The 19th-century Novel: Melodrama

Delius Sleigh Ride
RPO/SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
7.11* Chabrier Joyeuse marche RPOSIR THOMAS BEECHAM
7.15* Jean-Michel Damase
Seventeen variations for wind quintet. Op 22
ALBION ENSEMBLE
7.29* Debussy Cortege; Air de danse (L'enfant prodigue) RPO/SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
7.34* Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) LSO/ANDRE PREVIN
8.0 News
8.5 Bach Suite No 2, in B minor (BWV 1067)
RICHARD ADENEY (flute) eco directed by RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord)
8.25* Berlioz Overture: Waverley
SNO/SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
8.36* Kreisler Liebesleid (mono)
THE COMPOSER (violin) CARL LAMSON (piano)
8.41* Copland Clarinet Concerto BENNYGOODMAN
COLUMBIA SO/THE COMPOSER records

Elgar
Coronation March, Op 65 (1911) RLPO/SIR CHARLES GROVES
The Music Makers, Op 69
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR AND
ORCHESTRA/SIR ADRIAN BOULT records

Chopin's Op 28
MARIA BUJANSKA (piano) (R)

led by JOHN LUDLOW conducted by Maurice Handford
Haydn Symphony No 49, in F minor (La passione)
Grainger My Robin is to the Greenwood gone
Respighi Suite No 1: Ancient Airs and Dances

MICHAEL GOLDTHORPE (tenor)
MARTYN PARRY
(organ/harpsichord) TIMOTHY MASON (cello)
John Hilton Wilt thou forgive the sin where I begun?
Thomas Brewer 0 that mine eyes could melt
Purcell With sick and famish'd eyes
Adrian Beaumont Judas, betrayer
(first broadcast performance) John Wilson Languish and despair
Purcell Lord, what is man BBC Bristol

BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by ANDREW ORTON conductor EDWARD DOWNES FOU TS'ONG (piano) Parti
Beethoven Symphony No 8, in F major
Mozart Piano Concerto No 15, in B flat major (K 450)

Part 2 Shostakovich
Symphony No 1, in F minor
(Given on 14 February in the Demgate, Northampton, presented by Northampton Borough Council)

The Seven Words of Jesus Christ from the Cross (swv 478)
THE SIXTEEN
LES FILLES DE SAINTE-COLOMBE directed by HARRY CHRISTOPHERS (R)

String Quintet in c (D 956) ALBERNI QUARTET with THOMAS IGLOI (cello) record

Sacred music drama in three acts
Words and music by Wagner (sung in German): records
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF WELSH NATIONAL OPERA/ SIR REGINALD GOODALL Act

Presented and compiled by Patric Dickinson
Masefield is better known as a poet of the sea and a narrative poet, but his sense of the past was also deeply engaged with the Romans in Britain. The programme draws from his poetic dramas The Frontier and Good Friday seen from the Roman Pilate's point of view. Readers SEAN BARRETT.
PETER COPLEY and JOHN HARTOCH Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHUN BBC Bristol (R)

Act 2
6.45* Interval Reading
6.50* Act 3

ERNST KOVACIC
DAVID OWEN NORRIS
Jonathan Lloyd It's all sauce tome
Bach Partita in D minor (BWV 1004)
9.5* Interval Reading
9.10* Nigel Osborne Mbira (first UK performance)
Elgar Sonata in E minor, Op 82; Chanson de nuit
(Given in 1985 at Darlington Summer School) BBC Bristol

Clerks must not permit the 'smutty scullion reeking from his stewpots'to touch the 'lily leaves of books'
Morton Cohen reflects on Richard de Bury , the first great book collector in the English-speaking world, who rose to high place both at court and in the church and who, on his deathbed, wrote a treatise about his love of books that would have earned him immortality had he done nothing else. (R)

A view by Roger Nichols of Parisian musical life in the decade following the First World War
8: 1924-5 - Faure's death left a vacancy in the Institut de France. Satie's did not.
With Doda Conrad , Manuel Rosenthal ,
Alexandre Tansman , and the voice of Darius Milhaud
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Boccherini La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid
LUCERNE FESTIVAL STRINGS/
RUDOLF BAUMGARTNER
Victoria Nocturne No 2
(Tenebrae for Holy Saturday) CHOIR OF THE MONASTERY OF SANTO
DOMINGO DE SILOS/ISM AEL FERNANDEZ
DELACUESTA Rodrigo Nocturne
ALEXANDRE LAGOYA (guitar) Mompou Los Improperios
PETER CHRISTOPH RUNGE (baritone) CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA OF SPANISH
RADIO/IGOR MARKEVITCH records