The Palazzo del Te, Mantua

Last of six programmes
Mozart Six German Dances (K509)
VIENNA MOZART ENSEMBLE/ WILLI BOSKOVSKY
Stravinsky Serenade in A MICHEL BEROFF (piano)
Mozart Divertimento in E flat (K563)
GRUMIAUXTRIO Stravinsky Octet LONDON SINFONIETTA/
RICCARDOCHAILLY
Mozart Serenade in G (K 525) (Eine kleine Nachtmusik)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD records

Holzbauer Sinfonia Concertante in A
THOMAS FÜRl (violin)
CHRISTOPH SCHILLER (viola) THOMAS DEMENGA (cello) CAMERATABERN
Chabrier Capriccio
PIERRE BARBIZET (piano)
Martinu La revue de cuisine
DARTINGTON ENSEMBLE
Debussy Cortege et Air de danse (L'enfant prodigue)
Beethoven Violin Sonata in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer) MAX ROSTAL (violin)
FRANZ OSBORN (piano) records

Introduced by Michael Oliver Rossini - Master Musician: a new biography reviewed by William Mann.
Our Father: some memories of Bela Bartok by his sons Peter and Bela.
Bach and the Lute-Harpsichord: a conversation with Maggie Cole.
Beethoven Found Wanting: Christopher Headington considers some of Beethoven's less successful works.
Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE

(baritone and piano)
Schumann Der Hidalgo ; Die beiden Grenadiere; Der Spielmann;
Provenzalisches Lied; Widmung Song-cycle: Dichterliebe, Op 48 (A re-broadcast of last Monday's BBC Lunchtime Concert)
(Tomorrow at 1.5pm VHFIFM: Tamas Vasary and Peter Frankl , piano duet)

leader PAN HON LEE conducted by Serge Baudo Mikhail Rudy (piano) Parti
Dutilleux Metaboles
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1, in B flat minor

George Szirtes , a Hungarian poet who has lived in this country since 1956, considers present discrepancies between public and private life in the Hungarian capital. (R)

Part 2 Roussel
Symphony No 3, in G minor BBC Manchester (R)

Opera seria in five acts Libretto by NICOLA HAYM after QUINAULT
Music by Handel (sung in Italian)
Magic is a central ingredient in resolving this story of tangled relationships which hinges on the final revelation that Theseus is Aegeus' son. (counter-tenor) (counter-tenor) (soprano)(soprano)
(counter-tenor) (Soprano) (bass)
BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA leader DANIEL STEPNER conducted by NICHOLAS MCGEGAN Acts 1,2 and 3

Second of three readings from the journal of Marie Bashkirtseff A Visit to Russia
'I am profoundly disgusted with myself. I hate everything I have done and written and said. I have fulfilled none of my hopes. (R)

Acts 4 and 5 (A WGBH/BBC co-production) (R)

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. Producers FRASER STEEL andSAMCOLLYNS

Years of Travel (3)
Annees de pelerinage (Troisieme annee):
Angelus! (Priere aux anges gardiens); Aux cypres de la Villa d'Este I and II; Les jeux d'eau a la Villa d'Este; Sunt lacrymae rerum (En mode hongroise);
Marche funèbre; Sursum corda HOWARD SHELLEY (piano)

Jiri Panocha (violin) Pavel Zejfart (violin)
Moroslav Sehnoutka (viola) Jaroslav Kulhan (cello)
Second of three programmes
Haydn Quartet in G, Op 33 No 5 Martinu Quartet No 5
7.40* Interval Reading
7.45* Dvorak
Quartet in A flat, Op 105
(Given last July in the Pittville Pump Room as part of the 1985 Cheltenhom
International Festival of Music) BBC Birmingham

Leader Bernt Lysell
Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)

Ingvar Lidholm Greetings from an old world

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3, in C minor

9.20* Interval Reading

9.25* Mahler Symphony No 1, in D (Titan)

(Given on 10 February at the Royal Festival Hall, London)

The second of two programmes in which contemporary settings of George Herbert are heard in the context of readings from his devotional verse. Music by John Playford , John Wilson , Purcell and George Jeffreys CONSORT OF MUSICKE directed by ANTHONY ROOLEY

This concerto raised Bennett a step higher in the estimation of the Academy circle, not only as a composer, but also as a pianist. It was a moot point, in which capacity the work showed him to greater advantage.
(J. R. STERNDALE BENNETT)
Fifth of nine programmes MALCOLM BINNS (piano) ULSTER ORCHESTRA leader RICHARD HOWARTH conducted by JONATHAN DEL MAR Stemdale Bennett Piano
Concerto No 2, in E flat (1833) (first broadcast)
Haydn Symphony No 96, in D BBC Northern Ireland