The Warsaw Pact

(piano)
Grieg Six Lyric Pieces: Album leaf; Halling; Shepherd boy;
March of the dwarfs; Notturno; Wedding-day at Troldhaugen Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA/KARAJAN mono records

Cantata No 33: Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ
RENE JACOBS (counter-tenor) MARlUS VAN ALTENA (tenor) MAX VAN EGMOND (bass)
HANOVER BOYS CHOIR
LEONHARDT CONSORT directed by GUSTAV LEONHARDT : record

Trio-Sonata in G, Op 5 No 4 MUSICA ANTIQUA. COLOGNE directed by REINHARD GOEBEL Organ Concerto in A SIMON PRESTON (organ)
THE ENGLISH CONCERT directed by TREVOR PINNOCK records

Elgar Overture: Cockaigne LPOISIR ADRIAN BOULT
William Lawes Pavane (Suite No 2, in D minor)
ENSEMBLE directed by gustav
LEONHARDT Walton Sinfonia Concertante for piano and orchestra (mono) PHYLLIS SELLICK
CBSOITHE COMPOSER Finzi Introit
SIMON STANDAGE (violin) CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA/ RICHARD
HICKOX Bax Symphony No 7 LPO/RAYMOND LEPPARD records

(Details tomorrow at
1.45pm VHF/FM)

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL Parti
Mendelssohn Overture:
A Midsummer Night's Dream Stravinsky Symphony in three movements

Nigel Andrews , the film critic, reflects on some aspects of language and how it is used.

Part 2 Franck
Symphony in D minor
(Given on 22 August at the Usher Hall) BBC Scotland

JEAN PHILIPPE COLLARD
Faure Nocturne No 4, in E flat major, Op 36; Nocturne No 6, in D flat major, Op 63 Ravel Sonatine
Debussy Images (Book 1) (R)

(guitar) with the Fairfield Quartet and Geoffrey Downs (double-bass)
Vivaldi, transc Barbosa-Lima Concerto in E major, Op 3 No 12 Santorsola Concerto a 5 (R)

Opera in three acts Words and music by Philip Glass
(sung in English, Egyptian, Akkadian and Hebrew)
English National Opera's production, recorded last June (first UK broadcast)
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA CHORUS
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by PAUL DANIEL Act
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3.5* Interval Reading
3.10* Act 2
3.55* Interval Reading
4.0* Act 3

DAVID BUTT (flute) ROSS POPLE (cello)
ROSEMARIE WRIGHT (piano)
Haydn Trio in u (H xv 16)
Hummel Adagio, Variations and Rondo in A, Op 78 BBC Birmingham (R)

A biographical critique of Robert Lowell by Derek Mahon Since the publication of Day by Day, Lowell's reputation has suffered a battering. Although it remains difficult to separate the work from the life, the outstanding qualities of the verse have become more clearly defined.
With WILLIAM ALFRED , BLAIR CLARK SEAMUS HEANEY ,
RICHARD TILLINGHAST , MICHAEL HOFMANN
GREY GOWRIE, GABRIEL PEARSON and HELEN VENDLER ReaderDON FELLOWS
Producer MARGARET WINDHAM (R)

Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2 PASCAL ROGE (piano) BBC Birmingham (R)
(Pascal Roge plays the 'Appassionata' on Tuesday at 7.0 pm)

by MARCIA KAHAN
A comedy inspired by Robert Browning 's poem Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
Brother James's loathing of his oafish fellow monk,
Brother Lawrence , has led him to petty acts of destruction against him.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
(Alan Rickman is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London Rachel Yakar (soprano)
London Classical Players leader JOHN HOLLOWAY conductor Roger Norrington

by ALASDAIR GRAY
2: Bohu thinks back to his childhood and the education he underwent to train him to be a poet. He wonders what great poem he will be ordered to write.
Read by Martin Jarvis (R)

Part 2 Beethoven
Symphony No 6, in F (Pastoral)

Sonatas: in c (Kk 515); E (Kk 380 and 381); B minor (Kk 27); D (Kk 436); D minor (Kk 517); F (Kk 518); F minor (Kk 481 and 519); B flat (Kk 202); G minor (Kk 426); G (Kk 427)
MICHELE CAMPANELLA (piano) BBCBifTninQhoTti

'It took quite a while to discover that the only way to discover your own voice was to concentrate on telling the truth.'
Vernon Scannell looks back over nearly 40 years of writing poetry and reads a selection from his work.
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

Gunter Pichler (violin) Gerhard Schulz (violin) Thomas Kakuska (viola) Valentin Erben (cello) Berg Lyric Suite
11.5* Interval Reading
11.10* Schubert
Quartet in D minor (Death and the Maiden) (D 810)
(South West German Radio recording)