The Gospels as History
Cyril Scott Early one morning, for piano and orchestra JOHN OGDON
LPO/BERNARD HERRMANN
7.20* Mahler Ging heut' Morgen iibers Feld (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen)
DIETRICH FISCHERDIESKAU (baritone)
PHILHARMONIA/
WILHELM FURTWANGLER
7.25* Sor Variations on a theme by Mozart, Op 9
JULIAN BREAM (guitar)
7.34* Respighi Suite: The Birds SAN FRANCISCO SO/EDO DE WAART
8.00 World Service News
8.10 Bax The Happy Forest ULSTER ORCHESTRA/ BRYDENTHOMSON
8.20* Liszt Petrarch Sonnet No 123 (Annees de Pelerinage: Italie)
JORGE BOLET (piano)
8.27* Vaughan Williams Suite: The Wasps
LPO/ADRIAN BOULT Records
with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Saint-Saens's Third Symphony by Lionel Salter.
David Murray reviews new releases of songs by Schubert, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov, Koechlin and Hindemith. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
(Re-broadcast Wednesday 2.50pm)
Schubert An die untergehende Sonne (D 457); Abendrote (D 690) ELLY AMELING (soprano) RUDOLF JANSEN (piano)
Rachmaninov Fate; By a new grave; Fragment from Alfred de Musset PAATA BURCHULADZE (bass)
LUDMILLA IVANOVA (piano)
Charles Koechlin Rondels
CLAUDETTE LEBLANC (SOpranO) BOAZ SHARON (piano)
Hindemith Sing on there in the swamp; On hearing'The last roseofsi'mmer'
DIETRICH FISCHERDIESKAU (baritone)
ARIBERT REIMANN (piano) Records
Partita No 6 in E minor (BWV 830) ROBERT WOOLLEY (harpsichord)
conducted by JAMES LEVINE SHLOMO MINTZ (violin) LYNN HARRELL (cello)
Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor
12.10*pm Interval Reading
12.15* Brahms Concerto in A minor, for violin, cello and orchestra
(WFMT recording)
Ingrid Seifert (violin) Anne Rbhrig (violin)
William Hunt (bass viol)
Charles Medlam (bass viol) John Toll (harpsichord) Couperin La Sultane
J. B. Quentin Quattuor in F, Op 15
Couperin La Superbe (R)
Haydn Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 (Lark)
TECHINSKI STRING QUARTET
Shostakovich Quartet No 3 in F, Op 73
CHAGALL STRING QUARTET Piston Quartet No 3 ARAMIS STRING QUARTET BBC Pebble Mill
ALBION ENSEMBLE with VICTORIA WOOD (oboe) ANGELA MALSBURY (clarinet) STEPHEN BELL (horn)
GAVIN MACNAUGHTON (baSSOOn) Mozart Serenade in c minor (K388)
Gounod Petite symphonie BBC Bristol (R)
(1882-1977)
Second of two programmes featuring this famous conductor
Scriabin The poem of ecstasy, Op 54
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Ives Second Orchestral Set
LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA
Tchaikovsky Fantasy-
Overture: Hamlet, Op 67
NEW YORK STADIUM SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
Bizet Symphony in c major
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Records
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Philip Oakes (in the Chair) talks with Robert Hewison , Peter Kemp and Hilary Spurling.
This week: Harry's Kingdom, the 1986 Radio Times Drama Award play by RON PEARSON on BBC1; WALTER HILL'S film
Extreme Prejudice; a revival of CLIFFORD ODETS 'S play The Big Knife; Introducing with Pleasure: paintings from the Arts Council Collection at the Royal Festival
Hall; The Colour of Blood, a new novel by BRIAN MOORE. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Two Impromptus: in B flat (D 935 No 3); in F minor (D 935 No 4)
Sonata in A (D 959)
PETER DONOHOE (piano) BBC Wales
Opera in three acts and ten scenes
Text by JOHN MCGRATH and ALEXANDER GOEHR
Music by Alexander Goehr (first performance)
Set in Munster, during the Anabaptist revolution, the opera dispassionately examines how Man's ideals are compromised by his nature. Anabaptists from Leyden: (bass-baritone) (soprano) (tenor)
(mezzo-soprano) (soprano) (baritone) (bass) (mezzo-soprano)
Prince-Bishop, defender of the faith and destroyer of the (bass) (tenor) (tenor) (bass)
In the play of Dives and Lazarus in Act 3 (tenor)
TIFFIN BOYS' CHOIR chorusmaster NEVILLE CREED BBC SINGERS chorusmaster SIMON JOLY BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BELA DEKANY
Associate conductors
SIMON JOLY and RAY HOLDEN conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD
8.35* Alexander Goehr and John Deathridge discuss the opera's genesis and form.
8.55* Act 2
9.35* David March reads from The Pursuit of the Millennium by NORMAN COHN , the book which acted as the starting point for the opera
9.45* Act 3
Producer CUVE BENNETT
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RAPHAEL TRIO
Beethoven Trio movement in B flat major
Mendelssohn Trio in D minor, Op 49 m
