Modern Art: The Aesthetic

Schubert Overture in D (D 556) VIENNA PO/KARL MUNCHINGER
Spohr String Quartet in E flat, Op 29 No 1
AMATI QUARTET OF ZURICH
Rossini Aria: Nacqui all'affanno (La Cenerentola, Act 2)
FREDERICA VON STADE (mezzo-sop) ROTTERDAM PO/EDO DE WAART
Clementi Three Monferrine, Op 49: No 4, in c; No 3, in E;
No 2, in c: JOHN MCCABE (piano) Bellini Oboe Concerto in E flat
HAN DE VRIES
AMSTERDAM PO/ANTON KERSJES Beethoven Sonata in D, Op 102 No 2
JACQUELINE DU PRE (cello)
STEPHEN BISHOP KOVACEVICH (piano) Schubert Symphony No 4, in c minor (D 417) (The Tragic) DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA;
WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH : records

C.P.E. Bach Concerto inEflat(Wq47)
ERIC LYNN KELLEY (harpsichord) jos VAN IMMERSEEL (fortepiano)
COLLEGIUM AUREUM directed by FRANZJOSEF MAIER Liszt Evocation a la Chapelle Sixtine
DANIEL CHORZEMPA (organ) records
Berkeley String Trio, Op 19 MELOS ENSEMBLE OF LONDON Sylvie Gazeau (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello) (R) Arriaga Symphony in D NEW PHILHARMONIA. HANS BAUER record

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Sullivan, the Golden Legend and a reconstituted cello concerto: a conversation with Sir Charles Mackerras
A Question of Repertoire: a conversation with the counter-tenor Paul Esswood
Where next for British orchestras? Some thoughts on the challenges and problems facing our orchestras in the next 20 years
With contributions from managers, administrators, players, composers and music critics.
Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE '
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 2. 0pm)

Szymanowski Quartet No 1, Op 37 (1917)
Schubert Quartet in D minor
(D 810) (Death and the Maiden) (A re-broadcast of last Monday's BBC Lunchtime Concert)

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader felix KOK conductor SIMON RATTLE PAUL WILLEY (violin) ULRICH HEINEN (cello)
RICHARD WEIGALL (oboe)
ANDREW BARNELL (baSSOOn)
Haydn Sinfonia Concertante in B flat (H 105)

Sita Narasimhan, Lecturer in English Literature at
Cambridge University, reflects on language and how it is used.

Part 2
JESSYE NORMAN (soprano) JON VICKERS (tenor)
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (R)

Gade In the Flower Garden,
(Idylls, Op 34); Aquarelles, Op 19 Nos 1-5; Two Albumblatter Palmgren May Night, Op 27 No 4; Karelian Dance, Op 31
No 1; Island of the Shadows. Op 28 No 2; Vestfinsk Dance, Op 31 No 5; Swans, Op 28 No 5
ROSEMARIE WRIGHT (piano) (R)

MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART EMANUEL AX (piano) Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat. Op 44
4.25* Interval Reading
4.30* Dvorak Piano Quintet in A, Op 81 (South West German Radio recording)

First of three programmes As France faces parliamentary and regional elections, Richard Mayne looks at the changes in French political life and examines some of the ideas and assumptions behind the public debate.
1: Tremors on the Left Producer FRASER STEEL

BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BARRY HASKEY conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON Sallinen Symphony No 3 Holmboe Symphony No 7 BBC Wales

A Little Cantata of Proverbs Two choruses, Op 14 Imitation of Baudelaire BBC SINGERS conducted by JOHN ALLDIS

by John Webster, adapted by James Runcie and Robert Sandall
with Susan Fleetwood as Vittoria Corombona, Mike Gwilym as Flamineo, Gerard Murphy as the Duke of Brachiano, Kenneth Cranham as Francisco, Duke of Florence, David Garth as Monticelso and Tim McInnerny as Count Lodovico

A new production of Webster's classic Revenge Drama of 1612, emphasising the avarice, lust and insecurities of a society at breaking point.
Music composed by Robert Sandall

(Tim McInnerny is a National Theatre Player)

leader PETER THOMAS
Philharmonia Chorus
Kathleen Battle (soprano)
Andreas Schmidt (baritone) conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini
Franck Symphony in D minor

Reflections on the fickleness of fortune, translated from Book 2 ofBoethius's The Consolation of Philosophy by CHARLES BLAND Read by ROBERT EDDISON Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Part 2 Faure Requiem
(Given earlier this evening in the Royal Festival Hall, London, in association with Condé Nast Publications Ltd)

Montsalvatge
Trois divertissements, Op 1;
Si a Mompou; Sonatine a Yvette ENRIQUE PEREZ DE GUZMAN (piano) (R)

(violin) continuing the series of recordings by the English virtuoso
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat (K 364) with LIONEL TERTIS (viola) LPO/SIR HAMILTON HARTY mono record: 1933