Choosing to be Unequal
Nicolai Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor
VIENNA PO/LORIN
MAAZEL Purcell Masque of the Four Seasons (The Fairy Queen) MARY WELLS (soprano)
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (bass)
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
ECO/BENJAMIN BRITTEN Chopin Bolero , Op 19
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) Berlioz Absence (Les nuits d'été): FREDERICA VON STADE (sop) BOSTON SO/SEIJI OZAWA
Rameau Dardanus: Orchestral Music from Acts 2 and 3 ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/ JOHN EUOT GARDINER
Ravel La valse
MARTHA ARGERICH (piano) NELSON FREIRE (piano) Mozart Concert Aria:
Ah,loprevidi....(K272) KIRI TE KANAWA (soprano)
VIENNA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA;
GYORGY FISCHER
Prokofiev Ballet: Romeo and Juliet (Act 3, In Juliet's bedroom; Act 4, Juliet's death) CHICAGO SO/SIR GEORG SOLTI Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: The Snow Maiden
ROBERTA ALEXANDER (SOpranO) WOMEN'S VOICES OF THE
PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
ROTTERDAM PO/DAVID ZINMAN Liszt Die Lorelei
SYLVIA SASS (soprano) ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano)
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music (orchestral version) LPO/VERNON HANDLEY: records
with Paul Vaughan
Building a Library: Mahler's Seventh Symphony by Michael Kennedy.
Julian Budden reviews new recordings of operatic rarities: Paisiello's The Barber of Seville, Salieri's Falstaff and Bizet's Lajoliefille de Perth.
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
Scriabin Symphony No 1, Op 26 STEFANIA TOCZYSKA (mezzo-sop) MICHAEL MYERS (tenor)
WESTMINSTER CHOIR
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRAl RICCARDO MUTI : records
conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas
Parti Ives Symphony No 3 (The Camp Meeting)
Gershwin Nocturne for Lily Pons Varese Arcana
The first of eight programmes. Tom McNab , the novelist and former Olympic athletics coach, reflects on some topical sporting issues.
Part 2 Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony (WFMT recording) (R)
Mozart Fantasia in C minor (K475)
Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien
Debussy Suite: Children's corner
(BBC Birmingham)
A reconstruction of the concert at the Free Trade Hall,
Manchester, 14 January 1953
Rossini Overture: Semiramide Delius Intermezzo (Fennimore and Gerda)
HALLE/SIR JOHN BARBIROLU
Haydn Symphony No 6, in D (Le matin)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/ SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Antartica
HALLÉ/SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI : records
JEAN JACQUES KANTOROW (violin) JOHN TRUSLER (violin)
SIMON ROWLAND-JONES (viola) ALEXANDER BAILLIE (cello) ANTHEA GIFFORD (guitar)
Boccherini Quintet No 7, in E minor
Paganini Quartet No 7, in E
FELICITY PALMER (mezzo-soprano) ROGER VIGNOLES (piano)
Rachmaninov The heart's secret, Op 26 No 1; The ring, Op 26 No 14; As fair as day in blaze of noon, Op 14 No 9;
0 do not grieve, Op 14 No 8 Tchaikovsky Kennst du das
Land?, Op 25 No 3; My life is like glimmering embers, Op 25 No 2; Do not believe that I have stopped loving you, Op 6 No 1; Night, Op 73 No 2
Walton A song for the Lord Mayor's table
BBC Birmingham
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Nigel Andrews (in the Chair) talks with Michael Billington ,
John Carey and Marina Warner. This week's subjects: Derek Jarman 's film
Caravaggio; The Royal Shakespeare Company production of // Candelaio by Giordano Bruno ; Master Drawings from the Royal Collection in the Queen's
Gallery, Buckingham Palace; Edgar Reitz 's Heimat on BBC2; Andrew Motion's joint biography of George, Constant and Kit Lambert.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
ANDREA MACINANTI plays music by the 17th- and 18th-century Bolognese composers
Banchieri, Colonna and G. B. Martini on historic Bologna organs in the Collegio di
Spagna, the SS Trinita and S Paolo Maggiore.
Third of four theatrical reminiscences compiled by CAROLE ROSEN with Marjorie Westbury as Marie Wilton (R)
Opera in one act
Libretto, after Euripides'
Bacchae, by w h AUDEN and CHESTER KALLMAN
Music by Hans Werner Henze A recording of the British premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in June 1968 (sung in English)
BBC CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader HUGH BEAN conducted by EDWARD DOWNES The action takes place in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Thebes and on Mount Cytheron. (R)
The correspondence of RAINER MARIA RILKE With BORIS PASTERNAK and MARIA TSVETAYEVA flourished briefly in the summer of 1926, the year of Rilke's death.
On its publication in English, Dr Christopher Barnes ,
Lecturer in Russian at the University of St Andrews, considers its place in modern
German and Russian literature.
Hugh Bean (violin)
Eileen Croxford (cello) Keith Puddy (clarinet)
David Parkhouse (piano)
Arnold Cooke Trio for clarinet, cello and piano
Khachaturian Trio for clarinet, violin and piano
BBC Birmingham (R)
Third of eight programmes
Murder, and Other Anti-social Behaviour
... observed and enacted by GERMAINE MONTERO.
YVETTE GUTLBERT , MARKOS VAMVAKARIS and ROSA ESKENAZI , BORIS VIAN ,
GEORG KREISLER , CARLA HAGEN ,
KURT GERRON and GEORGES BRASSENS (sung in French, German and modern Greek): records
PAUL CROSSLEY (piano)
Mouvements perpétuels;
Melancolie; Improvisations Nos 2, 7, 10, 13; Novellette No 1 in c
