Raphael's Tapestries

Elgar The Wand of Youth: Suite No 2
ULSTER ORCHESTRA/BRYDEN THOMSON
7.23* Schumann Three songs from the Lieder- Album fiir die Jugend: ELLY AMELING (soprano) jorg demus (piano)
7.30* Ravel Ballet: Ma mere l'oye: PITTSBURGH SO/ANDRÈ PREVIN
8.0 News
8.5 Copland Our town LSO/THE COMPOSER
8.17* Gershwin Piano Concerto in F
DAMEL BLUMENTHAL
ECO/STEUART BEDFORD
8.52* Stravinsky Eight
Instrumental Miniatures for 15 players
ENSEMBLE INTERCONTEMPORAIN/
PIERRE BOULEZ records. Producer JUDITH ROLES

Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory with honours in piano in 1891, the year that he completed his first piano concerto.
Piano Concerto No 1, in F sharp minor
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY
LSO/ANDRÈ PREVIN
Symphonic poem: Prince Rostislav
USSR SO/EVGENY SVETLANOV records
Producer DEREK DRESCHER

MARILYN DALE (soprano) NICHOLAS DANIEL (Oboe) julius DRAKE (piano)
Paul Mounsey La cigale et la fourmi
(first broadcast performance) Saint-Saens The nightingale
Rimsky-Korsakov Flight of the bumble-bee
Saint-Saens The swan
Daniel Chua Fish in water (first UK broadcast)
Britten Fish in the unruffled lakes
Madeleine Dring The cuckoo Chausson Les papillons; Le colibri; Les cigales
Michael Head Bird song BBCBristol

Mozart Quartet in E flat (K 428) Beethoven Quartet in c sharp minor. Op 131 mono records

Confessions of a Houseplant Last of three diversions for radio featuring television in the background
Written by CHRISTOPHER HOPE

led by PAUL WILLEY conductor Simon Rattle John Lill (piano) Parti
Ravel Alborada del gracioso
Robin Holloway Seascape and harvest (Feeney Trust commission; first broadcast)
(Given in April 1986 in the Town Hall, Birmingham)

Part 2 Brahms
Piano Concerto No 2, in B flat BBC Pebble Mill

Opera in three acts
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Libretto by STEPHEN WADSWORTH and THE COMPOSER
A contemporary tale of an American family whose failure to communicate with one another is exposed by the tragic death of the mother, Dinah. VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS
AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER Act
3.30* Interval Reading
3.40* Act 2

Act 3
(Austrian Radio recording)

Rainer Kussmaul (violin) Claus Kanngiesser (cello) Monika Leonhard (piano)
Schubert Trio in B flat (D 898) Shostakovich Trio No 2, in E minor, Op 67 BBC Pebble Mill (R)

played by HANS FAGIUS in GustafVasa Church, Stockholm
Olsson Prelude and Fugue in c sharp minor
Reger Fantasia and Fugue on B.A.C.H.
(Swedish Radio recording from the 1985 Stockholm Organ Festival)

in D major. Op 123
LELLA CUBERLI (soprano) TRUDELIESE SCHMIDT (mezzo-soprano)
VINSON COLE (tenor) JOSE VAN DAM (bass)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC CHORAL SOCIETY
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1986 Sakburg Festival)

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini Geoffrey Norris sifts through the many recordings of this resourceful set of variations for piano and orchestra, including those by Rubinstein,
Moiseiwitsch, Katchen and Rachmaninov himself.

Presented by Charles Fox featuring
The Ubiquity Orchestra Alex Kolkowski (violin) Aly Robinson (cello)
John Harborne (trombone) Jonathon Impett (trumpet) Pete McPhail
(sopranino/alto/flute)
Alan Wilkinson (soprano/alto/ baritone saxophones)
Alex Maguire (piano/organ)
Greg Kingston (electric guitar) Ollie Blanchflower (double-bass)
Steve Noble (drums/LA toys)

Last of nine programmes
String Quartet in F, Op 41 No 2 QUARTETTOITALlANO
Brahms/Dietrich/Schumann F.A.E. Sonata (mono) ISAAC STERN (violin)
ALEXANDER ZAKIN (piano) records
Series producer PIERS BURTON-PAGE (R)