Arts: Melodrama

Mendelssohn Overture: The Fair Melusine, Op 32 LSO/CLAUDIO ABBADO
7.15* J. C. Bach Symphony No 4, in B flat: CAMDEN WIND ENSEMBLE
7.24* Clementi Monferrinas Nos 1-5, Op 49
RICHARD BURNETT (fortepiano)
7.34* Haydn Symphony No 87, inA
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-THE-FIELDS/
SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
8.0 News
8.5 F. Benda Sinfonia in B flat
ARS REDIVIVA/MILAN MUNCLINGER
8.11* Dvorak Silent Woods FRANS HELMERSON (cello)
GOTHENBURG SO/NEEME JAR VI
8.16* Martinu Sextet for piano and wind instruments
MEMBERS OF THE CZECH NONET
8.31* Suk Symphonic poem: Prague, Op 26
CZECH PO/UBOR PESEK records
Producer ANDREW LYLE

Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) and Antoine Reicha (1770-1836) Two Bohemian-bom musicians who ended their days in Paris. Although posterity has treated them unkindly, they were both pioneers in their different fields. Dussek Harp Sonata in c minor, Op2No3
MARCELA KOZIKOVA (harp)
Reicha Scene , for cor anglais and orchestra: HEINZ HOLLIGER
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/DAVID ZINMAN
Dussek The Sufferings of the Queen of France, Op 23 IGOR KIPNIS (harpsichord)
Reicha Symphony in E flat, Op 41
PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA records
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT

Three Latin-American Sketches
NEW PHILHARMONIA/THE COMPOSER Nonet for strings
COLUMBIA STRING ENSEMBLE/ THE COMPOSER
Concerto for piano and orchestra
THE COMPOSER
NEW YORK PO/LEONARD BERNSTEIN records

Quartet in E minor (Cypresses No 7); Quartet Movement in F; Two Waltzes, Op 54; Andante appassionato; Bagatelles, Op 47 LINDSAY STRING QUARTET with IAN BROWN (harmonium) BBC Bristol (R)

(clarinet) with Roger Vignoles (piano) Schumann Three Romances, Op 94
Roger Hannay Pied Piper, for clarinet and pre-recorded tape Ernst Toch Adagio elegiaco Lutoslawski Five dance preludes (R)

led by BARRY HASKEY conducted by Bryden Thomson Martin Roscoe (piano)
Saint-Saens Symphonic poem: Le rouet d'Omphale
Liszt Totentanz , for piano and orchestra; Symphonic poem: Hamlet
BBC Wales

Violin Sonata in one movement, in B (1878)
ERICH GRUENBERG (violin) ROGER VIGNOLES (piano) Piano Quartet in A flat VILLIERS PIANO QUARTET
Maureen Smith (violin) Susie Meszaros (viola)
Alexander Baillie (cello) Ian Brown (piano) BBC Bristol (R)

Introduced by Michael Oliver

Zelenka Sinfonia in c minor (I penitenti al Sepolchro del Redentore)
CZECH PO/VACLAV NEUMANN Nicolaus Adam Strungk
Cantata: Ich rufzu dir, Herr Jesu Christ
MARIA ZEDELIUS (soprano) MUSICA ANTIQUA. COLOGNE
Weber Piano Concerto No 2, in E flat, Op 32 PETER ROSEL
DRESDEN STATE OPERA ORCHESTRAl
HERBERT BLOMSTEDT
Schumann Song-cycle: Dichterliebe, Op 48 OLAF BÄR (baritone)
GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
Strauss Symphonic poem: Ein Heldenleben , Op 40
DRESDEN STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA/
HERBERT BLOMSTEDT

Presented by Brian Kay Producer JEREMY HAYES BBC Birmingham

played by GRAHAM BARBER in St Peter Mancroft , Norwich J. G. Walther Prelude and Fugue, in A major
Chorales: HerrGott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf; Lobet den Herren , denn er ist sehr freundlich
Chorale Partita: Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht
Chorales: Puer natus in Bethlehem; Schmucke dich, 0 liebe Seele
Concerto del Sigr Tommaso Albinoni, in F major

leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by Mark Elder Lydia Mordkovich (violin)
Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings
Bruch Violin Concerto No 2, in D minor
Verdi Overture:
The Sicilian Vespers BBC Manchester

(piano) Parti
Chopin Sonata No 3, in B minor, Op 58
Debussy Suite: Pour Ie piano

An occasional series of talks reflecting life beyond London and the Home Counties.
The Scottish Highlands are often perceived as a place of unchanging natural beauty. The writer and broadcaster John Keay challenges this notion and points to the encroachment of the conifer and the fish-cage.

Part 2
Faure Theme and Variations, Op 73
Dutilleux Sonata
(Given on 25 May in the City Hall, Perth, as part of the Perth Festival of the Arts) BBC Scotland

by COLETTE translated by JOANNA RICHARDSON Read by Margaret Robertson Producer CUVE BRILL (R)

presented by Charles Fox featuring Out Loud
Mark Langford (piano/bass clarinet/alto saxophone) Jerry Underwood (tenor saxophone)
Bob Helson (drums) Pete Brandt
(double-bass/bass guitar)

RAPHAEL WALLFISCH (Cello) PETER WALLFISCH (piano)
Bach Sonata No 1, in G major (BWV 1027)
Reger Sonata in A minor, Op 116 (R)