6.55 Rights and Wrongs of Modem Art (2). 7.15 The Uses of Psychology. 7.35 The Trials of Bunyan.
The second of three programmes containing all Heinrich Biber 's sonatas on the mysteries of the rosary.
Today the sorrowful mysteries:
Agony in the Garden,
Scourging, Crowning with Thorns, Carrying the Cross, Crucifixion.
FRANZJOSEF MAYER (violin) FRANZ LEHRNDORFER (Organ) MAX ENGEL (cello)
KONRAD JUNGHANEL (theorbo) records
Martin Petite Symphonie Concertante
LOUISE JOHNSON (harp)
COLIN FORBES (harpsichord) JOYCE HUTCHINSON (piano)
SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA/
WILLEM VAN OTTERLOO
Mendelssohn Song without Words in D, Op 109
JACQUELINE DU PRfe (cello) GERALD MOORE (piano) Bloch Sacred Service
LOUIS BERKMAN (baritone) ZEMEL CHOIR
LSO/SIMON: records
Introduced by Michael Oliver Accounting for Taste
David Kimbell considers the conversion of Verdi's /
Lombardi into Jerusalem. A conversation with Peter Katin.
A play of 12 Tones:
Peter Stadlen introduces the music of Josef Matthias Hauer
Another and Larger Theme: some enigmatic footnotes Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD
leader FELIX KOK conductor SIMON RATTLE IDA HAENDEL (violin)
Britten An American Overture Elgar Violin Concerto
12.15* Interval Reading
12.20* Nielsen Symphony No 4 (The Inextinguishable) BBC Birmingham
Emma Kirkby (soprano) Evelyn Tubb (soprano) Mary Nichols (alto)
Joseph Cornwell (tenor) Andrew King (tenor)
Richard Wistreich (bass) director ANTHONY ROOLEY (chitarrone and lute) Italian Madrigals
Domenico Mazzocchi
Dolci godete Aurette liete;
Pian piano
Marenzio Passando con pensier Sigismondo d'India
Langue al vostro languir Monteverdi Si ch'io vorrei morire; Lamento della ninfa; E cosi a poco a poco
1.35* Interval Reading
1.40* English Madrigals
Wilbye Thou art but young thou say'st Ravenscroft Hodge and Malkyn Weelkes Noel, adieu thou court's delight
Jeffryes Drowsy Phoebus Vautor Cruel Madame William Lawes
Thirsis and Dorinda Ward Come sable night; Die not fond man
BBC Birmingham
Cirandas: a collection of 16 piano pieces on Brazilian folk
; themes, compiled in 1926 played by ROBERTO SZIDON
Symphony No 5
BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by GÜNTHER HERBIG BBC Manchester
Owen Dudley Edwards , Reader in American and Commonwealth History at Edinburgh University, examines GORE VIDAL 'S new novel Lincoln, in the light of both the author's earlier fiction and recent American historiography.
John Holloway (violin) Mica Comberti (violin) Stephen Preston and Lisa Beznosiuk (flutes) Susan Sheppard (cello) John Toll (harpsichord)
Tartini Trio - Sonata No 5 in D major for flute, violin and continuo
Locatelli Violin Sonata in c minor, Op 6 No 5
Leclair Deuxieme Recreation de musique, Op 8 for two flutes and continuo
An account of Monet's trip to Italy by EVA figes
Punch flame and pigeon breast were the only words Monet could find to define the unusual and difficult colours of the northern Italian landscape. Throughout his stay in Bordighera in 1884, he wrote to his large family, chronicling his loneliness, frustrations and occasional diversions.
Directed by MARGARET WINDHAM mono
VARSOVIA STRING QUARTET
Boguslaw Bruczkowski (violin) Krzysztof Bruczkowski (violin) Artur Paciorkiewicz (viola) Wojciech Walasek (cello) with YrrKiN SEOW (piano) Juliusz Zarebski Piano Quintet, Op 34
Tadeusz Baird Variations in a Rondo Form
(first UK broadcasts) BBC Birmingham
Nocturne (1947-55)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JASCHA HORENSTEIN Concerto Festivo (1979)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
(Panufik celebrates his 70th birthday tomorrow and is one of 'This Week's Composers' Monday-Friday 9.5 am)
A Political Satire by SLAWOMIR MROZEK translated by SLAWOMIR MROZEK and RALPH MANHEIM
The day starts badly for the Ambassador when he mislays an important item of clothing before an official engagement; the situation is exacerbated when his wife threatens to leave him; becomes upsetting when he loses contact with Washington; worrying when he is presented with a globe of the world which has half the continents missing; and positively alarming when an unknown, un-named man breaks in seeking political asylum.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS Mono
JENNIFER SMITH (soprano) ROBIN MARTIN OLIVER (counter-tenor)
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
MAX VAN EGMOND (baritone) SCHOLA CANTORUM OF OXFORD
SPITALFIELDS BAROQUE ORCHESTRA leader MONICA HUGGETT
Cantata No 106: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus Tragicus)
Sinfonia from Cantata No 42
Cantata No 198: Lass, Filrstin, lass noch einen Strahl (Trauerode)
The first of five programmes of excerpts from the semi-finalists' recitals
(Presented in Leeds Town Hall in association with Harveys of Bristol) BBC Manchester