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Franck Sonata in A
ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) Lekeu Chanson de Mai; Les pavots
BRUNO LAPLANTE (baritone) JANINE LACHANCE (piano) d'Indy La foret enchantee
LOIRE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA/ PIERRE DERVAUX: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Franck Sonata
Violin:
Itzhak Perlman
Baritone:
Bruno Laplante
Piano:
Janine Lachance

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Purcell First and second musics and Overture (The Fairy Queen) ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTSI
JOHN ELIOT
GARDINERSchubert Sonatina in A minor STOIKA MILANOVA ( Violin) DORA MILANOVA (piano)
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (mono) CYRIL SMITH (piano) PHILHARMONIA;
SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
Mendelssohn Scherzo (Octet, Op 20)
LSO CLAUDIO ABBADO
Berlioz Les nuits d'ete RÈGINE CRESPIN (soprano) SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA/ ERNEST ANSERMET: records

Contributors

Soloistsi:
John Eliot
Unknown:
Schubert Sonatina
Piano:
Cyril Smith
Unknown:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Unknown:
Mendelssohn Scherzo
Unknown:
Claudio Abbado
Unknown:
Berlioz Les

Introduced by Michael Oliver IRCAMat Work: a report from Pierre Boulez 's musical research centre in Paris.
With Jean-Baptiste Barrière
George Benjamin , Pierre Boulez David Bristow , Olivier Koechlin Bayan Northcott and David Wessel Rubbra remembered: the music and the character of Edmund Rubbra recalled by Hans-Hubert Schonzeler , Michael Dawney ,
Robert Layton and. from the sound archives, Hugh Ottaway , Maurice Jacobson and the composer himself.
Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 2. 0pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Pierre Boulez
Unknown:
George Benjamin
Unknown:
Pierre Boulez
Unknown:
David Bristow
Unknown:
Olivier Koechlin
Unknown:
Bayan Northcott
Unknown:
David Wessel
Unknown:
Edmund Rubbra
Recalled By:
Hans-Hubert Schonzeler
Recalled By:
Michael Dawney
Recalled By:
Robert Layton
Unknown:
Hugh Ottaway
Unknown:
Maurice Jacobson
Producers:
Graham Sheffield
Producers:
Andrew Lyle

Opera in five acts
Libretto by HENRI MEILHAC and PHIUPPE GILLE, after the novel by ABBE PREVOST Music by Massenet (sung in French)
BAVARIAN STATE OPERA CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA conducted by JULIUS RUDEL Act 1: The courtyard of an inn at Amiens
Act 2: The apartment of des Grieux and Manon on the rue Vivienne in Paris
3.40* Interval Reading
3.45* Act 3 Scene 1:
The promenade of the Cours-la-Reine
Act 3 Scene 2: The reception room of the seminary of St Sulpice
4.30* Interval Reading
4.35* Act 4: A gambling room in the Hotel de Transylvanie Act 5: The road to Le Havre (Bavarian Radio recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Henri Meilhac
Novel By:
Abbe Prevost
Conducted By:
Julius Rudel
Guillot de Morfontaine, Minister of Finance:
Kenneth Garrison (tenor)
De Bretigny, a nobleman:
Florian Cerny (baritone)
Actresses Poussette:
Julie Kaufmann (soprano)
Javotte:
Carmen Anhorn (soprano)
Rosette:
Birgit Calm (mezzo-Soprano)
Inkeeper:
Hermann Sapell (baritone)
Lescaut, of the Royal Guard, Manon's cousin:
Alberto Rinaldi (baritone)
Manon Lescaut:
Edit Gruberova (soprano)
Le Chevalier des Grieux:
Alberto Cupido (tenor)
Le Comte des Grieux, his father:
Hans Gunter Nöcker (baritone)

A sceptical review of new ideas and old orthodoxies in the world of the arts. Stephen Games presents a blend of talks, parodies, new writing, interviews and documentaries about issues and themes here and abroad.
Producers FRASER STEEL and SAM COLLYNS
(Re-broadcast on Wednesday at 10. 15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Games

(cello) with ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin) PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (viola) DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
Mozart Piano Quartet in E flat (K493)
Beethoven String Trio in G, Op 9 No 1
6.55* Interval Reading
7.0* Brahms Piano Quartet No 3, in c minor (R)

Contributors

Violin:
Itzhak Perlman
Viola:
Pinchas Zukerman
Piano:
Daniel Barenboim

More good British poets have praised Fiesole than any other village or small town - at home or abroad - 1 know of. Kevin Crossley-Holland presents a portrait of the Tuscan village through the writings of those who stayed there.
Readers GEOFFREY COLUNS , BONNIE HURREN and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Readers:
Geoffrey Coluns
Readers:
Bonnie Hurren
Readers:
Christopher Scott
Producer:
Alec Reid.

The closing concert, direct from The Dome
Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano) Jeffrey Lawton (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader RODNEY friend conducted by Marek Janowski
Parti Janacek Sinfonietta

Contributors

Mezzo-Soprano:
Ann Murray
Tenor:
Jeffrey Lawton
Conducted By:
Marek Janowski
Conducted By:
Parti Janacek Sinfonietta

4: Crisis Management
The economic crises of the mid-1970s caused the Labour government tremendous problems. In this series of five conversations about the Cabinet system, Peter Hennessy talks to The Rt Hon Peter Shore. mp, who was Secretary of State for the Environment at the time, and discusses the strengths of collective Cabinet government then and the stress it came under during the EEC referendum.
Producer ANNE WINDER (R)

Contributors

Talks:
Peter Hennessy
Unknown:
Peter Shore.

Three programmes of electro-acoustic music from the first ten years of the research institute Pierre Boulez founded in Paris, 'to establish a new relationship between musicians and scientists and to develop, through interdisciplinary research, the materials, instruments and techniques which are available to the contemporary composer.'
Introduced by Nigel Osbome LINDA HIRST (mezzo-soprano) LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by PETER EOTVOS
Tristan Murail Disintegrations Nigel Osborne Alba
(first UK performances) York HoUer Arcus
(Given in October 1985 before an invited audience at St John's, Smith Square, London)
0 HEAR THIS! page 31
A BBC booklet about IRCAMand the music performed in the series is available, price £2. from [address removed]. Mark envelope '1RCAM booklet 'and enclose a 12 x 9 SAE and stamps 38p (first class), or 28p

Contributors

Unknown:
Pierre Boulez
Introduced By:
Nigel Osbome
Mezzo-Soprano:
Linda Hirst
Conducted By:
Peter Eotvos
Conducted By:
Tristan Murail Disintegrations
Conducted By:
Nigel Osborne Alba

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