Organic Chemistry

Torelli Sinfonia a 4 in c
PHILHARMONIA/
CHRISTOPHER WARREN-GREEN Monteverdi Ballo: Volgendo il ciel
ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor)
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Schubert Sonata in A minor (D537)
ARTURO BENEDETTI MICHELANGELI (piano)
Tchaikovsky Polonaise , Valse and Ecossaise (Eugene Onegin ) ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA
HOUSE. CO VENT GARDEN/
SIR COLIN DAVIS
Tchaikovsky, arr
Kreisler Andante cantabile; Chanson sans paroles
ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin) SAMUEL SANDERS (piano) Les six Ballet:
Les maries de la Tour Eiffel
PHILHARMONIA/GEOFFREY SIMON Halevy Rachel , quand du Seigneur (Lajuive)
PLACIDO DOMINGO (tenor)
LOS ANGELES PO/CARLO MARIA GIULINI Debussy, orch Caplet Suite: Children's Corner
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO
ORCHESTRA/JEAN MARTINON: records

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Wagner's Ring (2): Die Walkure by Alan Blyth.
Nicholas Kenyon reviews new records of early music.
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
(Re-broadcast Wednesday at 2.50pm)

Monteverdi Altri canti d'amor Andrea Gabrieli La battagha: Sento un rumor
Tilman Susato Pavane: La bataille (with battle songs) BOSTON SHAWM AND SACBUT
ENSEMBLE
BOSTON CAMERATA/JOEL COHEN Dowland Captain Piper his Galiard; Semper Dowland semper dolens; The Earle of Essex his Galiard
DOWLAND CONSORT directed by JAKOB LINDBERG (lute) It was a time when silly bees could speak; Time stands still EMMA KIRKBY (soprano) ANTHONY ROOLEY (lute)
Johann Hermann Schein Suite a 5 in A minor
(Banchetto musicale, 1617) HESPERIONXX
Victoria Missa 0 Magnum Mysterium
WESTMINSTERCATHEDRALCHOIR/ DAVID HILL: records

conducted by Riccardo Muti Joseph de Pasquale (viola)
Berg Three Pieces (Lyric Suite) Bloch Suite for viola and orchestra
12.25* pm Interval Reading
12.30* Beethoven
Symphony No 1, in c, Op 21
(WFMT recording: overseas broadcast made possible by a grant to the orchestra from Cigna Worldwide Inc)

Goyescas YONTY SOLOMON (piano) BBC Birmingham

Mozart Quartet in D (K 575)
Sebastian Forbes Quartet No 3 BBC Wales (R)

Opera in four acts
Libretto by GIUSEPPE GIACOSA and LUIGI ILLICA after HENRI MURGER 'S novel Scènes de la vie de boheme Music by Puccini
(sung in Italian): records (1956)
Beecham's power of revivifying music remains indescribable.
COLUMBUS BOYS' CHOIR
RCA VICTOR CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Robert Cushman (in the Chair) talks with Christopher Frayling John Spur ling and Gillian Tindall.
This week's subjects:
The seven-part series Chasing Rainbows - A Nation and its
Music (Sunday, Channel 4); the French-Canadian film Decline of the American Empire; The Sketchbooks of Picasso at the Royal Academy; the Kick Theatre production of Shakespeare's Coriolanus at the Almeida Theatre, Islington, London; and Julian Bames 's novel Staring at the Sun Producer PHILIP FRENCH

ELIZABETH WALLFISCH (violin) RICHARD CAMPBELL (cello)
PAUL NICHOLSON (harpsichord) Corelli Sonata in D minor, Op 5 No 12
Vivaldi Sonata in A major, Op 2 No 2
Tartini Sonata in D minor, Op 1 No 10 (Didone abbandonata)

A sequence of poems and prose compiled by EDWARD BLACK Readers RICHARD DERRINGTON
NIGEL GRAHAM. PATRICIA GALLIMORE and CAROLE BOYD
Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham (R)

BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RICCARDO CHAILLY ALEXIS WEISSENBERG (piano) Part 1 Piano Concerto No 2, in B flat major

First of three programmes Towards a New Identity
Ian McDougall , the former BBC correspondent in Germany and Central Europe, reflects on the revived search for national self-definition in both parts of Germany. (R)

Part 2 Symphony No 2, in D (SF Berlin recording)

Peter Maxwell Davies String Quartet
Britten String Quartet No 1, in d major, Op 25 BBC Scotland

0 nata lux de lumine; Salvator mundi (first setting); Gaude gloriosa Dei mater; Sancte Deus, sancte fortis; Jesu salvator saeculi; Videte miraculum;
0 sacrum convivium; Injejunio et fletu; Loquebantur variis linguis
THE SIXTEEN conductor HARRY CHRISTOPHERS BBC Manchester (R)

Charles Fox introduces the ninth of 11 recordings from the International Piano Event at the 1985 Pendley Manor Jazz
Festival, Tring, Hertfordshire. The British pianist Keith Tippett and the American drummer Louis Moholo play three of their own compositions: 'When the sun comes up we shall remember', 'All people,
God's people - don't worry' and 'Dedicated to Mandela, Biko and Sobukwe'.