Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride
CZECH PO/ZDENEK KOSLER

Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor: IVO POGORELICH/CHICAGO SO/ABBADO

Myslivecek Sinfonia in G PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Milhaud Suite: La Cheminee du Roi Rene: ATHENA ENSEMBLE

Debussy Suite: Children's Corner: ARTURO BENEDETTI MICHEL ANGELI (piano)

Poulenc, orch Berkeley Flute Sonata: JAMES GALWAY RPO/DUTOIT

Gershwin An American in Paris: NEW YORK PO/TILSON THOMAS

(records)

with Paul Vaughan
Building a Library: Mozart's
Symphony No 41 in c (Jupiter) by EDWARD GREENFIELD.
Personal Stereo: advice from
BARRY FOX for those who like to listen on the move.
New chamber music records reviewed by ANDREW KEENER. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS Editor ARTHUR JOHNSON

Mozart Divertimento in F (K 138): I MUSICI
Beethoven String Quartet in c sharp minor, Op 131
ALBAN BERG QUARTET: records

conductor EDWARD DOWNES
ELISABETH LEONSKAJA (piano)
Roger Smalley Variations for strings
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1, in D minor
12.15* pm Interval Reading
12.20* Prokoftev Symphony No 7
(Given on 10 October in the Meistersingerhalle, Nuremberg)

ROBIN GRAHAM (hom)
SASCHKO GAWRILOFF (violin) ECKART BESCH (piano)
Ligeti Horn Trio (1982)
(first British performance) Brahms Horn Trio in E flat

Alzira
Opera in a prologue and two acts. Libretto by SALVATORE CAMMARANO , after VOLTAIRE (sung in Italian)
NETHERLANDS RADIO CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA/KEES BAKELS Prologue and Act 1
(Netherlands Radio recording)
3.5* Julian Budden on Alzira
3.10* Act 2

Suite No 7 in G minor
Concerto in F, Op 4 No 5 ROBERT ALDWINCKLE
(harpsichord)

Suite: A Fairy Tale
(Incidental music for Raduz and Mahulena)
CZECH PO/UBOR PESEK: record

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Philip Oakes (in the Chair) talks with John Drummond , Jeremy Treglown and Marina Vaizey. This week:
Howard Baker 's new play for Radio 3, Scenes from an Execution.
Michael Radford 's film version of 1984. An Honourable Trade by G. F. Newman at the Royal Court Theatre. The George Stubbs retrospective at the Tate Gallery.
Station Island - new poems by Seamus Heaney.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Lieder and Songs, performed by ANN MURRAY (mezzo-soprano) PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) JOHN CONSTABLE (piano) BBC Birmingham

direct from the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
BBC Welsh Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Sir Charles Groves
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor

The second of two readings In 1913 Geoffrey Courtney went to Russia as tutor to the son of a lady-in-waiting to the Tsarina, the wife of Tsar Nicholas H. Within five years the world he had known had wholly disappeared. The extracts from the memoir are read by his son the actor Nicholas Courtney.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK

Part 2
Daniel Jones Symphony No 11: In memoriam George Froom Tyler
(Swansea Festival Commission with funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council: first performance)
Mussorgsky, orch Ravel
Pictures from an Exhibition
(Given in association with the Welsh Arts Council and Barclays Bank pk)

(female voices) conducted by SIMON JOLY JOHN ALLEY (piano)
John Ireland Aubade
Elgar My love dwelt in a northern land; Weary wind of the west
Hoist Songs from 'The
Princess': Sweet and low; The splendour falls; Tears idle tears
Elgar As torrents in summer Hoist The swallow leaves her nest
John Ireland Evening song

RICARDO IZNAOLA (guitar)
Antonio-Jose Sonata (1933) Villa-Lobos Prelude No 3; Etude No 2
Liszt, arr Iznaola Csardas Obstine

Written by RUSSELL DAVIES .
The third of six dialogues in the dark. The scene is a bedroom in Stevenage.
Producer JONATHAN JAMES MOORE (Programme 4: tomorrow 10.45 pm)

Second of five programmes Quartet in G (K 387)
Quartet in B flat (K 589) ENDELLION STRING QUARTET
(King's Lynn Festival promotion in association with Wedgwood Crystal Ltd) BBC Birmingham