Organic Chemistry

Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride
ACADEMY OFSTMARTIN-IN-THE-FEELDS/
SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
Liszt Paraphrase of the Wedding March and Dance of the Elves from Mendelssohn's A
Midsummer Night's Dream IVAN DAVIS (piano)
Monteverdi Volgendo il ciel
(Madrigali guerrieri e amorosi) ANTHONY ROLFE-JOHNSON (tenor)
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER Prokofiev Suite: Lieutenant Kije
LPO/KLAUS TENNSTEDT
Elgar Five Intermezzi ATHENA ENSEMBLE
Debussy Les fees sont d'exquises danseuses; Bruyeres (Preludes Book II)
CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano)
Vivaldi Summer (The Four Seasons)
ALAN LOVEDAY (violin)
ACADEMY OFSTMARTDJIN THE FIELDS/
SIR NEVILLE MARRINER Auric Overture
Milhaud Marche nuptiale
Poulenc Discours du Général; La baigneuse de Trouville (Les maries de la Tour Eiffel)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA/
GEOFFREY SIMON
Tippett Ritual Dances (The Midsummer Marriage)
BOURNEMOUTH SO/RUDOLF BARSHAI records

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Orff's Carmina Burana by Edward Seckerson.
David Murray on a new set featuring Dietrich Fischer -
Dieskau and Gerald Moore in live recordings from the Salzburg Festivals, 1957-65. Stephen Dodgson reviews new orchestral releases.
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Debussy Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
LPO/SERGE
BAUDO Britten Sinfonia da requiem CBSO/SIMON RATTLE
Copland Ballet: Billy the Kid ST LOUIS SO/LEONARD SLATKIN records

Piano Quintet in A, Op 81
MUSICIANS OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE Elisabeth Perry (violin) John Trusler (violin)
Alexander Balanescu (viola) Moray Welsh (cello)
Anthony Goldstone (piano) BBC Manchester (R)

First of three concerts direct from the Union Chapel Compton Terrace, London
New London Chamber Choir New London Percussion Ensemble director James Wood
Music Projects. London director Richard Bernas
Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ Piano Phase Eight Lines
(Given as part of the 1986Almeida Festival)
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led by ANDREW ORTON conducted by Jan Latham-Koenig
Poulenc Suite: Les biches Liszt Symphonic Poem: Die Ideale
BBC Manchester

JULIAN JACOBSON
Dukas Variations, Interlude and Finale on a theme of Rameau Francaix Cinq portraits de jeunes filles
Ravel Suite: Le tombeau de Couperin

Fourth of seven programmes Beethoven Overture: Egmont, Op 84 conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS
Schumann Scenes from Goethe's Faust (Part 1)
WANDSWORTH SCHOOL CHOIR
ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL SINGERS conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN Dvorak Legends,
Op 59 Nos 6,7 and 8 conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
Gustav Hoist Double Concerto, Op 49
EMANUEL HURwrrz (violin) KENNETH SILLITO (violin) conducted by IMOGEN HOLST
Alessandro Scarlatti Cantata pastorale
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3, in c (bwv 1048) conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN Elliott Carter Double Concerto PAUL JACOBS (harpsichord) CHARLES ROSEN (piano) conducted by FREDERIK PRAUSNlTZ records

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Ronald Hayman (in the Chair) talks with Victoria Glendinning Peter Porter and Anthony Thwaite.
This week's subjects:
Maurice Pialat 's film Police; Radio 4's Monday PJay Land
Lovers by Antoine 0 Flatharta; Road by Jim Cartwright at the Royal Court Theatre, London; The City in Maps: Urban
Mapping to 1900 at the British
Library; and The Golden Gate, a novel in verse by Vikram Seth. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

at Clifton Cathedral, Bristol GILLIAN WEIR
Scarlatti Sonata in D (Kk 287); Sonata in D (Kk 288)
Bach Concerto in c (bwv 594) Dandrieu Noel de Saintonge BBC Bristol

in G major (K 387); in B flat major (K 458) (The Hunt)
MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART (R)

Second of three concerts direct from the Union Chapel Compton Terrace, London New London Percussion Ensemble director James Wood Circle
Singcircle director Gregory Rose
Music for a Large Ensemble It's gonna rain

On the publication of Monty: The Field Marshal, 1944-1976, the final volume of NIGEL HAMILTON 'S biography,
Sir Michael Howard , Regius
Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, reflects on the quality of Montgomery's leadership.

Part 2
Tehillim
(Given as part of the 1986 Almeida Festival)
(Third concert tomorrow at & Opm)

Five programmes in which
Dr Mustapha Badawi traces the development of Arabic poetry 3: The Paths of the Soul In Medieval Islam the occasional poem acquired an unprecedented degree of sophistication. But the spiritual dimension is expressed at its best in the mystical or sufi verse of the 13th century.
Poems read in translation by PHILIP SULLY and in the original by Aux REFAIE Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS (R)

Sonata in A minor (D 537);
Hungarian Melody in B minor
(D 817); Sonata in A major (D 664) ALFRED BRENDEL (piano) (R)

Clarinet Concerto No 2, in E flat THEA KING
LSO/ALUN FRANCIS: record

(baritone and piano)
Berg Erster Verlust ; Am
Strande; Sehnsucht III; Ferne Lieder; Traurigkeit; Er klagt, dass der Friihling so kurz bluht; Four Songs, Op 2:
Schlafen, schlafen;
Schlafend tragt man mich; Nun ich der
Riesen Starksten uberwand; Warm die Lufte