Reading Development
Ravel Sheherazade: Ouverture de feerie: NYPO/PIERRE BOULEZ
Mozart Horn Concerto in E flat (K 447): GUNTER HOGNER VIENNA PO/KARL BOHM
Symphony No 28, in c (K 200) DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA/ SIR COLIN DAVIS : records
ARTUR SCHNABEL (piano)
With KARL ULRICH SCHNABEL Schubert Andantino varie (D 823) for piano duet; Four Impromptus (D 935); Allegro in A minor (D 947) for piano duet; Marche militaire in E flat (D 733 No 3) for piano duet mono: records
Telemann Overture,
Bergerie Allegresse and Postilions (Suite in B flat);
Quartet in E minor
(Tafelmusik, third production) CONCERTO AMSTERDAM Martinu Les fresques de Piero della Francesca CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
KAREL ANCERL Hindemith Concerto for viola and orchestra
(Der Schwanendreher)
PAUL DOKTOR LPO/EDWARD DOWNES Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast) CZECH PO/VACLAV SMETACEK records
Introduced by Michael Oliver One-plus-one Equals?:
STEPHEN DODGSON on problems of the instrumental duo.
Three Years Learning to Shake the Head: FRANK DENYER on the difficult art of shakuhachi. A conversation with Salvatore Accardo
To Glory God in all His Creation: DAVID MURRAY appraises Messiaen's 'Des canyons aux etoiles'.
Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE
(A four-part series, The Shakuhachi, starts tomorrow at 7.0pm)
YO YO MA (cello)
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. leader FELIX KOK conductor SIMON RATTLE Parti
Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra
Shostakovich Cello Concerto Nol
The last of five parts Written and read by Brian Wright
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS
Part 2
Nielsen Symphony No 4 (Inextinguishable)
A scintillating performance in which the intensity of the playing never ebbed for an instant. (THE TIMES)
THE COMPOSERS STRING QUARTET Matthew Raimondi (violin) Anahiv Ajemian (violin) Jean Dane (viola)
Mark Shuman (cello)
Boccherini Quartet in B minor (G 245)
Haydn Quartet in D minor, Op 76 No 2
Boccherini Quartet in E flat (G 243)
OSIAN ELLIS
Mathias Three Improvisations Britten Suite, Op 83
(Given in Worcester Cathedral during the 1984 Three Choirs Festival) BBC Birmingham
ROSEMARIE WRIGHT (piano)
Vorisek Six Variations, Op 19; Impromptus, Op 7 Nos 1 and 3 Tomasek Rapsodia, Op 41 No 1; Eclogues: Op 35 Nos 5 and 4; Op 47 No 4
BBC Birmingham
GUNDULA JANOWITZ (soprano)
CHRISTA ludwig (mezzo-soprano) PETER SCHREIER (tenor)
ROBERT KERNS (baritone) KARL RIDDERBUSCH (baSS) VIENNA PHILHARMONIC CHORAL
SOCIETY
BERLIN PO/HERBERT VON KARAJAN Kyrie; Gloria
records
A conversation between Martin Rees , Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, and Lewis Wolpert of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, in which the latter discovers his preconceptions about the nature of cosmology to be somewhat mistaken.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
conducted by SIMON RATTLE PAUL CROSSLEY (piano) PHILLIP EASTOP (horn)
JAMES HOLLAND (xylorimba) david JOHNSON (glockenspiel) Second of three programmes Messiaen Des canyons aux etoiles: Parts I and n
Novelist and critic
Allan Massie considers the effect on Scottish writers of 'the broken history' of their country. BBC Scotland
Messiaen Des canyons aux etoiles: Part m
Written and narrated by Harold Pinter and Arthur Wellard
Harold Pinter 's personal recollections of two great 'players' from the worlds of theatre and cricket.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
(Edward de Souza is a National Theatre player)
Second of two programmes christa LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano) ERIK WERBA (piano)
Strauss Du meines Herzens Kronelein, Op 21 No 2;
Begegnung; Heimkehr, Op 15 No 5; Ach Lieb', ich muss nun scheiden, Op 21 No 3; Die
Zeitlose, Op 10 No 7; Zueignung, Op 10 No 1
Wolf Heiss mien nicht reden; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; So lasst mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1984 Salzburg Festival)
Symphony No 2, in D major BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by GÜNTER WAND
Choral Passion
(first UK performance) MARTYN HILL (tenor)
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS conductor STEPHEN WILKINSON
(cello and piano)
Bloch From Jewish Life Rachmaninov Sonata in G minor, Op 19