Rossini Overture:
The Barber of Seville
NATIONAL PO/RICCARDO CHAILLY Glazunov Violin Concerto in A minor: JASCHA HEIFETZ
RCA SO/WALTER HENDL
Torroba Sonata trianera, for four guitars and castanets LOS ROMEROS
Puccini Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (La rondine, Act 1) KIRITE KANAWA (soprano) LPO/SIR JOHN PRITCHARD
Strauss Serenade in E flat
NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE/
EDO DE WAART
Mozart Sonata in D (K 448) MURRAY PERAHIA and RADU LUPU (pianos) Nielsen Tone poem: Pan and Syrinx
CBSO/SIMON RATTLE
Busoni Divertimento, Op 52 AURELE NICOLET (flute)
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA/
KURT MASUR
Puccini 0 mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)
KIRITE KANAWA (soprano) LPO/SIR JOHN PRITCHARD
Janacek, arr Jilek Suite: The Cunning Little Vixen
CZECH PO/FRANTISEK JILEK: records
with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Wagner's Ring (3): Siegfried by Alan Blyth.
Richard Osborne reviews new recordings of Beethoven string quartets.
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
(Re-broadcast Wednesday 2.50pm)
Beethoven String Quartet in G, Op 18 No 2
BRANDIS STRING QUARTET
String Quartet in B flat, Op 130 MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART records
First of seven programmes A concert of music by Roger Sessions (1896-1985) conducted by Yoel Levi Symphony No 1 (1927)
Three Choruses on Biblical Texts (1972) with the Cleveland Orchestra Chamber Choir
12.5* pm Interval Reading
12.10* Piano Concerto (1956) with Monique Duphil (piano) Concerto for Orchestra (1981)
(Given in February 1984 in Severance Hall. Cleveland) (WCLV recording)
Quartet in A (K 464) Quartet in D (K 575)
ENDELLION STRING QUARTET
Andrew Watkinson (violin) James Clark (violin)
Gartield Jackson (viola) David Waterman (cello) BBC Birmingham (R)
Plays the first of two
Programmes of British piano music
Alan Rawsthome Four Bagatelles
David Ellis Piano Sonata No 1 John McCabe Three Impromptus
John Ogdon Sonata super Boris (Kaleidoscope) (first broadcast)
BBC Manchester
Continuing the cycle of Beethoven symphonies from records of public concerts given in 1940.
Symphony No 8, in F
3.25* Interval Reading
3.30* Symphony No 7, in A AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA/ WILLEM MENGELBERG mono
ROMAN JABLONSKI and KRYSTYNA BORUCINSKA
Honegger Sonata
Debussy Sonata in D minor
Marta Ptaszynska Moon Flowers (first broadcast)
BBC Bristol
Stage festival play for three days and a preliminary evening
Words and music by Wagner
Sung in the English translation by Andrew Porter
Third day of the festival play in a prologue and three acts
Welsh National Opera production recorded last Thursday at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Prologue and Act 1
Christopher Frayling
(in the Chair) talks with William Feaver , John Peter and Gillian Tindall. This week's subjects:
Pinero's The Magistrate at the National Theatre: Paradjanov s film The Legend of the Suram
Fortress; The New Architecture at the Royal Academy; the nine-part television series The Story of English on BBC2 (Monday evenings); and The Fifties by Edmund Wilson
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Twilight of the Gods, Act 2
An anthology of poetry and prose about eating and drinking compiled by JOHN SCOTNEY Read by Stephen Thome Michael N. Harbour and Richard Derrington
Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Twilight of the Gods, Act 3
(In association with Amoco (UK) Ltd)
Charles Fox introduces the last of 11 recordings from the International Piano Event at the 1985 Pendley Manor Jazz Festival, Tring, Hertfordshire. Jaki Byard and Howard Riley play their own compositions 'Open' and 'Space', as well as 'Round Midnight' and 'Straight, no chaser' by Thelonious Monk, and 'Lady bird' by Tadd Dameron.