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Offenbach Overture: Blue Beard
BERLIN PO HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.11 Granados Los Requiebros (Goyescas)
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)
7.20* Monteverdi Balleto della bellezza: MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS;
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
7.30* Ravel La Valse
MARTHA ARGERICH and NELSON FREIRE (pianos)
7.41* Prokofiev Symphony No 1 in D (Classical)
BERLIN PO/HERBERT VON KARAJAN
8.00 World Service News
8.10 Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival, Op 9
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA
ALEXANDER GIBSON
8.19* Mozart Scena and Rondo: Ch'io mi scordi di te? Non temer, amato bene (K 505)
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) SCOTTISH CO/RAYMOND LEPPARD
8.29* Liszt Concert paraphrase: Rigoletto: JORGE BOLET (piano)
8.36* Sibelius Karelia Suite
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS/ NEVILLE MARRINER. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Herbert von Karajan
Piano:
Alicia de Larrocha
Soloists:
John Eliot Gardiner
Soloists:
Nelson Freire

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Shostakovich's Symphony No 6 by Stephen Johnson.
Mark Steyn reviews recent Gershwin recordings and Bernstein's opera A Quiet Place. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
(Re broadcast Wednesday at 2.50pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Stephen Johnson.
Unknown:
Mark Steyn
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

Gershwin Overture: Oh, Kay!
NEW PRINCESS THEATRE ORCHESTRA,
JOHN MCGLINN
Rhapsody in Blue (original version for piano and jazz band) RPOANDREW LITTON (piano) Suite; Stiff Upper Lip
(Funhouse sequence) from the film A Damsel in Distress
NEW PRINCESS THEATRE ORCHESTRAl
JOHN MCGLINN
Shostakovich Suite No 1, for jazz band: SOLOISTS ENSEMBLE
GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
Stravinsky Symphony in three movements: ROTTERDAM po; JAMES CONLON. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
John McGlinn
Unknown:
Stravinsky Symphony
Unknown:
James Conlon.

First entr'acte (K 345) (Thamos, King of Egypt); Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor (K 466);
Symphony No 38 in D major (k 504) (Prague)
CHRISTOPHER KITE (fortepiano) LONDON CLASSICAL PLAYERS led by JOHN HOLLOWAY conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Kite
Unknown:
John Holloway
Conducted By:
Roger Norrington

Le Roman de Fauvel
The story of Humbug, the Tawny Ass - a satire on religious and political corruption in medieval France. Original poem by GERVAIS DE BUS Musical illustrations collected and adapted by CHAILLOU DE PESSTAIN
In this version, by PAUL HILLIER , the tale is told by John Rowe and the music is sung by the HILUARD ENSEMBLE.
(Given on 11 March at Manchester University) BBC Manchester

Contributors

Adapted By:
Chaillou de Pesstain
Unknown:
Paul Hillier
Told By:
John Rowe

Third of seven programmes Beethoven Piano Quartet in c major (WoO 36 No 3)
CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH (piano) Record: 1970
Mozart Duo in B flat (K 424) NORBERT BRAININ (violin) PETER SCHIDLOF (viola) (1978 recording) (R)
Dvorak Quartet in F, Op 96 (American) (1978 recording)
Schubert Quintet in c (D 956) With WILLIAM PLEETH (Cello) (1965 recording) Records

Contributors

Piano:
Christoph Eschenbach
Violin:
Norbert Brainin

Robert Hewison (in the Chair) talks with Marghanita Laski , Peter Porter and Michael Schmidt.
This week's subjects: ALAN prior's The Charmer (ITV);
Acquisition in Focus: JACQUES-
LOUIS DAVID 'S portrait of Jacobus Blauw at the National Gallery; PETER GREENAWAY 'S film The Belly of an Architect;
Entertaining Strangers by DAVID EDGAR at the National Theatre; SAUL BELLOW 'S new novel More Die of Heartbreak.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Hewison
Unknown:
Marghanita Laski
Unknown:
Peter Porter
Unknown:
Michael Schmidt.
Unknown:
Louis David
Unknown:
Jacobus Blauw
Unknown:
Peter Greenaway
Unknown:
David Edgar
Unknown:
Saul Bellow

The Long Struggle for theFalklands
Eight documentaries by Michael Chariton
5: Argentine Attitudes
Admiral Jorge Anaya. the dominant figure in the Argentine Junta in 1982, described plans to invade the Falklands in his debriefing for the classified American study of the Falklands conflict. At the outbreak of war diplomatic negotiations had been in Progress for some 17 years. With Dr Oscar Camilion Dr Nicanor Costa Mendez Dr Robert Guyer and Admiral Harry D. Train. American Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.
Producer CATHY WEARING (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Chariton
Unknown:
Admiral Jorge Anaya.
Unknown:
Dr Oscar Camilion
Unknown:
Dr Nicanor Costa Mendez
Unknown:
Dr Robert Guyer
Unknown:
Admiral Harry D. Train.

Second of four programmes surveying Goehr's work over the past decade.
Imitation of Baudelaire, Op 47 No 1(1985) BBC SINGERS conducted by JOHN ALLDIS (R) String Quartet No 3, Op 37 (1975-6)
LINDSAY STRING QUARTET. Record Deux etudes for orchestra, Op 43 (1980-1)
BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by DENNIS SIMONS conducted by WILFRIED BOETTCHER (R)

Contributors

Conducted By:
John Alldis
Unknown:
Dennis Simons
Conducted By:
Wilfried Boettcher

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