Fourth of eight programmes
Historic recordings of the Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti playing music by his godfather GEORGES ENESCO, who joins him as violinist in the final work Enesco Bourrée (Suite No 2 in D. Op 10)
8.11* Sonata No 3, in D, Op 24
8.22* Violin Sonata No 3, in A minor (dans le caractere populaire roumain) gramophone records
Listeners' record requests Elgar Prelude: for the Fallen: DONALD HUNT(organ)
9.11* Purcell Sonata No 9, in F (Golden Sonata)
CARL PINI, JOHN TUNNELL (violins), ANTHONY PINI (CellO), HAROLD LESTER (harpsichord)
9.20* Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Antartica
SIR RALPH RICHARDSON (narrator), HEATHER HARPER (soprano), AMBROSIAN SINGERS, LONDON SYMPHONY orchestra, conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN : records
with Michael Oliver
D. E. Inghelbrecht : the French composer and conductor, recalled by ROGER NICHOLS.
The Harpsichord Master. a Purcell discovery, by ROBERT PETRE.
The land of lost content - A. E. Housman and English music, by MICHAEL HURD.
Producer CHRISTINE HARD-WICK (Rptd: Wed 2.5 pm)
Biir Ben
Two Minutes' Silence; The Last Post
I (Whole ceremony on Radio 4 at 10.30 am)
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano) Antonio Soler Sonatas: F sharp major; D major
Falla Four Spanish pieces; Fantasia Baetica
Russell Davies
Part 2
Granados Los requiebros; La maja y el ruiseftor; El pelele (Goyescas)
Albeniz El Albaicin; Rondena; Triana (Iberia)
(Given on 1 August in the Royal Hall)
directed by REINHARD GOEBEL
Rosenmiiller Sonata No 4, in c, for two violins, cello and continuo
Reincken Sonata in E minor, for two violins, viola da gamba and continuo
Buxtehude Sonata in b flat major, for violin, viola da gamba and continuo
Pachelbel Suite in E minor, for two violins and continuo
Vivaldi Sonata in D minor (Follia). Op 1 No 12, for two violins and continuo
1.30* Interval Reading
1.40* Concert, Part 2
Biber Partita No 5, in G minor, for two violins and continuo
Schmelzer Polish Bag-pipes, for two violins and continuo
(A public concert given on 2 October at the Wig-more Hall, London)
Romantic opera In three acts by Wagner
A Bavarian Radio recording of the 1980 Bayreuth Festival production Cast in order of singing: Royal Herald
BERND WEIKL (baritone)
King Henry HANS SOTIN (bass)
LEIF ROAR (bass) Elsa KARAN ARMSTRONG
Lohengrin PETER HOFMANN
Ortrud ELIZABETH CONNELL
First noble
VOLKER HORN (tenor) Second noble HELMUT PAMPUCH
Third noble
MARTIN EGEL (bass)
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL CHORUS chorus-master
NORBERT BALATSCH
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL
ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLDEMAR NELSSON
The action takes place in Antwerp in the first half of the 10th century Act 1
Arnold Whittall reviews the week's music broadcasting.
(Friday 7.15 pm: Edward Seckerson)
Act 2
5.0* Interval Reading
5.10* Lohengrin Act 3
Unmasking Medicine given by Ian Kennedy , Reader in Law and Executive Director of the Centre of Law. Medicine and Ethics at King's College, London
1: The Rhetoric of Medicine
(Part 2: Wednesday 7.45 pm, Radio 4)
Settings of A. E. Housman and Henry Vaughan DAVID WILSON-JOHNSON (bar) DAVID OWEN NORRIS (piano) C. W. Orr Farewell to barn and stack; The Lent Lily; When I watch the living meet; Soldier from the wars returning
Graham Peel In summertime on Bredon
Christopher Headington Six poems by Henry Vaughan : A clouded starre (first performance) BBC Birmingham
For his last talk in the series Bernard Levin attended the Wexford Festival in Ireland. followed by an interlude
by ROBERT SMITH with Robert Lang as Gordon Howard and Josie Kidd as Constance
Please listen to me. All those things I said, the bad things ... they weren't me. Most of the time I can't control what goes on in my mind. I just feel myself drifting away ... I have a guest in my soul and he's outstayed his welcome - no he was never welcome.'
Directed by BERNARD KRICHEFSKI followed by an interlude
given earlier this evening in the Free Trade Hall Janet Baker (mezzo-sop) BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra. leader DENNIS SIMONS , conducted by Gunther Herbig
Webern Six pieces
Mahler Kindertotenlieder
9.45* Interval Reading
9.55* Concert, Part 2
Brahms Symphony No 1, in c minor
by CHRISTOPHER BIGSEY 5: North/South
Reader Stephen Moore
sings Trois Mélodies by Falla to words by Theophile Gautier , with JOHN CONSTABLE (piano): record