Village Schools

Wagner Overture: The Mastersingers VIENNA PO KARL BOHM

Mahler Das irdische Leben; Verlor'ne Muh (Des Knaben Wunderhom) YVONNE MINTON (soprano) CHICAGO SO/SIR GEORG SOLTI

Granados El fandango de candil (Los majos enamorados) ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)

Haydn Symphony No 101, in D (The Clock) SCO/RAYMOND LEPPARD

Rameau Courante; Gigues en rondeaux, Nos 1 and 2; Le rappel des oiseaux (Suite in E minor)Â TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)

Respighi Suite: The Birds- SAN FRANCISCO SO/EDO DE WAART

Canteloube Pastorale; Lou Coucut (Songs of the Auvergne) KIRI TE KANAWA (soprano)Â ECO/JEFFREY TATE

Ravel Introduction and Allegro for flute, clarinet, harp and string quartet THE MELOS ENSEMBLE OF LONDON

Mozart Motet: Exsultate Jubilate (K 165) JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) SCO/RAYMOND LEPPARD

(records)

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Mozart's Requiem (K 626) by Stephen Dodgson.
New piano records reviewed by Christopher Headington. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Schubert Sonata in c (D 840) (unfinished)
SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano)
Bach Three-part Inventions (Bwv 787-801)
TATIANA NIKOLAEVA (piano) records

Menahem Pressler (piano) Parti
Mozart Overture: Don Giovanni ; Piano Concerto No 27, in B flat (K 595) conducted by Uri Segal

Tom McNab , the novelist and former Olympic athletics coach, reflects on some topical sporting issues.

Part 2 Schumann
Symphony No 4, in D minor conducted by Sergiu Comissiona
(KLEF recording from concerts in Jones Hall, Houston)

RUUD VAN DER MEER (baritone) RUDOLF JANSEN (piano)
L'invitation au voyage; La vie antérieure; Chanson triste; La vague et la cloche
Soupir; Lamento; Phidyle Reverie , for piano solo;
Serenade florentine; Elegie; Extase; La manoir de Rosemonde (R)

Reconstructions of the concert programmes in which the nine symphonies were first performed
Free Trade Hall, Manchester 2 May 1956
Mozart Overture: La Clemenza diTito
LPO'BERNARD HAITINK
Mozart Oboe Concerto in c (K 314) (mono)
EVELYN ROTHWELL (oboe)
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 8, in D minor
Brahms Symphony No 4, in E minor
HALLE/SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI records

(piano)
Frank Bridge Sonata BBC Wales

CHILINGIRIAN STRING QUARTET Levon Chilingirian (violin) Mark Butler (violin) Csaba Erdelyi (viola)
Philip de Groote (cello) LINDSAY STRING QUARTET Peter Cropper (violin) Ronald Birks (violin) Robin Ireland (viola)
Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello) Shostakovich Two pieces for String Octet, Op 11
Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Nigel Andrews (in the Chair) talks with Michael BUlington , Peter Porter and Marina Warner.
This week's subjects:
Roger Donaldson 's film Marie;
Watching by Jim Hitchmough at the Bush Theatre, London; Indian Tales of the Raj, a five-part series on Radio 4.
The Hidden Face of Manet at tha Courtauld Institute Galleries; No, I'm Not Afraid, a collection of poems by Irina Ratushinskaya. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

(born 3 May 1886)
Versets pour les vepres du commun des fetes de la Sainte Vierge
A reconstruction of the Vespers for organ and plainchant which he composed for his first visit to London in 1920 STEPHEN CLEOBURY (organ) CENTENARY SINGERS recorded in King's College Chapel, Cambridge

conducted by Sir Colin Davis Tippett Symphony No 4
Sibelius Symphonic Fantasia: Pohjola's Daughter (R)

(piano) Parti
Liszt Consolations, Nos 1-6
Schubert Fantasy in c (D 760) (Wanderer)

A poetry anthology in six parts compiled by Robin Holmes
4: Changes in the Human Frame Readers ROSALIND SHANKS
ROBIN HOLMES and GUY HOLDEN Producer GRAHAM GAULD

Part 2
Schubert, transc Liszt Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Der Miiller und der Bach; Hbrch, horch, die Lerche; Das Wandern; Aufen.thalt
Liszt Etudes d'execution transcendante No 11: (Harmonies du soir); No 8 (Wilde Jagd) BBC Birmingham (R)

direct from the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St Alexander Nevsky , Paris conducted by His Eminence the Archbishop George
(In association with Radio France)