What is a Function?
Rossini Overture: The Thieving Magpie: BERLIN PO/KARAJAN Britten Five Waltzes DAVID wiluson (piano)
Peterson-Berger Romance NILLA PIERROU (violin)
SWEDISH RADIO SO/WESTERBERG
Rossini La Passegiata; Ridiamo cantiamo che tutto sen va
LIEDER QUARTET
CHRISTIAN IVALDI (piano) Bernstein Three Dance
Episodes from 'On the Town' NEW YORK PO/THE COMPOSER Tosti Serenade
Castelnuovo - Tedesco Ninna nanna: ELLY AMELING (soprano) RUDOLF JANSEN (piano) Van Bree Allegro for four string quartets: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN. IN-THEFTELDS/MARRTNER
Turina Rapsodia Sinfonica FRANK WIBAUT (piano)
LPO/ENRIQUE BATIZ
Dohnanyi Suite in F sharp minor: RPO/SIR MALCOLM SARGENT records
with Paul Vaughan
Building a Library: Rossini's The Barber of Seville by JOHN STEANE. New orchestral records reviewed by GEOFFREY norris Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
Mozart Violin Concerto No 3, in G (K 216) - Frank Peter Zimmermann, Wurttemberg CO/Jorg Faerber
Strauss Horn Concerto No 1, in E flat - Hermann Baumann, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Kurt Masur
(records)
Last of six concerts for young people, direct from the Royal Festival Hall. London Martino Tirimo (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY
Introduced and conducted by Christopher Seaman
Dvorak Slavonic Dances: in G minor, Op 46 No 8; in E minor, Op 72 No 2
Sir Michael Tippett First movement (Symphony No 2) introduced and conducted by THE COMPOSER
Beethoven Second and third movements (Piano Concerto No 4, in G major)
Sibelius Tone Poem: Finlandia Series producer ANTHONY BURTON (The [number removed]season begins on 12 October. For programme details please send large sae to [address removed])
Music for wind instruments played by the ATHENA ENSEMBLE Martin, Sarti and Mozart, arr Mozart Dinner music (Don Giovanni , Act II)
Joseph Triebensee Menuetto con Variazioni on a theme from Don Giovanni
Beethoven Variations on La ci darem la mano
Mozart, arr Triebensee
Selection from Don Giovanni
Goyescas: Los requiebros;
Coloquio en la reja; El fandango de candil; Quejas 6 la maja y el ruisenor; El amor y la muerte (Balada); Epilogo: La serenata del espectro
ERIC PARKIN (piano)
BBC Birmingham
Third of six programmes Gershwin, arr Klemperer Prelude No 2 (mono: 1937) LOS ANGELES PO
Stravinsky Suite : Pulcinella Tchaikovsky Scherzo (Symphony No 4)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Brahms Violin Concerto in D
DAVID OISTRAKH
FRENCH NATIONAL RO
Mozart Serenade in G
(Eine kleine Nachtmusik) NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Humperdinck Dream
Pantomime (Hansel und Gretel) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde CHRISTA LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano)
fritz WUNDERLICH (tenor) PHILHARMONIA AND NEW
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRAS: records
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Richard Cork (in the Chair) talks with John Peter , Jonathan Raban and Hilary Spurting. This week's subjects:
Barry Collins 's play King Canute on Radio 3; 'Night
Mother by Marsha Norman at the Hampstead Theatre, London; Tradition and Renewal: East German art at the Barbican Gallery, London; David Hare 's film Wetherby; and Elegies, recent poems by Douglas Dunn.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
String Quartet in D minor
(D 810) (Death and the Maiden) BRANDIS STRING QUARTET
Thomas Brandis (violin) Peter Brem (violin)
Wilfried Strehle (viola)
Wolfgang Boettcher (cello)
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1984 Salzburg Festival)
A short story by N. J. WARBURTON Read by William Nighy Producer MAURICE LEITCH
leader MALCOLM STEWART conducted by Maurice Handford John Lill (piano) direct from
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool Parti
Berlioz Overture:
Beatrice and Benedict
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5, in E flat (Emperor)
A Painter in Paris
Last of three programmes from the journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (1860-84) Compiled by PAULINE SPENDER from the translation by MATHILDE BLIND
Reader Anna Calder-Marshall You see people, they speak to
You, you answer them - but you are no longer of the earth. It is a tranquil indifference, like an opium-eater's dream.'
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
Part 2 Vaughan Williams
Symphony No 9, in E minor BBC Manchester
What contributions can the law make to the political development of the European Community?
Judge T. Koopmans , a senior Judge of the European Court, Luxemburg, comments on 'the patient needlework of the Courts' and on the role of judicial review of legislation, and argues that a weak political structure may need a strong judiciary.
PAUL ESSWOOD (counter-tenor) DAVID REICHENBERG (ODOe) THE ENGLISH CONCERT leader SIMON STANDAGE directed by TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
Vivaldi Concerto Madrigalesco (RV 129); Oboe Concerto in A minor (RV 461);
Stabat Mater (rv 621)
(Given last October at the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London)
The 12th in the series
Finn Mortensen Symphony , Op 5: OSLO POiMARISS JANSONS Knut Nystedt Ichthys for orchestra: OSLO po/the COMPOSER records