Hamlet and its European Reception
Johann Strauss (son) Overture: Die Fledermaus - Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Sir Neville Marriner
Liszt Liebestraum No 3 - Jorge Bolet (piano)
Monteverdi Balletto della bellezza - Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
Albeniz Sevilla (Suite espanola, Op 47) - John Williams (guitar)
Granados Elegia eterna - Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano)
Ravel Bolero - Chicago SO/Sir Georg Solti
8.0 World Service News
8.10 Rossini Overture: William Tell - Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Sir Neville Marriner
Spohr Variations on 'Je suis encore dans mon printemps', Op 36 - Susan Drake (harp)
Haydn Il meglio mio carattere (Insertion aria to Cimarosa's 'L'lmpresario in angustie') - Teresa Bergnza (mezzo-sop), SCO/Raymond Leppard
Elgar Suite No 1: The Wand of Youth - Ulster Orchestra/Bryden Thomson
(records)
with Paul Vaughan
Recent song records reviewed by Alan Blyth.
Mark Steyn on records of American music.
Roger Nichols reviews new releases of chamber music. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
Mozart Quartet in B flat (K 589) CHILINGIRIAN STRING QUARTET Strauss Five Songs, Op 15
BRIGHTE FASSBAENDER (contralto) IRWIN GAGE (piano)
Kodaly Quartet No 2, Op 10 HAGEN STRING QUARTET: records
MICHAEL THOMPSON and CATHERINE DUBOIS
Thomas Dunhill Cornucopia Mervyn Cooke Sonata (R)
conducted by Lukas Foss (piano)
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5, in D (BWV 1050) with Edward Mumm (violin) and Glenda Lathrop (flute)
Hindemith Lehrstuck (text by BRECHT, translated by LUKAS FOSS ) with Wisconsin Conservatory Chorus
(WFMT recording) (R)
Three Mazurkas, Op 56; Two Nocturnes, Op 62; Polonaise-fantasy in A flat major, Op 61 maurizio pollini (piano)
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1986 Vienna Festival)
Symphony No 51, in B flat major L'ESTRO ARMONICO. directed by DEREK SOLOMONS (violin): record
ROBIN CANTER (oboe)
ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET Peter Carter (violin) David Roth (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Bruno Schrecker (cello)
Alan Rawsthorne Theme and variations, for string quartet Priaulx Rainier Pastoral triptych, for oboe
Gerald Finzi Interlude (R)
(Winter's Journey)
Cycle of 24 songs by Schubert to poems by WILHELM MÜLLER
ROBERT HOLL (baSS)
KONRAD RICHTER (piano)
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1986Hohenems Schubertiade)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
leader BELA DEKANY
Glinka Academy Capella,
Leningrad (Ladies' voices) conducted by Yuri Temirkanov Barry Douglas (piano) direct from the Leningrad Philharmonic Hall Parti
Britten The young person's guide to the orchestra
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3, inc
Geoffrey Hosking , Professor of Russian History at the University of London, makes the case for Farewell to Matyora by the Soviet novelist Valentin Rasputin. (R)
Part 2 Hoist
Suite: The Planets, Op 32
Ronald Hayman (in the Chair) talks with Jim Hiley , Peter Kemp and Marina Vaizey.
This week's subjects: Sputniks, Bleeps and Mr Perry , a drama-documentary on Channel 4;
David Jones 's film 84 Charing
Cross Road; From Byzantium to El Greco at the Royal Academy; two American crime novels:
Elmore Leonard 's Bandits and Robert B. Parker 's Taming a Sea-Horse; Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author at the National Theatre. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Sonata No 5, in c minor
Fifth of eight programmes
Played by CHRISTOPHER HERRICK on the Van den Heuvel organ at the Nieuwe Kerk, Katwijk aan Zee, the Netherlands
Oratorio in two parts
Music by Niccolo Jommelli Text by PIETRO METASTASIO (sung in Italian): records (first UK broadcast)
This story of Christ's Passion, from 1749, is told through the eyes and emotions of four of the Principal participants.
CHORUS OF SOLOISTS
LUGANO CHAMBER SOCIETY BAROQUE ENSEMBLE/ARTURO SACCHETTI Parti
9.50* Interval Reading
9.55* Part 2
introduced by, and in conversation with, Michael Berkeley
Fourth of seven programmes Klaus Hubler Quartet No 3 record
Gilberto Cappelli Quartet No 1 Wolfgang Rlhm Quartet No 3 Giacinto Scelsi Quartet No 4 record
