Handel Overture: Atalanta
CAPELLASAVARIA/
NICHOLAS MCGEGAN
7.12* Milhaud Paris, for four pianos
CHRISTIAN IV ALDI. MICHEL BEROFF
JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD and NOEL LEE
7.23* Beethoven Symphony No2inD
LONDON CLASSICAL PLAYERS/
ROGER NORRINGTON
8.00 News
8.05 Josef Strauss Waltz: Music of the Spheres
VIENNA PO/WILLI BOSKOVSKY
8.14* Schumann Konzertstiick for four horns and orchestra
GERD SEIFERT. NORBERT HAUPTMANN
CHRISTOPH KOHLER and MANNFRED KLIER
BERLIN PO/KLAUS TENNSTEDT
8.32* Ravel Pavane pour une infante defunte
ST LOUIS SO/LEONARD SLATKIN
8.39* Tchaikovsky Capriccio italien
DETROIT SO/ANTAL DORATI Records
John Field
The audience's excitement and applause (for the seventh Concerto) made the hall shake. And, what's more, the Adagio had to be repeated - a very rare thing indeed.
REVUE DE PARIS (1832)
Quintet for piano and strings
MUSICIANS OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE (R)
Grande Valse in A
DAVID BRANSON and ANDREW DAVIES (piano duet)
Concerto No 7 in c minor JOHN O'CONOR (piano)
NEW IRISH CO/JANOS furst. Records
led by HUGH BEAN conducted by FRANK SHIPWAY Leopold Mozart Symphony in G major
W. A. Mozart Divertimento in B flat major (K 287)
Leslie Howard (piano)
Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 4
Tchaikovsky Sonata in G, Op 37
(BBC Pebble Mill) (R)
JUKKA SAVIJOKI
With CHAMELEON
Haydn Quartet for guitar, violin, viola and cello, Op 2 No 2 Schubert Quartet for guitar, flute, viola and cello (D 96) BBC Pebble Mill
direct from the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester PETER NOKE and HELEN krizos (pianos)
BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by DENNIS SIMONS conducted by EDWARD DOWNES Parti
Bliss Introduction and Allegro Elis Pehkonen Concerto for two pianos and orchestra (BBC commission: first performance)
A short story by DENTON WELCH
Read by Benjamin Whitrow (R)
Part 2 Bernard Stevens Symphony No 2
SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) DAVID OWEN NORRIS (piano)
Haydn The mermaid's song; the spirit's song; Pastoral song Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben
2.45* Interval Reading
2.50* Howells The Goat Paths
Madeleine Dring Five Betjeman Poems
Britten Cabaret songs
(Given on 29 January in association with University College. Bangor) BBC Wales
Lully Divertissement de Chambord
GERMAN BACH SOLOISTS, directed by HELMUT WINSCHERMANN Rebel Tombeaude Monsieur Lully
MUSICA ANTIQUA COLOGNE. Records
recorded in Ely Cathedral Responses (Lloyd)
Psalm 45 (Conway, Parry) First Lesson (Rsv): Wisdom 7, w 7-14
Office Hymn (EH 191): Son of a virgin
Canticles (Howells in G) Second Lesson (rsv): Revelation 19, vv 4-9
Anthem: In honour of Etheldreda (Wills)
Hymn (EH 170): Christ is made the sure foundation
Organ voluntary: Symphonia Eliensis (parts 7 and 8) (Wills) Director of music ARTHUR WILLS Assistant organist STEPHEN LE PREVOST
Andrew Keener presents a programme of music for early evening.
Producer MARTIN COTTON
by JAMES SAUNDERS
'It's my stratiotes sylvaticus. I've cloched it, I've watered it, I've sprayed it. It's against the south wall, nicely protected. And yet, it's not well. And we don't know why. Well then, perhaps it'll get better, as you say; but then again, perhaps it'll get worse. Why not?'
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY (R)
Levon Chilingirian (violin) Mark Butler (violin)
Louise Williams (viola) Philip de Groote (cello) direct from Studio 1, Birmingham
Beethoven Quartet in A, Op 18 No 5
Martinu Quartet No 5
8.20* During the interval
Jan Smaczny talks about the Martinu string quartets which are a feature of this season's Birmingham concerts.
8.40* Dvorak
Quartet in G, Op 106 BBC Pebble Mill
Poems by the Eastern Armenian poet PARUIR SEVAK (1924-71)
Selected and translated by MISCHA KUDIAN
Paruir Sevak had a distinctive tone of voice, a strong sense of social justice, a wry sense of humour, and an individual and compassionate way of looking at the world.
Poems read in English by John Rowe and in the original by Mischa Kudian
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
The pre-eminent saxophonist in jazz and one of the ultimate masters of improvisation.
INDEPENDENT
This concert by the ROLLINS QUINTET was recorded at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon last November. Sonny Rollins (tenor sax)
Clifton Anderson (trombone) Mark Soskin (piano) Jerome Harris (bass)
Tommy Campbell (drums)
Mercer/Kern I'm old fashioned Myrow/Gannon Autumn nocturne
Rollins U.T.
10.25* Interval Reading
10.30*
Rollins Best wishes
Wood/Mellin My one and only love
Rollins Don't stop the carnival Stevie Wonder Isn't she lovely Rollins Allison; Tenor madness