Organic Chemistry
Rossini Overture:
La Cenerentola: LSOIABBADO
Mozart Quartet for oboe and strings in F (K 370) LOTHAR KOCH (oboe)
NORBERT BRAININ (violin) PETER SCHIDLOF (viola) MARTIN LOVETT (Cello)
Greig Wedding Day at
Troldhaugen, Op 65 No 6 JOHN OGDON (pianO)
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op 33
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello)
BERLIN PO/KARAJAN
Bizet Au fond du temple saint from The Pearl Fishers (mono) JUSSI BJORLING (tenor)
ROBERT MERRILL (baritone)
RCA VICTOR ORCHESTRA/CELLINI Delibes Ballet Suite from
Coppelia: BERLIN PO/KARAJAN Gluck Divinites du Styx
(Alceste): MARIA CALLAS (sop) FRENCH NATIONAL RO/PRETRE
Bach, arr Walton Ballet Suite: The Wise Virgins
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA/LOUIS LANE Bernstein Overture: Candide LOS ANGELES PO/THE COMPOSER records
with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto by ANDREW KEENER.
ALAN BLYTH on records of Lieder by Schubert, Brahms and Strauss. New records of music for one and two pianos reviewed by ARNOLD WHTTALL. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
Brahms Abendregen ;
Meine Liebe ist griin: Feldeinsamkeit MARGARET PRICE (soprano) JAMES LOCKHART (piano)
Strauss Five Songs, Op 32
DIETRICH FISCHER DIESKAU (bar) WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH (piano) Stravinsky Petrushka (piano duet version)
RICHARD MARKHAM and DAVID NETTLE: records
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER (violin) Vivaldi The Four Seasons
12.5* pm Interval Reading
12.10* Tchaikovsky Symphony
No 6, in B minor (Pathetique) j (Austrian Radio recording)
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS conducted by NICHOLAS CLEOBURY JOHN SCOTT (organ)
English anthems from four centuries
Purcell Hear my prayer, 0 Lord Blow Salvator mundi
William Croft 0 Lord, rebuke me not (first UK broadcast) Battishill 0 Lord, look down from heaven
S. S. Wesley Wash me throughly Ireland Greater love hath no man W. G. Whittaker Requiem Aeternam (1932)
(first UK broadcast)
Rory Boyle Passion Canticles (first UK broadcast) BBC Manchester
Fourth of six programmes
Beethoven Overture: Fidelio (mono: 1948)
HUNGARIAN STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA Wagner Walther 's Prize Song (The Mastersingers, Act 3) (mono: 1949)
Lohengrin's Narrative
(Lohengrin, Act 3) (mono: 1948) JOZSEF SIMANDY (tenor)
HUNGARIAN STATE OPERA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Liszt Piano Concerto No 1, in E flat: ANNIE FISCHER
Strauss Metamorphosen
Mahler Das himmlische Leben (Symphony No 4)
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano) Mozart Adagio and Fugue in c minor (K 546)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Bach Suite No 3, in D
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Brahms Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen; Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (Ein deutsches Requiem)
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano) PHILHARMONIA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Beethoven Symphony No 7, in A PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA: records
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Jonathan Raban (in the Chair) talks with Nigel Andrews
John Peter and Hilary Spurling This week's subjects:
Deadlines by Stephen Wakelam at the Royal Court's Theatre
Upstairs, London; The Radio 4 comedy series The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere; Crosscurrents in Swiss Art at the Serpentine
Gallery, London; Auden in Love by Dorothy J. Farnan ; David Lean 's film of A Passage to India.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
(violin)
Marc Neikrug (piano)
Mozart Sonata in F (K 376); Sonata in E minor (K 304)
7.5* Interval Reading
7.10* Franz Xavier Mozart Sonata in E, Op 19 Franck Sonata in A
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1984 Salzburg Festival)
Overture: Yorick
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA/
VERNON HANDLEY
Music for Orchestra
LPO/VERNON HANDLEY records
Last of three programmes LONDON FORTEPIANO TRIO JAN SCHLAPP (Viola)
Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor (K 478);
Piano Trio in E major (K 542)
9.20* Interval Reading
9.25* Mozart Duet for violin and viola in B flat (K 424);
Piano Quartet in E flat (K 493) (Given in the Wigmore Hall, London last October)
(organ)
Widor Allegro (Symphony No 6, Op 42)
Bach, arr Ernst Concerto in G major (bwv 592)
Thalben-Ball Variations on a theme by Paganini for pedals Mendelssohn, arr
Warren Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Wagner, arr Lemare Overture: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
BBC Birmingham
The last in the series devoted to the Norwegian tradition that has developed in the wake of Grieg.
Arne Nordheim Ballet Suite: The Tempest
SUSAN CAMPBELL (soprano)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (baritone)
SOUTH GERMAN RADIO CHORUS AND
ORCHESTRA/CHARLES DARDEN records
