State and Society

The second of six programmes to include all ten of Mozart's mature quartets
Quartet in E flat (K 428) JUILLIARD QUARTET
Quartet in D (K 499)
MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART records

Cantata No 114: Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost
SEBASTIAN HENNIG (treble)
RENE JACOBS (counter-tenor) KURT equiluz (tenor)
MAX VAN EGMOND (bass)
HANOVER BOYS' CHOIR
COLLEGIUM VOCALE. GHENT
LEONHARDT CONSORT directed by GUSTAV LEONHARDT
Two Chorale Preludes: Fantasia super Komm heiliger Geist,
Herre Gott (bwv 651); Schmiicke dich, 0 liebe Seele (BWV 654) LIONEL ROGG (organ)
Cantata No 130: Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir
FRIEDERIKE SAILER (SOpranO)
CLAUDIA HELLMANN (contralto) HELMUT KREBS (tenor) ERICH WENK (bass)
HEILBRONN HEINRICH SCHUTZ CHOIR
PFORZHEIM CO/FRITZ WERNER records

Vivaldi Autumn (The Four Seasons)
JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN (violin)
BOSTON SO/SEIJI OZAWA
Mozart Sonata in c (K 545) WALTER KLIEN (piano)
Debussy Trois chansons de Bilitis
Ŕ́̍E̍GlNE crespin (soprano) JOHN WUSTMAN (piano)
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2, in E minor
LPO/SIR ADRIAN BOULT records
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Introduced by Michael Oliver Shostakovich's Eighth
Symphony 'created both an overwhelming and a repulsive impression'. In the light of this Soviet criticism, Calum MacDonald considers the background to the work. Playing the Koto:
Brian Yamakoshi on the history and repertory of the Japanese long zither. Janacek and his Roots: a visit to his home at Hukvaldy and a conversation with Vilem Tausky.
Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE

conducted by Sir Colin Davis First of three concerts from Boston's Symphony Hall Parti
Schubert Symphony No 8, in B minor (Unfinished) Berg Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op 6

Second of four monologues by N. F. SIMPSON
Read by Richard Vernon (R)

Part 2 Brahms Symphony No 3 (WCRB recording)

YVONNE KENNY (soprano)
LAWRENCE SKROBACS (piano)
Strauss Ich schwebe; Ich wollt' ein Strausslein binden; Amor Rodrigo Cuatro madrigales amatorios
Poulenc Fiançailles pour rire (R)

Ravel String Quartet in F
Bridge Three Novelettes (1904); Sir Roger de Coverley BBC Birmingham (R)

Lyric fairy-tale in three acts Libretto by JAROSLAV KVAPIL Music by Dvorak
(sung in Czech): records
PRAGUE PHILHARMONIC CHORUS
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by VACLAV NEUMANN Act
3.10* Interval Reading
3.15* Act 2
4.5* Interval Reading
4.10* Act 3
(More Czech opera tomorrow: Suchon's 'Svatopluk', 7.0pm)

Disillusion with Defence:
The Mortification ofMcNamara The first of six programmes written and presented by Michael Charlton , exploring the evolution of the American strategic debate from the origins of the Anti-Ballistic Missile
Treaty in the 1960s to President Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative.
What led the Americans to put forward the theory of Mutual
Assured Destruction? The men who took the crucial decisions of the nuclear age discuss
American responses to Soviet nuclear diplomacy in the 1960s and the role played by nuclear weapons in the crises over Cuba and Berlin.
Contributors:
Robert McNamara Dean Rusk
General William Odom
Field Marshall Lord Carver Producer ANNE WINDER
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First of two concerts
ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE
OF MUSIC SINFONIA
ERNST KOVACIC (violin) PAUL CROSSLEY (piano) conducted by MEMBERS OF THE SEMINAR Schoenberg Chamber
Symphony No 1, in E, Op 9 Berg Chamber Concerto, for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments
(Given on 7 September in association with the Royal Northern College of Music as a contribution to European Music Year)
BBC Manchester
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A play in verse by PETER REDGROVE
In her late 60s, Hilda is sent by her doctor to an analyst following her attempt to jump off the high diving-board at the swimming-pool. Through analysis she re-examines the spiritual and emotional values of her life, rooted as they are in a particularly intense relationship with her older brother Roland.
Other parts played by SILVER BRAMHAM . SARAH PAINE and JAMIE ROBERTS
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

leader BRENDAN O'BRIEN conducted by Volker Wangenheim
Malcolm Frager (piano) Part 1 Mozart
Piano Concerto No 23, in A (K488)

A sequence of prose and poetry on the theme of liberty compiled by Christopher Hampton and read by PETER WELCH. MANNING WILSON
JANE WENHAM and MICHAEL JENNER Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Part 2 Bruckner
Symphony No 4, in E flat (Romantic) BBC Bristol (R)

Third of five programmes in which ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano) plays Bach's complete
'Keyboard Practice', with the exception of the organ works
Partitas: No 5, in G major; No 6, in E minor