Poetry: One Romanticism or Many?
J. Stamitz Oboe Concerto in c JIRI KREJCI PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Sinfonia pastorale in D, Op4No2
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER hogwood Filtz Cello Concerto in G
THOMAS DEMENGA
CAMERATA BERN directed by THOMAS FÜRI records
Quartet movement in c minor (d 703)
Quintet in c (D 956)
With WILLIAM PLEETH (cello) records
Rossini Ballet music (Otello)
ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE L'OPERA DE
MONTE CARLO/ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA
Gershwin Andante (Rhapsody in Blue) (mono)
THE COMPOSER (piano)
Glinka Grand Sextet in E flat (1832)
CAPRICORN ENSEMBLE
German Three Dances (Nell Gwynn)
PRO ARTE ORCHESTRA/SIR MALCOLM
SARGENT Tchaikovsky Suite: Nutcracker
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE
FIELDS/SIR NEVILLE MARRINER records
Introduced by Michael Oliver Hindemith and 'Cardiac'. a talk by Ian Kemp
A conversation with the cellist Robert Cohen
Marie-Claire Alain on the music of her brother Jehan Alain Brahms and his symphonic surroundings - recollections and pre-echoes: by Michael Musgrave
Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE
(piano)
Schumann Kreisleriana , Op 16 Chopin Six waltzes
(A re-broadcast of last Monday 's BBC Lunchtime Concert)
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader FRITZ SIEGAL conducted by LORIN MAAZEL Parti
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Edward Hitchcock , Professor of Neurosurgery at Birmingham
University, reflects on language and how it is used.
Part 2 Berlioz Symphonie fantastique (R)
MIRIAM FRIED (violin)
ROGER VIGNOLES (piano)
Mendelssohn Sonata in F major Brahms Sonata in D minor, Op 108. BBC Bristol (R)
Hopkins the Factory Worker (Maschinist Hopkins)
Opera in a prologue and three acts
Words and music by Max Brand Sung in the English version by ELIZABETH FORBES (first UK broadcast)
This opera from 1929, in which faceless machines sing and a Black Bottom nestles amongst stark chromaticism, uses a contemporary setting to question the means by which workers achieve their rights.
Other workers and machines: BBC SINGERS trained by RONALD CORP Black Bottom routine:
LONDON VOICES director TERRY EDWARDS
BRAND NEW BAND director JOHN HARLE (saxophone) PERRY MONTAGUE-MASON (violin) BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ROY GILLARD conducted by SIMON JOLY Répétiteur JAMES HOLMES Technical presentation JOHN RUSHBY-SMITH and PETER SIDHOM
Producer CLIVE BENNETT
In the second of three programmes Colin Tudge explores not only how views of human evolution have changed but also the way in which we study it.
Hard Science
'It's not the difference between hard science and soft science ... it's a difficult science.'
The fossils are few, the time scales long, and the alliance of classical anatomy with new techniques such as molecular biology is a little uneasy. Producer AUSON RICHARDS
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BARRY HASKEY conducted by BERNARD RANDS DOROTHY DOROW (soprano) PAUL SPERRY (tenor)
Canti del Sole; Canti Lunaciti BBC Wales
From Morn to Midnight by GEORG KAISER
A new version by JOHN WILLETT from the original translation by ASHLEY DUKES with This play, by one of the best-known writers of German
Expressionist drama, focuses on the last day in the life of a bank cashier. One morning, on a sudden impulse, he absconds with a large sum of money, leaves his family and strives to make up for a lifetime of frustration. In the course of 12 hours he puts to the test the alleged power of money to buy excitement, love and salvation.
Other parts played by JOHN CHURCH . ELAINE CLAXTON
GWEN CHERRELL , GARARD GREEN RONALD HERDMAN , PETER HOWELL DAVID LEARNER . GEORGE PARSONS NATASHA PYNE. JAMIE ROBERTS
ALAN THOMPSON. MELINDA WALKER and the other members of the cast
Music by JOHN WHITE
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
leader PAN HON LEE conducted by Matthias Bamert Philip Fowke (piano) Parti
Debussy Three Symphonic Sketches: La mer
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
Encroaching desert, rural poverty and a faith in the power of education form a common African inheritance from the period of colonial rule. R. A. Hodgkin , who has pioneered new methods of teaching in Britain and the Sudan, reflects on bookish academicism in African schools and its future in the face of drought and famine.
Part 2 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2, in c minor (Little Russian)
(Given earlier this evening in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester)
Last of six programmes
Vivaldi Concerto in c (Rv 559) (mono)
SIDNEY SUTCLIFFE (oboe) NATAUE JAMES (oboe)
JACK BRYMER (clarinet)
STEPHEN WATERS (clarinet) LONDON BAROQUE ENSEMBLE Boccherini
Flute Quintet in E flat: (mono) LONDON BAROQUE ENSEMBLE
Mozart Serenade in E flat (K 375) LONDON BAROQUE ENSEMBLE
Boyce Symphony No 7, in B flat LONDON BAROQUE ENSEMBLE: records