The fourth of seven programmes
I. J. Pleyel Sinfonia concertante No 5 in F for flute, oboe, bassoon, horn and orchestra
COLOGNE CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, directed by HELMUT MULLER-BRUHL
Haydn Symphony No 103 in E flat (Drum-Roll)
COLLEGIUM AUREUM, directed by FRANZJOSEF MAIER records

Dvorak Slavonic Dances , Op 46, Nos 5, 6 and 7; Op 72, Nos 6 and 7 CZECH PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ZDENEK KOSLER
Schumann Novelletten , Op 21, Nos 3, 7 and 8 PETER FRANKL (piano) Foerster Suite for orchestra: Cyrano de Bergerac, Op 55
CZECH PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by VACLAV SMETACEK : records

with Michael Oliver
American Orchestras and their tradition: by NICHOLAS KENYON.
Listening while playing: a conversation with WILUAM PLEETH.
Music, 'the brave kingdom': STEVE RACE explores the world of hits and writs.
Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE

The first of 13 programmes SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS conducted by EDO DE WAART
JAN DE GAETANI (meZZO-SOp) NEIL ROSENSHEIN (tenor)
MICHAEL DEVLIN (baritone) Berlioz Romeo and Juliet, Op 17 (A dramatic symphony): Part 1
12.25* Interval Reading
12.30* Romeo and Juliet Part 2 (WFMT recording)

YURI AND DANA MAZURKEVICH (violins)
CLIFFORD BENSON (piano) Handel Trio-Sonata in B flat major, Op 2 No 4
Spohr Duo in E major. Op 39 No 3
Rawsthorne Theme and Variations for two violins Sarasate Navarra , Op 33 A BBC digital recording

Opera seria in three acts. Libretto by NICOLA haym. after Tacitus.
Music by Handel (Sung in Italian)
The original version was performed in April 1720. In a complex story of dynastic intrigue, Tiridate is passionately in love with his sister-in-law
Zenobia and wages war to take her. Rather than submit, she begs her husband Radamisto to kill her. He vows vengeance and after many setbacks regains both his wife and his kingdom. Cast
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader JOSÉ-LUIS GÁRCIA Continuo:
MICHAEL LEWIN (arch-lute) ROBIN JEFFREY (arch-lute and theorbo)
OLGA HEGEDUS (cello)
CELIA HARPER (harpsichord) conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON
Italian coach GWYN MORRIS Technical presentation JAMES HAMILTON
Tape editor phujp BURWELL Producer CLIVE BENNETT Act 1

Act 2

The first of two selections of poetry on the subject of plays, players and playhouses, compiled by GRAHAM WEBSTER and read by Jill Balcon , Hugh Dickson and Gary Watson
Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester

Act 3

The fourth of six programmes presenting music and artists from Sweden.
FRESK QUARTET
Stenhammar Quartet No 5 in c (Serenade)
Bartok Quartet No 4
7.0* Interval Reading
7.5* Brahms Quartet in A minor. Op 51 No 2

Impromptu in A flat (D899 No 4)
Sonata in B flat (d960) CUFFORD CURZON (piano) record

An experiment in science fiction by RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER translated by ANTHONY VIVIS ,
Can the moment before the holocaust be a time for hope? In a time when sight, smell and love are only dimly remembered, Petrov and Elvira await the end of the world. Narrator ALAN DUDLEY
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER

Fifth concert of this orchestral and choral cycle, given earlier this evening in the Royal
Festival Hall, London London Symphony Orchestra leader MICHAEL DAVIS London Symphony Chorus director RICHARD HICKOX Elizabeth Connell (soprano)
Alfreda Hodgson (contralto)
Robert Schunk (tenor) Benjamin Luxon (bass) conducted by Claudio Abbado Part 1
Symphony No 8 in F

Martin Hollis , Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, describes the historical progress of the idea of the self and argues that the current assumption, that people are individual first and social beings afterwards, fails to resolve the contradictions which lie behind the changing mask of social identity.

Part 2
Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral)
(Given in association with British Airways)