Romantic Narrative Poetry

Mendelssohn Overture:
A Midsummer Night's Dream LSOCLAUDIOABBADO
7.17* Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor: KRYSTIAN ZIMERMAN BERLIN PO/HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.45* Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia
BAVARIAN RSO/ESA-PEKKA SALONEN
8.0 News
8.5 Sallinen Prelude for orchestra: Shadows
HELSINKI PO/OKKO KAMU
8.15* Chabrier Suite pastorale, Op 52
FRENCH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA/
ARMIN JORDAN
8.35* Faure Fantaisie in c
JEAN PHILIPPE COLLARD (piano) TOULOUSE CAPITOLE ORCHESTRAl
MICHELPLASSON
8.54* Liszt La lugubre gondola I PASCAL DEVOYON (piano) records
Producer ROBERT LAYTON

Sibelius
Overture: Karelia. Op 10
GOTHENBURG SO/ NEEME JARVI Two songs, Op 35: Jubal ELISABETH SODERSTROM (soprano)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) Teodora TOM KRAUSE (baritone)
IRWIN GAGE (piano)
Three lyric pieces: KyUikki, Op 41
ERIC T. TAWASTSTJERNA (piano) En Saga, Op 9
PHILH ARMONIA/VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY records
Producer PAUL HlNDMARSH BBC Manchester

conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ Respighi Prelude: The Birds Brahms Serenade No 1, in D records

led by BEN BUURMAN conducted by Richard Hickox Melvyn Tan (harpsichord) Rubbra Symphony No 11 Frank Martin Harpsichord Concerto
12.25* pm Interval Reading
12.30* Nielsen Pan and Syrinx Rubbra Symphony No 10

direct from St John's, Smith Square, London

Pascal Devoyon (piano) Mozart Variations on a Minuet by Duport (K 573) Debussy Estampes Liszt Apres une lecture du Dante
(Tickets, £2, available from 11.0am today, or in advance from the Box Office, tel: [number removed]) (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
(Next Monday: Hermann Prey , baritone, with Leonard Hokanson , piano)

Ravel Bolero CZECH PO/UBOR PESEK arr Canteloube Pastorale; La pastoura al camps (Songs oftneAuvergne) FREDERICAVON STADE (mezzo-soprano) RPO;ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA Turina Homenaje a Tarrega EDUARDO FERNANDEZ (guitar) Victoria Missa ascendens Christus in altum CHOIR OF WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL/ DAVID HILL Sor Fantaisie, Op 21 (Les adieux) PAUL GREGORY (guitar) Boccherini Quartet in E flat, Op58No2 TAUCH STRING QUARTET Falla Three Spanish popular songs KATHLEEN BATTLE (soprano) CHRISTOPHER PARKENING (guitar) Strauss Don Quixote YO YO MA (cello) BOSTON SO/SEIJI OZAWA

Presented by Fritz Spiegi Producer MARTIN COTTON

Fifth of six programmes The French Baroque ROBERT WOOLLEY plays the 1680 Dallam instrument at Ergue-Gaberic in Brittany. This programme exploits the French aspects of the instrument in music by Richard, Roberday and d'Anglebert.

Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2 (Rasumovsky)
MEDICI STRING QUARTET BBC Manchester (R)

leader jose luis GARCIA directed by Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Parti
Strauss Metamorphosen, for 23 solo strings
Mozart Piano Concerto No 17, in G (K 453)

Future Options
In the last of three programmes Ian McDougall argues that, although it may face many obstacles and take a long time, the reunification of Germany is inevitable.

Part 2
Dvorak Serenade for strings
(Given last Saturday at the Barbican Hall, London)

Presented by Charles Fox featuring the guitarist Derek Bailey

First of six programmes surveying their unaccompanied vocal music
The Early Years
Britten A Hymn to the Virgin Marenzio Liquide perle Amor: Gia torna a rallegrar; lo son'Amore; Passando con pensier
Britten A Wealden Trio; Sweet was the song; The sycamore tree Marenzio La pastorella; 0 voi che sospirate
LONDON SINFONIETTA VOICES directed by TERRY EDWARDS

(violin)
Faure Berceuse , Op 16 Chausson Poeme, Op 25
MONTE CARLO PO/MANUEL ROSENTHAL records