Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks: ARCHIVE WIND ENSEMBLE, conducted by AUGUST WENZINGER
7.23* Farina Capriccio
Stravagante MUSICA HOLMIAE
7.39' Bach Concerto in D minor (Bwv 1060)
OTTO BUCHNER (violin); EDGAR SHANN '(oboe), MUNICH BACH ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL RICHTER : records
Franz Strauss Horn Concerto in c minor, Op 8
BARRY TUCKWELL , LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, COnducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
8.19" Dellus Cello Sonata JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER (cello) CLIFFORD BENSON (piano)
8.31* Beethoven Choral Fantasia, Op 80: ALFRED BRENDEL (piano), LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by BERNARD IIAITINK : records
Leos Janacek (1854-1928) To deny the development of opera would be to deny the development of the human spirit, of all human thought.... In art, one gateway always remains open: the gateway of feeling.
Ballad for Orchestra: The Fiddler's Child
BRNO STATE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JIRI WALDHANS
Katya Kabanova , Act 1 ELISABETH SODERSTROM
(soprano), SOLOISTS, VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS : records
John Holloway and Mica Comberti (violins) Stephen Preston (flute) Susan Sheppard (cello) John Toll (harpsichord) Leclair Premiere recreation de musique, Op 6, for two violins and continuo
Locatelli Flute Sonata in G major. Op 2 No 10
Tartini Trio-Sonata No 8, in c major, for flute, violin and continuo
ANDREW KNIGHT (bass-bar) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Four songs to poems by Daumer (from Op 32): Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen; Bitteres zu sagen denkst du; So stehn wir: Wie bist du, meine Konigin
Five songs to poems by Count Platen (fromOp32): Wie rafft' ich mich auf: Ich schleich' umher; Der Strom. der neben mir verrauschte: Wehe, so willst du mich wieder?; Du sprichst. dass ich mich tauschte
Leader Martin Milner, conductor James Loughran
Heinrich Schiff (cello).
Richard Rodney Bennett Sonnets to Orpheus
11.50* Interval Reading
11.55* Halle Orchestra
Part 2- Elgar Symphony No 2, in E flat
(Part of a concert given in the Usher Hall during the 1979 Edinburgh International Festival)
direct from St John 's, Smith Square, London Gabrkli String Quartet Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin); Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello)
Gordon Crosse Quartet (BBC commission: first performance)
Mendelssohn Quartet in E minor, Op 44 No 2
(Tickets, £1.30 available from 11.0 today, or in advance from the Box Office, tel [number removed])
(Repeated: Wed 9.50 pm)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor
ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Mendelssohn Overture: Ruy Bias
Lehar Waltz: Gold and Silver
William Reed Six Facets
Franck Symphonic Poem: Les bolides
Milhaud Suite francaise
The works Bach wrote during the last period of his life (they are. it is now realised, very few in number) are largely con. cerned with abstract problems of composition. Basil Lam discusses The Musical Offering as a paradigm of this last phase in Bach's artistic development.
Christian Cannabieh Sinfonia in B flat major
CAMERATA BERN, directed by THOMAS FÜRI (violin)
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1, in D minor
MAURIZIO POLLINI , VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BÖHM
Introduced by Bernard Keeffe.
CHRISTA LUDWIG (soprano) GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) Schumann Die Lotosblume: Mcine Rose: Du bist wie eine Blume; Was will die einsame Trane; Stille Triinen.
Brahms Sapphische Ode; Standchen (Der Mond steht iiber dem Berge); Von ewiger Liebe
leader DENNIS SIMONS
ERICH GRUENBERG (violin) conducted by ERICH SCHMID Berlioz Overture: The Corsair
Fauré Suite: Pelleas et Mélisande
Vieuxtcmps Violin Concerto No 5, in A minor
Roussel Le festin de l'araignée
BBC Manchester
A short story by ITZIK MANGER , translated by JOSEPH LEFTWICH
Read by Cyril Shaps
Producer LIANE AUKI followed by an interlude
Introduced by Clive Bennett
NONA LIDDELL and JOAN ATHERTON (violins) DONALD MEVAY (viola)
CHRISTOPHER VAN KAMPEN (cello)
String Quartet (1905)
byLESZEK PROROK
Translated by MARCUS WHEELERand adapted for radio by JACEK LASKOWSKI with Annette Crosbie Clifford Rose and Lyndon Brook
'You see, Freya wasn a conventional brothel Not in the strict sens of the word It was more like a laboratory. A laboratory for breeding, a new super-race. A laboratory in which' We were all test-tubes, and our wombs were the only important things about us.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS
A deeply felt and effective play (THE GUARDIAN)
Introduced by Charles Fox BOB DOWNES (flutes and voice)
at the organ of University College, Oxford, plays two 18th-century voluntaries: the ' Echo ' Voluntary by John James , and a voluntary in G by William Waiond : record