17th-century Popular Art

Gustav Hoist, arr Gordon Jacob Nocturne for string orchestra (A Moorside Suite) ECO/IMOGEN HOLST
7.12* Dvorak Overture: Othello, Op 93
ULSTER ORCHESTRA/HANDLEY
7.27* Purcell Incidental music: Abdelazer, or The Moor's Revenge
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC; CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
7.40* Prokofiev In the palace;
New Year's Eve ball: Happiness (Waltz Suite, Op 110) SNO/NEEMEJARVI
8.0 News
8.5 Weber Overture: Oberon
DRESDEN STAATSKAPELLE/
GUSTAV KUHN
8.14* Roussel Joueurs de flute SUSAN MILAN (flute)
CLIFFORD BENSON (piano)
8.24* Mendelssohn Suite: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op 61
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA/SZELL records

Borodin: The Late 1860s
They all fell for the Finale of my symphony. There's only the last few bars still to finish. The middle part couldn't be better.
I'm very pleased with it: it's full of life and power, and it's dashing, lively and very effective
(THE COMPOSER'S LETTERS)
Piano Quintet in c minor ALBERNI STRING QUARTET
ALLAN SCHILLER (piano) (R)
Symphony No 2, in B minor
NATIONAL PO/TJEKNAVORIAN: record Dissonance
SUSAN KESSLER (mezzo-soprano) ALLAN SCHILLER (piano) (sung in Russian) (R)

Taffanel Quintet in G minor Francaix Quintet record

BBC SINGERS conducted by JOHN LUBBOCK Saint-Saens Les fleurs et les arbres; Romance du soir;
Calme des nuits; Trinquons
Villa-Lobos Bendita Sabedoria (R)

conducted by Hanns Martin Schneidt
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
Mozart Violin Concerto No 3, in G (K 216)
11.50* Interval Reading
11.55* Bruckner
Symphony No 3, in D minor
(RIAS Berlin recording)

direct from
St David's Hall, Cardiff Raphael Ensemble
James Clarke (violin)
Elizabeth Wexler (violin) Sally Beamish (viola) Roger Tapping (viola) Andrea Hess (cello)
Rhydian Shaxson (cello)
Mozart Quintet in c minor (K406)
Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence, Op 70 BBC Wales

played by ISTVAN ROMER
Sor Variations on a theme by Mozart Dusan Bogdanovic Blues and seven variations
Walton Five bagatelles
(Hungarian Radio recording) (R)

Third of five programmes Mozart Sonata in A (K 331) (1933 recording)
Haydn Symphony No 104, in D (London): EDWIN FISCHER co (1938 recording)
Bach Preludes and Fugues: in D minor (bwv 876); in F (bwv 879); in F minor (bwv 881) (The Well-tempered Clavier, Book 2) (1935-6 recordings)
Schubert Impromptu in c minor (D 899 No 1)
Bach Concerto in f minor (Bwv 1056) with the EDWIN FISCHER co (1938recordings) mono records

First of two concerts given by the MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA under LUKAS FOSS (Music Director 1981-6) Ives The Fourth of July; Washington's Birthday
John Downey Trapezoids-
Orange; Parallelograms-Aqua (Symphonic Modules Five) Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
With WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY
SYMPHONY CHORUS
(WFMT recording) (R)

Brian Kay takes a musical look at the sublime and the ridiculous.
Producer JEREMY HAYES BBCPebble Mill

second of two programmes.
Sacred and secular songs from the age of the great English cathedrals, including devotional Pieces in praise of the Virgin wary and secular songs in English and French GOTHIC VOICES directed by CHRISTOPHER PAGE

(La locandiera) by CARLO GOLDONI
"anslated and adapted by ROY KIFT
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN (R)

Vocal and instrumental music from the composer's early years

Colin Kellett (cor anglais) Ian Caddy (bass-baritone) Northern Sinfonia led by Harry Cawood conducted by Meredith Davies

Sinfonia concertata in D; uominus a dextris (Dixit uominus); Concertino in G, for cor anglais and strings; Tuba mirum; Introduction in D minor, for string orchestra; In convertendo; Domine Deus

BBC Manchester

Suite Miniature; Sonata No 3 RAPHAEL SOMMER (cello) DANIEL ADNI (piano)
BBC Wales

Ballet: The Firebird (1910)
°BC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 'eader DENNIS SIMONS conductor EDWARD DOWNES BBC Manchester

Polonaise in F sharp minor, UP 44; 12 Studies, Op 25 (R)