Weber, arr Muller Sonata No 2, in a flat. Op 39 AURELE NICOLET (flute) BORIS BERMAN (piano)
8.30* Chopin Nocturne in B, Op 9 No 3
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
8.37* Elgar Three Choral Songs: Go, song of mine, Op 57; 0 wild west wind, Op 53 No 3; Owls, Op 53 No 4
BBC CHORUS, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.47* Casals Sardana I CELLISTI: records
Presenter Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Puccini s opera Turandot, by RODNEY MILNES ;
JOHN BORWICK on Direct Metal Mastering;
New records of piano music, reviewed by BRYCE MORRISON.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
'That is how I shall want my ninth symphony to sound,' said Brahms about the slow movement of Haydn's 88th. Brahms Tragic Overture Haydn Symphony No 88
12.0* Interval Reading
12.5* Brahms Symphony No 1 ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY (Swiss Radio recording from the 1982 Montreux Vevey Festival)
A Minstrel in Spain THE MARTIN BEST MEDIEVAL ENSEMBLE First of four programmes Travelling to Spain to study with Segovia, Martin Best followed the pilgrim route to Compostela. This programme reflects his experiences on that journey, and the discovery of remnants of medieval ways of life in which the minstrel played an important role.
The sixth in a series of 16 programmes of his music, introduced by Robert Simpson Maskarade (FS 39) An opera in three acts sung in Danish: records DANISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS conducted by JOHN FRANDSEN : Act 1
2.55* Interval Reading
3.5* Maskarade. Act 2
3.45* Interval Reading
3.55* Maskarade. Act 3
Introduced by Peter Clayton.
Robert Cushman (In the Chair) talks with Marghanita Laski , Clancy Stgal and John Spurllng. This week's subjects: The latest Star Wars film, The Return of the Jedi, directed by Richard Marquand. The Dining Room by A. R. Gurney at the Greenwich Theatre. The Invisible Performance: two Radio 3 programmes by Ronald Hayman on radio drama. Images for Sale: 21 years of British graphics and packaging in the Bollernouse Project gallery at the V and A. The Portable Edmund Wilson edited by Lewis M. Dabney. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
KREUZBERGER STRING QUARTET Haydn Quartet In E flat, Op 64 No 6 Berg Lyric Suite
A short story by MANNY DRAYCOTT
Read by James Bryce
direct from Christ Church, Spitalfields, London
Diana Burrell's Mlssa S Endeliente uses ' corl spezzati ' as did the masters of the Venetian Baroque, whose music Is explored in this year's Festival.
Jennifer Smith (soprano) Catherine Denley (contralto)
Martyn Hill (tenor)
Stephen Roberts (bar)
London Symphony Chorus City of London Sinfonia led by MALCOLM LAYFIELD conductor Richard Hickox
Parti Giovanni Gabriell
Canzona Primi Toni
(1597); In ecclesiis; 0
Jesu mi dulcissime (1597); Canzona I a 5 (1615); Gloria; La Spirltata;
Plaudite, Jubilate Deo
A sequence of poems arranged round a theme by PATRIC DICKINSON and read by Jill Balcon ,
Denys Hawthorne and Michael Spice
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Part 2. Diana Burrcll
Missa S Endeliente (first broadcast performance)
Fantasie in c (The Wanderer)
PHILIP SMITH (piano)
2: Radio and Theatre
Elizabethan audiences thought of a play not as something you went to see but went to hear.
We'll hear a play tomorrow,' Hamlet tells the actors. Will the king hear this piece of work? '.'
The writer and critic
Ronald Hayman argues that the experience of radio restored attentiveness to the English theatre both for audiences and Playwrights.
Producer THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
Presenter Anthony Rooley 18: Michael East Sweet muses (The third set of Bookes, 1610)
Hence stars; 0 metaphysical tobacco; I fall, and then I rise (The second set of madrigals. 1606)
All ye that joy in wailing; Sly thief; You mournful Gods (Madrigals to 3. 4 and 5 Parts, 1604)
CONSORT OF MUSICKE: MADRIGAL ENSEMBLE
CONSORT OF VIOLS, directed by ANTHONY ROOLEY