Thomas Hardy 's Poetry

Saint-Saens Symphonic Poem: Phaeton
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA/
CHARLES
DUTOIT Mozart Aria : Solitudini amiche, zeffiretti lusinghieri (Idomeneo Act 3)
LUCIA popp (soprano)
BAVARIAN RO/LEONARD SLATKIN
Rossini Sonata No 6, in D major, for string orchestra
FRANZ LISZT CO/JANOS ROLLA Ravel Ondine (Gaspard de la nuit)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) Purcell Crown the Altar (Birthday Song for Queen Mary, 1693)
EMMA KIRKBY (soprano)
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (spinet) ANTHONY ROOLEY (lute) Poulenc Sonata
GERVASE DE PEYER (clarinet)
WILLIAM WATERHOUSE (baSSOOn) Wagner Siegfried Idyll
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA/BERNARD HAITINK Barrios Study and Prelude JOHN WILLIAMS (guitar) Monteverdi Balletto de la bellezza
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht ECO/VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY records

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Chopin's Piano Sonata No 3, in B minor, by Joan Chissell.
Rodney Milnes on recent song and operatic recital discs.
New records of Russian music reviewed by Geoffrey Norris. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Prokofiev Sonata No 2, in D minor, Op 14 MICHEL BEROFF (piano) Tchaikovsky Symphony No 3. in D, Op 29 OSLO PO/MARISS JANSONS: records VHF/FM only from 10.55

The Second Cornhill Test England v India
Ball-by-ball commentary from Headingley by Brian Johnston Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Don Mosey
Expert comments by Ray Ulingworth , Robin Jackman and Farokh Engineer Scorer BILL FRINDALL
1.5 pm News
1.10 A View from the Boundary Brian Johnston meets another well-known cricket enthusiast.
1.30-1.40* County scoreboard Producer PETER BAXTER

conducted by George Szell Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) Richard Lewis (tenor) Schubert Symphony No 8, in B minor (Unfinished)
11.45* Interval Reading
11.50* Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (WCLV recording) (R)

Emma Kirkby (soprano) Evelyn Tubb (soprano) Mary Nichols (alto) Joseph Cornwell (tenor) Andrew King (tenor) Richard Wistreich (bass) director ANTHONY ROOLEY (chitarrone) Monteverdi Si ch'io vorrei morire; Lamento d'Arianna (solo); Lamento d'Arianna (a 5) Luca Marenzio Passando con pensier Monteverdi Lamento della ninfa Sigismondo d'India Langue al vostro languir Monteverdi E cosi a poco a poco BBC Birmingham (R)

PETER DONOHOE (piano) Beethoven Sonata in c, Op 53 (Waldstein) Tippett Sonata No 4

Handel Concerto a due cori No 2, in F conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD Spohr Clarinet Concerto No 4, in E minor: THEA KING conducted by ALUN FRANCIS Dvorak Serenade in D minor, Op 44: ECO WIND ENSEMBLE Haydn Sinfonia Concertante in B flat EMANUEL HURWITZ (violin) KEITH HARVEY (cello) PETER GRAEME (oboe) MARTIN GATT (bassoon) conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM Strauss Oboe Concerto NEIL BLACK conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM records

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Ronald Hayman (in the Chair) talks with Peter Kemp Anthony Thwaite and Margaret Walters. This week's subjects: Peter Masterton 's film The Trip to Bountiful; the Channel 4 drama series Four Minutes (Monday); Antony and Cleo)atra and The Taming of the Shrew at the Haymarket Theatre, London; William Blake and his Contemporaries at Wildenstein, New Bond Street, London Wl; and The English House 1860-1914 by Gavin Stamp and Andre Goulancourt. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

NICHOLAS DANBY introduces a recital on the Silbermann/Hildebrandt organ of the Hofkirche. Dresden J.C. Kittel Prelude in c G.A. Homilius Trio on the chorale 'Wer nur den lieben Gott' J.L. Krebs Fantasia a giusto italiano; Toccata in E major
Rheinberger Introduction and Passacaglia (Sonata No 8)

Dvorak Piano Trio in F minor, Op 65
Ireland Piano Trio No 2, in E minor. BBC Birmingham (R)

direct from St Magnus
Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney Isaac Stem (violin) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by Andre Previn Mendelssohn Overture:
The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)
Maxwell Da vies Violin Concerto (first performance)

The many ships that left our country with white wings for Canada. They are like handkerchiefs in our memories and the brine like tears and in their masts sailors singing like birds on branches. lain Crichton Smith reads a selection of his poetry. Producer STEWART CONN (R)

Part 2
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Mendelssohn Scherzo , Nocturne and Wedding March (A
Midsummer Night's Dream)
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 For details see page 23
(In association with The Scottish Post Office Board)
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Five programmes in which
Dr Mustapha Badawi , Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, traces the development of Arabic poetry.
2: Love Poems in Medieval Islam The new values established by the Koran had a profound effect on poetry. Formal odes gave way to occasional poems extolling wine and the qualities of the beloved.
Poems read in translation by philip SULLY and in the original byALIRBFAIE
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS (R)

ALBAN BERG QUARTET Beethoven Quartet in B flat major, Op 18 No 6
Debussy Quartet in G minor (R)

by DIANE ROWE
Read by Helen Lederer Producer Gillian THOMAS

(baritone and piano)
Berg Geliebte schone, Op 9 No 2; Schattenleben, Op 9 No 3; Schlummerlose Nachte,
Op 11 No 3; Es wandelt, was wir schauen, Op 12 No 2;
Im Morgengrauen, Op 13 No 3; Grabschrift Schoenberg Wamung,
Op 3 No 3; Traumleben,
Op 6 No 1; Verlassen, Op 6 No 4; Erwartung, Op 2 No 1
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1985 Salzburg Festival)