Organic Chemistry
Records made by the Hungarian-born conductor who died in March
Vivaldi Concerto in c minor, for two violins and orchestra (RV509)
DAVID OISTRAKH , ISAAC STERN
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Rachmaninov Symphony No 3, in A minor
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA: records
Cantata No 135: Ach Herr, mich armen Sunder
RENE JACOBS (counter-tenor) MARIUS VAN ALTENA (tenor) MAX VAN EGMOND (bass)
HANNOVER BOYS' CHOIR
COLLEGIUM VOCALE GHENT
LEONHARDT CONSORT directed by GUSTAV LEONHARDT record
Auric Trio for oboe, clarinet and bassoon
MEMBERS OF THE ZURICH PRO ARTE
QUINTET
Florent Schmitt Dionysiaques MUSICIENS DES GARDIENS
DE LA PAIX/DESIREE DONDEYNE Francaix Wind Quintet
ZURICH PRO ARTE QUINTET: records
Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet) (mono)
RPO/SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
Schubert Four Impromptus
(D 935): PAUL BADURA-SKODA (piano) Taneyev Trio in D, Op 22 ODEON TRIO: records
Introduced by Michael Oliver The pleasures and perils of our singing profession, by ESTHER SALAMAN
A conversation with LORD HAREWOOD, the retiring Managing Director of English National Opera
CHRISTOPHER GRIER reports on the closure of St Michael 's Choir School in Tenbury Lili Boulanger : an unhistorical assessment, by ROGER NICHOLS
conducted by Sir Georg Solti
Parti Mozart Overture:
Die Zauberflote (K 620)
Bartok Music for strings, percussion and celesta
Sir Anthony Parsons , diplomat and former British ambassador to the UN, reflects on some aspects of language and how it is used.
Part 2 Beethoven Symphony No 3, in E flat, Op 55 (Eroica) (WFMT recording)
Second of two programmes Rubbra String Quartet No 4 Brahms String Quintet in G major, Op 111
ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET
With PATRICK IRELAND (viola)
Smetana Symphonic poem: Vysehrad (Ma Vlast)
BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK Martinu Concerto for double string orchestra, piano and timpani
RUDOLF FIRKUSNY (piano) SWISS FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA conducted by JIRI BELOHLAVEK (Swiss Radio recordings from the 1984 Lucerne Festival)
(1893-1918)
Clairieres dans le ciel JULIAN PIKE (tenor)
GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano) BBC Birmingham
direct from St Mary's Church, Hadleigh
Jane Lesley MacKenzie (soprano)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone) David Reichenberg (oboe) The English Concert director Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) Parti
Passacaglia, Gigue and Minuet in G, Op 5 No 4; Concerto Grosso in b flat, Op 6 No 7; Oboe
Concerto in G minor; Water Music: Suite No 3, in G
compiled by MICHAEL FFINCH withwith Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
BBC Bristol: mono
Part 2 Overture: Teseo Cantata: Apollo e Dafne
(Given in association with BASF UK Ltd) BBC Birmingham
MICHAEL FINNISSY (piano)
Percy Grainger Colonial Song Finnissy
Grainger Charles Ives The Alcotts (Concord Sonata) Finnissy Ives
Conlon Nancarrow Prelude and Blues
Finnissy Nancarrow
(First UK broadcasts of works by Finnissy and Nancarrow)
Charles Marowitz tackles movie-makers about the artistic criteria, or lack of them, which so often make a Hollywood film a bewildering combination of profound and banal ingredients. Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
MARKLUBOTSKY NOBUKO IMAI
Second of two programmes Spohr Duo in E minor, Op 13 Mozart Duo in G major (K 423)
The first of four plays by Jean Anouilh (born 23 June 1910) Translated and adapted by Barbara Bray
with Jane Asher as Antigone, Peter Vaughan as Creon and Norman Rodway as the Chorus
Written in 1942, when Vichy was the capital of a German-occupied France torn between collaboration under Petain and resistance led by de Gaulle Anouilh's play turned Sophocles' tragedy of absolutes into a tragedy of the absurd, where individuals possess neither faith nor hope.
(Next Sunday: Leocadia)
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Given earlier this evening at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Lindsay String Quartet
Part 1 Britten Quartet No 2
3: Roses and Raptures BBC Manchester
Part 2 Schubert
Quartet in D minor (D 810) (Death and the maiden)
An anthology of poetry and music on the theme of Fire compiled and performed by The Barrow Poets
(piano)
Berg Sonata , Op 1
Tippett Sonata No 4
(A repeat of last Monday's 's BBC Lunchtime Concert)
(Tomorrow: Thea King , clarinet, with the Gabrieli Quartet)
