Artists and Philosophy

Sibelius Suite champetre,
Op 98b:RLPOStR CHARLES GROVES
7.11* Brahms Variations on a theme by Schumann. Op 23 BRACHA EDEN and ALEXANDER tamir (piano duet)
7.28* Poulenc Sinfonietta PARIS ORCHESTRA/GEORGES PRETRE
8.0 News
8.5 Grainger Blithe Bells and Spoon River BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA
KENNETH MONTGOMERY
8.13* Schubert Quartet movement in c minor (D 703)
AMADEUS QUARTET
8.21* Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
CHICAGO SO/SIR GEORG SOLTI records

Ockeghem
The earliest surviving setting of the Requiem Mass
Introit; Kyrie; Graduate; Tractus; Offertorium
HILLIARD ENSEMBLE directed by PAUL HILLIER record

Bruch Scottish Fantasy DAVID OISTRAKH (violin) conducted by JASCHA HORENSTEIN Walton Symphony No 1 conducted by ANDRE previn records

Music for men's voices from the 15th and 16th centuries BBC SINGERS conducted by HARRY CHRISTOPHERS
Leonel Power Ave regina caelorum
William Cornysh Ave Maria mater Dei
Walter Lambe Stella coeli anon (15th century) Quern pastores
John Sheppard Laudem dicite Deo

(piano)
Scarlatti Sonatas: in D minor (Kk 213); in D (Kk 443); in F minor (Kk 481); in F (Kk 107); in E (Kk 215); in E minor (Kk 394); in c minor
(Kk 158); in c (Kk 461)
Chopin Sonata No 3, in B minor, Op 58
(A re-broadcast of last Thursday's Bristol Lunchtime Concert)

BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by BEN BUURMAN conducted by JAMES LOUGHRAN
Parti Beethoven Overture:
Prometheus Thomas Wilson Symphony No 2

Part 2 Bruckner
Symphony No 2, in c minor
(Given on 25 April in the Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow) BBC Scotland

ERIC HILL
Jorge Morel Latin Impressions: Allegro; Andante; Allegro
Ivor Mairants Jazz Suite: Blues Variations (In memoriam Josh White ); Lament: Toccata Improvisations on jazz 'standards'
Jim Hall Big Blues
Jimmy Van Heusen Here's that rainy day
Jerome Kern All the things you are (R)

Mozart Quintet in E flat (K 452)
BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS Ralph Gomberg (oboe)
Harold Wright (clarinet) Sherman Walt (bassoon) Charles Kavaloski (horn) Gilbert Kalish (piano) (R)
Schubert Entr'acte in B flat (Rosamunde)
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/WILLEM MENGELBERG Mozart Concert aria: Ah, se in ciel (K 538)
JENNIFER VYVYAN (SOpranO) LPO PETER MAAG mono records
Mozart Piano Concerto No 16. in D (K 451):
RUDOLF FIRKUSNY CHICAGO SO/RAFAEL KUBEUK (WFMT recording) (R)

Keith Bragg (flute)
Christopher O'Neal (oboe) Martin Burrell (clarinet) Christopher Blake (horn) Richard Skinner (bassoon) with Anthony Goldstone (piano) direct from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London
Danzi Wind Quintet in G minor, Op56No2
Thuille Sextet in B flat, for piano and wind quintet, Op 6

Richard Baker presents a programme of music for the early evening. Producer RAY ABBOTT

A series of five programmes 4: Cloister and College
Music from religious and collegiate institutions, some with surprising secular connotations, is performed by the HILUARD ENSEMBLE directed by PAUL HILLIER

Sonata in B flat (K 281)
Sonata in F (K 494 and K 533) CHRISTIAN ZACHARIAS (piano) BBC Birmingham

A concert of Leonard Bernstein 's music, direct from the Barbican Hall, London in the presence of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh London Symphony Orchestra leader MICHAEL DAVIS Aled Jones (treble)
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Krystian Zimerman (piano) London Symphony Chorus director RICHARD HICKOX conducted by The Composer Parti
Chichester Psalms; Serenade

It's a book of lies from beginning to end
Idris Parry , Emeritus Professor of German at Manchester
University, has been re-reading The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen, first published in English anonymously in 1785, and he reflects on what it is about these stories, popular still, that we want to believe. (R)

Part 2
Symphony No 2
(The Age of Anxiety) (Given in association with The London Connection Capitalcard and Endless Holdings Limited)

by ARTHUR MILLER and The British premiere of a play about two people enjoying and sharing their lives. Then comes the sudden ending of that joy. The price we all pay for loving and living is - finally - losing. Directed by PETER KING

String Quartet in A minor, Op 132
BRANDIS QUARTET OF BERLIN BBC Manchester (R)

Music from the Japanese Noh theatre, played and sung by artists from the new and old generations of Noh performers, including two 'living national treasures' Okina;
Sanbaso (Suzi no dan); Jo no mai (from Izutsu); Shishi
(NHK Tokyo recording)