Hamlet: Its European Reception

Verdi Overture: La forza del destino
LSO/CLAUDIO ABBADO
Liszt Sposalizio (Annees de pèlerinage, Book 2) JORGE BOLET (piano)
Monteverdi Beatus vir EMMA KIRKBY (soprano)
ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP (tenor) DAVID THOMAS (bass)
TAVERNER CONSORT
TAVERNER PLAYERS/
ANDREW PARROTT
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
ACADEMY OF ST M ARTININ-THE-FIELDS/
SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
Molinaro Ballo detto 'il Conte Orlando (Saltarello)
ULSAMER COLLEGIUM directed by JOSEF ULSAMER
Weber, orch Berlioz Invitation to the Dance, Op 65
BERLIN PO/HERBERT VON KARAJAN Finzi Five Bagatelles THEA KING (clarinet)
CLIFFORD BENSON (piano)
Stravinsky Fireworks , Op 4 BERLIN RSO/RICCARDO CHAILLY Handel , ed Baines and Mackerras Music for the Royal Fireworks
CLEVELAND SYMPHONIC WINDS/
FREDERICK FENNELL
Brahms Capriccio in B minor, Op 76 No 2
STEPHEN BISHOP KOVACEVICH (piano)
Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No 3
BERLIN PO/HERBERT VON KARAJAN records

with Paul Vaughan
Building a Library: Bach's six keyboard partitas (bwv 825-30) by Nicholas Kenyon.
Stephen Walsh reviews new orchestral records including symphonies by Mahler and Honegger.
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Honegger Symphony No 1 BAVARIAN RSO/CHARLES DUTOIT Schoenberg Concerto in D (after Monn's Harpsichord Concerto in D): YO-YO MA (cello) BOSTON SO/SEIJI OZAWA Roussel Ballet: Bacchus and Ariadne: FRENCH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA/GEORGES PRETRE records VHFIFM only from 10.40

England v India
The First Texaco Trophy One-Day International
Ball-by ball commentary from The Oval by Brian Johnston , Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Henry Blofeld with expert comments from
Trevor Bailey , Ray Illingworth and Farokh Engineer. Scorer BILL FRINDALL
1.5 News
1.10 Jim Laker
An affectionate tribute to a great player and fellow commentator who died last month, presented by Christopher Martin-Jenkins
1.30-1.40* County Scoreboard Producer PETER BAXTER
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Tom McNab , the novelist and former Olympic athletics coach, reflects on some topical sporting issues.

Mass in I), Op 123 SARA MAE ENDICH (soprano) FLORENCE KOPLEFF (Contralto) ERNST HAEFLIGER (tenor) EZIO FLAGELLO (bass) CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS conducted by GEORGE SZELL (WCLV recording made in 1967in Severance Hall) (Tomorrow at 12.15: the present day Cleveland Orchestra)

(piano) Chopin Introduction and Rondo, Op 16; Two Nocturnes, Op 32 Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales Bax Sonata No 4, in G major (R)

leader SIMON STANDAGE directed by Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) Telemann Concerto Polonois in G major Handel Water Music: Suite No 1, in F
2.40* Interval Reading
2.45* Telemann Ouverture in c (Hamburger Ebb und Fluht) Handel Water Music: Suites No 2, in D; No 3, in G

Lutoslawski Mini Overture Jonty Harrison Sons Transmutants/Sans Transmutant Arnold Quintet BBC Birmingham (R)

ELISABETH SODERSTROM (soprano) ROGER VIGNOLES (piano) Liszt Freudvoll und leidvoll; Uber alien Gipfeln ist Run; Kennst du das Land? Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade; Freudvoll und leidvoll; Erlkonig Tchaikovsky Why are the roses so pale?; None but the lonely heart; The cuckoo Rachmaninov Oh, do not sing; Loneliness; The ratcatcher (R)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Owen Dudley Edwards (in the Chair) talks with Marilyn Butler , Waldemar Januszczak and Richard Mayne about Jacques Deray 's film He Died With His Eyes Open; Sons of Cain by David Williamson at Wyndham's Theatre; Yukio Mishima 's Noh play The Damask Drum on Radio 3; No Pasaran!, an exhibition of photographs and posters from the Spanish Civil War at the Camden Arts Centre; The Faber Book of Political Verse edited by Tom Paulin. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Last of three programmes COLIN ANDREWS plays the organ of the Oslo Konserthus Bach Prelude in E flat (bwv 552a) (St Anne) Guilain Suite in the second tone Arild Sandvold Sonata in F minor (first movement)

For a library that has a megalomaniac aspiration to collect everything from everywhere on all subjects, the problem is what not to collect.
(DANIEL BOORSTIN , Librarian)
The library which Jefferson gave to the United States
Legislature now declares itself a multi-media encyclopaedia. Colin McLaren , Keeper of Manuscripts at Aberdeen
University, considers the impact of populism on the Library of Congress, with contributions from staff, scholars and critics. Producer MICHAEL STEVENSON (R)

Ensemble InterContemporain director Pierre Boulez
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano) Pierre Laurent-Aimard (piano) Marie-Claire Jamet (harp) direct from
Clifton Cathedral, Bristol Parti
Stravinsky Eight instrumental miniatures
Boulez Improvisations sur
Mallarme I and n (Pli selon Pli) Ligeti Chamber Concerto

with Gary Waldhorn as George Antheil
When George Antheil met
Stravinsky in Berlin in 1922, he was as young as the century and unknown. Against the odds, the self-exiled Russian struck up a friendship with this irrepressible young American admirer.
Adapted by MIKE STEER from
George Antheil 's autobiography Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS (R)

Part 2
Debussy Danse sacree et danse profane
Stravinsky Two Balmont Songs; Three Japanese Lyrics
Messiaen Oiseaux exotiques

directed by Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano)
Beethoven Rondo in B flat, for piano and orchestra (WoO 6)
Pierre Sancan Little Symphony for Strings
Mozart Piano Concerto No 26, in D (K 537)

Sixth of eight programmes I Threw Adelheid into the Danube
Love and its aftermath, sung by VANNI-MARCOUX. YVETTEGUILBERT.
MARLENE DIETRICH.
MAURICE CHEVALIER and YVONNE VALLEE ,
JEANNE MOREAU. HANS SCHOTT-
SCHOBINGER. MARIE DUBAS. EDITH PIAF , TERESA STRATAS and GEORG KREISLER
(sung in French and German) records

JOHN MCCABE (piano)
Le fils des etoiles; Je te veux;
Prelude de la porte heroique du ciel records