
GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
Wolf Treibe nur mit Lieben Spott ; Wer sein holdes Lieb verloren; Herz. verzage nicht geschwind: Bedcckt mich mit Blumen; Und schlafst du, mein Madchen?: Da nur Leid und
Leidensehaft Schubert Fischerweise : Atys; Auflosung: Der Schiffer; Im Friihling; Uber Wildemann
direct from St John 's. Smith Square, London Lindsay String Quartet ('hilingirian String Quartet Shostakovich Two pieces for string octet. Op 11 Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20
(The Chilingirian String Quartet are in Bristol Lunchtime Concert: Wednesday 1.5 pm)
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conductor ERIC WETHERELL Music by Schubert, Meyerbeer, Copland and Auber BBC Northern Ireland
by RICHARD MARLOW Prelude and Fugue in E minor (bwv 555); Chorale Prelude on Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter (bwv 650); Trio: Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland (bwv 660); Chorale Prelude on Wer nur den Lieben Gott lasst walten (BWV 691); Fugue in G (BWV 577): Chorale Preludes on Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (bwv 706); Herzlich thut mich verlangen (bwv 727); Allein Gott in der Hoh' sei Ehr' (BWV 662); Prelude and Fugue in E minor (Bwv 548) (Given at Trinity College, Cambridge, in March) BBC Birmingham
conducts the NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Copland El Sal6n Mexico
4.1* Barber Violin Concerto. Op 14: with ISAAC STERN
4.24* Ives Symphony No 2' gramophone records
CITY OF COVENTRY BAND conductor KENNETH DENNISON Music by Henry Geehl , Gordon Jacob and John Ireland BBC Birmingham
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Home and Family
6.40 Know Your Body
3: Standing and Walking
How does your brain control the way your muscles behave? RAINER GOLDSMITH investigates.
7.10 Having a Baby
CLAIRE WOOLFORD with a panel of resident and guest speakers 5: The Baby in the Family
The social and practical effects of a new baby on the home and family.
Sertes producer richard AUSTIN
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by WALTER SUSSKIND Mozart Overture: Idomeneo
Hindemith Symphony in E flat
Stephen Reno , Lecturer in Religion in the University of Leicester, examines the writings of the American anthropologist Carlos Castafieda and Jos6 Lopez Portillo 's Mexican best-seller Quetzalcoatl as important examples of modern myth-making, which lead the reader into the mysterious world of the North American Indian.
Part 2 Shostakovich Symphony No 10. BBC Manchester
Alan Walker discusses Schopenhauer's contribution to musical thought and assesses its significance.
No 78: Jesu, der du meine Seele: TERESA STICH-RANDALL (sop) DAGMAR HERMANN (Contralto) ANTON DERMOTA (tenor)
HANS BRAUN (bass), CHOIR AND
BAROQUE ENSEMBLE OF THE VIENNA BACH GUILD, conducted by FELIX PROHASKA : record
Michael Schmidt looks at the ' problematic experiment ' of Sound Poetry, and introduces some of the work heard at the 1976 Sound Poetry Festival in London. Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
CHARLES FOX presents Redbrast
