Rossini Overture: Semiramide RPO/BEECHAM
Sinding Suite in A minor, Op 10 ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin) PITTSBURGH SO/PREVIN
Massenet Scenes Pittoresques CBSO/LOUIS FREMAUX
Schubert Standchen
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
CHORUS: RAYMOND LEPPARD (piano) Bach Italian Concerto (mono) WALTER GIESEKING (piano) Tartini Concerto in D MAURICE ANDRE (trumpet)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/MARRINER
Triebensee Partita in E flat for wind octet
COLLEGIUM MUSICUM PRAGENSE Holbrooke The Birds of Rhiannon, Op 87
LPO/HANDLEY: records
with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Purcell's Dido and Aeneas by NICHOLAS KENYON.
GEOFFREY NORRIS reviews new orchestral records
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
Beethoven Overture: Coriolan PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA/
ASHKENAZY
Chopin Piano Concerto No 2, in f minor: CECILE ucad (piano) LPO/PREVIN
Spohr Symphony No 6, in G (Historical): BAVARIAN RSO/ KARL ANTON RICKENBACHER records
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conductor JERZY MAKSYMIUK MORAY WELSH (Cello)
Mozart Symphony No 40, in G minor (K 550)
12.5* pm Interval Reading
12.10* Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor
THEA KING (clarinet)
CLIFFORD BENSON (piano)
Mendelssohn Sonata in E flat Spohr Variations on a theme from Alruna Ferdinand Ries Sonata in G minor, Op 29
La forza del destino
(Original 1862 version) Opera in four acts
Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA piave (sung in Italian)
BBC SINGERS rehearsed by GEORGE BADACSONYI BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by JOHN MATHESON Répétiteur TOM GLIGOROFF Technical presentation by ANTONY ASKEW
Producer CHRIS DE SOUZA Acts 1 and 2 3.15* Julian Budden on La forza del destino
3.20* Acts 3 and 4
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Anthony Thwaite (in the Chair) talks with Helen McNeil , Benedict Nightingale and Bryan Robertson. This week's subjects: A radio version of the GershwinKaufman-Ryskind musical Of Thee I Sing on Radio 3; recent work by Red
Grooms at Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, 6 Albemarle Street,
London, Wl; the film of Peter Shaffer 's Amadeus, directed by Milos Forman ; a biography of Dorothy Brett by Sean Hignett ; and The Power of the Dog by Howard Barker at the Hampstead Theatre, London. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Paul Robertson (violin) David Matthews (violin) Ivo van der Werff (viola) Anthony Lewis (cello)
Haydn String Quartet in B flat, Op 76 No 4 (Sunrise)
Andrew Wilson-Dickson String Quartet (BBC commission: first performance)
7.20* Interval Reading
7.25* Smetana String Quartet No 1 (From my Life)
(Presented by the University of Lancaster in association with the Granada Foundation) BBC Manchester
conductor RUDOLF BARSHAI PHILIP FOWKE (piano)
Prokofiev Symphony No 1 in D (Classical)
Piano Concerto No 1, in D flat
8.35* Interval Reading
8.40* Tchaikovsky Symphony
No 6, in D minor (Pathetique)
BBC Bristol
The act of creation is a fierce concentrated light that plays on a small area. (WILLIAM GOLDING ) The poet Craig Raine presents a critical portrait of the 1983 Nobel Prize Winner for
Literature, William Golding With contributions from the author, PROFESSOR JOHN CAREY , JAMES FENTON , IAN MCEWAN , OTTO PLASCHKES, GORE VEAL and SIR ANGUS WILSON. Reader HUGH DICKSON
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR Master of the Choristers
MARTIN NEARY
JAMES LANCELOT (organ)
Music of the Saxon era to the present day, based on Gregorian themes.
Tallis Te lucis ante terminum anon Petrum caphas ecclesie Taverner Dum transisset Wesley In exitu Israel Durufle Four Motets
Britten Hymn to St Peter , Op 56a Jonathan Harvey Come Holy Ghost (first performance) BBC Bristol
The fifth in a series devoted to the Norwegian tradition that has developed in the wake of Grieg.
Saeverud Symphony No 6, Op 19 (Sinfonia dolorosa)
BERGEN SO/KARSTEN
ANDERSEN Grieg Music from Peer Gynt BERLIN PO/KARAJAN
Saeverud Movements from the incidental music to Peer Gynt OSLO PO/MILTIADES CARIDIS records
