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Brahms Academic Festival Overture
NBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ARTURO TOSCANINI
Schubert Minuet and Finale
LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
Verdi Two duets from La Tratviata. Act 1
JOAN SUTHERLAND (soprano) LUCIANO PAVAROTTI (tenor) NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
Derek Bourgeois Hock (A Wine Symphony): PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE
Dussek Rondo : Oh dear. what can the matter be? ALAN CUCKSTON (piano)
Arnold Sarabande and Polka (Solitaire)
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records

Introduced by John Lade Building a Library: Brahms's Variations on the St Anthony Chorale, for orchestra, by ROBERT PHILIP.
New opera records reviewed by RODNEY MILNES. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Handel Incidental Music: Alceste: JUDITH NELSON and EMMA KIRKBY (sopranos) MARGARET CABLE (mezzo-soprano)
PAUL ELLIOTT (tenor) DAVID THOMAS (baSS)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (harpsichord) gramophone record

LONDON COLLEGIATE BRASS conducted by EDWARD GREGSON
Anthony Hedges Prelude , Nocturne and March
Adrian Cruft Essay on a Phrase
Paul Patterson Cataclysm

Ars longa, vita brevis
Short lives well spent form the basis of Jeremy Siepmann 's selection of records this morning: Schubert, Mozart and Mendelssohn are represented, as are Chopin, Pergolesi and Gershwin. There are historic recordings by DINU LIPATTI and GINETTE NEVEU , reflections from ROBERT GRAVES and DYLAN THOMAS , and crocodile tears for Jim, who gets eaten by a lion.

Introduced by Nicholas Kenyon
Jean-Marie Leclair 's opera Scylla et Glaucus is being broadcast for the first time on Tuesday at
7.0 pm.
GRAHAM SADLER talks about it, NEAL ZASLAW describes a visit to the Paris Opera in 1750 and. to begin and end the programme. THE ENGLISH CONCERT plays two of Leclair's Trio-Sonatas, Op 13 No 5, and Op 14, which include arrangements of music from the opera.

STEPHEN BISHOP-KOVACEVICH (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in D minor. Op 31 No 2; Six Bagatelles, Op 126
2.48* Interval Reading
2.58* Recital. Part 2
Schubert Sonata in 8 flat (D 960)
BBC Birmingham

Three months ago, the satellite relay of this work from Chicago had to be abandoned for technical reasons. Todav. a recording of the complete performance.
FAYE ROBINSON , TERESA CAHILL , JO-ANN PICKENS (sopranos), JAN DEGAETANI (mezzo-sop), MIRA ZAKAI (COntraltO), KENNETH RIEGEL (tenor), BRENT ELLIS (bar), THEO ADAM (bass)
GLEN ELLYN CHILDREN'S CHOIR
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS, conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
(Presented jointly by EBU and WFMT)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the. visual arts
Paul Barker (in the Chair) talks with Matthew Hoffman , Hermione Lee and Marina Vaizey.
This week's subjects:
The Captive Mind, by the 1980 Nobel Prize winner, Czeslaw Milosz.
Princely Magnificence : Court Jewels of the Renaissance at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A film version of Frederick Forsyth 's novel, The Dogs of War.
The Revolt by Villiers De L'Isle-Adam , directed by Simone Benmussa. at the Theatre at New End, Hampstead.
Julian Mitchell's adaptation of Staying On by Paul Scott , for Granada Television.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER (cello) SIMON NICHOLS (piano)
Stanford Sonata No 2, in D minor, for cello and piano ritten Suite No 3, for cello

leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor
GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY PHILIP FOWKE (piano)
Stravinsky Ballet: The Fairy's Kiss

A short story by E. EVELEIGH
Read by Nerys Hughes
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY

Part 2 Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No 3, in D minor (Given in October 1980 in the Town Hall)

While working on his three-volume study of Tchaikovsky, David Brown believes he has discovered instances of musical ciphering in the First Piano Concerto and other works that throw new light on our understanding of the composer.

First of six programmes in which Gillian Weir introduces and plays all of Messiaen's organ music in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington DC
Le banquet céleste (1928) L'Ascension: quatre meditations symphoniques (1834)
Diptyque: essai sur la vie terrestre et l'éternité bienheureuse (1930)
For specification of the organ, please send an sae to: ' Messiaen Organ Specification ', [address removed]

The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkainen Legends) SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by HORST STEIN gramophone record