BBC WELSH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR
Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
7.23* William Mathias Symphony No 1. BBC Wales
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR
Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela
8.13* Balakirev Symphony No 1, in c. BBC Wales
The Court of Louis XIV The Chapel Royal
Louis XIV, ' Le Rol Soleil ', ascended the French throne in 1643 at the age of five. From then until his death in 1715, he remained king-enveloped in what has become an almost legendary grandeur. He collected around him a host of talented musicians, artists, writers and Intellectuals.
Among the musicians were Lully, Delalande and Couperin, and this week a programmes feature music by them and others.
Couperin Easter Motet: Victoria Christo resurgenti: JUDITH NELSON , EMMA KIRKBY (SOPS), JANE RYAN (viola da gamba), ChrisTOPHER HOGWOOD (organ)
1.11* Louis Marchand Dialogue sur les grands jeux MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN (organ)
1.29* Delalande Motet: Regina Coeli: VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Or LAUSANNE, conducted by MICHEL CORBOZ : records
with Antony Hopkins
Hindemith Quartet (1938). for clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Karl-Birger Blomdahl Trio for clarinet, cello and piano
with Nicholas Kraemer (piano) Janacek Ukvalske Pisne (Songs of Hukvaldy): Elegy (on the death of his daughter Olga)
Justin Connolly Verse
Poulenc Un soir de neige; Les tisscrands
Trevor Hold Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard (first broadcast performance)
Nicholas Maw Annes ! (first broadcast performance)
from the Geneva International Music Competition 1978
IRENA KRSTIC-CRAFENAUER (flute)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN-MARIE AUBERSON
Mozart Flute Concerto In 9 major (K 314)
ANNA JASZYK (piano)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ALBERT E. KAISER
Chopin Piano Concerto No 2, in F minor
(Swiss Radio recording)
direct from St John's, Smith Square. London Lindsay String Quartet Bartok Quartet No 2
Haydn Quartet in c major, Op 20 No 2
played by Ronald Leith n St Salvator's Chapel. University of St Andrews. Bach Prelude and Fugue in D minor (Dorian) (Bwv 538)
Vagn Holmboe Fabula II, Op 115
Saint Saens Prelude and Fugue in c major, Op 109 No 3. BBC Scotland
A programme of music by Satie, Fauré, Grieg, Humperdinck, Ernest Tomlinson and Tchaikovsky, played by the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA, COnducted by JAMES STOBART
Mozart Symphony No 35. in D (Haffner) (K 385) BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
Britten Spring Symphony SOLOISTS, ST CLEMENT DANES SCHOOL BOYS CHOIR
LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉprevin
DERBY CENTRAL BAND OF THE SALVATION ARMY, bandmaster 3Richard gillmore , plays music by Steadman Allen and Edward Gregson
Presented by Jack Brymer The Ridiculous - the Sublime
Mozart's Musical Joke, on a record, followed by his Oboe Quartet (K 370).
Also two examples of choral writing from England in the last century.
The first gramophone records Britten made of his own music, in 1942, accompanying PETER PEARS in the Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo.
by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis
The last in a series of investigations into the lives of fictional great men: George Dupont
; French philosopher: rough translation, George of the bridge -man or myth? Or man of mystery? France, of course, the country that spawned many great Frenchmen, a country that has flourished since the war Into a force to be reckoned with in world class philosophy.' with ROWAN ATKINSON
HUGH THOMAS , PETER WILSON and HILDA KRISEMAN
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES
Overture: Polyeucte
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Scherzo
ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by DAVID ZINMAN : record
Pitfalls and Conventions of Constitutional Amendment USA
A Constitutional Convention as a way of bringing about amendment to the United States Constitution now has the vocal support ofGovernorJerryBrown of California. Paul J. Mishkin, Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that the pitfalls outweigh the possible advantages.
with Richard Markham (piano)
Mozart Quartet in r (K 168) Schumann Quartet in P, Op 41 No 2
9.30* Interval Reading
9.46* Coull String Quartet Part 2 Shostakovich
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 57
JOHN LADE introduces excerpts from the performance of Mozart's Cosl fan tutte recommended by Charles Osborne in last Saturday's Record Review
Introduced by Charles Fox STAN TRACEY QUARTET