Perspectives on Democracy

Last of the series
Ravel Une barque sur l'océan NEW YORK POPIERRE BOULEZ
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A (K 622): JACK BRYMER (clarinet)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER Ravel Rapsodie espagnole PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA'MUTI records

Cantata No 67: Halt im
Gedachtnis Jesum Christ
LILIAN BENNINGSEN (contralto) PETER PEARS (tenor) KEITH ENGEN (bass)
MUNICH BACH CHOIR
MUNICH STATE OPERA ENSEMBLEI KARL RICHTER : record

First of eight programmes including the little that remains of Domenico Scarlatti 's instrumental, choral and operatic output.
Sonata in G (Kk 255) JEAN GUILLOT (organ)
Sonata in c minor (Kk 73) (mono) JULIAN OLEVSKY (violin)
FERNANDO VALENTI (harpsichord) Tetide in Sciro: Excerpts from Acts 1 and 2 ZOFIA JANUKOWICZ-POBLOCKA (SOp) KRYSTYNA TYBUROWSKA (soprano) BARBARA FIGAS (mezzo-soprano) MIECZYSLAW ANTONIAK (tenor)
WOJCIECH JAN SMIETANA (baritone)
ENSEMBLE'EWA MICHNIK records

Llibre Vermeil de Montserrat Mariam Matrem: HESPÈRION xx directed by JORDI SAVALL
Monteverdi Beatus Vir (primo) a 6: TAVERNER CONSORT
TAVERNER PLAYERS
Michael Haydn Concerto in c for organ, viola and orchestra JANE PARKER SMITH (Organ) LUBOMIR MALY (viola)
PRAGUE COSTEUART BEDFORD
Jehan Alain Litanies from Trois pieces: PETER HURFORD (organ) Rachmaninov Vespers, Op 37 Nos 1-5
USSR ACADEMIC RUSSIAN CHOIR/
ALEXANDER SVESHNIKOV: records

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Hindemith and the 20th-century Predicament: a talk by IAN KEMP. A visit to the Fluke collection of reed organs.
Bach's Sublime Instrumental Indifference: Glenn Gould and his approach to Bach by JEREMY SIEPMANN.
Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE

First of four programmes. A Mozart concert given at Tanglewood 1984 conducted by CHARLES dutoit
Part 1: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat (K 297a) RALPH GOMBERG (oboe)
HAROLD WRIGHT (clarinet) SHERMAN WALT (baSSOOn) CHARLES KAVALOSKI (hom)

Lord McCluskey, former
Solicitor-General for Scotland, reflects on aspects of language.

Part 2: Serenade in D major (K250)(Haffner)
JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN (violin) (WCRB recording)

Mendelssohn Songs without words: No 3, in A; No 12, in F sharp minor; No 15, in E;
No 20, in E flat; No 22, in F; No 25, in G; No 42, in B flat
Schumann Faschingsschwank aus
Wien KATHRON STURROCK (piano)

Opera in three acts Words and music by Wagner (sung in German)
BERLIN AND LEIPZIG RADIO CHOIRS
LEIPZIG RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLF DIETER HAUSCHILD (DDR Radio recording) Act

A sceptical review of new ideas and old orthodoxies in the world of the arts.
Stephen Games presents a blend of talks, parodies, new writing, interviews and documentaries about issues and themes here and abroad.
Producer CATHY WEARING
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Le marteau sans maitre
SARAH WALKER (mezzo-soprano) NASH ENSEMBLE/LIONEL FRIEND

by MICHAEL DRAYTON and others in a version by BRETT USHER
Oldcastle, on whom
Shakespeare based his character Falstaff, was hanged as a traitor in 1417. Later Shakespeare's rivals, the Admiral's Men, commissioned a play that was to be 'a true and honourable history of Sir John Oldcastle ' as a counterblast to Shakespeare's treatment.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS

Symphony No 5, in B flat major NDR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GÜNTER WAND (North German Radio recording)

Sonata in G minor, Op 17 RICHARD MARKHAM and DAVID NETTLE (piano duet) BBC Birmingham

A short story by ANN AYLOR Read by Toria Fuller
Producer ALEC reid. BBC Bristol

leader BRADLEY CRESWICK conducted by CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN with STEPHEN VARCOE (baritone) Haydn Symphony No 64, in A (Tempora mutantur)
Delius A Song before sunrise George Butterworth Love blows as the wind blows Kodaly Summer evening (Given In the Sinfonia Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne) BBC Manchester