Purcell King Arthur
(excerpts from Acts 3 and 5) ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
7.21* Debussy L'Isle joyeuse VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
7.26* Falla Homenaje pour Ie tombeau de Claude Debussy JULIAN BREAM (gujtar)
7.30* Berlioz jl'Ile inconnue (Les Nuits d'Ete)
JESSYE NORMAN (soprano) LSO/SIR COLIN DAVIS
7.35* Rachmaninov The Isle of the Dead
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY
8.0 News
8.5 Saint-Saens Danse macabre DAVID NADIEN (violin)
NEW YORK PO/LEONARD BERNSTEIN
8.12* Faure Au cimetiere
SARAH WALKER (mezzo-soprano) ROGER VIGNOLES (piano)
8.16* Beethoven Piano Trio in D, Op 70 No 1 (The Ghost) BEAUX ARTS TRIO
8.47* Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1 LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA/ KURT MASUR: records
Producer ANDREW KUROWSKI
Aaron Copland
The composer of Billy the Kid and Appalachian Spring was 85 last Thursday. This week's programmes offer a less familiar view, with music from his early and later years.
Scherzo humoristique: Le chat etlasouris(1920)
ROBERT SILVERMAN (piano)
Dance Symphony (arranged from the ballet Grohg, 1922-5) CHICAGO SO/MORTON GOULD Sonnet n (1919)
(first UK broadcast)
BENNETT LERNER (piano) Dance Panels (1959)
LSO/THE COMPOSER records
Producer PETER PAUL NASH
First of two programmes
CHRISTOPHER KITE (fortepiano) Haydn Sonata in A flat (h xvi 46)
Mozart Sonata in c (K 279)
Mendelssohn's tribute to the Prussian clarinettist
Heinrich Josef Baermann
Mendelssohn String Symphony No 9, in c
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/
SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
H. J. Baermann Adagio for clarinet and string orchestra Mendelssohn, orch
Carl Baermann Concert Piece No 2, in D minor
SABINE MEYER (clarinet)
WOLFGANG MEYER (basset horn)
WURTTEMBERG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA/
JORGFAERBER records
Schumann's song-cycle, Op 48 WYNFORD EVANS (tenor) STEPHEN ROSE (piano) BBC Bristol (R)
leader HRADLEY CRESWICK conducted by Steuart Bedford
J. C. Bach Sinfonia Concertante in c major, for flute, oboe, violin, cello and orchestra
David Haslam (flute) Roger Winfield (oboe)
Bradley Creswick (violin) Jeannette Mountain (cello) Wolf-Ferrari Suite in F
(Concertino), for bassoon and chamber orchestra Stephen Reay (bassoon) Haydn Symphony No 51, in B flat
BBC Manchester
direct from St John 's, Smith Square, London
Richard Hickox Singers conductor Richard Hickox Nigel North (lute)
Purcell Hear my Prayer; O Lord God of Hosts
Britten A Hymn to the Virgin Dowland Preludium; Fantasia No 5; Queen Elizabeth's Galliard; Tarleton's
Resurrection; Mrs Winter 's Jump; Semper Dowland semper dolens
Rubbra Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici
Howells Motet on the Death of President Kennedy
(Tickets, E2, available from 11.0am today, or in advance from the Box Office, tel [number removed])
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Suppe Overture: Poet and Peasant
MONTREAL SO/CHARLES DUTOrr
Gounod Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (Faust)
JOSE CARRERAS (tenor)
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA
HOUSE. COVENT GARDEN/ JACQUES DELACOTE
Faure Piano Quartet No 2, in G minor, Op 45 DOMUS
Susan Tomes (piano)
Krysia Osostowicz (violin) Robin Ireland (viola) Timothy Hugh (cello)
Pierre Sandrin Doulce memoire Pierre Certon Finy le bien
(Response de Doulce memoire) CLEMENT JANEQUIN ENSEMBLE
Busoni Divertimento, Op 52 AURELE NICOLET (flute) LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS
ORCHESTRA/KURT
MASUR Dvorak Legends, Nos 1-4 WYNEKE JORDANS and LEO VAN DOESELAAR (piano duet) Brahms Concerto in A minor, Op 102
YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) PAUL TORTEUER (cello)
LPO/PAAVO BERGLUND
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer RAY ABBOTT
GILLIAN WEIR On the 1889 Cavaille-Coll organ in the Basilica of St Sernin, Toulouse Franck Trois pieces (Fantaisie; Cantabile; Piece heroique) (R)
The British Library
It's 's essential for the life of nation that you have symbolic places, where the national cultural tradition is present in physicalform.
The British Library, since its creation in 1973, has combined its archival role with services to libraries throughout the country. In a documentary with contributions from scholars, staff and other senior librarians,
Colin McLaren , Keeper of Manuscripts at Aberdeen University, reflects on the competing claims of scholarship and resource management in the national library.
Producer MICHAEL STEVENSON
An operatic poem in one act
Libretto by ERNST VON WOLZOGEN Music by Richard Strauss (sung in German): records
A tale of midsummer-night goings-on in medieval Munich, where the all-important bonfires are temporarily extinguished by Kunrad's magic, until rekindled by the love of a maiden.
TOLZ BOYS' CHOIR
BAVARIAN RADIO CHORUS
MUNICH RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by HEINZ FRICKE
I find subjects are inexhaustible. People change. They get older.
They smirk. Everything changes, I am trying to catch something that's mobile, and there could be no reason ever for me to stop.
Frank Auerbach , who has been chosen to represent Britain at the 1986 Venice Biennale, is in conversation with Richard Cork.
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
(piano)
Beethoven Piano Sonata in E, Op 109
Chopin Impromptus: No 1 in A flat, Op 29; No 2, in F sharp, Op 36; No 3, in G flat, Op 51; Fantaisie-Impromptu in c sharp minor, Op 66
Samuel Barber Piano Sonata (R)
(1916-78)
First of five programmes Britten Lachrymae
CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola)
NORTHERN SINFONIA conducted by STEUART BEDFORD (R) Berkeley String Trio SYLVIE GAZEAU (violin) CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola) TERENCE WEIL (cello) (R) Hoist Lyric movement CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA/ IMOGEN HOLST : record
Brahms Two songs. Op 91 JANET BAKER (contralto) CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola)
ANDRÈ PREVIN (piano): record
