Listeners' record requests Handel The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.8* Purcell Birthday song for Queen Mary: Come, ye Sons of Art, away: FELICITY LOTT (sop) CHARLES BRETT , JOHN WILLIAMS (counter-tenors) THOMAS ALLEN (baritone) MONTEVERDI CHOIR AND
ORCHESTRA, conducted by JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
7.34* Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5, in D
JOSÉ-LUlS GARCIA (violin) RICHARD ADENEY (flute)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by RAYMOND LEP -PARD (harpsichord)
Chopin Variations on La ci darem la mano
ALEXIS WEISSENBERG (piano) PARIS CONSERVATOIRE
ORCHESTRA, conducted by STANISLAW SKROWACZEWSKI
8.20* Paganini Violin Concerto No 2:
SALVATORE ACCARDO , LONDON. PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by CHARLES DUTOIT
Guidance for listeners
Rimsky-Korsakov Procession of the Nobles (Mlada): LONDON PHILHAR-MONICORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
9.10* The Snow Maiden: Prologue: The Cast includes VALENTINA SOKOLIK (SOp), IRINA ARKHIPOVA (mezzo-sopi, ALEXANDER VEDERNIKOV (bass) with the MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by VLADIMIR FEDOSEYEV : records
played by Graham Elliott at St Asaph Cathedral
Music by Frank Bridge , Britten and Malcolm Wil liamson. BBC Wales
PETER SCHIDLOF (Viola) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
Schubert Sonata in A minor (Arpeggione)
Brahms Sonata in E flat major, Op 120 No 2
guest leader RAYMOND COHEN , BBC SINGERS, director JOHN POOLE conducted by ZOLTAN PESKO Chcrubini Requiem in c minor
Debussy Nocturnes
Malcolm Messiter (oboe) Jennifer Coultas (piano) Telemann Fantasia in G minor, for solo oboe
Poulenc Sonata for oboe Matyas Seiber Improvisa tion
A. Pasculli Concerto in F, on themes from Donizetti's La Favorita
Reger Three songs to poems by Elsa Aseniev
Schubert HeimTlches Lieben (Caroline Louise von Klenke )
Hindemith Traum ; Du machst mich traurig, hor' (Else Lasker-Schuler)
Purcell 0 Solitude (Katherine Phillips
CAROLINE FRIEND (soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
conducted by KAROLOS TRIKOLIDIS
Haydn Symphony No 89, in F
2.54" Manolis Kalomiris Symphonic Poem: The Death of the Heroine
3.11* Hindemith Nobilis sima visione
The first of eight programmes, each to include a work by Frank Bridge, leading chronologically from the turn of the century up to the outbreak of the Second World War. Ireland Sextet for clarinet, horn and string quartet (1898)
MELOS ENSEMBLE OF LONDON Bridge Novelletten, for string quartet (1904) GABRIELI QUARTET
Vaughan Williams Song-cycle: On Wenlock Edge, for tenor and piano quintet (1909): IAN PARTRIDGE MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON gramophone records Stereo
JOHN LADE introduces the performance of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony recommended by Richard Osborne in last Saturday's Record Review.
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
An informal entertainment in which Bernard Keeffe , Jane Glover and Malcolm Binns are posed questions about music by Antony Hopkins. Recorded before an audience at Chetham's School of Music, Manchester. Questions devised by BRIAN GEAR. Series producer ROY HAYWARD. BBC Bristol
direct from the Royal FesUval Hall, London Judith Rees (soprano)
John Mitchinson (tenor) BBC Symphony Chorus conductor BRIAN WRIGHT
BBC Symphony Orchestra led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by Charles Mackerras
Dvorak Overture: Othello Janacek Cantata: Amarus
(sung in an English translation by BERNARD KEEFFE)
Part 2 Bartok Symphonic Poem: Kossuth
Kodaly P&almus hungaricus (sung in an English translation by EDWARD DENT)
In Liberals and Social Democrats, to be published tomorrow, Peter Clarke examines the Progressive tradition in the politics of early 20th-century Britain. David Mar quand. Professor of Contemporary History and Politics at the University of Salford, reflects on the impact of the radical Intelligentsia on British politics then and now.
A performance of Schubert's late song Auf dem
Strom, recorded by this German tenor. Pianist MICHAEL RAUCHEISEN. The horn part is played by HANS BERGER and JOSEF KOLLER. (East German Radio recording: 1954)
' IThe Author] has faithfully endeavour'd a just imitation of the most fam'd Italian Masters; principally, to bring the seriousness and gravity of that sort of Musick into vogue, and reputation among our Country-men '. Purcell's preface to his Sonatas of Three Parts acknowledges the Italian influence on his chamber music, which is discussed by Christopher Hogwood in the sixth of this series of 15 programmes. The music, mostly by Purcell, is played by the ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC.
Geheimes: PETER PEARS (tenor), BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano): record
