Dr Benjamin Spock

Rossini Overture:
The Italian Girl in Algiers
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THEFIELDS/
SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
Liszt Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa (Annees de pelerinage: Italie): JORGE BOLET (piano)
Stravinsky Suite: Pulcinella ECO/SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
Tchaikovsky Italian Caprice, Op 45: DALLAS SO/EDUARDO MATA
8.0 World Service News
8.10 Wagner Prelude: Die
Meistersinger von Nilrnberg VIENNA PO/KARL BOHM
Berlioz Absence (Les nuits d'ete): FREDERICA VON STADE (sop) BOSTON SO'SEIJI OZAWA
Rachmaninov Barcarolle, Op 10 No 3; Humoresque, Op 10 No 5 THE COMPOSER (piano roll) Delius, arr Fenby Two
Aquarelles: BOURNEMOUTH
SINFONIETT A/NORMAN DEL MAR Dionisio Aguado Polonaise,
Op 2 No 2: JULIAN BREAM (guitar) Vaughan Williams Serenade to music: LPO/VERNON HANDLEY: records

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Berg's Violin Concerto by Arnold Whittall.
Rodney Milnes reviews recent opera recordings: Donizetti's
La fille du régiment, Giordano's Fedora and Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss (son). Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Stravinsky Four Norwegian moods: CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA/ RICCARDO CHATLLY
Prokofiev Symphony No 5, in B flat
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY records

(piano)
Chopin Twelve studies, Op 10 BBC Wales (R)

JUDITH BLEGEN (soprano)
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone)
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by seiji OZAWA (WCRB recording)

Second of three programmes
Domenico Scarlatti 's popularity in England came about through Thomas Roseingrave 's promotion of his Italian acquaintance.
Fugues and Voluntaries by Roseingrave are interspersed with sonatas by Scarlatti. ROBERT WOOLLEY
(organ/harpsichord)

Opera in two acts
Libretto by LORENZO DA PONTE Music by Mozart
(sung in Italian): records
DROTTNINGHOLM COURT THEATRE CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA directed by ARNOLD ÖSTMAN

Ferrando, an officer, in love with Dorabella - GOSTA WINBERGH (tenor)
Guglielmo, an officer, in love with Fiordiligi - TOM KRAUSE (baritone)
Don Alfonso, an elderly - CARLOS FELLER (baritone)
Fiordiligi, a lady from Ferrara, living in Naples - RACHEL YAKAR (soprano)
Dorabella, her sister - ALICLA NAFÉ (mezzo-soprano)
Despina, their lady's maid - GEORGINE RESICK (soprano)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Anthony Curtis (in the Chair) talks with Paul Barker , Adam Mars-Jones and Hilary Spurting about:
Stephen Bayly 's Welsh movie Coming Up Roses;
Judi Dench in Henri Becque 's Woman of Paris yesterday on Radio 3; a retrospective exhibition of work by Mervyn Peake at the Royal Festival Hall, London; The Complete Lyrics of Lorenz Hart , edited by Robert Kimball and Dorothy Hart ; and High Society, adapted and directed by Richard Eyre , at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London.
Producer philip FRENCH

First of eight programmes played by CHRISTOPHER HERRICK on the Van den Heuvel organ at the Nieuwe Kerk, Katwijk aan ZeeX, the Netherlands
Verset (Fantasie), Op 19 No 5; Sonata No 1, in D minor Producer PAUL SPICER
(In collaboration with Radio Hilversum)
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leader JAMES CLARK conducted by Andrew Davis John Lill (piano)
Alison Hargan (soprano)
Alfreda Hodgson (contralto) Robert Tear (tenor) Robert Lloyd (bass) BBC Welsh Chorus chorus-master JOHN HUGH THOMAS Ardwyn Singers chorus-master
HELENA BRAITHWAITE
Cardiff Polyphonic Choir chorus-master
RICHARD ELFYN JONES Part 1 Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 4, in G, Op 58

Fritz Spiegl recounts some of the more mundane problems faced by Beethoven when organising the first performance of his Ninth Symphony.
With extracts from Beethoven's Conversation Books read by JOE DUNLOP and MARK STRAKER. Producer ANDREW LYLE (R)

Part 2 Beethoven Symphony No 9, in D minor (Choral)
(Given on 30 November in St David 's 's Hall, Cardiff, as part of the 1986 Cardiff Festival of Music) BBC Wales

'... in the most unlikely way, at an advanced age, in a foreign country, I was to find myself in tune with a landscape in a way that I had never been in Trinidad or India....'
V. S. Naipaul introduces and reads from his forthcoming novel, The Enigma of Arrival. Producer TONY GOULD

CLERKES OF OXENFORD
DAVID WULSTAN
(Director/Officiant) A reconstructed pre-Reformation service based on the Pen-pontAntiphoner in the National Library of Wales. BBC Wales

by CONOR FARRINGTON
Read by Richard Vernon 'At one point I noticed my writing hand, amazed; can that thing with purple knotted veins and bulbous joints be mine? Yes, I recognise it by the words it's writing.'
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS (R)

In 1985, for that year only, the Bracknell Festival was held at Pendley Manor, Tring, Herts. Richard Cook introduces a recording of one of the groups who appeared there: Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, which included Palle Mikkelborg (trumpet) Dewey Redmond (saxophone) Sharon Freeman (horn) Charlie Haden (bass) Paul Motian (drums)