Programme Index

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Berlioz Overture:
Beatrice and Benedict
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA/
SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
Monteverdi Ballo: Tirsi and Clori
ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON
PATRIZIAKWELLA
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Rachmaninov Barcarolle in G minor, Op 10 No 3;
Humoresque in G major, Op 10 No 5
THE COMPOSER (piano roll) Sibelius Valse triste
ACADEMY OF ST M ARTIN-IN-THE-
FIELDS/SIR NEVILLE MARRINER Ravel, Ferroud, Ibert,
Roland-Manuel, Delannoy, Roussel, Milhaud, Poulenc, Auric, Schmitt L'eventail de Jeanne
PHILHARMONIA/GEOFFREY SIMON Liszt Liebestraume: No 2, in E flat; No 3, in A flat JORGE BOLET (piano)
Handel Concerto Grosso in F, Op 3 No 4
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE-
FIELDS/SIR NEVILLE MARRINER Weber Concertino in E flat,
Op 26, for clarinet and orchestra
EDUARD BRUNNER
BAMBERG SO/OLEG COETANI
Elgar Suite No 2: The Wand of Youth
ULSTER ORCHESTRA/BRYDEN THOMSON records

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Alexander Gibson
Unknown:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Soloists:
John Eliot Gardiner
Soloists:
Rachmaninov Barcarolle
Unknown:
Sibelius Valse

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Donizetti's L 'elisir d 'amore by Rodney Milnes.
Barry Fox talks about the latest developments in CD production. John Milsom reviews recent records of early vocal music from medieval English songs to Monteverdi's Fourth Book of Madrigals.
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Rodney Milnes.
Talks:
Barry Fox
Unknown:
John Milsom
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

anon Sumer is icumen in anon Alleluya Virgine Nativitas anon Perspice Christicola MILLIARD ENSEMBLE directed by PAUL HILLIER
Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli CHOIR OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY/
SIMON PRESTON
Monteverdi Ohime, se tanto amate; lo mi son giovinetta; Quel augellin che canta
(Fourth Book of Madrigals) CONSORT OF MUSICKE directed by ANTHONY ROOLEY
Matthias Weckmann Wie liegt die Stadt so wiiste
MARIA zedelius (soprano) MICHAEL SCHOPPER (bass) MUSICA ANTIQUA , COLOGNE records

Contributors

Unknown:
Alleluya Virgine Nativitas
Unknown:
Perspice Christicola
Directed By:
Paul Hillier
Unknown:
Simon Preston
Directed By:
Anthony Rooley
Soprano:
Maria Zedelius
Bass:
Michael Schopper
Bass:
Musica Antiqua

ELLY AMELING (soprano) DALTON BALDWIN (piano) Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben
Schubert Die Blumensprache Wolf Wiegenlied im Sommer
Brahms Botschaft; Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer Strauss Standchen BBC Birmingham (R)

Contributors

Soprano:
Elly Ameling
Piano:
Dalton Baldwin

Reconstructions of the concert programmes in which the nine symphonies were first performed Royal Albert Hall, 24 June 1943 Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream LPO/RAYMOND LEPPARD Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5, in D LPO/SIR ADRIAN BOULT Handel Tell Fair Irene (Atalanta) JAN PEERCE (tenor) VIENNA STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA/HANS SCHWIEGER Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor SOLOMON PHILHARMONIA/HERBERT MENGES Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1910) BBC SO/PIERRE BOULEZ Ireland Epic March LPO/SIR ADRIAN BOULT: records VHF/FM only from 3.25

West Indies v England
Test Match Special presents commentary from Antigua on the second day of the Fifth Cable and Wireless Test by Christopher Martin-Jenkins Henry Blofeld and Tony Cozier with comments and summaries by Colin Milburn and Jack Bannister
Presented and produced by PETER BAXTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Unknown:
Henry Blofeld
Unknown:
Tony Cozier
Unknown:
Colin Milburn
Unknown:
Jack Bannister
Produced By:
Peter Baxter

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Michael Billington (in the Chair) talks with Nigel Andrews. J. W. Lambert and Marina Vaizey.
This week's subjects:
Eagle Pennell's film The Last Night at the Alamo; White Suit Blues by Adrian Mitchell on Radio 3 last Wednesday; The Hayward Annual 1986 at the Hayward Gallery, London;
James Agate , a biography by James Harding ; Mephisto by Ariane Mnouchkine at the Barbican Theatre, London. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Billington
Unknown:
Nigel Andrews.
Unknown:
J. W. Lambert
Unknown:
Marina Vaizey.
Unknown:
Adrian Mitchell
Unknown:
James Agate
Unknown:
James Harding

On the belated publication in Britain of The Conscience of Words collected essays by ELIAS canetti Denis Donoghue , Henry James
Professor of Letters at New York University, considers Canetti's work, without deference to his reputation.
(Occasional Readings this week will be taken from 'The Conscience of Words )

Contributors

Unknown:
Elias Canetti
Unknown:
Denis Donoghue
Unknown:
Henry James

An appraisal of the work of Francis Stuart by James McNamara
The literary protege of Yeats, an Ulsterman and yet a member of De Valera's army, Francis Stuart later became a Nazi sympathiser and has followed, throughout his extraordinary life, a disturbing and extreme vision of the writer's vocation. With contributions from
Francis Stuart , Leland Bardwell Anthony Cronin , Seamus Deane Roy Foster and Timothy O'Keeffe Readings by DENYS HAWTHORNE Producer MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Stuart
Unknown:
James McNamara
Unknown:
Francis Stuart
Unknown:
Francis Stuart
Unknown:
Leland Bardwell
Unknown:
Anthony Cronin
Unknown:
Seamus Deane
Unknown:
Roy Foster
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Producer:
Michael Heffernan

First of eight programmes Drinking and Dancing
... from the Chat Noir in Montmartre to the Crocodile Bar on the River Nile, with ARISTIDE BRUANT. YVETTE GUILBERT
GERMAINE MONTERO. JACQUES BREL JULIETTE GRECO. ANNI MEWES
MARION PALFI. EVA BUSCH
ERNST VEREBES. HERMANN PREY and the COMEDIAN HARMONISTS (sung in French, Spanish and German) records
Producer JOHN THORNLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Yvette Guilbert
Unknown:
Germaine Montero.
Unknown:
Jacques Brel
Unknown:
Juliette Greco.
Unknown:
Anni Mewes
Unknown:
Marion Palfi.
Producer:
John Thornley

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