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Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN Mahler Lob des hohen Verstandes (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Strauss Allerseelen
benjamin LUXON (baritone) DAVID WILLISON (piano) Glazunov The Seasons MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by BORIS KHAIKIN : records
Introduced by John Lade Building a Library: Nielsen's Fifth Symphony, by EDWARD SECKERSON.
New choral and organ records, reviewed by GORDON REYNOLDS.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Handel Salve Regina
ROSEMARY HARDY (soprano) THE KING'S MUSICK conducted by MARK DELLER Francisco Vals Mass: Scala Aretina : MAVIS BEATTIE ,
VALERIE HILL and NANCY LONG (sopranos)
CHRISTOPHER ROBSON and ASHLEY STAFFORD (counter-tenors) EDGAR FLEET and ANTONY SHELLEY (baritones) LONDON ORATORY CHOIR
THAMES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN HOBAN. oramophone records
BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL OF MUSIC BRASS BAND conductor ROY CURRAN
Dukas Fanfare (La Péri) Gilbert Vinter Spectrum
Vaughan Williams Variations for brass band
This week, the horn-player Barry Tuckwell introduces some of his favourite music: records
Introduced by Nicholas Kenyon
Songs and Dances from the Glogauer Liederbuch performed by the LANDINI CONSORT
Peter Holman talks about Anthony Holborne and reviews a recently-issued record of his Pavans and Galliards (1599).
Leo Black introduces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.
with Peter Clayton
Richard Cork (in the Chair) talks with Anthony Quinton , Anthony Thwaite and Marina Warner.
British Art Now: An American Perspective at the Royal Academy; David Lynch 's film The Elephant Man; Anthony Burgess 's novel Earthly Powers: Sugar and Spice, by Nigel Williams at the Royal Court Theatre; and Dennis Potter 's Blade on the Feather on ITV.
Producer DAVID PERRY
played and introduced by Peter Hurford
Organ of New College Chapet, Oxford
Prelude in G (Bwv 568); Fantasia in B minor (BWV 583); Chorale Prelude: Herr Gott , dich loben wir (bwv 725); Sonata V, in c (bwv 529)
String Quartet No 1, in c BORODIN QUARTET: record
Opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by SALVATORE CAMMARANO after the novel by SIR WALTER SCOTT (sung in Italian)
The original autograph version edited by JESUS LOPEZ -COBOS (1977) direct from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Royal Opera Chorus chorus-master JOHN BARKER Orchestra of the Royal Opera House leader JOHN BROWN conducted by Jesus Lopez -Cobos. Act 1
Lucia was first performed in Naples in 1835. John Black talks about the diversity of operatic life in Naples during this period.
Act 2
Tonight Derek Walcott receives the Welsh Arts Council International Writers' prize. Professor John Figueroa considers the work of this distinctive Caribbean poet and playwright.
Read by Thomas Baptist * Producer ALEC REID
Act 3
Introduced by Christopher Ricks
A celebration of two famous military events that took place on this day: The Battle of Agincourt in 1415 and The Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854. with Alan Badel and Martin Jarvis
Producer IAN COTTERELL
plays W. F. Bach 's Fantasia in D minor (F 19) on the clavichord: record