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PASCAL ROGÉ (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, leader DENNIS SIMONS conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD
Schumann Overture: Manfred
7.19* Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1. in B flat minor BBC Manchester
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
Conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD
Beethoven Overture: Prometheus
8.13* Beethoven Symphony No 6. in r major (Pastoral) BBC Manchester
Schumann
Unfamiliar Works
Excerpts from his oratorio, Das Paradies und die Peri EDDA MOSER (soprano)
BRIGITTE FASSBAENDER (mezzo-sop)
NICOLAI GEDDA (tenor) GUNTER WEWEL (bass) DUSSELDORF STADTISCH
MUSIKVEREIN CHOIR
DUSSELDORF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HENRYK czyz gramophone records
JOHN WILSON and KEITH SWALLOW (piano duet)
MARTYN HILL (tenor)
ANTHONY HEDGES (piano) - Fauré Dolly Suite, Op 56
Anthony Hedges Song-Cycle : Prayers from the Ark (first broadcast performance)
Bizet Jeux d'enfants, Op 22 BBC Manchester
Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
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The First Test in the Cornhill Series England v Pakistan Commentary from Edghaston on the fourth day's play
1.35* News
1.40* Your Letters Answered - The commentators answer some of the points raised in listeners' letters.
2.6* Lunchtime scoreboard
2.8*-6.40 Commentary with teatime and close-of-play summaries.
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Home and Family
6.40 Having a Baby
Five programmes Introduced by CLAIRE WOOLFORD
1: Early Hopes and Hazards
A review of some of the difficulties that may frustrate a couple's ambitions for a family. Series producer Richard AUSTIN
7.10 Running a Home
Practical advice for anyone running or setting up a home with an eye to saving time or money.
1: What is Homer
A refuge? A place to relax? Does housework have to be an endless chore? How can you make time to enjoy life at home?
Presented by IRENE WYNDHAM Series producer SIMON MAJOR
MARK LUBOTSKY (violin)
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA leader EDWIN PALING conductor SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON Part 1
Alun Hoddinott Passaggio for orchestra. Op M (Festival Commission: first performance) Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2, in G minor, Op 63
A series of six talks in which some of the ideas for radically changing the way both Houses go about their business are examined.
Parliamentary Reform has existed as a cottage industry amongst parliamentarians, academics and political commentators for the past 20 years. But now that the specially formed Procedure Committee is about to report, the movement for reform may be on the point of gaining new impetus.
1: John MacGregor , a Conservative who entered the House of Commons in 1974. argues the case for a stronger Select Committee system to check and control the executive.
Part 2 Elgar
Symphony No 2. in E flat. Op 63 BBC Birmingham
HAMISH MILNE (piano)
Bach Prelude and Fugue in B flat major (St Anne)
Tchaikovsky Theme and Variations in F major. Op 19 No 6 Balakirev Berceuse; Islamey
Josquin des Prés
Fourteenth in a series of 28 programmes devised and introduced by Basil Lam
At its mid-point, the series reaches the composer whom contemporary writers compared to Virgil and Michelangelo. Even a small anthology, illustrating both his early and later styles, is sufficient to show why a great 19th-century historian regarded Josquin as the supreme Renaissance master.
JOSQUIN SINGERS director JEREMY NOBLE
(Repeated. Tuesday 13 June)
For the next five nights, songs to texts that reflect a woman's sentiments.
Das Madchen (Wie so innig mocht ich sagen)
ELIZABETH GALE (soprano)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
