Five programmes of music by the Russian Five '.
Balakirev Overture on three Russian themes Borodin Song: Your native land
Mussorgsky On the Southern Shores of the Crimea
Cui Songs: The statue of Tsarskoe Selo; In memory of V. V. Stassov Rimsky-Korsakov
Sinfonietta on Russian themes: records
Milhaud Symphony No 2 (Pastorale): LUXEMBURG RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by the COMPOSER Poulenc Elegie in Memory of Dennis Brain
IFOR JAMES (horn)
JENNIFER PARTRIDGE (piano) Taneyev Piano Trio in D TAMARA FIDLER (piano)
VLADIMIR OVCHAREK (violin) IOSIF LEVINSON (cello) Bach Cantata No 212
(Peasant Cantata): JULIA VARADY (Sop), DIETRICH
FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone) ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER : records
with Michael Oliver
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI and his Third Symphony: the composerspeaks;
Girolamo Frescobaldi ,
1 the marvel' of his age: a talk by LIONEL SALTER ; A conversation with ANN MURRAY : A Celeste Player's guide to the orchestra, by MICHAEL ROUND: the Cimbalom.
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD
The last of the series
Wagner Prelude (Tristan and Isolde): ORCHESTRA OF WELSH NATIONAL OPERA conducted by REGINALD GOODALL
Butterworth English Idyll No 1: ENGLISH SINFONIA conducted by NEVILLE DILKES
Arriaga Symphony In D minor (mono)
LONDON MOZART PLAYERS conducted by HARRY BLECH Berlioz Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans)
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL
OPERA HOUSE conducted by SIR COLIN DAVIS
12.10* pm Interval Reading
12.15* Barsanti Overture In D. Op 4 No 2: Scottish BAROQUE ENSEMBLE directed by LEONARD FRIEDMAN
Berkeley Guitar Concerto JULIAN BREAM, MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA, conducted by JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Wagner Wotan 's Farewell and Magic fire music (Die Walküre) NORMAN BAILEY
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by REGINALD GOODALL : records
Mendelssohn Quartet in r minor, Op 80
Ravel Quartet In F
1.55* Interval Reading
2.5* Beethoven Quartet in E flat, Op 74
(born 25 September 1683) Castor et Pollux
Opera in five acts (1754 version)
Music by Rameau Libretto by PIERRE-JOSEPH BERNARD
(sung In French): records
ENGLISH BACH FESTIVAL SINGERS
ENGLISH BACH FESTIVAL BAROQUE ORCHESTRA leader CHRISTOPHER HIRONS conducted by CHARLES FARNCOUBI Act 1
Vernon Scannell examines some of the verse written by great poets about their own children, or about children in general.
Readers INGRID HAFNER and JOHN HARTOCH
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
Acts 2 and 3
and other poems by James Fenton who introduces readings by himself and KENNETH CRANHAM.
Acts 4 and 5
William Feaver looks at the so-called ' New
Sculpture ' and reflects on the confusion of Imagery flooding from sculptors' studios today. with contributions from BRUCE MCLEAN ,
MICHAEL CRAIG MARTIN , TONY CRAGG , BILL WOODROW.
KATE BLACKER , RAF FULCHER, ANISH KAPOOR , SHIRAZEH HOUSHIARY, JEAN-LUC VILMOUTH ,
ANTHONY GORMLEY , JULIAN OPII. JONATHAN FROUD , ANDY FROST and DAVID MACH.
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS (The Sculpture Show is at the Hayward and Serpentine Galleries until 9 October 1983)
Four pieces reflecting the diverse musicality of this Influential eclectic who died last year, performed by JOLYON DODGSON (bass-baritone)
YPRAH NEAMAN (Violin) DAVID WILDE (piano)
Ballad of Semmerwater Violin Rhapsody Suite for piano
Afterwards
director ALAN SUTTIE Gabrlell 0 magnum mysterium; Canzon XII Scheldt Battle Suite Grieg Funeral March BBC Wales
by LANFORD WILSON
with Margaret Robertson as the Antique dealer ; I'm uneasy with strangers. Relative strangers. Strangers who are relatives - we are the nervous dumb brontosaurs who knew only that at the very least their lives would have a form: a shape, a beginning and a middle and for those who cared for it a progeny, and finally and blissfully, or regrettably an end...'
Directed by IAN CORRERELL
leader JOSE-LUIS GARCIA conducted by JEFFREY TATE
JOHN WILLIAMS (guitar) Wagner Siegfried Idyll Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
The French surrealist, Communist, Resistance hero and man-of-letters, Louis Aragon. died last Christmas at the age of B5. The translator and historian Richard Mayne examines his extraordinary career and attempts to explain what most of Aragon's obituary writers saw as puzzling contradictions.
Part 2
Patrick Gowers Stevie Concerto for guitar (first performance)
Schubert Symphony No 2, in B flat
(Given on 23 September in the Royal Festival Hall in association with EXCO International plc)
Images (Book 1) gramophone record
