Henri Tomasi Good Friday Processional
PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE directed by JOHN IVESON
7.15* Beethoven Romance No 1, in G, Op 40
HENRYK SZERYNG (violin)
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/BERNARD HAITINK
7.23* Wilhelm Furtwangler Symphonic dialogue (mono) EDWIN FISCHER (piano) BERLIN PO THE COMPOSER
7.35* Duparc Chanson triste KIRlTE KANAWA (soprano) BELGIAN NATIONAL OPERA
ORCHESTRA SIR JOHN PRITCHARD
7.38* Liszt Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude
CYPRIEN KATSARIS (piano)
8.0 News
8.5 Bach Sonata in G (BWV 1027) YO YO MA (CellO)
KENNETH COOPER (harpsichord)
8.19* Druzecky Partita in E flat PRAGUE COLLEGIUM MUSICUM
8.30* Berwald Sinfonie singuliere
STOCKHOLM PO/
HANS SCHMIDT ISSERSTEDT: records

Mozart: Vienna 1781-2
Does not your Ladyship know the little rhyme?
'A woman and ajug of beer
How can they rhyme together? The woman has a cask of beer
Of which she sends ajugful here. Why, then they rhyme together. '
(MOZART, in a letter to the Baroness von Waldstadten,
October 1782)
String Quartet in G (K 387) SALOMON STRING QUARTET
Vocal canons: Wo der perlende Wein im Glase blinkt (K 347);
Nichts labt mich mehr als Wein (K233)
MEMBERS OF THE BERLIN SOLOISTS/
DIETRICH KNOTHE
Piano Concerto No 12, in A (K414)
MALCOLM BILSON (fortepiano) ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS directed by JOHN ELIOT GARDINER records

Lament of the Virgin Mary (from the Carmina Burana Passion Play)
Lament of the three Marys
(from the cathedral of Cividale del Friuli)
NEW LONDON CONSORT
Catherine Bott (soprano) Tessa Bonner (soprano) Lynne Dawson (soprano) Michael George (baritone) Stephen Charlesworth (baritone)
Simon Grant (bass)
David Roblou (organ)
Stephen Henderson (bells) Frances Kelly (harp)
Pavlo Beznosiuk (vielle) William Lyons (recorder) director PHILIP PICKETT (symphony)
(Given last April at the Grand Priory Church of the Order of St John. Clerkenwell)
('The Visit to the Sepulchre a liturgical drama from the 12th-century Fleury Playbook. on Easter Day)
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First of three programmes
SIBELIUS ACADEMY STRING ORCHESTRA conducted by PAAVO POHJOLA Mozart Adagio and fugue (K546)
Sibelius Rakastava , Op 14
Joonas Kokkonen ... durch einen Spiegel....
(first UK broadcast)
11.35* Interval Reading
11.40* Alfred Schnittke Concerto Grosso No 1 (first UK performance)

DAVID JOHNSTON (tenor) KEITH SWALLOW (piano) ALBERNI STRING QUARTET Howard Davis (violin) Peter Pople (violin) Roger Best (viola) David Smith (cello) Bliss Elegiac Sonnet Ireland Two Pieces (1921):
For remembrance; Amberley Wild Brooks
Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge. BBC Bristol

Last of five programmes MORAY WELSH (cello)
MARTIN ROSCOE (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in A, Op 69
Shostakovich, arr L. Atoumyan Four pieces (Suite: The Gadfly)

A sacred music drama in three acts
Words and music by Richard Wagner Bayreuth Festival production (sung in German) (R) Act
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 For full details 5ee page 79

We had a pinch of indispensable courage but basically it was a matter of taste, (ZBIGNIEW HERBERT ) Adam Czerniawski comments on the work of three contemporary Polish poets: Zbigniew Herbert ,
Wislawa Szymborska and Bronislaw Maj. (R)

Act 2

One learns to be less concerned with believing in and develops, instead, the art of using certain things to believe with. R. A. Hodgkin , formerly
Headmaster of Abbotsholme School and Lecturer in Education at Oxford, reflects on missionary Lesslie Newbigin 's warnings against habitual and sterile scepticism and uses discoveries about the way the brain works to develop a new appreciation of faith.

Act3

Last of four programmes

No suites by Bach, originally included in the collection that became known as the French Suites, played by Robert Woolley on a copy of a double-manual harpsichord built in Dresden during Bach's lifetime

Suite in A minor (Bwv 818a); suite in E flat (BWV 819a)

Must the novelist invent a new language in order to express new meanings? Stephen Games talks with Christine
Brooke-Rose A. S. Byatt and Vikram Seth about the need for, and nature of, experimental fiction,
Producer FRASER STEEL (R)

Wit vierzig Jahren; Steig auf, geliebter Schatten; Mein Herz ist schwer
HEINZ REHFUSS (bass-baritone) ERNEST LUSH (piano) mono (R)
Trio in A minor, Op 114 REGINALD KELL (clarinet) ANTHONY PINI (cello)
Louis KENTNER (piano) mono record (1941)

by DAVID POWNALL
Orbigo in northern Spain is on the ancient route to the shrine at Santiago de Compostela. The old bridge there has been the centre of many historic events and of course a challenge, too, to the modern pilgrim.
Pilgrims, soldiers, footballers, workmen and others encountered on the way, played by members of the cast
Music by PETER HOWELL of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Directed by RICHARD IMISON 0 HEAR THIS! page 20

BRADLEY CRESWICK (violin) NORTHERN SINFONIA led by HARRY CAWOOD conductor RICHARD hickox
Stravinsky Danses concertantes Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2, In G minor
Stan insky Suite: Pulcinella "BC Manchester

First of three programmes
Nielsen Five pieces, Op 3 (1890) Granados El Amor y la muerte; Quejas o la Maja y el Ruisenor (Goyescas)
Nielsen Theme and variations, Op 40
YITKIN seow (piano)

Last of five programmes in this series which recreates the 17th-century Roman tradition of performing oratorios on the Fridays of Lent.
Luigi Rossi may well have been associated with the Oratorian order at the Chiesa Nuova. The oratorio, 0 cecitd del misero mortale, is attributed to him. LES ARTS FLORISSANTS directed by WILLIAM CHRISTIE record