The first in a series presenting a broad survey of works in this genre, alongside pieces for the piano
Piano Sonata In B Sat, Op 108
ILSE VON ALPENHEIM String Quartet In A minor, Op 13
ALBERNI QUARTET gramophone records
Listeners' record requests Weber Grand Potpourri ANNER BYLSMA (cello) NORTH GERMAN RADIO
ORCHESTRA, conducted by MARC ANDREAE
9.25* Brahms Two Songs, Op 91: Gestillte
Sehnsucht; Gelstliches Wiegenlied
JESSYE NORMAN (soprano) WOLFRAM CHRIST (Viola)
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
9.39* Turlna Sanlucar de Barrameda (Sonata pintoresca)
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)
10.2' Sibelius Symphony No 7, In c
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
Introduced by Michael Oliver
He threw away thoughts that would have set up anyone else ' (BURNEY) The music of C. P. E. Bach , by NICHOLAS KENYON ; A conversation with MURRAY PERAIIIA;
The art of Beno Blachut by ALAN BLYTH.
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD (Repeated: Tues 2.0 pm)
MANOUG PARIKIAN (violin)
LEVON CIIILINGIRIAN (viola) PHILIP DE GROOTE (Cello) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR
Nicholas Maw Morning
Music (first performance: Festival Commission)
Tippett Triple Concerto
12.20* Interval Reading
12.25* Vaughan Williams Job: A Masque for Dancing
(Given in October 1982 at St Andrew's Hall, Norwich as part of the Norfolk and Norwich Triennal Festival in association with Eastern Evening News)
BBC Birmingham
Shostakovich Quartet No 8, in c minor
Smetana Quartet No 1, In E minor (from My Life) A BBC digital recording
Opera buff a in two acts Music by Domenico Cimarosa Libretto by GIOVANNI BERTATI , after The
Clandestine Marriage by GEORGE COLMAN and DAVID GARRICK
(sung in Italian) Cologne Opera's production recorded at Sadler's Wells Theatre on 5 February.
LONDON CLASSICAL PLAYERS led by SIMON STANDAGE continuo JENNIFER WARD CLARKE (cello)
HILARY GRIFFITHS (harpsichord) conducted by ARNOLD OSTMAN. Act 1
... a bubbling piece of teamwork, in which acting, singing, conducting, directing and playing seem to all come from the same source. (THE TIMES) (Given in association with Prudential)
3.35* Interval Reading
3.45* II Matrimonio Segreto: Act 2
Burnt Norton is not a poem about what Eliot believed: it is about trying to believe in anything at all.'
In the second of five talks about T. S. Eliot 's Four Quartets, Martin Dodsworth , of London University, reflects on the philosophical suspicion of the first of the Four Quartets. With a reading of the poem by JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS . Producer
THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
MORAY WELSH (Cello)
ROGER VIGNOLES (piano) Debussy Sonata in D minor
Elliott Carter Sonata Grainger Youthful Rapture: Sussex
Mummers' Carol: Lost Lady Found
(Concert arranged by St George's Music Trust in association with John Player and Sons)
BBC Bristol
direct from St
Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St
Edmunds Jo Ann Pickens (soprano) Anthony Koife Johnson (tenor)
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
Choristers of Norwich Cathedral, conductor
MICHAEL NICHOLAS
CBSO Chorus chorus-master
SIMON HALSEY
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra leader FELIX KOK conductor Simon Rattle Britten War Requiem (Given in association with The Inverforth Charitable Trust) BBC Birmingham
(Fudaraku-no-Kishlbe) by KIYOKAZU YAMAMOTO translated from the Japanese by JOHN BESTER
Music by SEIICHIRO UNO This play, set in 16th-century Japan, deals with a clash of Christian and Buddhist Ideas about the voyage to Fudaraku (paradise) - in western eyes a type of ritual suicide.
It won the RAI prize at the 1981 Prix Italia in its Japanese production by NHK. This English production uses the original music and sound effects tapes. with NIGEL GRAHAM and members of the GEKIDAN SUBARU
Directed by IAN COTTERELL
led by Maurice Brett, conductor Sir John Pritchard
Rodney Friend (violin)
Stravinsky Fireworks
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances
EVELYNE BRANCART (piano) Mendelssohn Variations seYieuses
Bach Partita No 1, in B flat major (BWV 825)
Presenter Anthony Rooley 19: Richard Alison
An howres recreation in Musicke (1606): Shall I abide this jesting?; My prime of youth; There is a garden; 0 Lord bow down thine ear; The sacred choir
CONSORT OF MUSICKE MADRIGAL ENSEMBLE
CONSORT OF VIOLS, directed by ANTHONY ROOLEY