Open Forum: University Magazine
Lyadov Mazurka, Op 19 - Slovak PO/Stephen Gunzenhauser
7.12* Balakirev, orch Lyapunov Oriental fantasy: Islamey - Bavarian RSO/Esa-Pekka Salonen
7.21* Rachmaninov Grand Doxology (Vespers, Op 37) - USSR National Choir; Alexandre Svechnikov
7.30* Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: The Invisible City of Kitezh - SNO/Neeme Jarvi
8.0 News
8.5 Copland Variations on a Shaker melody - Milwaukee SO/Lukas Foss
8.8* Copland Five Old American Songs - Marilyn Horne (mezzo-sop) ECO/Carl Davis
8.21* Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp - Melos Ensemble
8.36* Tubin Suite on Estonian dances - Mark Lubotsky (violin) Gothenburg SO/Neeme Jarvi
(records)
Sechs deutsche Lieder, Op 94 - David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) David Owen Norris (fortepiano)
String Quintet in B minor, Op 69 - Members of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
(record)
Symphony No 2, in B flat - Paris Colonne Orchestra/Pierre Dervaux
Preceded by Pierne Ballet: Images - Loire PO/Pierre Dervaux
(records)
(More Roussel in 'Matinee musicale' at 11.30am)
played by Linda Nicholson (fortepiano)
Haydn Sonata in c (H xvi 48) Mozart Sonata in D (K 576) (R)
Ulster Orchestra, leader Richard Howarth, conducted by Howard Williams
Mozart Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
Schubert Entr'acte in B minor (Rosamunde, D 797)
Roussel Ballet suite: The Spider's Banquet
Frank Bridge Summer
Alan Langford Three amusements
(R)
Among his many talents, Spike Hughes was Britain's earliest jazz composer. In the first of two programmes in tribute to this remarkable man who died earlier this year, Charles Fox introduces recordings he made at the start of the 1930s with a band of prominent musicians. These include 'Six bells stampede', 'Elegy', 'Sirocco' and 'A Harlem Symphony'.
(mono records)
direct from the Wigmore Hall, London
Tamas Vasary (piano) Bochmann Quartet
Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34
(Tickets available from the Ticket Unit, [address removed])
Suite: Cinderella - St Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin
(record)
(Broadcast on Saturday at 9.5 am)
Direct from King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Introit: Terra tremuit (Byrd)
Responses (Byrd)
Psalms 142,143 (Camidge, Pring)
First lesson (RSV): Proverbs 8, vv 1-11; Canticles (Dyson in D)
Second lesson (Rsv): I Corinthians 7, vv 25-35
Anthem: Blessed be the God and Father (S.S. Wesley)
Hymn (EH 129): Christ the Lord is risen again
Voluntary: Finale (Vierne, Symphony No 2)
Shostakovich Overture on Russian and Kirghiz folk themes - Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bernard Haitink
5.20* Joseph Auffmann Organ Concerto in G - Franz Lehrndorfer Stuttgart Soloists
5.25* William Sweeney Maqam - BBC Scottish SO/Nicholas Kraemer
5.50* Mozart Missa brevis in C (K 258) (Spaur-Mass) - Mitsuko Shirai (soprano) Marga Schiml (contralto) Armin Ude (tenor) Hermann Christian Polster (bass) Leipzig Radio Chorus, Dresden PO/Herbert Kegel
6.20* Grieg Quartet in G minor - Copenhagen String Quartet
(records)
Frank Martin Trio sur des melodies populaires irlandaises
R. d'Alessandro Trio
BBC Wales
(revised version of 1881)
Opera in a prologue and three acts.
Music by Verdi
Text by Francesco Maria Piave and Arrigo Boito sung in James Fenton's English translation
English National Opera's new production direct from the London Coliseum
Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera, chorus-masters Martin Handley and David Drummond, leader Raymond Ovens, conductor Mark Elder
Prologue and Act 1
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.45 am)
Acts 2 and 3
Second of 12 programmes Robert Cushman presents a personal view of musicals and introduces songs from original-cast recordings, some familiar, some less well known.
Kurt Weill - 'The Firebrand of Florence'
A series of live theatre and opera reviews.
Wilbur Sanders considers The Merchant of Venice at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Howard Shelley and Hilary Macnamara (pianos)
Saint-Saens Variations on a theme of Beethoven, Op 35
Debussy, arr Ravel Nocturnes
Saint-Saens Polonaise, Op 77
(Given earlier this evening in Studio 7)
