Arne Overture No 1 in E minor: ACADEMY OF ANCIENT music, directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
Blow, blow thou winter wind; Under the greenwood tree: APRIL CANTELO (sOp)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by Raymond LEPPARD Robert Woodcock Oboe Concerto in E flat NEIL BI-ACK (oboe)
THAMES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL DOBSON
Handel Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne JUDITH NELSON. EMMA KIRK BY (sopranos)
SHIRLEYMINTY (contralto)
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) MARTYN HILL (tenor) DAVID THOMAS (bass)
CHOIR Of CHRIST CHURCH
CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by SIMON PRESTON gramophone records
Listeners' record requests
Tchaikovsky Introduction and music to Dmitri the Impostor MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by EVGENY AKULOV
Blocb String Quartet No 2 (mono)
GRILLER STRING QUARTET
Milhaud Suite for ondes martenot and piano JEAN LORIOD
YVONNE LORIOD
Sibelius Symphony No 7. in C: ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR thomas BEECHAM
Introduced by Michael Oliver
Rameau's Sense of humour - grotesque or burlesque? by Nicholas Anderson.
The Musician's Bookshelf: some recent publications, including a review by Bayan Northcott of The Music of Elliott Carter.
Astruc's Pavilion of Dreams: Roger Nichols on an episode of French theatrical history.
conducted by MICHAEL TILSON
THOMAS Bach , orch Schoenberg Two Chorale Preludes
Ives Symphony No 2
12.10* pm Interval Reading
12.15* Stavinsky Ballet: The Firebird (complete) (WFMT recording)
(soprano)
RUDOLF JANSEN (piano)
John Weldon The Wakeful NightingaleDie SchubertNachtviolen;Die
Blumcnsprache Wolf Wiegenlied ; Im Sommer: Bedeckt mich mit Blumen
Schumann Der Nussbaum Brahma Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer; Botschaft Debussy C'est l'extase Lagoureuse
Faure Apres un reve; Mandoline
Poulenc Violon
Chausson Le colibri
Guastavino La rosa y el Sauce
Granados El majo discreto
A BBC Digital recording
THE MUSIC PARTY
Purcell Chacony in c minor (z 730)
Purcell, ed Dart Suite in c major (z 770)
Harrison Birtwistle Clarinet Quintet
Siegfried
Text and music by Richard Wagner
(Sung in German)
ANDREW PORTER introduces the third of the four parts of the new 'English' Ring Cycle, and describes some of the features about which critical opinion divided.
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA. conducted by BIR GEORG SOLTI Act 1
(Given in July 1983 of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus)
Vernon Scanell looks in detail at three poems by the First World War poet, WILFRED OWEN.
Read by Paul Webster
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
(Paul Webster is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
Act 2
Government and the Governed
Six talks by Sir Douglas Wass , GCB
6: Opening Up Government How open does government needtobeinordertoretain the trust of the people? What information should it make public and how can we be sure that it is being released? la it possible to promote greater confidencebetweenthe government and the press.
Act 3
The American composer is 75 today. In the first of five programmestomarkthe occasion. Charles Rosen talks to him about his work and musical philosophy.
Fantaisie espagnole
AMSTERDAM PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA. conducted by ANTON KERSJES (Radio NOS recording)
by Harry Barton
(Giles Cooper Award Winner 1983)
An ancient bird-watcher dreams of seeing the rarest of vagrants in his back garden, yet fears he may have wandered in to the third and final stage of ornithology.
BBC Northern Ireland
Turangalila-Symphonie (1948) MICHEL BEROFP (piano) JEAN LORIOD
(ondes martinot)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN gramophone record
A short story by JACK TREVOR STORY
Read by Kenneth Cranham Directed by MARGARET WINDHAM
Sonata for cello and piano (1948)
ALEXANDER BATUJE (cello) KATHRON STURROCK (piano)
The 11th of 32 programmes
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano) Neil Jenkins (tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) John Constable (piano) Nona Liddell (violin) Joan Atherton (violin) Donald McVay (viola) Christopher van Kampen (cello)
Wolkennacht, for baritone and piano;
Hochsommernacht, for soprano, tenor and piano;
Rondo, for a string quartet
