Arts: Leisure

(born 9 August 1902)
The first of five programmes celebrating the 85th birthday of the British pianist
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat. PHILHARMONIA/ ISSAY DOBROWEN. Records

Second of six programmes Vaughan Williams Five
Variants of Dives and Lazarus CBSO/NORMAN DEL MAR Schubert Variations in A flat major (D 813) CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH and JUSTUS FRANTZ (piano duet) d'Indy Istar, Op 42
LOIRE PO/PIERRE DERVAUX. Records

Vivaldi Lute Concerto in D (RV 93); JAKOB LINDBERG
DROTTNINGHOLM BAROQUE ENSEMBLE Stanford Sailing at Dawn (Songs of the Fleet)
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone)
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA/NORMAN DEL MAR Bach Sonata in E minor (bwv1034)
STEPHEN PRESTON (flute)
jordi SAVALL (viola da gamba) TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord) Dvorak Suite in A, Op 98 radoslav KVAPIL (piano) anon Sephardic romances: Y una madre; Durme mi angelico ESTHER LAMANDIER (soprano/harp) Mozart Das Bandel (K 441) (Mono) ILSE HOLLWEG (soprano)
WALDEMAR KMENTT (tenor) WALTER BERRY (bass)
VIENNA SO/BERNHARD PAUMGARTNER Reger Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart
DRESDEN STAATSKAPELLE/ HEINZ BONGARTZ. Records

This week: The importance of being earnest - Roger Nichols talks about the music of Chausson and Florent Schmitt , to be heard at the weekend;
Simon Holt discusses his new work Syrensong - a Prom commission - in Monday's concert; Barry Douglas , winnner of last year's
International Tchaikovsky competition, talks about the giants of the concerto repertoire; and Anthony Rooley introduces Thursday's late Prom with the Consort ofMusicke.
Presented by Peter Paul Nash Producers ANDREW KUROWSKI and CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 2 Opm VHF/FM)

(violin and piano)
Schubert Sonatina in D (D 384) Schumann Sonata in D minor, Op 121

Prokofiev Sonata No 2, Op 94 BBC Pebble Mill (R)

PETER DONOHOE (piano)
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by JAMES CLARK conducted by TADAAKI OTAKA Daniel Jones Dance Fantasy Ravel Piano Concerto in G

(Given on 2 June in the Kulturpalast, Dresden)

Songs by two of the greatest Medieval German love-song composers
CATHERINE BOTT (soprano) MICHAEL GEORGE (baritone) TOM FiNucANE (lute/gittem)
PAVLO BEZNOSIUK (vielle/rebec) PHILIP picKETT (recorder/ symphony/psaltery) NEW LONDON CONSORT directed by PHILIP PICKETT
Walther von der Vogelweide

(Given on 25 February at the University of Manchester as part of the Manchester Early Music Series) BBC Manchester

led by JOHN TUNNELL conducted by PAUL SACHER AURELE NICOLET (flute) Parti
Stravinsky Concerto in D Mozart Flute Concerto inG(K313)

A sequence of poetry inspired by the title of one of Rudyard Kipling 's collections of short stories compiled by PATRIC DICKINSON
Read by Elaine Claxton Denys Hawthorne and Martin Jarvis
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT (R)

Part 2
Mozart Symphony No 32 in G (K 318)
Bartok Music for strings, percussion and celesta
(Given on 19 March in the Queen's
Hall, Edinburgh, in association with the Scottish Post Office Board) BBC Scotland

Seven documentaries by John Keay about the Asian frontier 4: Whither the Wilderness? Claims abound that deforestation, overpopulation and development threaten catastrophe for the Himalayas and for the Gangetic plain of southern Asia, too. Are these fears soundly based or are they worked up for the benefit of international conferences? Contributors include
KARAN SINGH , HEMANTA MISHRA
SIR EDMUND HILLARY , JIMMY ROBERTS SUNDER LAL BAHUGUMA
Producer DAVID PERRY (R)
(Imperilled Polities ' next Saturday)

direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London Gillian WEIR (organ)
Valente Lo ballo del Intorcia
Franck Choral No 2 in B minor Heiller Tanz-toccata
Petr Eben Walpurgisnacht (Faust)
Jehan Alain Trois danses
Olivier Messaien Transports de joie (L'Ascension)

CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor)
TIMOTHY PENROSE (counter-tenor) RACHEL BECKETT (recorder) MARION scott (recorder)
RICHARD BOOTHBY (baSS Viol) DAVID ROBLOU (harpsichord)
Purcell Elegy upon the Death of Queen Mary: 0 dive custos:
No, no, resistance is but vain; 0, the sweet delights of love Blow Ode on the death of Mr Henry Purcell

direct from the Royal Albert Hall. London PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA led by PETER THOMAS conducted by GIUSEPPE SINOPOLI Mahler Symphony No 6 in A minor

In the second of four conversations with Christopher Cook , John Houseman looks back on the so-called Golden
Age of American radio, when he produced Mercury Theater of the Air with Orson Welles and later, during the Second World War, was head of broadcasting for the Office of War Information. IK)

(piano)
Schoenberg, transc Busoni Piano Piece, Op 11 No 2
Busoni Sonatina seconda Webern Variations, Op 27
Schoenberg Three Pieces, Op 11

IAN CADDY (baritone)
ALLAN SCHILLLER (piano)
BOCHMANN STRING QUARTET
Michael Bochmann (violin) David Angel (violin)
Martin Outram (viola)
Michal Kaznowski (cello) Walford Davies Prospice Ivor Gurney The Western Playland BBCBristol

Quartet in F, Op 135 BUSCH QUARTET
Adolf Busch (violin)
Gosta Andreasson (violin) Karl Doktor (viola)
Hermann Busch (cello) Mono record: November 1933