with Paul Vaughan Building a Library: Shostakovich's Piano Quintet, by GEOFFREY NORMS BARRY Fox on the stubbornly high cost of CD. New orchestral records reviewed by MICHAEL KENNEDY. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS Editor ARTHUR JOHNSON
Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: Mlada SNO/JARVI Rachmaninov Cinq Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op 3 THE COMPOSER (piano rolls) Bridge Suite for string orchestra ECO/DAVID GARFORTH Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini CÉCILE oussET (piano) CBSO/RATTLE: records MW joins at 11.15
AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOTHAR ZAGROSEK Hans Pfitzner Symphony in c sharp minor (composer's transcription of his string quartet, Op 36)
12.20* pm Interval Reading
12.25* Mozart Symphony No 40, in G minor (K 550) (Austrian Radio recording)
MARK LUBOTSKY (violin) BORIS BERMAN (piano)
Mozart Sonata in F major (K 377)
Shostakovich Sonata, Op 134
Rigoletto
Opera in three acts
Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE , after VICTOR HUGO'S drama Le Roi s amuse
(sung in Italian): records VIENNA STATE OPERA-CHORUS VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
The action takes places in 16th-century Mantua. Act 1
3.0* Julian Budden on Rigoletto
3.5* Acts 2 and 3
MICHELE BOEGNER (piano)
Frank Prelude, Choral and Fugue
Rameau Gigue en rondeau; Ie Rappel des oiseaux
Debussy Etudes: Pour les agrements; Pour les tierces; Pour les arpeges composes
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts
John Spurling (in the Chair) talks with Christopher Cook , Michael Ratcliffe and Claire Tomalin.
This week's subjects include: The ITV version of John Fowles 's The Ebony Tower;
The Print in Germany 1880-1933 at the British Museum, London; Joe Dante 's film Gremlins; John Updike 's novel
The Witches of Eastwick Producer PHILIP FRENCH
The eighth in a series of nine programmes piano Concerto in E flat (1934) HANS PETERMANDL (piano) AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNST MARZENDORFER
(Austrian Radio recording)
A translator's mother tongue, like his culture, may give him winged feet - or a ball and chain round the ankle!
Graham Fawcett reports on the Dante Translation Project at this year's Rotterdam
International Poetry Festival, with contributions from
China, Indonesia and Kenya, as well as European poets. producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
Opera by Monteverdi, edited and realised by RAYMOND LEPPARD in a prologue and two acts. Libretto by FRANCESCO BUSENELLO
The 1984 Glyndebourne Festival production
GLYNDEBOURNE CHORUS Director JANE GLOVER Harpsichord continuo JEAN MALLANDAINE and ANIKO PETER-SZABO
Organ continuo IVOR BOLTON and CHRISTOPHER FIFIELD LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader DAVID NOLAN conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD (Glyndebourne production in associationwithIBMUnited Kingdom Limited)
(A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2)
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The fifth of seven programmes Symphony No 18, in G (Morzin Symphonies)
L'ESTRO ARMONICO/SOLOMONS String Quartet in D, Op 71, No 2
SALOMON QUARTET
Symphony No 38 in c minor L'ESTRO ARMONICO/SOLOMONS records
