Legends, Op 59 Nos 1-4 VLASTIMIL LEJSEK and VERA LEJSKOVA (piano duet) String Quintet in E flat, Op 97: MEMBERS OF THE VIENNA OCTET: records
Mahler Symphony No 1, in D (Titan)
BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK : record
with Michael Oliver
Dr Boyce, a composer of sterling merit ' by ROGER FISKE.
The English Gamelan Orchestra? An explanation from JAN STEELE.
Turning-Points and Progressions: a series about the future of music. 2: WILLIAM MATHIAS
(Repeated: Wed 2.5 pm)
Big Ben
The Two-Minutes Silence;
The Last Post (Whole ceremony on Radio
4 at 10.30 am)
conducted by JAMES LEVINE JESSYE NORMAN (soprano) Mozart Concert Aria; Ch'io mi scordi di te? EDWARD GORDON (pianO) Ravel Shéhérazade Berlioz La mort de Cleopatre
John Wain (3)
Part 2 Wagner
Five Wesendonck Songs Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde) (WFMT recording)
(Overseas broadcast made possible by a grant to the orchestra from Amoco (UK) Ltd)
plays Bach
Kyrie, Christe. Kyrie (Bwv 672-674); Chorale Prelude: Aus liefer Not schrei' ich zu dir (BWV 687); Fuga super Jesus Christus unser Heiland (BWV 689)
The last three piano sonatas: ANDRAS SCHIFF i Last Monday's BBC Lunchtime Concert)
Opera in five acts
Libretto by LE CLERC DE LA BRUERE. Music by Rameau.edited by Raymond Leppard
(sung in French: records)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF
PARIS OPERA, conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD Acts 1 and 2
A selection from the works of the little-known late-17th century poet
Acts 3, 4 and 5
Serenade, Op 10
MEMBERS OF THE MELOt ENSEMBLE
A personal view by Ian McKeUen
In 1980 Ian McKeUen went to Broadway to play
Salieri in Peter Shaffer 's Amadeus. He gives his impression of the American theatrical scene and describes the run-up to the highly successful opening of Amadeus, for which he won the Tony
Award and Best Actor of the Year. followed by an Interlude
with a French flavour, played by KEITH SWALLOW and STEPHANIE BAMFORD Satie Trois apercus désagréables
Poulenc Sonata
Constant Lambert Trois pieces negres
Peter Dickinson Five Forgeries
Satic Trois morceaux en forme de poire
BBC Manchester
The Life of Karen Blixen and the Art of Isak Dinesen Karen Blixen became a story-teller when her life in Kenya collapsed in 1931 and she returned to her native Denmark. She took the name
Isak Dinesen , adopted the English language and wrote several collections of stories and Out of Africa. The novelist Paul Bailey presents this critical biography. Contributors:
SIR JOHN GIELGUD , LAURENS VAN DER POST,
ELSPETH HUXLEY , ROBERT LANGBAUM , STEEN EILER RASMUSSEN , TORE DINESEN, AAGE
HENRIKSEN, CLARA SVENDSEN Readings by Jill Balcon
Producer DAVID PERRY
by Robert Wittinger
(born 1945): Sinfonia No 2 (first performance)
Bavarian Radio Chorus (women's voices)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Elgar Howarth
(Bavarian Radio recording)
by IAN WEIR withand
In this, his first play for radio, the author, a Canadian student. lightheartedly imagines a meeting between Attila the Hun and Alaric the Visigoth. Attila - en route to sack Italy - has journeyed some considerable distance out of his way with a larger travelling retinue than Is strictly necessary to visit his ' old friend ' Alaric. Alaric has difficulty in finding out why, precisely, his old friend should wish to see him.
Villagers CHRISTINE
ABSALOM, SPENCER BANKS, NICHOLAS COURTNEY ,
JANE KNOWLES , CRAWFORD LOGAN. CHRISTOPHER SCOTT , MICHAEL SPICE, THERESA STREATFEILD , DAVID TIMSON , PATIENCE
TOMLINSON CHRISTOPHER PAGE (lyre)
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN (Michael Bryant is a National Theatre player)
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by KENNETH SCHERMERHORN TASHI ENSEMBLE
Britten Four Sea
Interludes (Peter Grimes ) Beethoven Romance No 2, in F major, for violin and orchestra
Bach, orch Webern
Ricercar in six parts
Brahms Trio in A minor, Op 114
(WFMT Chicago recording)
Messe de Nostre Dame PURCELL CHOIR directed by GRAVSTON BURGESS , JOHN CALDWELL (organ): record
A short story by MEDARDO FRAILE translated by LESTER CLARK Read by Robert Rietty
A setting by Alan Gray CHOIR OF GUILDFORD
CATHEDRAL, directed by BARRY ROSE : record
