Handel Overture and Act 1 (Alceste)
EMMA KIRKBY (soprano) PAUL ELLIOTT (tenor)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
8.31* Haydn Cello Concerto in D
YO YO ma, directing the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA gramophone records
Presented by Paul Vaughan
Building a Library:
Stravinsky's Pulcinella
Suite, by Arnold Whittall;
New records of choral and organ music reviewed by Gordon Reynolds.
Rameau Motet: In convertendo
SUZANNE GARI (soprano) HENRI LADROIT
(counter-tenor) guy DE MEY (tenor)
STEPHEN VARCOE (baritone) CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL. PARIS conducted by PHILIPPE HERREWEGHE
Franck Choral No 2, in B minor
FRANCIS GRIER
(organofChristChurch Cathedral,Oxford)
Gramophone records
The fifth of this season's concerts for young people, direct from the oyal Festival Hail,
London, includes a work by Derek Bourgeois commissioned for the concerts and first performed in the 1980/91 season.
BBC Symphony Orchestra led by MAURICE BRETT
Introduced and conducted by Christopher Seaman Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 3
Berlioz A Ball and March to the Scaffold
(Symphonie fantastique) Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Derek Bourgeois Chamber of Horrors: Four Demonic Dances for large orchestra
FELSON TRIO
Margaret Field (soprano) Wilfred Goddard (clarinet and bass-clarinet)
Peter Pettlnger (piano) NedRoremAriel:Five poems of Sylvia Plath
Dominick Argento To be sung upon the water:
Barcarolles and Nocturnes (poems by William Wordsworth )
(first broadcast performances)
An 11-part series
7: Violins in Consort Introduced by Peter Holman
The music of the English Baroque is one of the most neglected areis of our cultural heritage.
These pieces, written for the unusual combination of a consort of violins. have probably not been heard since the 17th century.
Thomas Baltzar Pavan and Gaillard Nicola Mattels Divisions on a Ground in D minor
John Jenkins Fancy Suite No 8. in c anon Sonata in o. for four violins
THE PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS directors ROY GOODMAN (violin) and PETER HOLMAN (organ)
Violin Sonata in c <K 296) JASCHA HEIFETZ (violin) EMANUEL BAY (piano) gramophone record
The Jazz age the period of neo-classicism and the 'new objectivity'; but also a decade of masterworks untouched by the 'spirit of the age'.
Main items:
Milhaud La creation du monde
ORCHESTRE DU THEATRE DES CHAMPS-ELYSEES conducted by THE COMPOSER
Gershwin Rhapsody In Blue (original version) THE COMPOSER (1925 piano roll)
COLUMBIA JAZZ BAND conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS
Lambert The Rio Grande (mono: 1930)
HAMILTON HARTY (piano) ST MICHAEL'S SINGERS HALLE ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
3.5* Varese Octandre CONTEMPORARY CHAMBER
ENSEMBLE, conducted by ARTHUR WEISBERG Stravinsky Octet
COLUMBIA CHAMBER ENSEMBLE conducted by the COMPOSER Schoenberg Suite Op 25 MAURIZIO POLLINI (piano) Hindemlth Kleine Kammermusik
DANISH WIND QUINTET
Bartok String Quartet No 3 TOKYO STRING QUARTET
4.20* Nielsen Symphony No5
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by OLE SCHMIDT
gramophone records
Producer ANTHONY BURTON
with Peter Clayton
Gillian Revnolds in the Chair) talks with William Boyd , Owen Dudley Edwards and William Feaver.
This week's subjects: The Battle of Waterloo by Keith Dewhurst , In the BBC2 live drama series; Paul Mazursky 's film Tempest;
Peter Gill 's Kick for
Touch at the National Theatre: Landscape In Britain 1850-1950 at the Hayward Gallery. London; Deadeye Dick , a new novel by Kurt Vonnegut. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
The second of four
Programmes played by MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN in the Parish Church of St Germain-en-Laye, near Paris
Premiere Fantaisie; Deuxieme Fantaisie ;
Climat: Variations sur ' Lucls Creator
Berceuse sur deux notes qui cornent; Monodie;
Grave; Intermezzo; ' De Jules Lemaitre '; Chant donné
A BBC digital recording
Romeo and Juliet
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conductor
RICCARDO MUTI EDINBURGH FESTIVAL CHORUS chorus-master JOHN CURRIE JULIA HAMARI (soprano) LAJOS KOZMA (tenor)
JOHN PAUL BOGART (bass) (Given in 1981 in the Usher Hall, in association tilth Elf Aquitaine (UK) Ltd: the Edinburgh
Festival Chorus appears in association with Scottish Gas) BBC Scotland
ARTUR BALSAM (piano)
Mozart Minuet in D major (K 355)
Chopin Three Mazurkas, Op 63
Mozart Rondo in A minor (K 511)
Chopin Waltz in A minor, Op 34 No 2
Mozart Adagio in B minor (K 540)
Chopin Nocturne in B major. Op 32 No 1
William Mann , author of The Operas of Richard Strauss , examines the role of the Marschallin in the first act of Der Rosenkavalier. as interpreted by LOTTE LEHMANN , ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF ,
TIANA LEMNITZ. RECINE CRESPIN. CHRISTA LUDWIG and many others, including
MARGARETHE SIEMS Who took part in the very first production of the opera.
Raymond Carpenter (clarinet)
Norman Hallam (clarinet) Robert Walker (bassoon) Christopher Gale (bassoon)
Richard Thomas (horn) Ian Lowes (horn)
F. X. Dusek Parthia in D flat
Mysllveeek Lovecka Parthia (Hunting Partita)
BBC Bristol
