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Sinfonia: Armida
LAUSANNE CO/ANTAL DORATI
Symphony No 59, in A (Fire)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
Aria: Dell'estreme sue voci dolenti (Orlando Paladino) ARLEEN AUGER (soprano)
LAUSANNE CO/ANTAL DORATI
Symphony No 49, in F minor (La passione)
ORCHESTRA OF ST JOHN'S, SMITH SQUARE/JOHN LUBBOCK
(Records)

Four hands at one piano
Brahms Hungarian Dances, Book 1: JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD and MICHEL BEROFF
Schubert Variations on an original theme in A flat (D 813) ANNEQUEFFELEC and IMOGEN COOPER
Dvorak Slavonic Dances ,
Op 46 Nos 4-6: MICHEL BEROFF and JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Imogen Cooper
Unknown:
Dvorak Slavonic Dances
Unknown:
Michel Beroff

Kalman Overture: Countess Maritza
NEW SADLER'S WELLS OPERA
ORCHESTRA/BARRY WORDSWORTH
Neruda Horn Concerto in E flat LUDWIG GUTTLER
NEW BACH COLLEGIUM MUSICUM
LEIPZIG/MAX POMMER
Handel Violin Sonata in A major, Op 1 No 3
SIMON STANDAGE (violin)
TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord) ANTHONY PLEETH (cello)
Dowland I saw my lady weep; What if I never speed? IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) JAKOB UNDBERG (lute) Korngold Symphony in F sharp major, Op 40 MUNICH PO/RUDOLF KEMPE: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Ludwig Guttler
Harpsichord:
Trevor Pinnock
Cello:
Anthony Pleeth

Introduced by Michael Oliver The performing editions of Mahler's Symphony No 10 surveyed by Theodore Bloomfield.
Albatross or Masterpiece?
Michael Hurd presents the case for Sir John Stainer and The Crucifixion.
Kyai Madu Laras - Venerable
Sweet Harmony: an introduction to the gamelan by Alec Roth Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 2. Opm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Michael Hurd
Unknown:
Sir John Stainer
Unknown:
Alec Roth
Producers:
Graham Sheffield
Producers:
Andrew Lyle

(fortepiano)
Schubert Drei Klavierstucke
(D 946); Sonata in A minor (D 537) (A re-broadcast of last Monday BBC Lunchtime Concert)
(Tomorrow at 1.5pm: Michala Petri , recorder, with the Guildhall String Ensemble)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michala Petri

KUN woo PAIK (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conductor JERZY MAKSYMlUK
Haydn Symphony No 79, in F Ravel Piano Concerto in G
1.0* Interval Reading
1.5* Shostakovich Symphony No 1 (R)
A thoroughly invigorating account, in which each instrumental strand was separated and then woven into a vivid, incisively realised orchestral fabric, its spikiness and lyrical languor sharply contrasted. (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

Contributors

Leader:
Geoffrey Trabichoff
Conductor:
Jerzy Maksymluk

Opera seria in three acts (1781 Munich version)
Libretto by GIANBATTlSTA VARESCO after ANTOINE DANCHET Music by Mozart
(sung in Italian): records nia, daughter of King Priam of CHORUS AND MOZART ORCHESTRA OF
THE ZURICH OPERA HOUSE/
NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT
The action takes place at
Cydonia in Crete, some ten years after the end of the Trojan War. Act
2.50* Interval Reading
2.55* Act 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Antoine Danchet
Unknown:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt

There is a German proverb about parents and children, that the apple never falls far from the tree. My poems come from the apple as it falls through the air or from where it lies on the ground, sweet, waspish, mouldering.
Michael Hofmann introduces and reads poems about his father from his recent volume, Acrimony. (R)

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Hofmann

History records that Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins found the secret of life by unravelling the structure of DNA, the material of inheritance. But there was another player in the game. At King's College in London, Rosalind Franklin had carried out research which was vital to Crick's and Watson's success.
Why then is she almost unknown?
Professor Lewis Wolpert conducts an inquiry into the intrigue, dispute and tragedy that surround the discovery of the double helix.
Contributors include Aaron Klug, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins and Raymond Gosling.
Readings by JOHN CHURCH and GORDON REID
Producer STUART KERR
HEAR THIS! page 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Crick
Unknown:
James Watson
Unknown:
Maurice Wilkins
Unknown:
Kosalind Franklin
Unknown:
Professor Lewis Wolpert
Unknown:
Aaron Klug
Unknown:
Francis Crick
Unknown:
Maurice Wilkins
Unknown:
Raymond Gosling.
Unknown:
Gordon Reid
Producer:
Stuart Kerr

As a student, the young
Adrian Boult kept diaries of the concerts and operas he attended. His opinions about fclgar, Strauss and Wagner are surprising in the light of his later conducting repertoire.
Michael Kennedy , the conductor's biographer, reflects on Boult's early thoughts on music.

Contributors

Unknown:
Adrian Boult
Unknown:
Michael Kennedy

EDUARDO FERNANDEZ
Tárrega Tres Mazurkas ;
Kecuerdos de la Alhambra; Preludes Nos 1-5
I)elphin Alard, arr Tarrega Etude, Op 2 No 19 wanados, arr Fernandez Spanish Dance No 10
Turina Fandanguillo ; Rafaga

Contributors

Unknown:
Tres Mazurkas
Unknown:
Turina Fandanguillo

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