Bizet L'Arlesienne: Suite No 1
LSO/CLAUDIO ABBADO
Elgar Suite: King Arthur BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTAI
GEORGE HURST
Krommer Octet Partita , Op 79 THE NASH ENSEMBLE
Chabrier Suite pastorale
FRENCH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA/
ARMIN JORDAN
Strauss Oboe Concerto
HEINZ HOLUGER
NEW PHTLHARMONIA/EDO DE WAART records
with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Handel's Oratorio: Messiah by Nicholas Kenyon.
David Murray reviews recent orchestral records including symphonies by Nielsen, Prokofiev, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky.
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
Prokofiev Symphony No 1, in d, Op 25 (Classical) SNO/NEEMEJARVI
Stravinsky Cantata: Le roi des etoiles
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY CHORUS AND
ORCHESTRA/RICCARDO CHAILLY Nielsen Symphony No 4 (The Inextinguishable) CBSO/SIMON RATTLE records
led by BARRY HASKEY conducted by Gyorgy Lehel Michael Roll (piano) Parti
Robert Swain Time Piece m: Transformations (BBC commission: first performance) Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54
Tom McNab, the novelist and former Olympic athletics coach, reflects on some topical sporting issues.
Part 2 Dvorak
Symphony No 8, in G, Op 88 (Given in Monmouth School in association with the Welsh Arts Council)
Eleventh of 13 programmes The Seven Words of Jesus Christ from the Cross (swv 478)
The Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ (swv 50) THE SIXTEEN
LES FILLES DE SAINTE-COLOMBE directed by HARRY CHRISTOPHERS
Michala Petri (treble recorder) David Petri (cello)
Hanne Petri (harpsichord)
Telemann Sonata in F minor (with continuo)
Olav Anton Thonunessen
The Blockbird, for solo treble recorder (first UK broadcast) (Given at the 1985 Bergen Festival) (NRK recording)
An Anthology of French Music 1871-1914
Second of seven programmes Saint-Saens Lajeunesse d'Hercule, Op 50
PHILHARMONIA/CHARKES DUTOIT Duparc L'invitation au voyage;
Serenade florentine; La vague et la cloche
JACQUES HERBILLON (baritone) CHANTAL DEBUCHY (piano) Duparc Lenore
NEW PHILHARMONIA/
ANTONIO ALMEIDA
Duparc Testament; Chanson triste; Elegie; Soupir
JACQUES HERBILLON (baritone) CHANTAL DEBUCHY (piano) d'Indy La foret enchantee, Op 8 LOIRE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAl
PIERREDERVAUX
Faure Piano Quartet in c minor, Op 15
JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD (piano) AUGUSTIN DUMAY (violin) BRUNO PASQUIER (viola) FREDERIC L'ODJON (cello) Franck Les Eolides AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/WTLLEM VAN OTTERLOO records
Third of five programmes in which musicians offer a personal view of Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas.
This week's programme is introduced by Ruth Dyson. Sonata in D (Kk 29)
Sonata in D minor (Kk 9)
TON KOOPMAN (harpsichord) Sonata in D minor (Kk 9) JOSEF HOFMANN (piano)
Sonata in F minor (Kk 69)
ROBERT WOOLLEY (harpsichord) Sonata in G (Kk 104) Sonata in G (Kk 105)
MELVYN TAN (harpsichord)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Gillian Reynolds (in the Chair) talks with Christopher Frayling , Blake Morrison and Bryan Robertson.
This week's subjects:
Nick Dear 's monologue
Temptation on Radio 3 last Sunday; Edmond by David Mamet at the Royal Court,
London; Peter Greenaway 's film A Zed and Two Noughts; Lost
Magic Kingdoms, an exhibition arranged by Eduardo Paolozzi at the Museum of Mankind; an anthology of writing from Night and Day magazine, edited by Christopher Hawtree. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Second of five programmes played by DAVID SANGER (organ) in Westminster Cathedral
Gigout Grand Choeur dialogue; Menuetto; Scherzo
Saint-Saens Improvisation in A minor; Fantaisie in E flat
Mulet Rosace ; Tu es Petra
On the occasion of the 80th birthday of the author of A Dance to the Music of Time, Allan Massie presents a commentary on his work with contributions from Mark Amory, Kingsley Amis, Clive James, J. W. Lambert, Alison Lurie, Hilary Spurting and Anthony Powell himself.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
FEATURE: page 93
Thomas Brandis (violin) Peter Brem (violin)
Wilfred Strehle (viola)
Wolfgang Boettcher (cello) Parti
Mozart Quartet in D minor (K421)
Schubert Quartet-movement in c minor (D 703)
A series of four short stories about the lives of composers by GRAEME FIFE
2: MrBarnum, Mr Balanchine and Mr Stravinsky
Read by Edward de Souza Producer CHERRY COOKSON
(Nextstoryon Thursday at 8.30* pm)
Part 2 Kurtag
Twelve Mikroludien, Op 13 Beethoven Quartet in B flat, Op 130
(Presented by the Manchester Chamber Concerts Society in association with the Goethe Institute, Manchester, at the Royal Northern College of Music)
Die Flucht der heiligen Familie, Op 20
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by UWE GRONOSTAY Overture: Die Loreley, Op 16 GERMAN OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG BALZER Gruss an die heiligen Nacht, Op 62
GABRIELE SCHRECKENBACH (contralto)
BERUN PHILHARMONIC CHOIR BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by UWE GRONOSTAY (RIAS Berlin recording)
Symphony No 3, in E, Op 51
NORTH WEST GERMAN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by GUNTHER NEUHOLD (WDR recording)
directed by Reinhard Goebel (violin)
Telemann Concerto in B flat; Concerto in c, for four violins; Concerto in A (... del Signor Melante); Overture in c
(Hamburger Ebbe und Fluth) records